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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm old enough to remember mortgage interest rates of 15%+ (1990 - again, under a tory government). Yeah I have a few £k in my NEST pension and they give you a report every year on how the various accounts you can put your money into are performing. I noticed that the Sharia ones have been getting much better returns than all the others so shifted my money into that. Hope it does well because it's my only pension savings currently \o/. E: 57 varieties of beans fired up your backside.
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Unite are going to be putting together their own inflation measure and using it as a Collective Bargaining Index going forward
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WhatEvil posted:57 varieties of beans fired up your backside.
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 https://twitter.com/argacyan/status/1505579984181727233?s=20&t=wwecPMZZ7cQRkem2DSe8tA https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia Idk Russia bad yes but just lol at anyone who thinks Ukraine's government isn't shady as gently caress
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ThomasPaine posted:
Conversely, https://twitter.com/KATURATION/status/1505447237240950786
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I still don't think banning political parties is a great look for a country determined to cast itself as democratic
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Suspending political parties that are tied to the country literally invading yours is understandable.
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Suspending them until the war ends, because their leadership was abducting and trying to replace elected candidates in the occupied regions? I mean if that's actually happening then I'd call that proportional.
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Guavanaut posted:Islamic savings providers widely consider this to be haram. Wasting food?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Real inflation Iceland (the shop) trip report: Supply chain side I've been getting almost all of my paper suppliers (Hand towels, tissues, toilet roll etc) sending out 10-30% increases. This stuff is incredibly energy intensive so thats driving it. Some Paper producers are halving production until gas prices come down so we will see real terms shortages in a month (earlier if panic sets in again) and unlike last time this wont be just until the deliveries catch up.
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to be fair the Niemöller poem started off pretty reasonable too
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ThomasPaine posted:I still don't think banning political parties is a great look for a country determined to cast itself as democratic Picking out the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine at random: quote:The party has close ties with the Eurasian Youth Union and its leader Alexandr Dugin. The party espouses conservative positions and has often been accused of racism and antisemitism. Basically, this is Zelenskyy making inroads on Putin's demand that Ukraine be de-Nazified by banning the Nazi parties. Oddly, all those Nazi parties have strong ties to Russia.
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ThomasPaine posted:I still don't think banning political parties is a great look for a country determined to cast itself as democratic So should the UK have not banned the BUF and allied groups in the lead-up to WW2? I'm not trying to be snarky or point-score here, I think it's an interesting point of debate. We all have a personal barometer for such things and mine says, in times of actual existential threat to the people of the state, it's not unreasonable to take measures against groups specifically allied with the threat.
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Jel Shaker posted:to be fair the Niemöller poem started off pretty reasonable too Agreed, therefore all things that begin reasonably are destined to become holocausts
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ronya posted:decadal stagflation This guy keeps killing me in Elden Ring.
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Ukraine is comically corrupt. A friend of mine who was living in Kiev got a parking ticket. He went to pay it and the person at the office said his visa wasn't in order, which of course it was, and had him deported. It was as dumb as it sounds. A human rights lawyer took it on as the official was clearly wanting a bribe. It would have been going to court soon. This sort of thing is par for the course in Ukraine but normally people can't afford to fight it. That's the thing with putin. It doesn't matter how bad things are, he is going to make it worse. He's a loving nightmare E: my friend got out last week incase anyone is wondering jiggerypokery fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So should the UK have not banned the BUF and allied groups in the lead-up to WW2? I'm not trying to be snarky or point-score here, I think it's an interesting point of debate. We all have a personal barometer for such things and mine says, in times of actual existential threat to the people of the state, it's not unreasonable to take measures against groups specifically allied with the threat. I suppose it depends on the extent to which the individual parties are actually allied with Russia. I don't know enough about domestic Ukrainian politics to say with any authority, but I'm suspicious of any decision to ban eleven groups outright, particularly when a big chunk of them are (nominally at least) left-leaning. I get that names aside most of them aren't in any meaningful way and some of them are even outright fash, but I'm also dubious that every one of them was actively supporting the invasion, and instinctively I wonder whether the government might have seen an easy opportunity to neuter some of its political opponents while shielding itself from criticism for doing so. jiggerypokery posted:Ukraine is comically corrupt. A friend of mine who was living in Kiev got a parking ticket. He went to pay it and the person at the office said his visa wasn't in order, which of course it was, and had him deported. Are any of the formerly socialist countries not? Seems almost inevitable when you have gangster capitalists running the state. Off the top of my head, I think maybe Slovenia is pretty cool? Possibly the Czech Republic as well? Estonia? ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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Fwiw everyone in this thread.... Cunts like this make it verrrry hard to make the point I was trying to make. This guy genuinely is doing all the things many of you were arguing against https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1505551438084247552?t=ewcVJjOyHg9wN-maW1Xy0Q&s=19
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jiggerypokery posted:Fwiw everyone in this thread.... In what world is that Bastani tweet about Farage a ‘defence’ of him
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feedmegin posted:We've also had absolutely rock bottom interest rates for years and years now, especially since the 2008 crisis, to encourage people to go out and spend all their money and keep the economy tottering on its feet. Which has been going on long enough now that I suspect anyone under the age of about 50 isn't going to even think about putting money in their savings accounts even if the interest rates go up a little. There hasn't been a single point during my adult life when savings accounts were worth thinking about. Wow, I can get an extra tenner if I can't touch my money for 5 years? Who can pass up a deal like that??
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While we're vaguely on cost of living chat, I'll throw a thing I need some help with to the UKMT crowd. I'm moving into a rented property soon, but it's my first place alone ever. The current tenants are with Bulb, which I'd rather not be with. I've tried signing up with Octopus but they bounce me back saying 'don't switch providers right now!'. Which I'm not doing as I've been no fixed abode for 6 months. So do I just move in and take over on the Bulb account and then switch? Or can I still sign up with someone from scratch to start when I move in, and the old Bulb account just goes away? Sorry if it sounds elementary, but I've literally never had to set up my own bills before now.
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Noxville posted:In what world is that Bastani tweet about Farage a ‘defence’ of him He said that caroles tweet was "just not true" when it objectively is true that RT pushed and paid farage. The thing is that everything bastani said was true as well. It just may turn out that his connection to RT is criminal which can't be said of the BBC, even though British media is obviously much more culpable for him. Everyone is right basically and this is the sort of argument that makes nuclear oblivion seem like a nice break from it all.
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ThomasPaine posted:I suppose it depends on the extent to which the individual parties are actually allied with Russia. I don't know enough about domestic Ukrainian politics to say with any authority, but I'm suspicious of any decision to ban eleven groups outright, particularly when a big chunk of them are (nominally at least) left-leaning. I get that names aside most of them aren't in any meaningful way and some of them are even outright fash, but I'm also dubious that every one of them was actively supporting the invasion, and instinctively I wonder whether the government might have seen an easy opportunity to neuter some of its political opponents while shielding itself from criticism for doing so. I think banning some of them like OPPZh in a time of invasion is understandable, less sure about others. But it is definitely less about crushing the left than it is about silencing anti Ukrainian nationalists. If once the war is over the ban stays in place, that's more problematic. The ban on communist symbols (& far left parties at the same time) in 2015 seems more worth getting up in arms over. Of course the law also banned "Nazi" symbols but that didn't apply to Nazi collaborators...
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a lovely king posted:Sorry if it sounds elementary, but I've literally never had to set up my own bills before now. I guess if you're really dead set against bulb you could try contacting them and saying you don't want a new contract, but I have no idea how that would work in practice and might result in having to pay a reconnection fee if bulb do it wrong.
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It's kind of wild to me that some post-soviet states genuinely draw a formal equivalence between communism and fascism when there are still people alive who lived through both.
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jiggerypokery posted:Ukraine is comically corrupt. A friend of mine who was living in Kiev got a parking ticket. He went to pay it and the person at the office said his visa wasn't in order, which of course it was, and had him deported. Sounds like they did alright out of that in the end
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Man that's a poo poo of a situation - what usually happens is you phone up whoever's currently providing and give them the date you move in, so you don't get charged for the previous occupant's usage. Then the provider charges you from that date and you get a continuity of service. I'm just not sure how much I'm screwing myself signing up to a company that's already hosed, but do I have any choice in the matter? The landlord has also told me the water is sub metered through them, and they invoice for it each month. Not sure how standard this is but I'm a bit leery of not being able to keep track of my own water usage with my own meter and account, but he seems alright so far (in so far as landlords can ever be that).
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Figure this might be a good place to ask. My wife might be getting a new job soon where she has to manage a small team of ~5 people. Anybody know of any books or resources on how to be a good manager, as a leftist? Like, I know she's working within a power-structure which is inherently capitalist which is unavoidable, but basically we think it might be a good idea for her to read something on "how to be a manager" but want to avoid any right-wing bullshit. E: Oh btw it's a union workplace AFAICT. Public Service Alliance of Canada - the union for government workers in Canada. They seem good at first glance, they are at least explicitly anti-privatisation. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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a lovely king posted:I'm just not sure how much I'm screwing myself signing up to a company that's already hosed, but do I have any choice in the matter? That sounds... Odd
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a lovely king posted:While we're vaguely on cost of living chat, I'll throw a thing I need some help with to the UKMT crowd. Whatever you end up doing, take photographs of the readings on the meter, preferably with the landlord in attendance to agree the exact readings where you take over. Did you say to octopus you don't have an existing account with anyone as this is your first place ever (moving out from parents or whatever)? This is their email address hello@octopus.energy asking them whether in THIS circumstance you can sign up with them as you've never had an account with anyone before, the previous occupant who is nothing to do with you is on Bulb. (You may already have done this.) a lovely king posted:I'm just not sure how much I'm screwing myself signing up to a company that's already hosed, but do I have any choice in the matter? Many people don't have their own water meter depending on the type of accommodation - especially flats - and age of the building. The block of 19 flats I live in has a single water meter for the whole block and the cost of water is paid by the management committee (we are all the management committee and the management committee is also the freeholder/ head lease holder) and pro-rated amongst all the flats by whatever formula was used to apportion service charges at the beginning of time (about 1986 or so for this block). So yeah, it's fairly normal for non-house dwellers. You could ask to see the main bill and see how he has divided it up. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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WhatEvil posted:Figure this might be a good place to ask. Supervisors and managers would need to be a thing whatever economic system we have, I don't think being promoted to that kind of position somehow undermines anyone's left-wing politics, but it can certainly enable a lot of rear end in a top hat behaviour. I think that, as in most things, the answer to 'how to be a good manager' is 'don't be a dick'. Don't come down on people for the sake of it, don't expect anyone to do anything you wouldn't also do, if people need a break or time off don't drag your heels or make them feel like poo poo for it, honour your promises, treat people with respect, don't think that you're somehow more important than anyone else because you're sitting in the big chair.
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I think it's easy enough to manage good people. It's really difficult to manage useless fuckers without becoming a scumbag and, I guess obviously, unfortunately that tends to mean most middle managers dealing directly with the youngest, least experienced, least well protected and lowest paid employees tend to end up being such cunts.
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I must admit long ago when I was working retail/jannie/general dogsbody stuff with a heritage org I had someone new start and she was just unbearably bad at the job. Unfortunately it was a tiny place with only three staff members - the two of us and the boss - and many days it was just me and her on so I had to pick up the pieces. At the end of the shift we used to take it in turns, one person cashed up, did the paperwork, and tidied the shop, the other person checked the site was clear, locked up, and cleaned the toilets. One time she came back from the latter after 10 mins and insisted she was done, I made the mistake of believing her, we finished up and left. When I arrived to open the next morning she hadn't done poo poo. The toilets were covered in poo poo. I had to somehow scrub them all down in time for opening like sonic the loving hedgehog. When I confronted her she just shrugged and said she wasn't about to clean that up because it was disgusting. I admire the brass neck, but jfc. I didn't get on with the boss and she didn't do herself any favours in the way she tried to manage us, but I genuinely felt so bad for her having formal responsibility for that absolute liability.
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WhatEvil posted:Figure this might be a good place to ask. What ThomasPaine said - "don't be a dick". Personally, I get on very well with the two people I line manage at the moment, but I tried very hard not to treat them any differently than the person I had basically no relationship with (before she left*). Being equitable is hard, and gets harder depending on how inflexible the organisation is willing to be with the rules, but if there isn't a good reason why person x can do something when person y can't - even if the reason can't be shared - it shouldn't happen. * - the person who left was pretty useless, and combined with this with a near-pathological inability to actually tell anyone how she was getting on. Towards the end of her time with us, as we became aware of the scope of how bad her work was, Line Management became excruciating because I'd give her opportunities to share anything she wanted to talk about, ask open questions about her work - knowing full well that she was really struggling to do anything of any quality - and get "yeah, it's fine" as a response to almost every question.
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ThomasPaine posted:
Decided to look up all these parties on Wikipedia. 1. Opposition Platform - For Life: quote:At a conciliation council among leaders of parliamentary factions on 17 February 2020, Vadim Rabinovych urged the sending of a Ukrainian delegation to participate in the 9 May victory parade in Moscow and started to sing the Soviet song "The Sacred War" ("Rise Up, the Mighty Country).[58][59] The party celebrates Red Army veterans by marking occasions like the Victory Day over Nazism in World War II and the Day of Liberation of Ukraine from Fascist Invaders.[60][61] The party also contains at least one actual close personal friend of Putin. 2. Party of Shariy: Founded by one Anatoly Shariy, who claims not to be pro-Putin, and has sued people who accuse him of that. But he's not great: quote:In a 2010 article "Blue Rust. Dictatorship of Sodomites"[nb 2] Shariy expressed an opinion that due to death sentenses for same-sex and adultery relationships in Iran after the Islamic revolution the situation with prostitution, pedophilia, and rape in Iran was much better than in Ukraine.”[90]: 46–47, 57 [92] In the summer of 2020, journalist Sergei Ivanov posted screenshots of Anatoly Shariy's publications from 2010 in which he showed understanding for the extermination of homosexuals and Roma in gas chambers during the Third Reich.[93][94] 3. Nashi: quote:According to Ukrainian journalists and political scientists, Nashi is one of the many pro-Russian parties (Opoblok, Opposition Platform – For Life, etc.) formed from the wreckage of the now-defunct Party of Regions.[9][10][11] 4. Union of Leftists: The Wikipedia page is quite sparse, so I dare say there's all sorts missing. But they do appear to be a left-wing party, albeit a pro-Russian one. They supported Petro Symonenko for president in 2010: quote:On 28 November 2006, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) narrowly passed a law defining the Holodomor as a deliberate act of genocide and made public denial illegal. Commenting in 2007, Symonenko said he "does not believe there was any deliberate starvation at all," and accused President Viktor Yushchenko of "using the famine to stir up hatred." In response, Yushchenko declared he wants "a new law criminalising Holodomor denial."[28] 5. Opposition Bloc: Formed from a merger of six smaller parties, so with a lot of different factions and infighting and all that. But definitely described as pro-Russia. Also: quote:American lobbyist Paul Manafort acted as political consultant for the party.[11] 6. Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine: Already mentioned by Jedit, but just thought I'd link. 7. Socialist Party of Ukraine : It might be considered overkill to have banned this one, since there isn't a lot that's incriminating on their Wikipedia page. But they were briefly led by Illia Kyva, about whom Wikipedia says: quote:On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine.[4] On this day Kyva expressed support for the invasion claiming "the Ukrainian people need liberation" and he also claimed that "Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians are one people."[5] Furthermore he stated that Ukraine was "enslaved and brought to its knees by the West, imbued with Nazism, and has no future."[5] He blamed the war on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and urged him to resign.[6] But Kyva had already left the Socialist Party of Ukraine, in 2019, to join Opposition Platform - For Life, so I wonder a bit about this one. But then, I'm not remotely Ukrainian, so I expect there's all manner of things I don't know that aren't on English-language Wikipedia. Jollity Farm fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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kingturnip posted:What ThomasPaine said - "don't be a dick". Dealing with people is interesting because you don't know what experience they've had at other jobs that can massively skew how they react to situations. We have one person at my place that is absolutely mortified if they make even a tiny mistake and I can't square it with the culture we have. I can only assume that they had an absolute horror show of a manager in a previous role and that shaped their work interactions to what they are now.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm old enough to remember mortgage interest rates of 15%+ (1990 - again, under a tory government).
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the overall result of my surveys of the supermarket of late is stuff is stupid fuckin dear i take a more qualitative approach than Jaeluni Asjil i suppose
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Payndz posted:The idea that banks would pay you money every month for having something in your account is going to be as incomprehensible to young people today as there only being three television channels or having your entire degree course paid for by your local council.
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ThomasPaine posted:It's kind of wild to me that some post-soviet states genuinely draw a formal equivalence between communism and fascism when there are still people alive who lived through both. Maybe that is why they draw the equivalence.
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