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It is December, but UKMT ThreadPro, who were hired to produce a new high quality thread, turned out to mostly have experience in marketing imitation livestock to Pietermaritzburg. Ah well, such is business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfddlaibfI Lungboy posted:The new regulations that MPs will be voting on tomorrow have been published, and at the end say: Which also means these may still be useful, even as we await a vaccine: Find Your Local COVID-19 Mutual Aid Group - or set one up Also check: https://freedomnews.org.uk/covid-19-uk-mutual-aid-groups-a-list/ https://secretldn.com/uk-community-aid-groups-by-area/ https://queercare.network/our-work/resources/covid-19/ In Other News  • The UK terror threat level is raised from "substantial" to "severe". • Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak extends the government's furlough scheme to the end of his family's undeclared wealth. • Government impose a ban on non-UK citizens arriving from Denmark, because nobody expected the Danish Mink Transposition. • The number of official deaths from COVID-19 in the UK exceeds 50,000. • The government commissions research into space-based solar power and laser guns and laser tanks based in space. • Labour readmits Jeremy Corbyn, following his suspension over antisemitism on 29 October, sort of. • Following three weeks of nationwide lockdown in England, the R number for coronavirus in the UK is reported to have fallen to between 0.9 and 1 for the first time since mid-August. The cold is coming. December’s winter solstice. Start of the season. Ġēolamonaþ UKMT Autumn 2020 - Thou shalt have a Rishi act a little fishi UKMT Summer 2020 - Two Pints of Saline and Abacavir for Drip UKMT May 2020 - Let them eat Nando's UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Independence and Unity Day Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Feast for Death of Aleister Crowley Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The second-most UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. General Intellect Unit - Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics, and Philosophy; decently in-depth and theory-driven as podcasts go. Alpha 2 Omega - Tom O'Brien talks political strategy. Requires Improvement - Podcast of lefty teachers exploring all things education, from a socialist perspective. Swampside Chats - "The highest communist podcast" Teachers' Day Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. 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The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto and UKMT goons) Join us on synIRC for Question Time Awfulness and Stuff #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Or on Discord for other UKMT Chat and Podcast Conspiring https://discord.gg/QErneZT  Do Not Post In This Thread:
learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this.
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A shiny new thread! Feels like it’s been a very long time. Reminds me that it’s advent calendar season. This year mine is a different beer every day so I probably have to break the tradition of “open the calendar in the morning and eat the chocolate before breakfast” as applied to beer.
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https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1333498533521936384?s=19 I'm reminded of an article I read that says people mostly watch videos with the sound off. Probably shouldn't have opened the video with "hi there it's Keir, I've been a Conservative voter all my life and I voted for Boris and Brexit."
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Now is the season of our discontent and there is no son of York to make it glorious summer. Unless someone arms Prince Harry I guess?
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He's in SoCal now, so I'm sure he can arm himself as long as he uses bullet buttons or his ridiculous wealth to buy some tax stamps.
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To continue the electricity chat from last thread, I've just moved into a new place with I think British Gas electricity already, should I still look at Bulb? I don't know if I have an existing commitment having not signed up to anything myself, but maybe there's some deal with the housing association.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1333498533521936384?s=19 Yeah this is how I watched it. I wasn't surprised at all though i didn't want to wake up the cat
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If you're in the North but not North enough to be Scotland you should be in the Northern Independence Party 15 million people, a GDP per capita just below Japan, and crucially no imperial delusions to obsess over ContinuityNewTimes fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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UKMT Solidarity Fund Monthly Update - Thanks to generous goons for ensuring we ran a surplus this month! A few points of fund-related news: 1) Due to Paypal rules on donations requiring us to provide a company registration number, we've been looking into the possibility of registering the Fund as a community interest company (CIC). However, on closer examination, this seems unsuitable for us; switching to a CIC model would require us to register a new company, do some legal legwork to combine it with the Fund as it currently exists, and appoint one or more directors who would have complete legal control of the fund; they are designed to be run as businesses, albeit with the proceeds going to benefit the community. Instead we're going to press ahead with the alternative which is to register with the Charities Commission, which will give us a charity number to provide to Paypal and hopefully keep them off our (treasurer's) back. 2) In order to make any changes to make the operation of the Fund, or to update the Constitution to something the Charities Commission will be likely to approve, we need to resolve a longstanding issue with said Constitution - namely the bar to passing votes, which currently requires a two thirds or simple majority of the entire membership (not just those members who participate in the vote) - a functionally impossible bar to clear, considering the membership requirement is "be a goon who reads the UKMT". Whoops, my bad. We've figured out how to fix this, though, and I'll be laying the details out in a later post. 3) Next month will be election time for the Solidarity Fund committee! The election will be announced in the thread at the start of January. There will be a one-week period for nominations and then a week of voting (unless there were 5 or fewer nominations - full details are in the Constitution, part 2 section 6). So keep an eye out for that. November Stats:  Monthly donations and payouts:  Cumulative donations and payouts:  UKMTSF Data Trends | Record of Activity | Constitution Donate: Paypal - https://paypal.me/ukmtsolidarity - Please mark your donation as a gift, *not* as payment for services, as the latter incurs a charge! Bank Transfer - PM IrvingWashington (aka Bill Drummond on Discord) for account details Apply: Application Form Email Us PM: AceClown, Fargle (discord only), Maugrim, Oscar Diggs or Rarity. Maugrim fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1333498533521936384?s=19 Interestingly I did a retweet the other day which has a video, and my tweet has almost 60,000 impressions, and ~350 retweets. It has *11* media clicks from all of that. And it doesn't even have subtitles (though the important bit of what's being said is in the body of the tweet itself). https://twitter.com/WhatEvil/status/1333085807423463428?s=20 Given that I'm reasonably sure you need to click on the vid to get the sound, almost 100% of people who saw this did not listen to the sound. Just thought that was really interesting.
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Continuity NIP posted:If you're in the North but not North enough to be Scotland you should be in the Northern Independence Party I am actually interested but can't pay fees and there is a plague outside are these obstacles
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Anyone got an update on Keir's deeply held values?
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endlessmonotony posted:Anyone got an update on Keir's deeply held values? {NULL}
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Continuity NIP posted:If you're in the North but not North enough to be Scotland you should be in the Northern Independence Party Ah, the eternal delusion that if parts of the UK split away, they will somehow be innocent of the empire.
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endlessmonotony posted:Anyone got an update on Keir's deeply held values? I thought this graph sums it up quite nicely: 
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Temporary jobs doing the 2021 census - various roles. https://www.censusjobs.co.uk/ Part of the application process includes a 'situational' test - how you behave in certain situations. I guess those of you who have canvassed for the Labour party will be well able to deal with obnoxious replies on the doorstep (I'm assuming that's what it will be about). Wonder if Jedi Knights will be a thing this time? I was away from the UK in 2011, but in 2001 I was a Jedi Knight.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I thought this graph sums it up quite nicely: Clearly a use-case for self-importance sampling.
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Jose posted:I am actually interested but can't pay fees and there is a plague outside are these obstacles We're launching our actual membership system soon, when it happens if you can't actually pay subs (£2.50 a month unwaged) I will personally see if there's a way you can get involved anyway
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Comrade Fakename posted:Ah, the eternal delusion that if parts of the UK split away, they will somehow be innocent of the empire. Our position is that the north constitutes a nation in waiting, we don't have a position on guilt re: empire E: additionally, lmao at a us/uk citizen attempting to guilt anyone. You are the perfect intersection of empire ContinuityNewTimes fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Red Oktober posted:Reminds me that it’s advent calendar season. This year mine is a different beer every day so I probably have to break the tradition of “open the calendar in the morning and eat the chocolate before breakfast” as applied to beer. endlessmonotony posted:Anyone got an update on Keir's deeply held values?
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Got a chocolate advent calendar for the kids and it feels really nice to see them getting all excited about opening it.
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an advent calendar where every day is an imported everyday staple
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Cool news out of Spain. https://twitter.com/EoghanGilmartin/status/1321022214842552320?s=20
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Endjinneer posted:No it's still the dream unless you're an industrial consumer of electricity in which case your pricing is based more-or-less on consumption of available capacity, rather than number of kWh. To continue this point, the switching behaviours required to balance the grid at micro and macro level rely entirely on smart meters being in place. There’s no way around it. You want to balance your Solar, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Electric Vehicles and still have everyone getting power? Needs to be balanced. Want to sell your battery contents (either fixed or EV) through an aggregator working as a virtual peaking station? Needs a smart meter.
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i say swears online posted:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/30/boris-johnson-deal-betrayal-brexiters-no-deal gently caress. condemned to the hardest brexit because Polly Tuscany's articles exploded the brains of our negotiators. what a way to go
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i say swears online posted:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/30/boris-johnson-deal-betrayal-brexiters-no-deal Also, lol at the inevitable "forensic" reference to Starmer. It is so not the word I would use to describe him as Opposition leader. "Supine", maybe.
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So this flew a bit under the radar (at least for me) but apparently the Resident Labour Market Test is being abolished! That's pretty great news for job-seeking migrants, it's by far the most onerous immigration requirement for workers. There's still the cost (~8-12k for five years not counting lawyer fees and aditional dependents), sponsorship requirements (basically a lot of paperwork about employee attendence and performance that employers have to fill out) and the time it takes to apply, but it's a significant step forward.
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chapter 35 of Polly's Keir Starmer fanfiction, wherein the evil Boris Johnson is defeated because he misunderstands trade rules, to do nothing is the highest form of courage, and Keir has never made a boobooquote:The upcoming deal will spectacularly fail that test: voting for it risks Starmer’s reputation for straight-dealing ... Looking back, it will seem clear that an opposition should have opposed it. Abstention is not pusillanimous, but the only honourable option.
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I do enjoy the rhetorical approach of referring to a thing as if it is a real thing when it is in fact not a thing.
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CGI Stardust posted:
Just imagine the savings if the Guardian cut loose their stable of identikit, overpaid, 'centrist' opinion havers. And the paper might actually become readable again.
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Isn't that like 90% of their output? You've got what, the footy cartoonist?
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Payndz posted:The self-contradiction of this made my head spin. At the start: "There will be a Brexit deal with the EU! It is inevitable! Even Boris Johnson will see that!" At the end: "This deal will be atrocious! Pro-Brexit Tories will oppose it, and Labour shouldn't vote for it because it will damage Haircut Leader!" I'm not seeing the contradiction?
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Smart meters as a technology are a good thing, it's just the fact that privatisation has messed up the deployment of them because different companies used different technologies which weren't compatible for the first round, and then they've dragged their heels to bring out the newer ones which do actually work together (sometimes). I do find the conspiracy theory that "smart meters will allow energy companies to charge you more" funny though. Incorrect bills from estimated reads create significantly more work and cost more money for energy companies, which is then passed on to the customer to offset that loss. I know a lot of people here seem to give reads every month and are responsible about it but unfortunately the vast majority of people are utterly poo poo with it and never submit reads, then complain when their estimates are wildly inaccurate. As someone who works in an energy company, it's all dumb and there is literally no reason for this industry to be privatised. Everyone needs energy, it's just same poo poo different bucket.
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I submitted a request to move my power supply to my new place yesterday and there was a big warning in the process that if the new flat has a smart meter from another company it won't work. Why would anyone have any faith in these things. I get the theoretical benefits but believing that whatever you get fitted now won't be dumped and non-functional within a decade is almost impossible.
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A free market in electricity might make some sense if they were offering some different form of electricity. Edison is offering 120V DC, but Westinghouse is offering 240V AC, but Duracell is offering 1.5V DC, who won? You decide! 500 brokers offering the exact same poo poo from the exact same grid via a variety of different financial schemes makes no sense though.
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A decade lol? Brexit and corona, global over population and environmental collapse and asteroids and youre worried your smart meter might need replacing in ten years?
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Going back to dentist chat, I reckon there's going to be some sort of 'Tooth-apocalypse' that can be tied back to this year; I can't be the only person who's not booking a checkup unless there's actual problems, right?
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