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*sucks teeth* Yeah, that U-bend’s all Jacob’d up. Going to be expensive to fix. E: Jacob’d > Rees’d
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Failed Imagineer posted:Has this been done? It’s like those Nigerian scams that include direct typos to put off critical thinkers; anyone receptive to the message wont check.
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Aug 1, 2019 16:05
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Gum posted:Ask a Kipper if Polish people are "Western" and then ask the same question about a group of immigrants that Kippers do not take issue with, such as Americans or Australians Neoliberalism is pretty much only concerned with making the world safe for capital. As a side effect of its project to concentrate most of the world’s wealth in an ever smaller slice of the global 0.1%, it lifted 5-600M Chinese people plus assorted South and South-East Asian out of abject, no-safety-net poverty (in the process, many of them worked in literal-safety-net-outside-the-building factories and/or were cheated out of their pay, and it was STILL better than what came before). Microsoft and Google have ethnically Indian CEOs; Uber’s is Iranian. It’s not solely the West that does this - China is doing a neoliberalism in parts of East Africa right now, with the side effect that stuff is being built there, and local people are getting skills and training, and playing games to steal technical know how etc from Chinese investors so they can set up their own competing factories, in exactly the same way that Chinese workers of the 90s and 00s did from Americans. Neoliberalism is strictly inferior to either democratic socialism or social democracy, promotes awful behaviour and is in theory eventually unsustainable, but that doesn’t make it fascism. Fascism is anti-globalist; it needs rules to prevent anyone from outside the chosen group from getting uppity and needs privileges for people inside the chosen group.
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Aug 1, 2019 16:38
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A Spherical Sponge posted:Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I live in the UK and I'm a marxist so I suppose it counts. Revolt against Milosevic in Belgrade in 2000 comes to mind. Typically, though, after the 19th.C, liberals are the status quo that radicals (including fascists) are agitating against. Peaceful transfers of power such as in Taiwan and S Korea, or South Africa, represent liberal regimes successfully replacing fascist or ultra-authoritarian ones. A number of the revolts against repressive but nominally “left wing” regimes in the wake of the collapse of the USSR were driven by liberals. Those didn’t turn out so well. As a very very general and imprecise rule of thumb, it seems like: Fascist / right-authoritarian states decay into liberal ones if rich, socialist ones if poor Socialist states decay into left-authoritarian ones Left-authoritarian states decay into liberal ones or fascist ones Liberal states decay into fascist ones “Decay” here just means “turn into when they end”, and could be a coup, a revolution, a peaceful transfer of power or whatever
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Aug 2, 2019 16:42
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OwlFancier posted:loving lol I just read the shadowrun wiki entries for the history of the UK and Ireland and tbh I think they're more plausible than the one we're currently living in: On a similar note, I’m doing a let’s read of the Flashman series over in the Book Barn and the post I’m writing right now on the East India Company in Bengal is basically “What if Corporate Dystopia, but too much?” It’s astonishing that any foreigners talk to British people, ever. We have an amazingly consistent track record of loving over everyone who has anything to do with us.
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Aug 2, 2019 19:34
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Watching the Chinese police conducting their anti riot prep just across the border in Shenzhen, and the fact of very right wing governments in the US and UK, I have a very nasty feeling the next few years will see a global swing towards normalising much harsher policing / more use of the military in putting down civil unrest.
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Aug 9, 2019 02:42
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I play D&D with my two sons (7 and 9) and it rocks. We just finished the starter set adventure (same one they did in Adventure Zone) - they made friends with the wolves and sent them to attack the goblins, sidestepping the early hostage situation completely. And they insist in holding all their loot in common, which is reassuring to see. Honestly I’d recommend it if you have kids who are siblings - competitive games can easily end up with someone in tears, so a curated experience is great.
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Aug 10, 2019 08:13
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I don’t think purity of motive makes composition any better; Grieg banged out Peer Gynt 100% for cash and it’s amazing.
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Aug 11, 2019 02:48
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OwlFancier posted:If none of you have read the fortress unvanquishable save for sacnoth by the way I do recommend it, it's That’s a hell of a trip
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Aug 14, 2019 04:39
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:lol there's a literal actual riot happening in Hong Kong airport and, while rioters clash with police and pepper sprays gets everywhere, scores of commuters are milling about with their suitcases trying to check in and get to their gates It’s weird here. Every day is almost normal but the streets only have about 40% of the usual traffic and everyone’s kind of aware of being in that period where you’re waiting for something violent to kick off. My wife took a flight out from the airport on a business trip about 2 hours before the latest round started. Right now I’m just hoping the airport’s back to normal when she returns.
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Aug 14, 2019 04:44
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Julio Cruz posted:it's a very racist thing to say towards Asians, yes I think there’s two things being conflated here. Moon-faced as an insult means “having a round, full face” and is not an ethnic slur; although it’s hard to imagine anyone using it after say the 1920s because it’s really archaic. The character “Moon face” from Enid Blyton’s popular far away tree children’s books is usually drawn with a face that is a large, round yellow moon. That could be used as an ethnic slur against East Asian people if for some reason any of the better known ones didn’t occur to you I guess.
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Aug 15, 2019 01:51
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Darth Walrus posted:'Asians have fat faces' is definitely a thing. Cosmetic surgeons make a shitload of money out of preying on East Asians' insecurities over it. I was in Seoul, global centre of the plastic surgery industry, a couple of weeks ago and my friend told me people go crazy over having small faces so that is definitely a thing; OTOH having lived in China for 11 years now I’ve not heard the expression moon-faced used as an insult. E: or used not as an insult, come to think of it. Maybe I’m running with the wrong crowd. Beefeater1980 fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Aug 15, 2019 |
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I mean, my take away we should all continue not saying the thing we don’t say, and be aware that some people use it as a slur.
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Aug 15, 2019 02:24
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I like the idea of a world where if something is written in very simple terms that only a complete drooling idiot could fail to understand, everyone would agree on what it meant. What actually exists as far as I can tell is one interpretation per reader, clustered in a semi-random pattern around the original meaning, with at least a few people who think it means the literal opposite. Cf “Thou shalt not kill,” which continues to attract surprisingly ingenious interpretations from devout Christians to this day.
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Aug 21, 2019 17:56
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On the one hand, another 100 years of Tory austerity, on the other, eternity in hell getting your extremities sawn off by demented imps as cackling demons warm up the pitchforks. - this has been a party political broadcast for Guavanaut’s “Devil you don’t know” party.
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Aug 22, 2019 12:04
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OwlFancier posted:Oh you wouldn't like yorkshire then It says something about us as a nation that given the choice between retaining the formal (you) and informal (thou) versions of the same word, we decided to drop the informal one and just talk to everyone like we’re meeting them for the first time and need to be carefully polite.
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Aug 24, 2019 03:16
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Paul.Power posted:I will always love Macbeth, mostly because of the Humphrey Carpenter version in Shakespeare Without The Boring Bits where he turns him into a hard-boiled private eye. Apropos the scenery chewers, Iago is legit amazing and one of my favourite villains in fiction.
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Aug 24, 2019 13:34
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I miss the days when 88 meant two fat ladies and not “potential nazi sympathiser”.
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Aug 24, 2019 13:47
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josh04 posted:This is surely going to kick off. It's basically a coup? Holy poo poo. We should never have let the nobility estate get influence to 100%
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Aug 28, 2019 09:46
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Oh hey it’s my old firm representing him. They always used to be close to New Labour (even though law firm partners are 60%+ Tory voters, for obvious reasons).
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Kassad posted:
Fantastic (adj.): imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality. Checks out.
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