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Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
if the piss tory cared about not splitting the vote he would've stood down a minute before the deadline.

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Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN


Looking forward to explaining why this is now my placeholder image for design mockups.

Chuff McNothing fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Nov 12, 2019

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN


i'm enjoying this shitposting thing

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

WhatEvil posted:

Something I've been thinking about for a bit. This Loki guy is proper sound - I've followed him for a while. V funny, disabled Labour supporter, quality shitposter. There are a few others I can think of like this too where I just think that the UKMT would be a natural home for them.

How would the thread feel if I bought a few of them SA accounts? Is there some reason this would be a bad idea I haven't thought of?

that's maybe the worst idea i've ever heard.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Surprise T Rex posted:


"learn the basics of a language, maybe make something interesting with it

cannot emphasize this enough. If you want to learn something, anything, the best way is to do it. Think of something you'd enjoy achieving, and the process of working out how to achieve it will be so much more valuable to you than any amount of teaching. I tend to find any directed tutorials just wash over me because there's no drive to actual discover something. I don't remember anything that's taught.

The great thing about learning to code in 201X is the sheer amount of scaffolding available to you, so you can take almost prebuilt solutions and tweak them, or spin your own from scratch. So if you're start to feel lost or out of your depth at any point, you can focus only on the bits that you want to work out how to do.

I'm not a coder (designer) but i love spinning up pure css solutions to things i've seen people on codepen do using javascript, and i'm currently learning react by building a dumb thing (a custom portfolio with 'features').

Chuff McNothing fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Nov 13, 2019

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Tenebrais posted:

A while back I came across a web game that teaches how a computer is made out of basic logic gates - the game consists of building up to constructing a full processor-and-memory arrangement using nand gates and constructions you previously made out of nand gates. It was great, and really helped understand how a computer works.

There's also a course out there called Nand To Tetris that does that and goes further into programming a game on the virtual computer you make, that is more educationally-oriented and not a game in itself.

I hate you because now i'm just looping loving nand gates everywhere and ignoring everything else.

edit: xor :o

Chuff McNothing fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Nov 13, 2019

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Pollchat;

who actually benefits from polls overegging the tory lead, and how?

Surely they want to keep the numbers close, to energise their base?

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Ratjaculation posted:

It reinforces the narrative that a vote for Labour is useless and the the Tories are strong (and stable)

So it just demotivates everyone from voting? I guess that makes sense considering the almost-deads'll vote anyway

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Oh dear me posted:

Depressing Labour's vote specifically also makes voting LibDem or Green a bit less obviously stupid. If you think Labour can't win anyway you might think it's ok to vote expressively, rather than effectively.

no-ones ever unironically voted for the lib dems

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
also if anyone has an austerity fact sheet that'd be lovely, i've just opened the can of worms that borrowing-to-spend in 2010 was the correct response.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Oh dear me posted:

You're not going to convince me no socialist has ever tactically voted LibDem mate, I live in the southwest. Fortunately Corbyn and Clegg made voting Labour seem possible in a lot of seats here, but bad polls don't help us make that argument to the people we canvass who still assume they have to vote LibDem to stop the Tories.

a tactical vote is not an unironic vote.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Ratjaculation posted:

jezza didn't come off good, he got laughed at, he avoided questions.


of course he did. there was a partisan crowd

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
errrrr

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

stev posted:

Not even a 'in the worst case scenario I'd do the difficult thing'.

Just 'yep I'd nuke the fuckers'.

She's already proved it by nuking her party in record time.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

biglads posted:

"After the break, racist frog man"

Tim Farron?

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

forkboy84 posted:

I hear the Islington North candidate said shtein instead of stein.

It's fine though, Labour can't win there!

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Tesseraction inspired me and I did a thing

https://i.imgur.com/gHPpgQy.mp4

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

https://twitter.com/zacksabrejr/status/1194966397207695365

Well this has made my day

Chuff McNothing fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Nov 21, 2019

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
come on, think.

a 36% chance of losing her seat is a 64% chance of winning it

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

jabby posted:

"No apology from Corbyn over anti-Semitism claims"

or

"Corbyn apologises for Labour anti-Semitism"


After I'd just watched the interview I had no idea why he didn't just offer a generic apology. So many media types were OUTRAGED that it was the story of the century, why not kill it?

But I was just looking at the BBC homepage and it suddenly hit me: the top headline is better than the bottom one.

you've got the bottom one wrong:

Corbyn Admits Antisemitism

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

namesake posted:

It also sort of stops the story. An apology would require some sort of additional action like him resigning or creating the ridiculous 'independent' investigative committee they tried to get last time which would then suspend anyone they liked and refusing to do those just ends up with another denial headline later down the line.

Labour needs to flat out start saying the improved investigative procedures are adequate and these continued criticisms are purely politically motivated.

which leads to the first headline

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

thespaceinvader posted:

There are no good headlines about this.

There's only a good response, and accepting that the headlines will always be negative.

the good response was the policies and mechanisms set in place to deal with antisemitism and those by and large have been used as cudgels and false evidence.

You're frustrated because you saw something go badly and you think there must've been a way to avoid it. There isn't and wasn't.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
what if boris just pulls out of his interview? the bbc'll just roll over for that

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
The relative hype around this MRP release is crazy.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
barry gardiner a good lad; completely bodied that andrew neil interview

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

30 tory seats within 5%

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

peanut- posted:

Let's be realistic though, I am very sceptical that a single loving one of those Tories claiming they'll vote Lib Dem will actually do it on election day.

Of course not; anyone claiming to be or vote lib dem is scum.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
This model itself doesn't do any polling - it assumes a national vote and then models that onto individual constituences.

in 2017 the model was updated as new polls come in. it only became really accurate 3-4 days before the election. SO national movement will swing this.

I'm assuming there's not going to be a live site this time around though.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

kustomkarkommando posted:

Find your hexagon



canterbury still red

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

would probably drop the majority to maybe 40ish. those couple of points in brexit if concentrated in the right areas wold be huge. There are a tonne of very close midlands seats

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
okay so this is the live model site.

https://yougov.co.uk/uk-general-election-2019/

2 weeks out so expect this to come in towards a hung parliament.

seriously, there are error bars of 10 points.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
hope is a lie

but remember this?

https://twitter.com/centrist_phone/status/1199748263030804480

here's their followup

https://twitter.com/centrist_phone/status/1199806232254656519

they lost seats and votes even after their big antisemitism push.

Chuff McNothing fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Nov 27, 2019

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Please tell me I'm not an idiot for really enjoying this debate. A true exploration of the policies and intentions.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Apraxin posted:

An update on the attempt by the Conservative party to have Michael Gove take Boris Johnson’s place in the Channel 4 leaders’ climate debate, which was rejected:

Watching the debate in “the spin room” the prime minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, insisted that Gove had been “absolutely geared up to represent the Conservative party and the prime minister”.

“Michael Gove would have made a big, big contribution,” he said, adding that he suspected the other party leaders had realised that the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster “would have wiped the floor with them”.

please tell me that's a real quote so i can laugh harder at 'geared up'

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

GlyphGryph posted:

imo, the tweet seemed to be about overhearing other people talking about sex at all, rather than having people talk about it with you directly? Guavanat seems to have read it the same way I first did.

You and guavanaut have read it horrifically wrong

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

wocobob posted:

Poll question for you guys: why was the yougov poll saying that a 7-point tory lead was hung parliament territory? In 2017 there was only a 2 pt tory lead, and it looked like it just barely ended up as a hung parliament (with some seats being decided on the order of dozens of votes). Has the balance of public opinion shifted across seats? Or is something else up?

FPTP metrics : win half the seats with 100% of the vote, lose half of them with 49% of the vote. If the swing doesn't quite win a seat it may as well never have occured there.

also they'll be increasing their vote share by a greater amount in areas they already do well in, less so in areas they don't

Chuff McNothing fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Nov 30, 2019

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Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Halisnacks posted:

So is it just my bubble, or have Abbott and Thornberry not been leaned on as Labour spokespeople much during this campaign?

been a lot more rlb and dawn butler and less abbott/thornberry.

probably a sensible decision - at this point any message is going to be drowned out by people who have made up their mind about the latter as people, and the two former have newer, younger energy.

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