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OwlFancier posted:I mean this is a general theme among speculative fiction authors, they all, seemingly invariably, operate under the belief that the only thing people can be interested in long term is loving or murdering. 
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Guavanaut posted:I thought it was The Fountainhead, the one where the libertarian genius architect demolishes his building because the public works project makes some minor changes. Ah, google says you are right. I stand corrected. He reads the courtroom scene in that book twice a year. lol
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Guavanaut posted:I thought it was The Fountainhead, the one where the libertarian genius architect demolishes his building because the public works project makes some minor changes. I can see how he got confused. Who is James Galt?
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The Fountainhead is a powerful cautionary tale for project managers about the dangers of trying to work with petty arseholes who think they're better than the rest of the team.
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Guavanaut posted:project managers Guavanaut posted:petty arseholes who think they're better than the rest of the team.
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OwlFancier posted:I mean this is a general theme among speculative fiction authors, they all, seemingly invariably, operate under the belief that the only thing people can be interested in long term is loving or murdering. I like that idea. And I think it's implied in the books that there are people like that.
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Boris is a true master of international diplomacy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59428311 VVV Thanks, fixed now. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Nov 26, 2021 |
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Lungboy posted:Boris is a true master of international diplomacy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59428311 Your link is broken. I fixed it in the quote.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I like that idea. And I think it's implied in the books that there are people like that. Mentioned earlier, but Player of Games protagonist is just guy who does that for boardgames. They just find a wildly implausible scenario where they need a guy with that exact skillset to do space shenanigans in the magellanic cloud. Come to think of it, 17776 is pretty good for a meditation on immortal humans and games, and is excellent.
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A life immortal devoted to the art of shitposting.
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There's a successful tube strike going on at the moment https://twitter.com/RMTunion/status/1464144702156988417
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Xemloth posted:For some reason the graphic art the end of that article felt really absurd
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Blair advocating war predicated on the most dubious of pretexts!? 
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Its so telling that the ONE shot of "migrants" (call them refugees you disingenuous fucks) just so happens to show male faces. Gee I wonder what narrative you're trying to spin here.
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IllusionistTrixie posted:Its so telling that the ONE shot of "migrants" (call them refugees you disingenuous fucks) just so happens to show male faces. Gee I wonder what narrative you're trying to spin here. The statistics do suggest they are overwhelmingly male. 78% of asylum seekers were male in 2021.
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fuctifino posted:There's a successful tube strike going on at the moment https://twitter.com/rahman_afzal/status/1463961645034704901
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Of course they are mostly young men. There's a generation of boomers who won't even walk to the shop complaining that their foreign counterparts aren't clambering into lorries or sitting in a freezing cold dinghy for hours. Young men are more likely to survive the physically demanding journey with limited food and then be able to find cash-in-hand manual labouring work because they can't be legally employed when they get here. There is a reason that hand car washes sprang up everywhere over the last few years.
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The Met office have just updated the warnings for tomorrow. We don't often get red alerts, so please take heed. https://twitter.com/Daily_Record/status/1464187067202777089
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Shouldn't have had the climate summit, all the climate showed up and is happening.
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OwlFancier posted:Shouldn't have had the climate summit, all the climate showed up and is happening. Had the pleasure of meeting the Climate at a charity do once. It was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny. edit: apologies to Limmy.
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My power is out, the apocalypse is in fact already here.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Had the pleasure of meeting the Climate at a charity do once. It was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny. It was very surprisingly down to earth in British Columbia ohhhhhhh yeah *prances around high fiving everyone*
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:My power is out, the apocalypse is in fact already here. Can't wait for the power to go out here, been waiting to show my SO that the old pressure lamp I renovated does have a practical value!
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serious gaylord posted:https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1464005004059103232?t=PjZEbJ3qmjTeCEiG4kwcIA&s=19 My god who could have foreseen this
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:My power is out, the apocalypse is in fact already here. Very windy here but power is on so I'm just chilling listening to a new record I got yesterday, after being silly excited that it was even available. Nice times
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fuctifino posted:The Met office have just updated the warnings for tomorrow. We don't often get red alerts, so please take heed. I'm here in Co. Antrim watching horizontal hail hitting my precious Yaris. 
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Barry Foster posted:My god who could have foreseen this Starmer: Yes, all according to plan. 
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serious gaylord posted:https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1464005004059103232?t=PjZEbJ3qmjTeCEiG4kwcIA&s=19 Clearly *checks notes* Knutton is a hotbed of extremist woke leftism and it's good that they're no longer a part of the Labour project.
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sebzilla posted:Clearly *checks notes* Knutton is a hotbed of extremist woke leftism and it's good that they're no longer a part of the Labour project. You’ve got this the wrong way round, it’s actually all the woke leftists yet to be purged from Labour that have caused the fine people of Knutton to stay at home. (tbf it’s a local election so it’s probably because of something entirely random about trees or bins or bike lanes)
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The vote difference was all of 8 votes, not sure how much to read into it. They somehow both ran on "the other party will close your green spaces" and, uh, "no more stink": https://twitter.com/NUL_Labour/status/1463442034635808772 https://twitter.com/AaronBell4NUL/status/1462013466563289090 Huckfield appears to have previously contested local elections on a platform of "vote for tories and the tories will give us more money" which is pretty lovely.
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josh04 posted:Huckfield appears to have previously contested local elections on a platform of "vote for tories and the tories will give us more money" which is pretty lovely. it is extremely lovely but he's right
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