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Post by TheSaint on Oct 20, 2021 7:58:30 GMT
We weighed it up when replacing our boiler but in the end, decided getting the most efficient combi one we could find was the best option at the moment.
The garage also tried the hard sell on a heat pump when we were getting our new car recently. Thankfully we didn't bother as people that paid for them are now suing VW as they are so useless.
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Post by simple on Oct 20, 2021 8:17:41 GMT
Someone I work with has just written a long facebook post about how its typical that another white politician has been murdered with no uproar, that everyone is too scared to say all lives matter or white lives matter anymore in case it offends anyone. Not very cool given the demographics of the students in higher ed today No uproar? Could you ask where she got that rock she lives under - it sounds like it's very effective and I could do with a break from the world for a bit No one dares talk about it because the victim was white, she says, not on that they get special treatment and we don’t, she says. Presumably she hasn’t watched the news, seen a newspaper or been online since Thursday. Looking this morning someone has written a certain Stewart Lee line in amongst the “well said”s in the comments and I don’t think she’s picked up on the irony.
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Post by dogbot on Oct 20, 2021 9:13:25 GMT
Someone should direct her to Mr Francois, sounds like he'd be right up her street.
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Post by brodie on Oct 20, 2021 9:34:39 GMT
Someone should direct her to Mr Francois, sounds like he'd be right up her street. Whether she liked it or not, allegedly.
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Post by Dgzter on Oct 20, 2021 15:11:41 GMT
Cool country. Yup.
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Post by simple on Oct 20, 2021 15:56:49 GMT
Do you think he used “revolting” as a pun there?
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 20, 2021 18:31:44 GMT
No uproar? Could you ask where she got that rock she lives under - it sounds like it's very effective and I could do with a break from the world for a bit No one dares talk about it because the victim was white, she says, not on that they get special treatment and we don’t, she says. Presumably she hasn’t watched the news, seen a newspaper or been online since Thursday. Looking this morning someone has written a certain Stewart Lee line in amongst the “well said”s in the comments and I don’t think she’s picked up on the irony. Is it the one about being sent to jail just for saying you're English?
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Post by Matt A on Oct 20, 2021 18:43:46 GMT
A Noose? what the f is wrong with people
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Post by khanivor on Oct 20, 2021 19:23:57 GMT
Ironic too, as it’s the politicians who are against vaccines and strict Covid mitigation policies and oracle who should be swinging from a rope for corporate manslaughter
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Post by mothercruncher on Oct 20, 2021 19:56:29 GMT
Er, hello- it’s “your English”.
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Post by Danno on Oct 20, 2021 20:08:55 GMT
Ironic too, as it’s the politicians who are against vaccines and strict Covid mitigation policies and oracle who should be swinging from a rope for corporate manslaughter It's ok, these clowns are just clowns. Irony is too subtle for them
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 21, 2021 11:44:32 GMT
Er, hello- it’s “your English”. Gaol for you.
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Post by Danno on Oct 21, 2021 16:50:28 GMT
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Post by X201 on Oct 21, 2021 17:32:05 GMT
Winter of Discontent v2.0 still brewing
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Post by Danno on Oct 21, 2021 17:35:53 GMT
I can't see any other outcome atm
Con+10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 17:38:39 GMT
I can't see any other outcome atm Con+10 next election, some dimwit on election day: "well... I can't vote for corbyn as PM might as well vote for boris" (or whatever fuckwit The tories have as leader if Boris fucks off)
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Post by Danno on Oct 21, 2021 18:05:54 GMT
I can't see any other outcome atm Con+10 next election, some dimwit on election day: "well... I can't vote for corbyn as PM might as well vote for boris" (or whatever fuckwit The tories have as leader if Boris fucks off) I think "Who the fuck is Keer Stammer? Is he on the form?" will be an excuse. Maybe a lot of excuses. He is quite forgettable.
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Post by Danno on Oct 21, 2021 18:13:00 GMT
An excerpt from an article about Laura Kuennsberg being sacked/stepping down as political editor at the beeb:
"One BBC individual who is not moving jobs is Andrew Marr, who has been given a fresh contract to continue presenting his eponymous Sunday morning political interview show. Sources suggested part of the reason for this is his work producing BBC programmes that will be broadcast when the Queen dies."
I guess you need the saddest of faces for the saddest of times.
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Post by technoish on Oct 21, 2021 18:22:32 GMT
I think what they mean is they just did a bunch and it might happen very soon!!! So want the continuity....
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Post by cubby on Oct 21, 2021 18:25:47 GMT
It'll be weird if he carks it a couple of days before the Queen dies.
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Post by X201 on Oct 21, 2021 18:56:23 GMT
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Post by Danno on Oct 21, 2021 18:59:51 GMT
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Post by darkling on Oct 22, 2021 13:30:30 GMT
So the Greens have proposed £320 per household to cover spiralling energy costs: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59009366This is in line with other similar previous propositions by the Greens, such as a UBI (Universal Basic Income) for all, which are usually met with disdain, scepticism, and incredulity. However, I believe that a lot of these sorts of basic utility problems could be solved with a UBI, funded by taxing technology. Technology will sooner or later be fully capable of fulfilling society's demands, and therefore replacing people's need to work. I see this as an inevitability. You may disagree. Therefore, to help guarantee that society benefits from technology - rather than the individual corporations who own the tech - I think now is the time to start taxing companies that bring in automation that replaces a human worker, be it directly or theoretically (such as Tesco's new checkout-free store). This tax would then be used as a UBI for all. At first it would generate pennies per person, but as more and more corporations inevitably adopt technology and automation, this tax would generate a greater and greater UBI per person. Ultimately you'd arrive at a situation where people are given a £100 billion UBI per month and a bottle of milk would cost £1 million (produced by an automated farm, delivered by an automated lorry, unloaded by a robot, and sold via an automated checkout, all powered by renewable energy) at which point money/shops would simply be removed from the equation, and products would be delivered directly to people's households for free (given they cost nothing to produce). This is the only elegant and fair way I can see us harnessing technology for the good of everyone, and has the added short-term benefit of solving basic poverty with the use of a UBI. Anyway, I'd be interested to see how many people think this idea would/wouldn't work, and hearing from those people that likely think I'm living in a fantasy land, and I'm a techno-communist.
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Post by geefe on Oct 22, 2021 14:04:57 GMT
No! Some of us like things the way they are. Trickle down economics!
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Post by stuz359 on Oct 22, 2021 14:41:38 GMT
That isn't rain you know.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 22, 2021 14:44:13 GMT
Rain doesn't grown on trees you know.
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Post by CHPxtreme on Oct 23, 2021 9:19:14 GMT
The evolution of the Ministry of Truth continues:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 9:38:41 GMT
I think that's right. The British public are absolute fucking twats, so the political leadership of the BBC should reflect that. Laurence Fox or Anne Widdecombe would be great choices.
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Post by UltraPyper777 on Oct 23, 2021 11:15:01 GMT
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Post by Vandelay on Oct 23, 2021 12:07:27 GMT
So the Greens have proposed £320 per household to cover spiralling energy costs: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59009366This is in line with other similar previous propositions by the Greens, such as a UBI (Universal Basic Income) for all, which are usually met with disdain, scepticism, and incredulity. However, I believe that a lot of these sorts of basic utility problems could be solved with a UBI, funded by taxing technology. Technology will sooner or later be fully capable of fulfilling society's demands, and therefore replacing people's need to work. I see this as an inevitability. You may disagree. Therefore, to help guarantee that society benefits from technology - rather than the individual corporations who own the tech - I think now is the time to start taxing companies that bring in automation that replaces a human worker, be it directly or theoretically (such as Tesco's new checkout-free store). This tax would then be used as a UBI for all. At first it would generate pennies per person, but as more and more corporations inevitably adopt technology and automation, this tax would generate a greater and greater UBI per person. Ultimately you'd arrive at a situation where people are given a £100 billion UBI per month and a bottle of milk would cost £1 million (produced by an automated farm, delivered by an automated lorry, unloaded by a robot, and sold via an automated checkout, all powered by renewable energy) at which point money/shops would simply be removed from the equation, and products would be delivered directly to people's households for free (given they cost nothing to produce). This is the only elegant and fair way I can see us harnessing technology for the good of everyone, and has the added short-term benefit of solving basic poverty with the use of a UBI. Anyway, I'd be interested to see how many people think this idea would/wouldn't work, and hearing from those people that likely think I'm living in a fantasy land, and I'm a techno-communist. Sounds great to me. Certainly a fantasy land though as too many important, powerful people would resist any such plan and no mainstream party would propose such an idea that is planning for something that is likely to happen in 50-100 years (see climate change). Personally, I would love us to progress into a workless society and seems inevitable with the progression of technology. It will be a very, very long process to happen though and many wont be able to accept the very idea of it. Just look at how much scorn many people still treat the idea of a four day week. I also expect we will need some sort of currently magic seeming tech, like a Star Trek replicator, before we can really do it.
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