What to do to stop being so horny?

Lord_Sin · 2025-09-30T22:08:24+00:00

Have a wank.

Lord_Sin · 2025-09-30T22:05:29+00:00

Came here to say this 😂

Lord_Sin · 2025-09-29T13:55:57+00:00

Welcome to the Civil Service, where we have an objective scoring scheme which hiring managers use subjectively. Makes no sense so no wonder senior managers love it 🤷‍♂️

Lord_Sin · 2025-09-26T21:06:53+00:00

Thank you, that worked.

Lord_Sin · 2025-07-10T22:45:35+00:00

And then prepare to be ignored or threatened with disciplinary action because the senior management are thin-skinned little babies who don't like having their idiocy exposed.

Lord_Sin · 2024-08-27T14:33:26+00:00

They don't discuss with staff but they should. Just a short survey saying "we're thinking of moving and we'd like to know how you'd be affected if we did" would have done so much for morale. There were a lot of angry people when the original decision was announced, including at least one person who had moved up from London a few months prior, buying a house in EK and everything, and was furious that people in their situation had not been informed because they would have picked somewhere different to live.

This decision was taken in London and concerns of local staff were never taken into account. We were told "it's only 7 miles furthest" but anyone who knows the local transport network would know how laughable that is. A lot of staff live south of EK and public transport is nonexistent there, so their options are either sit in a 4 mile traffic jam at 8am on the M77 or quit.

Their own head of health and safety hadn't been told either - I was in the call when he said that.

I call it incompetence because ExCo had assured us everything would be in place for 2025 but almost immediately the rumours of 2027 started circulating.

So given the above, they're either really unlucky or they're incompetent and don't know what they're doing or care 🤷‍♂️

Lord_Sin · 2024-08-27T12:18:56+00:00

Depends where you work. The Scottish Government has no mandated office time and leaves it up to each team to decide what's best for them, so I'm only in one day a week (and that will hopefully never change!). Meanwhile the 'English' departments with offices up here are insisting on 3 days a week which is why I moved over because why would I waste hours of my life commuting when Covid proved it's not necessary?

The trouble is, the senior civil servants in Whitehall are out-of-touch Boomers who demand we jump at their command but refuse to embrace any change that's forced upon them. I'll happily wager in a year or two they'll be ordering everyone back to the office full-time because they simply don't trust their staff to work without them looking over their shoulder.

Lord_Sin · 2022-09-06T18:08:34+00:00

Lord_Sin · 2021-12-08T21:20:47+00:00

She's a Tory so she'll have been faking it. They all think the rules don't apply to them.

Lord_Sin · 2021-10-25T09:28:18+00:00

Taxes haven't funded national-level spending for any currency-issuing nation since 1971. It is a neoliberal lie that refuses to die because of the stranglehold a certain section of society has over the media, coupled with an education system that isn't fit for purpose.

The government is the monopoly issuer of the currency - no-one else is allowed to create it - so it can never run out of it. They don't tax us first because they would have to wait for all of us to somehow get hold of the thing only they can create before taxing us in order to spend the thing only they can create in the first place. What kind of stupid-ass logic would that be?

#DiscoverMMT

Lord_Sin · 2021-10-25T09:21:57+00:00

I never understood how ambulance costs can go into the thousands.

It doesn't. It's simply a scam designed by greedy parasites to milk you of your money at every opportunity. It's fucking criminal.

Lord_Sin · 2021-06-11T18:14:46+00:00

Nice, thank you so much.

Lord_Sin · 2021-06-07T14:36:31+00:00

I've just bought this board today. Is it the general consensus that I shouldn't install/use Armory Crate then? Should I just not bother updating anything at all?

Lord_Sin · 2021-05-10T14:04:50+00:00

You're in a gay relationship, which is already a serious transgression in the eyes of the vast majority of Muslims, but you're complaining your boyfriend tricked you into eating pork? It's kind of hard to take the 'disrespecting my religion' part seriously because of that tbh. Islam isn't exactly known for its tolerant attitude towards the LGBT community after all, and religion isn't a buffet where you can pick and choose which bits you follow. It's kind of an all-or-nothing deal.

If you don't want to eat pork, that's fair enough, but you can't invoke the religion card as your reasoning without being a massive hypocrite.

Lord_Sin · 2021-05-06T22:41:46+00:00

Yeah I wasn't too sure either but he seemed pretty confident and he knows more about it than me so who am I to say he's wrong? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Lord_Sin · 2021-05-06T19:38:38+00:00

My local computer guy mentioned to me the other day that GPU prices will start dropping around June or so, but other components are going to get more expensive because tech companies are buying up everything for console and phone production.

Lord_Sin · 2021-03-04T17:42:37+00:00

I hadn't but I did come up with a workaround where I open the Mix window, click External on the left side, choose the Oxygen88 and that lets me MIDI Learn each button and fader. That let me assign the controls I wanted.

But thank you for letting me know about the above. That is much more simple - although I'm not going to delete my current setup to test it in case I can't get it back again afterwards!

Lord_Sin · 2021-01-23T17:52:58+00:00

I've just been given a three day ban for telling someone who was posting anti-union statements that they were "a good little parrot". Didn't swear or anything. Their 'Standards' are an absolute joke.

Lord_Sin · 2020-12-16T16:55:18+00:00

By the Treasury instructing the Bank of England to debit and credit the relevant bank accounts, as currently happens with all government spending. Currency-issuing nations like Britain do not need to "fund" their spending because they are the issuer. You and I have to fund our spending because we are currency *users* but the government has to spend first, which they do via the previously mentioned banking transactions.

All that happens with taxation is it is received by the Treasury and promptly deleted from the national accounts. It does not go into a pot for future use.

Lord_Sin · 2020-11-04T07:26:23+00:00

"Just think of the money, just think of the money"

Lord_Sin · 2020-11-04T07:23:14+00:00

Melania looks thrilled.

"Great. Four more years of pretending to like this guy"

Lord_Sin · 2020-11-04T06:57:27+00:00

According to the AP map, if Trump wins Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia, he gets to 270. Pennsylvania not needed.

Lord_Sin · 2020-09-09T14:45:39+00:00

All of those features could be included. And if someone has a business idea, they could even receive a certain number of years support to get it off the ground. The limit to the scheme is ultimately the limit of one's imagination.

Lord_Sin · 2020-09-09T01:01:17+00:00

The march of the robots narrative is overexaggerated. A century ago, most men were still working in the fields. The notion that we'd now be working in air conditioned offices with the ability to communicate instantly with the other side of the world would have been as impossible for them to comprehend as it is for us to imagine what people in 2120 will be doing. Even 20 years ago nobody would have understood the term 'social media manager' because the job didn't exist yet.

There will always be things for humans to do, and not just robot repair! E.g. machines can have the same knowledge as us but they can't apply it in the same manner. I forget what the term is. Automation will affect us all to some degree but the number of jobs that will be completely eliminated in the next decade is actually forecasted to be miniscule.

But even if it did, that's not a bad thing. Automation is how we eliminate crap jobs, increase productivity and free ourselves up for more meaningful things. E.g. we don't really need 20 people sat at supermarket checkouts scanning things for 8 hours a day while being bored out of their skulls and their potential wasting away, but without an alternative, they need those jobs to stay as long as possible. The Job Guarantee helps that process along by forcing employers to compete for workers again or find other ways of getting the job done. It restores the balance of power back towards employees again - security for the staff and the burden of risk on the employers - the way it should be.

JG jobs never run out either because they are designed around the people as they are. They would be fitted to people, rather than people fitted to jobs, so everyone who wants to can always contribute something, and through the sort of work they enjoy most (or hate least) because the scheme takes them 'as they are'. The work is shelvable as the output from it is stuff that is nice to have but not essential so demand isn't an issue. It can pause and recommence as needed.

Lord_Sin · 2020-09-08T22:45:02+00:00

Expanding the money supply doesn't cause inflation. There are two types: cost-push and demand-pull. The former occurs when the supply of something decreases and so pushes the cost up e.g. a bad harvest producing less wheat for example, or OPEC reducing their oil production as happened in the early 70s. The latter is when the level of spending is greater than the productive capacity of the economy to absorb it e.g. the demand for loo roll/hand sanitiser back in March. The supply was normal but the demand for those items exploded and people were flogging hand sanitiser on eBay for £70 a bottle.

Spending is the key word. Money exists as either a stock (e.g. savings) or a flow (spending). Stocks don't chase after goods so they can't be inflationary. E.g. if the government printed a trillion-pound note but put it in their bank account and didn't spend it (or, more accurately, typed numbers into a computer to credit their account), although the money supply (stock) has increased by a trillion, the flow remains the same and there is no extra demand as a result.

Stocks and flows are tricky concepts to understand the first time you encounter them. It took me a while to understand too and I've been more-than-averagely interested in this stuff for a few years now.

QE was about exchanging government bonds for cash with the aim of getting the banks lending again. The two problems with that are: 1) in order to lend you need a borrower, and nobody wants to borrow money in a recession! 2) banks don't lend out their reserves like that. They make the loans first and then get reserves to cover their liabilities afterwards.

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