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Anidav posted:So are the official Goon State rankings
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 Adelaide GoonsIn mid-January I am organising a “Games and Cocktail Night” fundraising event for my local Greens branch. It will be held at The William Bligh, which is that small new rum bar in the East End. The plan is to play boardgames with some cocktails and good craft beer, and the funds raised will go towards the upcoming state election. If this sounds like the sort of thing you'd be interested in then come along! Good last minute Christmas present for that nerd in your life.  The plan is to have branch members serving as “Game Valets” that will set up and run the games and make sure everyone is having fun all night. You don’t need to know any boardgame rules or bring a group with you, as you will be introduced to others and we will look after you the second you walk in the door. We're offering a complementary cocktail with each ticket and snacks and antipasto will be available on the night. It will be held at 6:30 on January 15th. RSVP and more details here if you're interested.
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Dec 21, 2017 10:41
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Anidav posted:So are the official Goon State rankings no, wrong, wrong, wrong. HAVE RATS EATEN YOUR BRAIN?? WA is definitely between VIC and QLD you weirdo.
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Dec 21, 2017 10:49
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No Australian Antarctic Territory on the list, worst list.
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Dec 21, 2017 10:50
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GoldStandardConure posted:No Australian Antarctic Territory on the list, worst list. GSC is after a penguin fetish intervention for christmas,
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Dec 21, 2017 10:53
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Don Dongington posted:no, wrong, wrong, wrong. HAVE RATS EATEN YOUR BRAIN?? No it's in the correct place 
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Dec 21, 2017 11:06
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Don Dongington posted:GSC is after a penguin fetish intervention for christmas, look i just want to go and live in the ice along with The Thing and possibly some shoggoths and be left alone is that too much to ask
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Dec 21, 2017 11:10
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GoldStandardConure posted:inebriated 
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Dec 21, 2017 11:12
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https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/943785825770274816
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Dec 21, 2017 11:15
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the australian... not evil?!
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Dec 21, 2017 11:20
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It's almost like we have a severe shortage of mental health services available.
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Dec 21, 2017 11:21
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Synthbuttrange posted:the australian... not evil?! Immediately associating mental illness (and drug addiction, for that matter) with attempted murder is still evil, just not a racist sort of evil.
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Dec 21, 2017 11:25
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http://www.strawpoll.me/14667701/r
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Dec 21, 2017 11:26
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gently caress, I didn't see the New Zealand option until after I voted. It's definitely New Zealand.
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Dec 21, 2017 11:36
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:gently caress, I didn't see the New Zealand option until after I voted. It's definitely New Zealand. Yup, New Zealand for best Australian state
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Dec 21, 2017 11:37
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GoldStandardConure posted:inebriated Post of the month
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Dec 21, 2017 11:38
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/o...17bd6d311448d32 News.com.au article, but it pretty much points out the shittyness of private third party fibre networks that have a tiny pool of lovely unheard of retail providers and generally price gouge the gently caress out of consumers.
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Dec 21, 2017 11:49
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:gently caress, I didn't see the New Zealand option until after I voted. It's definitely New Zealand. I go to New Zealand every year and it's always offputting how everyone is just nicer.
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Dec 21, 2017 12:08
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Second arrested person wasnt with the driver, but arrested for filming the incident and having a bag full of knives. 
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Dec 21, 2017 12:08
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Don Dongington posted:no, wrong, wrong, wrong. HAVE RATS EATEN YOUR BRAIN?? 1. QLD 2. NZ 3. TAS 4. WA 5. VIC 6. NSW
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Dec 21, 2017 12:15
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QLD is the best state.... to sever.
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Dec 21, 2017 12:19
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Synthbuttrange posted:Second arrested person wasnt with the driver, but arrested for filming the incident and having a bag full of knives. Christmas present maybe  I've bought a good chef's knife as a present before. Cops are pretty dumb so I can definitely imagine them pulling a dude up for buying a set of kitchen knives.
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Dec 21, 2017 12:30
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Lets go QLD. We can do this. Sunshine State Smart State Lady Flo! Fighting Socialists by moonlight, Drinking Four X by Daylight We'll give Capitalism a real fight He is the one Campbell New
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Dec 21, 2017 12:33
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The sad thing is that our mental health support system is so reactionary. The driver suffered mental health problems to the extent of being placed on a mental health plan and was known to use Ice. You'd think he'd be identified and given help before he reached this point.
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Dec 21, 2017 12:34
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Admit it Anidav, you voted for Queensland 5 times and then turned IP restrictions on, didn't you tithin posted:Post of the month Absolutely
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Dec 21, 2017 13:03
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Ip restrictions were always on
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Dec 21, 2017 13:04
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:Immediately associating mental illness (and drug addiction, for that matter) with attempted murder is still evil, just not a racist sort of evil. Oh come on. No one is doing this. Not even the Australian. They run stories on Muslim gangs of youths planning terror or African gangs of kids planning robberies and rapes, no one is running stories on gangs of mentally ill murdering people. Rather they are quoting that police know of him because ... shock horror he is mentally ill.
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Dec 21, 2017 13:31
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Anidav posted:Ip restrictions were always on "But if I know a few rats with access to different PCs, what's the harm?  "
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Dec 21, 2017 13:31
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Oh c'mon it's not like Anidav is the pied piper, he doesn't control the... OH gently caress RATS THOUSANDS OF RA-
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Dec 21, 2017 13:38
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Testekill posted:The sad thing is that our mental health support system is so reactionary. The driver suffered mental health problems to the extent of being placed on a mental health plan and was known to use Ice. You'd think he'd be identified and given help before he reached this point. LOL
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Dec 21, 2017 13:42
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Synthbuttrange posted:Second arrested person wasnt with the driver, but arrested for filming the incident and having a bag full of knives. Police presser said he was filming the incident, was searched, found to have knives and arrested because of that... but it's "probable" he has nothing to do with the incident. So you have to wonder why he was searched for filming? Surely heaps of people were filming? My guess is that, since he was given as aged 24, he's the younger guy in the red flannel with the beard (not the guy in white shirt being pulled from the car) and was racially profiled.
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Dec 21, 2017 13:44
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WA being a good state: https://twitter.com/abcgoldfieldswa/status/943683975716864000
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Dec 21, 2017 13:47
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I only have experience with QLD, but if anyone wants to know why mental health is reactionary, it's because there is an extremely high bar to pass before you can just put someone on treatment authority (formerly involuntary treatment order), which is actually cool because you shouldn't be able to arbitrarily lock anyone up just because they have mental health problems (it can happen but it's rare, both due to the bar and also due to very limited places). People can refuse Tx just like any other person as well, which complicates things. Oftentimes people with very acute mental health problems only get any form of Tx when they commit an offence and get assessed, but this obviously doesn't catch the people with acute mental health problems who don't commit any criminal acts (which are probably more common). The result is you get these chronically under-resourced mental health hospitals where an ever-rotating roster of people go through and are tossed to less acute settings (or prison!) as soon as someone more severe comes along. This has basically always been the case, and society has never really cared about mental illness unless some dude rams a loving car into a crowd and then suddenly woe is me what are we loving doing letting these raving lunatics out on the streets.
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Dec 21, 2017 13:57
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Recoome posted:I only have experience with QLD, but if anyone wants to know why mental health is reactionary, it's because there is an extremely high bar to pass before you can just put someone on treatment authority (formerly involuntary treatment order), which is actually cool because you shouldn't be able to arbitrarily lock anyone up just because they have mental health problems (it can happen but it's rare, both due to the bar and also due to very limited places). People can refuse Tx just like any other person as well, which complicates things. From memory the QLD law was (hopefully not still is) much more open to abuse than that of other states, in that any member of the public could request someone be assessed for an ITO (rather than for example VIC, where a medical practitioner, or a mental health professional working in a public health setting, can make a request) via the Justices Examination Order process. Edit: yep, looks like those were removed in the 2017 Mental Health Act.
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Dec 21, 2017 14:10
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Recoome posted:Oftentimes people with very acute mental health problems only get any form of Tx when they commit an offence and get assessed, but this obviously doesn't catch the people with acute mental health problems who don't commit any criminal acts (which are probably more common). The result is you get these chronically under-resourced mental health hospitals where an ever-rotating roster of people go through and are tossed to less acute settings (or prison!) as soon as someone more severe comes along. This has basically always been the case, and society has never really cared about mental illness unless some dude rams a loving car into a crowd and then suddenly woe is me what are we loving doing letting these raving lunatics out on the streets. It's loving heartbreaking, it's not like he asked for those problems and he is a genuinely decent person.
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Dec 21, 2017 14:11
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Anidav posted:So are the official Goon State rankings Vic TAS WA SA QLD NSW Territory Rankings: Australian Antarctic Territory ACT NT ( Jervis Bay Best Micronation: Hutt River principality state of the year remains despair. Special mention goes to WA for telling ONP to DIAF. Most improved award to QLD. Negative Entropy fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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Dec 21, 2017 14:24
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Kommando posted:State Rankings Agreed.
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Dec 21, 2017 14:35
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Sometimes I'm not even sure if SA has a government, but I guess someone had to sign off on Tesla building a giant battery. Which after the last big storm wiped out power to the entire state is probably a good thing.
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Dec 21, 2017 14:55
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Telstra are buying ~220 supply of a ~430MW wind farm in western vic paying around $50MWh. Cocacola, anz, melb uni buying most of the rest of the capacity. Could be largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere when complete. http://reneweconomy.com.au/telstra-signs-up-for-429mw-wind-farm-at-stunning-low-cost-13414/ Funding secured construction can begin next year.
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I was at work and saw what could be the Worst Tweet Ever, and screen capped it, certain that it would be gone in a few hours. Haha, nope: https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/943782755250212864 
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