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Reply | The Concept album
at 05:19 11 Jun 2024
I think it's taken from Thoreau
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things" |
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Reply | EDB Signs new contract
at 19:04 10 Jun 2024
I recall Cifiuentes mentioning him in one of his first interviews as a player who "got" how he wanted the team to play. Definitely potential to be a good player for us, can see him being a solid midfield all rounder |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 14:07 10 Jun 2024
"Labour and Tories have facilitated his ascent by not tackling social issues enough. They have left him the space to fill."
Similar dynamics playing out in France, the US and elsewhere. Very predictable and frustrating to watch.
Step 1. Totally deligitimise the left. Maybe call them antisemitic, Czech spy, something about Putin.
Step 2. Install a centrist, maybe a technocrat, certainly not anyone with a policy platform fit for the challenges of the country. If he's visibly in advanced stages of cognitive decline that's great
Step 3. When it becomes apparent everyone's lives are worse then they were four years ago, allow far right to fill the political vacuum.
Looking forward to PM Braverman |
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Reply | IPTV and amazon firestick
at 09:40 10 Jun 2024
Nvidia Shield is a small media box you plug into your tv, like a more powerful firestick . It's operating system is Android, so it feels and looks a lot like an android smart phone, very intuitive. And it has Google Playstore installed, so very straightforward to install apps.
Real Debrid is a torrent service, torrents being a file sharing protocol. You pay a small fee, and let real debrid find the file you are looking for e.g. a film or tv show.
You need a media player to actually play the file. I use Stremio (installed from the play store), with an addon called Torrentio.
Getting this set up so that it talks to Real Debrid is a bit fiddly, but well worth the effort imo. There are some good online walk throughs.
And you can of course subscribe to an IPTV provider to watch live sport etc, via the TiVi mate app from the Play store. Again, a little bit fiddly. I use IPTVoid, and they walk you through setting it all up. [Post edited 10 Jun 9:41]
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Reply | The Concept album
at 09:07 10 Jun 2024
'One Pig' by Matthew Herbert. Real toe tapper |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 03:24 10 Jun 2024
Big fan of this too. Variable quality but always interesting, and when it's good it is really good.
Some of my favourite episodes:
- 12 days of christine. One of my favourite half hours of tv ever. Ive watched it loads of times and still love it. Loads of clever clues to whats going on sprinkled throughout, very creepy, and a real emotional punch, pretty much perfect tv. Gives me chills, the final scenes have so much pathos. Sheridan Smith is superb and really sells it.
- the devil of Christmas. Another Christmas episode but couldn't be more different. So grimy, so bleak, so good
- riddle of the sphinx. Very clever writing. Apparently they set the guardian crossword that week to coincide with the show. [Post edited 10 Jun 3:33]
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 17:09 8 Jun 2024
Come on, that's disingenuous, clearly not what I'm saying.
I thought you were saying "the UK is mostly white so of course they have more rape convictions", so i said that based on uk demographics, they are in fact disproportionately likely to be convicted of rape, which is at odds with what is frequently implied on here.
Any way, grim topic, and don't want to get into a bad faith row over it. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 17:01 8 Jun 2024
Well, on this simple metric the UK is 83% white, so it would appear they're over represented |
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Reply | Single file Queuing.. in pubs!
at 14:14 8 Jun 2024
You will never - ever! - get me onboard with this modern scourge
(Refer to twitter as "X") |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 17:30 7 Jun 2024
"Immigrants are making the pubs shut"
That's enough LFW politics for me the one day! |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 12:22 7 Jun 2024
Even at this relatively short distance it's incredible when you look back at that stuff. All very mask off.
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 11:36 7 Jun 2024
"Could it be that if this is the opinion you see most often it's because that is what a lot of people think rather than being some grand right-wing conspiracy brainwashing the low IQ masses?"
That would depend upon whether you believe the media is ideologically neutral and merely reflects public opinion, or whether it plays a role in shaping opinion. You don't need to believe in a conspiracy concocted in a secret bunker to understand that material interests might shape the framing of political discourse. I might want you to believe something that protects my material self-interest, in the same way that billionaire media barons might want people to direct their frustrations anywhere else but at billionaires |
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Reply | Seasick Steve
at 11:23 7 Jun 2024
He was a standing booking at Glastonbury Pyramid stage for years, not sure if he still plays. Seen him quite a few times, good day-time drinking music. Bit one-trick pony, but entertaining. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 11:19 7 Jun 2024
It does affect seats though, because as we were discussing the other day, if you look at polling percentage of Labour votes it's about 40% - the same as Labour got in 2017. It's the redistribution of Tory votes to Reform, Lib Dems and elsewhere that's going to cause the wipe out, not a surge in Labour popularity. [Post edited 7 Jun 11:20]
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:09 7 Jun 2024
A million odd deaths in Iraq, but also opened some Sure Start centres, so who's to say? |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 08:56 7 Jun 2024
To be fair Disco, the political orientation of the British media has been a topic of a fair bit of scrutiny and academic research. The BBC has a liberal orientation for sure, probably most closely aligned with New Labour-type politics - socially liberal, economically conservative. You could say the Guardian is in that general area too. But certainly the print press, which remains influential despite falling circulation for its ability to define political talking points, is unambiguously to the right of politics on the whole. And there are obvious structural reasons for that - they are owned by people who don't want to pay more tax!
The revolving doorway between political media and political parties plays into this too I think.
Edit: Starmer and the Labour right in general are very much the type of politics most broadcast political media types identify with, hence his unusually easy ride so far. But he'll come under pressure before very long, and I don't think he's well equipped for it at all. [Post edited 7 Jun 10:08]
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 04:48 6 Jun 2024
Really? Interesting, he should mention it. Wonder what he used to do for a job? |
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Reply | Departures in the development squad
at 17:26 5 Jun 2024
I swear loads of our Dev Squad players have names that sound made up, like that Japanese baseball computer game
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