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2020. It's... over? We're into  A brief summary of the past year: (some  )January https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1212679425629859840 February https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK2fszWUGCo March https://twitter.com/Jimllpaintit/status/1243554528680706049 April https://twitter.com/llewcid/status/1306530293319446528 May  June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04NXGb1pA6g https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1270106081969213444 July  August  September  October https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZTAdmOLIg November https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1333355057056780288 December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnFMLTTjgkM https://twitter.com/SloughForEU/status/1343901000046931972 Also even though we now have two approved vaccines these may still be useful, because it's still ongoing: 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 Government U-turns again on schools, except some of them. The SNP has appealed to Tory 'humanity' in government approach to refugees who are trying to cross the Channel. Debenhams stores are set to close with the loss of 12,000 jobs after attempts to find a buyer for the retailer fell through when JD Sports pulled out. Four people are killed after a large explosion at a waste water treatment works in Avonmouth, Bristol. The UK becomes the first country to approve the new Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, planning for 40 million in 2021, enough to vaccinate 20 million people. A group of former rugby players including Rugby World Cup winner Steve Thompson begin a claim against the game's authorities after being diagnosed with early signs of dementia, saying that repeated blows to the head from playing the sport are to blame. Protein folding is solved by London-based AI company DeepMind A new mineral, kernowite, is discovered in Cornwall. Brexit. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. Get Organized Month UKMT December 2020 - Best viewed with Brexcape Navigator 4+ UKMT Autumn 2020 - Thou shalt have a Rishi act a little fishi 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) Rubber Ducky Day Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Static Electricity Day 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. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. General Intellect Unit - Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics, and Philosophy; decently in-depth and theory-driven as podcasts go. Alpha 2 Omega - Tom O'Brien talks political strategy. Requires Improvement - Podcast of lefty teachers exploring all things education, from a socialist perspective. Swampside Chats - "The highest communist podcast" Data Privacy Day Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. 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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Brexit 
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Ms Adequate posted:Anyone else feeling weirdly free tonight? Just like... boundlessly unshackled from foreign bureaucrats or something?
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Niric posted:2021 already unmasked as the most disappointing year on record
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Grouchio posted:I got to become a Lord over a square foot of Aberdeenshire land for christmas.
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Regarde Aduck posted:If one person with a square foot kills all the other holders of squared feet, do they automatically obtain the title and can they combine it to actually become a real lord and get a castle and stuff? 
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Back in the day when they'd come into your yard and collect the bins, proper gents, mind you if any of these modern bin men came into my yard I'd have to demand ID. Not because I'm racist, I'm not, I've got the not racist card signed by Trevor Phillips, but some of these modern bin men you see...Ms Adequate posted:*Points at a random sparrow* Once I deal with DEFRA I'm comin' for youse 
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Ms Adequate posted:NOW we're talking  but after the year that has happened I'm willing to be open minded about it. It's definitely better as a sex thing than an arctic drilling thing.
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Well, if there's a way that it can be shoved into an organ in order to generate a pleasurable response then I'm sure that not only will it be profitable in this new coming year but also that there will be people itt who are best placed to configure it so.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:the Sanitary Naptime Tory Blairite Trust Fund 
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Calendar says we get to do the second of January twice, one as Scotland, so I hope that's something new they're rolling out for all days.
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Not even 12 hours in and the Tories have managed to excel at being fuckups with the vaccine.
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We just never bothered having it under control. Almost back over 1,000 deaths per day. Imagine if we'd handled it competently at the ports in February.
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ronya posted:is one even just prepared to be the totalitarian dystopia that is Australia? And if not, why not?
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Convex posted:Also I agree with the sentiment of this: Doctor_Fruitbat posted:The disease was always being transmitted by children, there was never an acceptable reason to allow them to spread it. There's the social reasons to argue for schools, lost learning, saving kids from chaotic home lives or worse things, but "schools now, schools forever!" as a point of moral certainty was never a sensible path.
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Bobstar posted:I read a succinct phrasing of the problem earlier - all spare capacity is treated as waste. Look where that got us. Josef bugman posted:Monday morning. With no way to open schools that didn't hurt And the tier I had for breakfast didn't work So I add one more for dessert
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Once again it seems that the "mysterious new strain" is being used to cover for the loving up the message with schools, as with cancelling Christmas.
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The horror of not being able to do business with e: ^^ yeah
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CyberPingu posted:It looks like one of those intentionally vulnerable web sites used to practice ethical hacking on. e: ^^^ It's still a) not something that has been tested for in the studies, and b) not something that should be tested for in the highly vulnerable populations being prioritized. Getting everyone 80% immune is better than getting half of people 95% immune in general population during a pandemic, but ???% immune vs. 95% immune in specific target populations is not that. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Keir Shatner.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Jon Ronsons book was a long time ago now, I believe hes now explicitly added Jews to the list of people behind all that ails the world, along with the lizard people and so on. Afterword is basically "thank gently caress I wrote this in 2000, when you could still depict a Muslim extremist leader (Omar Bakri) as a kind of casual bigot but not especially frightening or competent, rather than them all being superterrorists in mountain fortresses" (at least until Four Lions) and further notes about a minor internet loudmouth called Alex Jones who pops up in several unrelated chapters to fall on his rear end (also Jones hated Icke for "making people think it was about lizard aliens instead of the real satanic NWO globalists" lol). Icke at the point of the afterword still seemed purely on the lizard bus, but it's a shame that the afterword was 2014 (although I guess that tracks well with the book itself being 2000), because the "decent people don't want hooded robes, Hitler, and the n-word, they want the same politics in a button down shirt" bit from the 'New Klan' section predicted the 'peaceful ethnic cleansing' of the rise of the alt-right in 2015-16 perfectly and I'd have liked to have seen something on that in there. Julio Cruz posted:both famous for having the people wearing red getting absolutely destroyed 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I've been criticised for mixing up viruses and bacteria before  e: Failed Imagineer posted:Avery Brooks psychologically assaulting Shatner through the medium of jazz piano
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thespaceinvader posted:Like... how the gently caress does the UK propose to enforce it? OwlFancier posted:I find it difficult to parse the stupid government language but from reading the article I get the impression that if you don't provide documentation about the VAT you're paying then the goods will be stopped at customs, asuming they get checked.
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Jakabite posted:Id love a news person to just point out that scientific advice doesnt tell you what to do - it gives you some facts and some estimates and some predictions with x% certainty and you use them to balance out other factors and make a decision. The fact this is so poorly understood, and literally never, ever talked about or acknowledged also boils my piss.
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Convex posted:At this point I'm surprised they don't have an alternative newsreader after each news item saying that everything the other presenter just said is all made up.
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Drax is also a village in Yorkshire and a short name for the big power station there.
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Gulping Again posted:also looking at really old, cheap, or stupid things on a sofa. 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Of course the show was written by an Irish man born in India and named for characters in an American cartoon but that's also very, very British. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huSP7PtctC4
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Nutapii posted:I am completely uneducated on these matters, so this is a question - You're told to finish antibiotics as otherwise what you're left with is the strong ones that are now antibiotic resistant. Taking one dose of the vaccine would be more like having a cholera shot and not the booster, I guess. It trains your immune system but not with the same efficacy. But with the cholera shot you were told to act as if you could still spread it even if you weren't symptomatic, which is the general case with cholera anyway, it just lowers your odds of getting a symptomatic case and making GBS threads yourself for days/to death. With the Covid vaccine all the studies were based on two shots so anything otherwise is statistical guesswork. It wouldn't be harmful to make the same assumptions here, get the first shot, keep wearing masks and distancing and washing your hands after you have touched your rear end hole.
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How would kids forget how to use a knife and fork just from being at home for a while unless they're from a culture that doesn't typically use knives and foh it's just more soft racism.
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OwlFancier posted:I am a culture that does not typically use knives and forks if I can avoid it. Eating with your fingers is cool and good, if god had not meant for the british to eat with their fingers then he would not have invented the chip butty.
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Thinking back to primary school, sitting round the table it'd be >80% sandwiches and crisps, sometimes the Asian kids would have things like samosas which are still food inside starch eaten by hand, sometimes one of us would get something with chips and then the chips would become communal. Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by a cooked meal eaten with a knife and fork differs from hunger that devours communal chips with the help of hands, nails and teeth. I'm not sure how any of that helps knife and fork use, so I think they're just making poo poo up. 
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South Korea: Population 51.6m, pop. density 515/sq. km, urbanization 81%. Covid deaths: 981. News latest - We have achieved nuclear fusion world record. United Kingdom: Population 66.6m, pop. density 275/sq. km, urbanization 83% Covid deaths: 75,024. News latest - War criminal: my thoughts on vaccine. We could have done it in the right order if we hadn't hosed up everything else.
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Public Health 101 - If the public don't follow the rules then either the rules weren't fit for purpose or the communication and enforcement wasn't fit for purpose. (Or it was an unwinnable situation, but the existence of other places where this wasn't the case nullifies this.)
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And yet it's the closest to a traditional inactivated virus vaccine and has undergone Phase 3 trials in Brazil. Most of the opposition to further rollout there seems to be political between Sใo Paulo and Bolsonaro rather than a matter of science.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My mother has 2 degrees and an MA so she's not thick. Guavanaut posted:Public Health 101 - If the public don't follow the rules then either the rules weren't fit for purpose or the communication and enforcement wasn't fit for purpose.
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Ewan posted:Unfortunately academic excellence does not automatically equal common sense and 'street smarts'.
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Surprisingly Ireland uses more electricity per capita than the UK (but much less overall). Each person in the Republic consumes on average 628W, whereas each person in the UK consumes 513W, but the UK government has been going around turning as many of them off as possible recently.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Cryptocurrencies are loving stupid but couldn't there be a way of running one where the mining actually processes data that's worth something for humanity? Like Folding @ Home or something. It's not all useless, you could feasibly have a number of parties who don't necessarily trust one another, but can verify who each other are (states, hawala networks, etc.), and are limited by treaty or common cause at how much power they can throw at it, use it to run a ledger between one another or similar. You could do that with a dozen nintendos though.
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