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A Buttery Pastry posted:I'm gonna use all my powers of media literacy to hold off on believing that until we get more than a video of Putin holding papers. you can click the thread and engage all your powers of media literacy at your command
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Falcorum posted:I once returned to the UK via Luton airport and the screens, that in a normal airport would display arrivals/departures/luggage info, were instead displaying ads for bangers and mash Check out the football stadium.nowntheybjist got promoted to the premier league
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Party Boat posted:He has in his hand a piece of paper, eh?
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genericnick posted:It's not people's anger, it's the press. Because, as CT wrote, it's harmless to get people mad at this as opposed to anything that actually affects them. I get what you and CT are saying, but as a non resident who gets most of my reads of the public from my friends still back in the UK or expats here, they all seem very pissed at the parties and don't talk about the truly heinous stuff That's probably part of that whole "the media will not be discussing these things", but for many folks they'll get their anger signals from the press. Yes my friends are libs 
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Telluric Whistler posted:Yes my friends are libs https://twitter.com/nikicaga/status/1668815022003298310
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crepeface posted:you can click the thread and engage all your powers of media literacy at your command Wasn't that when the Ukrainians shot their own chief negotiator lol.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Wasn't that when the Ukrainians shot their own chief negotiator lol. yep Gripweed posted:400 pound a month for a train pass? Is that like the super fancy one that lets you take unlimited bullet train trips all over the country? lol of course not this is just unlimited journeys (i.e. commute) from A to B where the journey is like 40 minutes https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/tickets-railcards-and-offers/ticket-types/season-ticket-calculator/ note that in other countries it's customary for your employer to cover your travel for office jobs
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:note that in other countries it's customary for your employer to cover your travel for office jobs good news, every london commuting jobs I've had, my employer has offered to cover...an interest free loan for the pass.
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the savings on the pass are so marginal that if you miss a few days of commuting for whatever reason, you would have been better off just buying a ticket every day
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2016 me thought "london is super expensive and i hate it, surely I can just live like an hour outside and commute in on the cheap" lol
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I don't know enough about either to say for certain but since this was the original question, this map purports to be the London metro over the New York metro to show how much bigger London is. Per this: the new york metropolitan area is 860 quare miles, greater london is 1572.
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Telluric Whistler posted:I get what you and CT are saying, but as a non resident who gets most of my reads of the public from my friends still back in the UK or expats here, they all seem very pissed at the parties and don't talk about the truly heinous stuff Oh yeah, I was gonna write that as an addendum, what the media pushes becomes reality for like 80% of people here at least. It was uncanny seeing it in proper effect in the corbyn years What generally happens is people start with a reasonably good idea of what's going wrong then the media diverts their attention to parties or small boats or drag queen story hour and then after a month or two of saturation they've totally forgotten their original stance and now all their opinions are about drag queens arriving in boats and whether that should be allowed or not
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NY metro area is like 7000 sq miles you don’t even have all of nyc in there
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euphronius posted:NY metro area is like 7000 sq miles Cool. I literally just googled nyc vs london metro size and posted. pwnage for me imo. Multiple sites have the figures I quoted, which I'm sure are true in some specific way
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projecthalaxy posted:Cool. I literally just googled nyc vs london metro size and posted. pwnage for me imo. Multiple sites have the figures I quoted, which I'm sure are true in some specific way Google can't even decide. I looked it up and it said 3,450.2 sq mi and 4669 sq mi.
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Okay, so I think I've figured out by just googling "new york" plus the relative numbers, that the specific way they lied is using the physical size (783 sq km/301 sq mi) of the five boroughs, but the population of the metropolitan economic area, but then both figures for the London economic area. Sneaky!
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projecthalaxy posted:Per this: the new york metropolitan area is 860 quare miles, greater london is 1572. oh, aye, right quare, the lot of em
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euphronius posted:why did they switch to elections after 5 years It was because the government at the time was a coalition, and the junior party (who nobody can remember the name of) was worried that their partner would call a snap election the instant the poll swung a few points in their favour. which in fairness they probably would have done otherwise.
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Jakabite posted:Harpenden Harpenden Harpenden Harpenden is the main nerve of the English middle class dream. Like Las Vegas in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Communist Thoughts posted:drag queens arriving in boats and whether that should be allowed or not
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kecske posted:the savings on the pass are so marginal that if you miss a few days of commuting for whatever reason, you would have been better off just buying a ticket every day it's just about worth it if you're at work, in person, 5 days a week and you go out in London a lot at weekends -- but London's nightlife isn't worth travelling in for these days anyway. Unless, god help you, you live in Luton.
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Buck Wildman posted:"how is Britannia doing" I wonder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m08lD-YH-Q
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Communist Thoughts posted:No coz theyr the other team, they have to be a real alternative otherwise our whole democratic monarchy is a sham Incestuous, satanic Nazi monarchy is real
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forkboy84 posted:Google can't even decide. I looked it up and it said 3,450.2 sq mi and 4669 sq mi. Are those the new AI enhanced searches I've been hearing about?
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Communist Thoughts posted:Oh yeah, I was gonna write that as an addendum, what the media pushes becomes reality for like 80% of people here at least. Yeah. And obviously you can't expect none weirdos to remember what the bullshit yesterday was. I'd say for the vast majority politics news is just a random topic to drop while stuffing your face in the canteen with colleagues. Could be the weather. Biplane posted:https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1671160943005556736?t=gtLVWdoQZqUQxfh9s4fZXQ&s=19 Wonder if you get banned from Twitter if you shop a Telegram armband on Boris Johnson
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genericnick posted:Yeah. And obviously you can't expect none weirdos to remember what the bullshit yesterday was. I'd say for the vast majority politics news is just a random topic to drop while stuffing your face in the canteen with colleagues. Could be the weather. as long as house prices keep going up the rest is gravy
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genericnick posted:Wonder if you get banned from Twitter if you shop a Telegram armband on Boris Johnson The few times I actually post on twitter I get a warning for using the word 'idiot'. So yeah, probably. Words like stupid and doofus are fine, though.
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Asking about inflation in the most convoluted way possible https://www.theguardian.com/politic...f08c081c5bb50aa Just ask: if inflation is halved, do prices go up or down? Edit: they did! 23% got it right. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...f0890e11a2beade domhal has issued a correction as of 11:24 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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The second one is misleading, if annual inflation is halved in the next six months, it means that prices potentially went down or remained stagnant, depending on if the previous inflation was front-loaded or back-loaded. e.g. Jun 2022 £0.99 -> Dec 2022 £1.00 -> Jan. 2023 £1.025 -> Feb. 2023 £1.055 -> Mar. 2023 £1.05 -> Apr. 2023 £1.06 -> May 2023 £1.07 -> Jun. 2023 £1.10 -> Dec. 2023 £1.05 Means that prices are lower in December 2023 than in June 2023 (£1.05 vs £1.10), but annual inflation is still positive in December 2023 (5%). Private Speech has issued a correction as of 11:42 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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Private Speech posted:The second one is misleading, if annual inflation is halved in the next six months, it means that prices potentially went down or remained stagnant, depending on if the previous inflation was front-loaded or back-loaded. the question is poorly worded for this kind of technicality (because nobody in the UK media has gcse-level knowledge of econ) but your answer does require that you assume the current inflation is front loaded, the next year is back loaded, and/or you're allowed to end the observation on 1st jan 2024 since six months from present is technically next year. I dont think any of these are reasonable for the question. adding this level of complexity is not exactly going to help a public that clearly doesnt understand how balloons work, and since there's no option for "impossible to say without more data" the answer is "more" e; calculating on a fixed month technically allows you to have jun 2024 be £1.08 and dec 2024 to be £1.07 and meet the target so you can drop either the back ended or rolling assumptions but this is tory maths Spangly A has issued a correction as of 12:36 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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Pipski posted:but London's nightlife isn't worth travelling in for these days anyway. You'd think that London would have the best nightlife in the UK, and you'd be very wrong. Obviously, it's prohibitively expensive to go out in London but it's also pretty poo poo, for several reasons: 1) Lack of pub/bar clusters. Ideally when you go out, you want to go to an area with a whole bunch of good places in close proximity. London has good places of course, but they're all miles away from each other. 2) Huge numbers of foreign tourists/ visitors from elsewhere in the UK mean that very few places have anything approaching a 'local' crowd of regulars. Any bar you go to will be populated by a disparate bunch of groups, all of whom have never been there before. Hurts the atmosphere. 3) Everywhere halfway decent is absolutely rammed, every night, so most of your time is spent queueing for the bar, trying to get to the toilets, or pausing your shouted conversation to squeeze to one side as the latest 20-strong convey of tourists files past to individually order drinks. And if you're a dedicated clubber who likes to go out at midnight, forget it: no chance of getting into most venues after 10pm. This was my essay about why going out in London is actually a bit poo poo.
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