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The whole price cap thing seems like a bizarre red herringy way of talking about energy prices. It's not a cap on the amount a household can be charged in a year, but some people think it is It's not a cap against prices going up, only against overcharging relative to wholesale prices (I think?) It's expressed as a yearly figure, but changes multiple times a year It represents an "average" household It doesn't apply to businesses, or to people like my friend who lives in a (shared ownership, flammable cladding) block of flats with shared heating, because she doesn't have a contract with an energy company (the BBC have at least noticed this - love the "government spokesperson" dismissing this is a "small minority") The only use I can see is "price cap goes from £1000 to £2000" means energy prices double. But is it too nerdy to just want a price per kWh?
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Sep 3, 2022 11:40
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Payndz posted:A small sign of how a British Establishment organisation regards anyone born on the west side of the Irish Sea: at the Bournemouth airshow today, the Typhoon pilot, whose name was O'Hare, had depressingly yet inevitably acquired the nickname "Paddy". Zero effort, like "Your surname starts with 'Mac'? Okay, you're 'Jock' from now on. Jones? Now you're 'Taffy'!" A flying dude called O'Hare and they went with Paddy instead of Chicago
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Sep 4, 2022 09:39
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Fun fact: the "Zug" from Zugzwang means move, as in a chess move, but also means train (both related to English "tug"). So it could also mean forcing trains on people, which is relevant to this thread's interests.
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Sep 5, 2022 18:41
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Hang those who bum the billionaire
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Sep 7, 2022 19:51
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Grey Hunter posted:https://twitter.com/ElunedAnderson/status/1568925578220261376?t=ge2YRAs7Ok9WzFh4mN4S7A&s=19 "If you want my views on history then there's something you should know The three men I admire most are Gordon, Kieth and Tone" - Centrists, probably
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Sep 11, 2022 18:32
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I thought this quote from a "backbenchers angry" article matched the TERF one upthread quite nicelyquote:“I completely despair, because I’m a member of a party that stands up for the squeezed middle not the very rich. This will be politically toxic and economically dubious,” said another MP present for the statement.
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Sep 23, 2022 20:09
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What's the name of that comic with the small girl with the black spiky hair? She's got a friend with a flat cap I think. Thanks, Marxism and general questions thread forkboy84 posted:It's already been talked about like it has discredited MMT somehow. MMT is when government spend money without feel guilty
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Sep 26, 2022 12:08
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Pound the Ground for a Pound
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Sep 26, 2022 20:08
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Guavanaut posted:If I could I'd have bought a place that never got central heating kludged into it in the 70s and just fitted some proper HVAC in the attic, because gently caress having tubes of gross water going all over the place to metal rads fitted in the stupidest places. I do love our air duct central heating. I think I'd struggle placing objects in a room if there were suddenly radiators on the walls! It's not common here though, I think it is in the US, but the Dutch find it slightly odd too. It's not going on yet though. Instead I'm wearing most of Uniqlo's heattech range, which is the same as my usual WfH-wear, but fuzzier.
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Sep 27, 2022 10:32
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The Lord of Hats posted:Think about Starmer, it'll go away. But how much have you had today? To much polls makes your Kieth go grey!
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Sep 29, 2022 19:19
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Guavanaut posted:Liz Turnt 
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Oct 3, 2022 09:57
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Runcible Cat posted:Monumentally loving stupid and spiteful. But in this case it seems to be... I guess "complacency" is the word I'm looking for. "Ha ha how bad can things get, we're British after all, we muddle through ha ha!" Followed by: "...I didn't think the leopards would make me muddle through!"
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Oct 3, 2022 15:31
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Guavanaut posted:Low effort MTG cosplay in full effect. Jenkyns: "Quite right. Margaret Thatcher (Grantham)"
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Oct 3, 2022 19:46
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Guavanaut posted:Most of them are dial-a-yield now, so you could definitely use them as tactical weapons. Can I interest you in my trustless blockchain-based nuclear weapons?
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Oct 4, 2022 20:15
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James, Cleverly? No, funny clown!
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Oct 5, 2022 12:06
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This is bad for Tramister Coburns
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Oct 7, 2022 16:11
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There's a linguistic aspect too. "Labour" is always a vague uncountable concept - "I hate Labour" or "Labour will bankrupt the country" doesn't directly refer to individuals, and is thus more readily assigned to the party leadership I think. Whereas "Tories" is countable and refers to specific people - so you end up debating which ones. Cabinet, MPs, party members, voters, small-c conservatives. Makes it easier to feign outrage whenever someone says they hate Tories. -- Mostly unrelated, I came across articles in the Dutch and UK news with a common theme: both Schiphol security personnel and British teaching assistants are leaving those jobs to be better paid at supermarkets, leading to much confused gnashing of teeth from employers. Interesting that supermarkets have become the kind of backstop employer, chosen over putting up with sticky toddler tantrums in your face, or working in schools.
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Oct 9, 2022 18:36
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fuctifino posted:It's going to be glorious 
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Oct 12, 2022 07:38
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A Buttery Pastry posted:
This bit was interesting, because as far as I'm concerned everything he'd said up to that point - "if you inject huge amounts of money (like we 100% had to during Covid), then you need to suck it back out with tax when it inevitably pools in the pockets of the rich" - was textbook MMT. So either he was inventing a straw-MMT-er, or more likely, I'm doing a no-true-MMT and there's actually people running around saying that MMT means we don't need tax anymore.
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Oct 12, 2022 14:29
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smellmycheese posted:Regarding that “thumbs up Emoji” story… Love Michael Hobbes. He's made his entire job to be a moral panic-seeking missile, and then dismantle them snarkily. This episode of his podcast is relevant to the alcohol discussion from a few pages ago (and the whole podcast is good) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/maintenance-phase/id1535408667?i=1000580774171
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Oct 13, 2022 10:14
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think this is true, it's true if you come out and go "muhahaha I am going to do this thing gently caress you idiots" like truss is doing, but the way the erosion of the NHS has gone under both the tories and labour has been to simply privatise it by parts, to make it more expensive to run and funnel money out of it to private interests, which eventually will produce a system that cannot function and give space for some ghoul to say "well we need to knock it all down and replace it with something else" but which does not see significant electoral backlash before that point. Everything labour are saying suggests they are entirely on board with continuing that plan. And the cost of doing that is a service that is worse funded and still means people dying when they don't have to, even before someone decides to destroy it entirely. This. A politician from any party coming out and saying "if elected, healthcare will stop being free, and you'll have to get European style [Labour] or US-style [Tories] health insurance" is still electoral suicide. They know this, so it's a drip drip instead. Private providers with an NHS logo (with the added bonus of different employers = less worker solidarity). The big one would be a charge for GP visits. Just a little one, because the NHS needs money you see. For the rest, I don't think public blowback is a real factor either. It doesn't matter if they're going moustache-twirlingly over the top, so they can pull back in response to the outrage and do what they wanted all along, or they're just idiots, the end result is the same. They don't actually stop, listen and reconsider - they just say some words, and then carry on what they were doing before but slower and quieter.
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Oct 13, 2022 19:59
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OwlFancier posted:And critically, it doesn't matter if they do it because they want to introduce a US style insurance system, or because they very sincerely believe that privatization of services with public funding is the most expedient or even best way to improve them. Whyever they do it the effect is the same, to make the NHS worse in the long run, because the private sector can not, and has not, ever improved a service in the long run, it can't, it is structurally incapable of doing it because they are incentivized to cut service provision to the bone and extract as much value from the institution as possible, that is exactly what you have seen with rail and it is exactly what you will see with the NHS. Speaking of rail, I saw this quote the other day and thought of this thread...we don't talk about trains enough anymore (context: the Dutch rail system is effectively nationalised, with a couple of minor routes run by random companies - presumably as a sop to the EU) quote:But his most immediate challenge will be to deal with the increasing pressure to allow other rail companies to run trains on the already crowded Dutch network.
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Oct 13, 2022 20:22
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Guavanaut posted:'controversial' is now everything from having made a few off jokes about the powerful a decade ago to being a war criminal. I read this as "podcast" artist Er Ist Wieder Da 2 - Diesmal mit Spotify
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Oct 17, 2022 21:50
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Private Speech posted:Ahh - but which track is better to be on and which are you on? That's the questions to ask yourself. I want to be Australian Henry with the cool boots  Bonus picture from the results for "good place henry trolley": 
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fuctifino posted:Our ex chancellor's main goal is to, er, fix the economy from the mistakes made by previous chancellors 
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Oct 23, 2022 11:05
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Rarity posted:Checking into the thread for the steamed gammon tears I thought we were having green plans
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Oct 24, 2022 14:26
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Angry time https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/horizon-pnc-police-computer-fujitsu-post-office-b2209617.html quote:Awarding multimillion pound government contracts to the Japanese firm at the heart of the Post Office’s IT scandal is “morally wrong”, the government has been told. Home office lord minister explicitly saying there, "we outsource stuff and then become so dependent on the big outsourcing companies that we're stuck with them, and can't ever drop them if they screw up" That whole saga fills me with rageohol, not just because it was a kafkaesque nightmare for the people involved, but you also just know that the higher-ups will have been really nasty about it. Basically making this face a lot 
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Oct 25, 2022 09:59
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HopperUK posted:When I think about the sheer amount of poo poo I got for my awful handwriting I get furious. Okay, they didn't know about my raging ADHD and neither did I. So teach me a way to write legibly, don't just force me to use a stupid pencil grip as if that's the issue. Ugh yes. I was so happy when my primary teacher allowed me to use a biro and normal letters (as opposed to joined-up), around age 9 maybe? I think he just gave up on ever being able to read my fountain pen + joined up mess, and I never looked back, Even better when essay-based subjects in secondary would accept printed Word docs. Though that did make exams a shock to the system (wrist)
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Oct 29, 2022 18:19
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OwlFancier posted:is there any reason why we shouldn't lock the entire conservative party in a concentration camp and let out all the people currently in them? Like a reverse zoo? "There there Mr & Mrs Norman, you'll be safe in here, where the nasty immigrants can't hurt you" 
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Oct 31, 2022 20:32
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OwlFancier posted:I was more thinking a reality TV show where they have to attempt to build a society in there and probably just eat each other. I'm suddenly reminded of the thing I discovered several threads ago - the biosphere isolation project that went badly the first time, so the second time they hired Steve Bannon. But with cameras this time!
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Oct 31, 2022 21:13
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I love that petrol station companies are now calling themselves "artisanal purveyors of divers energy solutions" or whatever. Wow I am fooled, they're the good guys now
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Nov 7, 2022 20:55
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Guavanaut posted:plus now some slurs for Romanians and Bulgarians because accuracy is never the point for the type of people who would lump in a billion South Asians with an old demonym for Pakistanis just to be a oval office. [sobbing] "Please...you can't just call every group of people you don't like Egyptian" British racist: [pointing at Bulgarian] "Egyptian"
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Nov 15, 2022 12:56
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"A Swiss style deal but we're going to make free movement pay for it" is just the same "we hold all the cards" stuff from 3 years ago, but mouldy and reheated. Good to see that Labour is fully bought in to the idea that the only true Brexit is the kind where you don't talk to the smelly EU because they have cooties.
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Nov 21, 2022 09:29
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/22/bright-blue-founder-to-quit-over-tory-partys-betrayal-of-millennialsquote:Ryan Shorthouse, 37, will leave the Cameronite thinktank he founded, Bright Blue, next year and told the Guardian he was deeply disillusioned with progress during the last 12 years under the Tories – saying Rishi Sunak had failed to reinvigorate Conservative vision or bring in fresh talent. Leopards gonna eat my face (talkin' bout my generation)
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Nov 22, 2022 14:00
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One thing I worry about is the longer the Tories keep driving public everything into the ground, the more unimaginable the scale of required improvement becomes, to take it from "brink of collapse" to "pretty good, actually" I was reading an article earlier about GPs which I now can't find because the Graun's website is as bad as their politics, but it mentioned some aspect being overloaded by a factor of 2. Which then reminded me of the class-size discussion from many threads ago, which I vaguely remember contained some "well actually" research that taking classes form 30+ to 22 kids didn't actually help that much... but that you'd need to go down to like 15 to see a big difference. Which a quick google shows is the smallest end of an OECD comparison chart (and coincidentally where I grew up, which I why I find 30 to be huge). Cf China nudging toward 40. How do you sell that in the UK today? You can't even finish the sentence "we need to double..." before people start yelling about magic money trees. Better things aren't possible. As terrible as Nullarbor were, 2010 would be a much less daunting starting point. Not sure what my point is, it just seems very insurmountable.
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josh04 posted:RIP twisto, his ancient av of the Landless Peasants Party guy is always the first thing that comes to mind when I think about the UKMT. Same  Definitely a "posters look like their avs in my head" candidate, even if it clashed with his description of himselfHe was the kind of person who knew a lot of things about a lot of things, but would cheerfully accept corrections when he was wrong. A good combination. RIP
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