No, it's a submarine.
You see, it's a kind of metal construction, designed to go in the sea, whereas a fish is a vertebrate animal, also aquatic, but not the same.
Easily confused, of course.
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TIL submarines are easily confused.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 12 Aug 2024, 17:49,
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submarines are easily confused invertebrates, got it
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if you turned your light on it might not have crashed you prick
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The News-Benders 1968
Paranoid conspiracy theory TV play, 28 minutes, feels more like 5.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sat 10 Aug 2024, 20:36,
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That's been on my Watch Later for ages
if you want to add to the paranoia that
Anyway, watched it now. It's good.
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Some of the yt comments are a little deranged.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sat 10 Aug 2024, 22:36,
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More than usual?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 11 Aug 2024, 2:30,
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Not sure what the standard is these days...
I don't tend to watch the kinds of videos these delusional fuckwits comment on. Back in my day of peak PCT intake, the comments were a mix of cynical lols and sceptic wtf-ery with a clearly dimwitted minority taking it seriously. Now that everyone has the internet the ratios have reversed.
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Bots. Lots and lots of bots.
Some parroting whatever USA conspiracy theory is trending on the day and for some reason there are a few that just spam comment sections with compliments on the channels that are just vague enough to seem genuine... with pretty ladies for the profile pictures.
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Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum
When Russia invaded Ukraine the whole free world was outraged. But now that Ukraine has invaded Russian, not a peep. Such double standards
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Almost as entertaining as the program
Mind you, not a very realistic view of the future, imagining you could get an appendectomy at Charing X...
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What is almost as entertaining as the program?
Or, what program is this almost as entertaining as?
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Climax marred by Marigolds
But enough about my latex allergy.
Very good, would watch again.
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Farage talking sense for a change
I made this!
Took somewhat longer to put together than it looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Z_e3lr0-U
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Adult swim
King of the hill in Floria ...da
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Oysdgp there's nothing to smile ABOUT, Fri 9 Aug 2024, 22:24,
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The animation style reminds me of those ultra low effort knockoff animated kids movies you find in discount pound shops.
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I've not found an Unreal Engine cartoon I enjoy.
I assume this is what this is. It's a horrible aesthetic and the timing always seems so glacial. Nothing ever looks finished or intentional. Assets never seem to belong. Everything, from the assets to the textures to the movements of characters and even the 'camera', everything moves weirdly. Like everything is directed and choreographed by QWOP.
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Featuring the most incredible underwater scenes ever filmed
La Mujer Murcielago
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Seen it
It could have, should have been the best thing ever. But the plot is rubbish. Nice theme tune though.
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I considered linking to the whole thing but sometimes the trailer's almost enough
Just a thought, if the plot is what lets it down then possibly a new dubbing a la What's Up Tiger Lily might work
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my immediate thought when i saw this earlier
perhaps inspirational?
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I'm sure someone (maybe me?) linked the entire film before
but I searched and all I could find was a different Batwoman movie.
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I did check and all I could find was another batwoman film from the 60s that I'd posted long ago.
I half expected to find it as the film is obviously known and there had been a relatively recent release of a 'restored' version.
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Shards Of Lightning - Don't Touch Me There (My Mum's Over There) [AI song]
I don't know exactly how much of this is AI, presumably the lyrics are hand-crafted and fed in? In any case, it's banging.
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Riot Convictions
I made this!
I've been documenting the guilty pleas, sentences and sentencing from the far-right this week in relation to the recent riots.
far-rightcriminals.com/tag/riots/
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Where is the fake post about the so-called "Boncentration Bamps?"
I just heard (here in The States) about the latest outrage about the fake camps being set up on The Falklands?
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You'd have to ask Elmo.
ed: he deleted it about a half hour later.
Screenshot
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Oh bugger
12ft io can't jump the paywall to the relevant article...
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tubaman, Sat 10 Aug 2024, 3:10,
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try archive.is
i've found it works where 12ft doesn't
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It's not a bad idea, in fairness.
There's fuck-all room left in the prisons. Would be nice if we could ship them off somewhere like Tristan da Cunha to spend their days living I'm a penal colony. Actually, I hear Albania is short of working age men. Perhaps we could send them some of ours?
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Really take the piss
send them to Rwanda.
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You could add a ticker
to let people know how many people have been charged, and how many years have been given so far. Like web3isgoinggreat.com do to illustrate that con.
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I set the website up in 2013 and in July it had about 1300 articles. It is now pushing 1500.
I did try and keep a mental score of the amount who went guilty or were convicted but that has long gone.
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the bloke convicted of facebook crimes must be a hero to his alt-right keyboard warrior brethren
in that he seem to have a wife
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I proper lolled at this one
far-rightcriminals.com/2024/08/10/he-went-to-town-to-go-to-liverpool-one-but-was-caught-red-handed-at-riot/
entitled prick lives in an nice area was born in South Africa and has a job etc.
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Flummoxed over this one
far-rightcriminals.com/2024/08/10/man-jailed-over-homophobic-abuse-of-police-at-rally/
Was it their uniforms or what?
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White boy with parents from SA?
Definitely no chance of him having racist tendencies...
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Elmo?
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That is a difficult one. Many were kicked out of South Africa for being undesirables, ie left wing
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Elaborate promo for a sampler
I don't work for them.
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Oysdgp there's nothing to smile ABOUT, Fri 9 Aug 2024, 19:16,
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That's almost the whole Dead Can Dance back catalog right there
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A snap at 299 USD for some samples
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I never understood the appeal of teenage engineering.
Their instruments all seem like unfinished proofs of concept, they all have worse interfaces than fucking Yamaha, they all seem to be at least 3 times too expensive for what they are. You (the royal you) could design and build a better interface with a fucking raspberry pi, some old washing machine knobs, and a VHS case.
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Well
at least they aren't Behringer.
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Oysdgp there's nothing to smile ABOUT, Sun 11 Aug 2024, 18:20,
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Emrace the analogue noise and love Behringer!
I have a couple of their Roland clones, the 303 and 606. The only complaint I have with them is the cheap plastic cases - but at least they come with cases as standard!
I have a vague plan to replace them with wood at some point. Just think how much better they'll sound.
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My mate, Ed, did a piano score for this soundtrack competition
talented bugger.
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Bond villain's power station more polluting than expected
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Isn't that a little bit misleading? Ratcliffe isn't being used as much these days and is supposedly on the cusp of being shutdown.
historic co2 emissions
Ratcliffe
Drax
Anyone unaware of that could be misled which from Ember's intent (stop burning stuff) isn't exactly helpful.
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Not sure what your links are supposed to illustrate.
co2 emissions:
2005
Ratcliffe: 8,638,887.00
Drax: 20,771,624.00
2010
Ratfuck: 8,363,125.00
Drekk: 22,392,487.00
2015
Batshit: 4,774,148.00
Druqs: 13,173,987.00
2020
Brexit: 439,721.00
Frogs: 1,527,003.00
All that biomass/biofuel has going for it is the renewability in comparison to fossil fuels.
It has always been known to be a disaster for the environment.
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Isn't the origin of the CO2 kind of important? I mean we can get all worked up about how much is being blown up the chimney, but the source has to be taken into account.
I could be completely wrong here, but surely pulling coal out of the ground and burning it is essentially adding new CO2 into the atmosphere. Growing plant matter and burning that is only releasing the CO2 that was pulled from the atmosphere to grow it in the first place.
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Ehhh you're not completely wrong.
But still very wrong, imhho...
Over geological time your statement about plant matter holds true for fossil fuels. They're only releasing the carbon that was pulled from the atmosphere in the first place, and over geological time, they too are 'carbon neutral'.
But the world ecosystem has evolved to depend on the climate that existed post-fuel fossilisation and pre-1800s. Adding greenhouse gases to that mix is suicide, we have already done irreversible damage to the planet, so now anything that does not remove greenhouse gas simply adds to our problems.
The source of the biomass for Drax is North America. This is insane and only adds to the environmental catastrophe. Drax's claims that they're going to be carbon-negative by 2030 reads to me like cynical corporate lies, but I hope I'm wrong about that.
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I'm not talking about geological time though. I'm talking about over the lifetime of the power plant - which is the only timescale that's relevant to this.
The transport of the fuel is important, but if there's a way of offsetting that (and the plant operators seem to think they can) then I see no reason why it can't be carbon neutral.
Of course we all know the best option for low-carbon power generation would be nuclear, but we can't have that can we?
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I expect that the only way they can make this business model 'carbon neutral' by 2030 is to buy carbon credits from Elon Musk, or use some other creative accountancy trick.
Otherwise, as far as I can tell, they need, within 5.5 years, to create a sustainable fleet of carbon neutral vehicles (and associated carbon neutral supply chains, which nobody has yet managed to do) to transport millions of tonnes of carbon neutrally produced North American woodchips (ditto), to be burned at their plant in Yorkshire where they will have designed and built, carbon neutrally (ditto), a fully closed-cycle, carbon-sequestering, carbon-negative furnace (ditto).
I really hope they can, but realistically this is an environmental disaster hiding behind corporate greenwashing PR bullshit. Go nuclear now!
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fossil fuels will never form again
So there is no cyclic method for them to sequester co2. Unlike plants.
This is the point
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They could
if we burn all the fossil fuels. Oxygen-producing life will eventually evolve again and the cycle will repeat. I guess the expansion of the sun puts a hard time limit on this kind of thing, but we could probably get 4-8 cycles in, I reckon.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 9 Aug 2024, 18:21,
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no it won't
The global conditions will never occur again
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Mr Mould gotcha
But TLDR; we now have bacteria/fungi that can break down lignin, but those bugs didn't exist when woody plants first appeared, so the wood wasn't broken down and it fossilised.
Bugs will eat the lignin now, so no more coal ever again.
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And these lignin-eaters are all high temperature extremophiles?
They'd all survive the Venusification of the Earth?
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sun 11 Aug 2024, 15:00,
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It’s only atmospheric carbon neutral when the mature trees that have been slashed and burned have been fully replaced. A process that could take decades.
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My point was that without understanding of why Rats was so low you could be misled into thinking that Drax was the worse option.
Looking back at the data I should probably have pointed in the direction of carbon intensity (CO2 generated per kwh).
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It is literally the country's worst emitter of co2.
It has emitted more co2 than Port Talbot steelworks and Pembroke gas plant combined. Those being the 2nd and 3rd placed worst emitters.
Biomass power production is a dangerously stupid idea.
We should be building dozens of fission reactors (and converting some already radioactive coal mine to be a nuclear waste powered geothermal generator) until clean nuclear fusion is a thing.
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Better than coal though which is where the comparison was being made
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Part of the reason why it actually emits so much more co2 than coal (and gas) plants
is that it is a less energy dense fuel that needs to be transported at great environmental cost from half the world away....
Remember it is the UK's number 1 single emitter of co2.
The next worst single emitting power plant is Pembroke (gas), which produced only 1/3 of Drax's number.
Ratcliff (coal) is the next power plant on the list, which produced only about 2/3 of the quantity Pembroke did.
Next is Staythorpe (gas), which produced 9/10ths of what Ratcliff did. And so on and so on down the list. You need to add several fossil fuel power stations together to equal the co2 output of this one 'green' nightmare, and even more if you exclude the gas fuelled ones.
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It's been in the back of Private Eye a lot
Drax claims to burn waste timber and biomass, which it can, but it isn't very efficient doing so. It is most efficient burning hardwoods from mature forests. As well as having to be shipped from North America, the trees themselves are a century or two old. So not exactly renewable in the short or medium term.
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regardless off the claims and counter claims in the article, for me the key point is the last paragraph
The FTSE 100 owner of the Drax power plant made profits of £500m over the first half of this year, helped by biomass subsidies of almost £400m over this period. It handed its shareholders a windfall of £300m for the first half of the year.
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No Mr Bond, I expct you to subsiDIEse!
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The £300m to shareholders only happens if they go ahead with a proposed share buyback program over the next two years.
They have paid out £54m in dividends in the first half of the year as well as £114m in the Electricity Generator Levy which I presume goes to HMRC.
source:
half year report presentation
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but aren't the subsidies there to help the business be more green?
rather than let it increase profitability?
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Possibly they are but don't rule out them also being provided just to keep things running.
Subsidies run ahead of any eventual profit or loss so profitability isn't guaranteed. Governments (and others) provide funds/credit on the basis that a return* will be made even in a bad** year but none of that is gauranteed. Along comes war, weather and other world events and the whole plan goes awry.
*return might be monetary or something like the provision of power/developments
**as bad as they modeled for not necessarily as bad as reality
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Gamesmaster 90s series 1
the shorthand spaztrospective
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fuck me, I think he's going to sarcastically double the length of the original episode
got bored about 5mins in tbh
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said the most interesting forum poster alive
it's the whole 1st series you thick fuck
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christ
sarcasm at a 90s kids show's entire 1st series
how utterly riveting
I hope you enjoy it xx
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This video is...
1.5 hours long. That's an hour and a half. I'm a very busy man. Who is going to have time to watch this?
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I like this guy's stuff a lot
And if we don't encourage this sort of thing then all we'll be left with is Mr Beast, and we'll deserve it.
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I’m just on watching a video about him and his illegal “lotteries”.
Apparently he has tens of millions of subscribers on YouTube but apart from Legal Eagle’s video I’ve never fucking heard of him. Would it be a good guess to say all his videos start with “hey guys!”?
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I was aware of him only because each time I hit YouTube's front page without being logged in there would be at least one representation of his gurning face and blindingly white photoshopped teeth in thumbnail form.
He looks like 'hey guys' personified.
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Thu 8 Aug 2024, 22:47,
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It seems he passes a great many shopped things off as real.
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People like him
are the reason I log in. Just so I can click 'do not recommend this channel'
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So there's definitely crosstalk between Links and my YT algo. This, for example, has been saved to my 'watch later' list for some time..
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You don't need to view a video (embedded) for it to affect your algorithm selections.
Merely having your browser load the preview image is enough. No login needed either - it will associate by IP, browser fingerprint etc, so anything loaded on links will affect your suggested videos on YT.
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RIP Jack Karlson, serial prison escaper, small-time crook and enjoyer of succulent Chinese meals
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4eva in our hartz
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I don't feel my day improved for having read that
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The Bob Ross of props makes a rubber axe
You have probably got him in your Youtube subs but anyway...
...Its a crafsman link.
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First time I've seen this fella.
And I think I like.
Thank you
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Anderson stuff
(UFO, 1999, Terrahawks etc)
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Nice of the pup to move it ton top of the flammable bed
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Is your nickname 'The Weatherman' by any chance?
Because you're dull and windy!!!
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Make me think of Dexy's midnight runners
jogging in the snow and lifting weights
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9sz80Sr-oI&t=54s
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Just been checking out some of their
other videos...a lot of fun, although I'm so hungry for Korean food right now, for some reason...
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I can recommmend WIngWings on Gt. Portland St.
they do really good Korean chicken.
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Chimaek is my go to for KFC here in Manchester...
with hot pepper sauce and a tornado potato...
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vid looking at the media on the Southport riots
It's from a long-running weekly quarter hour show in Aus called Media Watch that looks at news media and reporting, IMHO the best show on TV. might be of interest to some
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You’re a Paul Barry fanboy, now that is a surprise. Is that where you get all your opinions from?
Let me guess, was it him that gave you the “Biden’s not senile, he’s just got a stammer” line?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 6 Aug 2024, 14:47,
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Ha, when you’re triggered you really stay triggered
The show itself has a very narrow focus on journalistic integrity and media reporting. It’s not pushing any political barrow, and has well-researched critical analysis of both left and right leaning media (including the hand that feeds it). It’s a 15 min show on the ABC, and only very rarely covers non-Australian topics, so I’m guessing you’re just pretending to know who the retiring Paul Barry is in the vague hope that it might be insulting.
It isn’t, he’s been one of the better hosts of a very informative show if you’re (and I mean other B3tans) interested in the subject.
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Does it explain why Sky News Australia is absolutely bat shit insane compared to Sky UK?
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Sky news UK has, as they say, been on a journey.
It used to be fairly right wing, occasionally reactionary, this is definitely not the case any more. But the most remarkable change has been Kay batshit Burley. She used to be, even by my standards, rabid in her right wing rants. I found some of her interviews in particular unhinged and unreasonable. Now she’s gone completely the other way politically. It’s all just performative I guess, but in both roles she always comes over as an utter cunt.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 0:39,
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They do whatever the shareholders want them to do.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 17:41,
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Not so much the shareholders as the advertisers.
The latter have way, way more power than former in commercial tv.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 7 Aug 2024, 19:34,
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you're not wrong there
it occasionally covers it, though usually only when it has some impact on a wider story as it has tiny audiences, about 20,000 viewers for their top rating show.
though it does like to end on a lighter note after a heavier piece, and sky-after-dark provides plenty of fodder for that in a fish/barrel sort of way
I should add that sky news Australia is still owned by murdoch's news corp, while sky UK got bought out by Comcast in 2018, which accounts for much of the editorial divergence
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So Sky News Aus. is like GBeebies?
That would explain that Douglas Murray cunt.
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yep, though they have a whole late night line-up, some of whom are even worse
Rowan Dean, who also edits the Spectator Australia (hi prufrock), is particularly unhinged. They fired his co-presenter after calling chinese "slanty-eyed yellow-skinned" which apparently was even too much for Sky, but Dean himself is a litany of almost comical misogyny, race-baiting and whatever alt-right bullshit is flavour of the week
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Do you guys still refer to the Pakistan cricket team as 'the Pakis'?
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On cricket ads on telly, not since the mid 80s
Amongst older Aussie cricket fans, sure
Rather than repeat old points b3ta.com/links/1599320
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www.amnesty.org.au/does-australia-have-a-racism-problem-in-2021/
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www.oxfam.org.uk/publications/changing-attitudes-racism-in-britain-2012-22/
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www.imdb.com/title/tt0216417/
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 8 Aug 2024, 18:26,
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Very interesting that one of the channels spreading shite, may be Russian.
The rioters may be in for a very rude awakening according to these barristers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vouPC9LBpXs
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 6 Aug 2024, 16:37,
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that was interesting.
the training I did for coppers years ago was just concerned about whether an offence was arrestable, nothing about sentencing. sounds like quite a few of them will be going in the big house
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Interesting to find out recently that nobody gets charged with 'riot'
just public order offences. Because if there is a riot, the government is liable to compensate people for damages...
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I dont think people need to get charged with "riot" to meet the conditions of the compensation act
just that it meets the threshold of a riot in the Public Order act. The Independent seems to think there'll be quite a few claims coming through
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