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Didn't realise we'd ticked over into September, but my local supermarket confirms it by having the pepernoten on display (small ginger biscuitty things, which Sinterklaas throws at people to stop them asking questions about his "my assistant is not a racial caricature" t-shirt)
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crispix posted:what's left of our society is literally falling down around us and the opposition is rachael reeves listing all the things labour will not do if elected to government I would do anything for gov, I would do anything for gov, I would do anything for gov, But I won't do that... Will you let the kids wear normal Primark shoes, Will you scoff that the proles have no-one else to choose, Will you put a cop in every home? I can do that I can do that! Will you spend all your funds on court frivolity, And ignore all the poo that's flowing out to sea, Will you flip-flop over Sadiq's new Zone? I can do that I can do that! Can you picture a different new economy, Can you see a way forward without austerity, Will you fund all the things that need funds? I won't do that No I won't do that! Will you welcome the refugee with open arms, Will you listen to the science on drug-related harms, Will you stop taking cues from The Sun? I won't do that No I won't do that! Will you stand with the workers and bolster all their rights, Will you show up on picket lines for union fights, Will you ever live up to your name? I won't do that No I won't do that! I know elections, baby, I've been around, When the schools turn to dust, and the courts fall down, Surely by then, they'll see Kieth is a clown? Don't bet on that, No don't bet on that
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"Jeremy Hunt under fire after Treasury says no new cash to fix Raac in schools Chancellor had pledged to ‘spend what ever it takes’ on concrete crisis but repair costs will come from existing education budget" Fix schools? No new money! Just fix!
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Is the whole shadow cabinet thing made up and the points don't matter, like everything else? Meaning, there's no obligation to have a shadow X secretary* at all? *minister of the site formerly known as Twitter
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"Government has adopted 'sticking-plaster approach' to school building safety, says Gareth Davies [NAO chief]" Replace "school building safety" with "all infrastructure", ever since Thatcherites banged on the national infrastructure with their fist, thought it seemed pretty solid and what are all those lefty engineers moaning about, and then it was the end of history so it didn't matter anymore. Glad I live in a socialist paradise unaffected by such neoliberalism 
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There's also a place called Wokingham, but nobody actually lives there. It's just a giant re-education centre for gammons.
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Do you want dead Chidi? Because that's how you get dead Chidi
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Sep 7, 2023 17:49
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah I did find it amusing that they picked France as a go-to "we're very continental and welcoming and are not like that" style, but then again there's a bunch of cafes in Normandy that use British and American flags as "look, we're not the FN racists" signs so I guess it follows. [outrageous Allo Allo accent] "I'm sorry vicar, but I cannot allow you in my French cafe with this overtly religious attire"
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Sep 10, 2023 13:47
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Guavanaut posted:and you can make new varieties of dog just by putting two dogs together, so that's a lot harder to control than making firearm ammunition or whatever. [disappointed Krieger voice] "Awwww" [throws gun breeding program in bin]
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Guavanaut posted:"this area monitored by a potato that someone may or may not be watching." Marge Simpson: "I just think they're NEETs"
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smellmycheese posted:And it still won’t be as good as stuff you can get at a corner shop on a Greek island for €5 Yeah but that's only because it's their "thing". I bet if you live on the Greek island, you have to go to your local Περίμενετριαντάφυλλο and pay €5 to get a small packet of Monster Munch.
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Guavanaut posted:You might as well ask who invented architecture. Is it this guy?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:This is just vibes, but I really feel like we're going to get one Starmer government (possibly a lib/lab coalition) that will change nothing, the Tories will make up a bunch of lies and the press will back them up, and they'll be back and fashier than ever at the next election. I was going to say this, but with a Labour majority at the next election, then speedrunning Blair Brown and getting a hung parliament with the Tories as the biggest party and something with plastic bags and libdems. Basically the same thing over and over again, but faster and stupider each time.
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Oct 2, 2023 14:41
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Guavanaut posted:Birbalsingh would never sign off on that. Argon encourages idleness. Hi Missy... I mean Mom... these are our friends - Catherine of Argon... Xenon of Elea... Napolneon Bonaparte... Helium VIII... and Abraham Lincoln
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Oct 4, 2023 07:28
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Guavanaut posted:Long term decisions on keeping science the exact same as it was when I was in school. (iPhone starts to fade out of his hand like a BTTF photo) "No, wait, not like that"!
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Nuclear Spoon posted:regardless of posting quality, the casual slinging of calling people child abusers kinda sucks actually I have an entire court case here that says that's actually just a generic South African insult This is just a Musk joke, sorry. And I wish he'd said that under England and Wales jurisdiction, our defamation laws have to be good for something!
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His behaviour is an insult to the Calvin he is named for. Bill Watterson will be rolling in his... secluded home in Ohio
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Pistol_Pete posted:You just nudged me to check Weetman's Twitter account and, god, she's gone from eccentric to completely raving lunatic since I last looked at it. What happens to people to do this I'm currently reading Naomi Klein's latest book, which is about her doppelganger Naomi Wolf and how she's gone off the deep end. Amongst other things. Good read, if weird
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Guavanaut posted:If the Naomi be Klein That is basically the summary of the book, yes (and is referenced in it) And to chime in on earlier thread discussions: Mastodon, Oatibix, 7
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"Jeremy Hunt warns of ‘difficult decisions’ ahead as public finances worsen" Probably for the best. They've been spoiling the people these last 13 years, after all
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Monica Bellucci posted:*No, not Matt or Chuck, I'm not that sort of silly. "Chuck! Chuck! It's your cousin Your cousin, Matt Berry! Yeeesssss Yesssssssss Yeeaaahssssss"
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"If only several thousand more people had warned me" says man scammed by cryptocurrency Or whatever that Onion headline was Anyway, the right-wing ratchet has been going clunk for too long. It's time it went click for a change.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm actually interested to see what the Cum Party emits, because for all the massive faults of the BoJo/DomCum Policy Unit they're unlikely to be onboard with measuring dogs or banning whipped cream propellant. So a pro-whippet party?
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Tesseraction posted:If the opposing goalkeeper is the one shooting the ball into your goal, either that guy is bullshit good or your team is dogshit bad. You just reminded me of some football video game I played as a kid, where I did just that. Get the ball to my goalkeeper, and he hoofs it up in one massive arc into the other goal. Can't remember what it was called now.
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Deliberately by analogy to MRAs, "because they're both misogynists who hate women" 
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Guavanaut posted:We saw one little goat and then keith got scared 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's backwards. Bobby Deluxe posted:Another RTP suggestion was to give currency an expiry date so nobody can hoard it. That would also make landlording pointless. I'd forgotten that from RTP, it's a long time since I read it. But it goes together well with "it's backwards" which is the core of MMT - instead of begging the rich for tax money and then maybe spending it on things, spend it where it needs to be spent (see Guav's poster), then see where it pools at the top and tax it off them. But I like the expiry date thing. Maybe we can use a blockchain for that 
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TACD posted:Tech Won’t Save Us has a four-part series on Elon Musk that can help people understand him a bit better I've just been listening to this and it's good, but warning: contains clips of Musk speaking. I'd managed to avoid hearing his stupid voice before now.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Just noticing on the Guardian opinion pages, the ever-growing range of subjects on which comments are not permitted. There's a "Comment is Free, hey?
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Unless I've fundamentally misunderstood how this stuff works, my thoughts on text-"AI" are summed up by realising: Asking "how many sides does a triangle have" and getting the answer "a triangle has 3 sides" and Asking "what countries in Africa start with a K" and getting the answer "there are no African countries that start with a K" Is not an example of the AI getting it right and wrong respectively. In both cases it's working as intended, smooshing likely words together in response to some other words. And as ever, even if it can do some things, there's no mechanism for those gains to translate into more leisure time or comfort for working people. We will be screamed at to work a 40 hour week or else, even when there's only 1 hour's worth of work per person that needs doing. Plus if the robots are making the art we may as well pack up and leave the planet to the elephants anyway, because what are we even doing at that point?
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BalloonFish posted:That seemed to hold until the very instant I graduated and suddenly the job market disappeared, our generational expectations collapsed and suddenly we were being entitled for not taking a job flipping burgers. Yeah but you can't really hold that against them - the material reality in the world changed completely with the credit crunch. It's crazy to expect what you were promised, when everything is different now. And by material reality and everything, I mean some made up numbers on a spreadsheet and the vibes of the "market".
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Chocos! They had a frog on the packaging I think? They have them here now but they're called Coco Pops Chocos, because for some ungodly reason every single chocolate themed cereal that Kelloggs make is Coco Pops here. Just give us different mascots Kelloggs you weird cowards. It was a bear, in my market (Benelux) anyway. They were my favourite for a long time. I think "Smacks" was a frog.
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