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Jippa posted:How much of the country do you reckon will have been vaccinated by june 2021 (if we get the euros)? Most of it, probably. Our vaccine programme is still one of the fastest rolled-out in the world and June is 3 months away and all the evidence is that even a single dose enormously reduces the risk of death or serious illness from Covid. I'm in my 40's and am expecting my 1st dose by April.
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Weird to think that less than a year ago, I was in the Labour party and basically well-disposed towards Starmer, prepared to wait and see how he wanted to move the party forward. Now I've left and am actively hoping that he eats poo poo and trashes his career. I made a post soon after he became leader where I talked about how I'd attended his 1st Zoom meeting and how he seemed a sensible chap etc. I'll have to see if I can dig it out for the schaudenfreude (on me).
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Mar 4, 2021 21:57
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Well, I found this quote of mine from mid-April 2020:Pistol_Pete posted:My 2 cents on Starmer: I don't believe that he's some lurking right-winger, poised to purge the party and set it up as the Conservatives Mk2. His record shows him as a centre-left technocrat and I expect him to broadly continue along those lines. What does worry me is that I think he's over-cautious and unimaginative - we have an unprecedented opportunity right now to fundamentally change the ways things work in this country and my feeling is that Starmer will resoundingly fail to grasp it. I've got the dispiriting feeling that we're going to see Labour repeatedly outflanked on the left by the Tories, while Starmer prevaricates and hedges for fear of upsetting some focus-grouped demographic or other ... I was partly right, I guess. 
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Mar 4, 2021 22:17
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Jose posted:lol stephen bush has gone off the deep end Stephen Bush can be quite perceptive but he has a couple of massive blind spots. One is anti-semitism in Labour, where he's completely internalised the concept of the Corbynite anti-semitic Left and reflexively believes any and all allegations made, no matter how ludicrous and tangential. The second is that he's firmly committed to the concept of Starmer being a good and effective leader and is forever banging on about how Starmers personal ratings are better than other Labour leaders at this point in their leadership, 'cos that's the single solitary metric he can find that shows any sort of positive. Actually, now I've typed all that, I'm not sure that he really is very perceptive at all.
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Mar 6, 2021 05:03
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Hey Crispix! You've woken up early too, then?
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I made the mistake of looking at Reddit where the ukploitics sub, home of weirdo centrists, is arguing their right to "regulate" "gypsys". There's some left wing Uk subreddits that are a lot more palatable but the main Uk politics one is very much full of: "why don't poor people just stop being poor" kind of posts.
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Mar 6, 2021 10:49
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Everyone's been cooped up in their houses too long and we're all getting stressy. Better times are on the way: 21 million people have had their 1st vaccination shot and even 1 shot seems to reduce the risk of death or serious illness from Covid by 80% plus. Fingers crossed: in a few months time we'll all be sat in the pub talking about how poo poo the last year's been and how glad we are that it's over now.
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Mar 7, 2021 20:16
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kecske posted:*attenborough voice* without the common pissflaps or vitamin p to unite against, the posting colony quickly turns on itself Starmer hasn't done anything dumb for a couple of days and we've lost our focus of true hatred. I'm sure on Monday he'll suspend Diane Abbott or something and things will go back to normal.
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Mar 7, 2021 21:09
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The thing about the Queen is, she's reigned for so incredibly long that only a few very old people can remember having any other monarch. It'll be a real shock to people when Charles (or possibly sulky William) steps up.
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Mar 8, 2021 09:29
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Unkempt posted:I just bought a resin 3D printer for less than $300 and it prints stuff like that for about 10p worth of resin. I think they might be in trouble soon. They're doing brilliantly. If I'd stuck my entire pension fund in GW shares a few years back, I'd be able to comfortably retire by now, 'cos they've gone up by something ridiculous like 1,300%. Basically, they looked at 2 strategies: selling cheap minatures to encourage as many people into the hobby as possible, or sell very expensive minatures aimed at a relatively small number of 'whales' (nerds with well-paying jobs in coding and engineering and the like). They chose the 2nd option, which has paid off extremely nicely for them.
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Mar 8, 2021 18:24
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People have had a year to see how Starmer actually performs in the role and by any measure, he's been less than outstanding. There'll be plenty of 2019 Labour voters who viewed him as a fresh start initially but have since become much less enthusiastic towards him. Like people have said in this thread: there was a strong base of support for a Corbyn-style offering delivered by somebody more competent and media-palatable and if Starmer had stuck to that, I think he'd be polling a lot better. I think at this point, a lot of voters will be in a: "Well, at least Corbyn stood for something!" frame of mind.
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Mar 10, 2021 11:05
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Jedit posted:"While we understand that the public believe that nobody is truly safe if the Metropolitan Police have begun raping and murdering white women with no criminal record, we must stress that the incident occurred when the officer in question was off duty." Lol: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/10/sarah-everard-arrested-police-officer-not-on-duty-when-she-went-missing
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Mar 10, 2021 11:59
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OwlFancier posted:Glad to see that rayner is just as much of a useless sack of poo poo as starmer tbh, seems pretty predictable. Rayner definitely suffers from imposter syndrome, she always gives off those faintly terrified, 'supply teacher who can't control the class' vibes.
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Mar 11, 2021 13:58
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Even the Tory press are all wtf about this. Astonishingly braindead strategy from the Met.
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Mar 13, 2021 22:05
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Apraxin posted:The Met continuing to bring their patented de-escalation skills to bear on the situation: Reaching 'USA police officer complaining that he was "afraid" when he repeatedly shot a fleeing black person' levels of whiny defensiveness there lol.
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Mar 14, 2021 19:37
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Communist Thoughts posted:Divide and conquer. You just need to get people who would otherwise be on the same side to argue about statues instead. To a great extent, all this culture war stuff is specifically aimed at keeping the Labour party off-balance and on the defensive. Take Churchill: there's a cohort of younger, urban Labour voters who are rather ambiguous about him and a 2nd cohort of older, 'traditional' Labour voters who think he's wonderful. Make Churchill the story and straight away, you're splitting Labour down the middle and putting the leadership in the impossible position of making a coherent response without annoying any of their voters. It's completely shameless but undeniably effective politics.
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Mar 15, 2021 16:11
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The AstraZeneca vaccine is being suspended all over the EU. I'm a bit baffled as to why.
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Mar 15, 2021 16:43
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It's just the tiny number of people experiencing potential side effects vs the much larger number of people who'll definitely die from Covid if a vaccine rollout's delayed seems an odd trade-off to me. Especially as the European rollout of the vaccine was pretty rubbish already.
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Mar 15, 2021 16:54
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OwlFancier posted:Apparently the universe heard me whinging cos I just got my appointments, yay. Just got mine booked for this week, even tho I'm only early 40's. An advantage of living in an inner city with a much lower average age, I guess! Just got to survive 3 more days...
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Mar 15, 2021 21:12
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, I think it's been said for years that the Financial Times is one of the better papers for a leftist to read since it's for the capital class, not just another propaganda rag, so it has reasons to report accurately on things that might affect the bottom line, since it's the job of the other papers to massage it to a capital-friendly message. The FT unironically gave Corbyn and McDonnell's economic policies a fairer hearing than just about anywhere else in the press.
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Mar 16, 2021 13:36
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JoylessJester posted:I'm abit confused a few of my friends have got jabs despite being in their mid 20s, healthy and not in targetted professions, are some surgries just zooming down the list quicker then others? Yeah, definitely: if you're in an area full of oldies, you'll be waiting ages for them to get to you; if you're somewhere with a lower average age, you'll be seen much quicker. I'm in an inner city area with a lot of young families, so am getting my 1st shot tomorrow, even though I'm only 43. My colleagues of similar ages who live out in the suburbs are all still waiting.
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Just got vaccinated! Nice, easy experience: I was in and out within 10 minutes. All very brisk and efficient: they were obviously set up to get through as many people as possible. If I get any blood clots, I'll let the thread know.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The last couple of weeks there has definitely been an increase in the random phone calls from HMRC / Royal Mail / DPD etc claiming that you have a parcel to be delivered with a fee to be paid, a warrant out for your arrest or whatever. I've had more in the last 2 weeks than in the last 2 years. I asked on FB and others experiencing the same. When I get a call from an unknown number these days, I answer it silently. If it's some sort of robo-scam, it doesn't get the verbal response it's expecting and automatically ends the call. If it's a real person, after a couple of seconds you'll hear a slightly confused: "Erm... hello?", which means it's probably safe to go ahead and talk to them.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Just got vaccinated! Eurgh, I'm wide awake and feeling all weak and shaky now. I guess that means it's working 
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His Divine Shadow posted:I developed fever chills last night and slept under several blankets, then around 3-4 in the morning I was burning up instead. Now I am feeling just sorta drained all over. Injection site is sore as well. I sure hope the 2nd jab isn't worse... Lol, same! Wide awake at midnight achey and shivering, then far too hot later on. Finally got back to sleep about 4am. Now I'm kinda headachey and cold again. I guess a strong reaction means it's working, right?
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Mar 19, 2021 09:19
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This thread is definitely at its worst late at night, when everyone's been drinking. Like, I'll see a bunch of new posts, think something's happened, then I read them and it's just a bunch of people telling each other to gently caress off out of the thread. It's kind of dispiriting.
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Mar 20, 2021 07:43
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Jakabite posted:Bristol police station under siege with a burning police van outside. Bristol does not gently caress about. I nearly went to that protest but ultimately decided against it. Wish I'd gone now, it looks pretty effective.
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Mar 21, 2021 21:26
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Jakabite posted:Judging by the extremely poor mask discipline, there're gonna be some long stretches for this I imagine. If you're going to do naughty things where there are a lot of cameras (literally everywhere in Britain), where a mask people. I cannot stress this enough. Yeah, I was taken aback by this too. The police get awfully grumpy when stuff like this happens and will go to considerable lengths to track participants down: why on earth would you be there without a face covering? I mean there's no excuse: everyone's got like half a dozen masks at this point.
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The FT once again showing that it's the only paper in the Uk remotely grounded in reality:The Financial Times posted:
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I was surprised that things kicked off as intensely as they did tbh, I guess lockdown's turned the country into a bit of a powderkeg.
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Mar 22, 2021 10:07
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Jakabite posted:Mixing up wardrobe especially includes shoes. Shoes are one of the most identifiable things on a person and I feel this is often overlooked. If you did do anything naughty at any point, also be sure to not wear those clothes again if they’re even vaguely identifiable (as in not literally a black hoodie from primark). I know a guy who got caught for criminal damage committed six months prior to his arrest cos he was wearing the same kefir at a different protest. Went down for three months for the sake of not changing his kefir up. Yeah, a lot of the people involved in this sort of thing seem quite... naive? Like the not wearing a face covering thing that I mentioned earlier, bringing their phones along with them (tracking devices lol), making posts on social media about it and yes, failing to understand that the police can have long memories where these event are involved and that they can absolutely nab you long after the fact if you're fool enough to go round in the same outfit you were wearing while you merrily booted the wing mirrors off a police car the previous year. There's only so much safety in numbers: if the police are annoyed and embarassed enough, they can devote a lot of manpower to tracking down individuals in crowds who think thatbthey can break stuff, then quietly sneak anonymously off again.
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It's pretty grim seeing Europe moving back into lockdown, just as we're shifting into moving out of it. It's looking to me very much like the pace of the vaccine rollout here is going to allow us a pretty normal summer, whereas much of Europe is still going to be stuck in restrictions. I think that the panic and hot language about banning vaccine exports etc from some European leaders is genuinely felt and one reason for that is the political carnage that's looming as their electorates get a change to register their fury through the ballot box.
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AFAIK, it's a deliberate strategy to get at least some vaccine into as many people as possible, which I tend to agree with: I think it's preferable to a much smaller number of fully vaccinated people and a majority with zero protection.
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Mar 23, 2021 21:15
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Dabir posted:Youse heard about this new Reddit admin they've hired? It's an awesome piece of old-school internet drama, for sure. I've just had a look at Reddit and from the way the admins are talking about it, I suspect there's some sort of super-injunction been deployed.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Amazon Fresh is £1.80 for Lurpak too: Why not just go for the Aldi version, 'Not-Lurpak'? 
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:lol isn’t it likely to be the exact opposite? Any company not allowing flexible working from now on is likely to struggle to compete for staff with those that do. That and the fact that companies now know that they can significantly reduce their rented office footprint without damaging productivity. Rishi's battling the tide here tbh.
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In the end, it's all about the bottom line. I can well believe that there's a certain number of middle management types who are badly missing having a team on hand who they can hover around and micromanage. But the company bosses who make the decisions can see the enormous savings on rent and utilities that come from reducing office space and well, money talks.
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