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Jakabite posted:Schools need to be closed? Make sure kids can get the materials they need to keep learning, whatever the cost. PS happy-within-realistic-parameters new year, thread, I hope you all at least found solace in something over the last few weeks. I found a banging chocolate orange trifle recipe for anyone that wants it.
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jiggerypokery posted:Has anywhere ever successfully harnessed tidal at scale?
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Jan 4, 2021 15:29
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*reading job description*leader of her majesty's most loyal- yep, I can do this, no point in reading the rest
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Jan 5, 2021 10:48
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Flayer posted:Now it looks like we're facing over a thousand deaths a day at the same time we are rolling out the vaccine and the end is in sight. It defies belief.
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Jan 5, 2021 12:42
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Yeah I know, it's been an utterly mental plan throughout for everyone apart from hardcore denialists & short-termists*, hence why having a vaccine it a lot more believable imo that they'd try to take the rest of the deaths on the chin at this point: they didn't give a gently caress about long term consequences before, & now it's short term all the way** *in fact business attitudes towards covid policy are a great case study on short-termism & irrationality in business, pretty much all of them were all like "idc if it costs me £100 tomorrow, I want to keep my £5 today" **death is short term, right? they get better??
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Jan 5, 2021 12:56
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It was good policy to open them for one day because "every day counts", apart from all of the ones other than yesterday
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Jan 5, 2021 13:00
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Jakabite posted:I think the point is that Greenwich is the one Williamson was threatening legal action against if they closed their schools. Basically what I'm saying is, there is almost always a way to improve things in your own life, if not wider society, so just do that for a bit probably. Society's pretty hosed, but if you've done your part (which you have) you should be able to rest easy. Spring's coming, music still exists, even the tories can't cancel some things.
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Jan 5, 2021 13:40
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Guavanaut posted:If anything, getting so close to any real change can provide the impetus for a future movement. Just need to make sure it isn't a weird Trotskyist sex cult. *yeah I know the party apparatus will be conspiring to make sure that doesn't happen again, and as we all know centrists are not at all prone to getting high off their own farts and endlessly repeating the same mistakes due to hubris,
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Jan 5, 2021 13:58
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stev posted:I agree but there's a part of my brain that can't help but make slippery slope arguments. What happens when Johnson and chums decide that "socialism can work" is a dangerous lie and act accordingly? Much better to go after the platforms themselves, slap massive fines on the social media companies &c that allow people to spread their bullshit. (& re Keith: on the one hand, at least it's a loving policy - & a well-intentioned one at that - but on the other it's probably pretty telling that babby's first policy is straight from the authoritarian school of thought that gave us Blairite counter-terror legislation)
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Jan 6, 2021 12:34
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Guavanaut posted:This is a problem that has been raised by the EFF, that BAME and LGBT people are more at risk of prosecution under hate speech laws than Toby Young is, because our government and society in general is more systemically biased against them, and because as individuals they usually have less resources to fight it, but does that mean that you just throw your hands up and allow people to incite any shite on youtube? I'm not saying that free speech shouldn't be restricted btw, just that the state is loving poo poo at it
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My sister reckons BBC news aren't covering it at all. Anyone confirm yes or no? (I don't mean online BBC).
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Jan 6, 2021 22:22
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By my authority as some random I hereby decree that we should all go outside & fling poo poo at each other's houses at midnight each Friday in support of, uh, the Fire Service where's my BBC article e: vvvv "Fling for Firemen", my pointless gesture's just straight-up better 
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Jan 7, 2021 11:13
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flinging poo poo everywhere whilst screaming about biological sex being real is very modern Britain tbf
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Jan 7, 2021 11:20
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Beefeater1980 posted:One of the great pleasures of our current turbulent times has been watching centrists gradually radicalise: If anything the sudden transition back is giving me whiplash
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Jan 7, 2021 12:03
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crispix posted:I think given who did it the consequences will be bad tbh I enjoyed seeing cops getting maced tbh. Hopefully they'll remember that next time they're considering how to respond to the far right (narrator voice: they did not)
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Jan 8, 2021 12:32
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Ash Crimson posted:Care to expand? Ash Crimson posted:anyone can be and can adopt the nationality
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Jan 9, 2021 00:13
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OwlFancier posted:I think it is the part where you keep saying that it's "the english" and "england" who are like that while "scotland" is cool and good, that makes people think you mean that. e: * e.g. ^^^ Borrovan posted:I don't want to, why does that make me responsible for what rich people do
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Tesla was right posted:Call the baddies Westminster instead of England if you don't actually believe the English are a kind of orc.
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I think it might be possible to attack the concept of England without consistently blaming "the English" as a collective whole for all of the UK's problems. For example, I think that the concept of England is poo poo, but that's due to the 1% of rich cunts in it,* and definitely not due to the literal majority of the population who don't vote Tory e: *it's actually due to the concept of nation states being inherently poo poo, but my point still stands
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Jan 9, 2021 01:11
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Supporting Scottish/Welsh/Kernowek/Northumbrian/whatever independence is fine, as is highlighting the crimes of England, but popping in every few days to say "boy, English people sure are bad, huh", then getting indignant and sealioning for hours when people react entirely predictably, is just so loving tiresome. I usually try to ignore it but I was drunk last night & frankly it's been like 3 days since the last episode , jfc e: endlessmonotony posted:It's still not hard to read from context though, so that's on almost everyone else. Borrovan fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Jan 9, 2021 |
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Jan 9, 2021 12:27
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Off out for a run, taking my water bottle with me cuz gently caress the police
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Jose posted:Acab but cheerleading these people getting arrested is cool and good regardless
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Jan 11, 2021 13:05
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stev posted:It also has the effect of funnelling everyone into parks and fields. I went for a walk down the common at the weekend and it was heaving because it's one of the few things people can do outside without feeling guilty. Instead, we've been shamelessly breaking the rules and driving off somewhere quiet when we want to go for a walk (staying within the general local area, obviously). Odd trend that I've noticed is that literally everyone you encounter walking in places that you'd have to drive to get to are really good at social distancing, people just get the hell out of the way and are very polite about it. Only the rulebreakers are actually acting with any sense, basically.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So I think a while ago a few people were saying that they'd signed up for the NHS Volunteer Responders thing and never got a single request. I was in this boat too and actually changed phones in the summer so completely forgot about it, and have just set it back up because I Also got a new phone since, should probably reinstall if people actually need it
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Jan 11, 2021 15:30
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https://twitter.com/andrew_adonis/status/1269657417308143617?lang=en Apparently a consensus on Blair has just emerged in the last 6 months That or Adonis is a shameless grifter seizing any opportunity to lie about how everyone loves Blair as much as him 
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Jan 11, 2021 15:49
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Dugong posted:Having my first Asda delivery arrive today and got an email this morning saying half my items can't be included in the delivery. Is this normal? It's not anything exotic, stuff like bin bags aren't available. Brexit? Panic buying? Covid-related supply interruptions? Who knows!
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Jan 11, 2021 21:05
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Tarnop posted:A word of warning: insurance companies log quote attempts through comparison sites against your IP address. So fiddling with stuff like mileage and voluntary excess is no issue, but if you start messing around with quotes at lots of different postcodes, changing whether or not your car is modified, adding and removing past claims, then that all gets recorded and they may use that against you if you take the policy and then make a claim.
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Jan 11, 2021 21:09
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Guavanaut posted:1x Gibraltar
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Jan 12, 2021 11:46
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He's socially liberal because he doesn't think it should actually be illegal to be a [insert litany of homophobic slurs]Communist Thoughts posted:He was seen as anti-british. 
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Jan 12, 2021 12:25
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keep punching joe posted:Pretty sure Scottish government just directly send cash to parents of free school meal recipients. Seems more efficient than packing up a hamper of wilted veg and baked beans. (see also:  parents will just spend it on drugs & lootboxes)
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Jan 12, 2021 13:04
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If all of youse wanted to eat the posh-people school dinners, you should have worked harder back in your amniotic sacs, frankly
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Jan 12, 2021 13:19
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Oh, so just because her mum & dad obviously got her the job you assume she's not qualified to get the job based on her own merits? This is classism of the worst kind.
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Jan 12, 2021 15:06
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Apropos of nothing I just remembered that it's the launch event for
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Jan 12, 2021 16:31
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Jel Shaker posted:do torrents not exist anymore?  straight from your PC(I used to use a Chromecast but Plex is miles easier, in case anyone isn't aware)
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Jan 12, 2021 16:41
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I actually don't believe that one's real The fruit & veg is fresh, for a start
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Jan 12, 2021 18:02
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Angepain posted:i don't have the link but this is not the only photo of these i've seen that has used a coin bag as a food container. guess they're just using whatever's lying around Jaeluni Asjil posted:And all because maybe 10 people sold their vouchers for drugs or whatever. Millions shall be punished. Either way, Citation loving Needed
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imo it's a snappy Whether that's applicable here though: well yeah imo it is, people don't want to seem soft on starving children in case the Daily Mail brigade call them leftie do-gooders, so they deliberately bake cruelty into the design in much the same way as the welfare system. I don't think it's right to attribute it to laziness, or carelessness or w/e, because somebody has obviously put careful thought into what they think the minimum they can get away with supplying is, they've done that for a reason, and the reason isn't to save money because it almost certainly costs more, even in the short term. But, whether or not the cruelty is "the point" in this situation is arguable enough that a snappy simplistic buzz-phrase is less useful, because then you end up in a twelve hour argument about semantics, rather than making your real point, that the State is needlessly cruel for ideological reasons. Jakabite's core thesis about intellectual laziness is right, basically, but that doesn't mean it isn't a useful phrase in situations like this, even if this particular case is borderline enough that "snappiness" has much less rhetorical value. In general, a snappy phrase that isn't actually what you really mean invariably only appeals to people who already agree with you, confuses anyone on the fence, and causes pedantic arguments with your opponents wherein you just get talked down to for not knowing the meaning of words (  ). "When we say defund the police, what we really mean is..." just makes you look disingenuous and confused.Basically, when you say ACAB, you had better mean literally every individual copper & be prepared to double down on that, because they all are, they are bastards Topical: police murdered a guy in Cardiff this weekend, he was arrested for a public order offence at his home & released without charge covered in cuts & bruises, and then died. "Arrested for a public order offence at his home and released without charge" is my least favourite euphemism, why can't they just say "he didn't like us harassing him at his home for no reason so we abducted him and beat him to death", everyone knows that they'd have got him for something else and/or charged him if there was actually a reason for any of it
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BurningCourage posted:If not it is possible to pursue them through small claims for the half they owe. There's always a good chance of people backing down at the first letter from the courts - or even a "hi I'm filling in the court papers right now r u sure u don't want to pay" - but if they're unusually lazy, contentious or poor, just be warned that making a money claim will take ages, and might not get you a satisfactory resolution
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I can't read "Chartwells" without hearing Woody Harrelson as Larry Flint calling Jerry Falwell "Fartwell". Shart well.
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