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Microplastics posted:Goddamn and there I thought op was exaggerating Israel is openly fascist and the parts that aren't are desperate to stay in power to avoid jail. Even if I wanted to exaggerate I'd only be a month ahead of whatever I said coming to pass.
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happyhippy posted:Student Loan talk. I’m actually due to finish paying off my student loan shortly, they sent me a letter saying that I should switch to paying by direct debit (rather than having it taken from my paycheque) because apparently it can take a while for them to realise it’s paid off and I can end up overpaying this way. Stupid system but apparently it does happen, contact SLC directly and check with them.
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That means you will be paying post tax instead of pretax though! I overpay mine at the moment and it's incredibly annoying that post tax by direct debit is the only option to do this.
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Bastard Tax Look at him, the bastard
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Might be legit: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/students/student-loan-overpayment-refund/ Thanks, says its from 98 onward. I was halfway through the course, and only took out 2k then. So not going to get big money back, but hey its better than nothing.
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Here have an interesting video on Britain's best game show with one of the worst hosts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-7Wev90lw4
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*hits play* 100 * 6 = 600 25 - 5 - 2 = 18 600 - 18 = 582 Ez
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Tesseraction posted:See whereas a dog would have just face-bumped you repeatedly and maybe started whining but would not hurt you. I honestly didn't consider it hurting me though, didn't even draw blood.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/02/calls-grow-for-urgent-review-of-damage-done-by-wood-burning-stoves I read the sub as "eradicate" and felt it was a bit harsh.
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Keir's gonna kill the hell out of those kids https://twitter.com/TheSinanKose/status/1620833824035999744?s=20
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bessantj posted:Here have an interesting video on Britain's best game show with one of the worst hosts: I'm not gonna watch 40 mins of that - I'm assuming not all numbers are solvable and that's trivial to prove, and that if you do all big or all small you're a oval office.
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happyhippy posted:Thanks, says its from 98 onward. I was halfway through the course, and only took out 2k then. Probably teaching granny to suck eggs but don't immediately phone on the number in the email in case it is a scam, Google the correct number.
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Necrothatcher posted:Keir's gonna kill the hell out of those kids Kid Killer Keir, also nicely abbreviates to something suitable
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It's so funny how Labour are now "it's all the fault of the LAST Labour government"-ing *themselves*
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Dead Goon posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/02/calls-grow-for-urgent-review-of-damage-done-by-wood-burning-stoves So are they going to sneak up to your chimney with a smoke-o-meter before you get fined?
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Cookie Cutter posted:It's so funny how Labour are now "it's all the fault of the LAST Labour government"-ing *themselves* It's been this way since the last great recession. They were all forced to look upon the destruction of their continuation of Thatcherism and by the time they were in opposition huge chunks of the Labour right were fully in board with blaming this on funding too many community centres. Whole reason Red Ed didn't win the 2015 election was because he had too many people in his ear telling him that David Cameron was right.
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Dog chat, I have spent my entire life in a rural area and in my 43 years I can only think of one dog owner that hasnt been an absolute oval office to their dog in my presence, so when my boys were little I absolutly did not trust anyone out with dogs, even on leashes to be able to controll it.
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Necrothatcher posted:Keir's gonna kill the hell out of those kids I'm just imagining the complete inability to self-reflect it takes to make memes where you cast your side as the murderous vanguard of a fascist authoritarian regime
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Dead Goon posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/02/calls-grow-for-urgent-review-of-damage-done-by-wood-burning-stoves I find the media reporting over wood burners to be a fascinating insight into sensible centrist handwringing causes. It seems like every other day over the past few years the broadsheets have been contradicting themselves with a regular stream of articles in a way that looks like two warring astroturfing campaigns. The torygraph in particular, if you google 'telegraph wood stoves' it's almost a perfect back and forth between 'you should be buying these now' and 'they're terrible'. I'd love to know who is funding these and what their motivations are. That grauniad one is particularly bad as usual, it's conflating a lot of details about older/newer stoves and not specifying the fuel types or moisture content, which makes it seem like they're hiding the details. My suspicion is they're aware a blanket ban would screw a lot of people who don't have access to, or can't afford cleaner methods of heating, but what they really want to say is 'pls ban woodburners in London, but not in my holiday cottage thanks'
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New campaign - JUST STOP WOOD. People could wear high vis jackets and block the entrance to supermarkets or something.
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Mega Comrade posted:That means you will be paying post tax instead of pretax though! why does that matter? aren't tax and student loan repayments both calculated off gross? your base pay ain't changing if you switch from PAYE to direct debit payments even though there's a higher net amount hitting your bank account, so the amount of tax you pay ain't changing there might be some benefits implications if you've technically got more net, though, i dunno
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 https://twitter.com/AmongUsGame/status/1620877346348879873 Rarity posted:I'm just imagining the complete inability to self-reflect it takes to make memes where you cast your side as the murderous vanguard of a fascist authoritarian regime StarkingBarfish posted:I find the media reporting over wood burners to be a fascinating insight into sensible centrist handwringing causes. It seems like every other day over the past few years the broadsheets have been contradicting themselves with a regular stream of articles in a way that looks like two warring astroturfing campaigns. The torygraph in particular, if you google 'telegraph wood stoves' it's almost a perfect back and forth between 'you should be buying these now' and 'they're terrible'. I'd love to know who is funding these and what their motivations are. Heat pumps are the genius invention that will save you a fortune and also they're the size of a double freezer and will not warm your home and will make you mam cry, wood stoves are the traditional way to save money that thousands of Brits are turning to that also give everyone asthma and cause forest fires. 
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StarkingBarfish posted:I find the media reporting over wood burners to be a fascinating insight into sensible centrist handwringing causes. It seems like every other day over the past few years the broadsheets have been contradicting themselves with a regular stream of articles in a way that looks like two warring astroturfing campaigns. The torygraph in particular, if you google 'telegraph wood stoves' it's almost a perfect back and forth between 'you should be buying these now' and 'they're terrible'. I'd love to know who is funding these and what their motivations are. i feel a lot of the elite media opinion falls into the rubric of “pls ban X in London, but not in my holiday cottage thanks”
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...and in That America they're gearing up for another civil war over gas-burning stoves. Related?
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Rarity posted:I'm just imagining the complete inability to self-reflect it takes to make memes where you cast your side as the murderous vanguard of a fascist authoritarian regime New Labour: "Are we the baddies?" New New Labour: "Can we be the baddies?"
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Gonzo McFee posted:It's been this way since the last great recession. Since 1983 at the latest I think
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Guavanaut posted:
There's a lot of that too, particularly the ones with pics of Boris under a tagline of 'this new tech will unlock cheaper heating thank you tories', but the fun part is that a heatpump plus a woodburner is probably quite a good combination both energy and climate-wise. On the few days a year it's cold enough here that a heatpump would struggle you'd probably also be using electricity with a higher fossil fuel footprint to run it. Supplementing it with some sustainably sourced wood on those days might be a net positive, though that's where how polluting they really are comes into play.
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Destiny 2 has also done multiple warcrimes by making the moon a combat zone, and faking surrender in order to attack an enemy.
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Only Kindness posted:...and in That America they're gearing up for another civil war over gas-burning stoves. Jel Shaker posted:i feel a lot of the elite media opinion falls into the rubric of “pls ban X in London, but not in my holiday cottage thanks” https://twitter.com/xaviersonline/status/1614234822330974209 StarkingBarfish posted:There's a lot of that too, particularly the ones with pics of Boris under a tagline of 'this new tech will unlock cheaper heating thank you tories'
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64499374 This may cause a few riots over the next few nights. Point a gun at someone, pretend to fire, it actually fires, kills the person. Then wait 35 years so you can live a good life, lie in court, and then get 3 years suspended. Also announced: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64495873 Looking forward to hearing how it will be delayed until 2048.
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Guavanaut posted:it always seems to be heat pump guys vs wood stove guys. 
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Guavanaut posted:In an interesting inversion of I have induction and while it's fast and responsive and all round pleasant to use. I gotta say I hate the glass/ceramic top and it being so fragile. I just can't abide poo poo that needs babying in use so our induction top is looking scratched like gently caress. My parents have an old electric glass top and it looks new despite being from the 1990s. I dunno if theirs is just better quality or if I am that much of a caveman. I find myself wishing for something with a rugged metal top, but that wouldn't be possible with induction. Might just be my cook top that's a low quality one too.
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Guavanaut posted:lol where's the one OwlFancier did with the Tiberium? GDI promises to heat your home from space with ions.
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Gonzo McFee posted:It's been this way since the last great recession. They were all forced to look upon the destruction of their continuation of Thatcherism and by the time they were in opposition huge chunks of the Labour right were fully in board with blaming this on funding too many community centres. Whole reason Red Ed didn't win the 2015 election was because he had too many people in his ear telling him that David Cameron was right. You've just reminded me of the utter outrage perpetrated at discovering a community centre in Demonic Lefty Boro' of Haringey for Asian women called Hopscotch. With no irony whatsoever, the 'outraged' perpetrated the lie (I can't believe they honestly thought that!) that it was for women to learn hopscotch! (Someone called Howard Knight around mid-1990s kicked it off, and was repeated by Littlejohn in the Heil in Feb 2011) (Here's a link to it: https://hopscotchuk.org/)
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His Divine Shadow posted:I have induction and while it's fast and responsive and all round pleasant to use. I gotta say I hate the glass/ceramic top and it being so fragile. I just can't abide poo poo that needs babying in use so our induction top is looking scratched like gently caress. think so, the neff one we have isn’t scratched at all? not sure how you would scratch it with a pot or pan though
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Rarity posted:I'm just imagining the complete inability to self-reflect it takes to make memes where you cast your side as the murderous vanguard of a fascist authoritarian regime It's the same with the American Right. Like the MAGA guys were making memes about Trump having the Infinity Gauntlet to make all his "enemies" vanish...and they use the scene from Avengers Endgame where it all goes Pete Tong for the Mad Titan. Like the couldn't even bother watching to the end of the clip they are sampling to make sure their guy won.
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