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The Independent posted:“We were quite surprised,” he said. “I’m sure pay and conditions for HGV drivers have improved, but ultimately I have decided to carry on in my role at an investment bank. My wife has never driven anything larger than a Volvo, so she is also intending to decline the exciting opportunity. lmao.
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Since we're talking about cooking rice: I put my rice in microwave proof glassware, add the correct amount of water, some salt, a bay leaf, and put it in the microwave oven. Five minutes at maximum to get it close to boiling, then at defrost power for about half an hour. I've thought about buying a rice cooker, but I have no more space in my kitchen.
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Oct 2, 2021 20:45
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The real crazy thing imo is the story of Rügenwalder Mühle. It used to be a boring meat company with unusually catchy ads for their sausages. They cultivated this folksy image of happy village people having a picnic with their sausages, very traditional, conservative. They saw veggie sausages gaining in popularity and went all-in. Now they produce more vegetarian and vegan stuff than meat products. And all that in Germany of all places. Also, oat milk tastes nicer than cow milk and doesn't make me feel sick. Yay oats.
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I put oat milk in my Müsli. Love my yo dawg in the morning.
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Oct 4, 2021 11:31
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Negative DNS results are typically not cached (for long), only positive lookups are. That means all recursive DNS servers are serving a lot more traffic than normal.
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forkboy84 posted:needless to say he wasn't familiar with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum What a donkey-headed adversary of humanity.
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It's kind of incredible watching this unfold tbh. There are shortages of a number of things – labour in some sectors, certain goods etc. – that are more or less global problems. But from the perspective of shipping companies or truckers and similar in-demand professions it's pretty good. They can pick and choose the most lucrative options. From what I've seen reading UK newspapers it hasn't sunk in that if these companies and people have the choice between the EU single market and the UK (and they very much do), they'll go where conditions are best for them. And for many reasons, conditions are best in the EU. So as long as those shortages exist the UK will feel them first and more severely.
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Oct 12, 2021 20:38
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Are these people…real? What's with the obsession with the French? It's so weird.
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Tarnop posted:The French surrendered to the Nazis and didn't want us to blow up Iraq. On these two load-bearing beliefs, decades of right-wing columns were built. Sure, but Germany did both of those things as well as bomb Britain. The read I get from British media is that the French are perceived as spiteful while the German car industry (and thus Germany) will come to Brexit Britain's rescue any time now. And it feels extra weird because if you follow EU politics France and Germany are regularly aligned while public statements are more confrontational from France and more diplomatic from Germany. Does nobody stop and wonder what's being played there?
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OwlFancier posted:I had been looking at that, it does look a lot better than civ in some ways, I didn't really enjoy civ 6 and gently caress if i'm paying for all that DLC. I have to butt in here and mention that to my extreme annoyance, Humankind took a lot of things from civ. Specifically, all those things that are bad about civ, like the tech tree. They put in two tech trees even, both extremely linear. The more "gamey" civ became the less I liked it. Civ6 is basically unplayable without a mod that slows tech progression, but it's still just a rush to victory condition. I started with Civilization 1 on the Amiga but nowadays I prefer Crusader Kings 3. It's not even close to the same game, but you can unify Ireland until there's no England left and that's pretty cool.
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grobbo posted:'Waterstones' is currently trending in the UK because...Julie Bindel's new book isn't displayed prominently enough in her local store, which is evidence of a woke booksellers' conspiracy intended to silence her. Dunno, 2 breakdowns per day are just about 60 Bpm, but UK newspapers are spinning at 100 Bpm at minimum, as far as I can tell.
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OwlFancier posted:I really cannot fathom how/why you would read UK newspapers especially if you don't live here, not least because it must be very hard to understand because they don't even write in standard english, it's all boffins bish bosh romp fury bingle bongle tots honk honk steamy bum. Extreme masochism and a kind of ghoulish voyeurism. I also read some French newspapers from time to time but they are comparatively boring. I'm sorry to say, but UK press is a form of entertainment to me.
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Gort posted:Careful, a lot of actual fash got started by reading fascist rags "ironically" I'm not reading them ironically, I genuinely want to know what the UK thought leaders think. It's just that UK thought leaders are apparently constantly hooting like a Gibbon. The rags that threaten to be persuasive are the likes of Die Welt. And if I ever contract liberal brain worms from one of those publications you have my permission to mercy kill me immediately.
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Oct 14, 2021 19:04
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Loudly announcing 5000 visas for truckers and having to admit only 20 were processed is 
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Reading the FT, as you do, whenquote:Yet while the wheels of the global economy seem to be coming off, the British economy is being scraped face-first across the economic tarmac. Now that's a comparison. The piece is otherwise very  , but that's expected.
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The British overestimate how much the French public cares about this issue. Macron isn't playing to his domestic audience in this, he's playing a role in the EU. France is playing bad cop while Germany is playing good cop. That dynamic should be known by now considering how consistent it is. France making more forceful moves now means that other EU nations have also lost trust that normal diplomatic channels can be effective. Hence the "language of force" remark – they don't think strongly worded letters work anymore.
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It's also, as far as I remember my history, literally the opposite of the truth. The empire grew and prospered as long as it could integrate its neighbours and started disintegrating when lost that ability. Basically, the empire consisted of many different peoples and fell (over a very long period of time) to petty squabbling.
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