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Gonzo McFee posted:Terrific. "We must be open to debate and the way to do that is to silence the left" We must be open to debate from the right about whether we are right wing enough. (We're not)
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Bobstar posted:The "why didn't they teach us X life skills" people are silly, but maybe schools should teach tax brackets. It would avoid people turning down pay rises so they don't get stung for thousands of pounds by being "pushed into the next tax bracket". WHy are they silly? Plenty of people don't have any route to learning life skills that isn't school, why shouldn't school equip people to live life? (In principle that is, in practice that's not what it's there for) Schools should absolutely teach things like cooking, cleaning, budgetting, taxation and tax brackets, basic civics, etc etc etc
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Jun 3, 2021 10:56
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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 and how to get the maximum longevity out of a magic tree car air freshener and that And that would also be more useful than quadratic equations.
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Jun 3, 2021 11:32
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Guavanaut posted:I think "there was some kind of terrible accident, and the parents panicked, knowing that they had been negligent, and like all lies it ended up getting far bigger and bigger as it had to cover itself" requires fewer assumptions or tidy narratives than any other case. Either way, the thing i really want to know is where the impulse to constantly loving report on it comes from. Like, is it the parents? Is it the reporters? Is it the editors? Is it the paper owners? It's for drat sure not the people doing the investigation, there's no way they're actually generating new information at this point.
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Jun 6, 2021 17:40
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I wonder how many IoT things have poo poo the bed leaving people locked in/out, unable to change their thermostat, or even boil a kettle? i wonder this, but entirely separately from today's fuckup. Equally, it's not really in the interest of the people who have turned them into botnets or crypto mining rigs or whatever remotely for them to stop working, so I'd imagine they tend not to gently caress up randomly too much.
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Jun 8, 2021 11:30
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Borrovan posted:Since I know there's other academics here, you can check Turnitin's status here Crowdsource your RAID array for scientific data processing by sending them.
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Jun 8, 2021 11:46
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FWIW i don't recall being consulted about the UNITE thing, but I might have missed it.
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Jun 13, 2021 18:57
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Sanford posted:I used to post quite a lot about the FD at my old job and what an awful man he is. In February last year he dragged me into an office, told me off for "scaremongering" and told me it wasn't my place to tell other staff to wash their hands, or to decide off my own back to take extra precautions (using hand sanitizer, wiping down a shared desk before I used it). He said that Covid was going to be just like the Millennium Bug - a lot of fuss and wasted money and then literally nothing would happen. It was at this point I realised that he wasn't only a horrible man, but utterly, utterly stupid as well. At the meeting the day before lockdown was announced, when everyone was arguing for WFH except him and one other director, he yelled at me "[SANFORD] I AM NOT WASTING MY MONEY TO PREVENT YOUR PARENTS CATCHING A COLD." Get your union involved ASAP, assuming you have one.
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Jun 15, 2021 22:26
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My gut tells me they jog on PDQ if Charlie gets a turn and interferes politically a bunch, they limp on for another monarch or two if he immediately abdicates and passes it to the 'younger' generation. (The 'younger' generation is already 39)
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Jun 23, 2021 12:58
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serious gaylord posted:To follow on from Learning Curve above, someone crunched the numbers on the very visible Terfs. There's only 600 MPs but they've still managed to ratfuck the country.
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Jun 28, 2021 11:52
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Communist Thoughts posted:the lesson from the corbyn years was just how inadequate and actively booby-trapped the labour party is as a vehicle of social change Only way to actually make it happen is to hive off the unions. Keith might actually achieve that if we're lucky. But like... worst timeline.
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Jun 28, 2021 14:11
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Necrothatcher posted:there's a horrible smear campaign against Labour in Batley saying that oh no not the briar patch anything but the briar patch
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Jun 28, 2021 17:37
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There definitely are good comics, but they're becoming less and less well known because good comics don't get booked on mainstream shows any more, only lovely melty ones at best.
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Jun 29, 2021 13:07
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The most dire 'comedian' I saw live was a woman at a science fiction convention evening show. She was Indian and her routine for the 10 minutes I stuck around was how much she loved Jewish cock and her small 'punani' (Hindu word for lady parts). I very nearly walked out on Simon Amstell in Edinburgh - we bought tickets because he seemed funny on Buzzcocks, but it turns out that Phill Jupitus and Bill Bailey can make anyone funny and on his own Amstell did jokes about clowns sexually assaulting people which were not good. Best comic I've seen at Edinburgh to this day was a guy called Ciamh MacDonnell, who was a free show. The free shows have been absolute gold sometimes.
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Jun 29, 2021 13:41
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fuctifino posted:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/02/slough-goes-bankrupt-after-discovery-of-100m-black-hole-in-budget You set long term projects which cost 100M with money you are projected to get, then the government says you're not getting it any more, but you can't cancel the projects.
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Jul 2, 2021 22:28
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OwlFancier posted:I think there are elements of that but I also think that there is a lot of institutional inability to think long term. I'm always reminded, when I think about this, of a story i saw in one of the papers when I first started noticing politics, probably in my early teens, when they were contracting for the replacement of British Rail - apparently someone tendered who had recently fixed I think the Swiss national system, and said that with a twenty year contract, they could completely fix the bulk of the problems, sort out many of the bridges and stations that are the wrong size, etc, and it would work out surprisingly cheap per year. And got rejected because the contracts were five years. No government wants to put in play twenty or fifty or a hundred year long large infrastructure (social or physical) projects because the initial costs are usually huge and cost you the next election, and the next government just kills the project anyway. None of our resource distribution methods are designed for long term thinking. Even when there;s a desire to, unlike the current government whose only desire is to wring as much cash out of the country as possible before and while it collapses.
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