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So the ultimate British folk song is 'kill, have sex with, and then eat your rich friends', the ultimate Chinese folk song is 'I dodged the draft to have sex with my mother', and the ultimate Irish folk song is 'I got tricked into leaving Ireland by a beautiful fairy, but getting drunk and beating up the English makes me feel better about it'. Gotcha.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I wish twitter hadn't made it so hard to read tweets without signing in. My blood pressure is about 500 right now after reading about Corbyn's £multi-million house that probably cost £2.50 when he bought it and the vile Hodge woman not quite saying but definitely allowing the reader to infer that Naomi is anti-semitic. And as for the pillock commonly known as Crafty Wank.... franco posted:I don't have a twitter account, but a pro tip (that I might have learned from this thread?) if you get the "LOG IN TO SEE THIS YOU BELLEND" is to click/tap the login option then you get an X top left of the box and go to town. This week I swapped from Chrome to Firefox as the former will prevent adblockers from working early next year. One trick I discovered is that uBlock Origin has a couple of options for 'annoyances' filters that are off by default, but if you enable them it blocks the Twitter login pop-up.
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Sep 3, 2022 09:58
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I saw this pic doing the rounds yesterday too: https://twitter.com/MrM58415790/status/1565363069802500097
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Sep 3, 2022 09:59
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JK Rowling books are like American diner food, terrible but at least the portions are huge.
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Sep 3, 2022 10:15
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Sep 3, 2022 10:25
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Imagine if any part at all of the modern web was designed for the user instead of for increasing value for shareholders, what a world would that be Though maybe making it harder to read twitter does count as improving our lives i suppose
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Sep 3, 2022 10:42
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That's how you get geocities. I.e. a much better web.
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Sep 3, 2022 10:45
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keep punching joe posted:JK Rowling books are like American diner food, terrible but at least the portions are huge. Speaking of Rowling, I discovered her latest example of awfulness. She (maybe) has Ireland still under the rule of the hated Brits in the Harry Potter Universe. Basically someone posted this on Ireland Simpsons Fans.  To put it in context (since I needed to have this fully explained) by one commentator, "This would be like if the Irish soccer team was owned organized and administered by the British ministry of the interior."
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Sep 3, 2022 10:46
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https://twitter.com/jrmallcock/status/1565732298892480513 I'm still impressed how many replies are people just refusing to believe it, or telling them to just raise their prices or fire some staff. We are quite the boot licking nation.
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Sep 3, 2022 10:58
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can't the restaurant just wear a jumper
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Sep 3, 2022 11:00
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The Question IRL posted:Speaking of Rowling, I discovered her latest example of awfulness. IMO the Irish shouldn't have their own national team if they are under the purview of the British. Outrageous. It's easily explained by the fact that Joanne wrote an awful lot of things without considering any possible consequences of them. Because she's deeply uninterested in anything but trans people I assume
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Sep 3, 2022 11:05
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They could just buy more energy efficient kettles and then cook their meals in those. Wallop. Energy crisis. Sorted.
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The Question IRL posted:"This would be like if the Irish soccer team was owned organized and administered by the British ministry of the interior." Irish hedge wizards play different sports where they find quidditch lads and hit them in the flying balls with a big flat stick.
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Sep 3, 2022 11:13
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Mebh posted:https://twitter.com/jrmallcock/status/1565732298892480513 A lot of people just simply don’t believe it, which is fair because: A - it just doesn’t make sense, with what they know of the world B - everything has been focused on the price cap which doesn’t matter if you’re a business As you can imagine, my brewery uses a lot of electricity and the next X months until the government does something - and it’ll surely have to, even with Truss - are going to be spicy as gently caress.
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The whole price cap thing seems like a bizarre red herringy way of talking about energy prices. It's not a cap on the amount a household can be charged in a year, but some people think it is It's not a cap against prices going up, only against overcharging relative to wholesale prices (I think?) It's expressed as a yearly figure, but changes multiple times a year It represents an "average" household It doesn't apply to businesses, or to people like my friend who lives in a (shared ownership, flammable cladding) block of flats with shared heating, because she doesn't have a contract with an energy company (the BBC have at least noticed this - love the "government spokesperson" dismissing this is a "small minority") The only use I can see is "price cap goes from £1000 to £2000" means energy prices double. But is it too nerdy to just want a price per kWh?
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Sep 3, 2022 11:40
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Red Oktober posted:A lot of people just simply don’t believe it, which is fair because: Yeah, the bill for a friend's small shop that she runs is going from £300 a month to £2500 a month and it's like, there is no cost saving or passing on to customers you can do to cover that. Especially since people are going to have less money to spend anyway. Gonna be even more ridiculous when parliament goes into recess again on 23rd September without having done anything, kicking it forward for another few weeks.
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Sep 3, 2022 11:57
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Bobstar posted:[price cap reporting is lovely] True all that, and I loathe that the only numbers given as the "average household". In case anyone was looking for it, you can find the find the kWh prices here https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/check-if-energy-price-cap-affects-you ...but even that's buried. It's of a piece with utility switchers, pension calculators, etc etc - they obfuscate and make assumptions instead of being precise. Just gimme the drat rates, you goddamn chiselers!
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Sep 3, 2022 11:57
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Looking forward to the photos of a deserted Oxford Street in the run-up to Christmas; no money to spend and no surviving shops to spend it in Those damned millennials and their online shopping finally killed the high street, they’ll say
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Sep 3, 2022 12:16
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xtothez posted:This week I swapped from Chrome to Firefox as the former will prevent adblockers from working early next year. One trick I discovered is that uBlock Origin has a couple of options for 'annoyances' filters that are off by default, but if you enable them it blocks the Twitter login pop-up. What’s this about chrome stopping ad blockers?
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Sep 3, 2022 12:28
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IllusionistTrixie posted:What’s this about chrome stopping ad blockers? Brave is Chrome but with built in ad blocking, if that's useful to anyone.
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Sep 3, 2022 12:58
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IllusionistTrixie posted:What’s this about chrome stopping ad blockers? https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request Basically they are preventing the more powerful ad blockers from working in real time to new forms of ads. Currently, browsers can read the incoming data and decide if its an ad or not in real time, and can block that entire website domain thats sending them. Usually ads are sent by ads.whatever.com or notso its easy to determine or keep a list to compare to. Chrome says its going to remove the ad blocker ability to check the incoming data, so any new ads not recognized will get straight through. Chrome is going to become how Netscape ended up, wall to wall ads for poo poo.
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At least Netscape gave us a cute dinosaur with sunglasses. Chrome just gave us the multi-colored HAL 9000, which seems appropriate.
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TACD posted:Looking forward to the photos of a deserted Oxford Street in the run-up to Christmas; no money to spend and no surviving shops to spend it in Wall to wall sweet shops
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happyhippy posted:https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request Which browser should I move to?
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notaspy posted:Which browser should I move to? Not for me to say, its your own personal choice. It hasn't happened yet, so who knows if it will do so.
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https://labourheartlands.com/a-reply-to-owen-jones-keep-it-comradely/ Have something to do with our tankie mate
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I never stopped using firefox, I use it on my phone too so I can watch youtube without ads, it's good.
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notaspy posted:Which browser should I move to? Edge and Brave are both based on the same engine as Chrome, so Firefox will probably be the only option for adblock. Aside from Safari.
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Yeah, Firefox works fine for me, easy to customise with adblockers, scriptblockers etc.
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Yeah I use ublock origin and noscript, haven't seen an ad in a long time.
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Mebh posted:https://twitter.com/jrmallcock/status/1565732298892480513 all they have to do is increase their meal prices ten-fold. checkmate, bourgeoisie!
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OwlFancier posted:I never stopped using firefox, I use it on my phone too so I can watch youtube without ads, it's good. Ditto, been using it since i left AOL decades ago.
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I have a Pi-hole that hangs around on the way to my network, giving ads misleading directions so they never find their way to my precious devices.
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Except Youtube ads, you still need ublock for them. They're very sneaky.
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big scary monsters posted:I have a Pi-hole that hangs around on the way to my network, giving ads misleading directions so they never find their way to my precious devices. The only decent ISP I have available is Sky and their router doesn't like a Pi-hole 
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I just can't easily get away from the google ecosystem. I've tried Firefox and brave and i just end up having chrome installed to do various things that fall over in another browser. Then just use chrome for everything. Doesn't help that I have a pixel phone, but the drat thing is Nokia 8210 indestructible and I'm a clutz. Also having all my passwords stored and able to easily be shared to any device i need is just so goddamn convenient. If worryingly insecure at times. Yeah it's all stuff i could set up and probably will once the ad blocking goes away, either that or just get a raspberry pi and set up pihole. One thing i will miss is sponsorblock that youtube vanced comes with optionally. Basically user based tagging that will auto skip sections of videos like intros, sponsored segments, useless guff etc. Really nice quality of life.
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Youtube ads really suck, but if you want a real treat try watching stuff on the Chinese site Youku where they let you skip the ads if you just pay 10 Yuan. Unsure if that's a one off fee but the way it reads is you need to pay every time, £1.30, to skip the Chinese Coca-Cola ads
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OwlFancier posted:I never stopped using firefox  Z the IVth posted:The only decent ISP I have available is Sky and their router doesn't like a Pi-hole
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Bobstar posted:The whole price cap thing seems like a bizarre red herringy way of talking about energy prices. Similarly I've noticed something similar regarding how energy companies are setting direct debits. A lot of people have smart meters now and can see they've been charged £60-80 for August for energy and are now stunned when the companies are trying to set direct debits to £200 a month etc and theres a mental disconnect because unlike most other bills energy is paid over an estimated 12 month usage and we're in literally the lowest cost month right now. The projections for January alone are around £400 for the average home. There are a lot of people who are cancelling direct debits and paying month by month who are going to get an absolute shafting come November onwards.
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Mebh posted:I just can't easily get away from the google ecosystem. I've tried Firefox and brave and i just end up having chrome installed to do various things that fall over in another browser. Then just use chrome for everything. Doesn't help that I have a pixel phone, but the drat thing is Nokia 8210 indestructible and I'm a clutz. Yeah, this is where I'm at too. I'm just too latched into the google system to split away easily, I'll have to find a workaround for when this drops.
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