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Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Failed Imagineer posted:

If you wish to build an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

All these other posts are lies though, to make golden syrup you need to get the rotting carcass of a lion, surrounded by flies. An alpaca might do in a pinch

I think those are bees not flies.

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Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

https://twitter.com/TWT_NOW/status/1433008910848376834?s=20

Expecting the local council to ban it with fake accusations of anti-semitism any time now.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2021 16:16

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

https://twitter.com/JessicaLBarnard/status/1432803459833679875?s=20

I think Ian Dury sums it up nicely in the first 10 seconds of this vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM

I 'spect I'll get booted from the party for this.. oh, wait, I quit 18 months ago.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2021 16:49

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Moonwolf posted:

They're hoverflies because bees don't nest in carcasses and hoverflies will lay eggs in them like crazy. But also yes, ancient reference guy didn't know his entomology.

Are you saying that when Samson discovered his lion's carcass was fully of honey that it was made by hoverflies?
Or did he mistake hoverfly eggs for honey?
:iconofblokestrokingchininquestioningmanner:

Hoverfly eggs (on the left):

Honey:

Golden syrup, lion carcass and small buzzy things:

# ¿ Sep 1, 2021 17:50

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Niric posted:

Gordon Brown sold all the gold[en syrup]

I feel a song coming on....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-GUjA67mdc

# ¿ Sep 2, 2021 00:16

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

OwlFancier posted:

So it's literally just some loving buncha nerds made a PDF, led by "former party leader neil kinnock" (when the gently caress was he party leader???) and we have to INVEST IN DIGITAL, PLEDGE CARDS

E: oh wait neil kinnock sorry I thought it was the other kinnock, also I thought that neil kinnock was dead lmao.

If you want to read the hell pdf yourself:

https://labourlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Fit-for-the-future.pdf

{{dooodly doo}} {{doodly doo}}
In days of yore
before you were bore (as in born not boring LOL)
There was a pillock
Called Neil kinnock
Who fell in the sea
And did a terrible rally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8ktNsie0I

we're alright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOgB3Smvro

# ¿ Sep 2, 2021 16:31

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Seems PSC are now going to be allowed to host a fringe event at Labour party conference after all.

They're also pushing for "The Jerusalem Declaration" to replace the IHRA as the definition of anti-semitism.

PSC statement:

https://www.palestinecampaign.org/psc-statement-on-labour-party-conference/

Jerusalem Declaration:

https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

Article in Jewish Socialist:

https://www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/features/item/a-defining-moment

# ¿ Sep 2, 2021 22:57

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

I'm so sad for them :cry:

quote:

Tory donor Peter Cruddas and his wife saw �200million wiped off their paper fortune after his City broking firm warned the pandemic-inspired day trading boom could be over.

They're left with just pocket change - see them down the dole office anytime now

That slashed the value of the 57 per cent stake held by Cruddas by �190million to �504million. His wife Fiona also lost out as the value of her 3 per cent stake fell by �10million to �27million.

But really :suezo:

# ¿ Sep 3, 2021 00:01

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

sebzilla posted:

John McTernan (that's Blair's former Political Secretary) is the latest addition to the guilt by association club.

https://twitter.com/johnmcternan/status/1433750987823587328?s=20

These days, if you say Novara Media are reasonable people and TWT "looks interesting" you're�~~arrested and thrown in jail~~�an antisemite.

Signed on to twitter to respond to that rabbi guy but after typing and not posting 300 comments had to sign out, uncommented, for the benefit of my blood pressure.

Noxville posted:

Lmao the Labour right started this train rolling and now it�s running away and everyone is in it�s path, hilarious

Like the tale of the scorpion and the frog.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Sep 3, 2021

# ¿ Sep 3, 2021 14:20

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Lobster God posted:

A robust and independent disciplinary system:

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1433787067461472258?s=19

What a shame the Women's PLP didn't stick up for Diane Abbott following the sheer amount of abuse she gets including from Jess 'I told DA to F Off' Flaps.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2021 15:46

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Incoming: The Bins ^TM crisis

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-bin-collection-hgv-driver-shortage-b1913827.html

quote:

Bin collection within 24 local councils has been disrupted due to self-isolation rules and a lack of workers to drive the lorries.

Local government leaders have called on the home secretary Priti Patel to relax immigration rules for heavy goods vehicle drivers to ease the disruption.

The Local Government Association said that while most councils have been able to keep their collections running, some � such as Manchester City council and Cambridge country council � are having to reduce services.

A spokesperson added: �These issues are partly due to the problems with a shortage of HGV drivers, which is affecting other parts of the economy as well.�

They pointed to some of the quick-fix measures the private sector is turning to, such as hiking drivers wages, saying: �[This] risks exacerbating issues in the public sector, with the rises potentially creating a retention as well as a recruitment problem for councils and their contractors.�

etc

This is bad for Jermy Crobin

# ¿ Sep 3, 2021 21:47

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

How about a gritter lorry?

Torfaen Council made this video a few years ago with a local Elvis impersonator. It's quite funny but to the point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6UerjFCLdI

Here's another Depot song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNqrJIPxYpw

A JCB is born to a Fitter who already has more Engines than he can Bleed in the depot near Middlesbrough. The Machine grows up hungry, steals a ton of stone. Learns how to dig, and rams a car, attempts to run, but in a dramatic twist the Young fitter shot and killed just as another JCB is born.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Sep 4, 2021

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 00:30

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

I just found this interesting looking website with a mix of online and real life events to do with London:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2021/09/

quote:

About the website
A popular London website focused on a range of topics, but mainly architecture, transport, history and things to do around the city. The more obscure the better.

I miss living in London and having things to do, though I'm glad I wasn't living there for the last 18 months!

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Sep 4, 2021

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 01:24

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Just saw my first poppy-day advert (from RBL) in the wild on Facebook. Isn't it over 2 months away?

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 03:28

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

feedmegin posted:

I did. Might have been in a minority though. It was part of my identity taken away from me without my consent so yeah that is actually going to upset some people you know.

Me too. I lived in Germany for a couple of years in my teenagedom and did a Gap Yah before they became a thing (mainly because I had skipped a year of school - :viggo:

- so the parentals and myself thought a year out before going to uni and joining 'my' peer age year group would be A Good Thing*. I worked as a chambermaid in a hotel in Bavaria known for holding the G7 in recent years. (If you can be bothered to look it up, it wasn't that posh back then! There was some big skiing championship in Garmish Partenkirchen - famous ski place - and we had beds made up in baths!))

*hah. It wasn't, for reasons.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Sep 4, 2021

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 13:37

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

xtothez posted:

I'm sure the exec who thought up this idea is regretting it now

https://twitter.com/pseudo310/status/1433792325046710277

One time at work, I was whistling The Red Flag while jauntily bouncing down the staircase only to meet the Chief Executive coming up the staircase. He gave me a big grin.
Why, yes, I did find myself on the redundancy list a few months later. (Not that I was displeased about that! Very happy actually, went up and down Walthamstow market singing "I'm free")

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 13:55

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Miftan posted:

Isn't that the same tune as some christmas song?

Yes.

O Tannenbaum.

But it was the middle of summer. He knew..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x3z624U-0s

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 14:00

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

OwlFancier posted:

I don't know that I would count being british as part of my identity. I mean yes obviously it is a valid descriptor of where I was born and where I live but I don't think of it the way I think about my political positions, or even things like sexuality, which I think is mostly an identity because everyone else makes it one and because it ties in with my political positions.

Other than politics I don't actually think I have anything I would consider to be a strong component of "my identity" actually, there are lots of things I do but I don't make them into core parts of who I am. I don't identify as a Gamer despite playing a huge amount of videogames, it's a thing I do, not a thing I am.

There are things that I can't stop other people from identifying me as, but that doesn't mean internalize them and start identifying myself like that. And that seems like a pretty tangible distinction at least to me.

It doesn't feel as if anything has changed re: european-ness, like yes I am not legally allowed to go there if ever the fancy took me but I don't really think that it has somehow changed me as a person.

I think being British is part of my identity. Not the flag-shagging, spite-ridden, xenophobic Britishness more evident in the last decade in particular, but the irreverant, cynical, certain sense of humour not understood by many, and the requirement that respect should be earned not be an automatic right aspects of Britishness. And yes adaptibility, surprisingly, the way British are able to adapt to different situations.

These are more noticeable if you live abroad for sometime in a country where they are not the norm. If you live in a country where the President or other 'top' person is respected purely because of their position rather than any innate deservingness, where people brown nose those in high positions (ok this does happen a certain amount in this country, moreso in the last few years), but generally until recently the British were quite irreverant about authority.

Re the adaptation - knowing 'expats' from various countries living in Egypt, the British - other than those who insisted on living in the ex-pat ghettos - adapted much better than the Americans for example in coping with the huge differences in life there than in the home country.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 18:12

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

learnincurve posted:

Not that this applies to any poster here - A huge problem I�ve always had with the respect is earned mentality is that right wingers use it as an excuse to be absolutely horrible to kids. �I�ll trust you if you prove you can be trusted� and all that poo poo.

I guess I should caveat or clarify what I mean: everyone deserves respect as an individual but being respectful of someone purely because they are in a position of authority when eg the current government have definitely proven that they are not worthy of respect as the holders of those positions. (And I confess I would have great trouble respecting them as individuals too.)

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 18:52

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Miftan posted:

Counter point to the british not respecting on the basis of authority: This loving island loves the monarchy.

I don't know how deep that goes.
When Lady Di died, the monarchy came pretty close to being despised until they turned their response around.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2021 19:09

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

quote:

New restrictions being introduced from October 1 are expected to disrupt imports from the EU � the source of a quarter of Britain's food
Industry experts expect a succession of further controls to be brought in between then and January will cause chaos as food supplies are refused entry or delayed
Drivers will be asked to supply up to 700 pages of documents at borders
The nightmare bedding in the Northern Ireland Protocol could be dwarfed by the chaos of importing goods from the EU when the full force of restrictions is imposed by Brussels

Marks & Spencer has held an emergency meeting with 40 of its top European food suppliers amid fears EU member states and the UK are not ready for the introduction of stringent border controls within a month.

New restrictions being introduced from October 1 are expected to disrupt imports from the EU � the source of a quarter of Britain's food.

Industry experts expect a succession of further controls to be brought in between then and January will cause chaos as food supplies are refused entry or delayed amid a tangle of bureaucracy with drivers being asked to supply up to 700 pages of documents at borders.

The slow movement of goods has already seen Sainsbury's temporarily shore up gaps on shelves in its Northern Ireland shops with produce from local suppliers � including its retail rival Spar.

Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and others are also subject to numerous product shortages of fresh and 'composite' food � that containing animal products � in the province.

But the nightmare of red tape bedding in the Northern Ireland Protocol, set up to ease trade between the British mainland and the province, could be dwarfed by the chaos of importing goods from the EU when the full force of restrictions is imposed by Brussels from next month.

The Mail on Sunday has learned the retail giant's bosses at the meeting on Friday warned suppliers from across the Continent that authorities in the UK and the EU are not prepared for the border rule changes, affecting the movement of fresh meat and fish. Some national authorities in the EU have even failed to translate the necessary documents into local languages, they warned.

A letter has been circulated this weekend among M&S suppliers across Europe to warn that port facilities in Wales, Scotland and England will not be ready in time for physical checks on consignments scheduled to begin at the end of the year.

It also raised the alarm over shortages of vets in European countries. They will be needed to sign food health certificates for goods containing animal products � including meat, fish, dairy products, lasagne, pepperoni pizza and even ice cream � destined for the UK. It blamed 'outdated and burden - some' border systems that threaten the flow of food from Europe unless the UK and the EU agree action.

Source: Heil/money/markets/article-9957527/Retail-giant-Marks-Spencer-warns-suppliers-EU-border-chaos.html

Can the UK can just nix the import controls if it wants (obviously not the export ones into the EU)?

# ¿ Sep 5, 2021 00:49

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Excellent twitter thread, worth saving a link to:

List of all the Early Day motions etc going back over 30 years Corbyn did that get him falsely accused of anti-semitism by the disgusting Hodge creature, BoD etc.

https://twitter.com/JohnFielder1/status/1417140908504625158

Thread unroll here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1417140908504625158.html

# ¿ Sep 5, 2021 14:19

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

sebzilla posted:

NI going up by 1.25% apparently

CON +5 no doubt

I remember the cons doing this before.
One of the elections before 1997, the cons big ads were 'labour will put income tax up 1%'. So I know more than a few people who voted con on that basis.
Cons won and promptly put NI up 1% affecting more lower paid people than 1% on income tax would have.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2021 23:26

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

I just want to know which tories have got investment plans for a chain of workhouses.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2021 00:42

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Govt has pulled tomorrow's debate on the UC cut:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-credit-cut-labour-b1915886.html

quote:

Government pulls plans for imminent vote on controversial universal credit cut
Labour had been due to hold a vote on issue on Wednesday

Boris Johnson�s government has pulled Labour�s plans to hold an imminent vote on the controversial cut to universal credit payments � just weeks before the �20-per-week uplift ends.

Instead, the government announced it was earmarking time on Wednesday for a separate vote on the newly announced health and social care levy, which flouts a key Conservative election manifesto pledge.

Labour had been scheduled to hold an opposition day debate on the issue tomorrow, calling on the government �to cancel its planned cut to universal credit� from the end of September 2021.

It was not immediately clear whether the vote would be rescheduled before the universal credit payments are reduced, but the Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg is expected to update MPs on Thursday.

While any motion tabled by Labour would not be binding on the government, it would force Conservative MPs who have increasingly raised the alarm about the cut to divide on the issue in a Commons vote.

Despite repeated warnings from anti-poverty campaigners to re-think the decision to end the uplift � worth over �1,000 per year for claimants � the government has stood by its decision not to extend the support, which was first introduced at the onset of the Covid pandemic in March 2020.

Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: �The [government] have pulled Labour�s vote on the cut to universal credit that would have been tomorrow to vote on NI [national insurance] increase instead.

�I will do all I can to ensure a vote still takes place,� he stressed. �The biggest cut in the history of the welfare state must be debated in Parliament.�

His remarks come as a Labour analysis suggested at least 200,000 children are at risk of homelessness if the decision to remove the support goes ahead at the end of the month.

In a speech on Wednesday, shadow housing minister Lucy Powell will describe the decision of ministers to remove the �20-per-week top-up as �social vandalism� and �economically illiterate�.

Using government data on households in receipt of local housing allowance and the monthly median gaps with rents, the party estimated that there are 204,706 children who live in families where the �20 uplift makes the difference between whether rent payments are made.

�Ending the �1,040 uplift is not just social vandalism that will weaken communities, but economically illiterate damaging local economies,� Ms Powell will say.

�Homes are the bedrock of a successful lives, stable families and strong societies. They give us a stake in our community.

�During Covid, the country came together to make sure everybody had a safe, secure home to shelter in. The government are abandoning any progress of a better future by returning to a failed past where unaffordable, insecure housing is a gaping hole in our social safety net.�

According to a separate analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation the decision to hike national insurance contributions to fund an overhaul in social care would also impact around two million families on low incomes who receive universal credit or working tax credit, with the claimants paying on average around an extra �100 per year.

Deputy director of evidence and impact at the organisation, Peter Matejic, said: �This extra cost adds insult to injury for these families who are facing a historic �1,040 cut to their annual incomes when universal credit and working tax credit are reduced in less than a month on 6 October.

�If it presses ahead, this government will be responsible for the single biggest overnight cut to social security ever.�

He added: �Any MP who is concerned about families on low incomes must urge the prime minister and chancellor to reverse this damaging cut, which will have an immediate and devastating impact on their constituents� living standards in just a few weeks� time.�

Earlier this week, the Manchester United footballer, Marcus Rashford, a prominent campaigner on child food poverty, urged the government to keep the universal credit top-up to prevent thousands of children from going hungry.

�What is it going to take for these children to be prioritised? Instead of removing support through social security, we should be focusing efforts on developing a sustainable long-term roadmap out of this child hunger pandemic,� he said.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2021 00:12

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Friend has just been kicked out of the Labour Party (not just suspended) after more than 50 years for being on a zoom call in March with a group that wasn't proscribed until July. Another friend expelled likewise for being on a different zoom call - again prior to the relevant group being proscribed (though his party membership mirrored mine - in during the 80s/90s til Iraq then back in when the party became socialist again for a couple of years under Jammie Corbster.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2021 16:44

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

namesake posted:

Poor Socialist Appeal, when your whole gimmick is being boring Trotskyists who commit to working within Labour and then Labour kicks you out what do you do?

For the record neither of my friends were in Trotskyist groups.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2021 17:44

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Jakabite posted:

Labour Against the Witchhunt are afaik legitimately anti Semitic and poo poo tho tbf, and p much always have been. Sharing platforms the Holocaust deniers is not comradely or leftist behaviour. (Not saying your friends were in them JA, just saying that there is a decent reason to be going after some people, despite the whole thing being enormously overblown). Will try go into more detail on that tomorrow if anyone wants.

Yes please do go into this more. I've never heard that accusation before.
One of my friends who got expelled was on one of their zoom calls. I can safely say he is not in any way shape or form anti-semitic.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2021 22:07

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

JoylessJester posted:

While we're on architecture chat. Someone recommended me a podcast about a social housing project in a Nordic country that went horribly wrong, which sounded very interesting. However they gave me no further details or even it's name. If anyone has even a vague idea that would be cool.

Maybe The Million Project? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme

I don't know if it went particularly badly wrong, but there were riots in 2013 with some reference to the social housing. But that's all I think I know!

(No idea about any podcast. I've accepted that I'm not a podcast person.)

# ¿ Sep 10, 2021 14:00

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Miftan posted:

Hello friends, was wondering if anyone could help. I'm trying to find out if this house has leaf pipes going out from the house main to the local area main. The pipes under the sink are copper or plastic, but unclear about the outside pipes. Is there an easy way to check or alternatively a way to check if the water has any lead in? It's an old house.

If you mean something the lead supply pipe, apparently if you scratch the pipes gently with a coin you will see shiny silvery metal if they're lead.
However, they might be underground so best to ask the water company.
If by 'old' you mean pre-1970, then it's very possible.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2021 15:57

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Happy birthday Camrath.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2021 18:04

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

That poll doesn't show any improvement in Labour's fortunes, just a drop in tory fans.

Apparently Turning Point UK (Junior Fascists Corp) are planning some big campaign for when the unis go back.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2021 18:47

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

I can see an increase in demand for the profession of dunnikin divers* in our post-brexit future.

*T Pratchett

# ¿ Sep 10, 2021 23:04

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Govt proposals to change/do away with GDPR:

Commentary here by Mariano delli Santi Legal and Policy Officer
@OpenRightsGroup

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1436307592666624010.html

quote:

1) The UK Government published their plans to water down GDPR. It is bad, incredibly bad. My first reaction on @OpenRightsGroup blog, but if you scratch under the surface it gets even worse. You won't believe how bad it is.

2) First things first, Government purports the new framework as intended to �maintain high data protection standards�. Except that, in their consultation they NEVER, EVER touch upon or seek views on how to strengthen protection for individuals.

3) Moving to funnier stuff, the UK new framework manages to scrap data protection in its entirety with one, single blow. It introduces a legal ground to �improve services for customers�

4) If you work in data protection, you know that �we process your data to improve our services� is a practical joke, i.e. the single, most abused buzzword the industry uses when they're doing something bad. This will be made legal under UK Government plans.

5) The new framework also wants to introduce fees to exercise data subject access requests. I will spell it you: you will have to pay money to exercise your data rights and access personal data held by *all data controllers*.

6) The UK Government also wants to dictate ICO priorities, and have the power to amend the Information Commissioner's salary without Parliamentary scrutiny. In other words, they want to put the ICO under Government direction.

7) Govt will control the ICO directly, by setting their agenda, and indirectly, by retaining the ability to retaliate against Commissioners who do not please Government, and award Commissioners that do what Government want. We remind you that the ICO is supposed to be a watchdog

8) Also, Government would allow solely automated decision making based on legitimate interest. Organisations will be able to take life-changing decisions about you in a black box, insofar it fits the new legal grounds (such as reporting criminal acts, or improving services)

9) Elizabeth Denham G7 proposal for binding privacy signals lasted very little. This would be too inconvenient for surveillance advertising crooks, and unnecessary: they now have a handy legal ground for processing data and �improve customers experience� (see n. 3,4).

10) Of course, this also means that adtech companies won't need to ask you whether you want to be tracked or not. They don't need it anymore. After displaying bad faith for years, the adtech industry is getting their free-of-jail card.

11) There are other funny stuff, such as the removal of accountability requirements. Organisations will be free to shred the evidence that they did something wrong. In its stead, they will have to organise privacy trainings.

12) Further, data breaches will need be notified only when the risk to individuals is material. No seriously, I don't even feel like commenting on this one.

13) Just to make sure you can't hold a Controller accountable anymore, you will have to demonstrate that you tried to negotiate a solution with the offender before reporting it to the ICO. The ICO was in dire need of another ground to arbitrarily dismiss complaints (sarcasm).

14) Of course, organisations will have to demonstrate they have complaint procedures in place, but we also saw that they have limited need to keep records anyway (see n. 11). What could possibly go wrong?

15) To conclude, Government proposed deregulation of the GDPR confirms an old saying: no good story ever started with someone saying �we will cut red tape�.

16) PS: link to Govt consultation below

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/data-a-new-direction

# ¿ Sep 11, 2021 00:54

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Sewer chat:

If you get to Paris, try and go on a sewer tour

https://www.ontheluce.com/the-underbelly-of-paris-touring-the-sewers/

The description cards on the exhibits are in French but it's mostly fairly simple French (GCSE should see you through).

# ¿ Sep 11, 2021 00:56

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Eh, as my dad was fond of telling me/somehow retroactively threatening me, had life gone a bit different I could have been born in Stevenage (and been called Malcolm), and I'm fairly sure I'd have ended up as ridiculously obsessive about the place, but just not have posted about it as much as I do about London because the stories wouldn't have been as interesting/strange/macabre.

I mean I've got a shitload of stuff in my mental attic about Cornwall, Malta and the Orkneys, where I have a load of family, it's just opportunities to ramble about the Looe Valley, Skara Brae, and Grand Harbour come up much less often.

I've also just realised that of my immediate family out as far as first cousins, only my brother doesn't live within 10 miles of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and I've absolutely no idea what to do with that info and what it might mean.

Hm... Cornwall - didn't King Arthur and Merlin hang out round there? And wasn't Malta something to do with Knights Hospitaler sort of like the Templars but without the swords, and as for the Orkneys and their ancient burial sites - all very suss and woo woo to me.

Interactive map of world heritage sites.
https://whc.unesco.org/en/interactive-map/

I'm sure if you pick the appropriate level and stare at it long enough you'll see either the signs of the zodiac spread across the planet* or pyramid shapes or ancient electric light bulbs or something which will show what links you all except your brother.

These guys'll sort you out:

*yes, I confess, I watched Ancient Aliens this afternoon and there were these fields with supposedly zodiac symbols spread around them only visible from the air - very fanciful if you ask me! A few random old trees and some wishful thinking.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2021 02:38

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

It appears that neither George W Bush (who was president at the time) nor Trumpkin are at the 9/11 memorial while 3 democrat presidents (Clinton, Obomba and Biden) are. Wonder why? (A real 'wonder' not a sarky I secretly know the answer 'wonder').

I stand corrected re W:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/george-w-bush-calls-out-threat-domestic-terrorism-911-anniversary-2021-09-11/

The Orange Alien however, did not.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Sep 11, 2021

# ¿ Sep 11, 2021 14:28

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Dead Goon posted:

Is the Lady in the photo Googling who he is?

At a guess, neither of the women noticed him and are just looking at something else on their phones and the photographer has tried to make it look as if they wanted a selfie with Are Glorius Leader in Waiting.

Meanwhile:

HGV tests to have 'reversing' removed and car drivers will no longer need to take a test to tow a trailer or caravan.

https://www.commercialfleet.org/news/latest-news/2021/09/10/hgv-driving-test-overhauled-to-tackle-driver-shortage

quote:

Tests will also be made shorter by removing the �reversing exercise� element � and for vehicles with trailers, the �uncoupling and recoupling� exercise � and having it tested separately by a third party. This part of the test is carried out off the road on a manoeuvring area and takes a significant amount of time. Testing such manoeuvres separately will free up examiner time, meaning they can carry out another full test every day.

Car drivers will no longer need to take another test to tow a trailer or caravan, allowing roughly 30,000 more HGV driving tests to be conducted every year.

This new legislation is changing previous EU regulations which the UK is no longer obliged to use.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2021 17:49

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Party Boat posted:

Good thing reversing a HGV is incredibly simple and straightforward

And a really rare thing that HGVs do every day into loading bays.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2021 17:55

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 18:43

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

OwlFancier posted:

Also never necessary, as every delivery point is drive through.

Not round here they're not!
I see HGVs reversing into Waitrose & Home Bargains loading bays (my two nearest supermarkets) all the time, and blocking the road completely while they do.

ed ^^^ ah I think maybe you were being ironic.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2021 18:07

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