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Convex posted:It's people that believe they know and understand everything in the universe based entirely on what they have personally seen and experienced so far in life. They don't want to admit they're wrong or bad people when confronted with difficult situations, so just make new exceptions as and when they are needed to excuse treating unknowns completely differently to actual people they have met Bolded part rings particularly true in my experience, yeah.
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The Perfect Element posted:Think just some tepid irony that you said that 'in your experience' people base their beliefs and opinions 'on their experience'. Oh. I kinda figured that went without saying. I was originally going to hang a lampshade on how I am particularly prone to doing it because of my lovely personality, but I didn't want to make it all about me and what I do
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keep punching joe posted:I still p2p mp3s, they will never stop me. Same. It ain't real otherwise
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:As a comparative latecomer to this thread, why is he called Keith? He doesn't deserve the name Keir. The name Keir belongs to people who found labour parties, not destroy them
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smellmycheese posted:This, very clearly, is Jeremy Corbyns fault… I mean sure, why not, who gives a poo poo, what even are words anyway
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Dec 7, 2022 10:16
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smellmycheese posted:The Tories have hosed things up so much they’ve managed to break the brains of the commentariat. All thrashing around wildly to come up with some explanation for why their beloved hard right establishment project has turned into a giant bucket of poo poo. glitching out like the really lovely markov chain generators that they actually are
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Dec 7, 2022 10:43
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Bupropion, that's a very rare one in the UK - I didn't even realise you can get it on the NHS (maybe you got it privately though?) I hope someone comes through for you. For what it's worth - and I know it's scant comfort - I'm pretty sure NDRIs don't have nearly as bad withdrawal symptoms as SSRIs or SNRIs. If worst comes to worst, you're going to lose the antidepressant effect (obviously) but you shouldn't be too uncomfortable
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Camrath posted:Initially prescribed privately, then through share-care or whatever it’s called from my local gp. You're not whining. If it was someone else going through this/talking about this you wouldn't say they were whining, right? Mind that negative self-talk! But anyway, I hope it works out one way or another, mate. If you do have to buy it from abroad then consider the fund
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I quite enjoy watching broadcast tv when I'm back at my parents' house, it's nostalgic and reminds me of a time when media consumption was less atomised ...for about half an hour, before I realise that it's 90% unwatchable garbage
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Mebh posted:I don't know how so many of you cope. Badly, mostly
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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63905505 BRITANNIA UNCHAINED THE CASINO IS OPEN ONCE MORE AND THOSE PESKY HOUSE RULES HAVE BEEN SCRAPPED STEP RIGHT UP AND PLAY ROULETTE WITH THE MONEY AND HOMES AND LIVES OF THE PEASANTS BRITANNIA UNCHAINEEEEEDDDDDDDDD
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keep punching joe posted:When no one wants to go there. I live in Exeter which is a "city" of 125,000 people lol
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ThomasPaine posted:It's honestly pretty impressive the hold neoliberal ideology has on us collectively as a society. Like this shouldn't be a difficult sell - execs on hundreds of thousands a year happily deciding to cut pay for people on 20-odd grand. The Tories haven't even tried to pretend they're old school one nation paternalists for years, but we keep voting for them! It's actually so absurd it would be funny if it wasn't literally getting people killed. I was watching a short video on youtube last night about an artist in Brooklyn who basically conned her way into being shown around the absolute premium apartments in New York by pretending to be a billionaire's wife. There are a bunch of weird, incredibly skinny, incredibly tall tower blocks springing up all over Manhattan, most taller than the Empire State. They're mostly unoccupied - used for 'investment' and that - but also a lot of billionaires do apparently enjoy having a fourth or fifth home in them so they can play at being the Eye of Sauron from time to time. She would record while she was being shown around by these creepy dudes who would whisper in her ear like loving satan about how the marble in the bathroom is from exactly the most fashionable areas and how the oak floors are from exactly the right trees. How it would be unconscionable to stand for less. How her husband would only want her to be genuinely comfortable and not have to suffer anything less. At the end of the video the artist noted how these towers full of utterly spoiled babies are surrounded by homeless people. How every time one of these abominations springs up it permanently cuts off daylight for a certain section of the population below, leaving them in perpetual shadow. And apart from the injustice and cruelty of wealth inequality what really offended me was how stupid it is. It's Absurd. It's just a silly thing to exist and it's a profound waste of our time and effort and resources and lives. It's like society (or the tiny group who run it, at least) is having an extended psychotic episode or is in the middle of a period of terrible heroin addiction or something. I don't know when, but one day we're all going to wake up and think 'wait a minute, that was all complete and utter bullshit, what the gently caress?? What were we thinking???'. And then maybe we'll remember what's actually Real. Like love and art and music and community and housing everyone and feeding everyone and thinking for the sake of thinking. But I don't know when, and I don't think that it will be soon. Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Dec 9, 2022 |
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You're on a tear tonight Owlie And I like it
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Rarity posted:When you're doing it repetitively like that you enter a flow state so you're trying to maintain that for as long as possible. It's a form of escapism just like getting pissed or getting high and that's where the addiction comes in Yeah, it's this. After a pint the ritual takes over Edit lol at the typo, I dunno how my phone did a freudian slip, maybe it's trying to tell on me. That was meant to be 'point' but read it either way Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Dec 9, 2022 |
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Lungboy posted:I might need to salt my driveway, is table salt no bueno for this? Well it depends on what you want From what LC said I think if you want two inches of black ice then yes, it's muy bueno
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Convex posted:I'll be glad to stand somewhat corrected in that case, but can't help feeling a bit nihilistic regarding the next election. I accepted this in spring 2020, when Keith and co suspended RLB over Nothing, and nothing since has convinced me otherwise (and in fact everything has wound up worse than my worst fears - it will be Labour that finally destroys the NHS, for example) I've mostly come to terms with it, though it can still sting from time to time. Whatever happens - however the tides of history carry us all - hope must be pursued and found outside the bounds of bourgeois democracy. Labour (the party) is hopeless.
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learnincurve posted:If you want to know what it's like having a conversation with my maga fash dad then that interview was it my fash dad too
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Julio Cruz posted:That sounds exactly like me to be honest. Where/how did you get the tests done, it sounds like something I should be looking into also. The NHS allegedly does sleep studies (like it allegedly provides a lot of services these days  ) but it'd definitely be easier to do privatelyIt's, uh, not cheap I am also in the 'wake up tired every day' party, permanent big eye bags, get sick all the time, etc. My partner says I kinda choke/randomly stop breathing for a few seconds in my sleep. I tried to get NHS help five or so years back but kept running into brick walls and no way could I afford to go private so I just kinda gave up
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Tesseraction posted:tbh if there's one utility to twitter it's the unbridled access to make otherwise untouchable people miserable Yeah I said in one of the musk threads that I'm grateful to that dumb fuckin' boer for almost single-handedly curing me of my imposter syndrome He may have more money than I can even conceive of, but Elon Musk is a moral, intellectual, and spiritual worm compared to me, anyone I know personally, or anyone ITT (yes, anyone) - and I'm a pretty goddamn mediocre person. I'd really, honestly, genuinely rather be dead than be a hosed-up broke-brained monster manbaby like him. Being a billionaire is a fate worse than death. Every single day I'm reminded of how utterly, soul-destroyingly miserable he clearly is, and that makes me very happy indeed lol
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Don't get sick or injured this christmas, comrades https://twitter.com/SusiHarris/status/1601173805627412480 EDIT this was on top of another poster in the UK cspam thread who personally saw someone keel over and die in the A&E waiting room
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bessantj posted:Am I remembering right that the virus can last on some surfaces for up to 3 days? Yes but transmission via fomites is so rare it's barely worth thinking about The mask is the single most important thing, far and away, and the better the mask the better Edit thoroughly beaten, but what everyone's already said is spot on. Bessantj if you're going to be in public get an unvalved n95/ffp2 that has headstraps (NOT ear loops, they're real bad) Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Dec 23, 2022 |
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Z the IVth posted:Right thing for the wrong reasons though. Didn't he take the lead-plated retirement because he thought it'd gently caress over his ex(es)? No, he thought spending all his money on goldbelly cookies would gently caress over his exes because then he'd have no money to pay alimony He went the Hemingway when he discovered that that wouldn't work and he was still on the hook
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Microplastics posted:I hate that folksy poo poo especially when they use it for shops and things Platty jooooobs
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1606309410762117120 gently caress this toilet country
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Lord Ludikrous posted:If anyone wants something to take their minds off the absolute poo poo show going on at the moment, Garth Marenghi’s Terrortome is very good and worth your time if you like that Darkplace style humour. Ah what??? I hadn't heard of this, this is fantastic news
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I played through a fair bit of Elden Ring but I kinda fell off it, and NGL I'd pirated it to see if I actually enjoyed it (the answer - yes, and beating bosses that repeatedly kicked my arse was thrilling, but I got to the horrible red sick place that I couldn't be arsed to push through), but I'm thinking of buying it for real so I can do the multiplayer bit too Is it still quite active, does anyone know? I missed out on the multiplayer aspect entirely and from what people said back when it released like it really enhances the experience. For instance, I can't imagine playing Death Stranding without the online interaction - would you say it's about as integral to the experience?
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Noice noice. Well, I guess I'll give myself a late christmas present, then. If any of y'all are still on it and wanna help a noob in the new year, hit me up 
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Tesseraction posted:I only got up to Margit kicking my poo poo in and then wondering around a bit so I'm not much help I beat that dude! So if you want help you have my sword or bow or axe or whatever
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The big thing I've learned this year - and I can't think of a better way to put this because I'm slightly drunk and full of cold - is that everyone has a soul and everyone has reasons for being who and what they are, and some people may be too deep into their pit of hatred and despair to help but most aren't, and that compassion changes hearts and minds (sometimes!! not always!! usually not with actual fascists!!) and judgement never does I also learned that I have a soul and I have reasons for being who and what I am, and some of them are quite sad, but I got a lot of help and I started to pull myself up and out of my pit of hatred and despair, and that's how I figured out the above And I know that's all wooly hippy nonsense and doesn't present any practical solutions whatsoever, but hey, I genuinely am just a mediocre midwit, I don't have any answers at all Anyway, happy new year's UKMT. Maybe 2023 is gonna be the year with all the Good Surprises. Who knows?
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sebzilla posted:Happy New Year, death to all Tories and victory to the Unions in 2023 
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Microplastics posted:For the past two weeks I've had this sickly illness, possibly the worst thing I've ever experienced and that's including flus and covid. My entire family - and I mean my entire family - has been dealing with this this week. My SIL bought it to the house on Christmas Eve, and then me, and my brothers, and my mum, and my dad, and my niece, and my partner (who is currently hosed up) have had an awful, hacking, phlegmy cough. 40 degree fevers (particularly alarming in my 3 year old niece). The last couple days I've woken up at around 4 am and had to blow my nose for two hours - the amount of snot came outta me coulda filled a pint glass. Constant feeling of needing to sneeze, but unable. A feeling of having just a brick in the sinus, awful headache. And yeah, the smell. We've all just been knocked back on our heels by it. If it isn't the flu, and it isn't covid (it's not - I've checked, over and over) - it's the most powerful cold to ever exist. It's p.much wrecked the whole Christmas period for everyone. So yeah, something real bad is going around
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Whatever this thing is, the sheer virulence of it is remarkable. Usually if someone in a household has a cold, it'll get one or two others, maybe. One person brought this in, ten people came out sick. Anyway I think I'm over the acute part of it, but I'm coughing up a lot of gunk and have a general background malaise that is probably a chest infection, which I'm pretty prone to anyway. My partner, meanwhile, is still in the absolute thick of it. Stay safe everyone, and take care of yourselves.
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keep punching joe posted:This is basically the only website I visit now.
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Payndz posted:I've realised that because I can read a lot faster than anyone can talk, if I want information I generally go to text-based sites. So most of my online time is spent in places like SA, Wikipedia, Digg, Slashdot... Absolutely this. Unless there is information that specifically needs to be communicated visually (and there often is, I'm not denying there isn't!) then I want to read it, because I can do it much, much, much more quickly. The videofication (for lack of a better word) of the internet is one of many things I greatly dislike about web 2.0
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Tesseraction posted:She caught brain spiders op, that's all. Many such cases!
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