Everything posted by Silas
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Upgrade and Downtime
Who’d have thought this would finally after 15 years actually happen
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Generic ROTW Politics
BSW are getting a little too close to the 5% hurdle for comfort. But the FDP being telt to get f***ed is the only silver lining to this dreadful result
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Generic ROTW Politics
Using the coalition builder on the MDR website, only GroKo and Nazi 2.0 have a majority, so that should at least strengthen the position of the SPD in negotiations to try and hold on to things like dual citizenship reform in the coalition contract
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🟢 BJSC 172 • SEMIFINAIS 🟢
Rd'Á has voted
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Generic ROTW Politics
Given the absolutely furious reaction to the CDU resolution on immigration only passing with AfD votes and the insane amount of damage control that Merz has been forced to do since, the brandmauer stays In all the debates recently Merz has also said he won’t work with the AfD. I don’t trust him, but I do trust that if he even started coalition discussions with them the public reaction would be huge
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Generic ROTW Politics
Annoyingly RRG is not a viable coalition so we have no choice but to suffer Merz as Chancellor. Thrilled FDP are going to get spanked out of parliament and that BSW will fail to hit the threshold. Less Russian propagandists in parliament the better. Die Linke will survive thanks to the constitutency vote which is awesome as while their a little too pro Russia they help keep the balance needed for social policies And @Liam Scholz will remain Chancellor until a new government is sworn in after the next coalition government is formed (looks like GroKo is the only viable option as Kiwi is 1 short of a majority under that poll) just as Merkel was still in power for nearly 2 months after the last federal election while the traffic light coalition agreement was negotiated
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The Russia Political Thread
Before 2022 Ukraine joining the EU or NATO was nothing more than a fantasy. NATO don’t allow states in conflict to join and Russia invaded Ukraine the first time in 2014 thus ensuring for as long as that conflict remained on ice, nato would never happen for Ukraine. And even now, putin can call his puppets up in Hungary and they’ll just veto it. This entire „argument“ is defeated by basic logical reasoning
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Trump: Folie à Deux (US Politics Thread)
I can’t get passed that you waited at A&E for four hours for Codeine when CoCodamol is literally sold OTC from a Pharmacy No wonder the NHS is a state when people continually overburden it with problems that are better solved by other branches of the system
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Norway (Melodi Grand Prix) · Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Tone was robbed!!!!!!!!! That the tasteless homophobic closet case is against it is surely grounds enough for y’all to admit to being wrong and that she was in fact correct
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RSD 2025 - Taller In More Ways
Maybe they’ll fix that at some point in the future
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RSD 2025 - Taller In More Ways
Oh thank god we’re getting Better
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Trump: Folie à Deux (US Politics Thread)
I’m not sure it’s entirely political as much of it is very personal to Musk going after agencies that are investigating him and the myriad of companies he bought and pretends he runs
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The Russia Political Thread
Why does Russia need to agree to what another sovereign state chooses to do? They didn’t agree to Finland joining NATO and yet here we are. The Baltic states too. And yet none of those 4 have been invaded. Why doesn’t Ukraine SPECIFICALLY deserve the right to self determination and its sovereignty
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The Russia Political Thread
They never were. Putin is negotiating with his own fully paid up yes man
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Buzzjack doesn’t work on my new phone?
That doesn’t make any difference for me. I still can’t load the site
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Buzzjack doesn’t work on my new phone?
Only seems to be safari, I’ve resorted to using Firefox on my mobile to access the site. The iPad is now too old for updates so at least this still works
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Summer 2025 Gigs
I don’t really think they have control over much of these announcements given they’re festivals that are publishing the line ups
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Summer 2025 Gigs
Camp bestival and Hootenany Fayre - both times as a headliner
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Summer 2025 Gigs
I’ll try and round up the ones already announced. Today Lincoln for June 20th
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Buzzjack doesn’t work on my new phone?
Ive just had to swap to Firefox from Safari to get this site to work 🥲
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RSD 2025 - Taller In More Ways
There’s already one! Angels was released last year
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RSD 2025 - Taller In More Ways
https://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/record/Tal...n%20More%20Ways Hurrah!!! Pink vinyl coming for RSD We’ve skipped 3 in the order tho 🥲
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BJSC 171 IS BRAT FINAL RESULTS
No, it’s only the final that counts towards a one contest ban
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Germany (Chefsache) · Eurovision Song Contest 2025
I’ve seen Cloudy June live! She was the support for Nico Santos when I saw him a few months ago in Berlin. I liked her enough to send one of her tracks to BJSC which I think says a lot. She could sing live and had some pretty good tracks
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Trump: Folie à Deux (US Politics Thread)
One thing you miss about the H1-B visa is that the alternate to hiring someone from India on 75k isn’t an American on 250k it’s actually an offshore Indian on 40k. The H1-B visa actually keeps the wage tax and social security contributions in the US instead of that US corporation funding the Indian equivalent. Also, that person is paying rent and buying groceries etc and contributing to the local economy. Companies have been outsourcing for decades. They care about profit and getting the skills they need to do the job. India has invested heavily in IT education and so that’s where you can get skills at a lower cost, win win for a company. You can’t tell a company how to run their business or where to hire people. So your actual true alternate to a H1-B is the company in question sets up a subsidiary in India and hires local talent instead of Americans Capitalism reigns supreme in the US, you have to calculate than in when you think about things. Corporations will always do whatever maximises their profits.