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quote:Some of the most disturbing footage shows one worker touching two cows in intimate areas on two different occasions,” the investigator said. “The worker appears to be moving his hand up and down in a way that would suggest masturbation.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cow-sexual-abuse-violence-dairy-farm-punch-kick-hit-essex-nfu-a9215306.html
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dispatch_async posted:https://twitter.com/JoshuaRozenberg/status/1200829426084302849 Not that any time someone is killed like this it isn’t a tragedy but he really seemed like a good egg.
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My #1 tip for drafty winter living spaces is to get a kit of heat shrink film, tape it to your widow frame, and use a hair dryer to bring it taut. If you have leaky windows it makes a truly astonishing difference. Also I like to fashion my own japanese heating tables by putting a space heater under a table or desk and drape a blanket over it. Keeps you pretty toasty. Obviously you have to turn it off when you aren’t right there. (Speaking of space heaters I’m a big fan of those bulb-based ones that give you instant heat. They basically only heat you or a small area right around you so they’re great if you will be spending most of your time in one spot and don’t want to waste money on a blower heater that tries and fails to heat the whole space.) Everyone else has pointed out the wonders of layering but count this as another vote for the voodoo warmth of thermal underwear.
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Bardeh posted:tbh Heidi Allen has gone up a little bit in my estimations because she's rightly not even bothered with the terrible chips and sides at Nando's and is simply eating a whole chicken from a bowl Literally the only thing I order when I go to nandos is a chicken and a drink. Nothing else is worth bothering with. But tbh I really like the chicken.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Swinson moving up from squirrel bashing: This reminds me of a favourite show, Better Off Ted, in which a memo gets sent out that employees must https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Nz4bIwss Edit: on a rewatch, I caught a couple of jokes that are probably ableist, fyi. mediaphage fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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Feldegast42 posted:The Queen lives on in the hearts of every God-fearing Briton The Canadian mints also put out specialty coins at the drop of a hat, so I can't wait to see the memorial loonies that get struck
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Nexa posted:https://bit.ly/2qg4lGt - his FB page, you'll have to scroll down a bit because the dudes a machine when it comes to these. Up to 1.7k now \o/ The republicans have been bad about doing this in the states. They send out donation requests that look suspiciously like bills to the olds.
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Nexa posted:It looked like a bill to me, but then I'm a zero hours precariat so one big bill addressed to me is pure terror. I also thought, again we're talking from a distance, it was the DWP again, who were harassing me some time ago sending through a ton of things like "YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO STUFF" except I'm not by their own system, so it just ended up being shite, and I've learned to fear those brown envelopes coming through the door from when I was in the WRAG, having been found not fit for work. I agree, stuff like this is terrifying to anyone who is or has been poor. Ted Cruz did one that still makes me mad: https://twitter.com/sean_r_owen/status/1041182844234522624 Just more proof that conservatives are terrible
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I grew up in the states but I’ve lived in Europe and now live in Canada. Anyone who argues for that sort of policy is evil, flat out. 1 in 4 Americans has foregone medical treatment because they were worried about the cost (and imagine that ratio once you take out all the people above a certain wealth threshold). When I was younger (now 30s for reference) we would get threatening letters in the mail about subscribing to the ambulance service so that we wouldn’t be charged hundreds or thousands in the case of an emergency. One Ohio town recently suggested stopping emergency services to any household who’d already called in one drug overdose. Health is a human right.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:If I want to register a domain name just for email which I can preferably manage through gmail what's the best option goons? I like hover.
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If anyone wants to pay for email I also recommend fastmail. My personal email is one of those free gapps accounts, but I use fastmail for other stuff.
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OwlFancier posted:Oh sure yeah your views can mutate over time but you can't just snap your fingers and say "I have completely different political beliefs now." I often wonder how conservative I might have ended up if I’d been straight.
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This is going on my door. Btw joe biden unveiled his new tour bus and if you haven’t seen it, it really just screams jo; to me 
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My SA santee this year has posted in this thread; how socialist should my present be
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Maugrim posted:Buy socialist fudge from Camrath A good thought but tbqh I’m pretty proud of my candymaking skills. Also not really a fan of the fudgepacking jokes.
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Angepain posted:how much does it cost to rig the election to bring about a Labour government? the pound isn't doing that well so it can't be that much They should be selling (strawberry) jam socialism in the markets. £1 from every jar to the labour coffers. Also I’m definitely not successful enough as a writer to buy an election, regrettably.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Labour should probably think about getting in a fresh leader if Corbyn loses I see this bandied about a fair bit. What’s the definition of lose, here? The media will say he’s lost unless he gets an outright majority.
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CoolCab posted:feel that to an incredible degree. pessimism is an adaptive behaviour. god it was so much easier when I didn't care about anything. If anyone ends up in the second best London, first pint’s on me. And while Trudeau is pretty melty, legalization (which mostly only white stoners bitch about because they weren’t as adversely affected by enforcement) and child care funding doesn’t get enough credit. I’m not happy about the pipeline, but according to statscan, job growth has absolutely not been all petrodollars. Canada actually needs a real leftist to unite everybody who holds their nose and votes for the libs against the Tories but it’s not as bad as, say, PM jo; Don’t get me wrong, Trudeau is still a casually racist fratboy PM and I would prefer to see a giant NDP (after properly returning to the left) win, I just think there’s better policies to yell at him about. Cast_No_Shadow posted:40-45% in polls for Tories confuses the gently caress out of me. Keep in mind: these polls are only intent, not belief. These are their best guess at who’s going to show up to vote. The actual population is essentially tied. All these articles breathlessly repeat them without ever bringing it up. I know every election is determined by who shows up to vote, but instead of feeling overwhelmed by some managed poll numbers, feel energized at the idea that you could flip a seat by encouraging a young to vote. mediaphage fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Dec 5, 2019 |
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Barry Foster posted:That'd be why the little poo poo doesn't pay his taxes then drat it, came to say this.
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Guavanaut posted:Rand hated libertarians so he should just be honest and describe himself as a "massively dumb fucker" Aren't contemporary libertarians mostly just objectivists anyway? I in no way profess to be a philosophy expert but I've read a few of her terrible books and they sound like the people I know who call themselves libertarian these days.
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If you want to take vitamin d, you should, there just isn’t much clinical proof showing it does anything. Anyway, if there were a case to be made for it, supplementing it to food would be the right way to go. It’s added to milk, with vitamin A in the us. And flour is supplemented by law in the uk, so it isn’t as if there isn’t a handy local precedent for it. I’d wager a number of milk alternatives are supplemented to boost the nutritional value, so if there was a good reason or demand, vitamin d could just be added to the mix.
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Bundy posted:Uh Vitamin D deficiency is a real thing with some pretty lovely effects. We definitely do not get enough via sunlight in most parts of the northern hemisphere, considering actual sun time and skin exposure due to clothing. Sunscreen also means far less Vit D synthesis in summer months. This leaves food which is hit and miss due to low dose and affordability of other natural sources/aversion to eating offal. On the last page there’s a good article talking about this, though: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0215/p254.html There’s just not a lot of good evidence that supplementation does a lot if you don’t have some kind of acute deficiency that’s been diagnosed. Even for people with low serum levels of vitamin d. This is on top of how many supplements have way, way more vitamin d than you’d ever need. The people who could be most concerned are vegans who don’t go outside, see the sun ever. And I’m not making a joke there, but I suspect this thread / forum probably has a higher incidence of such a group than the standard population.
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TTerrible posted:gently caress IDS and Tory volunteers but I'm not sure sending a decomposing animal through the Royal Mail in a leaking manila envelope is actually that cool. Agree. I was also going to comment about how many labour canvassers have been actually attacked this cycle, but I did find a news story with a Tory candidate getting slapped earlier this year. Gonzo McFee posted:Regardless of how you feel about IDS you have to feel for a man who finds the body of a relative in such a way.  History Comes Inside! posted:You can send tons of live things in the post. A friend of mine runs an insects and invertebrates shop out of her garden shed and routinely sends eldritch horrors via Royal Mail. In the us, children were mailed in the early days of the system. And I suppose one could say the UK functionally mailed thousands of orphans to Canada. Also, we get fish in the mail for the aquariums.... mediaphage fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Dec 6, 2019 |
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Guavanaut posted:As opposed to labs, which routinely send Aldrich horrors via Royal Mail (and probably shouldn't). Lol, my first move after college was like 90% sigma Aldrich boxes. Guavanaut posted:
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CGI Stardust posted:Welcome to the Puppets Winzone! Has anyone shown up in a giant squirrel costume at one of her meet and greets yet?
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Gonzo McFee posted:A scarily common practice in "Western" countries. We're like 40 years removed from Canada doing it to indigenous women as well. Same in the US - it went on well into the 70s. And then there’s this: wiki posted:In 2013, it was reported that 148 female prisoners in two California prisons were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program, but it was determined that the prisoners did not give consent to the procedures.
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ThomasPaine posted:Canada seems to be in many respects worse than the USA (at least there they don't pretend to give a poo poo) Canadians don’t, either. I hear and read people complaining about First Nations all the time. They say they do, but this is like the democrats being shocked that trump could ever win. And this says nothing of the utter crisis that is the missing and murdered indigenous women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_and_murdered_Indigenous_women
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painted into a coroner posted:I liked my time in Canada and want to move back but yeah a chunk of the population are racist as hell. Had one person say to my face about how the country was "full" and there shouldn't be any more immigration when I said i was over on a visa. I'm not sure if she was actually angry at me or considered me "one of the good ones" because I was white. She was also in her early 20s, so it wasn't some gammon saying this either! Theres a guy around here that wears a confederate flag hoodie. I’m guessing but don’t know that he lives in the apartment that has one plastered in its window. Nighttime commonwealth chat no mods no masters
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Ms Adequate posted:I live in Leicester, England, and one of our neighbours had a confederate flag sticker on his car. But it’s history, as my sister used to say ThomasPaine posted:this is all very true but canada does like to project an national narrative of 'the friendly america where all is peace and rainbows, hey we're all so polite why not come have a joint' and that's very self-conscious from the government level, whatever the reality on the ground I was in Newfoundland a couple of years ago and it was stunning. Really hoping to spend a week in the backcountry next year. Algonquin has an 80km loop that is apparently pretty great. Also that projection is terrible for size mediaphage fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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RockyB posted:Calm down thread, it's Super Canvassing Saturday. I heard you like a little labour in your labour
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Braggart posted:What are those cone shaped ones you can put on your fingertips and pretend to be a monster? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nachos-Lays-Bugles-Chilli-Weight/dp/B07TWN368X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Bugles&qid=1575804536&s=grocery&sr=1-1 Honestly I half expected them to be called cornets or something over there.
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Braggart posted:No worries, I just wanted to make a dumb joke Mostly I just wanted an excuse to browse for crisps online
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Huh, from doing history in public:site posted:Calendars filled with chocolate began to appear from the late 1950s around the time that they also began to spread around the world. Eisenhower is sometimes credited with the American popularisation of them having been photographed while President opening them with his grandchildren.
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Politico is AMAing the election and I found this interesting:Redditpolitico posted:After holding back during the last month, the Conservatives are now the biggest spenders (for December 8, the latest day available within Facebook's ad transparency tool) with £4,506.
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Archaeology Hat posted:Spending limits help with this. Would probably be a bunch more expensive if you were allowed to spend as much as you liked. Dingdingding. There is a growing movement to undo citizens united and publicly fund elections, but there are other threads to talk about that.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This must just be HQ spends. Our CLP alone have spent over £500 so far on FB ads and I'm sure we're not the only ones! This is old now but I think it’s referencing per diem spending. You may be right, regardless!
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Braggart posted:Stormzy made and then later apologised unreservedly for homophobic comments and has resolved to never say things like that again, therefore I stand by my comparable comments which were in no way homophobic! Honestly that "depends on the context" response made my blood boil. Her comments about Joris being a real feminist just make me want to puke, like thinking about my 8th grade english teacher who told me she would never vote for a woman for president because they're too emotional. Edit: the sole exception I'd allow is queer dating profiles but honestly then it's just tacky mediaphage fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Dec 10, 2019 |
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The 92M is impressive, but it doesn’t mean people watched any of it. That’s the # of people who at some point scrolled past it, I believe. Braggart posted:Sometimes the oppressed internalise the views of their oppressors. It's part of how the whole edifice works. I’m aware. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t make me angry.
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