Bogan King posted:

Here is the latest chart that shows actual wage growth vs budget predictions

Cartoon posted:

The sheer amount of outrage coming out of the banks is boggling. Increasing their taxes is an 'assault' and 'unwarranted'. Then the petulant toddler kicks in and they scream that they are going to pass it all on to customers anyway so Nayh Nayh Nayh. I expect a rape comparison from one of them by COB.

Bogan King posted:

Here it is

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/862465043899731969

TFA posted:

When asked if the government would use waste water tests, which are already being performed, in order to inform its decisions about where to roll out the trial, the treasurer said the government had to be smart about how it spends money.

"We're an innovative, agile and flexible government that looks at all sorts of new ways to better target government spending,"

MysticalMachineGun posted:

What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Tokamak posted:

Basically it means that they take a sewage sample at someplace like Mt Druitt, say 'yep, there's a lot of meth in this sample', and test everyone in the region. It is the simplest means to justify targeting areas with known drug problems. If you don't live in those areas, you'll probably never be tested.

I can't imagine that concentrating spending restricted recipients in specific regions will have a very positive impact on the community and local economy. I imagine that after the first program review, they will point to the increased arrests and incarceration as having made an impact. The bad people will be in jail which means the program is good and is working, and fewer people claiming payments which is obviously good. While any other measure (jobs, well being...) will show that it isn't doing poo poo, or making things worse.

Tokamak posted:

Basically it means that they take a sewage sample at someplace like Mt Druitt, say 'yep, there's a lot of meth in this sample', and test everyone in the region. It is the simplest means to justify targeting areas with known drug problems. If you don't live in those areas, you'll probably never be tested.

I can't imagine that concentrating spending restricted recipients in specific regions will have a very positive impact on the community and local economy. I imagine that after the first program review, they will point to the increased arrests and incarceration as having made an impact. The bad people will be in jail which means the program is good and is working, and fewer people claiming payments which is obviously good. While any other measure (jobs, well being...) will show that it isn't doing poo poo, or making things worse.

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/862481972869832704

Anidav posted:

Name: Avocado hand.

Prevalence: Widespread and increasing in middle-class kitchens

Symptoms: Blood everywhere. Shouting: “Ow! My hand!” Chronic embarrassment.

This sounds like a very unpleasant condition. How does one develop it? Is there a genetic component? We don’t yet know. Onset of avocado hand develops suddenly when someone preparing to eat an avocado stabs themselves instead.

Why do people do that? Avocados are delicious, but they may well go brown during the wait in A&E. Oh, they’re delicious all right, and tremendously popular. They are also booby trapped.

How so? You know when you cut an avocado down the middle, then twist the halves apart, to be left with two beautiful pear-shaped pieces, one with an empty well in the centre, the other with the stone or pit embedded in it?

I am familiar with that scenario. I’m never quite sure how to get the stone out. Exactly! So people take the point of the knife and try to dig around it, then slip, and end up stabbing the hand they are holding the avocado with. Some sufferers from avocado hand experience nerve or tendon damage from which they never fully recover.

Those fiendish Mexicans! So their entire delicious food culture was just a ruse to injure gringos? If only we could surround them with some kind of wall. Good plan. In the mean time, the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons wants safety-warning labels placed on avocados. “There is minimal understanding of how to handle them,” the honorary secretary of Bapras, Simon Eccles, told the Times. “Perhaps we could have a cartoon picture of an avocado with a knife, and a big red cross going through it?”

I think I’m stupid enough to ignore that. You and many others. Eccles says he treats four people a week for avocado hand. Meryl Streep was afflicted in 2012, and many sufferers complain that the worst aspect is the stigma.

So how do I avoid it? Is there a vaccine? Not yet, but you can try scooping the stone out with a spoon, or hacking down on the stone with the middle of the blade, then twisting to remove it neatly.

Do say: “Just be careful when you pull the stone off the knife.”

Don’t say: “I reckon I could cut myself with a spoon if I put my mind to it.”

Bogan King posted:

Anidav posted:

But the people I talk to reckon Malcolm would just hold another election because Bonner has a high chance of going ALP and the Coalition doesn't want to risk a vote of no confidence.

Which is why this is an election budget

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedOzPol/status/862445231601442816

Quantum Mechanic posted:

I want the Committee of Management (state exec sort of) to bar them from attending party room meetings and strip them of their media rights and portfolio responsibilities for the duration.

Anidav posted:

Name: Avocado hand.

Prevalence: Widespread and increasing in middle-class kitchens

Symptoms: Blood everywhere. Shouting: “Ow! My hand!” Chronic embarrassment.

Anidav posted:

Name: Avocado hand.

Prevalence: Widespread and increasing in middle-class kitchens

Symptoms: Blood everywhere. Shouting: “Ow! My hand!” Chronic embarrassment.

Paingod556 posted:

Huh, wasn't expecting Theme Hospital 2 to be announced here. Or at all. What treatment room would cure this one?

Paingod556 posted:

Huh, wasn't expecting Theme Hospital 2 to be announced here. Or at all. What treatment room would cure this one?

Anidav posted:

Name: Avocado hand.

Prevalence: Widespread and increasing in middle-class kitchens

Symptoms: Blood everywhere. Shouting: “Ow! My hand!” Chronic embarrassment.

This sounds like a very unpleasant condition. How does one develop it? Is there a genetic component? We don’t yet know. Onset of avocado hand develops suddenly when someone preparing to eat an avocado stabs themselves instead.

Why do people do that? Avocados are delicious, but they may well go brown during the wait in A&E. Oh, they’re delicious all right, and tremendously popular. They are also booby trapped.

How so? You know when you cut an avocado down the middle, then twist the halves apart, to be left with two beautiful pear-shaped pieces, one with an empty well in the centre, the other with the stone or pit embedded in it?

I am familiar with that scenario. I’m never quite sure how to get the stone out. Exactly! So people take the point of the knife and try to dig around it, then slip, and end up stabbing the hand they are holding the avocado with. Some sufferers from avocado hand experience nerve or tendon damage from which they never fully recover.

Those fiendish Mexicans! So their entire delicious food culture was just a ruse to injure gringos? If only we could surround them with some kind of wall. Good plan. In the mean time, the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons wants safety-warning labels placed on avocados. “There is minimal understanding of how to handle them,” the honorary secretary of Bapras, Simon Eccles, told the Times. “Perhaps we could have a cartoon picture of an avocado with a knife, and a big red cross going through it?”

I think I’m stupid enough to ignore that. You and many others. Eccles says he treats four people a week for avocado hand. Meryl Streep was afflicted in 2012, and many sufferers complain that the worst aspect is the stigma.

So how do I avoid it? Is there a vaccine? Not yet, but you can try scooping the stone out with a spoon, or hacking down on the stone with the middle of the blade, then twisting to remove it neatly.

Do say: “Just be careful when you pull the stone off the knife.”

Don’t say: “I reckon I could cut myself with a spoon if I put my mind to it.”

Tokamak posted:

If you use a kitchen knife or have to apply any pressure, you are doing it wrong. I imagine the author cut their hand, and that only a select number of idiot well off people (who never cook) ever cut their hand.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Testing waste water is a pretty normal way to determine drug use stats for public health reasons. Although drug testing welfare recipients is dumb I don't see what's strange about this (other than being able to make jokes)

Cartoon posted:

The sheer amount of outrage coming out of the banks is boggling. Increasing their taxes is an 'assault' and 'unwarranted'. Then the petulant toddler kicks in and they scream that they are going to pass it all on to customers anyway so Nayh Nayh Nayh. I expect a rape comparison from one of them by COB.

tithin posted:

Canberra is a leaky sieve. Words of this were getting to the unions two months ago. Bank lobbyists will have known about this for far longer.

This is all a play

open24hours posted:

They already know who they're going to test. The waste water testing is just a way to dress it up as 'evidenced based policy'.

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedOzPol/status/862445231601442816

Bogan King posted:

14 for 25 against removing abortion from NSW crimes act.

You Am I posted:

While that's good, it is also sad that the people for removing it was in double figures.

Bogan King posted:

This means 25 people voted to keep it illegal.

CrazyTolradi posted:

New South Wales, the heart of darkness in Australian politics.