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goddamnedtwisto posted:Two different axes because otherwise the number of posters would be basically a flat line at the bottom of the graph. what day/week/whatever was the spike, anyway? was it any particularly exciting news event or was it just some people got in a big argument
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Apr 6, 2022 22:37
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Angepain posted:what day/week/whatever was the spike, anyway? was it any particularly exciting news event or was it just some people got in a big argument Have to assume it was crisps-related in some way
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Angepain posted:what day/week/whatever was the spike, anyway? was it any particularly exciting news event or was it just some people got in a big argument It's February 2021, when we suddenly went from 7158 posts in January to 11586 and then back down to 6792 in March. Can't remember if there were any particular Happenings then though - thread title suggests Brexit fun and games, and of course we were starting up vaccinations then.
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Apr 6, 2022 23:37
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Yeah the channel 4 thing upset me too, for the same reasons. Like, there's literally no reason to privatise it at all. We're just ruled over by spiteful cunts who hate the idea of people having nice things.
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I feel like saying there is no reason to privatise C4 is wrong. Of course there is: the dual whammy of *sniff* ideology, the religious faith in the free market & everything being better if left to private business, combined with simple corruption. Not even the illegal kind necessarily, the sort of I'll rub your back, you rub mine that is viewed as "necessary to oil the wheels of commerce": party donors getting favours for their donations. It's fine to think these are lousy reasons, I do too. But it's folly not to understand that the reasons are real enough.
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Apr 7, 2022 00:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjrC21-AHYc Fucks sake, not only Jago Hazzard, now this bloke has come over from his normal European haunts to steal my video ideas.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjrC21-AHYc I hate that I was 95% sure I knew who you were talking about just from the description of coming over from Europe. There's loads of Europeans, could've been any number of them but nope, "must be Tim Traveller"
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OwlFancier posted:I have 400 thousand followers on twitter and I wish to speak to the manager
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https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1511378789674192902?t=N01KMwfnDI0G-ldNcIRxdg&s=19 I feel like I'm going insane.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1511378789674192902?t=N01KMwfnDI0G-ldNcIRxdg&s=19 We're gonna need a bigger 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:source: torygraph/business/2022/04/06/national-grid-stripped-responsibility-britains-electricity-network/ Lol this chart. Time on the y axis, the key is in the opposite order to the data points... what a mess
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loving hell, the System Operator licence becoming public is the hospitaliest of hospital passes. Dressing it up as a nationalisation is such a sop. National Grid (Private) = Regulated Asset Value returns on 132kV and above Transmission network and inter connectors in England and Wales = Golden Goose. Prints money. National Grid ESO/FSO = Difficult to manage load balancing and system management between DSO’s and TO’s. Huge investment in IT required from what I can remember. Been out of that specific part for a year though so might be wrong. DSO = Distribution System Operator (Private) = licences for 132kV and below who supply the leccy to your house for RAV and fixed percentages on top. Prints money. Scotland gets two Transmission Operators because they’re special.
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forkboy84 posted:I hate that I was 95% sure I knew who you were talking about just from the description of coming over from Europe. There's loads of Europeans, could've been any number of them but nope, "must be Tim Traveller" I do really like his vids, but have never been tempted to post them here before because a) not much actual UK content and b) he *is* the most middle class liberal on the entire planet not currently employed as a columnist, and I assumed that there'd be a bit of friction. Wickhams is absolutely one of my favourite things in the East End though, and I still remember the fairly hilarious outcry when the developer who purchased it submitted a planning application to fill in the gap to make the building whole. Read the room, FFS. The current situation is still pretty poo poo but at least keeps most of the spirit.
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Apr 7, 2022 08:24
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Thing about the C4 privatisation is it actually is within the power of the opposition to stop. If Labour publicly commit to renationalisation if they win, buyers just won’t go near it to begin with. Of course they won’t do that though.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1511378789674192902?t=N01KMwfnDI0G-ldNcIRxdg&s=19 The Israeli government considers every Palestinian to be a combatant and their own actions to be a matter of self defence.
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Apr 7, 2022 08:51
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I'm mostly just too depressed to post but I'm still lurking and this thread usually lifts my spirits a little
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Jedit posted:The Israeli government considers every Palestinian to be a combatant and their own actions to be a matter of self defence. Tthe Israeli government doesn't do anything atm, it has collapsed over a piece of pitta bread.
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Apr 7, 2022 09:12
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Miftan posted:Tthe Israeli government doesn't do anything atm, it has collapsed over a piece of pitta bread. Just because it collapsed over bread doesn't mean it's un-Levant.
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Apr 7, 2022 09:24
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I'm literally just posting so I get included in all the stats 
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Apr 7, 2022 09:31
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I do really like his vids, but have never been tempted to post them here before because a) not much actual UK content and b) he *is* the most middle class liberal on the entire planet not currently employed as a columnist, and I assumed that there'd be a bit of friction. What makes him a middle class liberal besides his accent? Ive never seen this channel before btw and so far its excellent, similar in content to Tom Scott. Short and to the point and actually interesting.
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Mega Comrade posted:What makes him a middle class liberal besides his accent? He studies sculpture on a YouTube channel
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Guavanaut posted:His name is Tim he has a taste for flannel 
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Tim seems like a nice lad from his videos, and so long as he keeps whatever politics he has private I consider it no business of mine. I try to assume the best of people until they give me strong reason to think otherwise, and even if someone happens to imply they vote Lib Dem or En Marche or whatever, there's a difference between someone who does their politics once every few years at the ballot box and someone who tries to down twitter in their Dunning-Kruger hot takes. Hell, even if he was a full FBPE (and I've got no particular reason to think he is), I'd still have to credit that he actually lives in Paris and speaks more than one language, which would put him a whole class above most FBPEs whose chief concerns seemed mostly "I was promised the End of History" and "I don't want a longer queue at the airport".
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Apr 7, 2022 11:15
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He seems to often mention the best way to visit a place if you have a disability, which is very nice and something I see very few other 'tourist' channels ever mention.
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Apr 7, 2022 11:16
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I haven't had time what with the easter hols to do this month's proper solidarity fund update but here's a nice little bit of good cheer amidst all the poo poo.
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Tim's stuff is fine? The stuff he finds to talk about is really interesting. It's not a politics channel, quite deliberately I think. But I mean, he doesn't seem to have buried terrible opinions. Probably about as liberal as Tom Scott is but I mean I'll take "isn't actively part of the chud-o-sphere" and enjoy the escapism of learning about german dangle-trains. It IS youtube, after all.
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Total Meatlove posted:National Grid ESO/FSO = Difficult to manage load balancing and system management between DSO’s and TO’s. Huge investment in IT required from what I can remember. Been out of that specific part for a year though so might be wrong. ESO gets all of its incurred costs back through an industry levy (Balancing Services Use of System charges) which includes a guaranteed profit plus a bonus if they’re deemed to have been doing a good job by Ofgem. They’re hilariously bad at delivering IT change. The project to move from the 1980s-era balancing mechanism dispatch software is over 10 years late and going nowhere fast. The project to implement the Trans-European Replacement Reserves Exchange is likewise about 4 years late. I can’t blame them too much for TERRE being a disaster though - it also got derailed by Brexit. 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Two different axes because otherwise the number of posters would be basically a flat line at the bottom of the graph. If the y-axis were rescaled so that the maximum on each was the ratio of the average poster:posts ratio across all the data the distance between the two lines would be more meaningful!
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Tim is loving great, and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.
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RDevz posted:I can’t blame them too much for TERRE being a disaster though - it also got derailed by Brexit. Better known as clusterception.
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Apr 7, 2022 11:52
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No fuel at Tesco or the big garage at the corner...
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NotJustANumber99 posted:No fuel at Tesco or the big garage at the corner... You can't keep baiting me like this
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Apr 7, 2022 12:28
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The political beliefs of Youtubers are very often bad. Better that they keep it to themselves rather than find out that the weird scandi guy I follow who cleans up antique tech is Nazi adjacent.
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tbh I don't know how anyone could have good politics if you're one of the chosen few who seem to have unlocked the infinate money cheat of being a successful youtuber, especially the ones where the whole gimmick is that they're out of touch weirdos with too much money. It seems like the most public way to have no loving clue whats actually happening.
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On the subject of youtubers, 'Bald and Bankrupt' has been becoming popular due to the troubles in Ukraine, so it's worth reminding everyone that he's a racist PUA who narrowly avoided a gang rape conviction in the UK, before then abandoning his wife and daughter to become a sex tourist, all funded by youtube and patreon.
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Mega Comrade posted:What makes him a middle class liberal besides his accent? I mean he's an Englishman living in Paris having gone to university there who spends his time wandering around Europe and making (very, very good - like I say, I'm a fan) videos about it. It's about the most middle-class lifestyle imaginable. I was (semi) joking about his class and affect being a possible problem ITT because of the previous arguments we've had here about people being consigned to the depths of hell simply because they're not shoeless and quoting Marx. I think his style, charm and just sheer enthusiasm (and the work he puts into the videos - he plays all the music for them himself and figuring out what he's playing is a fun little side-quest to his vids for me) more than overcome him being called "Tim".
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fuctifino posted:On the subject of youtubers, 'Bald and Bankrupt' has been becoming popular due to the troubles in Ukraine, so it's worth reminding everyone that he's a racist PUA who narrowly avoided a gang rape conviction in the UK, before then abandoning his wife and daughter to become a sex tourist, all funded by youtube and patreon. I don't doubt this at all but is there a good source for this info on the guy?
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