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Noxville posted:I wondered why some people had been letting off fireworks at 11pm rather than waiting til midnight, until one of my friends on our Google Meet call suggested it was probably people celebrating Brexit since that officially happened at midnight CET. Fucks sake. I had some fireworks going off from around 9pm here, so I think it was mainly for kids who didn’t stay up for midnight.
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Mr Phillby posted:Still reeling from Ronya's political analysis that the Tories put too much faith into their track and trace solution when they gave billions to their mates and then had the bar staff write your details down on a slip of paper. I dunno, I just think that they think it’s just how it works? “We need a track and trace system, who should run it?” “Oh, my good chum Alan knows some people, they’re real wizzes with this stuff!” “Great, chuck them a few dozen billion, job sorted. The private sector are the real experts after all.” And then their trust in the private sector is so fundamental to everything they believe that even a complete failure doesn’t shake it. “Well, we gave it to the experts, there’s nothing else we could have done!” Basically it’s idiocy combined with incredible laziness combined with a totally unshakable free-market worldview. Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Jan 2, 2021 05:35
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forkboy84 posted:Twitter seems convinced Keith is going to resign tomorrow, which seems like the most staggering optimism but y'know, it'd be nice to not absolutely hate Labour. I think Gibbo’s back with the deets.
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Jan 2, 2021 17:18
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Necrothatcher posted:lmao was reading some drippy Guardian article about Keith and The problem with this kind of polling is that it self-selects for participants who won’t answer questions like that with “is that seriously your loving question? No I don’t know what animal political leaders would be, I’m hanging up now, don’t call me again,” so you get a less intelligent polling base.
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Jan 3, 2021 18:19
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Sounds like a maybe good idea, but only if the government had been planning it for most of the last year (and they were competent in the first place). Suggesting this for something happening tomorrow morning is just kind of bizarre.
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Jan 4, 2021 02:10
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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.
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Jan 4, 2021 14:41
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What weirdo was still on the Lib Dem train until now, but finally thought it was time to bite the bullet and support the Tories?
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Jan 4, 2021 14:44
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I bought an LG CX 55-inch 4K OLED TV over the summer - it's really fantastic, probably the best ever big tech purchase I've ever made. But the one downside is that I used one of those graphs to determine which was the best size for me, and now I really regret not getting a bigger screen. 55 inches felt like it was huge at first, but I got used to it very quickly. I definitely recommend going as large as you can. And make your own double-entendre jokes.
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Jan 4, 2021 16:22
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Jan 4, 2021 16:41
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Ewan posted:The best type of power plant is a giant array of solar panels in space that then transmit the energy down to earth via a highly-concentrated microwave energy beam aimed at a receiver. Actually, I think you’ll find that the real solution to our energy problems is to create a mountain and then cover it in water, turning it entirely into waterfall blocks that you can then place entirely clean hydroelectric plants on. Best of doing this in the terrain editor before you build your city, though.
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Jan 4, 2021 22:58
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Camrath posted:The problem with Ferrero Rocher or other complicated sweets is that during the cooking they’d melt and break apart, losing all structural integrity. So you’d get little pieces of wafer, nuts etc in a chocolate fudge. Which would still be nice, but not totally sure how the texture would work out. The chocolate cream in the middle of a Ferrero Rocher is literally just Nutella, so you could quite easily make Nutella fudge, I imagine.
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Jan 5, 2021 00:51
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Ash Crimson posted:What else could explain the disparity? Why is England getting hit the hardest in terms of total deaths? Don't get me wrong there's plenty of idiots in Scotland who are acting like we're not living through the literal plague and seem to think this will blow over this year (2021 is pretty much a write off tbh even with a vaccine) You’re like three posts away from praising your superior Caledonian genes.
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Jan 6, 2021 23:19
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Beefeater1980 posted:One of the great pleasures of our current turbulent times has been watching centrists gradually radicalise: Joly's really one of the better ones, but these people aren't radicalising, they're returning to normal. For years these people considered themselves left-wing, and probably even radical. They complained about Tony Blair being too far right. But when the actual possibility of real positive change arose, they all slunk into their true selves. Now that the threat of anything worthwhile being done appears to have receded, they're slowly returning to their ideal forms - being able to passionately complain about injustice, safe in the knowledge that nothing will actually change and they won't be effected.
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Jan 7, 2021 14:41
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's just literally this: It's actually kind of the opposite. They were always calling for better things, and then when the needle unexpectedly hit the point where they were actually viable they bitterly complained about it. e: I'm an idiot and didn't notice the edits to the famous cartoon.
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Jan 7, 2021 15:49
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Bobstar posted:Isn't that what the comic's saying? The more possible the better things are (Corbyn), the more they fight them. Conversely, as depicted, the less possible they are, the more they love them (see: 5 years of rending their garments at how bad the Tories were, pre-Corbyn) You literally quoted my edit where I said I misread the cartoon.
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Jan 7, 2021 15:51
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Apparently Andrew Neil literally owns a flat in Trump Tower.
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Jan 7, 2021 18:56
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Jan 11, 2021 18:14
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Off topic slightly but some folks will get a kick out of this. It’s that time of the year where I get on with the depressing task of shopping around for car insurance when my current provider inevitably whacks the renewal up. Despite not having any offences or incidents. Ash Crimson drafting up a post already.
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Jan 11, 2021 19:27
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It's barely UKpol but it's funny to see Hadley Freeman get bodied on Twitter for this bollocks: https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1348897002885668870 e: No, I've decided this is a good snipe.
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Jan 12, 2021 16:21
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Borrovan posted:I actually don't believe that one's real You'll have your sixth of a carrot and like it! Anyway, SATC was fine for what it was at the time, but few pieces of media have aged more poorly. It's about a woman who lives in a Manhattan apartment and owns shitloads of expensive shoes and dresses, yet her only income appears to be from writing a single 500 word article about dating a week that is so low-effort that she is able to type it out while sitting cross-legged on her bed. It's like the entire programme is a spit into the face of millennials. This new version should just be the women hanging around in cafes while current thirty-somethings scream at them. Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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Jan 12, 2021 18:14
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Sheldon Adelson and one of the Barclay brothers dead on the same day. Maybe they’ll be stuck in purgatory as the demons can’t handle such a bounty at once.
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Jan 13, 2021 03:18
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I wonder how much of Labour's slight poll rise in the last year has been due solely to old people dying of Covid.
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Jan 14, 2021 14:30
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keep punching joe posted:lmao there is an election in a couple of months, doesn't it take labour an age to select new leaders? They might have inside knowledge that the election has been delayed, which has been speculated by many.
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Jan 14, 2021 17:11
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Jose posted:lol the democrats promised people $2k checks when biden took over and have instantly pivoted to $1400 checks because it was in fact a total of $2k they were talking about That was always what they were talking about.
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Jan 15, 2021 12:44
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Wolfsbane posted:Yeah, if you read the small print. The adverts were all talking about $2000 cheques. I mean, the whole thing was about the stimulus cheques, and the Democrats wanted $2000, but the Republicans only allowed $600. Those cheques have now gone out. The Democrats said if they took the Senate they'd up it to $2k. So the $1400 means they are. There's plenty of poo poo to complain about the Democrats about but this is them explicitly meeting an election promise.
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Jan 15, 2021 12:57
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Jose posted:Hello I am the wallet inspector I looked in my wallet after and it had another $1400 in it, as promised.
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Jose posted:being a nation of bootlickers is bad but at least there is this While this is good, I feel like a large part of the reason for this is that the Tories have hosed up so hard that a vaccination is literally the only hope for any real future. It's so bad that even anti-vaxxers, are like "I'll risk it, the alternative is horrifying". Anyway - lol: https://twitter.com/MorganPaulett/status/1349758119895818243 (To be clear this is not Morgan's bedroom).
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The big difference between forums like this and social media sites is scale of audience. Sites like Facebook and Twitter have the implicit wider goal of getting literally every single human being using their site, and the systems are set up to allow huge numbers. If SA had Facebook numbers using it (and the tech somehow managed okay) the forum would be completely unreadable. It reminds me of this flash-in-the-pan social network from years ago that I think was called Path. It got a lot of buzz when it launched, with users talking about how refreshing and friendly things were on there. But this was because the only people using it were all the same 20-something hipsters and they didn’t have to put up with their racist gran also being on there. Suffice to say, Path didn’t last long.
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In 2025 we all hate Simon Hedges et al for inadvertently bringing about the revitalisation of Tony Blair’s political career.
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Jan 17, 2021 01:18
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How To Lose Friends And Alienate People was made before Toby “came out” as a right-winger, so he was just a general knobhead journalist and as such was just about acceptable as a sympathetic character. Now he’s a murderer.
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Jan 18, 2021 02:25
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Bernie has shown solidarity with Corbyn by wearing a grey parka to the inauguration.
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Jan 20, 2021 18:02
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I mean if there were a number of posters telling us that English nationalism is cool and good and extolling the inherent superiority of the people living inside the magic line on the map there'd probably be a fairly strong reaction to that, I'm sure. But enough about the Northern Independence Party.
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A bit of USPOL spilling out into our interests: https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1352766592334102528 If only.
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Jan 23, 2021 14:59
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It would have been nice if the incredible political engagement during the Indyref had led to any real examination of the massive and mendacious lies the SNP told during that campaign, and had punished the. In any way afterwards instead of handing them huge electoral success. I do think that they heavily inspired the brexit campaign. They proved that lying in a referendum is win-win.
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Vagabong posted:Would Scotland leaving the union harm the chances of any kind of left-wing government in the UK as a whole? It's 59 parliamentary seats that could be expected to vote more left wing than the rest of the country, although I understand that this has only really been true since the 80s(?) and also Scottish independence could shake up the English political sphere. It's crab bucket logic but I guess if you were living in England/Wales and wanted the tories out you'd be anti-independence on pragmatic grounds, while if you had similar opinions but lived in Scotland Independence might seem a faster and more permanent route to the same goal. It would massively harm the chances of an even vaguely left-wing government in the rUk. The most likely outcome of Scottish independence would be a neoliberal tax haven north of the border and a colossal Tory majority to the south of it. It’s basically international gerrymandering, which is probably why Rupert Murdoch is such a big fan of it.
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forkboy84 posted:I mean, I think it's far more likely that the Brexit campaign was influenced more by the Better Together campaign if anything. Both sides were plenty comfortable bending the truth to fit a narrative, let's not kid on here. I’m not defending the Better Together campaign, it was terrible. But the BT campaign also didn’t inspire a huge political movement that then took the rest of Scottish politics by storm. And the SNP were campaigning for a very similar thing to the Brexit campaign: leaving a political union. The reasons the Brexit campaign would be influenced by the Yes campaign are obvious. quote:As opposed to now where the chances of a vaguely left-wing British government are somewhere between Diddly & Squat? Away & shite with that emotional blackmail. It’s not emotional blackmail, it’s just a basic statement of fact. That is the most likely outcome from Scottish independence. We all wish Labour had done just a little bit better in the 2017 election and then we’d have had a Corbyn-led government. But they were nowhere near getting a full majority. That government would only have been possible with some kind of SNP support (and incidentally, the Tory gains in Scotland were just enough for them to form a majority). The same would have been true in 2019, even with our wildest dreams of Labour success coming true. And the same is still likely in any near-ish election coming up. Even if Labour does great, even if the left somehow took control of the party again and became whatever you wish the Labour Party could be, the chances of forming a majority without Scotland in 2024 are extremely low. Without Scotland, I’d say that we’d likely have Tory rule in the rUK for another couple of decades, probably until the boomers really start dying off en masse. Although, there is the possibility that losing Scotland would be such an embarrassment that the government collapses, I think that’s pretty unlikely. In Scotland, a very neoliberal tax haven is the most likely outcome, it was the stated SNP plan in 2014, and the party has moved somewhat to the right since then, and the country has roundly rejected socialism twice. This is just a dispassionate prediction on my part. If you think that Scottish independence would still be worth it, it’s not like there are zero reasons to still support it even considering that. Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jan 24, 2021 |
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Vitamin P posted:Good post otherwise but good lord what do you think the livespan of human beings is? Absolute gen x erasure itt ??? There is a big age range for Boomers, but an average of mid-60s is fairly reasonable. That gives them about 20 years. Obviously their numbers will thin as time goes on, but without Scotland we’ll need way more of them to die.
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They don’t need photoshop to fake a picture of Boris being in the phone. They just go into his office and have him hold the phone up to his fat face. E: in other news, it’s only loving snowing, lads!
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