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Barry Carrington's World Of Procrastination

Barry Carrington's World Of Procrastination

@WorldOBarry

Emeritus Professor of Everything. Deceptively good egg. Incongruous levels of seriousness. Failing to stay off Twitter.

United Kingdom Присоединился Eylül 2012
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John Dutton@mindofprospect·
@ashzo_ No it couldn’t, and what about drinks and snacks etc
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@mindofprospect Yes but people say this about people who say this, also seemingly don't drill down even a fractional level of thought: that both being "some money" does not mean both are "same money". Meal deals were pricey, but didn't feel I had time to prep. So took in beef ravioli. 89p a go.
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@discordspies Huh, there's a disheveled looking chap ..looks a bit like the one who stank the bus out with the smell of shit/BO, once. Huh, there's a guy muttering.. a lot like that other guy that became violent that one time. Etc. Also most aren't just reminders-only, they ''could" develop.
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@discordspies I think the latter with an extra detail. So, while the Actually Bad Experiences are rare in terms of an overall per journey decimal, the noticeable reminders for the *potential* for bad experiences on any bus journey are very very common. E.g.
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David 🇺🇦🇵🇸
David 🇺🇦🇵🇸@discordspies·
It's so weird to hear Americans talk like this because I've been reliant on public transport my entire life and it's just Not Like That in the UK Is it really that consistently bad or is this a thing where everyone has like one story that colours their whole experience
𝕷𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝕬 🦇@Nyct0phil3_x

@trash_panda97 I think its okay to not want to live somewhere where getting screamed at and pissed on for simply using a train is a real possibility

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@cezthesocialist Polanski is against HS2. He was vocal against it when that was policy, interviews tweets etc.. then he literally ignored the conference vote and is silent about it - whether it's supposedly party policy or not. He has never ever ever mentioned it again, or anything supporting it
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cez
cez@cezthesocialist·
Green policies include 150,000 new social homes per year and completing HS2 in full. The only Green who opposes pylons is Adrian Ramsay and given he was just voted out of the leadership by about 70 points, I would say he is not representative of the party.
Labour YIMBY@yimbylabour

They don't want to build houses. They don't want to build high speed rail. They don't even want to build pylons to deliver zero carbon energy. They're pointless.

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@MarkDGeorge @sonyasupposedly A combo of remittances, and recycling into other current retirees via rents. Any eventual inheritance, due to longevity: straight to those about to retiring or about to retire. Basically none to people of an age where they might be having/supporting kids or starting businesses.
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Mark George มาร์ค
@sonyasupposedly Do you think that just lights the money on fire? Or does it pay the salaries of doctors, nurses and caregivers as well as all the businesses that support elderly care products and services?
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🌷🐰 sonya serendipitously 🐇🎀
everyone is gonna be so pissed when the supposed "generational wealth transfer" from boomers goes straight to end-of-life care
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Nick Tyrone
Nick Tyrone@NicholasTyrone·
The problem I have with idea that a Lab-Green-Lib-whoever coalition is as likely after the next general election as so may pundits are saying, is that every time the spectre of such a thing has existed in previous elections, the British electorate vote for anyone else to stop it.
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@swklibdems Just let them exist. They'll *all* become "affordable" if they can't sell, ...or the argued-over fraction become unaffordable on resale anyway on resale if they do. (Dice-roll windfall for the first-time 1X% that doesn't fundamentally change the nature of unaffordable housing).
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Southwark Lib Dems@swklibdems·
Last year, Southwark Labour approved Borough Triangle whilst it offered only 17% genuinely affordable housing. The developer has now announced it'll be even lower - just 10% affordable. Liberal Democrats said it wasn't good enough then, and now it's even worse.
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@connoreshaw This is bait. £100 million and it MIGHT be a bat execution tunnel. Ask bat conservation groups, to list and price their most effective and desired actions/policies/physical-infrastructure to save bats. Precisely zero of them will say '1. HS2 tunnel mitigation'. It's insane.
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S Mahtani@mahtani_s·
Narrative scrambler: Labour share of income has fallen in many countries, but not the United Kingdom.
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@VerhofstadtQ These things are not conceptually incompatible at all. For a start we are concerned with UK jobs, not global. (We also don't care about Saudi Aramco or the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund) I don't think the guy is correct, but this isn't a "huh maths says no" thing, at all.
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Verhofstadt's Quiff
Verhofstadt's Quiff@VerhofstadtQ·
Apparently, we will lose 250,000 jobs in one industry but gain 750,000 new jobs in a replacement industry. Three times as many people will be involved in producing the same output (electricity), but it will be cheaper for the consumer. Help, I'm struggling here.
Steve ♿ 💙@Aranbaal

@VerhofstadtQ @yorks_dpressed There are huge difference. Thatcher plunged many areas into long lasting poverty, that hasn't truly been solved now. Cutting vast amounts of jobs without replacing. Yes Net zero is set to cut 250k jobs, but it's also set to create 750k new jobs. A net increase.

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Brum Bitcoin & Beer
Brum Bitcoin & Beer@brumbitcoin·
@BearJFK Less than the real rate of inflation. It's an effective pay cut (just LESS of a cut than most others)
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@alexanderrX_ US simply calls its by-elections "special elections". More importantly: has literal midterm elections. Congress every 2(!) years. I.e. your ability to govern is *guaranteed* to be under threat. UK has up to (and semi-often) 5 years. No term limits, and cheap election campaigns
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Alexander
Alexander@alexanderrX_·
uk politics is broken because everything is tied to votes. no politician in the front row is thinking about the country. they’re thinking about keeping power. in america you get 4 years to actually govern. in the uk it’s non stop by elections, confidence votes and backbenchers plotting to become pm. the whole system is designed for self preservation not progress. and people forget the americans literally left because of this.
🧠 David@db_fink

My grand unified theory of British politics is really simple. They're retards. That's it, that's the theory. I would say on average, 4 times per week, something will happen and someone will ask me my opinion, and I'll say well what do you think happened, and I'll hear some labyrinthine conspiracy theory about internecine factional warfare, and who is donating to who, and who owes who money, and who is shagging which journalist, and I'll say - ok, but have you considered: the guy is just a fucking retard? And no one can compete with the simple mathematical elegance of this theory. "Why do you think Starmer borrows so much to fund the economically incompetent? Do you think the Communist industry is pulling the strings" (ideas conceived by the mentally deranged) No. I think he's a fucking dipshit. Remember when Zack Polanski managed to get away with becoming leader of a major party after saying he could increase boob sizes with hypnosis? And everyone was clutching their pearls going 'oh what do they know, is the polling bad? Is it over?' and it turned out - no, he was just fucking retarded. Like if you start out from this simple truth, 'they're all retarded' and you base all your political assumptions on that, you will be happier, you will be better off, you will be right most of the time, people will think you're possessed of preternatural insight, if you simply read the news and see what guys in Westminster are doing and say 'they're doing that because they are retarded'. I used to keep this a secret because I like grifting retainers out of having some secret occult knowledge about UK politics but it's getting to be too much - so I'm just going to start publicising it. They're retarded. That's it, that's the secret. Use that knowledge, vote on the basis of that knowledge, make every significant decision in your life based on this simple truth - your politicians are fucking retarded.

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@METhompson72 @HughEaston I mean, unless you provide the reading & education you're referring to here, chances are I'll just end up reading "the wrong thing" that led to my current beliefs/(mis)understanding in the first place? Would be genuinely interested in a full overview of why Uranium is a "can't".
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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson@METhompson72·
@HughEaston You are wrong. Dangerously wrong in that you have written this post in the form of a firm belief. I urge you to read and educate yourself.
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Mark Thompson@METhompson72·
If you were to create list of people in the UK who really understand metal supply and demand, have built mines, know commodity economics, large scale industrial investment, project feasibility, permitting, development and finance: then it would not be a long list, but my name would be on it. For all of the people who know that electricity is the future and that hydrocarbons are dying, that we don't need diesel, or gas, or liquid fuels: Tell me where the copper is coming from. Now do silver, tin, lithium and batteries. For those of you say the future is nuclear, tell me where the uranium is coming from. Tell me what price these would be at, and when it could be delivered. Tell me how you are going to build grid resilience and more importantly grid inertia from renewables. Tell me what your plan is for windless, cloudy days in the middle of winter. Tell me what you will do to decommission and replace wind and solar every 10 to 20 years - and where you will dump all those unrecylcable turbine blades. For every GW of renewables we have to build a GW of conventional back-up, or rely on the kindness of foreigners. There is no magic metal shop. There is no new physics that makes a 100% renewables grid work. The greatest threat to humanity is not global warming, it is energy poverty.
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