Failed Imagineer posted:

You can just say petite bourgeoisie

Red Oktober posted:

Because you can't just 'transfer' the money, especially not at that scale. You need something to have invoiced for - this can be fees, reimbursements, kit, tests etc sure, but it can't just be "here is some money".

Like, there is no doubt there's massive grift and buddy-contracts going on, but I just can't imagine what the billing lines could actually say to reach these numbers.

MikeCrotch posted:

No

I say folks but it's an adopted thing

Saying y'all or all y'all sounds like you are doing a bit so I don't do that

Borrovan posted:

An academic engineer I know put in a module proposal on the importance of diversity in engineering. It had some really interesting stuff in it, not just on representation &c but on specific problems resulting from (e.g.) nobody noticing that people other than cishet white men exist.

It was not accepted. The higher-ups in the school of engineering didn't think it was important.

kyojin posted:

Is it relevant that he was off duty because if he were on duty the rape and murder would be legally allowable under the new bill? Or is that not yet passed?

Rumda posted:

It's really bizarre how leftists who normally decry racism and nationalism will suddenly get all blood and soil to dunk on the monarchy

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I think they're the same style but orientated differently. (This post is not to be taken as an endorsement of Starmer's NuLabour.)

Failed Imagineer posted:

The bit I bolded here is specifically NOT what I suggested. "Going around" would obviously imply leaving a lot of distance (ideally with other people in between), not running at someone from behind (??) . Then "running towards her" is also not something I suggested...

Actually, gently caress your whole post. Implying that you can't be thoughtful and modify your behaviour to not stress or freak people out is just privileged stubborn ignorance.

Ditto this whole framing of "logic vs emotion" - women aren't afraid of assault because they view the world through a haze of womanly emotions, its actually perfectly logical to be wary of being attacked by someone twice your size given that it happens constantly and literally every woman has personal experience of being intimidated or otherwise victimized (at the very least).

Christ your whole post is one step away from "Women eh, you just can't win". Please desist

Lungboy posted:

I've barely stopped laughing at the Elizabeth class carrier and the F35s from your last pod, hopefully this one is as funny.

Fascist gets thrown around a lot these days, but the government banning all protests that cause disruption to business feels like an actual precursor to fascism.

OwlFancier posted:

Consider infesting your residence with wasps to fight the rats.

OwlFancier posted:

I think a possible hole in the longevity of that state is the lovely graph that shows that millenials own absolutely jack poo poo and have no money, so they are very unlikely to be "doing well"

It may be a state of mind but it is a state of mind that is heavily created by material conditions, conditions which are rapidly vanishing for everyone outside the increasingly retracting drawbridge.

stev posted:

I'd like to think that inheriting a home won't suddenly turn every young person and leftie into a FYGM type. Maybe I'm just being optimistic and naïve but I have to cling to the belief that my generation and those after will be better.

Not to mention the fact that inheritance is going to get more and more diluted over the next few generations as living costs rise and people living longer need to pay out the nose for more care with dwindling state support.

Angepain posted:

We should give people a free chocolate orange after voting, to ensure only the correct people are encouraged to vote.

Failed Imagineer posted:

To my British comrades - I'm giving you each permission to use one anti-Irish slur today. You've been so good all year

stev posted:

I can't think of any other retailer or restaurant that simultaneously overcharges and devalues its own products to such a huge extent as Dominos and Pizza Hut.

I assume they must make a lot off people willing to pay full price, but it must mostly be dickheads with too much cash who happily spend £500 on 30 pizzas for a party or to show off.

Antigravitas posted:

Gigantic compiled lists of user names, mails, passwords slosh around the Internet. You can buy them for a tenner. Whenever another service gets its account database siphoned off the lists grow. If that service decided to store passwords in plain text, the price goes up a few cents.

People buy those lists and just stuff them into random online services.

Angepain posted:

We've consulted our best soothsayers and 2024 is going to be interesting

Vitamin P posted:

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Nonsense posted:

I hope Prince Philip The Good recovers quickly and returns to the affairs of state.

Beefeater1980 posted:

It seems virtually certain that I am coming back to the UK in May. I will be doing this to help a Chinese company get started in UK, which despite Brexit remains the biggest European market for what we do.

What’s the sentiment these days toward China? In my mind there’s a kind of slider on how the general population sees other countries, which goes from (foreign but it’s not their fault -> foreign and therefore suspect -> basically The Enemy); where is China on that in TYOOL 2021?

ThomasPaine posted:

Did ZG not used to be a good poster, iirc?

Tesseraction posted:

publicly owned by bureaucracy clearly I need to go full Spiked Online about this

Camrath posted:

people were already cutting the chunks into smaller pieces

Noxville posted:

I thought Starmer was going to be poo poo but not this poo poo. Still very possible that Nandy would have been worse.

Communist Thoughts posted:

It's VERY much playing with fire but the UK consistently plays with fire cause a fire could never happen here.

Rarity posted:

Who would have me on ignore, I'm a beloved posting institution