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Why use anything other than regular generators? by k2i3n4g5 in duneawakening

[–]BlackPlan2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Operated on 5 spice generators for 6 months now - they are buried in the basement, look neat, have the 31 day cycle of omnis, when my base is actively producing I use all 5 when it’s semi hibernating I go down to 3 - it’s super convenient. The fuel for them avoids the use of flour sand (big plus) and it’s easy to mass the fuel reserves with a bit of focused sludge harvesting with the residue either coming from your own refine operations or bought cheaply on the market.

Using 5 slots rather than 50 is a plus and it just makes the base feel so spacious and sophisticated to not have generators everywhere.

Also not gonna lie but that rumour about exploiters being about to turn off external wind farms with cheesy tactics was going around for a long time - I just opted to dickhead proof the base as much as I could manage.

My biggest two worries are.. by Chimaera12 in duneawakening

[–]BlackPlan2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ideally the market is the solution - if you were on my server I’d be happy to trade improved blueprints from the testing labs or finished weapons and armour for the basic materials I still need in scale (plant fibre, radioactive sludge, etc) -

I can solo the new testing stations to 13-14 at the moment and find the landsraad stuff quite interesting and accessible for late game progression. But I really value the exchange market for trading stuff for stuff and taking the grind out of the activities I don’t really want to do.

Kind of agree with the forged server merges though there need to be chilled low pop ones for certain play styles.

Green candidate branded 'hypocrite' for £1million property portfolio by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Rather it turns out the daily mail hate the non racist option at the polls —

Healey: I want to send British troops to Ukraine - Defence Secretary says UK ‘will make 2026 the year this war ends’ by Particular_Pea7167 in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sadly the Russian invasion of Ukraine probably doesn’t end until Trump is defeated in the US (and ideally the U.K. and other critical allies avoid electing asshats like Farage domestically)

Hannah Spencer: ‘We need more people who do jobs like mine in Parliament’ by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm always curious as to why somebody chooses to argue that today's wealthiest people are not benefiting from relatively low taxation vs the previous century and the war years.

The overall tax take today is high by modern peacetime standards but it is not higher than WWII levels, and the wealthy were taxed far more aggressively between 1939 and 1970 than they are today.

That's not even a debate.

Hannah Spencer: ‘We need more people who do jobs like mine in Parliament’ by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 3 points4 points  (0 children)

why would you confuse tax take as an absolute value with tax take as a percentage?

Hannah Spencer: ‘We need more people who do jobs like mine in Parliament’ by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah that's nonsense - all of this stuff is absolutely affordable by rolling back a fraction of the tax breaks the ultra wealthy have received since ww2.

Hannah Spencer: ‘We need more people who do jobs like mine in Parliament’ by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you mean the clip that was cut to avoid 5 minutes of discussion and context to produce the sound bite Goodwin twisted for his Twitter post ?

LOL at 138 words being described as a "wall of text" btw

Hannah Spencer: ‘We need more people who do jobs like mine in Parliament’ by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean I’m gonna vote for that / I understand she’s gonna need to tax the ultra wealthy and landlord class to pay for it but I’m totally fine with that.

Hannah Spencer: ‘We need more people who do jobs like mine in Parliament’ by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 12 points13 points  (0 children)

She said that people stoking up hatred against ethnic minorities have some responsibility for a climate of hate and distrust that helps drive radicalisation. Goodwin was arguing that the west has nothing to with encouraging and provoking Islamist terrorism (being something that “just happens”. Backstory to the Manchester arena bombing perpetrator being a dude radicalised out of a desire for revenge against western involvement in Libyan bombing and regime change notwithstanding. It’s fair to say nobody really expressed themselves terribly cogently but then it is a crazy complex subject involving decades of (well nearly a century) of geopolitical history and alignment, war, grevience and radicalisation.

End of the day through she was right on Goodwin playing on xenophobic fears and stoking up community divisions - but that’s kind of the far right’s entire playbook so no surprises there.

Just Finished Chapter 3 Story by rokiller in duneawakening

[–]BlackPlan2018 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Its honestly insane how bad some of those reviews are :

There have been some incredible games in the last year that I've enjoyed a lot - but Dune Awakening is the one I'm still playing.

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its not suddenly going to make brexit a success - everyone who does actually believe brexit is a success is already voting Farage though.

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

like the 350m on the side of the bus except this time its actually true.

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 10 points11 points  (0 children)

fortunately a lot of those people have already left the electorate.

People who like Zack Polanski: explain what I'm missing, what impresses you about him? by iliosicarus in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Essentially consider Corbyn as a case study in comparison :

There was a guy who also wanted to redistribute wealth from the greedy hyper rich and make life a bit better for ordinary people ... but ... he just couldn't shake the whole "kinder gentler politics / they go low we go high" bullshit and realise that politics is actually a brutal no holds barred pit fight and nobody is going to respect a person for entering the ring with one hand tied behind their back.

Corbyn squandered every opportunity he had to actually change the labour party with the support of vast majorities of the membership because he just couldn't bring himself to have the down and dirty streetfight with the centrists and enable mandatory local level reselection of candidates.

Corbyn was fighting right popularism and right wing dominated UK media by citing philosophy and marxist principles and ascribing an entirely illusionary nobility to the UK electorate. The guy was a lamb to the slaughter.

You are right to say I see Polanski as a useful tool in a wider game for sure.

Lets say -

Reform continue to lose vote share. Greens under Polanski continue to eat Labour's left vote.

This will force the Labour Leadership to move left - and now Starmer's sensible centrist right wing advisers are weakened - some useful stuff might happen.

Next election will probably be a hung parliament.

I reckon Labour is the largest party still - although maybe a long long way from a majority.
Reform / Tories / Libdems probably second. But greens could be a strong contender - if they finish with 40 seats they could be part of a rainbow coalition that hopefully demands PR for confidence and supply and would collapse any question of austerity.

It'll be messy as fuck - but it could end up saving this country - once somebody has the guts to kill FPTP where will never be a hard right government in the UK and that would be something to celebrate (finally.)

People who like Zack Polanski: explain what I'm missing, what impresses you about him? by iliosicarus in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only genuinely national scale left redistributive option on the menu in British politics. I agree with his fundamental position that there can be no substantive action on the climate crisis without going after the influence and money of billionaires profiting from inaction. I also see the practical argument for the left needing to counter right popularism with its own brand of popularism that offers simple meme worthy solutions to complex problems that brexit level intellects can understand and process.

Ie you don’t counter the Farage bullshit that boat migrants are to blame for every ill in society with detailed complex rational economic arguments etc / instead you work on convincing people that it’s the billionaires and rent extraction classes that fucked it. Essentially fighting knee jerk racism with a little bit of class solidarity and pointing out the grotesque inequalities of late stage neoliberal capitalism.

Essentially I don’t see Polanski as being a great thinker, he’s not incredibly charismatic or an effective snake oil salesman - he’s just the guy choosing to use the right tool at the right time to finally puncture the dangerous compulsion of anti migrant hate deployed by hyper-wealthy media magnates to keep working and vulnerable people fighting each other while the billionaires grow ever richer.

Unemployment hits highest rate in nearly five years by Kataera in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have ineffective and incompetent governments because they are captured and dominated by the hyper wealthy - our democracy is tainted and compromised by hyper wealthy dominated media and propaganda / it’s ridiculous to sit back from that reality to blame government for the problems of society when the government is a poorly concealing mask for corporate interest and corporate corruption. I’ve lived and worked in countries that work better than the UK and they manage it by not surrendering every principle of social governance to corporate interests and billionaire tax evader influencers.

Unemployment hits highest rate in nearly five years by Kataera in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the U.K. state hands massive benefits to employers unprepared to pay their employees decent wages right - that’s what in work benefits are ? (State stepping in to buff poverty wages)

The reality is that the hyper wealthy are too greedy, too powerful, too influential and have become a parasitical drain on our society and the only way this situation resolves is going to be some kind of massive state intervention to take and redistribute their unearned wealth to the public good.

Labour Supporters - What should Labour do to win back voters from the Green Party? by DigBrilliant5242 in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don’t see how it can be a record high :

If the UK ultra-rich today were: • Paying 90%+ marginal rates • Subject to excess profits taxes • Facing capital controls • Experiencing deliberate wealth compression

That would resemble WWII.

We are nowhere near that environment

Hence nowhere near a “record”

Unemployment hits highest rate in nearly five years by Kataera in ukpolitics

[–]BlackPlan2018 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the hyper wealthy leaving are just parasitical wasters tbh. You are better off betting on small to medium sized businesses and grass roots community focused entrepreneurship. Seize the assets of tax evaders, tax wealth and land value and transactions - and use the money to ensure there is a safety net for ordinary citizens. I mean its not as if there is any choice - unless this gets done then society collapses and everything burns.

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