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So is this is the equivalent to IBM's input into the German government in the mid 20th century? [edit] 190 - The top score when you cheat at darts
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Why is Truss ideologically opposed to saving energy?
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Guavanaut posted:Why is Truss ideologically opposed to saving energy? Because using less energy would mean energy companies earn less money
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Guavanaut posted:Why is Truss ideologically opposed to saving energy? Gubbermint can't tell me how to live my life 
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But... she is the government  I figure it's got to be several levels more stupid than either. Something like more energy = more growth, so buying energy efficient lightbulbs and heat pumps is somehow anti-growth.
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It's either that she wants them to make more money because trickle down, or she really believes you can get through this with the power (heh) of positive thinking. Either way she's evil and incredibly stupid.
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Just lol at the thought of the PM trying to stop JRM from doing something potentially useful for once in his life
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This is conservative endgame, just endless gaslighting and slashing of welfare budgets until there's nothing left but blood and ashes. Thankfully our great political system will ensure the pendulum swings back the other way and kier starmer will be able to- 
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Guavanaut posted:Why is Truss ideologically opposed to saving energy? Liz Truss rolling coal in the royal yacht.
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The constant repeating that she doesn't want to tell anyone what to do is just making me believe the BDSM sub rumours even more.
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This is bad for Tramister Coburns
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Guavanaut posted:Why is Truss ideologically opposed to saving energy? I get the sense that the pandemic and the government responses to it around the world really spooked the libertarian/small government/individualist crowd. Firstly because it showed that there are some things that can't be solved by rational personal decision making and that sometimes a government might actually have to do something, and that undermines their entire worldview so nothing like that can ever happen again (the solution, not the problem, obvs!) And secondly because of how many people - especially in the UK, the USA, Australia, NZ etc. - willingly and happily complied with what these types see as tyrannical government overreach. These were the ones in April 2020 banging on about how lockdowns may work for China or Italy but Anglo-Saxons have an innate love of liberty and would never accept being told when they could go to the shops or the park. The fact that lots of people not only accept but expect the state to proactively manage society and deal with large-scale problems 'for the greater good' really threw these types off their kilter and now they're making sure that those sorts of people don't get used to the idea and don't get rewarded (as they see it) for not being entirely self-centred rugged individuals. So that means no government advise on saving energy, no advice to employers on how to deal with ill staff, no guidelines to schools on how to handle under-nourished kids or anything like that. Government can't do anything and shouldn't do anything - these people believe it and they're out to prove it.
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My best guess is Truss opposes what would be a helpful campaign purely for the optics, i.e. talking about the necessity of cutting energy consumption would make the U.K. look less strong and energy-secure. No, she hasn’t yet contemplated the optics of rolling blackouts in the world’s fifth richest country.
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Are they just imitating those public opinion columns from The Onion?
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Has to be pronounced as a word though, like Henry ViiiiiIiiiiIiiiiIiiiIiii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSKT_8OfKg otherwise children might ask what happened to the other seven, like with King Malcolm the Tenth.
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When we think about it, is there really evidence that any of this “history” actually happened? Just more woke liberal propaganda, like the titanic
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Convex posted:When we think about it, is there really evidence that any of this “history” actually happened? Just more woke liberal propaganda, like the titanic https://twitter.com/v_j_freeman/status/1578362242046705665 Presenting history as a bunch of things that just happened is useless and I can see why kids hate it unless it has some relevance (or they're especially interested in just so stories about fish people fighting the Irish, like David Cameron, but that's mythology). Teaching how to determine what most likely happened from a bunch of biased sources (i.e. all of them), how to use sources to put together a narrative, how to account for new information in developing a worldview, those were always part of my history lessons to some level or other, and are a good way of inoculating people against pseudohistory and the David Icke style "I meditated on this and found out the real truth, which just so happens to be a mishmash of the last three tv shows I watched plus a bunch of wank" of nonsense. You could even do that with Henry Veeeee (Luther, the Reformation, power struggles with Rome, some monasteries being run like mafias and others just being influential enough to be inconvenient) or World War 2 (The Authoritarian Personality, Who Goes Nazi?, etc.) if you wanted, even though they're probably not the best case studies to use.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with the homophobic poo poo that occured during the lgbtq tory party they had
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Guavanaut posted:You could even do that with Henry Veeeee (Luther, the Reformation, power struggles with Rome, some monasteries being run like mafias and others just being influential enough to be inconvenient) or World War 2 (The Authoritarian Personality, Who Goes Nazi?, etc.) if you wanted, even though they're probably not the best case studies to use.
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Guavanaut posted:( like David Cameron, but that's mythology).
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Guavanaut posted:But... she is the government I think genuinely it is the same attitude that leads people to hate anything that stops people dying from covid, again there's a large contingent of people in the UK who absolutely hate the idea that they might be subject to the impositions of reality, while at the same time declaring that social constructs they happen to like are "just the way the world is" and telling everyone else they just have to deal with it.
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Rarity posted:This is an immediate sign to find a new job imo. If I'm going to have to go through the stress of a job application it should at least be for something that's better than where I'm at Microplastics posted:If they offer a drink, take it. There is so much benefit to being asked a question while you're taking a sip so that you can start braining out your answer without it looking like a dumb awkward pause Not that it helped as they were clearly looking for someone with a different skillset to me  I'm not too annoyed, at least it's practice.Microplastics posted:Also Though most of my day is spent dealing with less technically able staff members, so I'm definitely not stealing these answers...
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Not bad, just went on the Octopus site to input this week's readings and the govt £66 was added a couple of days ago. So added to the bit of credit I already had on there, they've let me ask for £75 back! Basically, they're keeping back the estimated max month from the last 12 months. Also, my typical daily usage has dropped by about half a unit a day since early September and is still dropping. I put this down to: (a) my bathroom extractor fan is on the blink (no window) and makes this horrible grinding noise. It works on the same circuit as the overhead light so for the past few weeks I've been mostly using a weirdly placed 'shaving' light (long fluorescent tube - it's at the back of the bathroom, has a shaver point, but you'd have to stand in the bath to have a shave - yes I know the people who sold me the flat got the cowboys in. Something to sort out another day). I just run the extractor while I'm actually in the shower and until the condensation has gone from the mirrors. (b) I made a 'tertiary insulation' panel to go over my bedroom window and put it up just over a week ago - it's an acetate panel which I have set on a wooden frame and edged with magnetic tape to grip onto the magnetic surround (already there to hold the midge mesh panels in the summer) and covers the opening leaf of the window which yes is double-glazed but still a bit draughty. Haven't moved it since I put it up. My flat is small enough that opening the living room window and having a fan running for 30 mins or so gives a good air change. I've almost finished making a panel for the living room window which has the same problem re draught. I'm thinking that I will probably take it down during the day and put back up at dusk to allow bit of air through the flat.
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Biggus Dickus posted:In my experience, HMRC are very easy to talk to over the phone. YMMV. Ah, so self assessment is where I'd do silly poo poo like claim a car as a business expense if I was set up as a contractor with my own limited company doing freelance work or something? I think I am gonna need to download the form in advance or something to find out just what it is i'm gonna be asked if there's stuff like equipment and depreciation. I though it would just be questions like "how much did you earn" and "how much are you claiming in benefits". Zalakwe posted:We're actually in the process of moving back to near Edinburgh having lived in London for years and think the prices of the new builds are totally crazy. As you say I would pay £300k for one but nearly £700k would just be bananas. Even if someone would give us the cash we would still be scraping coppers together on our deathbeds. There just aren't the jobs to pay for it, even very senior jobs don't pay enough. It's pretty much an inheritance only game at the moment and I think a big "correction" is very likely. We actually lucked out with the new build we found. It is pretty far out from Edinburgh, but the bus terminus to my village is part of the front of the estate (1-minute walk from my front door) and the local train station is a 7 minute walk away. The whole WFH thing has meant I don't have to commute into the city anymore, but when I did it was super straightforward and just a matter of sitting my arse on a single bus or train and getting into the city centre 40 minutes to an hour later. I had a look at some of the houses about 15 minutes closer near Dalkeith and not only did their price jump up by a good £200k, but It would actually take longer to get into the city because of the extra effort involved in getting to the nearest bus or railway station. xtothez posted:Are you doing some kind of salary sacrifice or making increased pension contributions? That can help mitigate child benefit repayments. I think by default I give up 3% of my salary for pension and my company gives 5%. I've just passed my probation period so only just got the pension info to look at, but I'll check in on that. I was planning on matching my employer as a minimum, but also didn't start my pension until I was 28, so kind of want to overpay slightly to make up for whatever a shortfall might be from not having the pension for those first 12 years of minimum wage employment. Unless that's a loving stupid idea as that would equate to covering a £100k gap or something. Checking what level my pension is at is also something I should probably do. I've left my company pensions schemes running on autopilot, only matching the employer's max contribution (5%) for the last 12 years. Kin fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Oct 7, 2022 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:(a) my bathroom extractor fan is on the blink (no window) and makes this horrible grinding noise. It works on the same circuit as the overhead light so for the past few weeks I've been mostly using a weirdly placed 'shaving' light (long fluorescent tube - it's at the back of the bathroom, has a shaver point, but you'd have to stand in the bath to have a shave - yes I know the people who sold me the flat got the cowboys in. Something to sort out another day). I just run the extractor while I'm actually in the shower and until the condensation has gone from the mirrors. You can get low voltage ones for bathrooms (SELV) that are safe to change out yourself. It's usually only a matter of a few screws to change them anyway but mains + bathroom hazards. OwlFancier posted:I think genuinely it is the same attitude that leads people to hate anything that stops people dying from covid, again there's a large contingent of people in the UK who absolutely hate the idea that they might be subject to the impositions of reality, while at the same time declaring that social constructs they happen to like are "just the way the world is" and telling everyone else they just have to deal with it. https://twitter.com/yurirando/status/1577801327337672704 It's interesting exactly what stories people tell themselves as to why such a thing would be the case though, from like the "seatbelts would make people drive like maniacs, killing more" to whatever is in the howling void of Liz Truss' head that comes up with "energy savings are against my ideology."
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Kin posted:I think I am gonna need to download the form in advance or something to find out just what it is i'm gonna be asked if there's stuff like equipment and depreciation. I though it would just be questions like "how much did you earn" and "how much are you claiming in benefits". You don't need to prepare in advance, just open it up have a browse and save a draft if you get stuck. It gives you a list of questions and if most of your answers are 'no' you fill in a handful of boxes and it's done. Far easier to parse than the big paper form.
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Someone on here the other day was asking about the Major years in the 90s and it absolutely does feel like we are in those times again. We’re at the point that the Tory party is so hopelessly riddled in its own ideological confusion and corruption and perversion that even The Mail knows the game is up. The big difference to me is that people genuinely liked and put (misguided) faith in Blair, Prezza etc. whereas Kieth just now seems like a least worst option.
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Microplastics posted:I imagine it's as simple as "does it own the libs y/n" Yeah it's that Donald Trump brand of "I don't care what's in the news so long as it's about me" politics
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