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goddamnedtwisto posted:This is the one thing that would bring me round to Starmer. Pounded in the Butt by my own Ten Pledges
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bessantj posted:That's great. A muslim had a drink so I don't believe the vulnerable should have a safety net anymore. Brain of nothing but worms. So much for the temperant left!
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Captain Tom using the hard 'R' there.
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Jan 1, 2022 12:56
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Crypto managed to transition from being a large bundle of regular scams backed by a drugs marketplace into being an even larger bunch of complicated market scams backed in a similar way to US subprime mortgages in 2008. Much like then, the idea that this is a stable and sustainable activity that could never go tits-up has brought in a class of respectable money-men who are right now convincing your CEO at a party that this is something they need to be looking into.
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Guavanaut posted:You could have a guinea pig. Guinea pigs are a pro-tier pet, deceptively smart for a creature that will walk straight off an open ledge.
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Jakabite posted:I’ve largely avoided the Tesla-based jabs but this… this is unforgivable. You monster. Yeah, gravy is perfectly respectable on chips when curry sauce is not available.
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Keir Starmer - I'd Do Anything For Votes (But I Won't Do That)
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stev posted:I watched that Potter reunion and her absence was delightful. I hope some of the cast agreed to be involved only on the condition that she wasn't. The Time Lords have sealed her in 2019 for her many crimes.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Sad to hear he's gone the same way. Stealing my own post from SFWF: josh04 posted:It's a bit sad really, Coltrane was the one in the special who clearly wanted to be there the most (just ahead of Chris Columbus who was thrilled to have some former child actors whose lives he didn't ruin) and he's an old guy who thinks that the series is what his grandkids are going to remember him for and is terrified at the thought of it falling from grace. That doesn't excuse anything, obviously, but it was very apparent.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:GOLDstein, eh, JK? I bet she even pronounces it wrong like that devil man gerbil crombobyn. a classic https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/770958110882164736?lang=en
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Good news everyone! https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1478739540307230720
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The plex app, while never perfect, tends to be a lot more user-friendly and featureful than any other local-play option on smart TVs or consoles.
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OwlFancier posted:The funny part is that yes, you can pull down the statues if you want, it doesn't change his accomplishments, if there were no statues of the guy he still wouldn't be forgotten because his work is foundational to so many people across the world. Yeah, this is just Buster Bluth trying to throw the hand vacuum at the bus.
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What you have to understand is that computer people have a terrible sickness where they find all that stuff perversely fulfilling, hence how once we started talking about it, the recommendation of increasingly complex methods of achieving the same thing began pouring in.
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Exponential growth is a hell of a curve.
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Flayer posted:Lewis Shamilton is also a doper!!!!!1 The drugs let you see the secret third pedal called 'Bottas'.
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It closes at the weekend, that's why it's back on the radar.
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I like the idea that there's a "Corbyn inner circle (including his wife)"
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Don't forget Las Vegas got its start as a tourist destination because people would go there to watch the atmospheric tests at the Nevada Test Site - although having been there I'd be willing to entertain a theory that Las Vegas itself is in fact not real. umberto eco voice las vegas is hyper-real
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Jaremies Corben. Doesn't he do the carpool karaoke?
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I'm amusing myself thinking back to all those cataclysmic warnings about the penalties for GDPR violations and how it turned out that as long as you weren't completely incompetent as an institution then it was just a case of checking a bunch of boxes and if you just did that bare minimum, then even if the worst happened and hackers stole your entire membership database then you probably wouldn't get sued into oblivion.
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Prole posted:Do you ever get the feeling that we're living through the last days of a dying system? It's insane. Nobody seems to have any kind of care for life - it's all about preservation of careers. Short term victory. Like they don't *expect* much in the long term. The political/media system is completely dysfunctional broken and has been since at least 2010 (probably since... Iraq? Diana? Depending on how historical materialist you want to be ofc but just tracking this particular degradation that produced our journalist-pm who does nothing and says anything) and it will continue to get worse until it's so bad it collapses or gets reformed, whichever comes first.
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The BBC has been world-leading in TV tech right up to the current era, where they were able (along with NHK) to get the HLG curve HDR standard adopted as a free alternative to the Dolby-sponsored PQ. It's always done a lot of what you'd want a socialised entertainment industry to. It's been dragged down by successive governments driving it to do less good stuff, less 'unfair' competition with commercial broadcasters and more adherence to their standards of success.
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^ Britbox is late, expensive and incomplete.OwlFancier posted:I think the only things I watch are weird media analysis videos, the odd politics thing, and lets plays on youtube, all of which are significantly more interesting and thoughtful than anything I have ever seen on a TV so I can't see why I would go back. The BBC should be making that kind of content. The BBC should be running its own twitch.
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OwlFancier posted:Like necessarily I do not see how the things I have an interest in watching would be improved by putting them in the hands of a single, monolithic production company, publicly funded or not. I like watching things that have a strong individual style to them and are made by people who are genuinely interested in the thing they are talking about, involving more people in that is not going to improve it, it's just going to make it more formulaic and dull, which is already the reason i don't enjoy watching tv shows as a class of media. Twitch and YouTube are effectively private monopolies already, but for profit and run by libertarian tech megacorps. I'm not saying the BBC should run a Twitch channel, I'm saying they should run Twitch itself.
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Guavanaut posted:Does that make the French communards some kind of Ron Paul weirds for being able to tell the difference between a fair tax with representation, a tolerable tax, and a tax that was a trifle to the rich but an excuse to harass the poor? Or the poll tax rioters? Or the water meter refusers? I'm not defending the BBC in its current incarnation or the concept of BBC News in any incarnation. I think leftists should and usually do perceive that the license fee is a boondoggle deliberately attached to a state service to emphasise that it is a burden on individual taxpayers and that the license fee is largely irrelevant to the question of "should we have a socially-run entertainment service". As someone mentioned upthread, "the tories will always make this bad" is not an argument we accept when it's about busses, trains or healthcare.
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https://twitter.com/mlothianmclean/status/1483051927369887744 Mills is a good egg, and was involved in the Corbyn campaign's plan to reform the BBC. Prole posted:(Incidentally: I'm not a re-reg! I don't know what I can do to prove it. I'm not averse to just linking to my blog and twitter if it saves the mods putting me on probation. I just got off a 6hr one based on the suspicion I am a re-reg. I'm at a loss as to how to prove I am new here lol. PM me if you really need proof. Best I can do.) Being accused of being hbag is simply a grievous insult.
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fuctifino posted:So this is just a difference of opinion. You think the BBC is worth saving based on what it used to be and what it could be again, and I don't. It's an argument that isn't too dissimilar to the arguments used by those who wish to save Labour. I don't think people arguing that Labour isn't worth saving think that when it collapses there shouldn't be a left-wing political party.
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blunt posted:Absolutely never gonna happen. The subscription numbers are awful for Youtube Premium while their ad revenue last quarter was $7billion. Google's search ad revenue in Q3 2021 was $37.9 billion, by comparison, and search doesn't involve processing and storing 400 hours of video every minute. Google didn't even release figures for Youtube until 2020 as it was infamously unprofitable.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I don't have an envelope big enough to work it out but I feel pretty confident that Youtube's infrastructure costs are considerably less than $7bn a quarter, or even a year. The reason Google are the biggest company on earth isn't to do with the quality of any of their products, but their ability to spin up a completely distributed, hardware- and network-agnostic network on very, very cheap hardware. They probably are now, having gone steeply up in the last five years, which is why Alphabet is now boasting about how much ad revenue Youtube specifically brings in. But no amount of plucky nickel-and-diming on hardware can make video data not an order of magnitude larger than text or image data to store. Google have to play with the same codecs as the rest of us, and even though they do lots of R&D in the area there's a floor on how small you can make that data and a certain amount of processing time it takes to transcode it (Google have been moving into custom chips to aid with this). The rest of the Google app ecosystem, having reached some measure of market saturation, has gradually begun to charge you based on storage used. Big channels bring in the ad money; as time goes by it will be more and more appealing to put the ability of Joe UKMT Poster to upload 360 degree videos of every train station closed by Beeching behind a more direct revenue-producing stream, and we'll all be poorer for it.
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Prole posted:They always bang on about "abolishing" e2e. Any attempt will go the same way as when they wanted to make people go to the off-licence to buy a Porn Pass. Just another story that not much of the general public understand the details of, but sounds good from a Law and Order perspective... Desperate stuff from the gov imo It suggests that the wheels have come off a bit in the Home Office if the things that usually get blocked by their physical impossibility are being briefed.
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No Dignity posted:It must have been cool seeing a one scene Simpsons character IRL Searching "simpsons falconer" led me to this deeply cursed Season 25 guest appearance by Daniel Radcliffe  Man, the Simpsons is ugly now.
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ThomasPaine posted:Is Britain's contemporary press an outlier or have we always had a journo class that does no real journalism but just repeats whatever their (usually govt) sources say verbatim with no critical analysis before clocking off at midday and going down the pub? Is this normal in the rest of the world? Do people in say France laugh at us or is this just standard practice in most countries? Flat Earth News is a little long in the tooth now but it sets out pretty well the process by which a press with some extremely scummy elements transformed itself into one tiny solid brick of absolute scum. I'd imagine the process is the same everywhere but in various steps along the path, as it's all the usual captialism consolidate/underpay/condense stuff.
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Muahaha, I went into the PhD knowing I definitely didn't want to pursue academia, so only one of my four years (write-up) was filled with mind-destroying misery and regret. There are definitely parts I miss from both the PhD and my BSc; it's very hard outside academia to feel like you properly know what you're talking about on an subject, rather than feeling like a spirited amateur. Work in industry is better defined by far but as mentioned you lose a huge amount of freedom and spare time.
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