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Julio Cruz posted:can we add Laurence Fox to the Weetman embargo list already Please. By this point, it's not even low hanging fruit, it's just spoiled, bruised fruit rotting on the ground. 524 is a deficient number, that is to say 524 is a natural number that is strictly larger than the sum of its proper divisors, i.e., the divisors of 524 without 524 itself.
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Total Meatlove posted:I work in a connected capacity, but not on the dedicated smart meters side The barely disguised panic comes from the interconnected and incestuous nature of the utility industry in the UK. Cheers, don't worry about asking around for it, I just find it fascinating that more or less the same poo poo that caused the current rail networks issues are happening to the electricity network as well (and to telephony/internet I guess too). It's almost as if... privatisation is bad for the consumer?
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 18:43 |
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Julio Cruz posted:can we add Laurence Fox to the Weetman embargo list already No... it is good very good content
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 18:54 |
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StarkingBarfish posted:Cheers, don't worry about asking around for it, I just find it fascinating that more or less the same poo poo that caused the current rail networks issues are happening to the electricity network as well (and to telephony/internet I guess too). It's almost as if... privatisation is bad for the consumer? Nah we just need the incredibly efficient free market response in the form of behind-the-meter storage for all. Gotta keep the individualism death cult rolling.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 19:00 |
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The guy who services my boiler told me to wait as long as possible before letting anyone put a smart meter in, because they all have problems.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 19:26 |
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Go with Bulb, they keep delaying their smart meter rollout forever (prices are good too).
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 19:29 |
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I got a smart meter installed and then the energy company didn't send me any bills for over a year. It was fun but they realised their mistake last month and backdated the new bill they did eventually send.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 19:35 |
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Guavanaut posted:Go with Bulb, they keep delaying their smart meter rollout forever (prices are good too). Avro as well. They're the reason I'm now submitting manual reads even though I've new meters. At least it means I don't need to trepan myself on the basement ceiling every time I want to read the gas- I now just take it from the IHD.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 19:36 |
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My smart meter always just says I've used £0 and it doesn't seem to have any influence over the bills I get.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 19:37 |
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StarkingBarfish posted:Avro as well. They're the reason I'm now submitting manual reads even though I've new meters. At least it means I don't need to trepan myself on the basement ceiling every time I want to read the gas- I now just take it from the IHD. Careful with Avro if you try to leave them. Even though meter readings were submitted to switch away they insisted on using their internally calculated usage and kept taking money off us for months without telling us as they decided we still owed them money when they owed us.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 19:47 |
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Lungboy posted:Careful with Avro if you try to leave them. Even though meter readings were submitted to switch away they insisted on using their internally calculated usage and kept taking money off us for months without telling us as they decided we still owed them money when they owed us. That's handy to know- they haven't been great at incorporating my reads, some of their estimates have been way off.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 19:53 |
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Tory government decides not to investigate Tory government influence in the murder of a lawyer. Remarkable.quote:A public inquiry into state collusion in the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane will not take place at this time, the government has said. Some determined feet-dragging, right here.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 20:14 |
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Is there a thicker bunch of cunts in the world than the Brits? https://twitter.com/DailyMailUK/status/1333448463284113413
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/joanna_louise0/status/1333322039067815936 I'm trying to be more patient with people these days but dear lord, I cannot possibly in good faith believe that an apparently functional human adult with a brain can be this wilfully stupid on so many levels at once.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 20:51 |
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm trying to be more patient with people these days but dear lord, I cannot possibly in good faith believe that an apparently functional human adult with a brain can be this wilfully stupid on so many levels at once. The worlds a stage mate, people will say anything for enough money AND he's already an actor.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 20:53 |
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm trying to be more patient with people these days but dear lord, I cannot possibly in good faith believe that an apparently functional human adult with a brain can be this wilfully stupid on so many levels at once. "compliance is violence" i assume is him riffing on "silence is violence". It's got to be a deliberate part of his schitck of dropping loads of racist dogwhistles and the acting like the PC woke brigade are coming after him despite him being totally not racist at all, no racism here.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 20:54 |
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Anyone else spend a large chunk of today trying to decide what a "Substantial Meal" is and where things fall on the scotch egg food rating system? Trying to order food in for a pub when you dont know how many people you are going to get in and what you have to serve them is a unique and novel nightmare.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 20:55 |
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Oh yeah I 100% believe Fox doesn't believe a thing he's saying and he's just angling to become another manufactured controversy generator in the Clarkson/Morgan mould, but I don't get why. He's already a well-off posho living a perfectly comfortable life as a third rate actor, he doesn't need to. And while people like Clarkson have said some pretty godawful bigoted and ignorant things this goes a step beyond, using his platform to spout garbage like this isn't just your standard 'belligerent dude being offensive', it's an active threat to public health, it's going to get people loving killed, and he knows it. I don't understand how that kind of person looks at themselves in the mirror tbh. I think the point I realised quite how bad he is was when even bloody Morgan was calling him out.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:05 |
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Mr Owl posted:Anyone else spend a large chunk of today trying to decide what a "Substantial Meal" is and where things fall on the scotch egg food rating system? It's stupidly vague. They should be using a definition like 'food served in or on reusable containers' which is still pretty vague but it'd eliminate most pub snacks unless someone is deliberately pouring a packet of crisps into a bowl. Even then it's pretty clearly a case of taking the piss rather than earnestly following the guidance.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:08 |
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an inspiring message! https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1333498533521936384
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:10 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Oh yeah I 100% believe Fox doesn't believe a thing he's saying and he's just angling to become another manufactured controversy generator in the Clarkson/Morgan mould, but I don't get why. He's already a well-off posho living a perfectly comfortable life as a third rate actor, he doesn't need to. And while people like Clarkson have said some pretty godawful bigoted and ignorant things this goes a step beyond, using his platform to spout garbage like this isn't just your standard 'belligerent dude being offensive', it's an active threat to public health, it's going to get people loving killed, and he knows it. I don't understand how that kind of person looks at themselves in the mirror tbh. I think the point I realised quite how bad he is was when even bloody Morgan was calling him out.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:11 |
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CGI Stardust posted:an inspiring message! loving lol the sense of pathetic cowardice is palpable, this man has never believed in anything his entire life and he's utterly terrified that anyone might think he has
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:12 |
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https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1333021072875196417
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:13 |
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Choose your own adventure: Post-truth edition The @nhs can’t cope... The @nhs isn’t fit for purpose. If you decide to minimise social contact so that you maximise your own chances of survival and preserve scarce resources, turn to page 94. If you decide to indulge in behaviour harmful to yourself, your friends and society, please roll this book into a tube and feed it up your arse.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:14 |
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Guavanaut posted:Go with Bulb, they keep delaying their smart meter rollout forever (prices are good too).
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CGI Stardust posted:an inspiring message! Please keep doing this poo poo Keith
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:25 |
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Arnie as the Terminator was more capable of conveying genuine human emotion than Keir "T600" Starmer
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:30 |
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Guavanaut posted:Go with Bulb, they keep delaying their smart meter rollout forever (prices are good too). Also Bulb do a referral scheme thing of £50 each (credit rather than cash, but still), so if anyone is minded to switch it might be worth mentioning in-thread to sort something with another poster out if you were inclined
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:35 |
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I moved into a place with a smart meter and switched to SSE when I moved in. It hasn't communicated with them once in the 2 years I've been here.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:37 |
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I just want to give a heart-felt thank you to whoever introduced me to that reddit relationships thread over in GBS. They're currently debating whether a planned simultaneous group piss in a hot tub without your wife's knowledge is divorce-able material.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 21:42 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I just want to give a heart-felt thank you to whoever introduced me to that reddit relationships thread over in GBS. They're currently debating whether a planned simultaneous group piss in a hot tub without your wife's knowledge is divorce-able material. betaraywil posted:My (25f) husband and two friends (all 25) peed in the hot-tub when I was sitting in it with them last night. I feel so disrespected and grossed out but he keeps saying "you're making WAY too big a deal of this." Niric fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Niric posted:
That thread is amazing. It's full of people saying "my partner is perfect except for this one thing!" and that thing being a hideous absolute deal-breaker to any normal person.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 22:00 |
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namesake posted:I got a smart meter installed and then the energy company didn't send me any bills for over a year. It was fun but they realised their mistake last month and backdated the new bill they did eventually send. nb it is illegal for utilities cos to back date residential bills more than 12 months. you might be able to at least get a small reduction on that.
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https://twitter.com/paulbranditv/status/1333499074755112962?s=21
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Niric posted:Also Bulb do a referral scheme thing of £50 each (credit rather than cash, but still), so if anyone is minded to switch it might be worth mentioning in-thread to sort something with another poster out if you were inclined Like at least ask everyone in the hot tub if they want to join in first.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 22:15 |
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someone posted this in yospos remember the Excel maximum rows file truncation issue PHE had with their contact tracing data? that meant a lot of known contacts were not traced? 1,500+ deaths on Dido Harding's bloody hands https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/wp521.2020.pdf quote:Does Contact Tracing Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from an
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Disnesquick posted:That's kind of my point, really. China runs a big trade surplus and it doesn't seem like a beneficial relationship. What are they using that money to buy that they can't just make themselves? I'm hard pressed to see what Britain can provide that they would want in exchange for the vast amount of manufactured goods they send over. At some point the money has to convert to something or you've just handed over goods for nothing. If you treat China as one entity, then you're right it doesnt make much sense, you need to look at the classes within countries: https://www.ft.com/content/f3ee37e0-b086-11ea-a4b6-31f1eedf762e quote:“Trade war is often presented as a war between countries. It is not: it is a conflict mainly between bankers and owners of financial assets on one side and ordinary households on the other — between the very rich and everyone else.”
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 22:27 |
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Please get a smart meter. I know that in the initial rollout people got some poo poo ones and that damaged the usefulness of the programme overall but it really will make things better long term and does gently caress all to you in the short term. The new ones are fine.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 22:28 |
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Sometimes I wonder who would be the more principled and pragmatic leader; keith stammer or a single sheet of A4 paper
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Convex posted:Sometimes I wonder who would be the more principled and pragmatic leader; keith stammer or a single sheet of A4 paper The A4 paper has a limited capacity for reflection and is therefore the winner.
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