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NotJustANumber99 posted:Yes mate, social media is when its piss easy and everyone and their grandma is doing it not just some nerds. Thats what the car analogy was supposed to be about.  Guavanaut posted: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. Borrovan fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Feb 1, 2022 |
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e: ^^^jfc what is wrong with youThomasPaine posted:I've been very much enjoying the Netflix Snowpiercer series. It is insanely stupid and don't ever think too hard about how a 1000-odd car train actually functions or how the characters are seemingly able to shoot back and forward between the tail and the engine multiple times an episode, but it's very fun and while they do it with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer I do enjoy the radical class consciousness it has going on, which thankfully it never gets too liberal with outside of a few weird plot points. Plus you also get to see Sean Bean absolutely chewing the scenery in the best way possible. There's a few good characters in there despite the charisma void (her off Labyrinth was never supposed to be charismatic, for example. & the hard Russian guy is well cool), but jfc Layton, was having a conversation about the characters in that show before starting the new series & I honestly forgot he even exists, he's the main character  I'll still keep watching it tho cuz the setting's cool, & Sean Bean. Pretty much all style & no substance though imo. Like all Netflix. Might still nope out if they keep expecting me to remember stuff & pay attention tbh, it's not good enough to put effort in.
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fuctifino posted:...and going on to give fellatio to a future Prime Minister.
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fuctifino posted:Hold on, this 'rebate' is a loan that's repayable over 5 years? e: lol this is all wrong I watched the video Borrovan fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Easy to take that view if you're completely insulated from the actual consequences of having a "bad guy" in charge But imagine being (a)a big enough oval office to think like that, & (b)stupid enough to just think that's a normal thing to go on TV and say
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The Supreme Court is running some kind of free online course on how it works, that I strongly suspect is a bunch of liberal propaganda that would only be of interest to the weirdest of weird politics nerds, so I thought I'd post it here just in case anyone feels like punishing themselves https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/inside-the-supreme-courtmarketing fluff posted:We have worked in partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London, to create the course. Our aim is to give people a behind the scenes look at the work of the Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). The course is designed to increase awareness and understanding of the role and work of the Court.
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The amazing thing is that those are such loving easy lowball questions, literally anyone with even a passing familiarity of human communication could have said "yes I have spoken to the PM at length, our conversations have been extremely positive and I feel he is making great strides towards fixing the culture &c &c" or some such nonsense. Like, do you think she's that weirdly combative all the time, like someone in the shop asks "how are you today" and she's just all "why are you asking that, that is a very vague and open ended question, I will not be telling you the details of my day" loving phenomenally stupid person, she can't even make token efforts towards concealing what a nasty, spiteful person she is
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I bought my computer from Curry's/PC World when they had an offer on for a 1 in 20 chance of a full refund. Jumped through all the hoops designed to stop people from entering, then won, and they just... didn't pay me. Lots of very long phone calls with an outsourced call centre that didn't actually have the authority to do anything about it, kept being told they'd call back but they never did, then they just closed that phone line, so I sued them. Was honestly surprised they settled in full the day they got the court papers, was expecting them to drag their heels for a few more months.
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Feb 7, 2022 09:59
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ThomasPaine posted:I'd quite like to go see the Falklands Gonna go ahead & guess it's probably a bad time considering what every other weird insular British community is like, but I'd like to see the wildlife & stuff, plus I'd also like to see Antarctica one day & it's a pretty common stop-off. It's been on my pile of "stuff I'd like to do but probably never will" for a while now.
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Feb 7, 2022 11:16
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It does not surprise me at all to learn that these dickheads think 'colorblindness' means "I don't want to ever see anything other than white people or I'll poo poo myself and smear it all over my twitter."
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I would have assumed that it's more that the market still exists but multiple smaller competitors are always better because competition is inherently good. As to why markets keep resulting in monopolies, as we all know, there are two acceptable political ideologies: capitalists who think that we just need a few more regulatory tweaks, and capitalists who think we need to stop interfering. I just came up with this taxonomy writing this post & honestly I think it summarises the main parties in most western liberal democracies pretty well
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Dead Goon posted:My first computer was an Alan Michael Sugar TRaDing CPC 464 and played games like Paperboy and Joe Blade. It had a very heavy green & black CRT monitor that somehow my Mum found an adaptor for (pre-internet days for us, anyway) so I could plug it into my Amiga 500 I got after. I also remember calling my friend up, who did have dial-up internet, to look up the next part of a walkthrough for Commander Keen, so I could make some more progress.  ), still low-key pissed at my parents for chucking it in like 2001 IT'S ONE DODGY WIRE IT WORKS FINE IF YOU JIGGLE IT 
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idgaf about kieth but the fact that the far right have been organising & are getting emboldened is a bad thing. There's always been fash about but usually just some pathetic little demos outnumbered by antifash, nowadays it seems like roving mobs of violent fascist are just a feature of life, they're really mobilising off the back of anti-lockdown poo poo & imo we should all be worried The fact that Johnson is just straight-up siccing them on his political opponents is also bad, even if those opponents are themselves bad. Like how the Heil "enemies of the people" headline wasn't bad because we're so concerned about the poor oppressed Law Lords, it was bad because we're witnessing the decline into fascism
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Red Oktober posted:It’s also not as “random outraged people” as it looks apparently: Remember when liberals were sliver-lining Johnson's premiership, saying the way to stop all these far right demos was to put their guy in charge & give them what they want lol
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goddamnedtwisto posted:IANAL: ngl it was pretty funny watching his defenders squirming in interviews knowing full well they'd get sued if they repeated it
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WhatEvil posted:I'm waiting for them to also bring up how Starmer was head of the DPP when it was decided to let John Worboys (who raped Carrie Johnson) avoid further charges.
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Criminal law: don't know much about it but that sounds like criminal harassment to me. Which cops are very well known for pretending to be a civil issue (it's both) & refusing to do anything about, and when they do do anything about it often just end up making it worse. Imo this is one of the rare situations where it's worth talking to pigs though, just to get it on record to protect her position in case things escalate. (e: if pigs try to deflect, s2 Protection from Harassment Act is where you need to point them) Restraining orders: no idea legally, but my personal experience of how they work is "they don't" Employment law: if the boss doesn't do anything about it that sounds like textbook constructive dismissal (if she resigns). That's a big escalation though, so she should definitely get advise first (ACAS helpline is probably a good starting place), & start off by trying to resolve it informally & then raise a formal grievance.
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She should def look into the constructive dismissal thing though, because it's the same result except with a big payday
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sebzilla posted:Hello, a quick request. Also he's a cop who resigned from the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers because membership is inconsistent with being DPP and/or a cop, which he is However, I can't really see what you gain from this argument. I know lots of smart people who were hoodwinked, we were undergoing a massive collective trauma at the time. It's okay to be wrong sometimes, just learn from it & move on
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Quick question: Is it scabbing to go into the office on strike days for the sole purpose of getting my books on labour law so that I can advise the Committee on something that just came up in a Union meeting? We aren't picketing every day so no literal picket lines, just figurative ones. It really doesn't sit well with me though, even though in practical terms it's strictly beneficial to our action.
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Thanks comrades, I'll be sure to steal some poo poo whilst I'm there Also lmao I literally just noticed I got very slightly Saddest Rhinoed
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ThomasPaine posted:It's weirdly fascinating because I don't see how anyone can say any of this with a straight face. I know a bunch of them are grifters, but some of them do seem to genuinely believe it. But it's so obvious to anyone with a functional set of eyes and ears that this demographic is by far the most indulged, petty, thin-skinned generation of the lot. Are they all actually so delirious on all that lead in their systems that they can merrily huff their own bullshit without seeing any issue. These are 'journalists', their whole job is meant to be critical analysis. Do they really, earnestly believe that they're just 'ard unlike the soft 'kids'? I've never seen a group of people who would be so thoroughly laughed at by both their parents and their kids. Aye, let's send Jane loving Moore to the front and see how she does if she thinks she's such a big tough lady, see how far your weird made up WW2 fantasies get you then. That's literally it, it's egocentrism. I've even seen some of my family members come around on it, as they've (eventually) noticed that we don't have any of the advantages that they did, like housing & job security &c. Most of them just notice conveniences that didn't exist in their youth (technology mainly) & conclude that therefore we have things better than they did, because being able to be made homeless & destitute at any moment is just completely beyond their life experience
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Prole, your commentary last night is exactly how I feel about it, I wouldn't consider going in in any circumstance if I hadn't been specifically asked to help the Union with a legal issue related to the strike. Like sure there's all kinds of justifications for why it's not an issue but... you just don't do that. Ever. ...except that I'm apparently the only member with relevant expertise for a current problem, and I need my books to fully address it. Picket day today anyway, so the dilemma's deferred for a bit (& I can chat to the Committee about it on the picket lines)
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jfc Rayner is so loving bad at politics It's like she doesn't even understand that the reason the right won't accept her is factionalism, well good news Angie you no longer have a faction
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Video is 8 months old according to the replies (my bins, however, are in the garage)
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NotJustANumber99 posted:You've got a bin garage? Posho Did until this afternoon anyway, now I've got a garage jammed full of like plant pots & furniture & junk
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Gonzo McFee posted:It's called a grunt hole you tory gently caress  it is now
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Necrothatcher posted:Storm my arse. OwlFancier posted:Everyone looks like their avatar unless they say they go to the gym in which case they look mega hench, and possibly also still sort of like their avatar, that's how it works, sorry.  e: & in news from South Wales, a roadworks sign has fallen over & there is a compost bin under my car
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Guavanaut posted:"all living creatures are either male or female". Hey look what tab I still had open https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1493960848066453510
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killerwhat posted:Who are they actually? e: fuctifino posted:The leader and deputy leader of the Labour party. Real edit god dammit Jaeluni you ruined my joke
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Reveilled posted:I do think there's a problem in online culture with the outrage machine motivating people to seek anger over insight and algorithms like Twitter's working to reinforce that. People seem motivated to take others' posts in the worst possible faith to attack each other, and I think you can legitimately get cancelled over some of the dumbest, mildest poo poo.  " seem like a serious societal problemkind of annoying that it makes "there is no such thing as cancel culture" a false statement, but I still tend to go with "there is no such thing as cancel culture you loving idiot" if anyone brings it up because it's not like those types argue in good faith or care about progressive discourse, and also I get to call them a loving idiot
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Exchange rates are based on ~free market~ supply & demand, not purchasing power parity I feel like there might be some reason that Cuban international trade isn't doing so well
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Sounds pretty team building tbf e: the number "88" resembles the letters "AA" & is a code for "anal adventures", indicating that the person using the code is down for w/e. Pass it on Borrovan fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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Some people were wondering about sanctions earlier, I was actually working in legal for a German energy firm (cigarette no blindfold tyvm) that did a bunch of trading with Russia when they invaded Crimea & all the sanctions happened last time, so I just dug out the report I wrote on what those sanctions were in case it's interesting to anyone: Basically, the EU & US sanctions were broadly the same & fell under a few heads:
Interesting thing though is that you can fairly safely assume that nobody involved in Russian dark money in London was on the lists of specific individuals last time, since we were in the EU at the time so would have made sure that was the case. That's not so this time. Given how the City operates, there's a pretty good chance the EU would still play ball with the British State, but we can't be sure, which could be Fun Times. Borrovan fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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Darth Walrus posted:Mightn't that just further reinforce London as a hub for Russian money?  I think London's already about as hub-for-Russian-money-ish as it can get & is already effective enough to explain why Russia gave absolutely zero shits about the sanctions last time & will continue to give the same exact amount of shitsIf the EU & US actually wanted to take things seriously though they could start sanctioning us for that same exact reason, but notable omissions from the sanctions list include "anything that slightly inconveniences the West in any way whatsoever", so that's just not gonna happen. imo the sanctions are basically just an excuse to slightly gently caress with strategic Russian state assets for balance of power reasons that we wanted to do anyway, so I genuinely don't expect anything from it
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Reveilled posted:This one? It's this: Guavanaut posted:OwlFancier watch the RoboCop.
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Honestly just can't bring myself to give a gently caress about our response to this. On the one hand, every single Western intervention I can name was terrible. On the other, it's increasingly apparent that non-interventionism just means interventionism except it's Russia doing it unopposed (this applies to all recent conflicts). Obviously Russia shouldn't be allowed to do that, but then we're back to the first hand again, I genuinely can't see any difference between which world power puts which fascists in charge of which countries, & the idea that the West would ever honestly intervene in the genuine interests of the peoples concerned is just laughably naive. So in answer to NJAN99's post, the correct response would be "look for gently caress's sake can we all just please admit that we're just fighting endless proxy wars against Russia to preserve Western influence, and then we can actually have a serious conversation about whether or how we should be doing that", but I can't really see that happening for some reason
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The Russian money laundering machine is literally woven into the fabric of the British state, it'd pretty much take the collapse of the British state to fix it Which, like, cool I guess, but it'd probably have to come from some kind of foreign intervention at this point, in respect of which I refer you to my previous post
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