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Lunar Suite posted:The link to the discord is still https://discord.gg/QErneZT and is set to never expire. Quoting for guavanaut,, and for anyone who doesn't read page 1.
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Firos posted:w hat I presume they mean 1/3 of the EFTA organisation in Brussels., Because whilst EFTA is the name of the agreement a bunch of technically non-EU countries are in to basically get EU benefits, there's also the administrative bodies that ensure the agreement is being followed. If I'm right, that's dope OP!
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Some ScotLab is bad. https://twitter.com/jcullinane86/status/1190242691138957314?s=19 This isn't. Great to see a Labour council actually following through on making things better for the folks at the bottom.
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Just sent an email to the Tory complaints address regarding the anti-Semitic comments from one RT. Hon. Michael Gove MP and called on them to address this before his constituents in Surrey Heath cast their ballots, as they deserve to know the full character of his nature beforehand. Edit; Catte tax 
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Nov 4, 2019 08:59
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My hours are largely fixed, though I have a good boss that helps me out when needed, but what I do appreciate is the ability to regularly work from home. I normally only do it once a week or so, except when on backshift which I always work from home for, but lemme say having the ability to be in the house if you have a tradesman, or even just because you woke up today and can't quite bring yourself to fully face the world, cannot be undersold. This should not, however, be taken as an indicator by your employer that they need less overall office space, as I'm given to understand the HMRC are doing. The new spaces have capacity for something like 7 in every 10 staff who have it as their designated primary workplace. (Not counting call center staff)
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Nov 4, 2019 09:12
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Ms Adequate posted:I am eager for their no-doubt rapid and effective reply! If you met her you'd think she'd never been given a single attention. I can assure you this is very much a lie.
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Nov 4, 2019 10:01
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CGI Stardust posted:ed: fine. birbs it is then. swallow You quoted the post with her, but was itself a snipe and you didn't pay the tax yourself. So instead I'll reward the thread with another.  E; you paid birb tax as I hit quote apparently, but I've posted another kitten pic already.
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Nov 4, 2019 10:55
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I always used to feel more of a lurker than a poster on SA. Then I looked at my user profile and I was at almost a post a day average. That average has climbed, meaning since I made that discovery, probably 2 years ago, I've made well in excess of a post a day, given that it's almost a decade of time overall. Dear lurkers  then maybe you too will be part of a radical new podcast.
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Nov 4, 2019 11:49
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Pesky Splinter posted:Marsan immersing himself deeply in the character of "loving Idiot". The role he was born to play
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Nov 4, 2019 12:40
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Rarity posted:Queer goons best goons All sexualities are valid Rarity, even hetero 
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Nov 4, 2019 13:35
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ronya posted:The LDEM position has been unconditional unilateral revocation of A50 since mid September, shortly after the Benn Act ruling out No Deal passed. Previously it was a second referendum between Remain and No Deal. I thought centrists liked well thought over, and revised to meet expectations, policies?
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Nov 4, 2019 14:57
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sebzilla posted:TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym GNU's Not UNIX WINE Is Not an Emulator The Hurd in GNU Hurd stands for "Hird of Unix-replacing Daemons", and the hird in that stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth" Open source engineers are word nerds.
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I am going to be on Question Time this week. The question I think that I might get to ask is "Since the Lib Dems are the most vocal proponents of tactical voting, why are they so reticent to stand aside when it's the right thing to do, even if other parties won't reciprocate?"
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Nov 4, 2019 18:04
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When the election was called, polls were indicating Tory majority of around 70. This poll indicates Tory majority of 40 before adjusting for Scotland's own voting split, and based on the last Scotland only poll, that's down to 26. Could be as low as 18 if the Lib Dem vote suffers in Scotland since the last poll too. We're well on our way, and the actual election period doesn't start till Wednesday!
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Guavanaut posted:From each according to his ability to each according to how far from my back yard. Cat tax, since I spotted this.  Lookit day fluffy idiot
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We have 4 chairs for a dining table, but the table currently resides in my office for playing M:TG on. We do need to throw out one of the office chairs though.
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Nov 5, 2019 10:46
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a lovely king posted:My girlfriend's dad has been pressuring her into opening a Help-To-Buy ISA lately because they're shuttering them at the end of the month. Does anyone in here have experience with them and are they a good idea? I can't help but feel that there's a catch or something, what with it being a Tory scheme and involving housing. I've been looking online but all I can find is articles on money saving blogs and sites and I've got a lot of skepticism for them. Broadly, the problem with them is that it only helps folks who already have money, it does nothing to make houses more affordable. They've changed the schemes a few times, so I can't say for certain you should go for it, but it did end up really useful for us (buying Scotland, where housing is at least somewhat affordable)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Despite the fact he was physically at Sky. I'm sure this won't just piss them off even more, and certainly didn't make him look like an incompetent buffoon as well as a liar It's also horseshit as the talk radio interview started off discussing the empty chairing.
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Nov 6, 2019 11:56
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Luxury Tent Carpet posted:for the only time in her life, yes She's got everyone else on her left, so she's to the right but superficially to the left. Checks out as Lib Dem.
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What question should I ask Barry Gardiner after question time?
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Oh, actually, Is there anything I should know about the other folk on QT tomorrow? quote:Kirstene Hair MP, Conservative; Barry Gardiner MP, Shadow International Trade Secretary, Labour; Humza Yousaf MSP, Scottish government Justice Secretary, SNP; Angela Haggerty, journalist and broadcaster; and Iain Anderson, businessman and Executive Chairman of the PR group, Cicero.
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Ratjaculation posted:My avatar is my identity, I don't know how you people swap them so much My switch to Moogle Marx was considered for some time, given I'd used the same Dave grohl avatar I had previously for about 12 years.
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Maugrim posted:You're a star Tarnop, and this is a really good idea, thank you! Gonna listen to it tonight or tomorrow I'm glad we could get something sorted for you. Also, are we okay to say "listen to it on YouTube", if the intention was subtitles for hard of hearing? I think we went with "enjoy" or "consume" the other night.
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If you were watching Question Time tonight, I was the guy with the beard talking about anti-semitism.
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Chuka Umana posted:Did you defend Corbyn. Yes
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Thanks folks. I was absolutely bricking it tbh but I knew what I wanted to say (though there were other things, I wanted to point out Watson is just one of 72 incumbents standing down and he cited personal reasons, compared with Austin who removed himself from the party before the party needed to) so I just kinda got on with it.Comrade Fakename posted:I missed QT (lol as if I would ever watch Question Time, I value my sanity), but by chance I have happened to be reading your tweets to Chris Stephens in 2017 as part of my Momentum research. Love your optimism that the SNP might support UBI. Chris is a god guy, long time trade unionist, socialist, etc etc. Matt Kerr is an exceptional candidate who I did vote for in 2017, and UBI has been one of his pet projects for a few years now, so I was mostly just trying to get Chris to move towards Matt's position on it, to make sure I got what I wanted regardless of who won haha
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Ratjaculation posted:Good work Question Time goon Thanks! Dawn Foster is about to lose favour with a chunk of the thread - https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1192766457488252928?s=20 (She's right. I mean, all the secession possibilities are likely bad anyway, but the raw English nationalism that is at the heart of the gammony brexiteer movement that might put BoJo back into office might make them the literal lesser of two evils.)
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:With ukmt appropriate jingles? https://vocaroo.com/i/s0Uj2L0lLYP7
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Bobby Deluxe posted:This was astonishingly well done, but I was giggling because the YouTube autosubtitles replaced Ken Clarke with King Clark, and Keir Starmer with Car Steamer. Lol
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Mega Comrade posted:We just going to ignore suspicious irregularities of the election? That he ignored the referendum result on extending maximum term and just ran anyway? That when he was behind in the polls he paused the election to allow himself time to recover? Morales agreed to have another election as soon as OAS released their report. The Supreme Court of Bolivia said term limits were unconstitutional. The "pause" in vote counting was the "quick" count, something which the OAS requests. They stopped the quick count after counting around 80% of votes, which is normal. The quick count has no bearing on the final decision, only the full count confirms the election. After OAS and others insisted on the quick count continuing for some reason (I've not been able to discern any valid reasoning behind it) then they resumed the quick count. Next release of numbers was 24 hours later, as you indicated, and that release of the quick count was something like 92% of votes counted. Morales was about 7.8% clear of the 2nd place person at 80% count, and the progression to just over 10% clear, avoiding a runoff, was indicated by the gains he was making prior to that point, and expected as the votes counted last are rural votes, which are a strong area for Morales.
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Bundy posted:As someone that works in IT, is a programmer and understands security in IT, electronic voting is a catastrophically bad idea. Electronic counting on the other hand is fine, because you can still do manual recounts on demand, and the majority of seats are won by majority anyway.
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OwlFancier posted:As far as expenditures go I'm not sure we desperately need to save money on counting votes every few years. I mean, the expenditure of counting votes through manpower being thrown at it is not inconsiderable, and it's not "every few years", I've voted in some kind of election or referendum every year except 2018 since 2014, and there was a vote in 2012 as well. It's most years, and would massively speed up the process.
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Rarity posted:I have really bad wisdom tooth pain That sucks. Glad to hear you're gonna bring some wisdom to the cast in the future though.
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https://twitter.com/GarethBQuinn/status/1195322658424074241?s=20 ScotLab continuing it's descent into irrelevancy unfortunately. Granted, I don't think Corbyn's been in those areas, but still not great.
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Got a response for my complaint about Mike Gapes campaign poster and the reports he's saying he's the Labour candidate in Ilford South -Electoral Commission posted:Dear mehall,
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Necrothatcher posted:I know what it is, but criticising someone who has suffered anti-Semitic abuse on the basis of her not posting about bagels is still really lovely. I don't care if it's ironic or not. Berger has absolutely suffered from anti-semitic abuse, but she has also weaponised that against Labour, which is daft given that the majority of people abusing her on twitter won't have been Labour members anyway.
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Guavanaut posted:Strong anti-Irish sentiment here. Anywhere orange is allowed to join Scotland if it goes Independent.
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OwlFancier posted:I think the PM can also be a lord if necessary I'm fairly sure ministers don't have to be commons MPs but I can't remember if they have to be at least lords. Douglas-Home, in the early 60s, was chosen to replace Macmillan, and gave up his peerage and stood in a by-election as even then it was unacceptable for a Peer to be PM. Add to that in the decades since the powers of the Lords have been stripped back such that they can't set legislative goals, only review law from the Commons, and it all adds up to why you don't see Lords in cabinet posts anymore, except for those that don't have legislative agendas to set forth.
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feedmegin posted:The PM can literally be a (foreign born even) corgi. They are whoever the Queen picks as her chief advisor. There are no rules. Rule is they need to be able to command a majority in the commons.
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