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OwlFancier posted:Not sure what the implications of being colourblind are because I have no loving idea what I'm looking at. Fortunately their stupidity knows no bounds, so there are plenty of other examples this week, like knowing what clothes are. 
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Jan 17, 2024 10:35
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OwlFancier posted:Not sure what the implications of being colourblind are because I have no loving idea what I'm looking at. You're looking at two colours in a gradient, a spectrum if you will.
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Jan 17, 2024 10:37
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Flux Wildly posted:Be interesting to see who they parachute into Hackney e: oops, I misread, That's a council candidate
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Jan 17, 2024 10:39
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OwlFancier posted:Not sure what the implications of being colourblind are because I have no loving idea what I'm looking at.  It's that, but red-orange-green. Probably the worst choice for making that point. fuctifino posted:
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Jan 17, 2024 10:43
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Guavanaut posted:That's an excellent point for accessibility. loving hell, there's stupid and then there's not knowing what a dress is
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Jan 17, 2024 10:50
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Miftan posted:So if overseas citizens can vote now, what constituency does their vote count for? Last known address? Yup, last consistituency they were registered. loving stupid idea. Flux Wildly posted:Missed that about Duffield but depressingly on-brand. Assuming Paul Mason has already run and been rejected
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Jan 17, 2024 10:52
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I can see there's a gradient but I can't tell what the colours in the gradient are. I always have trouble explaining it but it's like, you know how blurry vision blurs the edges of things? Well colourblindness blurs the colours of things. I have low colour acuity centered around the red/green bit of the spectrum but it extends to everything to a degree. I can see there's colours but that whole bit of the spectrum of red/green/orange/yellow is extremely subjective, it could be any of the colours depending on how I want to think about it. The bluish one isn't much better, gradients in general are just unpleasant to think about. They're fine as backgrounds but if I try to look at them and identify any of the colours my brain starts to crunch. Like looking at a blurry image through blurry eyes. Which is also IMO a point for not trying to sort people into male/female because gently caress if I can tell what a lot of people are going for.
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Jan 17, 2024 10:59
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forkboy84 posted:loving hell, there's stupid and then there's not knowing what a dress is
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Jan 17, 2024 10:59
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PowerBeard posted:Please vote in Sinn Fein, the plucky underdogs. 2024 is the year of reunification, as the Prophet Data told
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Jan 17, 2024 11:04
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I'm colourblind and its impact with reference to that gradient is that I don't know what the colours are, I don't need to know, and I'm happy to take people at their word.
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Jan 17, 2024 11:38
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NotJustANumber99 posted:er... stuff? Labour have explicitly said there will be no stuff.
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Jan 17, 2024 11:39
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https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1747524163261047018 https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1747566363445453281 
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Jan 17, 2024 11:41
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I had a lovely moment over Christmas with my nieces visiting as we were shopping in Urban outfitters and my brother made a comment "oh is this the girls or the boys section?" and my 14 year old niece said "Daddy, there are no boys or girls sections, they're just clothes. You wear whatever you like" Albert Einstein did not clap but I did silently get a little bit more hope for the younger generations.
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Jan 17, 2024 11:44
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feedmegin posted:Labour have explicitly said there will be no stuff. There is no stuff at home.
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Jan 17, 2024 11:44
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Mebh posted:I had a lovely moment over Christmas with my nieces visiting as we were shopping in Urban outfitters and my brother made a comment "oh is this the girls or the boys section?" and my 14 year old niece said "Daddy, there are no boys or girls sections, they're just clothes. You wear whatever you like" Your niece can be my friend, if they like
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Jan 17, 2024 11:51
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I know there's a few legal-type people in here, but this is for everyone really: Does anyone have any experience with becoming/being/working with magistrates? Is it worth doing? What's the process/work like?
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Jan 17, 2024 12:06
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My friend's son's band has just released a new video which gives me hope for the yoof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTjkNFyG94s
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Jan 17, 2024 12:13
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Guavanaut posted:Gender criticals: Our side has facts and science and logic. For the first time in months I actually made the effort to find that tweet on nitter because I sensed the replies would be good. And they were - genuinely hilarious. Loads of Gender Critics piling on with loads of other examples of 'binary' things that are actually gradients (like 'the atmosphere' v. 'space') or saying how colours doesn't really exist and are often a social construct based on perception and language and so this is a terrible analogy. 
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Jan 17, 2024 12:17
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Guavanaut posted:That's an excellent point for accessibility. My favourite Gender critical trope is a guy called Mark pretending to be a woman online to get mad about people "pretending" to be women. smellmycheese posted:LOL. Still wont happen PR. You beg to be taxed in the Press and you lobby to be left untaxed in the backrooms.
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Jan 17, 2024 12:18
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BalloonFish posted:Loads of Gender Critics piling on with loads of other examples of 'binary' things that are actually gradients (like 'the atmosphere' v. 'space')
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Jan 17, 2024 12:47
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Great success, the US and UK managed to protect international shipping, oh wait: good ol free market loooool
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Jan 17, 2024 12:51
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Gender is much like the British Isles: there's Britain, and then there's Ireland. There is no such thing as "Ireland, but actually it's part of Britain", don't be crazy.
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Jan 17, 2024 12:57
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Gonzo McFee posted:PR. You beg to be taxed in the Press and you lobby to be left untaxed in the backrooms. Taxed in the streets, untaxed in the sheets 
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Jan 17, 2024 12:58
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Guavanaut posted:Gender criticals: Our side has facts and science and logic. 
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Jan 17, 2024 13:07
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Pointing at something that transparently disproves your point and claiming it does the exact opposite is something that idiots do, sure, but it's also a huge flex for the person arguing in bad faith. You shift the ground from a facile facts-and-logic argument to a playground one without batting an eyelid. It's the "you can grow concrete" technique: everyone who disagrees with you thinks you're an idiot (but they thought that already, and you don't care anyway), but everyone on your side cheers because you trolled the woke left. (To be clear: Mike Graham is both a huge idiot and troll)
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Jan 17, 2024 13:08
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Nenonen posted:Gender is much like the British Isles: there's Britain, and then there's Ireland. There is no such thing as "Ireland, but actually it's part of Britain", don't be crazy. *points at DUP* trans
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Jan 17, 2024 13:09
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fuctifino posted:My friend's son's band has just released a new video which gives me hope for the yoof this is cool, cerebral ballzy vibes
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Jan 17, 2024 13:10
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forkboy84 posted:And this is why the Houthi are doing what they are doing. I dont think theres a single UK/US flagged ship on that shipping route tbf.
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Jan 17, 2024 13:34
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OwlFancier posted:I can see there's a gradient but I can't tell what the colours in the gradient are. For me the colours keep moving. I think I know where the colours change and suddenly it's not what I thought it was and for a moment the whole thing becomes one colour and then I start getting a headache.
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Jan 17, 2024 13:47
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serious gaylord posted:I dont think theres a single UK/US flagged ship on that shipping route tbf. Yeah I feel like we need to hear more from the people all this is really affecting: Marshall Islanders.
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Jan 17, 2024 13:58
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Guavanaut posted:That's an excellent point for accessibility. Like I get that it's funny, but also I feel like I'd like to see less examples of transwomen getting harassed by randos on social media in the thread
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Jan 17, 2024 14:11
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my dear aunt who stood in as my grandparent has been in hospital since the very start of the month and while not surprising, it's shown me first-hand how broken health and social care is NI we thought we were losing her and my cousin called an ambulance at 4am on the 3rd. An ambulance turned up at 3pm the next day after my cousin called the GP in desperation and the GP somehow made it happen, only this wasn't an ambulance as we used to know them: it was something like a st. john's ambulance with private contractors who, while doing their best, were not paramedics - they couldn't do anything other than lift my aunt in and out of the vehicle. It was a long in and out - she spent over 6 hours in the ambulance before finally getting into A&E - it was freezing in there and my aunt got nothing she needed - no pain relief, no drip to stop the dehydration - nothing in A&E my cousin not only had to do everything for my aunt, she also had to attend to the poor old lady in her nineties next to her who was alone; she had food sat in front of her but wasn't able to eat it so it was lifted away again and she was left to starve. After seeing this happen a number of times and hearing her stomach rumbling, my cousin mashed up the food so she could eat it and fed her. My cousin didn't leave my aunt because she's phobic of hospitals and rightly so - she spent two nights on a plastic chair at her side with blinding lights and the non-stop commotion of A&E after finally getting admitted to a ward, my aunt was lucky enough to get a room in the new hospital block but there are patients in beds in the corridors with zero privacy, some of them needing toileting in full view of anyone happening to pass by. 20 years ago a hospital ward used to work like clockwork and you had nurses checking on you every hour or so. My aunt had nursing staff check on her a few times every 24 hours and if my cousin hadn't been with her the whole time (she's spent 2 weeks sleeping on a mattress by her), she'd have been left unable to feed or toilet herself. There are no tea trolleys anymore and if you want so much as a jug of water you have to organise it yourself, if you're able to. My cousin had to organise the care package piece by piece by ringing around trying to get names; there appears to be zero coordination or communication and if not for my cousin my aunt would have had nothing put in place that she needed. It's entirely DIY health and social care at this stage and i don't think my aunt would be alive if not for my cousin. There are buildings and equipment, but the people working there are spread so thin and so stressed that there is just nothing by way of care anymore
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Jan 17, 2024 14:31
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More on Reeves being an austerity hardliner: https://x.com/alexwickham/status/1747604548623941875?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Jan 17, 2024 14:34
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what a pathetic oval office
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Jan 17, 2024 14:35
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smellmycheese posted:LOL. Still won’t happen
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Jan 17, 2024 14:36
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also most public services are striking here tomorrow and the roads will be ungritted for a week as a consequence, in this weather people are going to die
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Jan 17, 2024 14:40
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BalloonFish posted:saying how colours doesn't really exist and are often a social construct based on perception and language and so this is a terrible analogy. Yes indeed! I have a friend who was doing a PhD on colours but not had much contact lately so not sure how she's doing with that. The example she used to quote was Homer's* "Wine dark sea" - there was no distinction between blue and green (apparently). There was an interesting timeline chart about colour perception somewhere I'll see if I can find it. *The ancient Greek poet, not Homer Simpson
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Jan 17, 2024 14:41
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Wait, Brian Cox just plays a billionaire, he's not... Oh for gently caress's sake. This most made me look up his wiki article because the succession guy being at Davos was just too on the nose and apparently his political affiliation was Labour until 2015 before he switched to SNP.
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Jan 17, 2024 14:41
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Wait, Brian Cox just plays a billionaire, he's not... Oh for gently caress's sake. He's been an active actor, and a very good one, for decades. Tbh his net worth of $15m seems low to what I would have guessed.
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Jan 17, 2024 14:42
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Who would flag a ship in the UK? Flag it in Panama: You pay much less tax, and have not much in the way of workers rights mandated for the crew. Also, Panama lets you sign up your vessel online, and doesn't really care where it's from or what it's doing. It's a no brainer.
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