I'd already vote for Lowe, you don't have to keep selling him to me y'know.
Restore Britain@RestoreBritain_
A mad socialist on Reddit sums up the comparison well.
English
Binary Surfer
20.2K posts
Binary Surfer
@BinarySurfer
There's a path through this; but nobody wants to hear it. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated'~Hemingway.
United Kingdom Katılım Ağustos 2021
500 Takip Edilen4.1K Takipçiler
@sircalebhammer I agree with you that our institutions produce worthless degrees etc. by the tens of thousands yearly. But...
Do you have any idea how much time and money big construction companies invested trying to make women to want a career in the trades to no avail?
I worked in HR (ish) at one of said companies previously; they threw the kitchen sink at it to try and get female trade numbers up to double digits. It failed.
This particular large company employed ~5 people full-time to increasing female tradies %; with a budget pushing a million GBP annually to spend as desired.
They moved it up by ~1% (3.5% to ~4.6% IIRC. This was in almost 5 years of trying at a large, listed company with an excellent brand etc.
It gets worse when you consider retention also; over 1/3rd of women trades will leave within a decade of starting a trade (men = ~10%.
A prime example is a friend of the family; trained as a carpenter alongside ~35 others (apprenticeship). In the UK this is a fully funded course (no cost to you as trainee) that gives you a job at the end, typically.
There were 4 women in his group. Two dropped out during the training. Two qualified; neither (10 years on) was still a carpenter; both went into non-manual fields within construction (admin and project mgt.).
It's time we stopped this ridiculous experiment and acknowledged that the sexes are fundamentally different in what they want to do for a living.
Caleb Hammer@sircalebhammer
The Most USELESS College Degrees
English
Binary Surfer retweetledi
As has been the case when meeting anyone associated with Restore, I was incredibly impressed by Mr Pitt. We had a great conversation about Europe's current predicament. Do please check it out on The Forge or on Realpolitik on the @lotuseaters_com
Harrison Pitt@Harry_pitt
Europe in general and Britain in particular have become cringing vassals to the United States, says @firasmodad. Can we recover our self-respect this century? Find out by watching the latest episode of The Forge, courtesy of @EuroConOfficial, in five minutes at the link below 🔥
English
If you're not backing up your docs on physical media e.g. USB, DvD's or even just an external HDD...
The Smart Ape 🔥@the_smart_ape
> be mark, stay-at-home dad > son gets an infection > pediatrician asks for a photo over telehealth > takes the pic on his android > photo auto-syncs to google photos. > doctor prescribes antibiotics. son recovers. > 48h later: "your google account has been disabled for harmful content" > google filed a CSAM report to NCMEC > sf police investigates. mark is cleared. > appeals to google. attaches the official police report. > "google stands by its decision." > loses 10 years of gmail > loses every photo of his son's childhood > loses his google fi number > can no longer sign into 30 services tied to his google login
English
Anyone impressed by Farage or Badenoch is either laughably clueless or a subversive.
It'd be funny if things weren't so dire that people still believed in the Tories or Tory 2.0 (Reform).
GIF
Andrew Gold@AndrewGold_ok
Couple things here about Steve Laws, Rupert Lowe and Restore: @RupertLowe10 would not endorse Laws. Rupert has even made specific references to making it easier for both foreign spouses and highly-skilled immigrants from certain qualified countries to come to the UK. @Steve_Laws_' following is fringe, particularly compared to the positive nationalism espoused by @TRobinsonNewEra. It comprises bots and anon trolls. They flood the comments, as they will here. Steve sees this as a win. But when I did this interview with him a few months ago, he had more X followers than me (X is my 4th social platform). Even though I don't post much, this has reversed, because his politics and personality are ugly. He lost. Rupert is a world away from him. He has also been on Heretics. He and I have had phone calls during which he's always been friendly, chatty (football!) and passionately motivated to fix this country. Many Restore voters are pointing at something real and deeply troubling about the way the English ethnos has been denigrated and English culture has declined. The problem Rupert has is that he has found himself surrounded by - in addition to well-meaning people looking to change a globalist shitshow of a political system - what are known online as "spergs". These are man-child Nazis, many of whom are now putting the likes of @Sargon_of_Akkad through purity tests that'd make the Spanish inquisitors squirm. Internet geeks and basement dwellers who - like the Far-Left - won't be satisfied by anything other than 'The Joos did it'. Here's Rupert's problem: If he doesn't publicly disavow the sperg trolls, Restore will put off almost any smart and compassionate Brits. But if he does, he inadvertently codes as pliable to the will of the mainstream...Restore goes from being the only party capable of doing whatever it takes for change...to being Farage-lite. As things stand, I've been equally impressed by Farage, Lowe and Badenoch. They all seem to want the same thing. But as things stand, the above puts Lowe at a disadvantage. Only he knows if he can fix that.
English
Binary Surfer retweetledi
That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.
Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.
The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.
Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.
Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.
Ulises@UlisesDavid__
🚨| La claridad de un acueducto del imperio Romano, de hace 2000 años
English
@RWTaylors @elonmusk @rezabesharati I am still waiting for someone to explain to me what Burnham would do to harm us that Starmer hasn't, or the Tories did before either of them.
Reform are merely Tory 2.0 Richie, Farage has proven this repeatedly; time to wake up chap.
English
Restore Britain entering Makerfield could end up helping Andy Burnham by splitting the anti-Labour vote that would otherwise go to Reform.
I like Rupert Lowe and agree with a lot of what he says, but this feels like a serious error of judgement. New parties rarely break through under First Past the Post, especially this early on. Instead of building momentum against Labour, it risks dividing voters and handing Burnham an easier path to victory.
English
It's very hard to land and apply a choke before getting downed; if you watch the clip the guy doesn't even have half a second to apply any headlock/choke.
Also if you are trying to choke you aren't protecting your legs from the grab; that's why this guy gets dumped hard, he tries to grapple the upper body instead.
English
@BinarySurfer Doesn't that kind of leave you exposed to a front healock-choke thing?
English
The majority of striker vs. grappler fights of broadly comparable levels heavily favour the grappler.
The striker has ~3-6 hits to KO them as they close / has to retreat (finite distance) to avoid the grapple.
Vs. a decent guard it's hard to land a KO in only a few hits, and once they close it's ground and pound time.
I used to do the below to people a lot; sure I'd take a few shots, but generally you could soak them then...
GIF
Happy Punch@HappyPunch
Sumo wrestler destroyed a 5-0 pro boxer in an MMA fight last night 😳
English
Easy enough mistake to make; I'm sure all of us have accidentally killed someone while stabbing them in the back repeatedly as they run away.
This to 'to defend ourselves' of course, so calling our families to come help cover up the crime wouldn't be seen as evidence of deliberation, naturally
We've also all lied to police after the fact so that our victim drowns in their own blood in handcuffs because they might have said a magic word.
Totally normal British behaviour; could have been any of us. Just an accident that someone died I'm sure...
Basil the Great@BasilTheGreat
JUDGE REDUCES HENRY NOWAK MURDER TO MANSLAUGHTER This is judge William Mousley KC He has ordered that Vickrum Digwa face a MANSLAUGHTER charge INSTEAD of MURDER despite stabbing Henry Nowak in the back of the legs as he tried to escape Absolutely horrific
English
@Sargon_of_Akkad It's fascinating how much of the left's victimhood mindset has permeated even 'the right' (Conform UK).
English
This is a very poor line of attack, as it frames Reform as being weak and helpless.
It amounts to political begging, which is never appealing, but might have been heard in a more favourable light if they weren't also the same people that Nigel Farage stabbed in the back.
Darren Grimes@darrengrimes
Vote Restore. Get Labour.
English
@firasmodad Hanging deported illegal migrants after they return...Some might say this is a liberal position and the overly polite option.
English
If you return after being deported, the Brits should hang you.
Basil the Great@BasilTheGreat
🚨NEWS: An Albanian illegal migrant who has already been deported twice before has been found with an 'arsenal of guns' and drugs at a flat in Nottingham He will now be deported for a third time
English
David, can you explain to me how you would bury the hatchet with a man that has lied about you in public repeatedly...
And then on top of this ejected you from the movement and tried to put you in prison for ~15 years on a matter he then admitted was fabricated entirely?
A few centuries ago the normal response to this would have been Rupert challenging Nigel to a duel, and only one of them walking away.
GIF
English
@daveatherton Its assumed Reform and Restore are equivalent. They are not. Reform is a wasted vote, just more containment.
English
I can barely contain my disgust, it looks like right-wing infighting is going to gift Labour a seat. With Jeff Banks I've long urged unity on the right.
Rupert & Nigel need to bury the hatchet & come to some arrangement. I know the enmity runs deep but put the country first.
English
What a wonderful pitch for Restore on Sky this morning.
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges
This is what I'm talking about. When did Restore last get their policy agenda highlighted in such a prominent way by the national broadcast media.
English
Binary Surfer retweetledi
Gandalf is splitting the wizard war effort because of his ego!
He should stand down for Saruman - who cares if he invited a few orcs into his cabinet. Saruman is the best hope the forces of mankind have.
#Makerfield
English
@bannedforfun @sircalebhammer I am informed there are no differences between the sexes...therefore i'm confident that all women can carry a full combat load over 20 miles of rough terrain as easily as a laptop bag to the office from the bus stop...
English
Remember the @sircalebhammer clip where he's ripping a guys ass because the guy said he gets disability from carrying a pack?
I get the impression you guys think "pack" means "20 lb backpack" It actually means "Carrying another person worth of weight"
Dr. Interracial 🇺🇸@billysandytodd
24 years of military service later the VA tells you, there’s nothing wrong with your back and knees. 🤷🏾♂️
English
I have never seen a man or a woman do 'bird hands' (peck gesture) & not turn out to be a terrible person or at least an absolute drama-fountain.
I'll give anyone 1-2 free, but once I hit the third in a conversation I am deeply suspicious of and unless are a close personal friend having an 'off day', avoid.
For those unfamiliar with the gesture; it's the 'thumb-finger pincer/snap' gesture; in body language it is very often code for 'shut up and do / listen to what I say'.
People who are in control and secure / self-aware don't need to 'peck' at their audience. Even if they are; people with actual authority or expertise don't need to frantically visually punctuate their speech.
It's very commonly used in a highly emotional context with a 'believe me' look (warning flag in itself quite often, particularly with the phrase 'to be honest').
It maps to real-life personality patterns such as emotional lability / poor regulation; correlating with higher neuroticism / histrionic behaviour (needing to perform the emotion to feel it).
It's also been shown to link to low self-awareness (not caring how you come across and realising how unpleasant the gesture is seen by many people); broadcasting and imposing emotional state on others.
To use the well known big 5 terminology, it's heavily correlated with generally higher neuroticism & lower conscientiousness, although large-scale studies on this are limited/few and far between.
I know people that claim it's almost always an upper & lower quartile marker for those traits respectively. I don't know if there are studies supporting this.
Finally it's correlated notably with strong passive-aggressive tendencies; being a way of 'shouting' without actually raising your voice; it's a low-level dominance display in essence.
It's why you see it so often with the 'girl-boss' trope. If anyone serially does this, on a date, in the office...doesn't matter where; be wary.
@JoshFerme @AydinPaladin @Kingbingo_ @Sargon_of_Akkad
English