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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. 
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If you want a casual rather than technological definition for the purposes of mass rather than niche communications, then any site where "are you on [x]?" is a reasonable yes/no question at a party would work. Which of course depends on which country and social scene (and what sort of party).
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feedmegin posted:Lol if you think posting on usenet was hard? if 18 year old college students and your nan with an AOL cd could do it, anyone could. That's kind of where the whole 'eternal September' meme came from in the first place. Your nan could post on usenet in '95 in the same way that she could go into a Cellnet shop and pick up a mobile phone contract, but how many did?
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The main difference being that in the latter case the crack team of paedophiles will have a warrant.
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It does feel sometimes like Eddie Izzard is taking the piss, especially with the whole "I don't care about pronouns and JKR isn't transphobic" thing, but I don't know enough about whether that was a fair representation of what they said, only that it did understandably cause upset. Why Glinner cares so much about whether Eddie Izzard is a woman or not is a different matter.
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Liberty are filing a case against the Met's Gangs Violence Matrix so that big dump of all the racist police being racist etc might find some use there.
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So they're outright saying he's a con artist or a cult leader? Wonder if he'll go Jim Jones if he gets in legal trouble.
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An old cowboy went riding out One track and tracing day Upon a ridge he rested As he went along his way When all at once a mighty herd Of led eyed cars he saw Plowing through the ragged skies And up the cloudy draw Their bat'ries were on fire And their frames weren't made of steel Their horns were goat and fart sounds And their price tag he could feel A bolt of fear went through him As they crashed into a bus For he saw the drivers coming hard Phones on r/elonmusk
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OwlFancier posted:I would imagine the suggestion is that if everyone else doesn't give a poo poo and works to undermine everything you do, then you are a fool for putting yourself out.
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Feb 2, 2022 01:33
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People are calling me 'the nonce defender' and it's not true. I'm not mad but I need you to know it's not true. I'm not 'the nonce defender', so stop calling me that.
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kingturnip posted:Would it have to be on fire at the same time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaedikt9MNA
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https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1488549874211737605 Every woman who has had children is a TERF *asks mam* Every woman who has had children except her is a TERF
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Tesla Pro has an Gradius option pod that swaps the stop sign for a yield/give way sign as you approach and then switches it back after.
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Feb 2, 2022 18:45
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happyhippy posted:the NI of 100 years ago.  Narrator: The pig did not come back, and later grew to be famous for pooping on its own balls.
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Feb 3, 2022 10:42
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You could read a book or watch a video, but really you just need block chain dot png
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's like when they tried to get twitter to disable right-click. Centralised authorities are bad, except when I need them to protect my monkey jpg because nobody believes me when I say I bought it.  10 is the number of monkeys I own through right clicking
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OwlFancier posted:Is that pro or anti nft because yes you literally can own shakespeare as much as anybody else can by copying it. *NFT boosters or the monkeys that shat on the typewriters when they tried that thought experiment irl, either/or
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I'm not even sure it qualifies as a scam considering that everyone involved seemed to have the level of awareness that gets honestly shocked when finding out that sponsoring a flower bed at the local park doesn't mean that they can turn it into a deep shaft mine.
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OwlFancier posted:being non fungible by virtue of being a physical object
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Borrovan posted:& also appears to come in the form of a council tax discount, so probably bad news if you're on council tax benefit or are a student (or enjoy having slightly less underfunded public services) If I understand the idea the latter is a loan to the remaining energy companies that allows them to give every customer a £200 credit on their bill, and the energy companies will be repaying the loans (and so presumably putting it on your bills when wholesale prices are lower) rather than the government trying to administrate millions of small loans to individuals. The £150 council tax rebate is a straight tax rebate funded by selling your library to a company that makes nazi meth or something. e: ^^ gently caress yeah Tomatan
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think you could snort anything off gove, it would dissolve on contact with him.
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William Bear posted:What the gently caress is with this analogy? This is the tweet that caused Nietzsche's crisis of faith. It went back to the earthly paradise and bounced around like a pogo stick throwing apples everywhere. It's the vision that appeared to Desmond Tutu but it was dressed as a giant foam watermelon. This tweet is available as an NFT of a Pietΰ of Johnson cradling a drunk gammon who is relieving himself.
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East of England is South Holland and Utrecht.
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Spangly A posted:He's Kawczynski with the self awareness to know that you can't say poo poo like that if you want to be pm and win a general, and he looks good because he's one of very few Tory MPs that isn't purely a social arsonist. His vision of the future is still one that none of us should aspire to 
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Yes, the social arsonist with similar long term environmental views to Michael Gove.
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Night of the Wrong WivesSpangly A posted:id also just like to say I cant believe the trots are taking down the uk government and professor furedi is sitting not two miles from me, looking at his phone, laughing Like not just stupid poo poo like Spiked On Line but actual good things like BPAS getting emergency contraception/termination by telemedicine legalized for the pandemic or Sense About Science opposing some of the worse woo.
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 You're not supposed to go on television and admit that it was just always aristocratic conmen loving over other people all along, Timothy. e: 14 is a number of words used by people who pretend to care about 'tradition' but have no clue what it means and just want to act like cunts Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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Red Oktober posted:he was absolutely not trying to gently caress one of the kegs. that weren't even affected by his new changes because they were too small Is that what they mean when they say he's 5 foot 5?
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love too call black women 'angry' when they point out something i said or did, the thing that always works and never makes me look like a cock
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Speaking of cocks, I watched the NFT video and got this short Folding Ideas recommended, which I hadn't seen before and pretty much perfectly sums up what I thought about the whole thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-a9VDIbZCU
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Comrade Fakename posted:I like Folding Ideas a lot, the Flat Earth and NFT videos that have been mentioned in here are genuine masterpieces, but I think he was being somewhat unfair in this one. He really misses the context that Oliver's "War on Nuggets" was started in the context of campaigning against the terrible state of UK school lunch provisions. I'm not saying Jamie's not deserving of a great deal of criticism, but the low funding and terrible nutritional value of school food was awful and he was right to campaign against it. Thus Spake  That in turn led to a lot of circular arguments about "Jamie is unfair about nuggets" "so you support intensive poultry farming?" "no but Jamie doesn't oppose that either, he just wants more of it to be thrown away" that I think the video does a good job of addressing. Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, I live in a Victorian terrace and it owns: high ceilings, storage space, tons of natural light and after 120 years, you can be pretty sure it's not going to fall down suddenly.  Also an outhouse but the door on it is hosed.
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That's also true, whenever there's frost on the ground I can see where all my heat is going, and the heaters are placed in the stupidest spots possible (can't blame the Victorians for the central heating though).
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I'm debating just cladding over the worst brick bits for heat loss (long kitchen is long) with sandstone or yorkstone, but I'm not sure how much that would do.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:gently caress it I might just take some measurements tonight, I'm all curious. Plus I don't have to start heating it 10 minutes before someone comes round for tea or if I'm making stuffing or sauces. OwlFancier posted:I mostly wish I knew a good method for keeping hands warm 
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Do poppers on the bus and put your hands down your trousers.
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At least his hands were warm JeremoudCorbynejad posted:(but there's also a lot of waste heat from that so I couldn't be certain) Electricity is 20.3p per kWh (!), gas is 4p per kWh. So all being equal it would cost 5x as much to heat a cup of water on electric than gas. But a gas hob is only about 40% efficient (mostly due to heat loss around the sides) and slightly less powerful (~2.5kW as opposed to 3.3kW) allowing more heat to be lost during the longer boiling cycle. For both gas and electric kettles you'll also need to heat up a bit more water than you need to use or you'll risk knackering them, this scales inversely with how much you need, wasting say half for 1 cup, 25% for 2 cups. Rough observations: It takes about 7 minutes to heat up enough water for 2 cups of tea and a bit extra on the gas hob, so say 0.3kWh or 1.2p of gas. A cup boiler takes 30s per cup and draws 3kW so 0.05kWh or 1.015p of electricity. So actually slightly cheaper for the cup boiler, which I wasn't expecting at first. And much quicker. mediaphage posted:these are the sorts of heaters i recommend:
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This is the cup boiler I got, they're over 50 quid now but I stumbled across one on summer sale at exactly the time my gas kettle started whistling lovely and taking even longer to boil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZDDndpChUY If you'd asked me at the time I'd have said it probably costs more per cup but is much faster (and better for air quality). Being cheaper to run too just makes me wish I'd got one years ago. I've never made an extremely Country Living Magazine pot noodle on it though, so it's possible that I'm using it wrong.
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Didn't that happen to Jimmy Savile?
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