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His Divine Shadow posted:Oh. Spring starts in March for you guys. Only technically. It’s still loving freezing.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Just thought I'd pop in to say gently caress the tories on the first page, so it's preserved forever. 
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The Donut posted:Ok which one of you is Richard It just is pickled onion and anyone who says otherwise is just benign deliberately contrarian to seem like a more interesting person than they actually are
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Mar 13, 2023 16:39
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Camrath posted:for a simple example prove to someone that hasn’t experienced it that thunder exists. This is a bad example, because the existence of thunder fits with everything else we know about science. The existence of ghosts would mean vast swathes of physics and biology were not only wrong, but so wrong as to mean our models for how everything else works were wrong too. Edit: And I think it’s disingenuous to dismiss people who don’t believe you as dogmatic in some way when literally all the experimental evidence says it is impossible for ghosts to exist and there is nothing that believers in ghosts have ever produced that is in any way conclusive or evidentiary beyond anecdote Scientastic fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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My stepmother runs a nursery, and the money they get from the government isn’t enough to actually pay for the wages, overhead, food etc. for the time that the kids are there. So the free care is loss-making, but they have to provide it. Apparently there are some big players that make it work, but small local nurseries owned by people in the community they serve are hosed over. Tories being tories, as always.
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Holy poo poo, ghosts appearing on coins now
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fuctifino posted:It's going to be a race to see who can out-authoritarian the other 
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Mar 26, 2023 08:01
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Reveilled posted:being irritable and humourless--people who disliked Stugeon won't feel differently about him Ah, but you see, there is something critical about him that means that irritability and humourlessness are actually no-nonsense leadership traits
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Mar 28, 2023 08:24
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well one place I worked in my 20s, the General Manger used to introduce me to GMs from other divisions and 'important' customers as "Our Boffin". The problem with words like “boffin” is that they create a distinction between “normal” people and scientists, and add weight to the idea that being a scientist is something special and unattainable for most people. Science, and physics in particular, has an access problem, with vast swathes of society hugely under represented. Words like “boffin” perpetuate the idea that it is only the preserve of white men, and that is not a good thing.
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Jedit posted:As an Indian he has no home team to support What, football doesn’t exist in India?
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Apr 5, 2023 12:45
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Part of the issue is that schools and other educational establishments have to teach at least a partially fact-based syllabus, and in general, right wing ideology is devoid of reality. If you look at evidence and draw conclusions from it, you are naturally going to be “left-wing” compared to these people, because they are so completely divorced from the real world. All the evidence says that every right wing policy is bad, and yet they cling to them because of ideology, so naturally they have to say that teaching is left wing.
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Apr 5, 2023 22:09
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Pistol_Pete posted:The Martian - Andy Weir My mother-in-law-law bought me the Martian as a present when it came out because she know so enjoy science fiction. I made the mistake of saying it was alright, and now I have all of Andy Weir’s mediocre books in hardback.
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Apr 6, 2023 07:13
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Just Another Lurker posted:It was good enough to read during nightshift breaks so i was happy enough. I was quite enjoyed The Martian once I realised I had to completely suspend any sense of disbelief, but his subsequent books are pretty bad
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Apr 6, 2023 07:38
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Pesky Splinter posted:Going to start my new career just fleecing journalists. I’m not sure “loud opinion haver” and journalist are really the same thing
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It’s also my dad’s birthday, I’ll cheer him up by reminding him that he gets a double celebration
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Cookie Cutter posted:have an actual future to offer their citizenry As long as that citizenry doesn’t dissent or question authority in any way, the moment anyone steps out of line, they don’t have much of an actual future
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Apr 11, 2023 22:34
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Cookie Cutter posted:Now how often does this thread share its insights about how our entire establishment turned on Corbyn? If you step out of line here you get treated the same way, it's why we don't have a large protest movement. If you express dissent much further than a column in the Guardian your future is over. People have been spoken to by the police because of their posts in the UKMT if you remember that. There's literally no difference except China is progressing towards socialism and we are not, so once again we are not in a position to cast judgement. You are loving insane. Britain has a lot of problems and is miles away from being anything other than a terrible Tory-induced smouldering ruin of a country, but last time I checked, I can call the head of state a oval office and not get disappeared. Try that in China and see what happens. Socialism isn’t an ends justify the means thing, that allows you to trample over people’s rights because you think it’s OK to have a dictator as long as there is a veil of ostensibly socialist policy over the top of authoritarianism. Last time I checked, there isn’t a huge global community of British diaspora who have fled the UK for fear of their lives.
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Pistol_Pete posted:What I'd say to people is: consider how the left is routinely and systematically lied about and slandered by the British media and then apply that knowledge to what that same media is telling you about the international situation. I've been to China and it was very clearly a well-organised country that was wealthy and very rapidly getting wealthier. The Chinese people I met lived lives just like ours except with, you know, working infrastructure and I saw fewer police in Beijing than I do in London. Yes, but the problem is that you are ignoring the testimony of actual Chinese people who have fled the regime and now can tell their story without (as much) fear of reprisal. I’m sure your trip(s) to China was/were great, but to pretend that the people who live in China are not subjugated and controlled is to wilfully ignore the huge amount of easily accessible evidence to the contrary, because it somehow favours your personal worldview.
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Grey Hunter posted:I'm one of those bastards who walkes up bright as a button at 4 am, then I get a couple of hours on my computer before the other two wake up and I have to do horrible things like go to work. 4am is the worst time. 3am is the night before, and 5am is an early morning, but 4am is both too late to stay up for, and too early to get out of bed.
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Just off camera, a little melton Mowbray pork pie
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Julio Cruz posted:I’m 99% sure I did but it would have been over the phone rather than by email, and their support is so loving bad it wouldn’t surprise me if they just didn’t OK, as others have said, your first action needs to be to verify the email. I would do this by phoning them. Then, I would actually talk to them and make clear that you requested cancellation of the contract and that this is an error at their end. The customer service person you speak to won’t be able to clear your alleged debt themselves, but they absolutely can go out of their way to gently caress you over if you’re horrible to them. They should escalate your complaint, and if they don’t immediately cancel the alleged money you owe, keep asking them to escalate the issue and for proof that the phone has been used at all in the time since you claim to have cancelled. Eventually, someone with the power to do so will realise that the combined time and salary of all the people who have been involved amounts to more than the money they could get from you, and cancel it. This isn’t based on any legal qualifications, but on customers who I have dealt with who cancel orders: eventually if they complain enough, the approval comes to me and I make sure they are refunded. I don’t work for Three, but every company I’ve ever dealt with has followed this exact model if there is ever any grey area about who is in the right.
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One of the best things I’ve ever done (and I include my marriage and children in the list) is install ClassicShell for Windows
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Guavanaut posted:Usually a lobotomy. In a world of painfully stupid poo poo, this feels like a new low
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The problem with all of these surveys is that they don’t take into account the huge inertia of the people who don’t much care either way, but only think in terms of Britishness. There are ridiculous numbers of people I know who agree with me that monarchy is incompatible with the notion of equality, and yet still support it because it’s “what makes us British”
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OwlFancier posted:Ballista for keeping tories out. Read this as Batista at first, got a from me
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NotJustANumber99 posted:i knew we were still relevant I’m what way is it bad for console gaming to ensure that a giant conglomerate doesn’t stifle competition? This deal would have been bad for consumers, and would only serve to benefit the owners and shareholders of these massive companies.
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I know I should be pleased about the Tories getting a thumping, but I can’t but feel that this will make Starmer think that his current tactic of abandoning all pretence of socialism is working, and that the Labour Party will move even further to the right between now and the general election
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Pistol_Pete posted:Huh, so Lib Dems did nearly as well as Labour. You wouldn't know that from the footage. In terms of gains, but absolute numbers are still with Labour, that’s why the footage is focusing on the official opposition who are not so secretly Tory-lite, instead of the official Tory-lite party
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Mega Comrade posted:I wonder what the better solution to this is? More housing or would it be more effecient to try and make the Midlands and North more attractive for jobs. Build community housing and pay people enough that they can afford to live?
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Guavanaut posted:Strong echoes of the Daily Mail's "I went to a church and lied and said my family was starving and they sent me to a food bank and I lied to them too and then they gave me free food! Disgusting!" in the BBC here. This is an incorrect reading of the article and its intent: the NHS specifically did not diagnose him with ADHD, the private services that he paid for a consultation did and were easily tricked into doing so. The article is basically highlighting how loving corrupt and stupid it is to privatise any of this, diagnosis should absolutely not sit with organisation who have a profit motive.
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1658027700391485440?t=oDsamwRerS7OVhEoeVp_KQ&s=19 There are two theories of leadership: one is where you stick to your guns no matter what, and the other is that you don’t even try to if you can get away with claiming the Tories hosed the economy so much that you can’t enact broadly popular left wing policies because your corporate paymasters don’t like them. What a twat, he’s making up the fact that the economy means his policies are “unaffordable”. They’re not, he just isn’t prepared to do anything to make them affordable because it might annoy the Sun.
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Whitey Snipes posted:Of course the NHS didn't because the waiting list is like 2 to 3 years or longer, hence the proliferation of private services. And I don't think it's an incorrect reading of intent given that they had to be lobbied into changing the original title of the programme which was pretty pointedly "ADHD - self-diagnosed nonsense". Have you actually read the article? He speaks to an NHS consultant, who runs through the diagnostic criteria and tells him he doesn’t have ADHD. The point is that you can easily game the private system to get hold of drugs based on a system that has an obvious incentive to diagnose people who have paid the fee for that diagnosis and want a prescription. The point of the article is not that ADHD does not exist, it’s to illustrate the shocking ease with which people can get hold of drugs they don’t need, and to show that the private diagnostic services are a bad thing.
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Guavanaut posted:I may be wrong and the documentary may conclude that there needs to be massive investment in NHS adult mental and neurological health services, but given all of the responses to it by actual people with ADHD I'm pretty sure that it's going to be poo poo and make people's lives worse. It's a fair point, I have a very strong dislike for private healthcare and think that there should be huge investment in the NHS, and I assume that everyone shares that view, so I probably just came to my own conclusion that that was the point when I read it. Edit: I reread the article, I still think it's more pointing out that it's problematic for private companies who are essentially incentivised by customer satisfaction rather than patient outcomes to be given prescription powers. The issue is not prescribing drugs to people who are gaming the system, it's prescribing drugs to people who may genuinely believe they have an illness that will be helped by a drug, who are then not helped, but also exposed to unnecessary side-effects and risk because of a lazy misdiagnosis. I have relatives who earnestly believe that they have a wide variety of mental health disorders, and not a one of them has ever been formalyl diagnosed. If they believed a bit more strongly, I can easily see them getting this sort of service and end up taking mood-altering medications for no clinical reason. The fact that it was very easy for this guy (who in fact does have some of the symptoms of ADHD, but further investigation pins down that they have another cause) to get medication that he didn't need is pretty shocking. Scientastic fucked around with this message at 16:26 on May 15, 2023 |
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Tesseraction posted:Funny you should say that, https://twitter.com/NatConTalk/status/1658222444602179586 Pretty shocking to see the Natural History Museum taking Nazi money
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sinky posted:Avocados no longer the standard for profligate spending An obvious solution presents itself when the generously larded free-range Anne Widdecombe talks about food shortages.
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Answers Me posted:Oh that’s reassuring. Maybe I’m just infected by doomerism, but aren’t we massively on borrowed time with bird flu becoming a major catastrophe? I’m sure our overlords are on the case about that one, so nothing to worry about… What really, really needs to happen is a significant amount of work being done on an effective avian flu vaccine. I would happily pay for it if it meant I didn’t need to lock up my chickens every winter.
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