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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Oh ha ha that went over my head then. Whoosh! CLS certainly is. Used to go to fencing tournaments there as a schoolboy- they had a fully dedicated fencing salle with underfloor scoring equipment and poo poo. I mean, I went to public school myself and I was impressed by their facilities.
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Stalin scared of tankies. (I refuse to understand what a tankie actually is.)
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Answers Me posted:Surely some sort of bill payment strike is the only meaningful action the masses could take, however fantastical that may be to organise in this day and age?
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domhal posted:Stalin scared of tankies. These days it's basically anyone who calls themselves left-leaning but is just a oval office.
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Don't do it. Don't turn the mirror on me
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Tesseraction posted:Don't do it. Me? Turning the mirror? No. You. Turn on you are monitor.
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May 24, 2022 18:00
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You just need someone just to say 'Whose that rear end in a top hat?' and they would swivel every time. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Oh ha ha that went over my head then. Whoosh! No worries, was a poo poo joke.
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whooooooooo's thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasshooooooooooole ruuunniiing around with youuuuuuuuuuuu teeel meeee whoooooooooooooooooooooo
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Palestine / Israel - interesting article if you're interested: https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/is-denying-the-nakba-antisemitism?s=r quote:Last summer, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid gave an intriguing speech about antisemitism, a speech that—if taken seriously—constitutes a profound indictment of his own government and the American Jewish institutions that work alongside it. In the speech, Lapid said “antisemitism isn’t the first name of hate, it’s the family name.” In other words, antisemitism is the name for bigotry against Jews. But bigotry against Jews isn’t worse than bigotry against other people. All bigotry is equally bad, and thus, Lapid suggested, Jews should start calling all bigotry—or at least all bigotry that spawns widespread violence—antisemitism. “The antisemites,” he declared, “were also slave traders who threw people bound together in chains into the sea. The antisemites were the Hutu in Rwanda who massacred Tutsis.” An antisemite is anyone who “hates so much that they want to kill and eliminate and persecute and expel people just because they are different.”
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I had to look BackBoris is trending on twitter. What is wrong with people? Ok some are using it as a negative, but others are full on 'our prime minister' 'how dare the media' criticize him' and so on.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I had to look BackBoris is trending on twitter. What is wrong with people? I find it helps to remember that the Tories make frequent use of bots across social media.
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kingturnip posted:I find it helps to remember that the Tories make frequent use of bots across social media. I think you're definitely right here! The "Left" are going to have to get a lot more underhand.
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Tsietisin posted:BBC News reporting that the energy price cap is now to go up to £2,800 later this year. Our payments went an extra £180 a month and look like they'll hit £400 a month if this is accurate. Worst of all we are now with shell after our previous supplier folded - I'm sure that their 9.1 billion dollar profit will be spent on improving renewable energy sources and essential infrastructure. God I hate this poo poo country. Energy companies go bust because they were bad at their jobs now we are all in the poo poo. Ofgem suggesting that any company offering cheaper prices should have to pay 85% of the difference back to the old supplier is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Yes we get it, you want to go back to the big six suppliers owning he market and setting prices. gently caress the consumer.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I had to look BackBoris is trending on twitter. What is wrong with people? In sure some people still think of him as the guest host on have I got news for you
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Rail strikes incoming:quote:Railway workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a bitter dispute over jobs, pay and conditions, threatening massive disruption to the network in the coming weeks.
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McFlurry Fan #1 posted:Our payments went an extra £180 a month and look like they'll hit £400 a month if this is accurate. That’s insane, you can buy a new BMW for less than that per month.
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https://twitter.com/BritishGas/status/1508376703223148545?t=26r2lxH3iOhmFePPw7bKrg&s=19 i wonder why they might be struggling, British Gas. I wonder why that might be.
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/in extremely Russian accent Holy poo poo. Piss.
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Tsietisin posted:I can believe this. I've done the sums and I earn somewhere around the 60th percentile as a salary. It's now at the point where after essential bills and rent, etc that I am left with around £110 a month. Those bills do not include food. If the new limit comes in, that becomes £30 a month to survive. e: nm, it wasn't the greatest post. But 2020 (the most up-to-date figures from the government) the 80th pre-tax income percentile is 43.7k if anyone cares. It goes up sharply after though, 90th is around 60k. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 23:12 on May 24, 2022 |
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They say you should take the best ideas from around the world. I think he should come over here and educate the tories. Active link here: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220523-sisi-suggests-egyptians-eat-tree-leaves-as-prices-soar
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Private Speech posted:I'm somewhere north of the 80th percentile and between high CoL single-adult rent, student loan and bills I only have a few hundred left for monthly spending including food and internet/phone. Yes I downloaded the stats file and these are the figures for people who earn enough to actually pay tax. (And yes, I know there are people who pay themselves in dividends rather than income to avoid tax and will fall below the personal allowance, also some caveats around self-employed persons, but I don't think they would affect the overall figures too much). In 2006/7 before quitting my last full time job, I was at the 89th percentile. Now, I don't even make the 1st LOL 50th percentile (median) is £26k. (Here are the stats if anyone wants to download the odious files. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-from-1-to-99-for-total-income-before-and-after-tax )
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https://twitter.com/aljwhite/status/1529112994965245958?t=Ft_mDW6DZpgPxXZts-jXTw&s=19 I'd be amazed if he lost the vote of no confidence if it ever happened.
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Apparently this was one of the items in the Panorama tonight (I didn't see it, just going by the report): Security guard tried to stop the parties but was mocked. quote:
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:"Another described working in Downing Street as living in "our own bubble" where the rules didn't really apply." Well yes but we were discussing COVID...
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Lungboy posted:https://twitter.com/aljwhite/status/1529112994965245958?t=Ft_mDW6DZpgPxXZts-jXTw&s=19
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Lungboy posted:I'd be amazed if he lost the vote of no confidence if it ever happened.
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^^^ agreed.TACD posted:Yea it’s absolutely going to be libs smugly crowing once a vote finally gets called and a completely predictable “ah well nevertheless” when the vote fails and makes him indestructible It's only a tory party rule though that they have to wait 12 months. They could change that rule surely if the membership were willing (can't believe that tory members are secretly sick of Johnson by now).
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lol everyone post their percentile Weird to say this without offering yours first. FWIW I was 42nd when I lost my job.
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McFlurry Fan #1 posted:Ofgem suggesting that any company offering cheaper prices should have to pay 85% of the difference back to the old supplier is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Yes we get it, you want to go back to the big six suppliers owning he market and setting prices. gently caress the consumer. This is a side effect of the price cap being introduced and the way it's calculated. The price cap has a bunch of components to it, but the important one here is the wholesale energy cost. Until about two months ago when Ofgem changed the rules, for the coming six month period, this component was set as the average of market prices for delivery over the next 12 months over a six month observation window between 8 and 2 months before delivery. So, a supplier who wants to avoid gambling on the direction of maket prices has to guess how many customers on a standard variable tariff they'll have, how much electricity and gas those customers are going to use, and then buy it gradually over that period. Unfortunately, "guess how many customers they'll have" is quite difficult. Because customers can leave SVT at a moment's notice, and will do so as soon as a fixed price tariff that's cheaper than SVT is released, you've got a problem: If you guess that market prices are going to fall and they don't, you'll have underestimated the amount of power and gas to buy, and will now have to buy them at a higher price than you're allowed to sell them to customers at. If, on the other hand, you guess that market prices are going to stay the same or rise, and they fall, your customers leave and you've got a bunch of expensive power and gas that you now have to sell back on the markets at a loss. If you guessed right, you don't make a loss on this component of the price cap. This charge from Ofgem is an attempt to stop even more energy companies going bust having hedged their power and gas demands sensibly. Given Bulb going under is going to have cost the country a couple of billion pounds by the time its spell in special administration ends, having more companies exit the market in a disorderly manner is a scary prospect.
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I feel like there should be a better way to handle energy production than having a hundred companies all betting how much people are going to use to maximise profit margins.
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Mebh posted:Yeah, it should be free at the point of use, nationalised and paid for by taxation. You know that means you get bitcoins and heated outdoor pools.
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