Search results for:

Hey yeah yeah yeah

I've seen some people calling for universal basic income for a limited time, but that's not going to be enough - it's time for a debt jubilee for the affected months. No bills going out! No landlords getting paid! It's either that, or mass homelessness of freelancers etc after the affected period.

Interesting piece from Zeynep Tufekci on the reasons to prepare for a coronavirus pandemic; not out of fear, but because the disruption that will come from a pandemic will be lessened if we are thoughtful. There hasn't been a widespread disruption to the day to day operation of the West since the oil crisis of the 1970s, so people are just not prepared, mentally, to have things Not Work.

Some folks are. People who lived through the fall of the soviet block, Syrian refugees, etc. But Boris Johnson and his cabinet are almost incapable of thinking of Western capitalism not providing, having always had it work for them extremely well, so they're absolutely rubbish at preparing for things outside of their world-view. And the people whose job it is to tell them about External Events are the experts and mandarins of the home service they've been telling to fuck off since they got in power...

Yes, exactly. The big Irish deal that Johnson ‘pulled off’ was quite a climb down, which is why the DUP was entirely fucked off with him. If you though our ranking in Eurovision was bad because of politics wait until you see how the brexit talks go.

The way it works with Conservative plans over the past ten years has been this:

1. Politician says dumb fascistic thing, ie, 'all vegetables must be
   from Britain'
   
2. Outcry as left-wing people point out that reality works different,
   while right-wing papers talk about how brilliant the new policy is
   
3. The policy is taken away to be looked at for a number of months, and
   either comes back in a slightly less dumb way, or is 'pending review'
   
4. People who don't read the papers think that the policy is now law
   because they read about it, oooh, ages ago
   
5. People who do pay attention to the news are provoked into being
   outraged about something else, and forget to fight the new slightly
   less dumb version of the policy
   
   

We're firmly at stage 2 here. Don't forget that the UK and the EU are doing some big trade talks, so the UK needs to show that it is totally tough and wants to go it alone. There's room for some deals to be cut there, but that depends on how much of a fucking idiot the post-Brexit trade guy is

I don’t think they want to apply for a UK-only banking license, considering the number of UK customers they have

Amazon lost money for its first 14 years, so it’s not like this is a normal business. If your local corner shop lost money for 14 years you wouldn’t expect it to then turn into the biggest shop in town.

I would guess that the Ayn Rand readers of the front bench (Patel et al) think that this new legislation will force companies to make new interns, trainees, etc, to fill gaps in the workforce. This is a very simplistic reading of what will happen, because most of the front bench are very simplistic people.

N26 are closing their English banking operations because of Brexit

It's weird, all he seems to do these days is go online and shout extremely TERFy stuff. I guess the money from Father Ted and the IT crowd means he doesn't have to work and he got radicalised by watching youtoob videos about evil trans people.

a bird shits in his mouth

Goosechat is great. I'm learning a lot. Schoolchat is just people yakking on about a thing they experienced historically, and it's all one-up'ing the last person.

Ordered one of the DHB polartec hats just after christmas, wiggle sent me the wrong size, then forgot to send me a replacement, so I have been waiting six weeks for this thing. Turned up today and it doesn't fit my fucking ears in. How hard is it to test hats? Moreover, why would you make a winter hat out of super primo material that doesn't adequately cover ears?

DHB has seriously lost their way, with what used to be cheap and cheerful stuff now costing the same as better brands, but not performing as well. The wiggle website is a fucking shitshow (trying to find the right size tire? I hope you like clicking!) and the delivery of their stuff is so painful that you are literally taking your chances.

Speaking to a friend of mine who works in automotive-adjacent areas, and he was saying that the new teslatruck will save them a lot of money & time by not being painted. Auto industry isn't really that interested in dealing with Tesla as it's production runs are so small, so it's hard for Tesla to buy all this gubbins that goes inside cars, like plastics and stuff. So the fact that some analyst who seems to be a big Musk stan said "Tesla is going to do good... later" is frankly not believable.

Especially on the AI taxi thing. That's a huge load of bullshit.

The optics of her sitting there and being all normal would have been just as bad. And no matter what she did the Republican media would have said shitty stuff about her - rising above isn’t really an option for somebody in that position.

The lib dems, conservatives, and SNP had enough numbers to make an amendment to the 2011 fixed term bill, which was a straight majority rather than two thirds of MPs. So they either had to call for an election (as they previously had done) or be pushed into it.

Foucault

.

You remember school! But did you remember to post memes? No.

These cunts are always around. Brexit day is just an excuse to be cunty

Centerist dad Behr really outdoes himself with that article

I’m just reading Jeff Vandermeer’s Borne because it came up cheap on kindle. I’m way more interested in his Dead Astronaut’s book, which is somehow related to Borne, but that’s £9 on the kindle and €20 in the shops here, so… no. I like the world-building but I find the characters trapped lives much less interesting.

The Chinese people in my department are shitting bricks, with one young woman writing a departmental email saying 'don't go to France'. I take this to mean the Chinese media is going full-on panic mode, probably because getting billions of Chinese people to do adequate disease control in a country where health and safety is regarded as an optional extra is impossible.

Alongside Critical Mass was German football team St Pauli, who currently languish 11th in the Second Bundesliga.

This is what happens when Home Counties idiots are allowed to make the rules. I’m surprised that veganism and not tidying your bedroom aren’t on the list.