Are they going to tighten up the graphics on level 3?
I can't help but see these alert ratings along the lines of the little chilli hotness ratings on a jar of sauce, we're down to a medium balti but it's probably not great until we hit korma levels
Are they going to tighten up the graphics on level 3?
I can't help but see these alert ratings along the lines of the little chilli hotness ratings on a jar of sauce, we're down to a medium balti but it's probably not great until we hit korma levels
Newspapers reporting on the outbreak in China, something to start off with whilst you decide what to go with, but aren't going to last the whole meal. Which is why you get a track and trace naan, even though you know this means it's all going to be too much and you'll never finish it all.
The Cobra represents all the extra everyone is drinking at home, and the restaurant is probably in Barnard Castle. Might be in London instead. We should know on the way back , if the eye wateringly hot curry we went for has also cleared up those vision problems we were having.
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Are they going to tighten up the graphics on level 3?
I can't help but see these alert ratings along the lines of the little chilli hotness ratings on a jar of sauce, we're down to a medium balti but it's probably not great until we hit korma levels
What are the poppadums in this analogy?
they are probably the ads about protecting the NHS that are on all the time, a key part of the meal but somehow disappointingly bland and someone always ordered too many
I feel like it's a matter of time until right wing shitheads go make their own twitter platform where they can be as bigoted as they like. It'll be interesting to see how that turns out, it's tempting to think it would at least give the rest of us some peace but I'm not sure we'd be that lucky. Things I can pretty confidently predict in such a scenario,
It'll make the bubble problem even worse
It'll make people on it even more extreme when they're in a total circle jerk
It'll end up being used as a base to stage attacks on other platforms (no one is going to stop "owning the libs" just because they don't share a space with them any more)
Future conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic will be taking note of how Trumps info war with non-conservative platforms goes, whether he's successful or not the fact he's able to stage the attempt without consequence is going to encourage them
There will quickly be a huge free speech bust up when someone gets charged with hate speech on fascist-twitter because the law steps in to moderate where the platform won't, doubly so if the platform gets held accountable
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They've tried it, and it turns out explicitly courting bigots isn't a great way to get a bunch of ad revenue.
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Yeah, there are a few conservative social media alternatives and they're pretty much all racism and internecine conflict that no one outside of the platform pays attention to.
Deplatforming works.
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Plus when you base your platform on "free speech above all else", invariably, the nonces turn up, and you get kicked off whatever hosting company you're using.
The only thing that annoys me about this is just the timing and the fact they won't specify what exactly got her banned. Those two things just make it feel less like Twitter fairly and impartially implementing its own rules and more like a shot in the ongoing spat with Trump. Hopkins should have been banned years ago and I'm pretty sure if she hadn't been a Conservative infosphere affiliated person with a newspaper column and had just been some random nobody, any one of a hundred vile things she's said would have gotten a ban without a seconds thought. She should have been deplatfomed because she's a fascist and it's the right thing to do, not because it annoys Donald Trump.
I had forgotten til this popped up! It was a wonderful time, a time of not knowing she existed...Now hopefully this will be the last I hear of her for even longer.
the datapraxis analysis smells a bit of "employing a consultancy to say what we want to hear" the moment it strays off the demographic figures
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why yes I, the Labour Party Member, was just about to advocate not attracting a coalition of voters broad enough to return Labour to government. Or to advocate a strategy that does not build greater public support. Or to advocate an incredible and morally unnecessary agenda. Now the party is saved from this grievous error. Thank you very much for your insightful comments.
i thought this was pretty funny as well
"what if we uh, just did all the good things, and none of the bad things. also maybe our leaders should be good instead of bad"
thanks dude. that is definitely what strategic thought looks like
the datapraxis analysis smells a bit of "employing a consultancy to say what we want to hear" the moment it strays off the demographic figures
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why yes I, the Labour Party Member, was just about to advocate not attracting a coalition of voters broad enough to return Labour to government. Or to advocate a strategy that does not build greater public support. Or to advocate an incredible and morally unnecessary agenda. Now the party is saved from this grievous error. Thank you very much for your insightful comments.
i thought this was pretty funny as well
"what if we uh, just did all the good things, and none of the bad things. also maybe our leaders should be good instead of bad"
thanks dude. that is definitely what strategic thought looks like
This in the context of starmer saying he wants Scottish Labour to be the "voice of the Union".
The issue with this being that it is not at all clear that it is a vote winner. Being vocally unionist in Scotland has a similar image problem to being an "English patriot" of the flag waving type does down south. Most voters don't feel that strongly about it, and Labour explicitly positioning itself as pro union means that by definition it's chasing voters who are either solidly Tory or the kind of fringe that makes people nervous (e.g. the lodges, Rangers supporters, etc).
In the abstract I would guess that most Scottish voters (whatever their indy stance) have become comfortable with the idea of Westminster elections in Scotland being run on Scottish issues, so it's hard to see why Starmer thinks that subsuming those for rUK issues is likely to attract people back to Labour.
It'll be interesting to see how Starmer attempts to thread that needle and will be the first really telling test of him as a leader. The issue is as Japan points out the most enthusiastic unionists don't actually care about the union it's always a veneer for something else, sectarianism, ethnic nationalism ect. It will be just as disappointing if he goes for the burying your head in the sand approach that Labour figures have been using in the absence of trying to come up with a well thought out, positive case for the union.
Ultimately I'm not convinced anyone can come up with a left wing argument for the union, and Labour trying to poach right wing voters from the Tories is such an obvious non starter it's stupid to even try. As usual I'd love nothing more than to be proven wrong on this but I seriously doubt that'll happen.
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I still lived in NE England during the last indyref, and at the time my opinion was that Scotland should stay part of the Union, based largely on membership of the EU and some lingering worries about how the country would disentangle itself from the various UK economic institutions.
Since spending 5 of the last 6 years in Scotland, the EU issue has flipped on its head and the other I've come to realise cannot be resolved smoothly, whoever's in charge. I believe wholeheartedly independence is in Scotland's best interest, and judging by the cumulative opinions of those I meet, inevitable.
I have never knowingly met a Scottish Labour supporter. If they are left, centre left or a centrist, they support either the SNP or the lib dems, and the Conservatives get the rest. I've lived on the west coast and now the far north, which were never labour strongholds (as far as I know), but it is telling nonetheless.
If the SNP were doing poorly (which they aren't), and the Conservatives were demonstrating the value of the union by dynamic leadership at home and scintillating deal-making abroad (which they aren't), there might be some ground for a Labour-led unionist movement (but there isn't).
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I can't help but see these alert ratings along the lines of the little chilli hotness ratings on a jar of sauce, we're down to a medium balti but it's probably not great until we hit korma levels
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What are the poppadums in this analogy?
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The Cobra represents all the extra everyone is drinking at home, and the restaurant is probably in Barnard Castle. Might be in London instead. We should know on the way back , if the eye wateringly hot curry we went for has also cleared up those vision problems we were having.
they are probably the ads about protecting the NHS that are on all the time, a key part of the meal but somehow disappointingly bland and someone always ordered too many
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Deplatforming works.
Probably never as they have nowhere near the reach of the major platforms and normal people won't joint them because of, you know, the cesspool.
They are very much platforms of last resort and will likely stay that way.
It means we're on track towards opening up more in July
Considering the importance right now isn't conservative dogma, but loyalty to Trump(see: Trumps utter whining at Fox at the moment), not sure.
Off you fuck Katie Hopkins. Back to the obscurity you should have faded into five minutes after you were kicked off the apprentice.
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I hope I'm wrong and it was just a coincidence.
Maybe she'll elaborate there, and somebody I follow on Twitter will post a screencap because I'm sure as hell not going to bother looking it up
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Had. She was punted off it a while back. I think Twitter was her last way to reach large numbers of people.
Guess I'll just have to forget she ever existed
Any newspaper or social media site which allowed her to spread her poison needs to be fucking crucified
Or more likely that you're off track and everyone driving has closed their eyes and is repeating "this is fine this is fine this is fine"
Quite possibly but you know what? Fuck it
I'm sick of staying inside by myself all the time. If I'm allowed out I'm going out.
she has working Instagram apparently, because the Zuck dgaf...
https://local.theonion.com/city-enters-phase-4-of-pretending-coronavirus-over-1844037065
I had forgotten til this popped up! It was a wonderful time, a time of not knowing she existed...Now hopefully this will be the last I hear of her for even longer.
Only a matter of time before she gets a gig writing for Quilette.
i thought this was pretty funny as well
"what if we uh, just did all the good things, and none of the bad things. also maybe our leaders should be good instead of bad"
thanks dude. that is definitely what strategic thought looks like
You are allowed out, and have been told by the government that you should do so for the last few months.
Which is more than some of us have had.
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She doesn't get to be that classy, she works for Rebel Media.
Remember Quilette written have to pretend they aren't racist.
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datapraxis's actual non-vendor-relationship assessment is also known, since, er, they published it: https://www.dataprax.is/tory-landslide-progressives-split
"shit's tough, yo, I don't envy you" wouldn't make for a very rousing rallying cry, one concedes
(The Sunday National is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, the poll was run by Panelbase)
The issue with this being that it is not at all clear that it is a vote winner. Being vocally unionist in Scotland has a similar image problem to being an "English patriot" of the flag waving type does down south. Most voters don't feel that strongly about it, and Labour explicitly positioning itself as pro union means that by definition it's chasing voters who are either solidly Tory or the kind of fringe that makes people nervous (e.g. the lodges, Rangers supporters, etc).
In the abstract I would guess that most Scottish voters (whatever their indy stance) have become comfortable with the idea of Westminster elections in Scotland being run on Scottish issues, so it's hard to see why Starmer thinks that subsuming those for rUK issues is likely to attract people back to Labour.
Ultimately I'm not convinced anyone can come up with a left wing argument for the union, and Labour trying to poach right wing voters from the Tories is such an obvious non starter it's stupid to even try. As usual I'd love nothing more than to be proven wrong on this but I seriously doubt that'll happen.
Since spending 5 of the last 6 years in Scotland, the EU issue has flipped on its head and the other I've come to realise cannot be resolved smoothly, whoever's in charge. I believe wholeheartedly independence is in Scotland's best interest, and judging by the cumulative opinions of those I meet, inevitable.
I have never knowingly met a Scottish Labour supporter. If they are left, centre left or a centrist, they support either the SNP or the lib dems, and the Conservatives get the rest. I've lived on the west coast and now the far north, which were never labour strongholds (as far as I know), but it is telling nonetheless.
If the SNP were doing poorly (which they aren't), and the Conservatives were demonstrating the value of the union by dynamic leadership at home and scintillating deal-making abroad (which they aren't), there might be some ground for a Labour-led unionist movement (but there isn't).