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Pablo Bluth posted:Honestly, I have a bunch of neighbours who like the stuff, and I find the smell absolutely rank. It's up their with the cat poo poo the neighbours also subject me to. Legalise it but only in return for breeding less obnoxiously stinky strains. Yea weed does smell terrible. I'd not want it wafting into my house either, but I also wouldn't want someone playing loud music every night and that's legal.
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Diet Crack posted:Thing is most people aren't hanging out by your window blowing it in deliberately and I'm sure that if they're you're neighbours the mere act of being like 'hey could you like, go around the corner, it's coming in the window' would be enough. But no, gotta criminalise it more and lock everyone up to make the streets 'safe' again from loving weed of all things. Nevermind fixing the outrageous class system that exists in this country that probably drives people to using drugs in the loving first place. Yea the problem is that lovely neighbours can make your life hell, that's not drugs causing it it's them being poo poo. I'm sure there's plenty of similar families where the parents can't get the kids to sleep due to noise or alcoholism and that's just "normal" or dealt with by the council if you're lucky.
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Mar 23, 2023 15:10
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Incy posted:None of this applies to Scotland or Wales as I don't know what happens there. I would disagree that research is simpler. While universities would suffer penalties if deliverables are missed due to strike action, the indervidual researchers probably miss more because the contracts are so long term. Most research work is work academics do because they care about and are interested in the work primarily - It's something they get a personal return on, not just done to generate profit for the university. So not doing any research work for a week, for example, won't impact a final report due in a years time - but it will mean the researcher doesn't get to investigate the subject as much as they'd like. And that may mean they miss out on papers, grants conference presentations etc - things that benefit the indervidual research more than the university as a whole. The point of strike action is that employers profit more from your wage labour than they pay you, so coordinated withdrawal of labour damages the employer more than the employee. For universities, this is the case for teaching but not for research (hence them trying to shove more and more teaching onto academics and assuming they'll do research in their own time). The employee gets as much if not more out of research work than the university does, so striking academics not researching is more harmful to them than the organisation.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:48
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This might be wrong but aren't cannaboloids only fat-soluble, unlike nicotine which is water soluble. And putting anything other than flavoured water in your vape is how you end up with popcorn lung and vaping which is actually dangerous to your health.
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Mar 24, 2023 11:20
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This is a story as a reminder that the NHS is full of great people when you let it work. Had stomach pain Tuesday/Wednesday, phoned up GP on Thursday morning and they had a telephone consultation for me later than morning. Describe my problems over the phone, GP asks if I can make it to her surgery by midday to check if it's appendicitis. I go in, she determines it's worth sending me to hospital and by 3pm the hospital has diagnosed me with appendicitis and puts me in for surgery. Due to other people needing surgery more urgently I get bumped to the next morning and have a painful night, but the (foreign) nurses are constantly checking my temperature and giving me pain relief overnight to try and help me cope. I go under the knife 10am next morning, have my appendix removed, and now am just waiting for the all-clear to go home. I've been very lucky with how swiftly and kindly everyone has acted, but I shouldn't have to be lucky- this should just be how things work. The NHS first and foremost needs more staff and more staff consistency - any reforms to the structure of the NHS can only happen when there isn't a manpower crisis due to low pay.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:05
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feedmegin posted:I love this opinion that the Civll Service - the Civil Service! Sir Humphrey and co.! Literally the Establishment! are somehow bomb-throwing revolutionaries. Well you see they all went to university at some point, so they are basically loonie left students because that's what all students are these days as the telegraph keeps telling me.
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Apr 22, 2023 12:00
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I'm more amazed the UK has the power to stop it, and micro / acti didn't just say "Fine, we'll not do business on your ridiculous little shithole then. Have fun without Excel." Turns out States have power after all??? Someone tell Starmer.
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Apr 26, 2023 16:22
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Pistol_Pete posted:I dunno where Labour's lead is even coming from: the people who voted for them in 2019 are pissed-off and demoralized and the social conservatives that they're trying to woo are never ever going to stop seeing Labour as the party of woke looney leftist traitors. It's literally all riding on "Eh, let's give the other lot a go this time", which seems a pretty flimsy base for an election campaign. Most of it is a utter collapse in the Tory vote share - roughly half of 2019 Tory voters are saying they don't know who they'll vote for next election now. Doesn't matter if you own vote share is static if half the other guys isn't turning up. To be fair, this can win you a election - Boris Johnsons 2019 Victory Doesn't actually come from winning over "Red wall" voters despite how much the media goes on about them - Conservative votes went up by 5% at best. What did happen is the labour vote share collapsed from the sustained media attack - Remainers to the Lib Dems, Brexitiers to the Brexit Party (remember them? And them being a tory front to let labour brexiters vote Tory without voting Tory). I somehow doubt that we're seeing a similar sustained collapse in Tory votes, but we might be. If we're not Kier is going to have a sudden shock once election season starts and voters start taking pollsters seriously again.
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May 2, 2023 09:01
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Mega Comrade posted:I think some of it is generational divides. It's like how you had life long labour people willing to vote UKIP but they "would never vote Tory!" Yea it's nothing about local greens being secret ecofascists, it's about it being a "acceptable" non Labour vote. Caring for the environment isn't a bad thing to many Tories, especially the older ones who like the image of idyllic countryside farms and green fields instead of building. Whether the local Greens are on board with that matters less than what voters think they will do. Kier Starmer giving them no reason to vote labour doesn't help either.
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May 5, 2023 12:27
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William Bear posted:The reporting is that he has a 10-year plan. It could be true, I guess. We're very good at keeping old people alive beyond when they'd normally pop off now, so I'd not be surprised to see him hit 85.
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May 6, 2023 20:13
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Mega Comrade posted:There was that case of the Goon joking about the Olympic torch or something years ago who got a knock on the door by the plod because if it. I've forgotten the exact details. They'd also posted about their plans on FB (or some other social media) IIRC, which is much more likely how the plod tracked them down than this dead comedy forum. Someone looked into it at the time or shortly after, IIRC.
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May 8, 2023 16:22
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keep punching joe posted:I know how to fix asylum in the UK. The home office is institutionally incompetent due to it's love of bureaucracy, this is well known. The most honest assessment I've seen of this from government was when they introduced a new "high flyer" research visa to attract top talent to post brexit Britain, and they had to set up an entire parallel visa processing framework to the Home Offices because the home office is incapable of actually being fast and wanting to let people into the country.
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May 11, 2023 11:55
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winegums posted:That shadow cabinet list is just embarrassing. A who's who of burnouts and arseholes. The labour party should be presenting an energised hyper competent shadow cabinet ready to enter power with fantastic ideas and a clean slate. Instead they're clueless and mired in scandal before they leave the starting line During the last decade, most centre-left social democract parties in Europe have collapsed in vote share, mostly due to their centreism and incompetence. Most notably the Socalist Party in France, but even the currently-governing SPD in Germany is only there as part of a 3-party coalition and are in equal competition with the Greens, rather than being a dominant partner. For a brief period the Labour Party seemed to escape this fate, under Corbyn. However, now that any idea of hope or optimism has been purged from the Labour Party, I think Starmer will cause the same fate. He'll get into government, and be so disappointing and incompetent that he'll start the decline of the Labour party.
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May 11, 2023 15:49
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big scary monsters posted:That's really my most immediate concern about climate change. We're (most likely) not going to see the climate in northern Europe going to poo poo that badly in our lifetimes, but there are definitely going to be more and more displaced people from other regions and the question is how we deal with that. Militarised borders and concentration camps seems like a pretty plausible outcome right now. There are some hopeful outliers - in Germany and Sweden the public response to Syrians fleeing the war in 2015 (a war which was arguably an effect of climate change) was not too awful, refugees from Ukraine have been broadly seen in a sympathetic light across Europe. But then you look at the actual help offered even to the "good" refugees and the discourse about "economic migrants" and how that is apparently a bad thing and also anyone from certain countries isn't a real refugee and so on and it's all pretty grim. While it's a very evocative image, inter-country migration is rare for a reason - travelling long distances is hard. Migration, when it happens, tends to at first be inter-country - rural to urban, usually in the context of climate risks. Climate change may ruin your land, but it doesn't destroy your government, and people very much tend to stick to what they know rather than gamble on the unknown. See the recent floods in Pakistan - absolutely apocalyptic to those flooded, but the response isn't "flee to India" or even "flee to Islamabad", as much as "rebuilt what we had, but poorer". Even when, as in the case of Syria, you do get large migrations due to violence (which may be climate change linked), they mostly stay local - of the roughly 12 million Syrian refugees, only ~ 1 million fled to europe - most relocated in Syria, or went to Turkey or Lebanon. The future isn't swarms of indian climate migrants travelling half the way around the world to northern Europe, and that's just playing into conservative fantasies. The future is sprawling slums of New Delhi or Baghdad or Lagos as more and more people get pushed of their land by drought, with the linked economic crisis of reduced local output just as more imports are required to feed the population.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23512184.conservatives-set-control-hyndburn-green-party-support/ Sounds like it's more driven by indervidual personality conflicts than any greater political point.
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May 12, 2023 08:32
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Guavanaut posted:Eurovision, famous for only having English language songs. I doubt it, mostly because it benefits everyone who isn't France or Germany for the EU common language to not be French/German. It's the language of mutual effort, where everyone has to put in effort to become a speaker. We will probably see more of a linguistic drift towards a EU-english than is weird and picks up bits from european languages than the proper English way, but that happened to all our colonies already.
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May 13, 2023 22:56
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Tsietisin posted:One of the issues is that housing developers don't to build too many houses themselves either. There needs to be publicly owned building companies that continously build new affordable housing for councils etc, because why would private firms build so many houses they undercut their future profits? It's obviously impossible under capitalism, or at least while we have large barriers to entry like the cost of land and planning permission.
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May 15, 2023 10:00
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Gort posted:Did this get discussed in here yet? I note that it's mostly based of NPF submissions, so I'd expect most of them to be "not accepted" by the NPF or watered down. And lots of the more aspirational ones there require more money - while the listed tax reforms are good, but few in number. While also restating a commitment to "fiscal rules". Maybe Starmer plans to just make lots of uncosted pledges and rely on perception and the media being bad at maths to get him to office and do something with taxes, but I doubt it. More likely a bunch of aspirational and good policies get dropped either before or in government because bean counters at the Treasury say no.
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May 15, 2023 13:27
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Mega Comrade posted:Those tweets are ignoring that many other conditions share symptoms with ADHD and people do think they have it when they dont. The article even includes such a person who got no better after starting the prescription she was offered, and after them ignoring her seeking follow up advice (they had her money at that point) she left a negative review and they threatened legal action. Yea, the issue is private clinics giving a ADHD diagnosis and stimulant proscriptions to anyone who pays them enough, then shrugging their shoulders and leaving the patient to deal with it alone. It's not really the issue that people might be getting LEGAL HIGHS from them (there's cheaper methods for that, and also drug prohibition is stupid) but that people convince themselves drugs will fix their problems, spend alot of money to get given them with no oversight, then take ADHD meds expecting it to fix their problems but just getting high and suffering unwanted side effects. Now, you might argue it's a lesser evil to the overworked NHS mental health systems and their long lists for a referral to just give anyone who pays drugs and let them work out themselves if it helps (it's basically what we do with antidepressants but without the paying bit) but it's certainly not an ideal outcome and one it's right to investigate.
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smellmycheese posted:So it’s clearly now going to come out that all the big UK businesses and organisations are also hotbeds of groping and nonceing. Turns out Power corrupts, and running a organisation is power.
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May 19, 2023 17:34
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Pistol_Pete posted:The Telegraph are trying to make 'Woke Blob' a thing and I am so stoked for it: In government for 13 years yet can't reshape institutional culture the way thatcher did. Good job, Conservatives.
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May 25, 2023 08:48
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I need some advice on being a citizen. Is Citizens Advice any good or is it bad. Or does it depend? Good but overworked, especially if you're dealing with the Home Office.
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May 29, 2023 08:39
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Is this... an actual socialist policy from the Labour Party??? Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Given 75%-80% of the cost of building a house is the cost of getting the land for it, this actually might make affordable housing possible. Link should avoid FT paywall, if not can copy text.
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May 30, 2023 11:22
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OwlFancier posted:It is still paywalled for me but would that not just be a big handout to property developers who could then simply sell the houses at the current rate? I don't think many people have the ability to just buy undeveloped land and then go through the rigamarole to get planning permissions and then contract someone to build them a house. It's for councils doing compulsory purchase orders. Full text below Financial Times posted:
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May 30, 2023 11:40
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fuctifino posted:This is an interesting approach. They are, since theft happens at the point you take intending to deprive. You just can't prove that intent until they walk out the door - otherwise they can claim they were going to put it back and you can't prove otherwise. Here, putting into the bins without paying is intent to deprive as surely as walking out the door with them is - and easier for staff to fix when told.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:pardon me if i'm misremembering, i'm an american and may be mixing up players in british politics, but wasn't starmer vocally undermining corbyn during the last general election for not making an "undo brexit" plank the centerpiece of the party platform? and corbyn was taking heat from centrists in the party about secretly wanting brexit, and the issue split away a major chunk of the party and led to a massive rout at the polls? i have a strong impression this happened, but that makes this rhetoric shockingly brazen. what other conclusion could you draw but that he knowingly tanked the general election if he can so blithely dismiss the issue a mere 4 years later while many of the predicted consequences are coming to pass He was important in pushing for a second referendum, which eventually was in Labours manifesto in 2019. There was plenty of hard core remainers who were upset that labour was doing anything other than unilaterally cancelling brexit who thought Kier was more trustworthy on brexit than Corbyn, and labours Brexit policy was muddled throughout 2019 because they needed to please both sides, which ended up with Labour bleeding votes both ways in 2019.
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