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Lord of the Llamas posted:There must be a Tinder for power mad psychopaths or something. A puTinder, perhaps? (h/t Richard Osman)
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TheHoodedClaw posted:puTinder 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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MrL_JaKiri posted:That's not down to nuclear power being expensive, that's down to the particular implementations being expensive. Is there any kind of sane justification why this country has always insisted on only building the newest shiniest most unproven reactor designs, rather than following France's lead and just picking one to get good at? Blowfish's excellent effortpost explained why America does it, but I can't wrap my head around why we would do it too. blowfish posted:there would need to be an eu-wide (or possibly larger) power grid for solar/wind to be viable, and it would still need storage. natural gas is still a lot of CO2 and quickly load following natural gas is less efficient and more expensive A breakthrough in battery tech is just around the corner you guys!!!
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Mar 31, 2016 20:30
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apparently Luton Council are partnering with a hedge-fund to build social housing as an investment opportunity. I thought it must have been PM's pre-April Fool's Day joke because if hedge funds think they can reliably make money off building houses and renting them out to poor people only a very stupid government wouldn't be building houses and renting them out. But apparently it's real so there's only one conclusion I can draw... between that and foreign governments running our trains and buses and power plants and making money in the process even though its apparently impossible and uneconomic for ours to do it maybe they should just admit they're really poo poo at their jobs I mean obviously they're poo poo at their jobs on purpose but they're even less likely to own up to that
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Left-wing Labour supporters in backing Labour candidate shock http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/revealed-hardleft-plot-to-back-sadiq-khan-in-bid-to-strengthen-corbyn-a3215066.html quote:Sadiq Khan's bid to be London Mayor was dealt a blow today as hard-Left activists admitted backing him to “strengthen” Jeremy Corbyn. edit: I mean if you think about it though ... what if Sadiq Khan has links to the leader of the Labour Party? poo poo. Mind's loving blown.
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Mister Adequate posted:Oh joy I get to fill out another Work Capability Assessment form, I'm sure this will be fairly judged and I will not at all be put in the WRAG and then have to submit things a second time to emphasize that no, actually, I am not suddenly better after five+ years of disability, and that what I said in said form was true, and please can I still receive that money I need to live without having to subject myself to stresses that would drive me to suicide? Yes, just done this myself. After not hearing from them for two years when it stopped, and living on my redundancy because I couldn't face going through the process again. Not looking forward to seeing what has changed since then. Good luck 
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Renaissance Robot posted:Is there any kind of sane justification why this country has always insisted on only building the newest shiniest most unproven reactor designs, rather than following France's lead and just picking one to get good at? So basically the UK built its civilian nuclear programme completely around its weapons programme, and then developed some derivatives that were not necessarily a terrible idea from the outset, and even did the exact thing you said: picking one thing (Magnoxes) and getting good at them. Then politics and privatisation happened. If I recall correctly (I may not, so if you have a better idea feel free to correct me), the UK really wanted to build nukes, and thus developed a nuclear reactor to produce weapons grade material in. Then someone had the bright idea to actually build civilian power stations around nuclear reactors, and along with early US Naval reactors connected to the power grid instead of to a boat, the UK was an early leader in civilian nuclear power and built the Magnoxes as derivatives of the nuclear weapons project. There was at one time a healthy nuclear R&D community in the UK with people dabbling in fast reactors and reprocessing, and eventually the AGRs got built as bigger better Magnox derivatives. They're supposed to have edged out a fast breeder reactor as the then-new UK mainline power plant, so one could hate them on principle for delaying commercial scale deployment of fast breeder reactors by 50 years, but really the UK decided against the shinier less proven design here in favour of a slight improvement on existing reactors plus much less advanced fuel reprocessing. Then the UK had enough nuclear power plants to last for a few decades, things got privatised, the Soviet Union rolled over and died, and nobody wanted to spend money to replace e: the current round of reactor types planned for the UK is a bunch of evolutionary developments on existing reactors as well. EPR is an improvement on French and German existing reactors (derived from both because EDF/Areva gobbled up the Siemens nuclear division after Germany started getting serious about the nuclear exit) and there are two already under construction, AP-1000 is the next attempt to standardise at least half of US nuclear based on improving existing US reactors (the last time someone tried, they got a whole three reactors in two power plants built across the country) with eight under construction, ABWR is the 20 year old reactor GE/Toshiba have already built four of in Japan, and Hualong 1 is the Chinese least common denominator after the government told the two main nuclear companies to get their poo poo together and consolidate their two models of French knockoff reactor derivative into one model of French knockoff reactor derivative. Fun fact: the two French Surrender Reactors at Hinkley will have enough generating capacity to replace 22 of the 26 Magnoxes that are now shut down. suck my woke dick fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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J_RBG posted:Left-wing Labour supporters in backing Labour candidate shock I got through half a post basically saying that this is a farce of journalism before I looked again at the url and oh yeah it's the Standard, of course. A tory rag that they give away on trains. I very occasionally glance at it on the commute home and it's a tory paper to the core
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Oberleutnant posted:I got through half a post basically saying that this is a farce of journalism before I looked again at the url and oh yeah it's the Standard, of course. A tory rag that they give away on trains. I very occasionally glance at it on the commute home and it's a tory paper to the core I for one am shocked by their exclusive
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Mar 31, 2016 21:02
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Renaissance Robot posted:A breakthrough in battery tech is just around the corner you guys!!!
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Mar 31, 2016 21:09
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Guavanaut posted:Well we've got those things in Scotland and Wales that store a ton of energy via the high tech method of 'push heavy thing up hill'. We could use stuff like that right? That's a lot of hills, and a lot of railroad track to cart around slabs of concrete. Alternatively, that's a lot of hills and dams and artificial lakes. Based on the latest price tags of similar infrastructure in Germany, you'd end up spending like a quarter trillion pounds on dams and poo poo to make a renewable UK viable.
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blowfish posted:That's a lot of hills, and a lot of railroad track to cart around slabs of concrete. Alternatively, that's a lot of hills and dams and artificial lakes. Based on the latest price tags of similar infrastructure in Germany, you'd end up spending like a quarter trillion pounds on dams and poo poo to make a renewable UK viable. We could conceivably go full Mortal Engines meets solar powered cars, and put an entire city on wheels, drive it up a hill during the daytime with solar power, then freewheel it down the hill during the night and put the regenerative brakes on.
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I love when articles assert that a serious blow has been dealt by themselves
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Mar 31, 2016 21:17
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I'm sure that most newspapers with insiders close to the tory cabinet have dealt serious blow.
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J_RBG posted:Left-wing Labour supporters in backing Labour candidate shock BREAKING NEWS: POLITICAL PARTY FULL OF PEOPLE WHO TALK TO EACH OTHER, WANT POLITICAL PARTY TO WIN ELECTIONS blowfish posted:Fun fact: the two French Surrender Reactors at Hinkley will have enough generating capacity to replace 22 of the 26 Magnoxes that are now shut down. Come to think of it, this would be a pretty decent marketing tagline: Hinkley Point C- The nuclear power station that replaces I'd even bet the 22 Magnoxes at suck my woke dick fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Guavanaut posted:I'm sure that most newspapers with insiders close to the tory cabinet have dealt serious blow. 
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OwlFancier posted:We could conceivably go full Mortal Engines meets solar powered cars, and put an entire city on wheels, drive it up a hill during the daytime with solar power, then freewheel it down the hill during the night and put the regenerative brakes on. That series was good poo poo. I liked how 'Municipal Darwinism', the philosophy they built to justify cities literally eating other cities, was inspired by Thatcher.
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XMNN posted:apparently Luton Council are partnering with a hedge-fund to build social housing as an investment opportunity. I thought it must have been PM's pre-April Fool's Day joke because if hedge funds think they can reliably make money off building houses and renting them out to poor people only a very stupid government wouldn't be building houses and renting them out. But apparently it's real so there's only one conclusion I can draw... There might be another conclusion to draw - that it's only profitable for them because the risks remain nationalised. Without knowing the details, I can't help but suspect there's something stupid like guaranteed rents in the event of tenancy gaps or something like that. Edit: After being less lazy and looking it up, it looks like there are two main advantages - the properties all have outline planning permission already and they won't be subject to the right to buy risks that would happen if they were built without the private involvement. The return is only 3% over 20 years so, on the face of it at least, it's not the horrendous profiteering you might have expected. Prince John fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Mar 31, 2016 21:39
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J_RBG posted:Sadiq Khan's bid to be London Mayor was dealt a blow today as hard-Left activists admitted backing him How can somebody write this sentence without their brain just abdicating occupancy of their skull?
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They sincerely believe that having the endorsement of hard-Left activists is equivalent to a right wing candidate having the backing of the National Front or something.
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Mar 31, 2016 21:54
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Guavanaut posted:They sincerely believe that having the endorsement of hard-Left activists is equivalent to a right wing candidate having the backing of the National Front or something. To expand on this, their attitude towards Corbyn's election is roughly equivalent to what ours would be to the Conservatives electing Actual Hitler as their leader. You can see how a bunch of folks (obviously, outside the UKMT) might say that Tories only remain real Tories inasmuch as they distance themselves from their new overlord with the questionable painting skills and even more questionable taste in facial topiary. Corbyn may be a nice old jam-making lefty grandpa, but he and what he represents are legit terrifying and alien for a significant amount of our political class.
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When in reality the Conservative equivalent of the hard-Left who sometimes support Corbyn/Labour candidates would not be the ground floor social-right like the NF or EDL, but the penthouse economic-right like the big business investors, who already do openly support Tory candidates without many people blinking an eye.
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They're two days behind the Telegraph on that one.
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Guavanaut posted:When in reality the Conservative equivalent of the hard-Left who sometimes support Corbyn/Labour candidates would not be the ground floor social-right like the NF or EDL, but the penthouse economic-right like the big business investors, who already do openly support Tory candidates without many people blinking an eye. Ya think? I can definitely see the Tories as they are being pretty vulnerable to a Trump-style insurgency from people who don't care about all that libertarian fuckery and just want to murder Muslims and gay people.
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A couple of months behind the UKMT as well. I'm sure I remember that coming up here before.
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Darth Walrus posted:Ya think? I can definitely see the Tories as they are being pretty vulnerable to a Trump-style insurgency from people who don't care about all that libertarian fuckery and just want to murder Muslims and gay people.  I was thinking more that the logical opposite of working class hard-left activists isn't working class social-right activists, but upper class economic-right lobbyists, who get away with far more poo poo than either of the aforementioned groups without the media panicking. Most anarchists will happily throw a brick at the former, but know that the actual enemy is the latter. Although the unraveling around Brexit will be interesting, as it's pretty much pitting the two factions of the right against each other.
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Darth Walrus posted:Ya think? I can definitely see the Tories as they are being pretty vulnerable to a Trump-style insurgency from people who don't care about all that libertarian fuckery and just want to murder Muslims and gay people. I cant see a silly blond haired clown who is a massive racist and homophobic who encourages violence against his detractors, cheats on his significant others and comes from money leading the tory party.
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I mean I think most anarchists would happily brick either but the latter rarely come within bricking range.
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It's most unsporting, really.
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Brick Democracy, One Man, One Brick.
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It's pretty funny how half of Europe can't kowtow to China fast enough whenever any sort of trade deal or other agreement is on the table, despite China's economy not doing so well over the last couple of years.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I cant see a silly blond haired clown who is a massive racist and homophobic who encourages violence against his detractors, cheats on his significant others and comes from money leading the tory party. You're actually right, but it's only the Old Boy's Network standing between us and them. If they had primaries or similar then Boris would probably have been leader (and PM) the moment he rugby-tackled that German in that charity football match. In fact I wondered when Trump began making his rumblings in 2012 if he or one of his handlers had taken note of The Rise Of Bozza. Trump works as hard on the The Donald persona as Johnson works on being BOZZA LEGERND, because it's actually a pretty finely-calibrated thing. Someone who genuinely had the characteristics they seem to have would be Piers Morgan or Uwe Boll, with all the success that suggests. Instead they concentrate on saying and doing things just outrageous (but appealing to their public) enough to keep their people motivated while not going so far over that they alienate them. Or maybe I'm just overthinking it to frantically pretend that we don't live in a world where those two fuckwits are even vaguely close enough to power to be worth talking about.
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blowfish posted:It's pretty funny how half of Europe can't kowtow to China fast enough whenever any sort of trade deal or other agreement is on the table, despite China's economy not doing so well over the last couple of years. It's been going on ever since the Chinese started to liberalise their economy in the 90s - every single political and business leader is completely blinded by the prospect of a billion new customers to ever seriously consider what they're signing up for or what it's effects will be.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:You're actually right, but it's only the Old Boy's Network standing between us and them. If they had primaries or similar then Boris would probably have been leader (and PM) the moment he rugby-tackled that German in that charity football match. It may be more stochastic than you think - simply the ones that misjudge become the Clarksons, the Morgans, the Hopkins'. Go too far in a political sphere and you become a Nuttall, Bloom, Farage...get just the right note in the political sphere and you become....the ledge.
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Interesting article about religious education that is, for once, not focused on Muslims. quote:As many as 1,000 boys from strictly Orthodox Jewish families may be pupils at a network of between 12 and 20 illegal private schools in east London.
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winegums posted:It may be more stochastic than you think - simply the ones that misjudge become the Clarksons, the Morgans, the Hopkins'. Go too far in a political sphere and you become a Nuttall, Bloom, Farage...get just the right note in the political sphere and you become....the ledge. I think you're underplaying Clarkson's skills at it though, and Katie Hopkins and Piers Morgan are slightly different examples who are both playing different games for different results.
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blowfish posted:It's pretty funny how half of Europe can't kowtow to China fast enough whenever any sort of trade deal or other agreement is on the table, despite China's economy not doing so well over the last couple of years. All part of Georgie's plan for sustainable economic growth (of China).
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Prince John posted:Former pupils have complained of not being equipped by them to leave the Charedi community. As if that's not the entire point.
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