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domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Guavanaut posted:

I'm not up to speed on my very basic biology but I don't think women drivers have blind spots larger than small children.


Looking forward to UK cars getting larger so automakers have more markets for stupidly large vehicles, even though they are totally unsuitable for 90% of UK roads/car parks.

Maybe we can get a law like this on the books too:

quote:

Cities have built so much parking through a policy few people know: minimum parking requirements. Cities don’t just require parking spaces for nearly every office, mall, store, movie theater, bowling alley, restaurant and other building, those requirements often include a certain number of spots for every building.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/20/business/parking-minimums-cars-transportation-urban-planning/index.html

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domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Will actually sell the taps to fund economic growth.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Two people who work for BristolLive mildly permuting a HullLive article by a third person about holiday homes in Cornwall because a councillor got annoyed. Presumably at no point did anyone try to get a quote from someone Cornish. Big LOL at this part

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A lot of people in the UK need and want a holiday, but many will not be able to afford them.

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A lot of people in Cornwall need and want a house, but many will not be able to afford them.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Would swim in this.

Warm water near the coast with relatively little poo? Perfect.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Are you prepared for cyber?

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
New policy from Labour: trains are illegal now.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/10/wes-streeting-nhs-uses-winter-crisis-excuse-more-money-labour

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Speaking on a visit to Singapore, Wes Streeting said the health service needs to accept “money is tight”, and that it must rethink how the care it provides could provide better value for money for the taxpayer.

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“I don’t think it’s good enough that the NHS uses every winter crisis and every challenge it faces as an excuse to ask for more money.”

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He added: “The NHS is going to have to get used to the fact that money is tight and it’s going to have to get used to switching spend, and rethinking where and how care is delivered to deliver better outcomes for patients and better value for taxpayers’ money. At the moment, I think we get the worst of all worlds, which is poor outcomes alongside poor value for taxpayers.

Nothing really new here but the language is very specific: the NHS is being presented as an organisation separate from the government that may or may not be doing a good job and has to respect government financial constraints. Perhaps like the BBC, the NHS is not to be thought of as a government provision belonging to the British people, but a third party that the government merely oversees, and that the health secretary chastises whenever blame needs to be deflected.

Maybe it was never true but it is now explicit in messaging as well that the NHS is not run by the government. The NHS is run by a bunch of people that Wes thinks moan too much and don't represent value for money.

One might imagine that the job of a health secretary would be, ultimately, to run and take responsibility for the NHS. The management of the NHS is done by NHS managers and they can be blamed instead of government for declining services. If only the NHS wasn't so wasteful.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Tesseraction posted:

That's the thing, though, he barely got any screen time because he wouldn't stfu about politics and they can't air any of that footage

Release the Farage cut!

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

quote:

in a speech that has been moved to Buckinghamshire from a northern constituency in order for the Labour leader to stay close to Westminster as MPs prepare to vote on the government’s Rwanda bill

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Those backbenchers should take back control and vote against bills they don't like instead of following the orders of unelected leaders.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. The whole thing is entirely pointless, but it would be nice if once in a while someone asked a simple blunt question instead using the question as a mini-speech.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

fuctifino posted:

This is our opposition.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

I don't think it would, because direct questions don't get answers - it happens all the time in interviews. Direct, repeated, rephrased questions all get dodged.

Good in the sense of fleetingly amusing me personally rather than actually improving things. The entire concept of accountability through public questioning - including e.g. asking questions at the end of a Ben Shapiro talk - is fail because ultimately the people being scrutinized either half another chance to talk their rubbish or just dodge like you say.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Tesseraction posted:

I'm revoking your spelling lizense.

Lizonce, surely?

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Reset the clock.

quote:

Party sources made clear on Saturday that Keir Starmer was not intending to revive a second stage of the Leveson inquiry into press standards – abandoned by the Tories in 2018 – nor would Labour oppose current Conservative plans to weaken the press regulation regime in the media bill now going through parliament.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/16/labour-backs-away-press-reforms-after-prince-harry-phone-hacking-victory

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

quote:

... even small insects like us knew that “Captain” was not a very exalted rank and only a person with little else to boast about would hang it on their parent in civilian life. It was bad enough to keep calling someone “Major” after it was all over, but “Captain” was the bottoms.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Do they know it's sex-arse time at all?

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

quote:

Tens of thousands of asylum seekers forced to live in hotels in the UK while their claims are being processed will have their allowance cut to just £1.25 a day, the government has said.

Support payments for those in hotel accommodation will be cut from £9.58 a week to £8.86 a week in the new year, in a decision refugee charities have called “unfathomable”.

Are these different groups?

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Thanks, I didn't read it properly missing the per day/per week change from one paragraph to the next.

Edit: so before the cut it was roughly 1.36 per day? Very grim.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

serious gaylord posted:

I miss getting pc games in boxes. They always came with extra stuff like maps and booklets.

I remember getting Fa18 Hornet and the manual being thick enough to sit on.

Trying to fly this Fa18 Hornet but the flight manual is dummy thicc and the clap of the pages flipping keeps alerting the enemy.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Pistol_Pete posted:

The only time he ever looks remotely relaxed in photos is when he is standing on the beach.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Guavanaut posted:

"Yes people need to fly far less, it's destroying the environment and causing changes to the global climate."
"No that's woke!"

Imagine if there were tiny planes flying around at ground level and we were all breathing in chemtrails 24/7.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
https://www.costco.co.uk/Grocery-Household/Grocery-Delivery/Lindt-Lindor-Milk-Chocolate-and-Assorted-Chocolate-Truffles-4-x-200g/p/115327A

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
The West Wing - in which a notable educational achievement of the administration was a pilot program to provide 100 additional teachers - is far too ambitious for the UK at the moment.

Presumably, what Moffat likes about the West Wing is how everyone is witty and Bartlett smacks down all comers with his towering rhetoric, especially slobs like Ritchie, and that the UK would be much better with people like that in Westminster and on Question Time.

While I do enjoy the West Wing as a TV drama, there is nothing aspirational about it and making it will affect nothing (unless it does casting like Star Trek: Voyager).

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Dabir posted:

Where do DS9 and Strange New Worlds fit into this analysis

DS9 shifted for the most part away from exploration and the overall optimism of Star Trek by being set on a space station and, more significantly, by moving latterly through a multi-season war arc, finishing in 1999 (before US media went bananas). It is great, but it only borders Star Trek in the fundamental sense towards the end.

Voyager, which Ronald D. Moore had little to do with, was much more episodic and trekky in an exploratory sense, but not especially optimistic.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Aha! That makes more sense!

Also famous for cavorting about in a helicopter following studio instructions.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
How can Kier Starmer win big this year?

Angrymog posted:

an endearingly grubby view of the future.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

OwlFancier posted:

Babs 5 is the version where everyone is played by barbara windsor.

The sequel to Blake's 7. (Eight Babs was too expensive.)

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
If I register with the electoral commission, make a nutty powerpoint and put out on background that Nigel Farage will be there, will 50 journalists come to watch?

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Folks, the vibes can only get better.

quote:

“It will feel different,” Starmer will say. “The character of politics will change, and with it the national mood. A collective breathing out, a burden lifted, and then, the space for a more hopeful look forward. Because the truth is, it’s this kind of politics and only this kind of politics that can offer real change.”

quote:

Senior Labour officials hope Starmer’s promise to lift the national mood will help dispel criticisms that the party is increasingly offering little in the way of more concrete change should it win the election.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/03/labour-election-win-would-lift-downtrodden-uk-keir-starmer-to-say

Just by replacing the tories and existing as prime minister, Starmer thinks people will feel better.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

smellmycheese posted:

The Forensic Sir Keith, with his tight grip on the party and politics, has just claimed at his press conference that he has no information, zero, nada on why his close friend and advisor was a regular visitor to Nonce Island.

Oh well, case closed. Certainly wouldn't want to start a years-long media smear campaign based on that.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

OwlFancier posted:

I'm sure the obvious answers of "most people don't have hearths and/or wooden christmas trees" are not the reason and there is some plot by the wokes to stop people.

going to burn my plastic asda tree in the name of freedom

Bendy banana Brussels beaurocrats banning British briquette burning!

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Big        bold        paragraph.

Paragraph.

Tiny        paragraphs.

Edit: And what is this perverse reverse skeumorphism? Is the writing on paper inside the folders, or on the folders?! Aaargh!

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
This guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqpfeoVi5zU&t=9s The guy who needs to join a coalition even to drive a tractor?

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Notoriously difficult to step down without knee caps, unfortunately.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Don't worry about all that, just enjoy the party.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/labour-landslide-is-in-sight-so-lets-prepare-for-the-biggest-party-of-our-lives

Desperate for it to be 1997 again, for the parties.

quote:

Run the numbers: a landslide victory for a party you don’t hate will only come along once or twice in your lifetime. It’s a grand climacteric, and OK, ancient philosophers were undecided over whether those were good or bad things, but they agreed: you can’t ignore it; don’t waste it.

quote:

So remain cautious if you like, it’s not over until it’s over; but also, make a plan. If you don’t see this election in with your true political brethren, you will kick yourself for ever.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0uouyO-whY&t=117s

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

DreddyMatt posted:

What would make you vote Labour in the upcoming election?

Implausible as it is, it wouldn't take much. Just promise a 10% pay rise for teachers and nurses, with future rises never below inflation. Just one simple good thing would be enough.

domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Yeah it's funny how holding your nose and voting for Labour is something that has to be done to get the tories out this time, but under Corbyn it sadly wasn't possible for them to just hold their noses and vote Labour to get the tories out without giving themself a heart attack.

But you see, this election is the most important one in a generationTM whereas 2017/19 were only the most important to a generation.

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domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

i googled whats the difference between labour and tories and apparently just recently Kier said one of the main things is that he wants to halve violence against women and girls.

Not get rid of it, explicitly halve it.

How many times will he halve it? Will it be faster to halve it the second time?

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