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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Something happened just after 4pm to all these networks: For what it's worth EE and BT are the same company now so if one of them has issues the other probably will too (and BT is currently rebranding to EE for it's consumer stuff anyway)
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Dec 2, 2023 16:33
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Jippa posted:Cumin definitely has to be used intentionally. It's not just a "chuck it in" type of flavour. Well, it is if you're doing either Indian or Mexican food, tbf.
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Dec 3, 2023 12:19
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OwlFancier posted:I think honestly he could lose just about everyone as long as he's still perceived as less bad than the tories in whatever way people want to define "bad" We had a Coalition that disagrees with you there (or the other alternative is the SNP), if enough Labour voters do sack it off.
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Dec 4, 2023 10:38
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kingturnip posted:The utterly stupid thing is that this is actually a really easy thing that the government could have fixed at any point in the last decade if they'd bothered. It's just poo poo politicians not giving a poo poo. We are a gerontocracy, our governments are chosen by Boomers and rather too many of them don't give a poo poo about their kids and grandkids. Politicians act accordingly.
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Dec 5, 2023 22:37
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Guavanaut posted:The Fixed Term Parliament Act could have been decent, but it was just overridden by total stupid poo poo in 2019, less than a decade later, proving that "no parliament can bind a future one" might sometimes be a case for having something that can. How would it improve things? It'd just delay the election slightly.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:06
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Guavanaut posted:Being able to loophole an act like that with another act with simple majority and a manifesto promise to repeal the act you just loopholed to get the election makes the entire process a joke. Well yes but that doesn't mean the FTPA itself would make any difference here (or is a good idea in general).
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Dec 6, 2023 23:36
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Private Speech posted:Compared to that settled status/ILR lets you stay in the UK unless you commit a serious felony How's that defined out of curiosity? (We haven't had the felony/misdemeanour distinction in this country as such since the 1960s, this isn't America)
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Dec 9, 2023 13:01
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Trainee PornStar posted:I gotta admit that would have been awesome if I'd turned out to be that doc lol Not sure about the post/username combo here... 
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Dec 11, 2023 22:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't think that temping market exists much anymore. My dad used to work in the civil service (Inland Revenue inspector) in the 80s. I remember when I was a kid he went from using a Dictaphone and sending it down to the typing pool to having to type his own poo poo. We got the Dictaphone to play with once that happened, so that was nice, and a manual typewriter that for all I know was office surplus.
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Dec 15, 2023 10:19
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Jedit posted:Why was he using a Dictaphone? He had ten perfectly serviceable fingers, didn't he? Managers weren't expected to know how to type back in the day, is kind of the point. That was womens' work.
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Dec 15, 2023 13:55
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smellmycheese posted:The genocide defender has logged on I'm not quite sure why we need to tell you this, but people defending genocide tend not to actually say it's genocide. That's generally understood to be a Bad Thing.
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Dec 17, 2023 15:58
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Lol I don't know Eddie's pronouns so apologies but I'm assuming she(?) But wtf is she doing? She had a couple of runs at the NEC on a vaguely centrist platform during the Corbyn years too (and got rinsed by the Momentum slate both times).
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Dec 18, 2023 11:10
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Ah the battle of the Atlantic where we famously had no ships sunk whatsoever.
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Dec 19, 2023 13:44
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Apraxin posted:yeah, i honestly thought back when May introduced the financial requirement in the first place that after a couple of years of torygraph articles about honest hard-working (white) british people who couldn't bring their (white) american/russian/etc. families to the uk that it would get rolled back or modified to be more subtly racist, but i failed to realize that there's a seemingly ever-increasing faction of the tories that go into a blood frenzy whenever they hear the word 'immigrant' We're a country run by Boomers. By and large, they're all already married.
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Dec 23, 2023 20:46
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Oh yeah definitely, I have a cat that doesn't even like catnip. Iirc this is true of like 1/3rd of cats, it's like the coriander==soap thing with humans. Mine will eat anything I eat, except doner kebab. That is Not Food, apparently.
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Dec 26, 2023 14:10
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Pistol_Pete posted:The centre and the north of Oxford are very wealthy, then there's very impoverished areas round the periphery like Blackbird Leys etc. These are the same bit (it's the city centre and is, as you suggest, not Cowley or Blackbird Leys or indeed Barton)
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Dec 26, 2023 18:18
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xtothez posted:Years ago a 40k Youtuber named "Arch Warhammer" had a bit of a following, despite being an obvious chud with strong political opinions. Understandably not wanting their brand to be associated with that drivel, Games Workshop made rare good use of their legal department by telling him to stop using their trademark for his channel name, forcing him to become just "Arch". At the same time they also took the unprecedented step of a public announcement telling any chuds to not buy their products and gently caress off out of the hobby, with enough clues for people to deduce who in particular prompted the message. To be fair, the Imperium of Man within their IP is incredibly and obviously fascist, it's not surprising it's going to attract people with Certain Views who don't fully get that that's not meant to be a good thing.
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Dec 28, 2023 15:07
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forkboy84 posted:Thatcher didn't murder a journalist, she's nothing good going for her thank you I mean not personally (probably) but Martin O'Hagan's family might disagree. Edit: wait that was 2001. Still wouldnt put it past her though.
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Jan 1, 2024 14:40
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Disproportionation posted:SNW simultaneously puts forward bubbly optimism about how progressive everything is while saying "some species are actually just evil and can't be negotiated with, so it's okay to kill them." I just like how they the Gorn of all their options from TOS, you know, the infamously bad rubber suit guy fight scene, into some kind of super serial murderer body horror guys. You'd think Kirk would have had more concerns meeting them like 5 years later.
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Jan 1, 2024 14:54
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Surprised no one's mentioned For All Mankind yet. The early parts at least are pretty grounded (it fast forwards like a decade every season) and some of the background alternate history stuff can be amusing. Plus  is still around (and the point of divergence is they land on the moon first), possibly relevant in the UK Marxism Thread ;p
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Jan 2, 2024 18:50
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Plus the guy who made it got me too'd depending on how you feel about 'death of the author'.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:02
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Grey Hunter posted:IIRC, he wanted to do BSG because he wasn't allowed to do the survival thing in voyager. They don't really do that for the most part in BSG either though, except at the beginning and end.
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Jan 3, 2024 11:48
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Grey Hunter posted:At this point just getting rid of he populist nutjobs and getting a few years of boring will be an improvement. That's a rather...American lense to be looking in on another country's politics. We haven't actually had Trump in power for the last few years (no, Bozza doesn't quite count) and Starmer is not looking to offer policies meaningly different from what we've got now - he's been explicit about it, for instance he has been criticising the Tories for not being efficient enough at being bastards to immigrants. Unlike Biden he has made zero overtures to his left, either, quite the opposite in fact. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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Jan 4, 2024 10:35
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OwlFancier posted:Where did you get the idea that Grey is American from? I didn't say they're American, I am saying it's a very American way of looking at this because it is precisely how American liberals tend to talk about Biden.
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Jan 4, 2024 14:57
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NotJustANumber99 posted:er... stuff? Labour have explicitly said there will be no stuff.
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Jan 17, 2024 11:39
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Dabir posted:That's a common misconception, he wrote that because the sea was actually red back then. From the algae. Think I'd need an actual cite on that one. AFAIK no one knows for sure why he put it that way.
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Jan 17, 2024 15:02
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Just Another Lurker posted:The UK stores all of it's water cannons here in N.I. (i wonder why) and i propose that they be converted to salt sprayers instead. Because they're flat out not allowed to be used on the mainland, at least England and Wales. One of Bozza's Genius Ideas as London Mayor was buying three of them for London (costing the taxpayer a quarter of a million) and then having to sell them off after being told that would be illegal.
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Jan 18, 2024 11:07
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WhatEvil posted:So what's that? About £50k or something like £2.6k/year averaged out. Got to compare that against commuting costs though. If I were going into work 5 days a week my Tube pass would be about 2k alone, people travelling by bus are probably going to see something at least in the same ballpark and that's not counting non-work travel. Now, if you can walk to work (true of the previous job but hardly a given) that's a different story.
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Jan 19, 2024 10:24
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happyhippy posted:STOP THE SMALL BOATS It'll buff out. (It won't, it's fibreglass)
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Jan 20, 2024 18:56
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Julio Cruz posted:Tesco tech hitch leaves deliveries in 'shambles Well - that's not actually unreasonable. If you can only get an 8am slot for example because the later ones are booked you get up that early even if you really rather wouldn't, so if they don't bother showing up despite your having hosed your sleep schedule for the next couple of days you might be a bit grumpy.
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Jan 21, 2024 20:09
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Julio Cruz posted:then that's on him for not booking earlier, don't go blaming Tesco for having to get up early Yes, we can all predict what we need a week in advance. I would absolutely blame them if I go out of my way to be available for one of their early slots and they just...don't show up. That's their fault. What the hell, do you have stock in Tesco or something?
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Jan 22, 2024 11:19
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Dead Goon posted:Fit canons to the lifeboats. What, like, clerics? Can they cast whatever level spell it is to calm storms?
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Jan 22, 2024 11:40
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OwlFancier posted:I like that this implies the existence of non dangerous knives You'd struggle to do much with a butter knife.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:03
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ThomasPaine posted:I want one but I'd be terrified of lobbing a finger clean off I've got one. They're not mega sharp and you use them just like a normal knife. Would recommend.
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Jan 25, 2024 10:50
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Guavanaut posted:Is nuns' piss famously weak? Bishop's piss was famously strong and sought after as a source of phosphorus and nitrates, so is there some kind of clerical piss chart somewhere? Probably lack vs presence of booze.
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Jan 25, 2024 16:03
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lol. I don't mean to be offensive by this but I don't think you understand prompt engineering. Like at all. This raises the obvious question - what are your qualifications, mate?
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Jan 27, 2024 14:30
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I've been typing in short, snappy posts to prompt wild, colourful, but ultimately low quality, artless responses for years, mate. That is actually a depressingly valid point. Not sure it's the defence of LLMs you might be aiming at, though. 
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Jan 27, 2024 14:50
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Guavanaut posted:It was when I found it. The only reason you're seeing a response is because the media class now feel personally threatened. Otherwise we'd just get the same sort of vague ineffectual handwringing from the liberal end we got when the coalmines closed down and basically 'tough poo poo, harden up' from the other end.
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Jan 28, 2024 17:36
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ThomasPaine posted:Marx for example would have been very opposed to strict gun regulation because in his thinking an armed and organised working class was an overwhelmingly good thing, because how else would they effectively resist and assert power over the bourgeoisie? Even in Marx's time, as for example the Paris Commune showed (or Napoleon's 'whiff of grapeshot' even), it's not all that much help if the working class have easy access to bolt action rifles when the government has access to field artillery. Unless you're proposing being able to go down Tesco's and buy a Challenger tank, it's a bit of a non-starter these days.
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Jan 28, 2024 17:39
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big scary monsters posted:Bit cheeky to ding Ireland on their naval and air defence. I wonder what Chinese admirals looking to occupy the Celtic sea are more worried about : the new UK aircraft carrier with the broken propellor, the other new aircraft carrier that's just spent a year in repairs for a the broken propellor, or all the aircraft the two broken aircraft carriers don't have. Also Ireland is neutral and not a NATO member. It's not their job to defend us.
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Feb 5, 2024 12:07
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