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Is anyone else getting worried about the weather? Just constant heat and sunshine. Ground here is bone dry and I'm worried there's going to be water shortages and crop failures if it keeps up. Probably more heath fires this summer as well.
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Jun 1, 2020 07:12
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Is anyone else getting worried about the weather? Just constant heat and sunshine. Ground here is bone dry and I'm worried there's going to be water shortages and crop failures if it keeps up. Probably more heath fires this summer as well. Seems pretty cool for June in the next couple of weeks here. (North kent)
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Jun 1, 2020 07:35
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Is anyone else getting worried about the weather? Just constant heat and sunshine. Ground here is bone dry and I'm worried there's going to be water shortages and crop failures if it keeps up. Probably more heath fires this summer as well. Looked this up before - the final stage contingency for water shortage is restricting the mains supply to a set period each day to conserve what's left. I thought we were on the brink of it year before last. We know that heatwaves of the severity of 2018 are going to become more frequent - no less than a green industrial revolution and all the attendant interlocking reforms will do. Awesome. I don't know about anyone else but I can scarcely remember what 'normal weather' was, been on tenterhooks for 5+ years now.
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Jun 1, 2020 07:38
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don't panic! we're an island... we're surrounded by water!!!!!!
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Jun 1, 2020 07:47
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It's been dry for a while but haven't we had massively above average rainfall for the last two years before this spell? I'm sure I read a couple of months ago that reservoirs were full to overflowing and groundwater was significantly elevated, and half the country flooded 6 months ago.
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Jun 1, 2020 08:25
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Won't need to worry about crops getting left in the field if they die out first
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Jun 1, 2020 08:27
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I accidentally signed up for a free trial of amazon prime (sneaky fuckers). I picked a really odd time to watch mr robot. All those people wearing surgical masks and the rioting etc.
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Jun 1, 2020 08:27
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I have always thought the most unrealistic scene in the TV series LOST was Michelle Rodriguez's character getting chided by her fellow police officer colleague for sticking a gun aggressively in a suspect's face And LOST had a lot of batshit crazy stuff.
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Jun 1, 2020 08:35
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Jippa posted:I accidentally signed up for a free trial of amazon prime (sneaky fuckers). I picked a really odd time to watch mr robot. All those people wearing surgical masks and the rioting etc. It is sneaky how they do that! I got caught at some point last year or the year before. I put an alert to remind me to cancel it before the month was up.
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Jun 1, 2020 08:38
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It is sneaky how they do that! I got caught at some point last year or the year before. I put an alert to remind me to cancel it before the month was up. I think with Prime you can just cancel as soon as the trial starts and still keep your access until the trial expires. Useful if you get got again, so you don't need to try to remember to cancel it after you've watched stuff/ordered the thing.
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Jun 1, 2020 08:49
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Maugrim posted:Guava you're slipping 
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Jun 1, 2020 09:05
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I'm worried about Guavanaut..
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Jun 1, 2020 09:05
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I'm here. Funnily enough my bank app decided that May has 30 days and yesterday was June 1st. That combined with time being a flat cube and this being magic orange season (and my internet being poo poo today) means new thread later today.OwlFancier posted:Will it carry over to other countries, I wonder? It's also interesting that most of the UK news has been talking about George Floyd and completely ignoring that most of the protests in the South are about the police murder of Breonna Taylor and the bullshit decision to charge her boyfriend with attempted murder of a police officer because he shot back at armed men in black boiler suits and balaclavas in his house who didn't announce who they were.
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Jun 1, 2020 09:29
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Munin posted:Btw, here is a thread pretty showing a lot of examples of what many cops are up to during the current unrest in the US: This is incredibly hard to watch. Watch it anyway. goddamnedtwisto posted:I think empowering the "good ones", and ensuring the "bad ones" suffer consequences, would go a lot further than you think. Of course I absolutely agree we with your other points, but ultimately the problems come because bad people are allowed to act with impunity. I think that if it were possible, ensuring the bad ones faced consequences would work. I think you'd struggle to find enough 'good ones' to empower at this point to make a difference though - you don't get this level of militarised action without the entire system being corrupt. This isn't 'just a few bad apples' (which statement ignored the fact that that aphorism is about how a few bad apples ruins the entire stock), it's the few worst apples doing things like driving their cars along, casually squirting pepper sprey out of the window, whilst the ruined, possibly-formerly-good apples just drive along behind, following their orders to drive over to protests and mob up and at the very least, watch whilst the people they share a break room with shoot up peaceful protests, medics, media people, and innocent bystanders. And even if you did manage to ensure consequences were faced by the bad ones, you would have a HUGE climb to actually build trust with the public, which trust simply doesn't exist at this point. A friend who I met when he was in the UK 5 or so years ago, and is now fairly closely involved with these protests, has been sharing footage of things like groups of cops taking the knee, and pointing out that it's just a publicity stunt. Which it is. Instead of taking a knee, they could be taking up arms against the obvious absues of their colleagues. They have access to the equipment, they could be sabotaging it, or taking riot shields and gas masks and armour and providing it to the people who actually need it. They're not, they're just kneeling for a few minutes whilst the cameras are on them, then who knows what they're doing after that. ---- The thing this really makes me wonder, and worry about, is how bad things are here. Because I know our police have their own problems, and I honestly have no idea how bad things are in poorer inner-city areas. I don't think there as bad as this, but I wouldn't be surprised to see things going this way by the end of another 5 years of austerity and hatred.
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Jun 1, 2020 09:30
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Guavanaut posted:I'm here. Funnily enough my bank app decided that May has 30 days and yesterday was June 1st. That combined with time being a flat cube and this being magic orange season (and my internet being poo poo today) means new thread later today. I've not even heard about that one!
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Jun 1, 2020 09:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I've not even heard about that one!
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Jun 1, 2020 09:36
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Guavanaut posted:I'm thinking they're making a conscious decision not to talk about it at all, because it's managed to get the Black Lives Matter/antiracism crowd and the Waco/gun rights/home defense crowd on the same side, which in Texas means you've lost the argument. lol if you think it actually gets the gun rights/home defence crowd on side, don't you know that police officers are automatically identifiable even if they've removed all their ID and are dressed all in black and don't announce themselves?
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Jun 1, 2020 09:44
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Nah there's a segment that still remembers Waco and Ruby Ridge as formative moments and thinks that the Federal Government are going to break into their home at night and murder them for owning guns. They're poo poo at the social analysis of how race and poverty plays into which houses get targeted, but this has been circulating around those sectors as "if you saw armed men in your home in ski masks would you protect your partner?" memes.
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Jun 1, 2020 09:53
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Random question, where does the iconic "Follow your leader" picture actually stem from?Guavanaut posted:Nah there's a segment that still remembers Waco and Ruby Ridge as formative moments and thinks that the Federal Government are going to break into their home at night and murder them for owning guns. They're poo poo at the social analysis of how race and poverty plays into which houses get targeted, but this has been circulating around those sectors as "if you saw armed men in your home in ski masks would you protect your partner?" memes. Waco, cause célèbre. 1985 bombing of MOVE, footnote in history. Munin fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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Jun 1, 2020 09:54
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Munin posted:Random question, where does the iconic "Follow your leader" picture actually stem from? A wall stencil.
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Jun 1, 2020 09:55
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Jedit posted:A wall stencil. UK? Did it have the "Fascists Racists Haters of Refugees" from the start? Do we know who conceived it? It is bloody genius.
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Jun 1, 2020 10:00
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Kpop stans are good now https://twitter.com/LetItMelo/status/1267255731088232449?s=20
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Jun 1, 2020 10:01
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Some people were talking about weights in here last week. If anyone is after a small set, Argos has their dumbbells up but only on eBay here. 2500 watchers so they won't last long. Worrying chart on page 17 https://assets.publishing.service.g...y_w22_Final.pdf Lungboy fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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Jun 1, 2020 10:01
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i see brendan oneill is on tv yet again
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Jun 1, 2020 10:19
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Lungboy posted:Some people were talking about weights in here last week. If anyone is after a small set, Argos has their dumbbells up but only on eBay here. 2500 watchers so they won't last long. drat this isn't available anywhere near me
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Jun 1, 2020 10:20
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when you definitely understand history https://twitter.com/demarionunn/status/1267385414005993474?s=20
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Jun 1, 2020 10:24
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Does anyone know what's going on with Game Workers Unite? There's a bunch of chatter on Twitter about some race issue, but I've not been able to piece it together, Twitter just loops me through the same series of tweets. I've been looking at returning to the industry so would have been interested in getting involved.
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Jun 1, 2020 10:32
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Jose posted:when you definitely understand history 
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Jun 1, 2020 10:33
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Ah yes, Malcolm X, the first 9 Malcolms having been replaced for being too violent
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Jun 1, 2020 10:41
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Jun 1, 2020 10:45
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cool this scab is a labour peer https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1267180697908916225?s=20
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Jun 1, 2020 10:54
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May UKMT thread never ending was actually predicted by nostradamus 
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Jun 1, 2020 10:56
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I mean it's not the least bit surprising, but "the labour movement should stay out of politics" is a hell of a take from a labour politicial e: he's getting righteously bodied in the replies Borrovan fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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Jun 1, 2020 10:57
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Guavanaut posted:lmao 'Malcom' is the cherry on that poo poo tweet. I mean and also Madiba. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMkhonto_we_Sizwe tooootally not violent amirite
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Jun 1, 2020 10:58
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Guavanaut posted:I'm thinking they're making a conscious decision not to talk about it at all, because it's managed to get the Black Lives Matter/antiracism crowd and the Waco/gun rights/home defense crowd on the same side, which in Texas means you've lost the argument. I have to admit I knew nothing about that poor EMT being killed until I read it here . (Along with a third case of Ahmaud Arbery.) The key factor in Breonna's death were "No Knock" warrants which I hadn't heard of before and they sound super loving deadly for all concerned. What I think is saddest about this is that these events absolutely deserve to spark protests and grind the country to a halt. But why can't mass shootings like Sandyhook or Las Vegas also have a similar level of effect? America be a strange place, yo'.
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Jun 1, 2020 10:58
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crispix posted:May UKMT thread never ending was actually predicted by nostradamus Hey, last time we wished for the end of May the monkey's paw gave us Boris Johnson!
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Jun 1, 2020 11:00
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The Question IRL posted:I have to admit I knew nothing about that poor EMT being killed until I read it here . (Along with a third case of Ahmaud Arbery.) Because mass shootings don't give you someone so obvious and concrete to rebel against. A mass shooter usually won't be back on the streets the next day surrounded by his buddies in uniform.
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Jun 1, 2020 11:00
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What is a union without politics???
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Jose posted:cool this scab is a labour peer A union. Without politics. In what possible world is that a thing someone thinks can exist, let alone a loving nominally-Labour politician thinks can exist.
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