I sometimes wonder how my random doppleganger who lives the whole world away and looks scarily identical to me is doing.
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Schilt ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
@Schilted
Digital Security Graduate, Security Engineer and general gay with an interest in Cyber Security and Scottish Gaelic. Pro๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ priv: @diomhaireah
Scotland, United Kingdom ๊ฐ์
์ผ Ocak 2016
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@jclib1990 I remember our school used to get stroppy over us not wearing our blazers in that heat. Absolutely mental, thankfully most of the teachers were reasonable
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Going back many years, I recall being in Year 4 sitting in a classroom during a heatwave.
To the teachers' credit they left the windows shut, fans on, AC on, let us have water.
I fainted from the heat, had to be carried home by my Mum.
Schools should get a grip over this.
Alex West@alexwest88
Keeping Jack off school today due to the refusal of the school to allow him to wear shorts in 35 degree heat and in a classroom for 6 hours. Yet the girls can wear skirts ๐ค @FarnboroughAcad should be ashamed Looking forward to the phone call later asking why he's absent ๐
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I miss G-Force games in Glasgow.
They reliably broke every fucking street date in existence lmao, got Smash Ultimate and RDR2 about 3 days ahead of the actual release date from them.
Games Asylum@gamesasylum
I imagine GTA 6 isn't going physical as Rockstar are worried about copies being stolen before launch. Someone would pay handsomely for a week early copy pilfered from an Amazon distribution centre. A code in a box prevents leaks. I expect it'll get a disc version later.
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@DaemonStatic I'm a bit ehhhh on them, largely because I'm a PC gamer these days and don't really do console very much
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@Schilted I hope they do. Iโm pro-physical games but my hottest take on games is that I think exclusives matter and should come back in a massive way
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And so now the industry will abandon physical games at such a fast rate that Iโm doubting PS6 will even include a disc drive at all
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@bigseb31213 Like, idgaf how much you juice the capital, it canโt subsidise the rest of the country if the other cities are all falling further behind, you need to invest in infrastructure in other areas too, not just fucking London
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@bigseb31213 Actually London being a productive global city is not enough when the rest of the country has been neglected for so long that their in economics are comparable to Eastern Europe. Westminster is far too London centric and has been for decades.
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"You know how the UK economy has one super productive global city that is actually doing well? What if we deliberately ruined that as well"
truly remarkable, god I hate populism
Archie Hall@ArchieHall
The bit that stuck out most to me...
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@DaemonStatic Yeah without a doubt they want pre owned games dead. I do wonder if Sony and Microsoft are going to aim to go back to pushing exclusives much harder now as well
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@Schilted Stadia failed once, itโll fail again. I think itโs more so going to be that they want to cut resellers out of the chain. They want you to buy the game full priced at any time they donโt want to put it on sale. All digital on console is a win for publishers because no piracy too.
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@goatcel Metro systems started coming into vogue right before the decline of the Empire. It's why Glasgow has such an extensive suburban rail network and an underground system, it all got built when it was the 2nd city of the Empire then never expanded after the collapse.
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it's a bit sad how manchester and birmingham have nothing while london has such an extensive underground
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These fucking southerners get decades of fiscal policy subsidising their transformation into a service economy whilst the rest of the country is left to rot and have the sheer arrogance to act like it was entirely off their own work
Charles Amos@mrcharlesamos
London and the South East already make a net fiscal contribution of ยฃ59bn. Burnham must not get away with reforming Council tax to increase this further. If Northerners want better public services they should pay for them themselves. My latest: cityam.com/london-homeownโฆ
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@besslilburne True larp because if you were actually familiar with the plantations youโd know it was both Scots and English cause most the colonists were border reiver families
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Clearly know shit all about Ireland if you think the English are to blame for plantation and not the Scots
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Irish American LARPing latest
LIMBZ@LimbzHQ
The Dubliner in Boston has closed its doors to England fans today ! Clearly like the Scottish more
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I donโt necessarily disagree with scrapping Barnett, it was always supposed to be a temporary thing. Iโm just very cautious with what Westminster would replace it with
The National@ScotNational
BREAKING: Andy Burnham, Britain's likely next prime minister, wants to 'tear up' the funding mechanism for Holyrood, The National can reveal. Andy Burnham has said he wants to bin the Barnett Formula, which works out how much money the Scottish Parliament gets from Westminster.
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@BarryHavenhand @rcolvile Weโre aware. Itโs the cause of almost all our issues
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@BarryHavenhand @rcolvile Irrelevant, I'm talking the entire cohort.
We cannot afford our current pension system based on our current tax intake; it's estimated the triple lock will bankrupt our pension system by as early as 2035. Pensioners will need to take a financial hit if the country is to survive
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@jclib1990 The columnist class is one I'd quite happily see lose their jobs to AI
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We've never been a serious country.
God, it's like every day I discover a new political commentator who spews the same nonsense as the last.
Emma Woolf@EJWoolf
3 things yesterday which prove UK is no longer a serious country: - Scottish MP sworn in, smirking & openly mocking the oath in the chamber - Steve Bray permitted to blast out music while the PM was making resignation statement - Burnham & the MPs selfie What. An. Embarrassment
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I try and stay out of it cause I think the entire thing is just petty but it's honestly kind of funny how many English people I've seen getting annoyed over people from Boston fawning over the Scottish fans and reacting less positively to the English fans; it's so silly
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@BarryHavenhand @rcolvile Pensioners are bankrupting the state is the short of it. We don't have enough workers to sustain the current pension payouts
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@rcolvile What's wrong with it? I draw the state pension, and I still work too
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@ptr_logan least it's a short one, heatwave should be mostly over by Friday
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@_Wilsonpilled_ I mean I'm fundamentally all for cutting pensioner funding, they're far too subsidised by the state, but it's not going to be popular politically and they hold far too much influence in the country.
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The problem is that Labour promised not to raise tax and people expect them to make public services better and not to cut social spending and thatโs just an impossible set of constraints and obvious to everyone before the last election
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@leftinista He just wasnโt cut out for this. He wouldโve made a good Foreign Secretary I think. Very concerned Burnham is going to walk down the exact same path as well
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@_Wilsonpilled_ I don't think raising income tax is a real solution; I think mainly we need to be targeting the area where most of the UK's wealth is hoarded, property.
It makes zero sense than a ยฃ10 million mansion pays the same council tax as a ยฃ500k house.
Either LVT or a Property tax
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