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 We're getting a bit of the paranoid's exponent in recent Covid cases, but no increase in daily deaths, which I'm really hoping holds in two weeks' time.  In Other News  • Almost all the UK's 50 biggest employers plan not to return staff to the office full-time, preferring a combination of rotas and remote work. • Gunboats are deployed to the Channel Islands as French and local fishermen blockade harbours. • Labour keep hold of the Senedd and match the party's best ever result, with 30 out of 60 seats in Wales. • The SNP and Greens have an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament. • Labour eats poo poo in local elections in England, with most stating leader Keir Starmer as the reason. Deputy leader Angela Rayner is reshuffled as a result. • Sadiq Khan wins a second term, but with a reduced vote share. 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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. 
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ronya posted:Anti-pornography second-wave feminism existed also in the US (including many of its stranger alliances which are familiar today)   ronya posted:it's true that in the 1990s there is a undeniable divergence. Constitutionalism is a strong force in the US. Anti-pornography feminism foundered on the rocks of much tougher US conceptions of free speech - initial successes in the 1980s were decisively crushed in court - and instead anti-harassment feminism began to displace it as the primary active movement. This would shift the context to civil rights and harms in the workplace. ronya posted:The flip side is that faith-and-family conservatism went on from strength to strength on the right in the US throughout the 1990s and 2000s, whereas it faded into irrelevance in the UK with the collapse of back-to-basics Toryism ronya posted:In the UK however the campaign against Page Three, lad mags, etc. continued to gather steam and only succeeded in the 2010s.
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mediaphage posted:christians going pro-fetus is very interesting to me. when roe v wade was announced a number of conservative groups like the southern baptists were pretty ambivalent and open to the idea of some abortions. Like if you concern yourselves with the people you're supposed to according to the Bible, hungry, homeless, sick, prisoners, etc. then you're going to be spending a lot of time advocating for people who are sometimes abrasive and difficult to work with and might not even be grateful about it. It's still right to feed people and oppose inhumanity and all the rest, and you shouldn't do that for applause, but because it's right (and for Christians, because it should be considered a matter of salvation), but it's hard thankless work and then you sometimes get called a oval office at the end of it. Whereas the unborn don't talk back, and so it doesn't require any serious effort (material or moral) to advocate for them. You get a quick dose of feel-good at no expense. You ever see the pro-lifers going around poor communities giving out vitamin and folic acid supplements and providing dietary advice and smoking cessation products to pregnant people and fighting for clean water? I don't, even though that would prevent thousands of spontaneous abortions. Because it's all about lazy feel good moralism without having to leave your sofa other than to wave signs and shout at people. The preacher didn't directly link this to neoliberalism, Bush-Reaganism, anti-welfare sentiment, and the growth of the prison-industrial complex, but I find it very hard not to. Tesla was right posted:I'd like to submit another podcast for the OP. 
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Pistol_Pete posted:I just read this, so now I'm going to make you all read it too: Failed Imagineer posted:they're shooting TV there because the big empty void 
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WHO has adopted a new naming convention for the virus it'll be interesting to see which outlets follow it and when. Sadly they did not go for the lovely Leaders Variant Nomenclature, but rather Greek letters to be easy-to-pronounce and non-stigmatising. Current variants of concern: Alpha (B.1.1.7, 'UK variant') Beta (B.1.351, 'South African variant') Gamma (P.1 'Brazilian variant') Delta (B.1.617.2, 'Indian variant')
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You can do that with spirits too but it costs more.
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sebzilla posted:Why am I attaching this bag full of dogshit to a drone? No reason...
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goddamnedtwisto posted:No, the bank job has gone the way of the payroll blag and the cash-in-transit robbery, victims of modern society, leaving the traditional Cockney way of life untenable and forcing us down the Trail of Tears that is the District Line to the reservations at Upminster.
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Cool  Guess that makes me part of the generation that came of age when everyone gave up though.Going back to for profit prisons and death camp chat in the last thread, something really loving bad may be going down in Arizona according to recently leaked invoices, but details are light on exactly what.   
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Necrothatcher posted:Isn't this basically Zyklon-B? And specifically this comes within the context of a prison that's apparently been decided to be shut down but has over 100 death row inmates and nowhere well thought out to put them. So best case scenario they decided to do a last round of empty tests, said no, and now the whole thing is loving off forever. Worst case is they're actually going to try to run down the death row in their last months of operations in the midst of an epicenter for Q lunacy. Trin Tragula posted:The other half of this is it's so ludicrously easy to make shitloads of money dealing drugs, why would you bother doing anything else? kecske posted:they tested the rubber seals by holding up a candle and seeing if the flame flickered lol Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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The phenolphthalein is to prepare an indicator that's placed in a bowl and chamber exhaust bubbled through to indicate when it's safe to enter, because the whole thing is still running off of 1940s tech.
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Comrade Fakename posted:My boiler’s on its last legs and really needs to be replaced. Because of you know, the whole thing, I was thinking of changing to an electric boiler from a gas one. Anyone know the logistics of that, or if it’s a terrible idea or anything? I'm really hoping that because Jaeluni Asjil posted:Gas boilers are going to be banned - in new builds from 2025 and I seem to remember it's 2035 for all gas boilers? (I might be wrong about that though!) Gonzo McFee posted:Now that they don't have the right to stay here they'll be much less likely to cause a fuss about "workers rights" and what have you. Niric posted:Viz presents, Goddamned Twisto: pornographer's assistant 
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blunt posted:The carrier pigeons became unnecessary in 1983 because of the closure of one of the hospitals.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Lol Virgin Media has merged with O2. I wonder what bag of absolute poo poo customer service this will unleash.
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ThomasPaine posted:what village clinic has the facilities to store things at -70c for any length of time? Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1400094576627654659?s=20
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They should be able to look it up if you have proof of ID (I'd bring proof of address too).
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ThomasPaine posted:Unless you're talking serious allergic reactions any side-effect that comes on within 10 mins is probably mostly adrenaline or anxiety (or both) from the shot.  e: The Ramanujan–Nagell equation is 2n - 7 = x2. 7 is also the most common result if you throw a pair of fair 6 sided dice, leading to an association with luck. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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They need to catch up with their cohort for safety in numbers from MPs and royals.
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TACD posted:Hopefully they miss out on simultaneous equations, I can’t think of a more useless thing I got taught at school. Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think 'scripture', applique and french knots were 3 of the most useless things I got taught at school.
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Bobstar posted:Was it this thread where we talked about one that looked super simple, but was actually insanely hard and required super advanced maths to solve, and the integer solutions were crazy long numbers?  There is an answer that only requires further maths and not super advanced maths to solve, if you allow negative integers. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Jun 3, 2021 |
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Payndz posted:I still have no idea what they're actually for. Occasionally they intersect with things like ballistics or electronics or bridges, but the real world is a mucky place that contains lib dems and ducks, so best avoided if possible. (^^ like so) I recall that Pythagoras' theorem used to be a popular one to hate on, with poo poo like this  from people who absolutely would not have listened if they did try to teach any of those things (as evidenced by 'growing food' and 'anything to do with banking' being things that actually were).
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It makes me laugh that so many of these "they taught us Pythagoras instead of how to dig hole to poop in" type things are from 'higher consciousness' type platitudes accounts that are all about sacred geometry and vibrations and so on. I wonder what they think Pythagoras was originally actually trying to do.
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crispix posted:i would have schemes for the children where they could learn proper real world skills like how to spend the whole evening in a pub and get away with not buying a round  Borrovan posted:Seem to remember that schools have tried teaching people how to pay taxes &c, & the Daily Mail has always jumped right down their throats with SCHOOLS TEACHING CHILDREN TO APPLY FOR BENEFITS nonsense. Like growing your own food can be a fun experience for kids and teach them 'where food comes from' so that they know it's not 'from the Co-op' but if they're going to be living in a city flat it's not the most useful thing. Also people so unimaginative that they can't see how one might get from studying biology and chemistry to growing food and making clean water.
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Rounds make sense when it's three deep at the bar and everyone going up for their one drink would make it much worse. Other than that do it or don't do it but don't be a dick I guess v  v
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That's a very 90s Shareware name.
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feedmegin posted:It worked so well with Ireland. If Britain had decided to go a step further than Home Rule, and said "English speaking Common Law Protestants and Civil Law Catholics who don't want to be forced to speak English living together? How could that possibly work? Oh how about that thing that we literally did 20 years ago in Canada? Let's try that." Then that would have done more than satisfied everyone except the most radical voices at the time. It might probably have fallen apart a while later with the strains of the Second World War, but with less bloodshed than how it actually went. Westminster is singularly terrified of federalism though, despite forcing it on most of the federal countries of the world one way or another. (The others are mostly former viceroyalties of Spain, who have similar problems with the idea.)
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A delta variant to kill a few thousand people in a month has precedent  Boris is going to be sat on a camo painted wine crate making neeeorrrrwwnn noises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU_X5QYBSto
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Computer, please provide a memorable name for Boris Johnson's ideology.
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Ms Adequate posted:Of course, the nature of an Empire is not to go "Yeah fair enough like, seems reasonable to let you mostly govern yourselves" Took two world wars
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Ether, proper, butter. It's always slightly bizarre that both butane and butty come from the ancient Greek for cow, via bouturos, meaning cow cheese.
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Excited for Greens to become the third party.  His Divine Shadow posted:But surely, this is a matter best solved via the use of drugs.
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Wille zum Rennie, a blind incessant impulse without knowledge that drives the instinct to, uh, whatever this is
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OwlFancier posted:Literally the only thing I know james joyce for is his ode to his wife's farts.
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Sinuses were a terrible idea.
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Illegally though, because Blair banned people working while they're processing an asylum claim. That's some impressive naval maneuvering. 
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