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RockyB posted:A bit dated now, but one of the most compelling explanations for this remains the monkeysphere / Dunbar number: David Wong wrote some fantastic stuff though, especially 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable. Also just about to pop the podcast on now.
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Podcast content was good, and I'm looking forward to the next one. Could use some extra editing, like getting everyone to sync the start of recording with a set tone, which makes it easier to line up (one person seemed to be delayed a bit judging by the delay between their jokes and the laughter), and the volume was spiking hard one one person's audio, so could have done with some high end clipping. But the content itself was good and enjoyable and I was genuinely laughing along with it. A++ cast would pod again.
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So operation pisshammer docs have apparently revealed which medicines will run out first: https://twitter.com/J_amesp/status/1168019869125750784?s=19 It's behind a paywall but people in the comments are naming epilepsy, schizophrenia and COPD drugs, which... gently caress. E: non paywall link: https://www.theweek.co.uk/brexit/99058/pharmacists-warn-of-shortages-of-commonly-prescribed-drugs Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Sep 1, 2019 |
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Namtab posted:Boris' strategy, such as it is, involves playing chicken with the eu while pretending that its outside forces (remainers, the eu etc) stopping him getting a good deal (a good deal being the eu giving us everything we want). I think BoJo and plenty of people like him were riding the gravy train of Euroskepticism never expecting to actually have to do anything about it. And then all of a sudden it worked, and they found themselves in a position of having to actually provide concrete solutions to all of the problems they'd been giddily throwing around. Honestly Boris being PM is like putting a random redditor in charge of EA simply because they had the most upvotes complaining about it. If you actually put them in charge of the megacorp it'd become obvious that they wouldn't have the slightest clue what to do, and would immediately start issuing bizarre half-thought out crowd pleasers like banning female protagonists and microtransactions. Then after 6 months when the financial reports come in and the knock-on effects of the apparently simple solutions make themselves known, everyone will hate them. That's why reading Boris as some master manipulator playing the clown is giving him a little too much credit. Yes he is being disingenuous and yes he is definitely playing up the bumbling image. But beneath that there is no great plan. He is a greedy shitbag who is trashing the EU on autopilot because his brain is too trashed with age to change course from euroskepticism, because it's all he's ever known to capitalise on. He's a bully and a control freak which means he's not listening to some machiavellian genius pulling everyone's strings. Boris Johnson is entirely out for himself, and the only thing that makes sense at this point is that he's clawing at all the directorships and shares being offered to him by all of the companies that will benefit from the fire sale of UK infrastructure following NDB. This is not an ideological push. This is a party who glorify selfishness and looking out for number one acting all surprised because a succession of selfish bastards got in charge and then looked out for number one. To use the podcast's analogy, it's like Boris decided to play chicken with the EU, realised the EU was more like one of those russian military trains, and so decided to broadside the train because that's the best chance of damaging it instead of looking at it that in any situation where we play chicken with the train we are going to get loving destroyed. And I swear that's not an AI post.
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Sep 2, 2019 10:50
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AceOfFlames posted:I realize I am alone on this but I don't think I could handle four day work weeks. There would be a lot more pressure to be productive in the shorter time and I am already bored enough on weekends. But one one side you have bosses going "How can we make our employees do all this work in less time," and on the other people going "Well what if I want to work a 60 hour week Jeremy  . "
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Vlex posted:I guess the real question is, though, would the LDs genuinely go into coalition with a No-deal Tory government?
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Sep 2, 2019 16:59
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We regret to announce that the dog is racist against cats.
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Sep 2, 2019 17:54
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Junior G-man posted:That dog is gonna be tossed under the nearest car if the polls are really tight two days before the election.
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Sep 2, 2019 19:18
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Ed Vaisey has no loving spine and will do whatever the party tells him to. Although it's possible that the schism in the party is so bad that he is now uncertain which half to back, because he can't work out who'll be paying his cheques when the dust settles. Source: is local mp and turd.
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Sep 2, 2019 21:06
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Beefeater1980 posted:Beat me to it (though I don’t think it’s a stupid assumption, just not a thought-through one). There’s a reason every successful anti-corruption drive in history has involved raising government salaries. At least if you set the salary as (for example) 1.5x the modal average income for the country they rule, there'd be incentive for them to improve the economy and also hack down billionaire incomes without it loving them up too much. There are potential flaws sure, but for fucks sake it's better than what we currently have. AceOfFlames posted:I loving did. I believe I mentioned several times how one time I even explicitly told her about how I believe the world is irreversably hosed, society will collapse and I am just waiting for every one who cares about me to die so I can kill myself and she merely looked at me blank faced and asked "In that case, why are you even in therapy?" 
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It's interesting because this sums up the absolute sham our consitutional foundation is. The entire process is underpinned by gentlemens agreements, and all it takes to break it is a shameless manbaby basically saying 'No I'm not going to do what the mandated representatives of the people say, because they're not allowed to tell the queen what to do, even though i'm not the queen."
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Sep 3, 2019 10:55
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AceOfFlames posted:That's essentially what she said. But how the hell is that supposed to help? At best you sound like you are calling your patient a liar at worst you sound like an utter psychopath. You sound like you had a similar problem to me, a lifetime of trying to answer people appropriately, to the point that when a counsellor expects you to just honestly answer a question straight, you can't see it because you're so used to trying to work out the meaning behind the question and what it might reveal about you. None of this is your fault, it's just a difference between how you talk to a counsellor and how you talk to people normally. What it reveals is usually a person in your past that you've opened up to and they've used it to hurt or belittle you. This is very common for men. Breaking the habit of a lifetime and opening up is hard, good luck but also maybe ask to see a different counsellor - i had to try 2 or 3 before I found one I could trust.
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Saros posted:That its the end of the loving Tories because enough of their MP's discovered that there is strength in Union and the boss can't fire you all is some absolutely top shelf grade A hellworld poo poo. It's all fantastic.
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Sep 3, 2019 20:21
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Delthalaz posted:Hahah that sounds awesome
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Nuclear Spoon posted:really phenomenal stuff
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Sep 4, 2019 13:13
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So what happened with Kinnock's amendment? Like literally what was the process by which it got through, because we seem to have just skipped over an amendment to a bill entering the process of law without being voted on. Was the speaker present? None of what anyone is saying makes sense.
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Sep 4, 2019 21:47
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Beefeater1980 posted:My parents separated when I was 7, after years of every night being an angry screaming fight. I don’t know if this is why I grew up wildly conflict avoidant or if it was even a contributing factor, but it seems to be a common thing for a lot of people. Barry Foster posted:It's cathartic - it's actually good for the reasons you and bman don't like it, it shows you the absolute worst, most awkward people, and you get to laugh about how you're (hopefully) not like that. Jose posted:I've got friends trying to tempt me into wow classic and it's getting hard to resist peanut- posted:The FPS mechanics don't matter as the only correct solutions to all problems in Deus Ex are the prod and the GEP gun.
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Sep 6, 2019 17:24
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Pablo Bluth posted:Isn't that a butt plug? I don't think there's anything automatically homosexual about butt plugs. Butt stuff can be for straight people too, and the primary metaphor is Corbyn jamming up brexit.
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Sep 6, 2019 17:58
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Bardeh posted:I genuinely believe that Boris thinks he'll be able to roll up to the EU summit and do his usual bluster and bad jokes and nice guy act and then all of a sudden the EU are going to give him some amazing deal, and then he'll return home borne on the back of flying unicorns and everyone will kiss his feet and his deal will pass parliament unanimously. That's also a great metaphor for Brexit and gammons and post-empire Britain as well.
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AceOfFlames posted:When I began my latest course of therapy that was the first thing I asked. I ended up maxing out my health insurance deductible in an extended test that claimed I am not. The UK isn't great either - I was diagnosed last year at the grand old age of 39, after almost a year on a waiting list to see the charity organisation to whom the NHS have outsourced diagnosis. To their credit though they did a pretty thorough day's diagnosis going into family history, with one person asking me questions / running tests and the other observing me. Ultimately I look at it as an answer to a question I have had my whole life. It was encapsulated by 'What the gently caress is wrong with me,' but contained such diverse branches as 'Why can I never tell when someone is interested in me, either as a friend or as more,' 'Why am I so bad at handling stress' and 'Why can't I tune out background noise.' The few people I've trusted enough to talk about it sometimes say things like "Oh, but everyone is a bit like that on the inside." Yes, but not everybody has been unemployed for coming up on 7 years, and for most of their adult life before that. In the end it comes down to whether those issues are enough to impact the functionality of your life and in your case, it sounds like they are. I can't offer any advice on if you are likely to have autism, because my entire condition revolves around being bad at reading people. I can however advise you to do the AQ50 test, which is a recognised test and puts your score ranging from 'this person is very unlikely to have autism' all the way up to 'it is a miracle that this person is speaking to you right now.' You could take the results to your doctor but I have no idea how that would impact on your insurance or whatever. AceOfFlames posted:I do think said test was kind of suspect though. There was an entire "recognizing emotions" section which consisted of photos of a guy making the hammiest most exaggerated facial expressions ever and being asked what he was feeling. There wasn't any apparent test of social interaction either. If that was a test for autism, it would probably only pick up on the lost low functioning cases. So the adult ASD testing allowed for people who had developed coping strategies to avoid or hide situations they found difficult, whereas now it's up front questions like 'can you look people in the eye while talking to them' and doesn't take into account answers like "I have learned that other people seem to need that to establish trust, but man I can not concentrate on anything I am thinking if I do." It seems designed for children who have not yet learned coping mechanisms to hide their difficulties. The entire 'high functioning' label is problematic as gently caress anyway because it's anecdotally attributed to a doctor who wanted to save autistic people from nazi purges, so he invented a benchmark which was essentially 'these ones can live because they can pretend to be ok,' and they pretty much just had to keep their poo poo together in front of the nazis not to get culled.
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Just listened to the podcast, good stuff again. I agree that I never want this chaos ft/ Ed Milliband to end, and while I was expecting to hear the 'horse in a oval office suit' line in a scots accent it sounded just as good coming from a geordie.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:You forgot Change UK (Milkist-Leninist)
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Barry Foster posted:Single issue remainers will definitely flock to the Lib Dems In that case we know that they're going to ally with the Tories (even if Labour is an option), but what really concerns me is Swinson saying "I'll ally with Labour if they boot Corbyn and install a None of this would be true in reality, but I can absolutely see the media, Libs and Tories uniting behind it.
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The Deleter posted:Hey, currently in Rome eating lovely food and looking at a bunch of ruins. What am I missing? Go see the vatican and then spend the rest of your trip in Florence or the tuscan countryside.
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Just catching up.The Deleter posted:We're gonna see the Vatican but we wanted to see the ruins of the Romans and stuff. We're staying in an apartment above a bar so it's Peronis in the street every night before bed lol But also get a train to Firenze, it's loving awesome. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Very long article (I have only quoted first few paragraphs) and not finished reading yet. * or doesn't want † or remain ‡ or is unwilling to commit to it Gasmask posted:so if they're not using the house of commons for a bit are we allowed to have meetings in there and play five a side Also Jim Sterling's new video is fairly good praxis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMKBzwSBeS8
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Gasmask posted:She’s alright. Thread doesn’t like her because she criticises the dear leader. I think firstly that criticising JessFlips talking about herself only really arises as a result of already not liking her. Secondarily there's the bullshit playing up of her working class roots, but it's possible she just downplayed it to be respected early in her career as an mp when she needed to appeal to more middle class sensibilities. But yeah, the inescapable base dislike of her comes from her during the chicken coup, with her statements like "well I'm just a simple northern girl, but it seems to me maybe Corbyn should step down?" Like not even having the balls to criticise Corbyn directly, but just amplifying the noise that was going round. Final nail in the coffin is her apparent admiration for / friendship with Jacob Rees-Mogg. If someone can bear to be within 600 feet of him without feeling an icy chill from their soul curdling, that should be a massive loving alarm about that person. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Every Frame a Painting is a good channel and I've been watching a lot of their stuff. Total Meatlove posted:Man of Steel is brilliant and Snyder deserved more for it than nerd crying about it. I think my favourite film is probably either Inception or the Breakfast Club, for completely different reasons. Yes I am an agonising pleb.
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Jose posted:tom watson sucks so loving much E: this article: https://labourheartlands.com/tom-watson-facing-trigger-ballot-deselection-meeting/
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thespaceinvader posted:EFAP died sadly. thespaceinvader posted:Fingats fukken crossed.
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Carborundum posted:It's a great movie, but it has some terrible politics, like all Nolan's films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqlhU6hE14A I do want to see Interstellar though because it has Hans Zimmer's best crescendo that isn't Time from Inception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAH3VisDQpo Also I was laughing at a bus the other day because I noticed Brad Pitt has decided to do his own Sexy Man is Alone and Sad in Space the movie. namesake posted:I want some sort of Rat Race scenario now where speakers and MPs are all legging it to the House. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Sep 11, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1171535732244193280?s=19 Peston looking a bit dribbly round the edges. "Labour are not going to support the position they have consistently said they'll support! I'm making noises so I can keep my 80k+ salary intact!"
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One thing that's come out of this is that the conventions of  and noblesse obligee that have protected the aristos for so long are being shat out of the window by de Pfeffel, Osborne and the like. And the queen is maybe now realising that just because someone is rich, doesn't mean they can be trusted.Which sets up another interesting division in the upper classes, between the lazy 'we will always be rich so money has become meaningless' class of the nobility, and the sociopathic aspirational types who want to own all of the money so that they can wear it as a hat. I mean from our perspective they should probably all be asset stripped and guillotined, but it just makes me wonder if the wigs at the top are going to finally loving realise.
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https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1171810127499821056?s=19 I am sure the papers will report on this fairly and without twisting it at all.
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ThomasPaine posted:I don't know how people don't like cooking, it's such a chill way to wind down with an audiobook or something on and at the end you get a tasty meal
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We've had actual wars over what the monarch does with the advice of their ministers. So I expect Boris to defy royal assent probably late Octoberish.
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Skarsnik posted:Has anyone said operation pisshammer yet 
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Mels B and C were ok, but the forbidden prototype Mel A is still chained and howling in Simon Cowell's basement.
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Sanford posted:He says he's not seen anything about Brexit that he thinks will cause any problems and it's time to "just get on with it" so if anyone was worried about millionaires who hold a Canadian passport you can relax, they'll be fine. "What about this leaked government report, and this NHS prediction, and all of these businesses that have already left the UK?" "Project fear. I haven't seen anything to be worried about." In other words he hasn't seen anything because every time he does see anything, he discounts it as project fear. It's a very elegant set of blinkers. If you want to get into it, call out his circular reasoning and the fact that we can't stockpile insulin, no international trade deal has ever been completed in under 5 months and any insulin coming from the US would (A) be out of date by the time it was shipped here and (B) bankrupt us because of US healthcare prices. Type A diabetics (for whom the condition is genetic, so no stereotypes blaming weight here) are going to loving die because of this. But also be aware that he is not only your boss but a millionaire, and AMAB, even the Canadian ones.
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