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Yeah it's not even remotely about Owen Paterson, it's just a nice excuse to have a vote on it and absolve themselves (even more) of any potential future consequences.
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Nov 4, 2021 19:44
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Nov 8, 2021 23:47
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Lt. Danger posted:how soon they forget the Quiet Man... shoulda turned up the volume more Yeah he already was leader, don't think Boris has to worry about him cause if he tries to put himself forward they'll likely just point to the fact he never won before.
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Nov 10, 2021 02:51
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My previous stance on Novara has been that Bastani has about 90% good takes and then the rest is melt poo poo, usually around giving some Tory MPs the benefit of the doubt or similar. Walker is about the same, and Ash has been consistently sound... until she wrote (or interviewed?) for Unherd the other day. And yes, I've noticed the awful clickbait titles. Haven't watched any of their vids since shortly after the election. Now I'm basically done with them. Speaking of melts:  This could be interesting. I wonder if there's actually been any reflection from the Kimono Killer, or if he's still just fundamentally a comfortable liberal (I know what my money's on). Still, his work with the Good Law Project does seem to be actually good, and he's also very good on trans rights, so I never fully know what to think of him. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Nov 10, 2021 20:08
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Szmitten posted:Did Lowtax seriously loving die on Remembrance Day. It's still the 10th in America.
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Nov 11, 2021 05:22
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Bobstar posted:Getting people to invert the way they view tax and government spending is hard, but I think this might be the most significant hump to get over. Of course there are right-lolberts who believe that all taxation is theft, and there are socialists and such, but in between those extremes there's a huge mass of floppy centre-ish people who kind of think that earning/having lots of money is fine, but taxing those rich people to pay for a functioning country is a necessary "evil" (or at least a necessary "thing"). This is probably the majority of people in fact. Interestingly also that taxed money is considered "our money" and the government has to be careful spending it, but all the money we make as workers that's ultimately funneled to billionaires is never viewed as "our money" and they can spend it on whatever the gently caress they want.
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Nov 13, 2021 22:07
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Had a dream last night the Queen was dead. My dreams don't even normally feature the queen at all. Must mean something.
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Nov 14, 2021 16:01
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Also how the *gently caress* do people browse YT without an adblocker? Bloody awful isn't it. I was just searching for some classical music that I wanted to show my wife. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdH1hSWGFGU Which, to my mind, is one of the absolute heights of human creative endeavour. But because I was doing it on my tablet rather than my PC, no ad-block, and before the piano started, I got some ad jingle (and reflexively said "gently caress OFFFFFFFF!"), which is the absolute lowest point of human creative endeavour (the jingle, that is, not me telling it where to go). Capitalism. Make u fink.
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Nov 15, 2021 02:23
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Almost, but not quite: Wait what? We watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpEfHVFilRc immediately after watching the other vid I posted... but I didn't know it had also been used in Bugs Bunny!
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Nov 15, 2021 05:27
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Just got a Telegraph pop-up on my phone. "Liverpool bomber was of Middle Eastern background and not known to MI5". Terrorist confirmed via brownness.
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If it actually brings the loving government and the Tory establishment down in a way that achieves lasting change then I'll celebrate. The odds of that happening are about the same as the odds of me being struck by a meteorite before hitting "Submit Reply" on this post, and.... nope.
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Nov 16, 2021 23:46
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Sorry don't mean to be too blackpilled ITT but at best you'll get a different and likely worse Tory oval office in No.10 (like Keir Starmer) and it's all just so tiring.
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Nov 16, 2021 23:48
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My uncle retrained from, err, criminal, to being an electrician in his 40s or early 50s. Seriously, he was in and out of prison for years for theft and burglary and stupid stuff, but he cleaned himself up and trained as a sparky and sorted his life right out.
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Mr Phillby posted:Has anyone ever actually said what bad stuff they thought Corbyn would have done to Jewish people once he was in power? Its so fun watching everyone get into the academic weeds over israel and zionism and historical claims while the Tories privatise the NHS, stamp all over LGBT rights and feel safe announcing that they'll drown migrants in the chanel. Didn't you know? He was going to open a new Auschwitz: https://twitter.com/JamesEFoster/status/1324399480469364736?s=20
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Bug Squash posted:Finklesteins proposal is stupid not just because you're platforming Nazis, but on the fundamental issue that untrue things outnumber true things millions to one, and spending time knowingly teaching untrue things is time not spent teaching true things. If you have to expand the science curriculum to include Piltdown man, Lamarkian evolution, germ denialism, HIV denialism, flat earth, creationism, super dosing vitamins, homeopathy, vaccine denialism, etc... as equal theories then you literally won't have enough time to teach normal stuff. I'm enjoying this post combined with your avatar.
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Can't remember who it was essentially saying "I work in the public sector and my pension is poo poo!" a couple of pages ago... I don't doubt that it is not as much as you deserve, but bear in mind how many people outside of the public sector didn't have any pension savings at all until the mandatory scheme was brought in a few years ago. I was one of them - I was earning decently, never made it into the top tax bracket, but I had to put all of my spare money into saving for a house etc. Of the 20 or so people I worked with at my last UK job, I can near enough guarantee that none of them had any pension savings to speak of either. Now mandatory payments are 8% (5% from employee, 3% from employer), so if you earn £30k a year (around the UK avg. for full-time workers) that's £900/year employer contributions, which is nothing. All the pension calculators I've looked at tell me that in my mid 30s with no pension savings currently to speak of (well, like £3k or something total), I should be putting away a grand a month. The NHS employer's contribution rate is 20.6%, and the average salary for a nurse is about £33k so employer pension contributions are £6800/year. Odds are unless you're at senior manager level in the private sector, you're not gonna be getting 20% employer contribution.
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Tarnop posted:This is a good joke Well yeah, quite. They also tell people they need to start pension savings as soon as you start working whenever you're done with education. I don't know anybody who did that. I literally didn't start until it was mandatory when I was like 32.
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Nov 22, 2021 19:17
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Yeah I mean. I could talk about that stuff a lot but I try to keep from being too blackpilled ITT. Bear in mind though that (arguably) 20 years ago when I started working, there weren't quite so many signs of the end-times, and even then, like gently caress did most [16-24] year-olds start pension savings when they started working.
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I haven't posted about it ITT, though I have in TCC... Magic mushrooms are a pretty good thing* if you're feeling blackpilled. I started taking them for anxiety and they've helped a lot, and to generally give me a more positive outlook. There are a bunch of serious scientific studies coming out now saying that they're good for anxiety and/or depression. Mainly I've come to realise that even if there are valid reasons to think that everything is hosed, that needn't stop you from enjoying the life you do have. *I assume everybody ITT lives in Oregon, where they have recently been made legal, as I of course do not condone legal activity. Also if you were going to take them, you should read up about them. E: Lungboy posted:Nurses will be on LGPS or similar so employer contribution has no impact on their pension pot. Oh. How does that work then?
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Mushrooms last for about 6 hours and Acid lasts like 10, so that's one in favour of Mushrooms IMO. I still find that even knowing what I'm in for etc. that shrooms can be (though are not always) a harrowing experience for the first half of the trip. Then the second half is just pure clarity and a level of introspection and insight I'm not able to otherwise reach. It feels like the equivalent of having a cold, except it's your brain that's congested, and then you take psychedelics and all the congestion is gone and you can see things as they really are. Helps to bring into focus what's important in your life and that sort of thing. Tarnop posted:I assume you're talking about smaller doses than that Nah I'm macro-dosing. Including one time where I hosed up and had way too much. I did start off small though. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Nov 22, 2021 |
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Also yeah it seems likely (and it's been said in at least one documentary I watched) that shrooms and LSD were banned because people who took them suddenly felt a connectedness and empathy towards other people, and those sort of thoughts tended towards communism. Can't have any of that dangerous empathy around. It's only in the last few years they've even been legal for medical professionals to study. Such a waste considering all the results that seem to be coming out now - we could have been 50 years ahead on this stuff. Anecdotally they've been a bit of a miracle cure for me so I'm telling people about it.
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Tarnop posted:I'll go and read your posts in the relevant thread! Ah yeah I've gone into some detail there in TCC if anybody's interested. I realise this is a bit of a derail for the UKMT but I know lots of people ITT have Brain Problems, plus the thread was getting a little blackpilled, and they've really worked for me, and a few other friends I've spoken to, and plenty of people in the TCC thread. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Nov 22, 2021 |
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Yeah I think I already said that I'd strongly recommend reading up on the effects etc. before taking anything but just to be super clear: they're not to be taken lightly. Read up on effects, precautions, how to make sure you have the right mindset and physical setting to take them, and ideally have a "trip sitter" - somebody you can trust with you.
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I've already paid towards the legal fees of that case. And any other case Jeremy sees fit to bring before the courts.
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fuctifino posted:The Met office have just updated the warnings for tomorrow. We don't often get red alerts, so please take heed. Yellow snow warnings always amuse me. Frank Zappa posted:Watch out where the huskies go,
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Didn't one of the pharmas say they've come up with something that'll tackle covid and is variant-proof?
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Failed Imagineer posted:That's obviously insane, but the fact that you'd even need heating on overnight implies the place has absolutely zero insulation - my 1940s hovel doesn't need any heating between 10pm and 8am even when it's below zero outside, and it stays about a comfy 16C, perfect for sleeping. Maybe drops a little lower by morning time but not much Your place probably doesn't have much insulation but I bet it has tons (probably literally) of thermal mass. Was the same in my parents' 1900 house. single skin external walls with no insulation but because the interior walls were also made of brick, once you heated that up, you could leave the heating off overnight and it'd stay warm. Works wonders for keeping cool in the summer too. This is something modern housing lacks - all the internal walls are made of cardboard (no, not literally) so there's nothing to heat up/cool down and stay cool/warm through the day/night cycle. If you have enough thermal mass (which to get to this point, probably requires you to have a large water tank or something - some people in the US fill their basements with barrels of water) then it can hold or absorb enough heat to act as a buffer between winter and summer, meaning that it takes in heat energy through the summer, then releases it through the winter. With an average (1900) home it'll just be enough to (somewhat) buffer and average out the hot/cold through the day and night.
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BalloonFish posted:And the west coast main line remained overcrowded and Britain still lacked a comparable intercity passenger rail service to most of Europe. Which is what HS2 is supposed to solve at... significantly greater cost than £50 million. I know this isn't mainly what your post was about, and I'm sure you're aware of this but for others: a reminder HS2 isn't even primarily about speed. It's about capacity. The West Coast Main Line is at capacity. AIUI they can't run any more trains on it because they have to keep minimum separation between trains, and the trains that do run on it are full. Lots of what you'll see with people objecting to HS2 is like "We're spending all this money and destroying the countryside just to get from Birmingham to London 30 minutes quicker!"... and yes, that is going to be one outcome. But the main thing they're doing it for is this:  Total peak hour capacity at Euston will triple, which is a good thing if we're trying to take climate goals seriously.
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https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1465352105607245832?s=20 I don't really know why but I feel like I should bring this to the attention of the thread.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:FWIW the symptoms are exactly the same as the cold everyone had in winter 19/20 that they all swear blind makes them the first person in the country to have had covid Yeah my sister-in-law had that when she came to visit us in Canada over Christmas 2019. Wasn't covid because no cough and also she spent an entire week inside with her fella and me and my wife, and none of us caught it.
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Barry Foster posted:I watched a lot of those in lockdown, and I still do sometimes when I'm high and listening to music. I find it really really soothing. It's fun to look at different places in the world - there's pretty much one for almost anywhere you can think of I like this guy's vids for that same reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0VjPHPQH0U He cycles places. He cycled from Alaska to Mexico and further into Central and South America. He didn't do it in one go because he goes back to work in Canada planting trees each summer to make money which he then spends on his cycling trips. Nice chill dude.
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