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quote:Afghanistan's population was reduced from 15.5 million to 8 or 9 million people between 1979 and 1992... Largely to refugee emigration, which naturally deprived the Soviets of the people they had come to save - the tiny core of urban educated who were able to quickly leave the outbreak of civil war. Instead, they would be in Pakistan or Iran. A large part of the emigration occurred before the Afghan army's control of the countryside would totally collapse - by the end of 1980, there were ~4 million Afghans in Pakistan and a million more in Iran - so the initial Soviet assertion of order in the cities had made possible the rapid flight without restoring sufficient confidence to make it attractive to stay. The sheer size of this effect makes the Soviet-Afghan war quite strange - even Iraqi brain drain is distant in comparison. I have no real point to this observation, but the topic did come up recently ITT, so I guess it's tangentially interesting ronya fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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The Meal Deal is reaching tipping point
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Feb 6, 2023 13:33
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Meal Deal? More like Portion Extortion
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stev posted:To this day my mind still assumes bourbon whiskey is going to taste of the biscuit and I feel a pang of disappointment when it doesn't. https://www.masterofmalt.com/spirit/bourbon-bourbon/bourbon-bourbon-spirit/
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Feb 6, 2023 14:01
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I've heard that in some tescos in London a meal deal can now be as much as £10.
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Feb 6, 2023 14:07
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You'll get more nutrients by just eating the money
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Feb 6, 2023 14:31
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fuctifino posted:You'll get more nutrients by just eating the money and a pleasant high from trace cocaine
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Feb 6, 2023 14:35
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ThomasPaine posted:Probably an unpopular opinion and I think SuperTankskii is an annoying centrist dweeb but I think it's kinda dumb to crucify someone over what was clearly a stupid bad joke they made while drunk in their early 20s. It was a stupid thing to do but I don't remotely think she's actually a huge fan of Hitler. History Comes Inside! posted:I didn’t like custard creams as a child but as an adult with a much more refined palate they’re Alright
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Feb 6, 2023 14:39
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Party rings are the best biscuits. 50p for a pack of 20.
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Wait, some of you go on political tiktok? Why not just pick up self flagellation?
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Mega Comrade posted:Wait, some of you go on tiktok? I just don't understand it.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I just don't understand it. Britannica Dictionary definition of SELF–FLAGELLATION. [noncount] : the act of hitting yourself with a whip as a way to punish yourself or as part of a religious ritual
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Party rings are the best biscuits. 50p for a pack of 20. And much like Dwarf Bread, they last for ages
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Party rings are the best biscuits. 50p for a pack of 20. When I went to South Africa I had a bit of a Zoo Biscuit addiction, they’re similar to party rings. I then realised how terribly unhealthy they are.
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Feb 6, 2023 15:14
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I've never et a nice south african biscuit.
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Plywood hardtack dipped in Lyle's golden syrup. I think the dead lion is fitting personally.
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Party rings are absolute bullshit
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Mega Comrade posted:Wait, some of you go on political tiktok?
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Feb 6, 2023 15:23
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I just don't understand it. Agreed. TikToks whole format is something I just don't enjoy. I thought when it first blew up it was the moment I 'became old' but my mum loves it as do my older sisters. My nephew hates it like me so 
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sebzilla posted:Here's an elevenses question for all the thing-knowers on this place Price elasticity of demand. They're poo poo biscuits. Get yourself a packet of Ginger Nuts instead mate.
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Tiktok reminds me of when I was younger and someone else had the remote, and they were flicking through the channels so you'd get a constant barrage of a few seconds of audio before switching.  Only with that loving cheery robot voice interspersed. If the Chinese were trying to psychologically destabilise the west, that'd certainly be a strong start.
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I'm just extremely against anything that encourages me to waste my life mindlessly scrolling for dopamine hits.
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Yeah tiktok is the absolute definition of depressive hedonia. Plenty easy to wake up in the morning, say you'll have fifteen mins scrolling, and the next thing you know it's 2pm.
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TikTok is absolutely rancid even by the standards of social media. It has all the duplicity of other social media, claiming to give you a curated feed while silently promoting premium content and actively suppressing even those you've subscribed to, but in a constant stream where every swipe and touch seems designed to hit you with an endless wall of noise without a millisecond of peace or control. YouTube shorts at least let you dip in and out between proper videos without losing what you were watching before. TikTok feels like a nightmare made real.
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Kin posted:Price elasticity of demand. They're poo poo biscuits. Got some of each in my biscuit jar right now, pal
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I've tried to TikTok a few times but always leave, it's just too much all the time. Cheap Bourbons are always good, they're even cheap in The Shop.
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ThomasPaine posted:Yeah tiktok is the absolute definition of depressive hedonia. Plenty easy to wake up in the morning, say you'll have fifteen mins scrolling, and the next thing you know it's 2pm. This is it - I was astonished when I looked at the traffic breakdown for my internet connection. I figured the top application would be Netflix, or maybe Youtube, but no - it's Instagram. My wife will just sit scrolling through endless videos which I assume originated on Tiktok. The main thing I don't understand is they all have such loving annoying sound. My phone volume is always off - I never want it to make a sound. I don't get how she enjoys it. My ideal social video consumtion is an old guy talking about woodwork (Paul Sellers) or those restoration videos that have no talking (Hand Tool Rescue). I even despitse Youtube shorts - so much that I've found a way to eliminate them from my life: If you add this code to uBlock, it eliminates shorts from your feed on desktop This Chrome extension converts shorts into regular videos and gives you your volume control and skip options back (why the hell would they be removed?)
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The only YouTube shorts I will click on are Rollercoaster POVs and Eddie Hall making faces at people doing weird strength challenges. TikTok looks awful, I will never
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Is Eddie Hall alright? He seems sound enough and I like watching him pick up heavy things but I know lots of strongman/gym bro types tend to gravitate towards alt right red pill bullshit so I'm kinda waiting to hear that he's gone on some insane tirade about the soyification of the western male or whatever. Absolutely died at this documentary I watched about him though, apparently he has to eat near continuously just to maintain his strength and sometimes if he's too full or feeling unwell etc he has to make up the deficit by literally drinking olive oil lol. Can't imagine that's going to be good for anyone long term.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:If you add this code to uBlock, it eliminates shorts from your feed on desktop Thank you for this - I was searching for a way to do exactly this just yesterday
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:My ideal social video consumtion is an old guy talking about woodwork (Paul Sellers) Yes I love this guy! I don't even do woodwork.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:This Chrome extension converts shorts into regular videos and gives you your volume control and skip options back (why the hell would they be removed?) I assume because tiktok doesn't have them and the surefire path to website success is looking at what else is popular and cargo culting every detail of it with no particular understanding of the underlying reasons
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Barry Foster posted:Thank you for this - I was searching for a way to do exactly this just yesterday I've shared this in several places and am reassured that I'm not just a belligerent old oval office by how many people appreciate it. It's not even as though we miss out on any content since everything in my feed was just snippets of existing videos, not anything new! Angepain posted:I assume because tiktok doesn't have them and the surefire path to website success is looking at what else is popular and cargo culting every detail of it with no particular understanding of the underlying reasons Someone suggested to me it was to provide the 'mobile experience' but that could have been done by aspect ratio alone. Normal Youtube videos have a volume/progress bar on mobile, it makes no loving sense to do away with them. It's why I don't watch Instagram videos.
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Bug Squash posted:Yes, but you're generally not expecting to get shot to death by the guys you asked to help you. Well yes that was broadly my point, there are always some people in the country who support the existing government.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:People are enjoying reminding her of it because (a) she straight up called Corbyn an antisemite over far less, (b) she made the mistake of coming after twitter leftist babble a while back, and (c) her entire brand on tiktok is that stupid aggro-centrist "look at what the tories are doing" without ever adressing the root causes or examining it in a wider context - basically a dipshit with no knowledge of politics who nevertheless has decided to place herself front and centre commenting on it. NotJustANumber99 posted:Someone on a biscuit forum said
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Party rings are the best biscuits. 50p for a pack of 20. I love party rings. Twin pack in Home Bargains is 89p IIRC Quite filling.
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I feel like a biscuit forum should be like, an option for those boxes of biscuits you get at xmas. Like a whole bunch of different biscuits arranged in a ring around a central biscuit debate floor.
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like a biscuit forum should be like, an option for those boxes of biscuits you get at xmas. And debates about how on earth Americans can call soft squashy dough things - scones if you will - a hard crunchy name like biscuit.
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