Posts by Rich Lock
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
It is unbelievably hard to get someone to change their value-based position.
Sometimes, with patience and time and effort on both parties, it's possible to change a value-based position. But you can't underestimate the effort involved for both parties. Most folks just don't care enough to bother.
This, on the backfire effect, has been doing the rounds recently.
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?, in reply to linger,
My thanks to you, kind internet stranger. At last I can sleep at night.
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Why is this so hard for 'third way' advocates to see?
My prediction is that low turnout will be the deciding factor in this election. There was a general election in May 2015, the Euro Ref in 2016, and local council elections earlier this month, so the general public are being asked to turn out four times in just over two years - there's ballot fatigue. There's also a fair amount of 'pox on it all' apathy at the moment - the last Labour administration did itself no favours by effectively ignoring the protests and concerns of it's base. Both Momentum and the tories recognise this - Momentum appear to be concentrating on voter registration as a tactic, while the tories are banking on their base turning out anyway, so they're running the most boring campaign possible to help stoke the apathy amongst those who might not vote for them, plus concentrating on playing the man rather than debating the policies.
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Plenty of collective noun suggestions, but no definitive answer on the plural. You people are no help at all.
Anyway, if we're going for collective nouns, I'd prefer something evocatively old-school. Perhaps a slattern of dildos, or a bawdyhouse.
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Then I remembered that they don’t have any kind of PR, and all English people can do is vote for their local MP
If you wouldn't mind, can you point this out to our entire press corps, who insist on reporting evey single election as if it's presidential under a PR system? Cheers.
Or how to spell the plural of ‘dildo’.
Oh great. Another thing to worry about. Thanks a bunch, Emma.
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Speaker: The Brexlection, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I'll just leave this here:
Yep, no way of spinning anything positive from that. UKIP has completely taken control of it's host body and is abandoning it's previous physical chrysalis form, and the electorate are too pissed off and apathetic to push the turnout above 30-35%.
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Speaker: The Brexlection, in reply to Ben Austin,
No doubt. My wife talks about seeing him on telly delivering his keynote speech at the Labour party conference a year or so before the 1997 general election and getting goosebumps. And then her grandad 'Red George' turning to her with his wolrd-weary smile and saying 'just wait'.
Fool me once....
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Speaker: The Brexlection, in reply to Ben Austin,
Blair still gets a lot of stick, but I think it is almost accepted now that he’s somehow in the process of being rehabilitated.
Jesus wept. All that's going to do is further entrench the utter loathing and contempt that huge numbers of people feel for him and his acolytes.
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I think the lesson here is that if you're going to give the members a say you need to be very careful that the members are aligned with the organisation
The members...not...being part of the organisation? Is that what you're trying to say?
I trust that Labour have something similar.
Yeah, they deliberately put the 3 quid sign-up thing in place to prevent this type of thing from ever happening (union/bloc voting). Worked well, eh?
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Hard News: YouTube and the programmatic…, in reply to BenWilson,
Every device I have has ad blocker and tracker blockers installed. I just never see this stuff.
I used to do that. But then I stopped bothering and found that I never see it anyway. I pretty much look away, do something else, mute the sound, whenever advertising presents. Turns out it was not as onerous as I'd thought before when I used to obsess about keeping impure content out of my mind. It's essentially invisible to me.
It's intrusive in certain circumstances, for example if you're running a YouTube automatically-generated music playlist in the background while working in the foreground. I installed adblock to prevent being forcibly pulled out of my work trance every few minutes by some overly-upbeat idiot attempting to convince me of the benefits of...whatever, and having to then go and find the right window and hit the 'skip now' button in order to get rid of them.
Having said that, it does seem to make some browsers slightly unstable. I've had some minor issues on Firefox which I suspect might be related. I've also found that it's quite jarring to switch to another browser where it isn't installed and be confronted with a vomit of primary colours splashed across the page rather than soothing white.