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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I posted on the old thread at the exact moment you killed it so my words of wisdom have disappeared into the ether. Boo hoo. March, February, and the 12 months prior. I'd been waiting a year for therapy appointments with a charity I'd found that do an open ended number of sessions, because the anxiety I get from knowing I only have a few sessions left undoes most of the work. I was due to have my first appointment last Wednesday, now cancelled indefinitely because of corona, and because of the backlog they're now introducing a 25 session limit with a 6 month wait to refer back again. In summary, gently caress everything
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Red Oktober posted:Such a A+ thread. We need more of those, in these trying times. I have used the phrase "in these trying times" more in the last month than my entire life prior.
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OwlFancier posted:Do you have a fusebox instead? I figured they'd all have been retrofitted with breakers now if only because having to keep a supply of fuses is annoying. And also people are tempted to jam bits of metal in there if they don't have a fuse. My electric meter isn't even in this building
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:But aren't they going to be £20 per month better than pre-crisis? Riches beyond the dreams of avarice. Don't forget the 1.7%, still below inflation, rise coming thanks to the end of the benefits freeze! e: 8 is one fat lady
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Endjinneer posted:Right now we're begging, borrowing and stealing supplies and labs and reagents to get up to the hundreds of thousands of tests we need to do each day. You can write off that capacity for the foreseeable future, and write off every diagnosis those labs and testing machines used to support too. But the government told me 3.5 million tests available over the internet a week ago, and companies who can make tests took orders from other countries after receiving none from our lot. Who to believe
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So they're offering higher wages to attract workers, right? Right?
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Soylent Yellow posted:Why? They'll just draw them from the NHS volunteer pool. 
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Apr 1, 2020 20:45
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Why? Everyone knows that if you're on benefits the first thing you do is get an extra large 4000K plasma screen tv. I've seen it on Channel 5 so it must be true. I'm pretty sure that's 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yeah I got it Bloody text based communication!
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Mine is a joke too.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ditto - I usually have a fan on all night. As soon as I lie down, my head starts boiling. I even take a little fan with me if I go away - one of those 6" diameter USB ones, but I take a USB extension and USB plug with me to run it. Also, it can run all night off a 10k mAh charger if it has to if no suitable socket nearby. My neck gets incredibly hot at night, and I got one of those gel cooling pillows that you put inside the pillow case. Takes a bit of getting used to as it can feel like the pillow equivalent of a water bed, but so cooling and nice. You can even give it a boost in the fridge during the day.
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Jordan Peele's second film, Us, has all sorts of fun references for Black Flag fans to spot, and is an excellent film with good politics.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1245752934324936704 I'm unspeakably loving angry about this poo poo just sliding under the radar. I'm sure I'm not the only person in this thread who has lost years of their life waiting for defunded mental health services, and now it's all shown to be the obvious bullshit we knew it was and no one loving cares.
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Apr 3, 2020 17:29
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Azza Bamboo posted:Given that we put all of our tax income in a single big pot that gets divided up in the budget, Note that this is how neoliberal governments choose to depict the process of budgeting and taxation, not how it actually works.
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Kin posted:Hmm, I dunno about that. People are ignorant enough about how this all works that they bought into the credit card analogy as justification for austerity. Sorry, when I said "we" I meant lefties, basically. I agree with you completely about the reason they have and will continue to get away with it even while thousands are dying.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Like any model it explains it to a level and then if you want to be a nerd and learn the "well actually" you can get a degree in it. Like how you'll have to re learn photosynthesis for every single key stage in your standardised testing. Yes, it explains it to a level that allows them to claim there's no money left and poor people need to die for 10 years.
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e: gently caress it, pointless conversation anyway
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ThomasPaine posted:First foray into universal credit... actually rather painless? Despite the spike in applications it's been sorted within a week, the guy who dealt with me on the phone was genuinely really nice and helpful, and I've specifically been told I've got no commitments in terms of looking for work until coronavirus blows over. I mean sure it's only £400/month which is garbage but I'm surprised the process went as smoothly especially given the circumstances. Dunno what all the fuss is about e: also it was £317 a month before real people had to start claiming it Tarnop fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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ThomasPaine posted:You're being a bit unfair here because I obviously didn't say that and I know it's nowhere near enough to live off for the great majority of people. On your edit though, I think the £400/month is now the standard figure (or just short, because it's like £95/week), and that the additional £20/week they're giving is going to be added during the crisis period making it £450-500/month total. This is coming from someone I know at the DWP but I don't have anything specifically saying that so who knows. Yes, I agree that it's pretty laughable. Sorry if it seems that I'm being unfair, but what people are going to remember after this is lots of folk saying "it wasn't as bad as I thought" and there's no way that any nuance beyond that will be retained The standard allowance is still £317, and the extra £20 a week is applied on top of that. Of course it goes away after a year, because 
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Azza Bamboo posted:So the trusts are giving their equity to NHSE for this writeoff? Sounds like you've been encumbered with some knowledge that bears absolutely no use to you in your life, friend.
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I checked the details of the upcoming changes to universal credit. The standard rate will be £322.22 per month after the inflation linked increase of £4.40 that was due this month anyway. The £20 a week extra for a year translates to £86.67 a month on top of that. This means that next April, UC claimants will eat a 21% cut. Presumably in the middle of a severe recession.
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crispix posted:Yes but people can always take up more or better paid work, op I know you're joking, but also worth bearing in mind that any higher levels of benefit are all added on to that standard rate, which means the cut will also apply to people that the government accepts will likely never be able to work.
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justcola posted:When I spoke to them on the phone I asked about the extra £20 and they said they weren't sure about it - I also can't find any mention of it on the government website for it any more (I thought this was on a week or so ago but can't see it now) Numbers aren't on the main UC site for some reason, but they are here. I had to work out the inflation linked portion myself, but the final monthly figure is quoted.
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Since we're talking about the derisory amount paid on UC, and there's been some chat about whether or not to stay in the Starmer Labour party: I can make 3 meals for what Labour charge someone with only UC as their income to be a member. Those 3 meals will do more to keep me alive than a Labour party with a PLP approved leader ever will.
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Azza Bamboo posted:I voted Kier. You're a loving idiot
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Aidan_702 posted:Can we be angry when we find out what he actually does? His majority means the majority of people who supported Corbyn also went for him - he will know this He made his intention to reduce the say of the membership absolutely explicit during his campaign. If he intends to do what they want, then why?
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peanut- posted:All of this seems pretty good. Because the people who only vote for dyed in the wool neoliberals all came out to bat for him
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Azza Bamboo posted:I imagine in the next few months the party is going to appear as bi-partisan as possible, and it's going to make some big token moves to appear like it's doing something about the dumb anti Semitism thing. As a result everyone here will be screaming for my apology. What I want to wait for is the next manifesto, or at the very least the next conference, to see what they do with power and not just what they do while the press is watching. Great time for bipartisanship, you gullible gently caress
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Azza Bamboo posted:A lot of tears itt. Also "if you're not with me then you're against me" thinking. Lol keep going
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Azza Bamboo posted:Okay let's say bailey won, what would you have done that's so spectacular as to warrant any other outcome as stupidity? Azza Bamboo posted:It's a loving flu, we'll get through it and some grannies will die and a few nurses will quit their NHS jobs in favour of the much less stressful cosmetic procedure industry. Life goes on whoop de doo.
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The Labour First candidates won the NEC seats
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Azza Bamboo posted:What reflection would satisfy you? Azza Bamboo posted:It's a loving flu, we'll get through it and some grannies will die and a few nurses will quit their NHS jobs in favour of the much less stressful cosmetic procedure industry. Life goes on whoop de doo.
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Azza Bamboo posted:What reflection on voting Starmer would satisfy you, Gonzo mcfee CleanBreak.txt
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Gasmask posted:I’m the only one being smug. You being a prick to Asda despite him explaining his thinking proves my point way better than I could. Flat-earthers also explain their thinking, and they're dumb motherfuckers too. I mean I suppose Azza was right in a way, Keir has already Trojan-horsed his way right into number 10.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They're a good poster and as far as I can tell a good person Azza Bamboo posted:It's a loving flu, we'll get through it and some grannies will die and a few nurses will quit their NHS jobs in favour of the much less stressful cosmetic procedure industry. Life goes on whoop de doo.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:An opinion expressed (in slightly less direct terms) by a lot of posters in this thread (and around the entire internet) last month. But by all means keep Helldumping someone to try and justify acting like a total oval office to someone. Dig out the posts I made joking about how great politics will be when all the boomers die while you're at it. Sorry if calling someone a loving idiot for voting like a loving idiot isn't  enough for you.
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Jose posted:How did the nec results go I stopped paying attention One Progress candidate, one Labour First candidate. Hoping they turn out to be secret leftists
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Comrade Fakename posted:I see where you’re coming from, but frankly coming out immediately after the result is announced and people are understandably very upset to casually say that you voted for it and actually this is great is loving lovely behaviour. And everyone who didn't is pathetic and deluded, let's not gloss over that gem
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Azza Bamboo posted:I never said the people are pathetic I said the excuses that socialists make for their failures are pathetic. When you're trying to get into power "It's not fair" doesn't cut it. Then let me retract my previous statements; you're not a gullible idiot. You just cast a vote in a gullible and idiotic way for a gullible and idiotic reason, while also holding a lot of opinions that I consider idiotic. I hope that conforms to the strict rules of polite discourse here on somethingawful.com
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EmptyVessel posted:Assuming you have a magical pledge that does not allow cynical signatures. Why do you think he didn't sign it?
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