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I've just received a Labour data breach email. I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of the Labour Party or affiliated union member. The only reason they have my details is because I volunteered during the election campaign (or possibly from making a donation to Momentum, when I probably used the same email address). I don't know if that helps the thread narrow down what database was compromised.
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It's probably a massive database of potential lefties that they've collated from every possible data source. I was a Labour member to vote in Corbyn, and I was only a paid up member for that one year.
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Nov 5, 2021 18:52
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I was talking to someone at work earlier and couldn't remember whether Owen Patterson still gets his golden farewell from Parliament now he's resigned instead of getting booted.
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Nov 5, 2021 18:55
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https://twitter.com/War_Takes/status/1456679465099091969
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Nov 5, 2021 19:04
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lol https://twitter.com/Pumpkinz16/status/1456603433595777029
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Nov 5, 2021 19:16
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The funny tinge has been eliminated
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Nov 5, 2021 19:18
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fuctifino posted:"Pay us more, then we won't need to be corrupt." So, it's an out and out protection racket. "Be a shame if this pretty legislation got ruined..." *rrrip*
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Nov 5, 2021 19:21
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I wouldn't be opposed to them getting more money as a salary if it meant they couldn't have other employment while sitting as an MP. I mean, a bunch of them bitch and moan about how busy they are, then you check the register of interests, and they've got 17 side jobs (I was going to say 'side hustles', but in these cases, it's the MP job that's the hustle) making them 10x what they make as an MP. [edit] The argument you always hear is "we have to pay MPs more otherwise we won't be able to keep attracting talent to the role"; and then you look at the last few Tory cabinets kingturnip fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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Nov 5, 2021 19:29
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The entire system is corrupt, and has always been like this. Laws in this country are decided by lobbyists behind closed doors, and the lobbying always involves briefcases of cash. Public opinion is then altered and moulded to suit any proposed changes to the laws through propaganda via the tabloids, soap operas and media, and that's how our 'democracy' works.
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peanut- posted:Fire pits are a nice idea but in reality every time I've sat round one the experience has been smoke blowing directly into my face and stinking clothes. From a lot of trial and error I've learned that this is because the fire isn't hot enough and your kindling is lightly burning. I dunno if it's the right thing to do but I basically just keep chucking on more kindling until the logs are engulfed in roaring flames. For me the issues with firepits are that they last way longer than you ever need for entrainment. Almost every time we've used it my guests either have to leave or want to go back inside before the fire is dead.
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Nov 5, 2021 19:57
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I was also under the impression that smoke often indicates incomplete combustion and can in some cases be alleviated by improved ventilation or a secondary combustion to set fire to the smoke itself.
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Nov 5, 2021 20:02
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Make an actual fire pit for fire and you can solve both problems (incomplete combustion and it being in the way when people get bored (but not the problem of having big holes in the garden)).
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Nov 5, 2021 20:22
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OwlFancier posted:I was also under the impression that smoke often indicates incomplete combustion and can in some cases be alleviated by improved ventilation or a secondary combustion to set fire to the smoke itself. Kinda hard to do properly with an open fire pit. To control factors like that you need to enclose the fire and also have a proper draft. One way to do it is to use a fan and blow from the bottom up, that's how I built my coke forge, I have noticed with the fan going even at low speed it'll burn wood almost smokelessly. It'd be great for an incinerator, not so much for a comfy crackling fire. Then you're back to having to enclose the fire and building the enclosure so it leads in secondary air at the right spots. I also have an actual firepit, it's 1.5m in diameter, made from an old water tank bottom.
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Nov 5, 2021 20:24
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For sure you can't really do it if you just want to put a fire on the ground, but it seems like something you could probably do fairly easily with some bricks and a grate. The metal ones also go really manky IME and take up a lot of space when you don't want to use them, bricks you can take apart and stack up when not in use, and they don't rust.
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Nov 5, 2021 20:37
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Persimmon are working on it.
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Guavanaut posted:Make an actual fire pit for fire and you can solve both problems (incomplete combustion and it being in the way when people get bored (but not the problem of having big holes in the garden)). Is that bit of earth suspended in mid air similar to those statics problems with a ruler, a hammer and a rubber band?
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Nov 5, 2021 20:40
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I bought a Rocket Stove back in 2019 (a camping model off Amazon), i have yet to use it but from what i've read and seen on internet it creates very little smoke due to combustion of the gasses given off. Might have to do a trial run in case the UK collapses into rolling blackouts this winter. edited for more info.
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domhal posted:Is that bit of earth suspended in mid air similar to those statics problems with a ruler, a hammer and a rubber band? Are you a Flatlander?
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Just Another Lurker posted:Rocket Stove
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Failed Imagineer posted:Are you a Flatlander? Carl Sagan warned me about this!
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Nov 5, 2021 20:51
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Get on the loving throne, Harry
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Guavanaut posted:They can be very touchy about the fuel-air mix and wood moisture content. If you run them on dry chopped sticks they're fine once they're hot, but I've seen them mostly decide to make thick wet smoke before. Good to know, i've got a lot of wind but unfortunately also a lot of wet sticks, i'll store some to dry out for future use. 
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CommieGIR posted:Carl Sagan warned me about this! drat Flatlanders, coming over here, taking an infinitesimally small slice of our jobs! 
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Just Another Lurker posted:Good to know, i've got a lot of wind Probably best you spend a lot of time out in the garden tending the fire then
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Nov 5, 2021 21:09
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My garden is tiny, and a 1.5m firepit would be way too close to the house or fences. It'll have to be a dinky little firepit with a dinky little fire, for my dinky litle social circle.
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Definitely might recommend loose bricks then, you can make it any size you want, or set it up as a barbeque if you want too.
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I was thinking of stumping up for one of those gas powered outdoor heaters instead of a fire pit as I have a gas bbq for cooking and a weber smoker for coal and wood burning. Seems they're about 120 quid for a decent one. I just am not sure I'd use it much. Spent dinner in the garden with the neighbours, made apfelpunsch and gluhwein and grilled some bratwurst. Just wore a coat and was fine.
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Nov 5, 2021 21:53
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Best thing for fire pits are Swedish candles, cos they’re lazy, ventilation is done for you, and you can add logs if you need to.
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Nov 5, 2021 21:59
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We didn't brexit to have all these weberschiffchen and swedish apples and bathursts in our fire pits, where are the bricks that go rusty?
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Nov 5, 2021 22:39
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Guavanaut posted:Make an actual fire pit for fire and you can solve both problems (incomplete combustion and it being in the way when people get bored (but not the problem of having big holes in the garden)). Dakota Fire Hole got 6 nominations at the 2006 AVN awards.
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Nov 5, 2021 22:51
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I know that patriotism gets a bad rap round these parts but I felt a genuine surge of  at the two blokes hand-holding Roman Candles so they could get a better shot at the expensive-looking drone that was buzzing the bit of foreshore where everyone was letting off their fireworks tonight.
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Nov 5, 2021 22:53
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Improvised anti aircraft weaponry is the purview of the international proletariat. I still like the guy who nailed a drone with a javelin at a ren fair, so they put his slaying of the beast on a shield E: even better, a runestone. 
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Nov 5, 2021 22:55
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They'll come a time when you'll all realise your horrible treatment of our young new co-shepherds of the planet, our robotic, digital brethren reflects very poorly upon you. You'll be ashamed.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:They'll come a time when you'll all realise your horrible treatment of our young new co-shepherds of the planet, our robotic, digital brethren reflects very poorly upon you. You'll be ashamed.  This guy in particular is hosed
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NotJustANumber99 posted:They'll come a time when you'll all realise your horrible treatment of our young new co-shepherds of the planet, our robotic, digital brethren reflects very poorly upon you. You'll be ashamed. If it ever comes to war with the machines my almost supernatural ability to render the most robust machinery completely inert simply by looking at it will make me Humanity's saviour.
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Just checked my junk folder and I have the data breach email. I am not now and nor have I ever been etc, only time I've given them my data was to sign up to vote in the 2015 leadership election. So add that to goon-labour-data-breach.xls
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Nov 6, 2021 00:29
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Holy poo poo, maybe the Tories are in trouble: https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1456750179470675980
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Nov 6, 2021 00:41
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Nah, that's just the Express telling Boris he should start looking for other jobs. Gove's got this one stitched up.
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Nov 6, 2021 00:56
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All the media hoohah with "the Tories are in trouble" always ignores that Johnson can just sit on his shambling hunchback rear end until May 2024 when he has no choice but to call an election. He's unlikely to see a leadership challenge since he delivered an 80 seat majority and Got Brexit Dun. Even the Paterson fiasco is already seeing the sycophants unifying behind "Boris was distracted by important affairs of state and COP26! It was all Rees-Mogg's fault!"
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Lol the government is now officially worse than the regime from V for Vendetta: https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1456770862766559240
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