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What's that? It's a new thread? Finally, it's autumn (according to the deep state  ), the madness of Covid-19 has subsided and we can look forward to some normalcy... ...oh no. [Source: Imperial College Department of We're All hosed] So after school closure and a half arsed lockdown we've followed that first part of the green curve pretty much exactly, and despite large protests in London against a second wave, SARS-CoV-2 has not yet issued a response.  (thanks NotJustANumber99) Which means these may be seeing a new round of importance soon: Find Your Local COVID-19 Mutual Aid Group - or set one up Also check: https://freedomnews.org.uk/covid-19-uk-mutual-aid-groups-a-list/ https://secretldn.com/uk-community-aid-groups-by-area/ https://queercare.network/our-work/resources/covid-19/ In Other News  The Conservatives are attempting to undermine the Electoral Commission for what can surely only be legitimate reasons. The Office for National Statistics reports that Britain's GDP fell by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, the biggest quarterly decline since records began in 1955, and the worst economic figure of any G7 nation. Sacrificing the care homes for the highest excess deaths to save the economy really worked well. Ofqual. You know what happened there. It was an algorithm. Scientists identify the earliest person known to have been infected by the coronavirus within the UK, a 75-year-old woman from Notts, who tested positive on 21 February. Plans for an RAF station on Anglesey to use Llanbedr airfield in Gwynedd to train Saudi pilots to do war crimes have now been 'formally paused.' Britain First is invading hotels housing refugees, and unlike the migrant boats the press is actually ignoring it. Sir Ed Davey Cameron Fan is selected as the next leader of the Liberal Democrats, with 63.5% of votes. Other news still cancelled due to Coronavirus.  Sir Keir Starmer debates Sir Ed Davey, 2020 The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider. Day of the Programmer UKMT Summer 2020 - Two Pints of Saline and Abacavir for Drip UKMT May 2020 - Let them eat Nando's UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Battle of Britain Day Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The second-most UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae OHagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. 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It's a beautiful country run according to some very non-beautiful principles, but without the mountains and fauna.
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thespaceinvader posted:Good lord I'm tired of it. But it doesn't go away just because you're tired of it. Like I could understand protesting against the lockdown, and demanding mandatory masks and hand washing and surface cleansing until there's a vaccine. Or I could understand protesting against masking and cleansing, and demanding a full lockdown until there's a vaccine, there's enough economic trickery that we could manage it with some rationing. I could even understand asking for the vaccine to be rushed, just to get past masking and lockdown, even if that's ill advised. But the only way that protesting against the lockdown, and masks, and a vaccine (and a second wave 🤔) makes any sense at all is if they're all just tired of it and can't face up to that not meaning that it isn't over.
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thespaceinvader posted:The ones going to protests because masks reduce their oxygen or actually absord virus particles and make it more likely for you to get it, or don't actually work or the vaccine that doesn't exist yet is actually mind control chips designed by bill gates to use 5g to make the frogs gay or whatever the gently caress at the ones who have been brain poisoned by extreme right wing thought of the kind you see in the US stuff in the politoons thread. I don't think it's about not facing up to something, I think it's about them simply having genuinely lost most of their rational thought about it. There's no real way to get through to them without cutting off the firehose of insane wrong that's aimed straight at their faces basically the entire time. Dead Goon posted:My Calendar of Kittens that hangs in the bathroom says Autumn begins of the 22nd.
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The Question IRL posted:So this is something I feel a bit guilty about.
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Sep 1, 2020 10:14
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Also the only even prime.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:And telex - does anyone still do that? I know international documentary credits were still telexing one another in the late 2000s And would take instruction over fax, but not encrypted email because it's not secure.  Jaeluni Asjil posted:As a temp in the 1980s I had to interlace carbon paper between 3 sheets of other paper to type any letter or memo in triplicate
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feedmegin posted:Piers Corbyn actually exists if that helps If "climate change denier anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn arrested at lizard people protest" didn't exist, they'd have to create him.
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Regarde Aduck posted:The extroverts broke first and are overtly just ignoring the rules. Introverts are going hard the other way and are trying to reduce the risk of infection to 0.0% which is unsustainable.
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Borrovan posted:When right-wingers complain about comedy being left-wing they usually mean "not openly bigoted" imo You can't really make comedy that isn't critical of the status quo in some way (even the arsehole stuff that can gently caress off), because otherwise there'd be no point of reference for the audience. Like even if you were doing a comedy set in First Dynasty Egypt or the Paleocene or something you'd have to pepper it with a mixture of pop-historical things that you think your audience already knows about the scenario and relatable modern day situations. If you can only view things through broke-brained culture war memes though, that's dirty Marxist indoctrination.
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Communist Thoughts posted:where does that hilarious pro-statue "jamacian countdown" sketch come into this?
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Borrovan posted:I guess we're allowed to keep the absurdist stuff, but Harry Hill's new BBC thing is just a Matt Berry Does... knockoff instead of a TV Burp knockoff like it should rightfully be If you go completely ungrounded you just get early-00s internet cheese monkey pirate ninja badger badger badger type comedy, which only a small number of people can do well and then only in small doses. And eventually collided with society and we got forkboy84 posted:the comic just screams that they identify as an attack helicopter over and over again between bawling "do I offend you snowflakes?"
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Plus working on your own can be more draining and prone to distraction than working in a team, I say writing forums posts at 1pm.Julio Cruz posted:"I wonder if there's a market for sandwich delivery" says the person who clearly has no idea that a) office caterers and b) Deliveroo are things Some of them even deliver to semirural locations. 
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I'm not even particularly rural, only about 20 miles from Glasgow, and yet the only food delivery app we have out here is JustEat, which isn't even strictly the same as something like Deliveroo or UberEats, cuz it uses the restaurant's drivers.
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He's changed his tune then. https://www.theage.com.au/national/abbott-hits-out-at-new-push-on-euthanasia-laws-20070129-ge43fr.html As soon as it started costing money as well, funny that.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Most efficient (cost effective) small portable electric heater - any recommendations? OwlFancier posted:As far as I'm aware there isn't much variety in how efficiently you can convert electricity to heat, because literally everything does that as a byproduct, if it's not making a noise or glowing or doing anything else useful, it's converting electricity to heat, so they're all probably the same in terms of efficiency. So your main choice is probably how much you want to spend to have it not melt or set your house on fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-jmSjy2ArM
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:OK ok, my very sloppy use of language. I guess what I really meant was 'low wattage' - just for background heating. I really don't want a 2kW heater for background. He does raise a valid point about thermostat controls too, the heater is always going to be hotter than the room, so a thermostat on the heater body, whether it's a fine tuned digital one or a simple bimetallic strip will always shut off too soon. You want a thermostat away from the heater. Something like this. re: incandescent lights, I remember during winter we'd put the big light on in the bedroom an hour before bed and it made a significant difference, especially in the single glazing days. A 40W bulb on all the time is enough to keep water from freezing in a shed too (depends on the type obviously, but just as a general observation). Even older, more terrible sources of light are even better heaters, I had a big Aladdin oil lamp in the front room when I first moved in here and the boiler was terrible. Everything they make better in winter they'd make worse in summer though.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Arcane Trickster
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I remember when kids put a bunch of fire crackers and petrol in the dog poo poo bin and it blew the top off the bin and there was scorched dog poo poo everywhere and then the plastic bin burned until there was nothing but a melted plastic wreck on a concrete post and a pile of charred poo poo underneath it. That's the government.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Crank one out, surely. You don't "crack" out a wank like your penis is a christmas cracker or a fortune cookie (i hope) 
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Am I stuck in a 10 minute Groundhog Day about wanking or am I having a stroke? 
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You'll need the equivalent training courses to HGV to operate something like that on the roads. Which of course doesn't stop HGV drivers from doing stuff like that. Not sure if the separate BFG Driving Licence is still a thing, but the army used to teach driving to a lot of other public bodies (fire brigades with large vehicles, Defender training for the GPO etc.)
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It's amazing how much money we (the hard working British tax payer  ) pay to give these people an identity and other psychological needs but giving someone food or water encourages laziness.OwlFancier posted:Love to eat patriotism 4 dinner.  OwlFancier posted:Love to sleep in a patrioatism. 
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justcola posted:I can't find anything in Google as everything seems to return stuff on what Imperial College is doing in response to coronavirus now or subsequent research or articles analysing the original research. I'd like to know how they decided on the October up-swing - did they factor in a temporary lockdown then schools opening and Rishi having people eating Nando's for half price? sassassin posted:Make Great Britain again.
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The Question IRL posted:I saw this cool article floating around on Twitter today.  quote:The exemplary figures of evil today are not ordinary consumers who pollute the environment and live in a violent world of disintegrating social links, but those who, while fully engaged in creating conditions for such universal devastation and pollution, buy their way out of their own activity, living in gated communities, eating organic food, taking holidays in wildlife preserves, and so on. It does make me think about the stuff that I do that hundreds of millions of others couldn't, even if it's not hide in an escape pod level. I still aim to be self sufficient in whiskey and to eliminate 90% of what I recycle within 5 years though. Completely unrelated, I hoped this was a troll but it seems legit: 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:As others have said, withdrawing from your pension before age 55 you could end up with nothing.
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The Question IRL posted:Well the use of Womb in the article makes sense since it was the description given by Dr. Timothy Leary. The author just ran with it. It's funny that Leary committed the exact same failure of imagination though, his big idea was "if everyone did psychedelic drugs then we'd all tune in and there'd be a lot less problems and we'd be more connected." Which suffers from a white guy standpoint issue, because everyone from Ernst Jόnger to Atomwaffen did a ton of psychedelics and it didn't stop any of them being racist fucksticks. Maybe he recognized some of his own failure of understanding human nature in the MIT book. The Question IRL posted:I did like the notion that the billionaires who are looking at private armies to build their fortresses fails at the same level that Doomsday preppers fail at basic things when Covid hit. Angrymog posted:Going back to the news story, isn't a lone person swimming the channel most likely to be, well, someone trying to swim the channel for its own sake? 
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And also with the assumption that the government doesn't just let the second bit of the green curve happen and actually does something.
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The people do not want a second lockdown, I just hope the virus responds constructively to their demands for no second wave.
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OwlFancier posted:I still can't read that goddamn thing because it's a black line and three green lines.  but is this better?
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Ah good. The oh poo poo we're hosed this winter curve is now more accessible.  The Question IRL posted:The failures of others we hate the most are often reflections of our own failings. But at the end of the day they were all just interesting chemicals that can have effects on perception and/or make you trip balls, and do seem to have some fascinating uses in an appropriate psychological setting, but they won't change human nature and they won't make a Nazi not Nazi if they just do them surrounded by other Nazis. The Question IRL posted:Preppers failed for that reason. But also, because at their heart the Preppers want the situation to go full Walking Dead so they have an excuse to shoot
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I think you'll find we're actually doing quite reasonably compared to the era when you could literally indenture people and voting was restricted to five landlords and a pig.
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kingturnip posted:I think there's enough evidence to suggest that renters are, in fact, indentured. They pay so much in rent in many places that there's no option but to keep renting (unless they can get a heap of money from somewhere). Where the end result is that they stay poor, and their landlords get very wealthy indeed. Indenture with a human face that has been outsourced to a letting agency that can't speak to you right at this moment.
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If you see a socialist, please inform XR Police or our police liaison officer. https://twitter.com/copwatcher/status/1300714464224989184
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Doesn't Sargon of Akkad live there too?
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Julio Cruz posted:bin men always smiling when they had to retire at 45 from chronic back complaints 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Top post on their page:  e:  first thing that came up searching for it sums the whole thing up
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bessantj posted:Guy in the bottom photo isn't even smoking and looks a bit foreign, this country has gone to the dogs!
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