Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I think the most important thing is try and build a routine - nothing over demanding: personal care (diet, exercise, hygiene), home environment (washing up, cleaning), mental health (read a book - something lightweight, connect with friend or family or even a stranger, take a break from news)

forkboy84 posted:

Fortunately for me I'm exceedingly comfortable with my own company so I've been well equipped for the long hours alone. I'm learning Russian with Duolingo,

Camrath posted:

forkboy84 posted:

It's not easy. It took a couple weeks (could've been more, time no longer makes sense) just to wrap my head around the alphabet. And I don't really think Duolingo is the best way to learn grammar so I'll probably need to get a textbook at some point. I've been enjoying Alex Navarro's lockdown Euro Truck Simulator streams because he ofte puts on Russian language radio which is surprisingly helpful.

Trying to think of an example that catches me out. Любит is like but some times it's люблю and hosed if I can work out which should be used when.

That said, I've been doing it for 3 months and I'm only doing 15-30 minutes a day and I was shite at languages in school and I certainly can sense improvement. So I guess it's no harder than any other language really, once you wrap your head around the alphabet. Easier than learning a load of Kanji or whatever. And it is surprising me how satisfying it has been.

communism bitch posted:

Russian is really easy because 90% of the vocabulary is English words in a Russian accent, 5% are close enough that you can really easily mentally link them. The other 5% is gibberish to English speakers but who needs to know how to say "bread" in Russian anyway.

E: for example house is дом - "Dom" like domicile. Bicycle is вепосиред or "velocipede". Radio is радио - "radio". It's all loving English lol

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1267919803962064897?s=21

Holy poo poo. Anyone with decent MPs, call them. Get them screaming about this at the top of their lungs. The government is literally covering up the causes of excessive non-white deaths in Britain.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/EveningStandard/status/1267911924571877376?s=20

Bobstar posted:

Fair points, but this article doesn't so much elaborate on the headline as restate it, along side a bunch of semi-related good things.

What does "if you have made greater contributions to the system, there is an argument that you should receive more out of that system" mean? Without elaboration, it just sounds like the dogwhistle that we all reacted to in the headline.

It sounds like it could be a prelude to a needs based system rather than a means based one - e.g. a pandemic has ruined your income, so you can have benefits based on what you need (i.e. your outgoings), and regardless of things like savings cutoffs and child limits as you say. But that still isn't really based on greater contributions - if you just started living in expensive London when the pandemic (or regular scheduled capitalism recession) hits, you might not have contributed much yet.

Or is it an argument for universalism? But again the more in = more out seems at odds with that.

quote:

...only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability!

Unkempt posted:

...is everybody just ignoring that it has peas on there?

My God. Peas.

Ms Adequate posted:

I'm glad the statue is down, but I wish there was some way we could have remembered who the statue was actually of. Shame they're the sole locus of historical knowledge.

Red Oktober posted:

That’s some straight up Streets of Rage poo poo right there.

Pistol_Pete posted:

"The Labour Party is issuing today a firm, principled call for slave traders to show greater compassion."

StarkingBarfish posted:

Backyard birbposting update: There's loads of tiny new fledgling bluetits around. They're adorable and would totally yell ACAB at the police:

Apraxin posted:

the state of this loving country

Guavanaut posted:

Explaining to the ANTIFA that my racism mask positioned directly above a huge wooden board saying BLACK'S HEAD is actually okay because it's a Turk.

Communist Thoughts posted:

Excuse me but those are clearly harmless roman salutes

Guavanaut posted:

Come on down to JOBS WAREHOUSE for all your JOBS needs.

BBC: Why a recession can be a good time to start a business posted:

[...] many of the best, and longest-lasting, companies are set up during downturns, according to Dane Strangler, a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Centre, in Washington DC. He says that the difficult economic backdrop makes them both tougher and more nimble for years to come. "There's this trial by fire idea," he says. "If you get started in a recession, you really have to scrape and scrimp to make that company successful. "You are trying to make it when you can't get financing, and trying to get customers when there isn't any demand."
...
For anyone thinking of now setting up their own business, Markus Berger de Leon, a partner at management consultancy McKinsey, says think long and hard before you make the plunge. But if you do jump, then move quickly.

"You really need to think, 'should I spend my next pound or euro on this, or something else?'," he says.

"And that makes you need to embrace and scale one skill that is core to your company. And think about doing that with as little money, as fast as possible. The start-ups that survive a recession are the ones that learn the fastest."

OwlFancier posted:

Come the gently caress on "Dane Strangler" is not a US policy wonk it's a profession in the 10th century.

quote:

The court heard three separate investigations have been launched by Labour since the report was leaked, while a written legal argument on the party’s behalf confirmed that members have been suspended. “The party has promptly commenced an investigation into whether any members referred to in the Report have, based on the materials referred to in the Report, breached the Party’s rules”, it said.“Some of the party members have been suspended from membership so far as it is necessary to do so to protect the integrity of the investigation.”

Rachel Crasnow QC represented Labour at the hearing, while the party's head of legal affairs, Alex Barros-Curtis, was also present.

Sir Keir has called for the inquiry into the leak to be concluded quickly, with the findings now expected to be delivered by mid-July. Labour has insisted it takes data protection "extremely seriously", as the leak was reported to the Information Commissioner's Office and suggestions were raised that legal action could be taken by people named in the report.
...
At court today, Ms Crasnow successfully applied for the leaked report to be taken off the court file, citing concerns for data protection and privacy. Mrs Justice Eady acknowledged that the full, unredacted report is still available online, but she ruled that it should remain “confidential” at this stage of Mr Howell’s legal action.

Mr Howell, representing himself, claims party funds and resources were deliberately deployed at the 2017 election “not to win vulnerable seats presently held by rival parties but instead to increase majorities in safe seats of certain favoured party Members of Parliament.” He was due today to seek a court order today forcing suspensions within the party, but abandoned the bid after analysing the party’s statements and was left with a £23,000 costs bill from the hearing. Labour, which is defending the legal action, will now seek to strike out the claim against Lord McNicol and insists that no other hearings should take place before the internal investigation has been concluded.

Ratjaculation posted:

I'm not sure I've been overall a good poster in this, the serious thread, but I've enjoyed our chats and sharing a common cause with many of you.

ThomasPaine posted:

Can anyone remember the name of an article that discussed the way today's centrists often use a similar tactic to historical fascists, in that they deliberately put out ridiculous bad faith garbage that seems ridiculous but serves to discredit the entire discourse - weaponised stupidity and ignorance. I've been looking for it for ages but just cannot for the life of me remember where it was.

Jose posted:

Lol really wanting no deal brexit to be as hosed as possible

https://twitter.com/labourwhips/status/1279668442791055360?s=19

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

crossposting from the other "everything is hosed" thread

Bobby Deluxe posted:

What the gently caress is it with Keith Haircut and the slow-mo promos?

Or does he move at that speed in real life as well as in policy?

Communist Thoughts posted:

I didn't know this lmao

Kier is absolutely a spook or an asset and its gonna be years before we're rid of him. Bojo can be our yeltsin and he can be our putin

Dell_Zincht posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/11/no-10-plans-weight-loss-drive-to-ready-uk-for-expected-covid-19-second-wave

lmao the government is openly expecting a second wave but if we die it's our own fault for being too fat

Jose posted:

I couldn't say for whats in the tweets i posted but there was a lot of evidence of massive population changes in the "red wall" where tons of old people had moved into those areas and young people out as there was not enough work but they're nice enough to retire to

WhatEvil posted:

https://twitter.com/HarryYorke1/status/1286404835806502913?s=20

Maybe handing out settlements to chancers *isn't* actually the great legal move Keir thinks it is?

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/TracyAnnO/status/1288959183270940680?s=19

Does anyone know what BIM is? Because if she means BLM...

communism bitch posted:

I'm convinced there's some shadowy cabal grooming Rishi Sunak as a replacement for Boris. He's been getting a lot of positive airtime lately, and everything the treasury does is attributed to Sunak, rather than Boris' government in general, and in a way I don't recall seeing with previous Chancellors. He superficially fits the picture for new leader of a party that will eventually have to crawl out from under Boris' corpse - marginally competent, blandly unoffensive, conventionally handsome, no Bullingdon-level baggage that I'm aware of. Might have to put a cheeky tenner on it.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Also the bar has been set so low by other tories that when someone who isn't a fat inbred ra[p/c]ist comes along, the media creams their collective jeans at the opportunity to start putting 'dishy rishi' in headlines.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Can we put this in the OP or something? That format is the generic one that Twitter has imposed for at least 5 years now, and it's indicative of nothing more than a new user who's not particularly au fait with Twitter (or internet culture generally). Any self-respecting bot-farmer would be disgusted to find out people believe they'd use such an easily-rumbled format - if anything that format is *less* likely to be a bot for that exact reason.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Apparently the 54-year-old former Minister and MP for Rayleigh Mark Francois has just deleted his Twitter account.

Also - random bit of trivia - he was born in Islington, which as we discussed earlier in the thread, is right next to Hackney.

e: His Facebook account too, how strange.

Guavanaut posted:

Jaeluni Asjil is a theoretician. You'd never catch one of them sending mail bombs, that's a practical aspect.

Darth Walrus posted:

Looks like this finally encouraged Starmer to get off his fence:

https://twitter.com/keir_starmer/status/1292804638857715712?s=21