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learnincurve posted:From that point on they are calling themselves liars if anyone tries to claim you are able to work and you both get put in a completely different category. The DWP is absolutely capable of this level of dissonance. The judge at my PIP tribunal happily rubber stamped the DWP contradicting themselves between my WCA and PIP assessment
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Oh gently caress... what if it was Corbyn's leadership campaign? I got the email and I joined in 2018. I was a member of unite from 2010 to 2018 but used a different email address for that and the email came to the address I used specifically for Labour membership (I do the thing where I have a domain with email forwarding and use a different address for every company so I can just black hole any that start getting significant spam)
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forkboy84 posted:It works in fairness to them. My GP was like "hey we could apply for *whatever they call ESA now/whenever this was, I forget*" & I just noped out of it, could not face those cunts. Pls don't euthanise me just yet but I guess leave the option on the table for if I run out of money for food
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forkboy84 posted:I do not want to see anyone euthanised, i want a welfare system that doesn't leave anyone behind. I'm just saying euthanasia would be kinder than letting people starve to death after sanctioning them for "only" spending 30 hours a week job searching instead of 35 I know you don't, it was just a depressed person attempting some gallows humour
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Pity the poor loving picture editor who had to go through a million photos to try and find one where the fucker's actually wearing a mask just to keep Murdoch happy. No visible poppy so presumably it's at least several weeks old
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serious gaylord posted:Its under his left hand. You can see the stem. I'll confess, I couldn't stomach zooming in on him so I decided to 
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I'm subscribed to Novara on YouTube, but all their video titles are basically "ANOTHER thing to get MAD about" and I just end up rolling my eyes and scrolling past. My anxiety levels are much more under control since I started doing this in general.
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Angepain posted:what a weird sun article. did they just see "lowtax" trending on twitter and decide to poo poo out something to ride the trend or something This is 95% of journalism now, yes
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forkboy84 posted:Who, Lowtax? Isn't the chat that he offed himself after being told by a judge that spending almost all of your money doesn't actually mean you don't have to pay child support? That's directly from his ex-wife, so I'm assuming it's how it happened
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I know this question has been asked before but I couldn't remember the answer when my friend asked me tonight. She wants to join a union, her workplace isn't unionised. Is it IWW that this thread normally recommends under those circumstances?
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forkboy84 posted:The advice is generally "IWW AND a more mainstream union who have the infrastructure to provide you support". Thanks! So as a follow up question, does anyone have any experience of Prospect as a union? It seems like the closest match to her field
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:A lot of my office has joined Prospect and we're aiming for union recognition. They have been very involved in this effort. They also provide what seems like an endless stream of zoom seminars on all kinds of workplace topics, often with Q&A sessions. This sounds very promising, thank you
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If your TV or streaming box uses Android, get SmartTubeNext I'm using it right now on my fire TV stick and as well as ad blocking it had a bunch of useful features that Google don't put in the standard app (like adjustable playback speed)
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"there was a rake labelled Decorum, so of course I stepped on it"
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Just opened a letter saying my Personal Independence Payment has been stopped. They sent me a reassessment form which I posted a week before the due date and they're claiming they never received it. They decided to reassess me 10 months after I won my current claim at tribunal. Feels like I'll be at war with the DWP until the day I die.
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OwlFancier posted:Would that there were a party I could vote for whose sole policy was hanging everyone who works for the DWP. This is the first thing that's made me smile since opening the letter, so thank you for that
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therattle posted:There are also antisemites on the left. The argument about Corbyn increasing AS is flawed but don’t pretend that AS is limited to the right He didn't say on the left. He said listening to Corbyn. An antisemite isn't listening to Corbyn about Israel, they're just taking their pre-existing racism and deciding that the stance of a lifelong anti-racist somehow validates it. Kind of like when someone reads a post and responds to what they wish it said instead of what it actually said.
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WhatEvil posted:putting away a grand a month. This is a good joke
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WhatEvil posted:Well yeah, quite. Imagine putting away 1000 * 12 * 35 = £420,000 for the (avg) 10 years you'll live past pensionable age and then: - dying in climate riots - dying in one of the several pandemics that will occur between now and 2055 - dying of some other bullshit that we haven't even contemplated yet - the pension fund gets raided by people who face no consequences - losing it all in one or all of the 3 or 4 increasingly bad financial crashes that will occur between now and 2055 before you get to spend a penny
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WhatEvil posted:Yeah I mean. I could talk about that stuff a lot but I try to keep from being too blackpilled ITT. Yeah sorry, while my post was pretty black pill, my overall feeling is much more "enjoy it today" Tarnop fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Nov 22, 2021 |
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Guavanaut posted:What if they do that but she dies before signing off on it and then Charles hides in a fridge and refuses to make a decision either way? https://youtu.be/IIZJwScaInM
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WhatEvil posted:I haven't posted about it ITT, though I have in TCC... Magic mushrooms are a pretty good thing* if you're feeling blackpilled. They made a 6 hour marathon of Tetris Effect into a life-changing experience but I assume you're talking about smaller doses than that e: catte 
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WhatEvil posted:Nah I'm macro-dosing. Including one time where I hosed up and had way too much. I'll go and read your posts in the relevant thread!
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Don't do what my friends and I did when we first took acid aged 17: drive to a park and then have the designated drivers get bored of looking after us sober and take mdma
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OwlFancier posted:I crossposted with screenshots, happily.  e: lol he closed the gofundme, with a whopping £30 pledged https://twitter.com/PigeonPuncher/status/1463681601288683523 Tarnop fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Nov 25, 2021 |
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I feel like everybody in this thread is aware of the Culture novels but just in case, they do an excellent job of depicting a utopian spacefaring society grappling with how to interact with others. Reading them felt like a natural next step for someone who enjoyed TNG and DS9. Plus you have the added benefits of books being able to depict some wild poo poo that no TV show has the budget for and far less bland politics from a singular author rather than a writers room
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OwlFancier posted:Though conversely I think that at least in the ones I read, banks doesn't... really spend a lot of time with a lot of the concepts he creates? Like the societal stuff seems very much like a backdrop to just watching characters go around and do things that... in general do not seem to necessitate the setting they are occuring in, really. You've definitely given it a fair shot with those books, so I guess I'll just say that I found the tone to be broadly optimistic. A lot of the books focus on people who don't really fit in with the broader Culture and who need something more than living in luxury gay space communism to feel fulfilled, so I agree that each book only gives you a little piece of what their society is like. I enjoy the puzzle aspect of figuring out how it all works, but Banks also wrote this for people that want an overview of the big picture.
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Julio Cruz posted:David Cage is disgraced now? what did he do, besides spending far too much time and money making video games where taking a piss is a necessary part of the story Quantic Dream was (and probably still is) riddled with abuse
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WhatEvil posted:Didn't one of the pharmas say they've come up with something that'll tackle covid and is variant-proof? I think it's this one https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/merck-says-covid-19-pill-cuts-hospitalization-death-risk-by-30-2021-11-26/
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Total Meatlove posted:Just got a lovely letter from my local NHS trust, advising me that the referral made by my GP has been delivered, but they’re currently working to book in people from Jan 2019, so it might be a while. Psychiatry UK https://psychiatry-uk.com/right-to-choose/
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Relieve the tension of living in hellworld by making fun machine generated images of your "favourite" politicians https://pixray.gob.io/text2image/ Keir Starmer llama harmer  Priti Patel dropping immigrants in a volcano  A bin bag full of custard 
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loving hell it's even worse, they adopted brothers and separated them to put one back into the foster system https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-adopted-two-brothers-eight-years-later-we-gave-one-back-63skbcfpw
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The Question IRL posted:* = Something that is controversial but all the social welfare/tax benefits that families with children get are well earned and probably should be increased. You aren't a bad person if you decide not to have children, but you are a good person if you do have children and raise them right. I don't think that's controversial from a left wing perspective; raising a child is expensive. What's lovely is when it's used to divide people into deserving and undeserving recipients of welfare, but I think everyone here knows that it's the people that try to foment that divide that are at fault.
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Those are a bunch of different, separate arguments. I think it's pretty uncontroversial here to say that people who exist, no matter what sequence of decisions led up to that point, deserve enough resources to live a happy and fulfilling life
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Crankit posted:Thanks guys, do the job centre send me a P45 when I end the benefits? Because Universal Credit is an in-work benefit (see the stuff about taper rate in the last budget) your claim doesn't end until 6 months of receiving no payment. Assuming your new job takes care of tax through PAYE and you're earning enough to taper UC down to zero then your payments will be stopped automatically and your claim will be closed in 6 months, by which time you'll have no need for a p45. Long winded way of saying "no"
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