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https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1761690274915287477 https://twitter.com/EddieBurfi/status/1761682385630863778 He's such a slimy little oval office
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Feb 25, 2024 15:24
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Guavanaut posted:both stupid and racist and want to be a right wing leader oi oi oi
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Feb 25, 2024 15:37
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As a dumbfuck  . my understanding of the Braverman situation is: Sunak can withdraw the whip from Anderson because he has no friends in Parliament. There are no consquences. On the other hand, Sunak can't withdraw the whip because Braverman is popular enough he'd risk having a vote of no confidence in his leadership, which would trigger a new leadership contest and he might be out on his rear end and it'd be damaging for the party. But also, if she has the whip withdrawn, she cannot run as aTory. My understanding is that, even if she somehow wins as an independent/Reform in FPTP, she cannot be a Conservative MP in the leadership contest after the election. So doesn't Sunak hold the keys to Braverman's ambitions of leadership? I don't quite know how leadership contests might work with calling general elections.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:48
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Labour ‘must spend billions on welfare or poverty will soar’ Even the friendly charities and thinktanks are getting nervous now. Labour's response? quote:“Labour is committed to fixing this Tory failure. Our plan to tackle the root causes of poverty will grow the economy to put money back into people’s pockets, reform social security, create well-paid jobs, and deliver a bold, new cross-government child poverty strategy.” Plz grow economy? No money! Only grow! Realistically, Labour's only chance to do any good is to turn on the money firehose on day one - and equally important, the money sump pump to collect it again once it's trickled to the top. Even a few months of dithering and waiting for the "economy" to "grow" will probably doom them to nothing improving by the following election. But they either don't want to do that, or are scared of being accused of spending all the pounds, or both 
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Feb 25, 2024 15:51
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Really taking "it's the economy, stupid" to a level where saying "it's the economy, stupid" is stupid.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:53
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Just stubbed my toe, this loving economy!!!!
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Feb 25, 2024 15:53
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You know how occasionally you run across a tech Luddite in the real world, usually a manager, who just looks pained and confused when you try to explain something like a keyboard shortcut for copy and paste? That's sort of how I assume most named politicians are with politics, or when they think about poor people or minorities, or someone asks them why they posted a racist screed on Twitter.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:53
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I work in IT and am pro-luddite. You can blue-screen a pen and paper and the company providing the paper isn't using it to track your daily patterns to sell it to advertisers (or in the US, the cops checking to see if you're planning to get an abortion).
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Feb 25, 2024 15:55
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Feb 25, 2024 15:56
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Tesseraction posted:You can't blue-screen a pen and paper I used to be QA, I'm pretty sure I could. E: of course ai powered smart pens are a thing. https://nuwapen.com/#:~:text=Freedom%20to%20Write%20on%20Any,constraints%20of%20special%20paper%20notes. Mebh fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Feb 25, 2024 15:58
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Bobstar posted:Realistically, Labour's only chance to do any good is to turn on the money firehose on day one - and equally important, the money sump pump to collect it again once it's trickled to the top.
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Feb 25, 2024 16:01
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Mebh posted:I used to be QA, I'm pretty sure I could. 
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Feb 25, 2024 16:04
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The idea that Keith has access to a secret button that the Tories don’t that will magically make the economy multiply in size with zero investment of any sort is a huge banquet of bollocks
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Feb 25, 2024 16:07
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Guavanaut posted:Bug Report XVII - Attempted to use quick search function, was hit in the face by three codices et a wooden cog Response to bug report XVII - Have the quality testers been at the ergot again? The codice to face functionality is a new feature, read the patch scrolls! Resolved as not a bug.
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Feb 25, 2024 16:12
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Wouldn't that plan rely on them actually taxing companies? 
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Feb 25, 2024 16:16
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smellmycheese posted:The idea that Keith has access to a secret button that the Tories don’t that will magically make the economy multiply in size with zero investment of any sort is a huge banquet of bollocks Have you considered that once labour is elected the vibes will be so good that everything will seem better even if nothing changes? This is what the economy needs.
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Feb 25, 2024 16:29
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fuctifino posted:Lisa Nandy was doing the interview rounds this morning. Apart from the expected genocide apologism and denials about threatening the speaker, this stood out: 
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Feb 25, 2024 16:41
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In bourgeois news I have finally bought a new television. The one I bought back in 2011 is still going strong but apparently new TVs have things like "nicer pictures" and "doesn't use so much power a tree dies per use."
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Feb 25, 2024 16:42
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Tesseraction posted:In bourgeois news I have finally bought a new television. The one I bought back in 2011 is still going strong but apparently new TVs have things like "nicer pictures" and "doesn't use so much power a tree dies per use." They also tend to be like 1/4 the weight. This is great when it comes to moving them. Less good when you realize that the speakers that come built into TV's are awful because there is literally no space for speakers on a TV. You can get around that with a decent Soundbar or AV system.
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Feb 25, 2024 16:57
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Tesseraction posted:In bourgeois news I have finally bought a new television. The one I bought back in 2011 is still going strong but apparently new TVs have things like "nicer pictures" and "doesn't use so much power a tree dies per use." We bought a new one in 2020 after our old one had a screen destroying accident. I thought it was terrible until I found out it had all kinds of motion smoothing and automatic brightness/contracts adjustment settings enabled by default, making everything look like a videogame cutscene.
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Feb 25, 2024 17:00
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Tesseraction posted:In bourgeois news I have finally bought a new television. The one I bought back in 2011 is still going strong but apparently new TVs have things like "nicer pictures" and "doesn't use so much power a tree dies per use." Upgrading from wood-burning to electric then? Or Shinra finally issued their environment impact statements for their consumer electronics division I see
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Feb 25, 2024 17:02
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I literally did buy it for FF7Rebirth lol. I was playing the demo and thought to myself "oh yeah my TV really is over a decade old isn't it?"
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Feb 25, 2024 17:06
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I thought it was terrible until I found out it had all kinds of motion smoothing and automatic brightness/contracts adjustment settings enabled by default, making everything look like a videogame cutscene. I personally would like to upgrade my TV from the 'HDR sort of works but it's a ballache' generation to the 'HDR actually works holy poo poo' generation.
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Feb 25, 2024 17:14
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Guavanaut posted:Bug Report XVII - Attempted to use quick search function, was hit in the face by three codices et a wooden cog I feel like that man is overdressed for that job
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Feb 25, 2024 17:33
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The Question IRL posted:Less good when you realize that the speakers that come built into TV's are awful because there is literally no space for speakers on a TV.
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Feb 25, 2024 17:44
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Guavanaut posted:They should just sell them without speakers as display screen equipment rather than offering false hope, at least people would know in advance. Eh, I think most in-built speakers are fine for 90% of people owning them. I can't justify the expense of a decent soundbar given how marginal the actual improvement is. People also leave motion smoothing on.
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Feb 25, 2024 18:00
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I worry about that because my gran-in-law's TV keeps turning that stuff back on. It's annoying enough it happening to someone else's telly, I'd go nuts if it was mine. Our Samsung did the same every time it downloaded a firmware update but it seems to have given up on those now and it's been retaining the settings ever since. I've heard that Sony has considerably less of that nonsense on theirs but if I was upgrading again I'd definitely want to see it IRL first.
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Feb 25, 2024 18:02
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stev posted:Eh, I think most in-built speakers are fine for 90% of people owning them. I can't justify the expense of a decent soundbar given how marginal the actual improvement is. Even a cheap pair of speakers sounds infinitely better than the built in speakers in 99% of modern tvs
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Feb 25, 2024 18:08
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smellmycheese posted:The idea that Keith has access to a secret button that the Tories don’t that will magically make the economy multiply in size with zero investment of any sort is a huge banquet of bollocks Had to stop myself from calling you a loving idiot because I realised that "Labour are going to do everything the Tories are doing but with the Economy Good button on" is actually the Labour pitch and you were criticising that.
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Feb 25, 2024 18:16
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Tories left a brick on the Economy Bad button, we will be taking turns holding it down manually.History Comes Inside! posted:Even a cheap pair of speakers sounds infinitely better than the built in speakers in 99% of modern tvs
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Feb 25, 2024 18:22
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stev posted:Eh, I think most in-built speakers are fine for 90% of people owning them. I can't justify the expense of a decent soundbar given how marginal the actual improvement is. I bought a 'party speaker' for £15.99 from Home Bargains a couple of years ago which I use when playing music on there just to get a semi decent bass (though Roku Express seems to have got funny with spotify - it won't connect directly to my main wifi (Three), so I have to hotspot from my phone (Smarty - which rides on Three), start spotify, then switch the network back to Three and then it works most of the time until put tv on standby and start again. On the whole headphones connected to laptop give the best sound but I don't always want to be connected to laptop or have things stuck in my ears. I tried earbuds but they kept falling out. I might buy a soundbar next time I'm in line for a self-prezzie (birthday in April!) as I think the party speaker is beginning to play silly bs a bit lately - switching itself off and on again. My tv is 8.5 years old now.
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Feb 25, 2024 18:34
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Guavanaut posted:It's very possible that she could be both stupid and racist and want to be a right wing leader without knowing what she's doing. Chaos is a ladder and  is covering it in shite as he slowly ascends towards his immortal domain.Truss will fit in nicely. 
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Feb 25, 2024 18:48
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lol https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1761775790994124958
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Feb 25, 2024 19:27
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I bought an Anker soundbar whose sole job in life is to pump out my terrible music from my old, now SIMless, phone while I'm showering. Look I've tried showering faster but then I feel like I didn't clean myself properly. I'm going to take my time and you can't stop me.
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Feb 25, 2024 19:29
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When my partner had flu last year and wanted to stay in bed, I put together a TV for the bedroom out of random stuff I had lying around. Old 1080p PC monitor, cheap laptop soundbar, HDMI netflix streaming box type thing, and a sound adapter. It worked well enough that we're still using it as the bedroom TV a year later. I heard they were all chanting "Let's Go Rishi"
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Feb 25, 2024 19:33
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Good grief, what happened to making your own music while you shower??
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Feb 25, 2024 19:33
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Pulling aside the curtain a little here I had a traumatic experience as a child that gives me extreme performance anxiety about being heard singing. Some might say it's a natural mechanism to protect others' ears, but nevertheless I cannot sing if there's the chance that someone's listening.
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Feb 25, 2024 19:37
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Tesseraction posted:Pulling aside the curtain a little here I had a traumatic experience as a child that gives me extreme performance anxiety about being heard singing. Well, that's unfortunate. Or I dunno, depends on what kind of music your neighbours/family members like to hear. My thing is listening to podcasts in sauna. Nature and history podcasts are particularly soothing.
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Feb 25, 2024 19:40
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Guavanaut posted:Tories left a brick on the Economy Bad button, we will be taking turns holding it down manually. Just a reminder that LG used to sell one of their OLED's (I think it was the Z range) that was literally just their standard TV (The C Range) bundled with a Soundbar. They didn't remove the existing speakers, just added extra ones. For more than it would have cost to buy a C Range TV and Soundbar. I love the LG OLED TV's but if you aren't careful when getting them, they have a range of "you didn't research this properly. Experience increased price Bij!"
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Feb 25, 2024 19:45
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I suppose with TV being an offshoot of radio and everyone since John Logie Baird deciding it should come with speakers inside, all the equipment and market expectation is just set up that way, even if the speakers nowadays are just the ceramic disks you got in musical cards superglued to the inside of the bottom of the case. Maybe if they called them 'big monitors' instead.
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Feb 25, 2024 19:50
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