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Guavanaut posted:A free market in electricity might make some sense if they were offering some different form of electricity. Edison is offering 120V DC, but Westinghouse is offering 240V AC, but Duracell is offering 1.5V DC, who won? You decide! You've got to create the illusion of choice or people might realise you're just another landlord. When I was switching suppliers after moving to my new flat, uSwitch asked me what tariff I was currently on and there were like fifty different ones just from British gas lol Decided to go for SSE because they had the cheapest looking dual gas/electricity thing without a smart meter, because the only tangible benefit they can offer is me only having to remember to pay one gas/electricity landlord, and also my landlord's landlord who owns the building has some clause in the contract about changing utilities infrastructure, and I couldn't be bothered to ask for permission. Plus, they're all in a communal cupboard and no one else has one so I thought they might say no. Then I started getting spam calls, like multiple times a day. Googled the number and it's SSE trying to upgrade me to a smart meter, so I answered and spent about ten minutes trying to explain to the guy that I didn't really want to make an appointment until I had checked whether I'm allowed a smart meter, before just giving up and hanging up the call. plus if I stay here next year I will have absolutely no hesitation about swapping supplier again, and sounds like the smart meter would make that a faff also the internet landlords have decided that there's absolutely no way they can use the existing internet line so I have to ask my landlord and probably my landlord's landlord for permission to drill an unspecified number of holes in order to get a new one installed if I ever want to have wired internet it's loving landlords all the way down XMNN fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Noxville posted:Wistfully thinking back to 5+ years ago when this would be an explosive story that would destroy a party leader’s career I know time is funny in 2020 but Corbyn was still leader earlier this year
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namesake posted:Leavers keep not changing their mind because everything that has happened has happened on tv. The various international connections that impact their lives will only become apparent once severed, even if it's lovely bourgie concerns like they can't get European labour for cheap any more. maybe but if I'm not particularly confident that the general public will suddenly start correctly identifying the causes of poo poo that's going wrong on the 1st of January look at what's happened with covid and bojo is still polling 40+%
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I don't think anyone's made a home thermal printer since the 8-bit days. They get used for till receipts and stuff because of the outright speed of printing and ease of maintenance (no ink/toner to replace, just top up the paper, only moving part is the paper feed) - I'm 99.9% certain that the actual price per page is considerably higher than conventional inkjet/laser. you can get longer lasting stuff (like 20+ years just from a quick google) but I presume its more expensive, and I imagine that is still heavily dependent on storage conditions the company I used to work for sold lots of stuff to the pharma industry and most of that had thermal printers because it's really old/cheap (once something is validated, good luck getting them to drop it even if it's completely outdated/illogical), and they need the records to be legible for however many years afterwards for the regulators think they're trying to move to impact printers though
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Jose posted:I hate him so much ah blood and soil
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dispatch_async posted:https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1338445422294130692 he's just had his racism training so he should have been all over it
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Aphex- posted:https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1338445662590029829?s=20 lol it's not even a particularly nasty insult for the record I definitely would tell him he had potato brain irl
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crispix posted:i'd have said pease pudding ok now this is taking things too far
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Lungboy posted:I was wondering the same thing, plus why was Mendoza banned and then reinstated on Twitter the other day? I know some people hate the monetisation model the Canary uses but this seems way ott for that. I think she got mass reported by the Lee harpin crowd for calling JLM white supremacists, and then when it turned out she didn't actually call them white supremacists so they unsuspended her? https://twitter.com/SCynic1/status/1333102407396581378?s=20 all I saw was Lee having a mini meltdown because he can't read https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1333383719177084929?s=20 https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1333416527102693379?s=20 https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1333486763638206465?s=20 https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1333490184755798020?s=20 https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1333491656973279233?s=20
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Jose posted:Absolutely dire but also why isn't this whoever the new shadow education secretary is? lol that she's asking for Boris to take personal charge of the situation, that will definitely help  also you'd have thought they'd have learnt after the first time they said they wanted kids back in school no ifs no buts
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which then leads the journalists to ask three questions at once, so Boris can fob one off on an adviser, come up with a non-answer to the second and just ignore the third
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judging people for taking money from a CIA front, sounds like someone's jealous
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Fumble posted:Boris Johnson is a loving oval office.
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therattle posted:I hear you on the tests but that was in very different circumstances. The general point about opposition is uncontentious but what would you have Labour do here in this specific instance? abstain? I'm sure starmer remembers how  or at least a free vote
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and the former editor of the sun (and apparently founder of talksport? always knew they were sus) https://twitter.com/lukemcgee/status/1342872024222466059?s=19 when it was just the one tweet about patel I wasn't entirely sure, because although it's very plausible it's just a tweet with no source, but if the right-wing press decide that's where they want to go next then it's pretty much inevitable at this point
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Jose posted:Brits abroad definitely need killing tbf they should really have seen that coming you're dealing with people who decided to go on holiday in the middle of a pandemic, obviously they don't give a poo poo
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ronya posted:the pandemic worldwide generally has had a pro-incumbent effect, regardless of a left- or right-leaning government in power; Johnson's government not seeing such a bounce and instead steadily falling as the Brexit honeymoon wore off is about the extent of its polling penalty for its mismanagement I'm not sure it's accurate to characterise them as preferring safety, if they're supporting the governments that are very demonstrably failing to keep them safe?
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given all this extra information I'm lolling even harder than I did originally at the people in the replies who were insisting this man deserved sympathy for being duped https://twitter.com/alijmcc/status/1343901788630605824 https://twitter.com/mikeyb0012/status/1343903856917422088 https://twitter.com/BrudenellJack/status/1343926756386942978  this man who actively campaigned for something for years has now been brutally self owned by the economic disaster he helped bring about
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https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1344341076266639362 love to adopt a wait and see approach to my pandemic response, a year into my series of wait and see responses disastrously backfiring
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kecske posted:I bet it was colin https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-42416724 looks like you were right I'm not sure what you win for guessing correctly
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Jose posted:Guess who was interviewed lol quote:Sir Keir went onto defend his decision to serve in the Shadow Cabinet under Mr Corbyn.
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lord frogface of manston airfield
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