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The £2 bus fare cap was a Tory policy that was backslid on by Starmer to a £3 cap. It is not particularly radical.

Better one-to-one work with autistic people who lack certain social skills that helps them engage with other people, autistic or otherwise, specifically using their special interest (if they have one) as a hook would be far more beneficial for human contact for that section of the autistic population. They're still human and deserve human-to-human contact, especially to talk about things they derive intense pleasure from.

The US-backed post-coup Ukrainian government could have not let it get to this point by not murdering Ukrainians in the East for nearly a decade, and letting nazis into every nook and cranny of the government and military.

"Just give up the east to the Nazi Ukrainian government and we promise they won't continue shelling them and killing people indiscriminately."

Lol lmao

Mahjong soul is Riichi Mahjong (the most popular in Japan), and has slightly modified rules to most of the Chinese rulesets.

To play official Chinese Mahjong rules you can play against AI on "Mahjong 13 tiles" on the playstore/app store on mobile. On PC you can play online on https://playmahjong.io/login as a guest if you don't want to log in. None of these options are as slick as Mahjong Soul in presentation or have a ranked mode, so you'll miss out on that.

For Chinese Official Rules you can find them here: https://playmahjong.io/chinese-official-rules

And here as a picture guide (plus other popular rulesets): https://www.mahjongpictureguide.com/

Riichi is fun but I much prefer Chinese Official in person as scoring is way easier and you need less shit to just get started.

I think it's less purposeful than direct discrimination, the application should have no sign I've ticked the box for the disability scheme, but I think that their screening process is just really poor.

I reckon they're either using AI to batch shortlist and don't really care about when it makes mistakes, or their shortlisters are having to wade through so many applications they're not giving enough attention to each one and incorrectly scoring them. This then has the downstream effect of being indirectly discriminating, because they actually have to justify what essential criteria I have missed to deny me an interview, but for anyone else accidentally missed during shortlisting they can just lie and say they didn't make the cut because there were so many strong candidates.

Having chatted with people recruiting in this area before, they're getting like 500-1000 applicants for each role so their shortlisting has had to speed up to keep the process to a sane timeline. This has pushed them to make far more mistakes than I've ever had to deal with during the shortlisting phase. I used to get an interview almost every single time I applied for a role, and would perform well enough to be in the top 2 or 3 candidates if I failed to get the role. Now I'm just being screened out at the application phase.

George Galloway and the Workers Party are transphobic and kind of aggressively so, GG has been weirdly ethnonationalist to former Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf, GG is anti-abortion, and GG and the WP are probably too pro-China and pro-Russia as well for the soft left, trots, and "anti-imperialists" in Your Party.

There's probably even more lurking around the WPGB that I can't remember right now but there's a decent starter.

Got rejected from a job I applied for in a field I've worked in for years, asked for feedback and was told I missed a piece of essential criteria which I had definitely covered twice in my application.

Immediately responded with the excerpts and am awaiting their excuses about why the two examples I gave were not good enough evidence.

The kicker is this is a gov adjacent role in the UK and we have the "Disability Confident" scheme that lets disabled candidates get a guaranteed interview when you hit all the essential criteria. I opted in for that as a disabled person and conveniently (and this happens a lot!! At least 3 other times to me) I apparently don't hit the essential criteria for a role I've done for like 7 years at a higher level than what I'm applying for, with examples that have gotten me jobs for roles at a higher level than the ones I'm applying for.

I love this period of economic stagnancy it's great fun 🫠

Cockshott's transphobia blinds him to the real reasons why Your Party and the Workers Party haven't merged.

The 2010 remake of Hunter x Hunter is also awesome and gets two more seasons of content that were made after the 1999 one came out.

The Chimera Ant arc in the 2010 series is one of my favourite seasons of any show. Anti- DPRK in hindsight but I watched it pre-radicalisation, and if you just ignore the liberalism of it the story is still peak.

Hasan has always openly been a reformist when it comes to American politics, despite happily platforming MLs and doing theory sessions. He has mentioned many times in the past that this has always been a sticking point with people further to his left with him.

This isn't a new thing.

Isn't this broadly Marx's original position on the organic spontaneous working class energy?

I.e. what you want and are fighting for is correct and just, but here are the limitations of doing it in the way you're trying to - you should do it this way instead because of x y z.