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I know it’s not quite on to comment on politicians’ looks, but, is it just me or does it look like Truss has aged 10 years since she became PM?
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lmao quote:Sarah Vine in the Daily Mail tells Truss that she has failed to look strong enough and made a mistake by casting out big names such as her ex-husband Michael Gove from the cabinet.
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Oct 5, 2022 13:20
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She assumed her ideas were brilliant and that everyone would love them and they immediately crashed the entire country, and she does not have the wherewithal to course correct even a little bit, so I'm not surprised tbh.
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Oct 5, 2022 13:21
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It is rather interesting to be run by someone who is genuinely dumb as poo poo. Normally it's overconfident in their intellect, not outright stupid. Always evil though.
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Oct 5, 2022 13:40
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Oct 5, 2022 13:46
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Tesseraction posted:It is rather interesting to be run by someone who is genuinely dumb as poo poo. Normally it's overconfident in their intellect, not outright stupid. who's got the greater delta between self-assumed and actual competence between her and boris though
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Oct 5, 2022 13:48
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Tesseraction posted:lmao quote:And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed.
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Oct 5, 2022 13:50
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:who's got the greater delta between self-assumed and actual competence between her and boris though Hmm, hard to say because Truss probably doesn't think of herself as a super genius, while Johnson absolutely did.
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Oct 5, 2022 14:02
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hahahahaha https://twitter.com/JMagosh/status/1577636381366558720
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Oct 5, 2022 14:19
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Should have harnessed a Big Beast, Liz.
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Oct 5, 2022 14:20
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https://twitter.com/dinosofos/status/1577596369124360192?s=46&t=jm97BR6fCZIpaKeZ9CIFxg Suggestions in the replies that this is because they were photographing the number of empty seats that the Tories had carefully positioned to make the room look fuller than it was.
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Oct 5, 2022 14:31
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Guavanaut posted:Should have harnessed a Big Beast, Liz. You fool! Encanting the ancient words "Seacatl ove orig oyalel Evice" will only make the Beast more powerful 
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Oct 5, 2022 14:33
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Eagerly awaiting the "could people with small homes and less money please stop using energy so that there's more for the rich to to use" messaging that comes out of this, given the tone of recent government stuff. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/uk-prepares-for-winter-blackouts-as-energy-rationing-campaign-discussed
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Oct 5, 2022 14:58
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Liz Truss is already less popular than Boris Johnson was at his lowest ebb.
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Oct 5, 2022 15:21
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Eagerly awaiting the "could people with small homes and less money please stop using energy so that there's more for the rich to to use" messaging that comes out of this, given the tone of recent government stuff. It's absolutely insane that they're still sticking to the "consumption of gas and electricity is a decision for individuals" line and not messaging intensively about reducing use. Though I guess we have no storage so saving power now accomplishes very little. I'm not sure why the focus has to be on individuals rather than offices and shops which waste staggering amounts of power.
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Oct 5, 2022 15:27
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/dinosofos/status/1577596369124360192?s=46&t=jm97BR6fCZIpaKeZ9CIFxg General question really, but what authority do hired security have to manhandle or assault people? Like, they are threatening 'to get the police involved', while forcefully escorting this guy out. Does the photographer have a case against the security if he was genuinely doing nothing 'wrong'?
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peanut- posted:It's absolutely insane that they're still sticking to the "consumption of gas and electricity is a decision for individuals" line and not messaging intensively about reducing use.
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Oct 5, 2022 15:28
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Violently removing an award winning photographer from the Financial Times from your conference floor is probably not the best look.
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Oct 5, 2022 15:32
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The press tend to close ranks when one of their gets treated like this, don't they?
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peanut- posted:It's absolutely insane that they're still sticking to the "consumption of gas and electricity is a decision for individuals" line and not messaging intensively about reducing use. Well lots of the shops will all have collapsed by then! Energy saved, well done grate britane! People who are already struggling to pay energy bills and cutting back on hot food/heating/lights are really not going to be helped by a lot of patronising energy saving tips, I imagine. It'll be like the covid guidance where some of it initially didn't do very well at taking into account people who didn't have nice spacious well-maintained homes. And then it'll immediately get all culture war as the usual right wing types insist they don't want to be told when to run their dishwashers and that's what they personally fought Hitler to ensure.
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Eagerly awaiting the "could people with small homes and less money please stop using energy so that there's more for the rich to to use" messaging that comes out of this, given the tone of recent government stuff. In readiness, I've bought a pair of very bright Spurtar Camping lights 60W 5000 lumen (adjustable settings) rechargeable beasts £29.99 for a pair (they can also act as power packs) and a rechargeable (via solar or USB) power pack Pxwaxpy Solar Power Bank 26800mAh, Solar Charger (Type C & Micro USB Input) under £30 as there is some kind of deal on them so I can keep my phones & lamps charged if powercuts go on longer. Both from Bezo's Evil Empire.   Now if I could just get hold of some terracotta flower pots and tea-lights to warm my flat up......
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Pxwaxpy What happened to proper company names like Dongguan Guancheng Electric Motor Winding Co., Ltd.? 
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keep punching joe posted:Violently removing an award winning photographer from the Financial Times from your conference floor is probably not the best look. You mean the woke lefty socialist Financial Times.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:In readiness, I've bought a pair of very bright Spurtar Camping lights 60W 5000 lumen (adjustable settings) rechargeable beasts £29.99 for a pair (they can also act as power packs) and a rechargeable (via solar or USB) power pack Pxwaxpy Solar Power Bank 26800mAh, Solar Charger (Type C & Micro USB Input) under £30 as there is some kind of deal on them so I can keep my phones & lamps charged if powercuts go on longer. Pop the charger under the light and you're basically set.
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Microplastics posted:Pop the charger under the light and you're basically set. gently caress that nuclear fusion plant, this is what we should be building It’s about as viable
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Guavanaut posted:I've noticed a huge increase in brand names like this that just look like they were made by mashing a keyboard. Jdsfdlkgarfd USB cable 2m These days they just have the entire pinyin of the company name transcribed without breaks which ends up being an extremely long string of hard to parse text even if you know can read pinyin.
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I looked at buying a solar usb brick before hiking in the summer. Everyone seemed to say they were worthless, even the ones with fold out panels 4 or 5 times the size of the device that you strap to your back. Said they couldnt even keep the device alive let alone charge it up.
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lol missed this https://twitter.com/WillWiles/status/1577336609996931074
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I looked at buying a solar usb brick before hiking in the summer. Everyone seemed to say they were worthless, even the ones with fold out panels 4 or 5 times the size of the device that you strap to your back. Said they couldnt even keep the device alive let alone charge it up. You can get great rigid solar panels that might even fit on your back (weight notwithstanding) but you need to be willing to spend orders of magnitude more money. And carry a heavy converter/battery around. e: e.g. this - https://www.jackery.com/products/solarsaga-200w-solar-panel - might even keep a non-gaming laptop charged up. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 5, 2022 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:In readiness, I've bought a pair of very bright Spurtar Camping lights 60W 5000 lumen (adjustable settings) rechargeable beasts £29.99 for a pair (they can also act as power packs) and a rechargeable (via solar or USB) power pack Pxwaxpy Solar Power Bank 26800mAh, Solar Charger (Type C & Micro USB Input) under £30 as there is some kind of deal on them so I can keep my phones & lamps charged if powercuts go on longer. I bought the orange power bank a while ago, and while it's an excellent portable battery, I should warn you that I left it sitting in front of a big window for the better part of a year and it did not increase in charge by even a single notch.
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What a loving day, my girlfriend survived major surgery but my nana has lost her ability to eat or drink. If there is a god he's a loving weirdo. Misery tax: a photograph of my mum's dogs looking very hopeful about my breakfast. 
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Comrade Fakename posted:I bought the orange power bank a while ago, and while it's an excellent portable battery, I should warn you that I left it sitting in front of a big window for the better part of a year and it did not increase in charge by even a single notch. I shall have to try it in the sunshine (I read somewhere that if they're the inside of a window they don't charge well). Mostly I plan to USB charge it. OwlFancier posted:What a loving day, my girlfriend survived major surgery but my nana has lost her ability to eat or drink. Sorry, Owl.
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Maybe someone who knows more than me can answer this: the GBP to USD rate just now is at about 1.14, in 2010 it was at about 1.50, in 2000 it was at 2.20 is this any kind of track of the UK being in economic decline over the past 20 years or is it caused by something else?
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/dinosofos/status/1577596369124360192?s=46&t=jm97BR6fCZIpaKeZ9CIFxg You never go full Trump. 
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roomtone posted:Maybe someone who knows more than me can answer this: the GBP to USD rate just now is at about 1.14, in 2010 it was at about 1.50, in 2000 it was at 2.20 The USD went through a VERY weak patch at some point a few years ago so that would explain some of the variation, can't remember exactly when, but I remember friends in Cairo working for US firms who were being paid in USD suddenly found a massive drop in income. I recall the Euro was originally around 1.60 to the £1 when it first kicked in to general use. Anyway, apparently yes Sterling has been in long term decline: https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/135/economics/falling-value-of-pound-sterling/ The pound floated instead of fixed exchange around 1972/3 - I remember we had a school float in the town carnival of a submarine. Here's another article. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/pound-in-your-pocket-devaluation-50-years-on/ When we lived in Germany in the 70s, dad was paid in £ and at some point it went from 7DM to the £ to 3DM to the £ so it was like a massive paycut. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Oct 5, 2022 |
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