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Redneck used to be a compliment because it was about the red that all those unions communists wore around their necks, mostly around Appalachia iirc? Now it's just "uneducated country hick" which is a real downgrade imo
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Sep 1, 2022 20:13
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Tesseraction posted:I believe it was a red neck because they spent the days working the fields. So basically manual labourers. It was both, but I think there's no definitive sources on how it influenced each other.
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Sep 1, 2022 20:19
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Really it all went downhill when they standardised spelling.
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Sep 1, 2022 21:11
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's still referring to and othering the same kind of person though. Kind of. I don't know the full connotations of roadman vs chav. With medical conditions it probably also has something to do with advancing our understanding of the issues. And then the word becomes inaccurate as a description, at which point there is no reason to keep using it so it might fade into the cruel category.
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Sep 2, 2022 08:49
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The queen was a bad person for many many reasons and while I'm sure this is a very sad time for her family, some of the jokes (especially the unintentional ones like Funko and Playmobil being performatively sad) have been quite funny so overall her death has probably brought more joy to people than her life ever has on average.
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Sep 9, 2022 13:17
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Convex posted:Fair way to own it. Mistakes happen Nah, gently caress that. loving up on live it requires that you apologise on live TV at the same time slot. You can't make poo poo up and then apologise on twitter where nobody will see it and it won't get covered. Newspapers do this poo poo all the time. Massive front page lie and then an apology in tomorrow' newspaper in font 3 at the bottom of page 19.
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Sep 11, 2022 11:10
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Rarity posted:Tbf I doubt Sky were going to cover Chris Kaba at all until their presenter did a whoopsie and hosed up on live TV I agree, but that makes it worse!
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Sep 11, 2022 12:05
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Yeah you'd think people would clock that Sweden isn't great just based off their handling of COVID. I guess scandi rep is hard to destroy.
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Sep 12, 2022 08:45
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The Lord of Hats posted:it makes the entire institution look like a self-important farce. That's literally the point of every monarchy ever.
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Sep 12, 2022 21:52
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PT6A posted:I would have to agree. I dislike the monarchy as a concept, but I think QEII was the least poo poo incarnation of that poisonous concept, and she had her benefits. She liked a good gin buzz, she had cute dogs, and she'd say nice things when nice things needed saying. But she's gone now, and I can well imagine her saying "this is all a bit ridiculous, don't you think?" She had the sense of humour to do skits with Paddington Bear and James Bond; I think she would find all this completely insane and slightly revolting, and the charitable part of me thinks Charles probably does too but he's too big a bitch to actually say anything about it. Liz's family is full of pedos (who she protected), she had a racist cousin-husband, and stood by and did nothing while the country went to poo poo around her, including carving out exceptions to employment, tax, and property law so that the country going to poo poo wouldn't affect her personally.
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Sep 12, 2022 22:08
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Microplastics posted:Why? You gunning for a new liver? Sourcing a liver from Liz would be as bad as sourcing it from Hemingway, by all accounts.
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Sep 16, 2022 07:29
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Failed Imagineer posted:A noble idiot, pictured at her most in need of a haircut Please don't doxx me
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Sep 17, 2022 15:26
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Also, 99% sure it's wrong because he's probably been to Israel and gone to see the Knesset.
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Sep 18, 2022 10:18
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Guavanaut posted:What's the term for when you get to No need to get personal.
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Sep 23, 2022 20:39
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keep punching joe posted:Has this happened in parts of the country that actually do PR as an electoral system? It sort of happened in the first term of devolution when the SSP, Greens, and some other frige independents had their moment, but things quickly reverted back to the big political machines dominating. It was dangerous for Labour though as it's probably what exposed them to losing dominance, and their big collapse vs the SNP. Israel has PR Lists and a few small kingmaker parties, yeah. They're all mostly right aligned anyway, but there's enough of a difference between the centre block and the right block parties where if one or two flip they can knock out the government.
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Sep 25, 2022 13:15
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qhat posted:The USA is a net energy exporter since 2019. The USA doesn't have any issues when it comes to energy for the foreseeable future. Unless you're Texas
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Sep 26, 2022 20:22
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Yeah Texas' issues aren't with supply but with running a stupid for-profit energy grid separate from all the other grids with basically no regulation, afaik. I wasn't clear.
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Sep 26, 2022 20:42
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Mourning Due posted:😬 same. September 2024. ~£270k to go. Paying ~£2350 a month, which is £1000 over-pay, £450 in interest. If rates go up to 6%, and that's what we remortgage on, if I've done my math right (highly unlikely tbf), we'd be paying ~£1350 in interest each month 😐. Varies by airline, so you'd have to check with them. Big animals need to go in the hold and it is just awful, I'd avoid it at all costs if possible. Smaller animals like cats can usually be taken into the cabin and honestly even if you need to buy them a ticket to reserve a seat (which you usually don't!) I'd do that over having an animal in the hold. Especially on long flights.
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Sep 27, 2022 12:29
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I am getting condensation on my windows every morning now, which wasn't an issue during the summer. I run a dehumidifier in the rooms where it happens but it's not enough to completely stop it and will probably get worse as it gets colder. I'm pretty sure my windows are already double glazed. Is there anything else I can do beyond replacing my windows or just opening the windows and making the inside temperature plummet?
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Sep 27, 2022 12:53
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Thanks for all the replies. Ideally I'd like to stop it happening at all so I might try opening a few windows for a bit at night before bed to get the air circulating and then close them right before bed. If it keeps up with that I'll see what I can do. It's usually just a bit at the bottom, nothing major unless it's the kitchen and I'm doing early morning cooking which yknow, fair enough, but I'd still like to avoid it if possible since it'll probably cause me issues long term.
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Sep 27, 2022 13:27
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No it's worse. It's an energy generator that will be able to make independent investments and probably sell energy to the wholesellers who will sell it to you.
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Sep 27, 2022 18:20
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oxford_town posted:Why is a government-owned energy firm that invests in green energy a bad thing? Because they'll do it in the stupidest way possible: through other energy companies. If it ends up investing in green energy more than regular energy generators that'll be good, but there's no guarantee that will happen and your energy will still have to go through the regular energy suppliers - at least as they've currently sketched it out. This means it'll still be beholden to all the stupid laws that mean you can't get the energy cheaper than a certain price. If they want to change those laws to green energy can produce cheaper energy and sell it cheaper that's a different issue that they've not mentioned at all. Basically it feels like they're doing this as a PR stunt because energy prices are so high right now but in practice there will be no difference between this company and any of the existing energy companies since it'll be independent and beholden to the exact same market for competition. Unless they want to give it special treatment but lol at starmer's labour going against profits for the booj. e: On this day in 1877 the Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention. Things didn't really go that well for them from there.
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Sep 27, 2022 18:31
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oxford_town posted:Isn't the whole point of the policy to do this? So they say, but the company is supposed to be "operationally independent" so I have no idea how they'll enforce that. I'm not saying it won't happen, even a nudge in that direction is good, it's just a wasted oportunity because this will be a half measure (whether due to independence or political will from new labour, imo) and when half measures fail they'll be used as an example of why doing the actual thing we need isn't an option. I'm pessimistic but it could be a 'very very slight good thing' instead of just 'bad thing'. Unfortunately we're at the point where we need a lot more than very very slightly good. quote:What law is this? It was mentioned in this thread, but I'm not an expert. Green energy generators have to sell at the same rate that non-renewables sell to energy suppliers or something so they don't get preferential treatment? I'm not 100% on this but I'm sure someone else can elaborate. quote:Also - where are you getting the details of the policy from? All I can see is the broad strokes as reported in the media. I think this tweet thread is all we have so far: https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1574783980104196097 The main problem from everything they've said so far is that this company will have to compete with other energy suppliers and there's no way in hell the govt are gonna give it preferential treatment (both due to ideology and some EU rules we're still bound by lol) so it'll just be another energy company. And if it somehow does well the tories will sell it off immediately next time they're in office. You need to make that much harder for them by, for example, nationalising everything. Miftan fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Sep 27, 2022 |
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Sep 27, 2022 18:46
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OwlFancier posted:It came up earlier in the thread but as I understand it all energy is required to be sold at the rate of the most expensive generation option, in order to prevent green energy from undercutting things like natural gas. This was also my understanding, but there were some exceptions? Someone did an effortpost about it a while back but gently caress knows when/what thread.
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Sep 27, 2022 18:56
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Ewan posted:As far as I can tell, it's effectively a State Owned Enterprise electricity generation company. It'll be given a government mandate setting the terms of what it can invest in etc, but otherwise it will operate like a commercial business, but run by public servants (or a Go-Co set-up) and profits being channelled back into further investment and growth of the company, rather than e.g. going to shareholders' pockets. It will sell the energy generated into the open market like any other generation company. This is the potentially good bit tbh, but whether (and how they'll enforce) investment into renewables as opposed to anything else and if it'll get turned into a moneymaking scheme for consultants that barely makes money/be sold off immediately as soon as it's profitable are both very big hurdles they need to clear.
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Sep 27, 2022 19:01
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Ewan posted:I expect it would be established with a mandate (probably through legislation) that specifies parameters for what it can or can't invest in. And its CEO would probably ultimately be accountable to the BEIS Secretary of State and government Ministers and/or senior officials would sit on the board. I suppose the Tories loving that up is really an artifact of the legislative system, not this specific thing, to be fair to labour. I still don't see how they square that with whatever the hell "operational independence" means though. OwlFancier posted:Also critically it would not do anything whatsoever to solve the problem of energy prices. Goes without saying that labour won't solve that, but yeah.
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Sep 27, 2022 19:14
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Nilbop posted:Ash is a member of the country too though. Is he not allowed to point and laugh? We're all enduring the same shite. She/her, btw. I don't think Ash should be threadbanned as long the Ash Discourse stops soon because frankly they're an infrequent poster and have never kicked up this much fuss before even if I think their posts are bad, mean spirited, and trigerring for other people for no reason.
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Sep 30, 2022 08:09
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Also as poo poo as the Tories are, they're not actually Nazis quite yet.
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Sep 30, 2022 08:25
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forkboy84 posted:Speak for yourself OP
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Sep 30, 2022 16:51
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Frankly, given the mess the Tories have left the country in, is House of Lords reform the most important thing to do? Probably not, but just another example (like we now know about Great British Energy) of starmer taking every potential good thing that is labour adjacent and turning into a pile of bland nothing that helps nobody.
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Oct 2, 2022 10:28
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Microplastics posted:A series of prime ministers each serving half the time of the previous prime minister Zeno's prime minister
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Oct 4, 2022 13:34
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Inheritance tax should always be at 100% and everyone's basics needs met, if we're allowed to just make poo poo up. Really, inheritance tax is one of those issues where you can tell if someone cares about meritocracy or property rights.
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Oct 4, 2022 17:08
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Failed Imagineer posted:I really don't think there's any problem with people getting a few grand from their dead parents. There's often a lot of hassle dealing with estates, and providing end-of-life care can gently caress with people's careers and earning. But for sure 100% tax above a certain threshold in the low five figures seems reasonable - in a hypothetical world where the super-rich are also somehow prevented from passing on all their wealth through obscure corporate instruments I agree in theory, but I think everything that's not a blanket ban on any inheritance may be more difficult to enforce cause rich people have access to slimy accountants. I am, of course, 100% speaking out of my rear end cause I have zero experience with any of this.
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Oct 4, 2022 17:52
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Sorry everyone, I was away for the evening. Chocolate oranges/tories are the UK's personal Stockholm syndrome. They are rank garbage and it is my sincere hope that one day the UK realises this and puts up plaques or statues commemorating the country's bad taste once everyone realises that they are disgusting.
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Oct 5, 2022 06:38
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Catzilla posted:This came from my mums house. Miftan explain yourself? Easy - Israel is also a country with many many many garbage opinions and products! Rarity posted:Maybe there isn't room for everyone in socialism... I am willing to forgive your bad opinions.
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Oct 5, 2022 12:37
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keep punching joe posted:Snitches get stitches fellow UKMTs No mods no masters except Guava who mods by consent.
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Oct 5, 2022 20:40
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Tesseraction posted:I appreciate your attempts to intervene but Guavanaut is a really good IK, I trust them to handle thread-internal affairs.
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Oct 5, 2022 21:16
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Josef bugman posted:Best of luck bud! because capitalism sucks and has weird incentives. You lie and then just do the job to the best of your ability once you're in which, from knowing you, is probably better than 90% of people would do it anyway. Obviously don't lie about anything that can be proved.
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I had an interview once where they asked me "if a magic fairy offered you any job in the world, what would you choose?" Me: "and this fairy has no limits on their magical abilities?" them: "yup" Me: "I'd like to not work but still be able to afford things" I somehow got the job, got promoted, and then demoted over a period of like 3 years. 
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