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Reveilled posted:Surprising, seems like a real growth market after they made almost everyone in Elden Ring welsh including the premium waifu. It's more that they decided the magic academy region should be Welsh, apparently as a way of distinguishing it as a separate nation from the rest of the setting. So yeah, Welsh people in Elden Ring are all amoral, deranged wizard-scientists and their long-suffering servants, including two of the most popular characters in the game (Ranni and Blaidd) and two of the most despised (Seluvis and Pidia who may actually be the same person).
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IIRC, the thing about Saudi Arabia and 9/11 is that while it wasn't actual state terrorism, an embarrassingly large amount of royal family members and prominent businessmen turned out to have deep ties to al-Qa'eda - arguably more than in any other country. Kind of like the whole business with the Japanese government and the Moonies.
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On ASMR, it also refers to a particular form of immersive, soothing sound design chiefly designed to exploit the capabilities of headphones with pleasing, relaxing audio texture. So you can get ASMR versions of damned near anything, from car maintenance to literary analysis of Also Sprach Zarathustra. I'm sure that ASMR porn is absolutely a thing.
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OwlFancier posted:No? Chav is a skinny lad with his trackies tucked into his socks and a nasally voice wearing fake burberry and either hassling you for a fag or swearing at you, possibly at the same time. IIRC, it started as an antiziganistic slur. There's a reason it's derived from the Romani 'chavo', meaning 'boy'.
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The really dark stuff seems to be that he worked to ruin the reputation of a woman one of his friends committed domestic violence against, and that he has a dire rep within his own union on handling matters of internal racism. Seems to be Chardine Taylor Stone on Twitter who has most of the goods. Yes, it's being weaponised by a bunch of awful centrist melts, but I was hearing fairly dire things on social media about him well before they started paying attention to him. In particular, his 2015 speech went down like a cup of cold sick in the more marginalised sections of the left precisely because the RMT under his leadership was doing such an awful job of representing them: https://twitter.com/chardinetaylor/status/1565374218962931712?s=21&t=QxKi4TjM4YXdrA5fT0ybbA Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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So the ultimate British folk song is 'kill, have sex with, and then eat your rich friends', the ultimate Chinese folk song is 'I dodged the draft to have sex with my mother', and the ultimate Irish folk song is 'I got tricked into leaving Ireland by a beautiful fairy, but getting drunk and beating up the English makes me feel better about it'. Gotcha.
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sebzilla posted:If Blair gets a pass from the media in general for siding with Putin against Muslims (both by saying we should ignore Crimea in 2014 because we need Putin as an ally against ~Radical Islam~ and by arming Russia against the Chechens in 2000) then Dempsey should get a pass for dodgy connections fighting fascists. It was more about stuff like internal racism in the RMT, which he's historically been lousy at dealing with (and has sometimes worked to perpetuate) according to the union's own equalities reps, and working to publicly discredit a victim of domestic abuse because the perpetrator was one of his buddies. Not just guilt by association, but personally using his platform to be a bit of a poo poo.
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roomtone posted:so she's freezing the domestic energy cap at 1900 after all then, am i right in gleaning that much? Problem is that she seems to be compensating energy companies by having the public pay them back the excess money over the next ten years. Unless she's going full MMT 'lol, money isn't real', that's going to still be crippling in the long-term.
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Truss certainly coming right out the gate presenting herself as an heir to Johnson: https://twitter.com/tom_gann/status/1567242241084735488?s=21&t=7b_Iwfyza-1xXlwm3kPoYg
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Private Speech posted:Well it's better than that unsourced 'nightmare cabinet' leak which gave it to Zahawi or Sunak or someone similar. Kwarteng and Truss co-authored Britannia Unchained. This is absolutely a nightmare scenario.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Truss trying to alienate every wing of the Tory party that didn't support her with her cabinet picks seems like a pretty interesting strategy. I feel like she came up with a plan when she was expected to win a massive majority of the membership and is too thick to have reconsidered it. Or she's just surrounding herself with hardline loyalists because she knows she's the fourth Conservative Prime Minister in six years because her party is a nest of vipers. After a certain point, you have to recognise that a broad church is not, in fact, possible because someone's always going to be trying to burn it down.
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Venomous posted:how the gently caress have I reached the point where I now miss loving Cameron Cameron was nothing more than the delivery mechanism for May, Johnson, and Truss.
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sebzilla posted:A dictator would be cool if they did good stuff and not if they did bad stuff imo A dictator is de facto bad because they're a gigantic administrative chokepoint for an entire country. Either you have to channel all the important decisions through one extremely busy person or you end up having to outsource them to gently caress-knows-who (because if they had actual positions commensurate to their power and responsibility, it wouldn't be a dictatorship).
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Sep 7, 2022 12:53
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Pistol_Pete posted:I think this is her first big mistake: only rewarding her own faction means that the rest of the Parliamentary party have every reason to try to get rid of her and replace her with someone more likely to pass out the ministerial roles more widely. If she can't control the MPs, she won't be able to do anything else, which I thought would have been sufficiently obvious to her but clearly not. While I don't think she's some intellectual titan, I would argue that this may well be the best way for her to play a bad hand. She's got a parliamentary party who mostly don't like her (and have amply demonstrated themselves to be mostly useless and untrustworthy), weak national polling numbers, and a large but not overwhelming mandate from the membership, so her only way out is to show her value and intimidate her MPs into line with a major early success for her vision and her policies that greatly improves the government's standing in the eyes of the public. If she wants to deliver that, then she has to make sure that she's surrounded by a team of trustworthy, ideologically-aligned loyalists to ensure that nobody will be playing silly buggers and/or watering down her policies and vision. This also means that if people outside her faction start raising trouble, she can use her new position as the Saviour of Grate Britane in its Darkest Hour to bring the full weight of public opinion (and an enraged Conservative membership) down upon them as heretics and traitors.
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fuctifino posted:The warmest place is in front of a burning billionaire's mansion But how can that be, if that's also the coolest place to be?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:i dont think hes actually even a billionaire actually The royal family have some of the largest property portfolios on Earth. If he's not a billionaire, he's only one death away from becoming one.
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Rustybear posted:it's set by a simple average of a basket of European reference prices or some such but is currently being dragged up massively by gas yes It's set that way because the differences in cost are so huge and volatile that pegging it to an individual calculus of profit versus production costs results in private companies playing silly buggers like Enron did, creating deliberate shortages of expensive-but-essential energy (because we don't have full renewable/nuclear supply for our energy yet) and fraudulently inflating their own estimated production costs. Why, yes, this is another argument for removing the market mechanism and nationalising the whole lot of 'em.
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Deketh posted:Yeah this is dreadful timing, really. No one will be scrutinising Truss as she dry holes us out of whatever future we have left, no one will care about the endless crises going on. An inconspicuous public replacement for a BDSM slave collar.
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This is another long and solid thread on Leicester by a Guardian journalist. Looks like Hindutva freaks rolling in from outside the city to start poo poo really was a major factor: https://twitter.com/ainajkhan/status/1571636803852967939?s=46&t=Hut9NzNKjcTMl5VgF8q_eA
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Scientastic posted:The BBC just had some loving mouthpiece for the Institute for Economic Affairs, talking about supply side benefits to the tax cuts. Because they run the loving country, sadly.
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Sep 23, 2022 14:59
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Please explain to me what difference there will be between Keith's nationalising the railway and the current 'Great British Railways' shite they are quietly implementing? The ultimate constitutional comeback is an angry mob storming Parliament and hoisting the lot of 'em from Big Ben, because any nominally democratic government is designed to govern by consent and therefore does not have the resources or infrastructure to adequately protect itself from that without a counterbalancing degree of popular support. We're... probably a long way from that particular part of our constitutional structure being put to the test, but this government appears intent on pushing closer to that line than most.
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I thought FEAR had too much disconnect between the near-future sci-fi shooter bits and the spooky horror bits (apart from anything else, it just didn't seem right that most of the enemies in a horror game were just regular old tacticool special-ops soldiers with nothing weird and exotic about their actual in-game behaviour), and I wasn't keen on how it had smart AI that you could mostly only react to in dumb ways - they were so much better at using cover than you were, for a start.
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OK, walk me through this. Why is bond yields getting more profitable a sign of economic meltdown, and what mechanism makes them more profitable? Not a section of macroeconomics I'm super versed in.
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Right, so just to be clear, bonds are free-market goods, yeah? They're little pieces of government debt that you can buy and sell to each other?
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Tesseraction posted:The way a bond works is you give it to someone now for £1000, with the promise that after the time is up (1 yr, 5yrs, 10yrs) you have to pay them back the £1000 plus whatever the yield percent was when they bought it. This is the underpinning of how government debts work. And this is markets asking for this from the Bank of England, is it? Or just from each other, with the increased demand for potentially high-interest bonds naturally driving up the sale price between private buyers and sellers?
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Ah, so the BOE is having to up the yield of bonds in order to address crashing demand for their products? I'm just trying to pin down the exact mechanism that's making the numbers go up.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yes. Money is basically the number one example of a social construct. Mind you, it's also a very helpful demonstration of how social constructs are real and can gently caress you up.
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oxford_town posted:The yield on bonds (hereafter 'gilts') depends on the current market value of the gilt and they are inversely proportional to one another. Ahh, so yields go up when the sale price of bonds goes down, because you're paying less for better returns. The value of U.K. bonds tanking on the open market as potential buyers lose confidence in the economy makes perfect sense.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I refuse to believe that the UK is relevant enough to have a major global impact like that. Mind you, they could certainly torpedo the Irish economy Despite the best efforts of Brexit, London hasn't quite stopped being a global financial hub yet. This could massively disrupt a lot of business that goes through the City.
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Hobo posted:Oh and the thing that’s really comically dumb is that pretty much everyone in every income tax bracket is going to be poorer as a result of all this, so even the premise of people spending more money is just not a thing that will happen. Or indeed the idea that the Tory base will get more money. Which is obvious to seemingly everyone aside Kwarteng. I think that there's only so far you can go in assuming that the people doing this are completely oblivious, when the alternative is that the unstable equilibrium between capitalism and democracy has finally collapsed, international capital finally has more bargaining power than the electorate, and our politicians are just going 'gently caress it, we're asset-stripping the country'. That all this is terrible for the UK as a nation doesn't mean that it's valueless, only that the health of the country is no longer a priority for the people running it.
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The big problem with any moral argument to vote Labour at the next election is that it assumes a baseline level of stability and security to the British socioeconomy that no longer exists. The idea that a governing party that's potentially even slightly more competent and more interested in the health of the country might help depends on the idea that, at base, Britain would keep quietly chuntering along if politicians were a little more inclined to leave it alone. Instead, we've hit the tipping point where the default behaviour is to decline and collapse - absofuckinglutely everything is in a state of crisis that requires urgent, radical action. If Labour can't and won't even come close to delivering that, then they're just as committed to the collapse of the country, they're just being more apologetic about it. The fact that they're now embracing Thatcherites just confirms that they aren't coming to save us, only to be in charge of the sinking ship.
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Chinese Gordon posted:Because maybe 40% of Tory MPs are complete frothing loons and Tory members are 90% same, and the tory leadership process therefore basically guarantees that the worst candidate will win. This ignores the role of the media, who played a key role in presenting her as a credible, electable candidate to the country and to the Tory membership. Case in point: the Mail entirely fabricating polls that showed her as the landslide winner among members, hamstringing Sunak's campaign as he started panicking over the idea that he was so massively behind. She's just as much of a creature of the papers as Johnson was. As for Labour, it's darkly hilarious how they think they're going to be feted as the saviours of the country rather than getting the Jim Callaghan treatment (or worse) straight out the gate. They're going to get crucified as loony lefties playing games with the country's future every time they put forward a policy that might be vaguely proportionate to the scale of the crisis, Starmer's going to sack the people responsible and issue a tearful apology, and then they'll go back to monstering him for fiddling around the edges with irrelevant bullshit while the country burns.
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Halisnacks posted:I think the regional BBC journos were definitely better than the London/Lobby ones, but I can’t help but feel that they were flattered by Truss just being shite at this part of the job. It’s not like any of the questions were not topical. A remotely competent media-trained politician would have batted them away pretty easily. The point is more that they illustrated how much massaging has to happen within the Westminster bubble to make her seem even vaguely functional in interviews, and how fast she falls apart without it.
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Little reminder for everyone who's forgotten that Truss is an obsessive Thatcher LARPer: https://twitter.com/jemgilbert/status/1575490441524703234?s=46&t=gHjNDcTLWPjp8QKtNBeUvQ
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Halisnacks posted:If Starmer’s Labour was the price we had to pay for the actual obliteration of the Conservative party, I’d be open to it. Pretty sure we're just looking at the Conservative Party changing the colour of their rosettes en masse here. Labour under Starmer is pretty explicitly the party of continuity Cameronism.
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* sad trombone noises * https://twitter.com/deffonottommac/status/1575896880659275776?s=46&t=cDNK9z0wm4rM75VwTlrA8A Again, I really don't think that Labour are going to be hailed as saviours even if they do get a landslide in the general election. They're just not taking the scale of the crisis seriously, and they're going to end up buried beneath it.
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