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Mr Phillby posted:Its hosed up on the embed but displays correctly if you click through. The answer as usual is 'elon musk fired everyone competent at twitter and replaced them with terrified sycophants' I've clicked through and it's still a tiny rectangle floating in a sea of black. Though I'll happily blame elon musk for the world's ills anyway
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Jan 1, 2024 15:55
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radmonger posted:There is a one word response to this: Corbyn. And he used that to legalize no fault divorce, liberalize abortion law for the first time since the 60s, and place cannabis legalization on a serious public platform for the first time, making him the greatest UK social reformer since Roy Jenkins. In between all the obvious laziness and corruption of course.
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Jan 1, 2024 15:58
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Angepain posted:I've clicked through and it's still a tiny rectangle floating in a sea of black. Though I'll happily blame elon musk for the world's ills anyway
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Jan 1, 2024 15:58
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Guavanaut posted:Then again people noticed that Boris Johnson was corrupt, stupid, racist, and compromised, and didn't care. It's very funny that the most popular PM in the Tory brainworm community is the man who is objectively as anti-conservative as they come. The only reason he's in the tories and not something else is it's the party of establishment power and he knows where his bread is buttered.
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Jan 1, 2024 16:12
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Bobby Deluxe posted:They'll forget that in about a series time though. Like how the borg went from 'one drone touches you once and now your ship and crew are infested with nanites you can never get rid of' to Voyager's 'ehh it's fine, we'll just reverse the polarity on the gel packs and do some hyposprays after half the ship was taken over by a cubeful.' The Borg were never that. The nanoprobes aren't a magic techno virus, they're a tool directed by the will of the collective. The closest the Borg came to acting as that kind of infestation was First Contact, and as soon as the queen and all her drones were dead the leftover tech was inert. If nanoprobes did half the things Lore Guys have deluded themselves into thinking they do, the Borg wouldn't even need to move drones around, they'd just beam a blob of nanoprobes into a ship and the walls would start giving people the neck stab. At that point you're just describing Homeworld Cataclysm.
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Jan 1, 2024 16:16
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radmonger posted:There is a one word response to this: Corbyn. What a treat, an unhinged dollop of neoliberal ideology from radmonger to kick off the year as it will continue, absolutely devoid of hope of anything better!
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Jan 1, 2024 16:28
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I'm pretty certain hope died off at the end of the last decade
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Jan 1, 2024 16:30
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Hope caught covid and died.
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Jan 1, 2024 16:42
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can't wait to see what social catastrophe or global crisis will define this year #blessed
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Jan 1, 2024 16:51
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 link Yet more proof that we are on the hell timeline
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Jan 1, 2024 16:52
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“Star Trek paved the way for Obama” is one of the smoothest-brain takes of the year already
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Jan 1, 2024 16:54
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The biggest problem with The West Wing is that it made liberal hang-wringing incompetence something heroic that shitbrained British inbred politicians want to copy, like the trained monkeys they can only aspire to
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Jan 1, 2024 16:58
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kecske posted:can't wait to see what social catastrophe or global crisis will define this year #blessed Taiwan next
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Jan 1, 2024 17:01
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Julio Cruz posted:“Star Trek paved the way for Obama” is one of the smoothest-brain takes of the year already I mean, the mouse trap of events is real, people just overestimate how likely a republican could win in Illinois. For those that don't know, filming Star Trek Voyager led to the collapse of lead actor Annika Hansen's marriage, and the public divorce hearings revealed her husband to be a shitbag and sex pervert, which meant he dropped out of the race to be a senator in Illinois, meaning Barack Obama won in a landslide, which some then claim is why he was able to run for president while still a freshman senator.
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Jan 1, 2024 17:04
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We have the Irish unification to look forward to this year
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Jan 1, 2024 17:13
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Tesseraction posted:lead actor Annika Hansen's Lol
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Jan 1, 2024 17:19
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Tesseraction posted:I mean, the mouse trap of events is real, people just overestimate how likely a republican could win in Illinois. Have I missed something (like is this a kind of 'tease' post?) I googled that because I was confused. Annika Hansen was the name of 7 of 9 played by Jeri Ryan. Annica Hansen (born Annika Hansen) is a German presenter & model.
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Jan 1, 2024 17:25
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Have I missed something (like is this a kind of 'tease' post?) I think Tesseraction just mixed up Jeri Ryan with her character's birth name. It was Jeri Ryan's husband who was the republican.
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Jan 1, 2024 17:27
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Reveilled posted:I think Tesseraction just mixed up Jeri Ryan with her character's birth name. It was Jeri Ryan's husband who was the republican. Aha! That makes more sense!
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Jan 1, 2024 17:30
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https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1741782514270671194 (Imagine bragging about this as the first thing you do in 2024. What a oval office, eh?)
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Jan 1, 2024 17:33
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Remarkable really just how far we’ve come that Government Comms department has brainstormed that as the first thing to kick off a new (election) year
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Jan 1, 2024 17:40
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Keith and Sunak should forget debates and just compete in a special edition of the BBCs new Gladiators where they each have to beat up foreigners in a variety of wacky ways to see who can get a high score.
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Jan 1, 2024 17:41
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Rishi Sunk
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Jan 1, 2024 17:42
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smellmycheese posted:Keith and Sunak should forget debates and just compete in a special edition of the BBCs new Gladiators where they each have to beat up foreigners in a variety of wacky ways to see who can get a high score. Starmer briefly allows himself to shed a single tear (elaborate fake tear deployment mechanism fitted ahead of time) in the middle of the carnage due to the tragedy of his duty before immediately getting back to the pummelling. The newspapers quickly declare him a weak woke hippy who won't stay strong for britain and he loses in a landslide to an ai-generated bully xl dog who only communicates in slurs
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Jan 1, 2024 17:49
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Aha! That makes more sense! Also famous for cavorting about in a helicopter following studio instructions.
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Jan 1, 2024 18:30
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1741782514270671194 I'm betting that this has been a massive problem and the streets of British university towns are flushed with families of international students. One thousand years from now men will still say: "This was Rishi's finest hour, too bad that he didn't stop the small boats, inshallah."
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Jan 1, 2024 18:30
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Student housing has been making the news as everything has been snapped up by landlords demanding more than mere students can give, if it's even for residence and not just for speculative value. This move is a cheap soundbite to answer that question.
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Jan 1, 2024 18:38
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Nenonen posted:I'm betting that this has been a massive problem and the streets of British university towns are flushed with families of international students. One thousand years from now men will still say: "This was Rishi's finest hour, too bad that he didn't stop the small boats, inshallah." Last year, the number of student visas issued to dependants stood at 136,000 - an eight-fold increase from 2019, when 16,000 were provided.
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Jan 1, 2024 18:38
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Edit: No one cares. It doesn’t matter
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Jan 1, 2024 18:51
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Azza Bamboo posted:Student housing has been making the news as everything has been snapped up by landlords demanding more than mere students can give, if it's even for residence and not just for speculative value. This move is a cheap soundbite to answer that question. Lmfao. No it’s not. It’s flagrant racism laser targeted at the bitter gammons the Torys think they need to prop up their vote
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Jan 1, 2024 18:56
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smellmycheese posted:Lmfao. No it’s not. It’s flagrant racism laser targeted at the bitter gammons the Torys think they need to prop up their vote What's the difference?
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Jan 1, 2024 18:59
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how many international students even bring their families? this is a drop in the bucket
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Jan 1, 2024 19:38
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Julio Cruz posted:how many international students even bring their families? this is a drop in the bucket Just had a quick look for some numbers, but all I found in a fairly cursory search was percentages of international students bringing dependents which is a pretty useless number out of context. Numbers are probably there somewhere but my eyes are closing & need for a nana nap is overwhelming my brain. A bit more: https://thepienews.com/news/enroly-data-shows-international-students-bring-1-6-dependants/ quote:The data found that there has been a significant increase in the number of incoming international students to the UK who are bringing dependants. In the September 2021 intake, 6.41% of international students brought a dependant compared to September 2022 when 10.97% had done so. https://thepienews.com/news/enroly-data-shows-international-students-bring-1-6-dependants/ Does it mean only 1 dependant (so what about those bringing more) or does it mean 'any dependants'?'? Also context - postgrads aged 26+ The data found that there has been a significant increase in the number of incoming international students to the UK who are bringing dependants. In the September 2021 intake, 6.41% of international students brought a dependant compared to September 2022 when 10.97% had done so. ok sleepy time. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Jan 1, 2024 |
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Jan 1, 2024 19:50
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Anyone bringing a dependent has to show cash in hand or meet the income requirements. Also dependents don't qualify for public funds. The only benefit is dependents are allowed to work without restriction not subject to any resident labour market test. They are not allowed to use their job to "count" as their support £££ though.
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Jan 1, 2024 20:21
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Z the IVth posted:Also dependents don't qualify for public funds. BUT THEY GET GIVEN A 12 BEDROOM HOUSE FOR FREE 
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Jan 1, 2024 20:35
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sinky posted:BUT THEY GET GIVEN A 12 BEDROOM HOUSE FOR FREE Yeah the gammon fundamentally fails to understand this entire dynamic. Refugees/Asylum seekers have a completely different set of entitlements but the study visa system requires everyone coming to be essentially pre-funded at point of arrival. The gammon thinks it's a wave of poor brown people coming to study when in reality most students are (very) rich internationals closer to Boris Johnson and his ilk.
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Jan 1, 2024 20:50
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Bobby Deluxe posted:SNW is nostalgia for the forgotten optimism of TOS hidden in a darkened corner of a streaming service within a streaming service that nobody watches. SNW is on the exact same streaming service as Discovery and is if anything more popular. Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 1, 2024 20:51
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January 1st and Sainsbury's have started to roll out the Easter chocolates...
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Jan 1, 2024 20:56
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If only someone had posted the actual number like a couple of posts ago
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Jan 1, 2024 21:04
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"What Britain needs less of is people with stable family relationships and the wherewithal and ambition to pursue higher education" - rishi
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