Small talk & Chit chat

[Avet]

Sometimes I seriously wonder how stupid governments actually are?

https://www.theguardian.com/science...e-experts-oneweb-investment-uk-galileo-brexit

 

[Dicehunter]

Sometimes I seriously wonder how stupid governments actually are?

https://www.theguardian.com/science...e-experts-oneweb-investment-uk-galileo-brexit

Not really surprising considering we have a PM who cannot talk without having Dominic Cummings write out his lines and when he doesn't have a script he's tripping up over his own words every 2 seconds.

 

[Warchild]

Sometimes I seriously wonder how stupid governments actually are?

https://www.theguardian.com/science...e-experts-oneweb-investment-uk-galileo-brexit

I posted this on the quick news a few months ago. Even back then they were warned it was the wrong one, and that was before the purchase was made.

This is why British government is always doomed. Every person in position of responsibility has almost zero background experience/qualifications at the task.

 

[Avet]

I posted this on the quick news a few months ago. Even back then they were warned it was the wrong one, and that was before the purchase was made.

This is why British government is always doomed. Every person in position of responsibility has almost zero background experience/qualifications at the task.

It can be worse don't worry.

 

[Dicehunter]

I posted this on the quick news a few months ago. Even back then they were warned it was the wrong one, and that was before the purchase was made.

This is why British government is always doomed. Every person in position of responsibility has almost zero background experience/qualifications at the task.

This is why the UK has been in a total mess for hundreds of years, The class system, We have people that go straight from Eton into positions of power, They have no clue what they are doing and when they inevitably mess up they can retire to their thousand acre properties living off the tax payer.

Many have said it for years but the UK desperately needs a French revolution style of house cleaning.

 

[grec]

I wish this was incompetence but I think that's too generous given this parties recent track record. How many dodgy contracts have been given to companies that barely exist that have turned out to be run my Tory MP's mates or family? Even just since 2016? Losing track this happens so often.

We'll find out soon enough anyway, an inquiry has been launched (Things aren't looking good for the Minister who made the decision but as with Gralying and co nothing is likely to be done about it): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53506960]

This cycle has gone on for years here: Defund public service until its falling apart, blame inefficiency, use this to justify privatising it, sell to mates, then ignore the public service continuing to fall apart, occasionally pump £Bn's into subsidising the companies to run the public services to avoid total collapse and spend more than you spent when it was nationalised, claim nationalisation was worse and more expensive despite statistical evidence to contrary.

(For balance, "New Labour" (the last time the British political establishment had full control of the Labour party [1997-2015]), also did this, the issue is definitely with the British neoliberal political establishment as a whole, but fortunately there's still clear grassroots movements lower in the parties hierarchies)

 

[grec]

British PM, two previous PMs, 14 ministers(Including 6 of the highest ranking) and two additional MPs now seriously implicated in a Russian donor scandal too, for a while now Open Democracy has been monitoring the sharp rise in Kremlin money finding its way into the Tory Party and a recent security report seems to bust things open.

www.businessinsider.in/politics/wor...linked-to-russia/amp_articleshow/77128786.cms

 

[AlienALX]

Hmm hoping to get my new rig "home" on Sunday. Just all depends if my cousin shows up.

 

[Warchild]

So Destiny 2 is coming to Xbox game pass along with all DLC, expansion and even the upcoming Beyond light expansion.

Interesting time for next gen consoles!

 

[Damien c]

Yeah I saw that it's getting all DLC except the Season Passes.


It certainly is going to be interesting and add some more players to the game.


I'm waiting for the crossplay and to see if they add K&M support to it on the consoles.

 

[AlienALX]

7 hours. Doing something that should have taken ten minutes !

All I had to do was flip my little stand upside down and screw it to an oak top. Yet the solid oak top decided to f*****g crack in half !!!!!. I have hardly any tools, no drill, no saws etc.

I glued it back together, let the weight of it set the glue and then found some old alu bars in my stash. They were taken from a clothes drier, and amazingly had screw holes in the ends already.

Will let the glue all dry up then I can start the wiring FFS.

 

[Dicehunter]

With so many people constantly screaming from the rooftops -

"vR iS jUsT a FaD"

Even though these people have never tried VR, I find it's pretty funny to see VR HMD's constantly running low on stock to sold out and now a game that is exclusive to VR topping the Metacritic score charts above Halo and DOOM Eternal ^_^

 

[AlienALX]

Spoke to my old neighbour on the phone earlier. Asked about my old flat. Environmental services black listed it with about £50k worth of repair needed so it's still sitting empty 16 months later. She is not allowed to live in it, rent it or sell it until the work is completed.

The gas has been cut off because it needs a new outside supply thing, which adds even more £k to the price. I ain't gonna lie I was all like this.

 

[AlienALX]

Woot woot

 

[Dicehunter]

Woot woot

That looks soooo clean !

 

[Excalabur50]

So I got my new Roccat AIMO 122 Keyboard today and man is this thing stunning it not only looks beautiful it's really great to type on too as well as quite, really impressed so far but time will tell about it's longevity.

 

[Avet]

Spoke to my old neighbour on the phone earlier. Asked about my old flat. Environmental services black listed it with about £50k worth of repair needed so it's still sitting empty 16 months later. She is not allowed to live in it, rent it or sell it until the work is completed.

The gas has been cut off because it needs a new outside supply thing, which adds even more £k to the price. I ain't gonna lie I was all like this.

Sorry for not being in the loop, but what the Hell did you do in that apartment to make it level 4 environmental hazzard?

 

[Dicehunter]

Sorry for not being in the loop, but what the Hell did you do in that apartment to make it level 4 environmental hazzard?

It was Aliens land lady, The building needed various things doing to it for quite a few years but even after Alien reported it several times she refused to do it so it got worse and worse.

 

[Warchild]

Sorry for not being in the loop, but what the Hell did you do in that apartment to make it level 4 environmental hazzard?

Vaping

 

[trawetSluaP]

With so many people constantly screaming from the rooftops -

"vR iS jUsT a FaD"

Even though these people have never tried VR, I find it's pretty funny to see VR HMD's constantly running low on stock to sold out and now a game that is exclusive to VR topping the Metacritic score charts above Halo and DOOM Eternal ^_^

This is amusing cos F1 2020 doesn't officially support VR haha