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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Continuing from Spring Thread:fuctifino posted:This looks grim: Fatty posted:Titanium frames are supposed to be hypoallergenic but I'm not sure how that works when the main things making contact are the plastic pads.
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Jedit posted:Might want to remove the link to Scotpol in the OP, considering the thread hasn't seen a post in three years. 
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DesperateDan posted:nearly a whole month early this time 
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tee hee, wouldn't it be funny if i just casually dropped hints I'm going down the Bill Cooper radicalization pipeline, might encourage some stochastic terror later tee hee https://twitter.com/ValeryNorth/status/1663987036263522308 When David Icke appointed himself king of the 5G scalar transphobes, it was bound to start flowing back the other way too.
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You can get second hand BT Mini Hubs for cheap. Phone without all the phone stuff, just put a SIM and battery in. If you have 4G you should be able to do same with a phone's hotspot function, but if that won't do those might. If it's a low signal problem then Netgear do a similar but more expensive thing with an antenna jack that you could connect a high gain directional LTE antenna to.
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Do they have special hentai judges to tell the difference between something like Correggio's Leda and the Swan and 'prohibited images' or are all the judges experts at that in their spare time anyway?
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Jun 1, 2023 17:24
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Does Shrek cock fall under prohibited images?
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Absolute nonce logic, because it doesn't even bother asking questions like "and what would society look like if you didn't?" or even "and what is the economic multiplier of this?" or even even "and what if it happened to you?"
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Jun 1, 2023 18:53
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Ms Adequate posted:lmao guess they've stopped bothering with pretending they're only upset about ~chancers~ and are coming for us all now. quote:This paper documents several interesting and novel findings. First, areas which experienced a greater relative population decline due to the spread of influenza spend less, per-capita, on their inhabitants in the following decade. This holds especially for spending on amenities more likely to be consumed by the young, for example school funding. love too live in the twenties
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Hope that *checks notes* Andrew Neil is right that they'll bring in proportional representation and votes for cats and then gently caress off
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OwlFancier posted:How the gently caress do they have gig economy track workers? Surely you need actual loving training to work on a rail line?
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https://twitter.com/paceyhitman/status/1664523238246948864Angepain posted:whenever i see Amol Rajan i just think about how he made up an award for essays, named it after Bertrand Russell, and then gave it to JK Rowling for her brave and insightful blogpost about being a terf
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Jun 2, 2023 12:31
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I wonder how much of this is his nonce brother trying to drag everyone else down with him. It's not unknown for child abusers to try poo poo like that, either because they are deliberately manipulative or because they genuinely believe that everyone does it and they were just unfairly singled out.
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Things that are now antisemitic according to Guardian wetwipes: football chants, the Irish, Scotland in general and Celtic in specific. https://twitter.com/mypalfootfoot7/status/1664570817466826754 OwlFancier posted:It unfortunately would not, but I agree that it should.
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Tesseraction posted:If Schofield's gonna get fuckbarreled for it surely Gove should be as well?
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Jippa posted:When football fans are anti semitic it's not that subtle. Like hissing and singing "spurs are on their way to auschwitz" etc. OwlFancier posted:I believe in the UK if the characters are underage it is still illegal, and it's been that way for quite a while. Nearly everyone convicted of it has also had actual CAI though, as it's pretty low priority otherwise. I have no idea what this guy was doing to get caught. e: The Saffir-Simpson scale measures hurricanes from 1 to 5 and is nothing to do with Bart's dong.
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Jun 2, 2023 17:42
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The bootlegging, racketeering, intimidation, murder for hire, and trafficking won't stand up in court, go after his hentai!
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Pseudophotographs have been illegal much longer than cartoons (Major era), because Photoshop etc. came out in the 90s and a broad standard was adopted of "if we can't tell if that's a real photo of a child or not, the person with it is probably some kind of nonce, so let's not get too caught up in whether it's actually real or not." Anything that could be defended as artistic was held to be outside of that until Brown. (Or more specifically Alan Johnson, who was a fan of writing legislation about fields that he knew gently caress all about.)
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Jun 2, 2023 18:05
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The guy who founded the KKK was named after one of the parks there.
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A good preview of the kind of open society we can expect if keith is allowed near the reins of power. Asbos for watching films by the forbidden list of directors.
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Or the Toby Youngs, Rod Liddles, Taki Theodoracopuloi, and Paul Dacres of the would would all come out to say how it's normal actually and the real threat is gender in schools and Asian dog groomers and then the whole thing would disappear until a few months after he was dead.
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So if it's of a character who's canonically 17 for the first few seasons then 18 for the rest do they bring in cartoon trivia dorks as special witnesses, or is that against the human rights of anyone who'd have to listen to that debate?
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"So as you can see by the tattoo above Quagmire's penis, this clearly takes place after the events alluded to in season..."
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm fully aware of what the real reason is, but the Ken Loach thing will be the excuse. 
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I wonder if Bridgen would have been suspended from the Tories if he'd compared the vaccine to any other historical event. Like he could have gone for Unit 731 or the Tuskegee syphilis experiment or Thatcher bankrolling Pol Pot or the British use of typhus as a weapon of war in Africa and those would all have been equally appalling bullshit comparisons, but he went straight for the Holocaust. I also wonder if he ever compared his failure to potato to the Famine. Blitz good because our enemy was a foreigner, Lockdown bad because our enemy was our own self importance. e: Seven segment displays have 7 segments but they only use 3 or 4 to display the number 7. When all 7 segments are illuminated, it displays the number 8.
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Jun 4, 2023 13:28
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Bring back nixie tubes. One wire = one number, bish bosh.
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More diverse migration, more trade union power, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment at lowest levels since records began. Nigel Farage and Laurence Fox's Brexit has failed. Mick Lynch and Dennis Skinner's hasn't yet.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's weird isn't it. With all these folk (the twitterati, hexpress, heil) pushing anti-immigrant stuff, one might think it had increased but it hasn't. Kind of shows up twitter for being a rightwing echo chamber (I certainly get pushed loads of tweets from right farts. I've muted or blocked most but some I can't help myself from commenting. It's my entertainment on a long evening!) Britain First getting mad at an obviously rendered rainbow on the Arc de Triomphe (but I thought LGBT rights were a sign that we were better than the Muslim world? I can't keep up.) The Telegraph mad about lockdowns that were over years ago. Bourgeois reactionaries whining that Brexit is a difficult and ongoing process that didn't instantly poo poo gold bullion into their hands like everything else in their privileged lives has.
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There was some kind of internal spat at the Telegraph a couple of years back, between "genius inventor Boris Johnson is going to save us thousands on our bills with this" and "eco nutters are coming for your traditional wood burner", I guess representing the industrialist and pastoralist factions of Telegraph Tories. Nobody won, but heat pumps lost.
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I think the underlying element, other than "it's new and different" of all reaction (and they're not really) is that they look American. Which then makes it a debate between thatcherite Atlanticists who view Central Air as aspirational and one nation traditionalists who are still suspicious of natural gas, let alone big boxes on the outside of your house that make you look like a Yank or a corner shop.
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Jun 4, 2023 15:24
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Nigel Farage football stickers. Featuring Nigel Farage dressed as all your favourite footballers. The Bukayo Saka and Raheem Sterling ones have been specifically condemned by the SPLC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fwSO0IGyX8
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I think one positive thing is that the longer this goes on, the more likely we get Mick Lynch's Brexit over Boris Johnson's, because Brexit was sold as oven ready and easy when it's actually going to be hard work. And if there's one thing that Mick can do a day of which terrifies Boris, it's that. Tesseraction posted:Easy to assume the billionaires don't care about saving money on energy bills. I went for a nice walk around Abbey Park in Leicester, via Beaumont Leys (50s council estate area). One thing that always strikes me is the number of solar panels on the roofs around there, and there were a few split system heat pumps as well as of recently (since Rishi made them VAT free). In the suburbs there's maybe two houses with solar and one with visible HVAC. In the villages there's none. That reminded me of that Nation of Shopkeepers book, which argues that Marx's petty bourgeoisie of artisans, shopkeepers, and clerks, rather than being crushed by industry and proletarianized as he predicted, ballooned to the largest class under the welfare state and later neoliberalism, with three distinct subclasses, the artisans became self-employed tradesmen who bought their old council houses, the shopkeepers became small business tyrants and the backbone of brexitrump and anti-lockdown, and the clerks became the professional-managerial class and a whole lot of what David Graeber termed bullshit jobs. Trades tend to be early adopters, they're the people who Dewalt, Milwaukee, and Makita compete for with the latest battery systems, and the first lot to install UPVC on their right to buys, while the Telegraph at the time was whining that it fell to bits in 10 minutes and would take £7,000 pounds off of the value of your house! So it makes absolute sense that this group would go in hard for solar, because similarly they can do the maths and it just makes sense to have it in the long run. It also makes absolute sense for the Telegraph to piss and moan about it, because they're angling at the other two groups, who are against heat pumps and solar because either "it's new and we never needed it before George Saurus invented climate change" or "but what if it devalues my house and it breaks and my neighbours don't talk to me because I got the wrong brand and they think I'm a pleb for having a Fujitsu?" That's the worried middle who will click on all the heat pump and solar clickbait that the Telegraph can poo poo out.
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Guavanaut posted:Nigel Farage football stickers. Featuring Nigel Farage dressed as all your favourite footballers. The Bukayo Saka and Raheem Sterling ones have been specifically condemned by the SPLC. 
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OwlFancier posted:Perhaps people who have money are also bad at thinking about saving it. My parents constantly whine about how expensive things are but they also spend stupid amounts of money renovating things in the house that don't need renovating but have at no point considered improving the windows, puting solar panels on, new boiler etc. They could afford it easily but apparently just don't think about it. Just mindless consumption of stupid poo poo and watching house flipping programs that give them more stupid loving ideas. Coming from the my dad said so college of social research, but a lot of those solar installations in BL were apparently organically spread neighbour to neighbour, some being trades certified to fit their own, others just talking about "so are those panels any good?" "yeah they cut my bills in half, I can help you wire them up if you want" until there's streets where there's more with than not.  Personally I think it's both cool and a bit hilarious that the area that was a byword for 'chavvy and criminal' when I grew up there is now a high tech green energy exporter on a nice day like today, but as that book said there's sections of society that define their habitus mostly by blind reaction to others, so I'd bet there's parts of the suburbs that reject solar precisely because 'those people' embraced it. They wouldn't say it like that, but "oh doesn't it make the roof look tacky" and so on. That then tends to bleed into what the people producing aspirational renovation shows will even consider, as with UPVC doors and windows 20 years back. happyhippy posted:Labour have a history of meeting terrorists. 
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Call the transport police.
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otoh the EU is a white supremacist group and still tolerates Viktor Orbαn's stupid poo poo
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I kinda want to be but then they keep providing a platform for this poo poo so lol
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International humanitarian law prohibits collective punishment of prisoners of war or other protected persons for acts committed by individuals during an armed conflict. The imposition of collective punishment is a war crime. Par for the course for Labour 'rising stars'  Private Speech posted:I mean the other countries that are claimed as parts of Greater Hungary are also in the EU and I don't think Hungarian revanchism is particularly popular anywhere outside of Hungary (and maybe some parts of Austria). It's more than just a bit unpopular with e.g. Romanians who joined the EU in the spirit and expectation of no longer having to tolerate that kind of poo poo.
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