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It's fun isn't it? The entire economic consensus outside of senile paedophiles is some form of Keynesianism, and yet our elite are allowed to go on TV and call that Soviet Communism and be heralded as sensible adults finally in the room after seven decades of Jimmbly Bumblebee personally stealing your wealth dressed as the Grinch.
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Feb 15, 2024 15:46
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forkboy84 posted:I actually read an interview with...I think her, certainly one of his exes. It was honestly hideously depressing. Like, obviously all this misogyny & poo poo which is unpleasant, but Hugh didn't even seem to particularly enjoy his life, it was all pitifully lonely, as well as being creepy as gently caress. But yeah, large debit due for being a miserable misogynist gently caress the whole rest of his life. The playboy lifestyle!
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Feb 15, 2024 15:49
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smellmycheese posted:Lololololol Tapping the "avoid woke lines" checkbox on my TFL route planner app, so that I can take a complicated 12-change round trip that takes 2 hours longer and owns the libs
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Feb 15, 2024 15:59
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Sticking a progress pride flag sticker on the border of a signboard at stop 9 to ruin the whole thing.
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Feb 15, 2024 16:03
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https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1758123706260308151 After the recent protest vids, I wonder if most of them will be forced to do telephone canvassing?
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Feb 15, 2024 16:06
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If any of them call I'm going to demand they sing A Good Heart Especially if it's not Feargal calling. Unless it's Wes, don't even want to hear him singing ironically.
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Feb 15, 2024 16:08
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That couldn't be a more obvious "not actually on the phone" if he tried.
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Feb 15, 2024 16:10
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He can hold a phone
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Feb 15, 2024 16:11
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Tesseraction posted:That couldn't be a more obvious "not actually on the phone" if he tried. 
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Feb 15, 2024 16:15
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Side question, is propylene glycol actually useful as antifreeze or is it functionally useless compared to ethylene glycol?
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Feb 15, 2024 16:16
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forkboy84 posted:I actually read an interview with...I think her, certainly one of his exes. It was honestly hideously depressing. Like, obviously all this misogyny & poo poo which is unpleasant, but Hugh didn't even seem to particularly enjoy his life, it was all pitifully lonely, as well as being creepy as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3Lgi4pNok Claimed of course that he had no idea this was going on and did a bunch of handwaving PR exercises to launder his reputation, but 'Hugh Hefner was a weird misogynist' is hardly a scoop. Unless Morgan is planning to do a weird hostile interview taking her apart to appeal to his misogynist base.
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Feb 15, 2024 16:19
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Tesseraction posted:Side question, is propylene glycol actually useful as antifreeze or is it functionally useless compared to ethylene glycol? You can also get the freezing point of water down to -45C, so it is definitely an antifreeze, but it has much inferior thermal conductivity.
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Feb 15, 2024 16:19
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Right but is it any use at softening the ice or am I just as well giving myself armache with just a scraper and no de-icer?
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Feb 15, 2024 16:25
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What is it you're trying to do, deicing (like in a freezer) works differently to antifreeze (stopping water freezing in the first place) so you might be better with something like calcium chloride or table salt for deicing (as long as it's only in contact with plastic or aluminium, it's bad for stainless steel).
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Feb 15, 2024 16:34
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Failed Imagineer posted:IIRC the trains never really ran on time under Mussolini, and although it was initially a point of fascist rhetoric it transformed over time into a bitter ironic joke, especially by the time of WW2 when the Italian rail network collapsed. We do renew a lot of track if that counts as building new rail. I just did 1,000 yards worth over last weekend and I was loving knackered at the end of it.
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Feb 15, 2024 16:53
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bessantj posted:We do renew a lot of track if that counts as building new rail. I just did 1,000 yards worth over last weekend and I was loving knackered at the end of it. Not meant as a criticism of you wonderful grimy lads down in the tunnels and whatnot, but yeah that doesn't really count to me as "new rail" in the macro sense
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Feb 15, 2024 17:00
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not meant as a criticism of you wonderful grimy lads down in the tunnels and whatnot, but yeah that doesn't really count to me as "new rail" in the macro sense So you mean like whole new lines? They are reopening some lines around the U.K. that have been closed for decades and not a moment too soon.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:03
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Failed Imagineer posted:IIRC the trains never really ran on time under Mussolini, and although it was initially a point of fascist rhetoric it transformed over time into a bitter ironic joke, especially by the time of WW2 when the Italian rail network collapsed. Correct. It was one of the populist things that the fascist government promised when it came to power - Bringing Order to the chaotic Italian railway system and making the trains Work For Ordinary People to Strengthen The Nation blahblahblah. But it never really happened. The Italian Railways generally improved slightly over the 1920s as they were rebuilt after WW1, and the fascists made a few key big, eye-catching investments in new or modernised lines, stations and rolling stock. These tended to be lines that were predominantly used by foreign business visitors and tourists, like the ones between Milan and Venice and Milan and Rome. These routes generally had better, faster, more modern rolling stock and better timekeeping. Trains that connected with international services at borders, docks and airports were given accelerated and prioritised schedules so they did run on time, and very fast. But usually at the expense of standards services being delayed or re-routed. But it meant that loads of tourists went home to confirm how Mussolini had made the Italian trains run on time and what a marvellous example of strong national leadership and modernist vision it represented.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:03
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bessantj posted:So you mean like whole new lines? They are reopening some lines around the U.K. that have been closed for decades and not a moment too soon. Our latest one (tory) is claiming that a private developer wants to build it, so doubtless this is another scam the government is either going to be renting back at an exorbitant cost, or maybe just a scammer wants to get paid millions to attend a bunch of planning meetings before concluding in a few years (once the money runs out) that it's sadly not possible. I'm not optimistic even thpugh a station would help a LOT of people locally get into the bigger towns for shopping, work etc.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:16
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Bobby Deluxe posted:According to people who've lived in our village for years, our local station was closed down in the 60s (ironically just as a ton of new housing was built), and every politician since has claimed that reopening it has been a key priority. Beeching did a good job of loving things up when he closed so many stations. They are reopening a bunch of stations on the South Wales valley lines which will be a big help so i hope that your MP bucks the trend and actually gets your line open again.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:19
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68296404BBC posted:Fears for Manchester playground after dog bite vandalism found I want to say this only got picked up because of compoface's surname.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:23
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ELC Bullies
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Feb 15, 2024 17:30
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rocket_Magnet posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68296404 Look at the pics lol. That third one, no loving way is that from a dog. Someone with a knife sure, clean cuts, no gnaw or teeth marks anywhere on it.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:41
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Steroid Staffie with a zombie knife, hopped up on disposable vapes and whipped cream propellant.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:44
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Guavanaut posted:What is it you're trying to do, deicing (like in a freezer) works differently to antifreeze (stopping water freezing in the first place) so you might be better with something like calcium chloride or table salt for deicing (as long as it's only in contact with plastic or aluminium, it's bad for stainless steel). Oh right, yeah. Basically I've been looking at options for dealing with an icy windshield as the previous few times has been a coin flip of mild annoyance in the morning to "gently caress I'M GOING TO BE LATE" and I was wondering if I could make the latter more like the former without making the neighborhood a zone rouge in my wake.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:44
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Yeah I'd be cautious about salts like calcium chloride in that case just because of the presence of rubber seals, although I suppose if you've ever driven on salted roads you'll have plenty all over the vehicle anyway, so a concentrated solution of calc chloride and lukewarm water would work and isn't any worse than what's all over the roads. Isopropyl alcohol and water also works as a deicer in that case, and is much gentler on synthetic rubbers than meths spirits or grain alcohol or salts.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:03
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https://twitter.com/WritesBright/status/1758166680683848024 £530 a day to head the low pay commission 
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Feb 15, 2024 18:05
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Wonder if she'll get some of those unpaid interns from the modern slavery commission.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:07
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Is the job of the Low Pay Commission to try to keep wages as low as possible? I honestly can’t tell anymore if that’s just the obvious joke or simply correct or where the gently caress we are in the satire dimension at the moment I’m gonna guess it’s a double-bluff Orwellian naming thing where the stated purpose is to look into causes of low pay to try to prevent it, but the actual purpose is to prevent any changes that might cause pay to rise
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Feb 15, 2024 18:17
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quote:Our main business is to advise the Government on the levels of the National Minimum Wage (NMW), including the National Living Wage (NLW). We make recommendations to the Government each autumn. Yeah so it’s basically just straight up “our job is to keep wages low” lol
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Feb 15, 2024 18:21
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TACD posted:Is the job of the Low Pay Commission to try to keep wages as low as possible? I honestly can’t tell anymore if that’s just the obvious joke or simply correct or where the gently caress we are in the satire dimension at the moment You managed to be not cynical enough. The purpose of the Low Pay Commission is that it has no purpose other than paying people like Philippa Stroud obscene amounts of money for doing nothing.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:22
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My “WAGE PRICE SPIRAL!” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions about what the gently caress else I do at the Low Pay Commission
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Feb 15, 2024 18:25
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rocket_Magnet posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68296404 This is 100% kids ripping off those bits of foam. I know because as a little kid (read: a poo poo head) it's the kind of stuff we would absolutely do. You can dig your nail in and make a little tear and then work your way through it. When you're sat around bored with nothing to do because the council have closed all the rec centers and nowhere wants a group of teenage lads hanging around, sitting in the park on the swings is kind of all you have.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:29
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/WritesBright/status/1758166680683848024 and they will conclude that the way to tackle low pay is to sanction universal credit payments to people who fail to find better paid work  
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Feb 15, 2024 19:16
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Can't be on low pay if you're not getting paid 
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Feb 15, 2024 19:17
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does anyone have any hot opinions about where to get eyes tested (or indeed specs in genreral) these days? blue light card tells me i can get the test free at vision express as long as i spend at least £50, and then apparently i also get 30% off if i spend at least £50 but i don't know if the test still counts as free if that £50 is reduced
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Feb 15, 2024 19:54
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Nuclear Spoon posted:does anyone have any hot opinions about where to get eyes tested (or indeed specs in genreral) these days? blue light card tells me i can get the test free at vision express as long as i spend at least £50, and then apparently i also get 30% off if i spend at least £50 but i don't know if the test still counts as free if that £50 is reduced No specific preference but thought useful to share general info to the thread - if you use computers daily for 1hr or more in your job, your employer must provide and pay for an eyesight test if you request one https://www.hse.gov.uk/msd/dse/eye-tests.htm with no obligation to buy. I just go wherever my employer has signed up for when I'm due and this rotates a lot so I have every optician in the city mailing me to say I'm negligent about regular eyetests.
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Feb 15, 2024 20:30
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that's really useful actually to know actually, thanks! it turns out that nhs employers explicitly say they provide one, gotta explore that at work tomorrow https://www.nhsemployers.org/jobs/employee-benefits
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Feb 15, 2024 20:54
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How much job seeking are you required to do on jobseekers allowance or whatever it is? More than an hour a day? On a computer.
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Feb 15, 2024 20:55
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if you're on UC you can get a free eye test
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Feb 15, 2024 20:56
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