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Destroying the human rights act so the tories can go back to treating the rest of humanity as disposable serfs has always been the goal, honestly just surprised it took this long.
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 21:13 |
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# ? May 23, 2024 18:47 |
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There was that US bank that wrote a "The future is feudalism" think-piece a few years back that got leaked, wasn't there? That's certainly the vibe I get from the Tories. Less chance of this bunch of cunts dying of cholera, sadly
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 21:41 |
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Those of you who remember Sunny Hundal from when he was the unofficial mascot of the very first iteration of this thread in LF will be heartened to see that he hasn't wasted his years in exile and has come back from his vision quest with a take so nuclear we're gonna try and sell it to the Aussies: https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/1439198891107405828 (I've held my tongue on the Truman Brewery thing for a couple of reasons but even in an incredibly dense field of poo poo takes over it this one cut through)
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 21:51 |
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These days you immigrate to britane and you get given a house and become a landlord and own a shop.
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 21:56 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Those of you who remember Sunny Hundal from when he was the unofficial mascot of the very first iteration of this thread in LF will be heartened to see that he hasn't wasted his years in exile and has come back from his vision quest with a take so nuclear we're gonna try and sell it to the Aussies: Its almost like all the reasons he highlights are EXACTLY why Gentrification is bad? What a smart cookie.
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 22:00 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:a take so nuclear we're gonna try and sell it to the Aussies
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 22:02 |
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we have a shortage of skills in the rental sector of the economy; only 4% of the population are landlords, it's a great growth opportunity which could be booming right now. this is why the australian-style points system is good - it permits those with useful, needed, and socially-productive skills to work for the good of the country. although obviously there are questions of social justice and imperialism here - is it right to deprive other nations of their landlords?
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 22:07 |
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CommieGIR posted:Its almost like all the reasons he highlights are EXACTLY why Gentrification is bad? What a smart cookie. In 'fairness', there's a rapidly declining number of Bengali residents in the Spitalfields area. Partly because property developers have been regenerating every building they can find, obliterating the social housing stock around there. And partly because the people moving in over the last 3-4 years have been French (and let's face it, no-one wants to live in a French ghetto). The West side of Tower Hamlets is in the process of being made unviable for families because the number of school children in the area have reduced to the point where schools are unsustainable - a few have closed in the last couple of years; others are combining/becoming federations because it's the only way to stay open the Tory rebalancing of the funding formula for schools is also playing a part here. And once the schools close, you won't get them back, because a local authority can't afford to open a school in that area when property prices area so astronomical. Tower Hamlets council are just sort of sitting there saying "Yo, it's not illegal, bro" while a bunch of utterly obnoxious arseholes roll out plans to turn one of the most famous parts of the borough into a loving outlet village. John Biggs can go gently caress himself, and die in the process.
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 22:30 |
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I think this article might be the perfect summary of why the current energy supply system is totally crazy - and the consumer protection built in to curb the excesses of capitalism just makes it even more ridiculous. You have the Big 6 (is it still 6?) suppliers, and then a load of little ones, but apparently the little ones are too little to ride out spikes in energy prices and go bust. And as I think most people know, when that happens your supply gets taken over by another (bigger) company. But this bit quote:Industry rules mean supplies will continue for affected customers, and they will not lose money owed to them. is funny. "Here are some new customers for you... and here's the debt you now owe them". Obviously this is "consumer friendly", making it less likely people will be demanding renationalisation with menaces, but it's hilariously un-market. The hyper-libertarian version where the supplier goes bust, your energy is cut off until you sign up with a new one (at a much higher price), and you kiss your credit balance bye bye, would at least be consistent. Anything to keep up the illusion that a market for energy isn't pointless choice-theatre I guess.
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 22:51 |
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Yet anothr of nadine dorries idiot moron crimes. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dorman-long-tower-demolition-redcar-steelworks-b1922633.html It's going down in a few hours.
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# ? Sep 18, 2021 23:09 |
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OwlFancier posted:These days you immigrate to britane and you get given a house and become a landlord and own a shop. But I don't want to be a landlord
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 00:34 |
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Skull Servant posted:But I don't want to be a landlord S'allright we have a solution that should fit you right down to the ground
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 01:16 |
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OwlFancier posted:Yet anothr of nadine dorries idiot moron crimes. “Our heritage lies in the people that built this great region. It lies in the structures that stand tall across the world, from The Shard, Sydney Harbour Bridge and One World Trade Centre."
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 04:03 |
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Angepain posted:Ok time to continue the thread tradition of every now and then someone coming in and asking about broadband recommendations, are there any companies that are particularly good or poo poo these days. currently looking at fibre from one of bt, talktalk, plusnet and sky but it's been a while since i actually had to make decisions about internet
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 12:20 |
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after the incredible success of skills wallets, the new flagship Lib Dem policy is skills wallets for kids they are so incredibly loving useless
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 12:28 |
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Angepain posted:Ok time to continue the thread tradition of every now and then someone coming in and asking about broadband recommendations, are there any companies that are particularly good or poo poo these days. currently looking at fibre from one of bt, talktalk, plusnet and sky but it's been a while since i actually had to make decisions about internet Plusnet is, iirc, a BT reseller. So same network but maybe slightly better customer service. TalkTalk are fine until it goes wrong and then their customer service is pretty bad. No experience with Sky, but I'm with BT and I've had decent enough internet and customer service, even when a lightning storm messed up my router. Got it fixed in just over 24 hours including replacing the line to the house, new router, etc.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 12:31 |
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virgin give good service if you put the shite router they send you into modem mode and plug a different router into it
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 12:49 |
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https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1439513316230062085
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 13:07 |
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My favourite number is 0x5f3759df because nobody remembers where it came from and the reference source code for it just reads "what the gently caress?" which sums up computer touching quite nicely.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 13:07 |
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Miftan posted:Plusnet is, iirc, a BT reseller. So same network but maybe slightly better customer service. TalkTalk are fine until it goes wrong and then their customer service is pretty bad. No experience with Sky, but I'm with BT and I've had decent enough internet and customer service, even when a lightning storm messed up my router. Got it fixed in just over 24 hours including replacing the line to the house, new router, etc. Sky are terrible the moment anything goes wrong and then it’s all BT’s fault and it will get fixed when it gets fixed sorry BT don’t give us a timeframe. With vodaphone for both mobile and router internet now, exact same speeds as you would get with any other supplier and they don’t charge you line rental. The app has a function where you can turn the internet off on a timer which stops the half hour of video games at 9 turning into the oh poo poo it’s 3 am thing.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 13:12 |
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Biggus Dickus posted:My favourite number is 0x5f3759df because nobody remembers where it came from and the reference source code for it just reads "what the gently caress?" which sums up computer touching quite nicely. that number is indeed an amazing bit of computer touching, and imo this video does a pretty good job explaining just how amazing it actually is (it's even more amazing than one might suspect): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 13:13 |
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Don't accept any offers from Virgin. They offered me 200mb broadband for the price of 50mb (£22.50) for 18 months when I moved and tried to cancel the old contract. When the first bill arrived, they charged me £70 and hadn't applied any of the discounts they promised. Over the next month and 2 or 3 calls a week they applied enough discounts to bring it down to about £40, but every time I called asking them to bring it down to the price they promised, they would promise to 'pass it on to a manager, wait 7 days for the account to refresh online.' I'd wait the 7 days and the account would not be applied. To be fair everyone I spoke to was polite and tried to help but it just kept hitting the wall of them agreeing that I had been promised that contract at £22, i should be getting the extra discount, but every time I tried to get them to apply it, it went off to a manager and then wasn't applied. Eventually after 6 months I threatened to leave, and they tried the 'pass onto a manager' thing again but I had enough. Managed to talk to someone who was able to take my connection down to 50mb so I could have the £22 internet I was promised. I don't give a poo poo about connection speeds, I just want to not be paying £70 a loving month.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 13:13 |
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If you're in an area where you can get Hyperoptic I can't recommend them enough. Great speeds, no need for a phone line. That's it really.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 13:48 |
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Biggus Dickus posted:My favourite number is 0x5f3759df because nobody remembers where it came from and the reference source code for it just reads "what the gently caress?" which sums up computer touching quite nicely. lmao you weren't kidding - quake 3's source code: code:
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:01 |
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Just got an email from Sky yesterday saying that they are splitting off the Sky TV from the rest in December. I'm a broadband + land line customer since last Dec, it's ok but my speed has consistently dropped since then. Just enough for YT @ 1080 but can't game online at same time now. First world problems.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:03 |
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A lot of confectionery is going to get scarce, I read that most of german importers to the UK of them are just stopping.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:22 |
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Red Oktober posted:If you're in an area where you can get Hyperoptic
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Just Another Lurker posted:Just got an email from Sky yesterday saying that they are splitting off the Sky TV from the rest in December. Tbf in tyool 2021 that's garbage and no one should have to deal with terrible infrastructure, first world or not.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:30 |
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They didn't have flakes in the war, todays fat entitled children could do with some shortages to teach them how good they have it. We'll just grow our own vegetables as I, who wasn't alive in the war, never had to do. Furthermore,
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:32 |
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I've been with plusnet for forever, and I really like them. BT reseller, so lines are fine, but cheaper and customer service used to be ace. It's not as good the past few years tho, used to pride themselves in using Yorkshire call centres but I think they started farming it out to someone cheap.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:41 |
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Suppose it depends if you have a dedicated line nowadays, and not have a concurrency level. We only have BT in our area in NI, and they had a concurrency level of about 50 houses or so, all sharing the one line. It was fine for a long while, but from 5pm-9pm you couldn't stream poo poo or play games. Now got a dedicated line just for us and we have all the bean and sex arse porn we want.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:48 |
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happyhippy posted:A lot of confectionery is going to get scarce, I read that most of german importers to the UK of them are just stopping. Means it’s a good time to support more local candy suppliers! On a completely unrelated note, new fudge drop incoming in the next few days.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:49 |
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happyhippy posted:A lot of confectionery is going to get scarce, I read that most of german importers to the UK of them are just stopping. I wonder if that includes perfetti van melle, if so you get no more mentos, chupa chups, or fruitellas.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 15:39 |
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder if that includes perfetti van melle, if so you get no more mentos, chupa chups, or fruitellas. will anyone really miss them (alternately how will anyone get past an awkward sitch without The Freshmaker???)
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 15:49 |
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Though I rarely post here, I just want to say never, ever have anything to do with Virgin Media ever. They are beyond poo poo and I could write way more about this but I'll save you the tedium. Hyperoptic were amazing when I lived in Manchester. Go for them if you can. gently caress Virgin Media. If I ever meet that motherfucker Richard Branson, I will force feed him a Hub3 router and throw him in a bin solely for just how utter garbage VM are, let alone how for much I personally hate him.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 15:57 |
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Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo, in addition to being a surrealist and supporting fascism. Imagine if Julius Evola had designed the Fruitella packaging. Flavours from Tradition and the two natures.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 16:13 |
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Oh! I have a good one and it’s one where the little guy wins Years and years ago I had to cancel two different mobile broadband contracts to consolidate with vodaphone - at the time getting them separately was cheaper. I did it all right, they stopped taking money and that was done with. 4 years ago this Lowell company started sending me demand notices for hundreds of pounds on behalf of 02. I told them to gently caress off and it went to the mediation stage via phone call with the court, in the end they agreed that it was probably a billing error and as it hadn’t been thrown back to O2 for any evidence whatsoever they couldn’t prove I owed the money, we agreed that I would pay a pound as a goodwill gesture and that was that. Few months ago these motherfuckers try and bill me hundreds of pounds for the 3 mobile contract, again I told them to gently caress off and check your records, oh and by the way we now know there was a problem at that time with all mobile companies where if you didn’t request and use a PAC code then billing would continue, and I’ll see you in court *again*. What do you know, they immediately caved. always fight these scumbags, even if you are in the wrong you can get them to compromise in mediation and they are absolutely banking on not having to do any work other than get it rubber stamped by a judge. Make it *cost* them and they will think twice about scamming you again.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 16:14 |
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Guavanaut posted:Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo, in addition to being a surrealist and supporting fascism. I wonder who designed these
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 16:20 |
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Fruit pervert Slavoj Zizek.
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# ? Sep 19, 2021 16:23 |
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learnincurve posted:Lowell Christ that name brings me back, my job for years was just ringing lowell and other third party collection companies and saying 'you what mate' until they stopped sending letters. Seconding your advice to challenge it - best case they realise they can't enforce the debt because it's too old or the bill is wrong, worst case they decide they can't be arsed chasing it and pass it back to the original company so at least you're speaking to the people who can actually fix it
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