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Failed Imagineer posted:Just imagined typing an email while lying down and my carpals started throbbing e: One2One is now T-Mobile UK
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Apr 2, 2024 09:54
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Guavanaut posted:(no, not like that) Well, maybe sometimes like that
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Apr 2, 2024 10:06
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Just shout at ChatGPT from your bed to write your emails
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Apr 2, 2024 10:17
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Angepain posted:again jk rowling and the media coverage of her is just depressing. like, you don't have to be a full-blown brick-throwing trans activist to see her twitter thread's a load of poo poo, right? here are four trans people who have committed actual crimes, one of whom isn't even from scotland i guess she thought three wasn't enough. also here are six other trans women i've had spats with on twitter that i'm totally not implying are basically the same, no siree. i'm just asking questions. like, it can't be a wild and radical position to say this person is in fact rather transphobic? im in tiny train world I, one of the richest women around, am going to spend Easter making GBS threads on trans women because it's the most fun I could possibly have! Does she ever actually bother to do anything nice for anyone with her ridiculous piles of goblin cash? After all, she "cares" so much about cis women....
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Apr 2, 2024 10:28
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smellmycheese posted:I’m sure people in this thread have read Orwell’s “Down and Out in London and Paris” which explains in revolting detail how the homeless and poor were treated in this country around this time last century. This is simply a return to good old pre WW2 British values My big takeaway was that if you're down and out in Paris then you have a job, somewhere to live, and can borrow a thousand francs from your mate back home.
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Apr 2, 2024 10:28
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Runcible Cat posted:I, one of the richest women around, am going to spend Easter making GBS threads on trans women because it's the most fun I could possibly have! Terfbrain is a sickness
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Apr 2, 2024 10:30
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Microplastics posted:Terfbrain is a sickness Yeah. I mean, she could throw Easter parties for all the women/kids in local refuges/homeless shelters, poo poo like that, but no. Hate hate hate. gently caress sake.
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Apr 2, 2024 10:34
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She has two incurable conditions - hyper-terfism and billionairism. And when I say incurable, I'm obviously not talking about [redacted]
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Apr 2, 2024 10:51
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It's kinda funny how she could have lived and died beloved by all, but went and torched her own legacy because of a twitter addiction
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Apr 2, 2024 10:54
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Jedit posted:My big takeaway was that if you're down and out in Paris then you have a job, somewhere to live, and can borrow a thousand francs from your mate back home. The book did rather come from the Johann Hari school of journalism, yes. Which is ironic because he had to give back his Orwell prize
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Apr 2, 2024 10:56
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"A Bit Of An Inconvenience In Paris" didn't scan well.
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Apr 2, 2024 11:04
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Dead Goon posted:"A Bit Of An Inconvenience In Paris" didn't scan well. “My time Cosplaying being poor but with good intentions” also didn’t quite work. Good book tho
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Apr 2, 2024 11:07
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smellmycheese posted:“My time Cosplaying being poor but with good intentions” also didn’t quite work. Good book tho I wouldn't call it cosplay, that too is unfair. Orwell did sell his own possessions before falling back on friends for money. But it was poverty tourism, and at least in the Parisian section he wasn't entirely honest with himself about how easy he had it.
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Apr 2, 2024 11:22
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Been years since I read it but doesn't Orwell just write to his rich aunt to send him some cash after things start getting too tough.
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Apr 2, 2024 11:26
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That's also a part of the new proposed homeless bill.
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Apr 2, 2024 11:29
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Dead Goon posted:"A Bit Of An Inconvenience In Paris" didn't scan well. I imagine it would be going over the finer points of changing from Gare de Nord to Gare de Lyon
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Apr 2, 2024 11:31
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Just reading about the Israelis killing the aid workers and the Iranian generals, the shooting dead of a 12 year old kid in West Bank who was holding a firework - it's like Israel is daring the world to stop them, like a death wish. They are completely out of control. Moshe Dayan said Israel had to behave like a mad dog so they would be too dangerous to bother. For sure they're behaving like rabid dogs.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:09
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just reading about the Israelis killing the aid workers and the Iranian generals, the shooting dead of a 12 year old kid in West Bank who was holding a firework - it's like Israel is daring the world to stop them, like a death wish. ONE British white person has now been killed and suddenly it’s “oh. Maybe Israel are the bad guys”
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Apr 2, 2024 12:18
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just reading about the Israelis killing the aid workers and the Iranian generals, the shooting dead of a 12 year old kid in West Bank who was holding a firework - it's like Israel is daring the world to stop them, like a death wish. Moshe Dayan needs to be reminded that when you see a mad dog, you destroy it before it can hurt anyone. Maybe not the analogy he wanted to make.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:22
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Is it illegal to voice the opinion that the state of Israel has lost its right to exist?.... because....
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Apr 2, 2024 12:25
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Microplastics posted:It's kinda funny how she could have lived and died beloved by all, but went and torched her own legacy because of a twitter addiction Her plan was to have another long career with the crime novels but they're poo poo so she's got nothing better to do now.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:31
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Microplastics posted:It's kinda funny how she could have lived and died beloved by all, but went and torched her own legacy because of a twitter addiction She blocks anyone who criticises her so thoroughly that the twitter she sees and the lovebombing she recieves from terfs both mean that her perception of reality is that everyone loves her and thinks she's brave. Because if they don't, they get blocked. It's self-reinforcing narcissism. It's probably a good thing twitter doesn't really work logged out because if she ever saw it she might for half a second start to question her carefully curated reality filter. Runcible Cat posted:Does she ever actually bother to do anything nice for anyone with her ridiculous piles of goblin cash? After all, she "cares" so much about cis women....
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Apr 2, 2024 12:32
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A state doesn't lose its right to exist because of the actions of some people within the government. But those people should be held to account, and in the case of Netanhayu and some of his closest internal allies, there should be some cells being prepared at the Hague.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:32
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Israel doesn't have the right to exist because it's an apartheid, was founded as an apartheid, is codified as an apartheid in its laws and culture and should in fact be dismantled on that basis alone, let alone the active genocide. You can repeat all that again while replacing apartheid with ethnostate.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:41
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i bet orwell had a thousand pound chair the loving fraud
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Apr 2, 2024 12:42
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Runcible Cat posted:Does she ever actually bother to do anything nice for anyone with her ridiculous piles of goblin cash? After all, she "cares" so much about cis women.... Her donations are the equivalent of someone in this thread handing out a few quid to a homeless person and then making sure everyone knows that you make donations and do philanthropy.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:44
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fuctifino posted:Is it illegal to voice the opinion that the state of Israel has lost its right to exist?.... because.... Well, this is probably the only thread in d&d where you can say that without being banned, at least. The mods have closed the Israel thread because people were getting mad about the mass murder, rather than discussing it in the approved detached, nitpicking d&d posting style.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:46
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Guavanaut posted:e: One2One is now T-Mobile UK (For a given value of fun) fact: One2One was originally part of Mercury which was part of Cable & Wireless. Cable & wireless sold their mobile phone business to Deusche Telekom who renamed it T-Mobile and their internet business to NTL, who became Virgin Media. Virgin Media just finished merging with O2, who were originally BT Cellnet. T-Mobile merged with Orange and became EE, who got bought by BT. So the last thirty years has, from a certain angle, been an elongated process of British private cable and BT swapping mobile phone providers.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:47
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kingturnip posted:A state doesn't lose its right to exist because of the actions of some people within the government. I'm of a belief that the only solution to long-term peace would be for Palestine to become one country again, and with it, equal rights for all. South Africa managed to end their two-state apartheid fascism without the oppressed killing the oppressors, so it is possible. Or we can continue on the same path of oppression and genocide....
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Apr 2, 2024 12:48
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Tai posted:Her donations are the equivalent of someone in this thread handing out a few quid to a homeless person and then making sure everyone knows that you make donations and do philanthropy. apparently the fantastic beasts royalties go to comic relief. that seems like quite a lot
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Apr 2, 2024 12:49
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It does seem hard to imagine what a two state solution would look like given the entire history of Israel.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:49
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Bobby Deluxe posted:She donates to / funds a few womens shelters, but only after making certain they're trans exclusionary. So even when she tries to be nice she's still a poo poo. This is after campaigning to get the inclusive shelters closed down, at least in Edinburgh. That means, as there's now a shelter, no one else can open one that might help trans women as well.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:52
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fuctifino posted:Is it illegal to voice the opinion that the state of Israel has lost its right to exist?.... because... Israel is a country full of people who likely want this about as much as British people want the NHS sold off. Israel as a state or country or entity is not the problem. The actions of the government and the IDF in Gaza are the problem. Anything beyond that and you're stepping on territory we have banned less liked posters for. I get that you're outraged from watching clips of atrocities on twitter and have been banned multiple times in the other thread but please for the love of god don't let that outrage start you down the road of open antisemitism. Renfield posted:This is after campaigning to get the inclusive shelters closed down, at least in Edinburgh.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:59
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NotJustANumber99 posted:apparently the fantastic beasts royalties go to comic relief. that seems like quite a lot Royalties on two products that generated combined £17 million at the time will be gently caress all. How generous of her. What a legend.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:00
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Britain is a country full of people who want the NHS sold off, and Israel is full of people who rock up with deck chairs and popcorn to watch the bombing. The common thread here is that propaganda works, and it works even better when every adult has been made to be part of the same organisation as those snipers who murdered inconvenient journalists.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:03
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I mean the British Raj didn't have a right to exist either, nor did Britain as an empire generally, nor necessarily does the UK at the moment depending on who you ask (it's me i don't think the state is legitimate) And in all those cases the solution is a fundamental reconstruction (or abolition) of the nature of the state and probably changes to territorial control. I don't think it's an enormously surprising left wing position to say that states are often bad ideas and don't have an intrinsic right to exist, and people probably don't mean that the alternative should be scouring all life off the face of the landmass. Giant asteroid 2024 excepting.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:09
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For what it's worth, my main objection is to "all the Israelis should go back where they came" stuff. My preferred solution is one state with equal rights and separation from church and state. States having a right to exist is a very murky concept which isn't worth discussing imo, because states can't have rights - they're not people. At that level of operation it's about what you can get away with, and what other states/your population will punish you for or not.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:14
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OwlFancier posted:I mean the British Raj didn't have a right to exist either, nor did Britain as an empire generally, nor necessarily does the UK at the moment depending on who you ask (it's me i don't think the state is legitimate) And in all those cases the solution is a fundamental reconstruction (or abolition) of the nature of the state and probably changes to territorial control. The discussion wasn't if states as a thing should exist though.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:16
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Tai posted:Her donations are the equivalent of someone in this thread handing out a few quid to a homeless person and then making sure everyone knows that you make donations and do philanthropy. I know we've sensibly kept the text of Rowling's rantings off-thread, but I think it's relevant to point out that she has a history with one of the trans women she attacks (and categorises alongside sex offenders, and implies to be part of a collective danger to women's safety) - Mridul Wadhwa, the director of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. The implications of a billionaire stirring up hatred scot-free like this against a charity director working towards women's safety - a victim who she clearly views as a competitor to her own trans-exclusionary shelters - are horrific; the soft-and-neutral framing all of this is receiving across the media is unsurprising but repellent.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:17
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WhatEvil posted:I realise this has already been talked about a fair bit, but anyway... I adore mine, I have fallen asleep in it more times than I can count. You can get them all day on ebay for under £300 and often much cheaper. 100% worth the money and there is definitely a huge difference between a cheap office chair from ikea or whatever and a premium product. There are basically 3 things you should never cheap out on in life. Your Bed, Your Shoes, and your Desk Chair. When you think about the amount of time you spend using these things, why wouldnt you want to spend a bit more and get something that wont destroy your body?
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