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asio posted:Manus/Nauru are only the latest additions to the shitlist the UN has on us. Woah, the UN, look out guys, the UN's comin' to get us!
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# ? May 22, 2018 00:35 |
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JBP posted:Oh no not the UN The governing body equivalent of the Monty Python's "Spanish Inquisition"
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# ? May 22, 2018 00:35 |
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I wonder if the US would vote for us at the UN the way they do for Israel
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# ? May 22, 2018 00:51 |
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When push comes to shove I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't even acknowledge that we exist.
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# ? May 22, 2018 01:01 |
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Anidav posted:A NEW plan to tweak the definition of autism could see thousands of Australians with significant support needs unable to access the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This was actually really thought provoking, and I had to check out what Baron-Cohen actually said/might have said, because while I'm not completely read up on ASD research, the idea of diagnostic continuums/domains is something which I am actually working in (but obviously for a different disorder). Anyway the tl;dr is that moving away from a "spectrum" style diagnosis is extremely unlikely to occur. A really good example of something which may eventually supplement traditional categorical diagnosis is the Research Domain Criteria, which breaks down a whole bunch of different processes (based on theoretical and empirical evidence, not just clustering) to assist in providing clearer pictures of normal and abnormal functioning. While we are at least a few years off, I suspect that in disorders such as ASD and schizophrenia, this might be the way of the future. I've found the source article from the Arsetralian, and I think that the author has completely missed the point because the whole nosology thing is extremely nuanced.
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# ? May 22, 2018 01:03 |
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snoremac posted:From what I can glean from his article excerpt he seems upset that the bride was upstaged. He puts on this quaint act sometimes that makes me think he’s upset that he wasn’t born aristocratic and can only experience it vicariously or by licking the feet of truebloods like Abbott. No, he's really saying it in an attempt to "trigger lefties" so he can put on his act about being victimised. That's his MO, it's always the same. He attacks the weak for the jollies it gives his following, and pretends he's some kind of right-wing paladin alternately.
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# ? May 22, 2018 01:04 |
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Empress, Red Flame That Illuminates The Dark, and purveyor of battered treats Pauline Hanson has now decided not to support coalition tax cuts Must be losing a shitload of votes over that. The only thing that would stop her from voting in lockstep with the LNP in exchange for a couple belly rubs is the possibility of being cut off from the trough altogether
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# ? May 22, 2018 01:14 |
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Previous Defence Minister has a spirited shot at Defending the Indefensible: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/sponsorship-money-from-global-weapons-manufacturers/9785954 quote:Should the Australian War Memorial take sponsorship money from weapons manufacturers? And why does the War Memorial need all that sweat sweat corporate blood money? No, it's not because chubby Muslim children are nicking gold coins from the pool of remembrance. It's the efficiency dividend!
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# ? May 22, 2018 01:19 |
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aejix posted:Empress, Red Flame That Illuminates The Dark, and purveyor of battered treats Pauline Hanson has now decided not to support coalition tax cuts quote:The Australian also reported fresh details of the deal, including a tightening of tax deductions for exploration costs under the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. Pauline Hanson.... Smart?
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# ? May 22, 2018 01:36 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Pauline Hanson.... Smart? Must have gotten a new puppeteer
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# ? May 22, 2018 01:47 |
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WeChat has come up a couple of times in this thread. This is an interesting thing about it that others might find interesting too. Or not, it's all good. Tldr; the conclusion is obvious quote:In addition, substantial and credible local news is more crucial than ever for immigrant groups, especially on stories and policy issues prone to misinterpretation and distorted, or informationally incomplete. And these local news need to be accessible—in the right language as well as delivered through the right channels—to the immigrant population. SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 02:37 on May 22, 2018 |
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CrazyTolradi posted:Dude is a Channel 9 news gopher so I'm not shocked he's a moderate shithead. Just as a reminder that Channel 9 is awful, on Friday, their only coverage of the many situations in Israel was Bibi doing the chicken dance with the Eurovision winner. Whatever one's stance on Israel, there's stuff happening there. The prime minister is under investigation, there's the protests, the increased clashes with Iran, and their coverage is loving whimsy. Having lovely opinions laced through coverage is one thing, not having any coverage is something else.
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# ? May 22, 2018 02:30 |
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meanwhile the abc's coverage is both-sides bullshit "yes the israeli forces fired on protesters and that's not very good, but have you considered that the palestinians are still alive despite having been politely asked many times not to be? nobody is innocent here!"
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# ? May 22, 2018 02:54 |
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asio posted:to the shitlist the UN has on us. We're not on a shitlist due to East Timor, we led the United Nations Transitional Administration. We couldn't do poo poo about Indonesia beforehand short of commencing a very dumb war against them.
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# ? May 22, 2018 02:56 |
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the abc is loving poison. i think i hate it more than 9 at the moment - at least 9 never claims not to be poo poo, while the abc is still pretending to be a left-wing bastion of culture and democracy even though it's been completely hollowed out and turned into a puppet for the conservative agenda
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# ? May 22, 2018 02:56 |
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the only good station is nitv
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# ? May 22, 2018 02:56 |
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this broken hill posted:the only good station is nitv
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# ? May 22, 2018 02:58 |
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Anidav, your husbando is making the news again. https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/former-premier-angry-over-bus-crash-traffic-chaos-20180522-p4zgpf.html quote:There must be a better way for the Qld Police to deal with a tragic pedestrian death than to shut down the entire northern side of Brisbane and create total and utter chaos extending more than 5km from the CBD If I get killed by a bus, I'll make sure to make as little of an effect on the traffic as possible Mr Newman!
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https://twitter.com/Peter_F_Ryan/status/998746371652894720
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# ? May 22, 2018 03:11 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Pauline Hanson.... Smart? Of course not. She’ll go back to voting for all the things she claims won’t work/the public doesn’t want just as soon as she’s done a bit of hand-wringing in public to appease her voters.
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# ? May 22, 2018 03:17 |
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The scene was Shanghai’s Hyatt on the Bund last Thursday night. Ciobo, the first minister from Malcolm Turnbull’s government to visit China in eight months, had just taken the stage in an attempt to add some balm to recent wounds to the China-Australia relationship. …the visiting minister was hard to make out over the clattering of plates that began, loudly, exactly when he started speaking. It would have been written off as bad luck if it wasn’t for Ciobo’s “microphone incident” the following night. The scene was the St Regis Shanghai, the venue for a gala dinner hosted by Gill McLachlan’s AFL before Port Adelaide thumped Gold Coast at Jiangwan Stadium. …When Ciobo took the stage, a microphone that moments before had worked perfectly for McLachlan became almost inaudible once the Trade Minister stood in front of it.
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# ? May 22, 2018 03:19 |
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The scene was a kebab shop early Sunday morning. Steven Ciobo had just opened his mouth to order a large chips when a bus passed noisily outside. He was mistakenly served a reheated slice of hawaiian
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# ? May 22, 2018 03:40 |
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The trail of documents used by Westpac to support a business loan for a failed franchise and led the loan’s guarantor to lose her home were haphazard, inconsistent and incomplete the Hayne royal commission has heard. It follows earlier hearings on consumer credit and financial services that also highlighted the insufficient and often sloppy approach to record keeping at Westpac and other banks. The documents tended to the royal commission alternatively show the business had no employees or several employees, with the disability pensioner and the loan’s guarantor Carolyn Flanagan at times listed as one of those employees despite being chronically ill and unable to read or write.
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:WeChat has come up a couple of times in this thread. This is an interesting thing about it that others might find interesting too. Or not, it's all good. People think Facebook is the big fish of fake news but I reckon without a doubt Wechat is much worse.
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# ? May 22, 2018 03:50 |
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Oh man this has got it all, climate denialism, misconduct, lawsuits, echo chambers, fleecing the easily-persuaded readership...quote:Climate science denial groups from the UK, U.S. and Australia have leapt to support a controversial marine scientist who was fired from his job at an Australian university. It's great how this guy has been celebrated as a whistleblower when real whistleblowers are being hunted everywhere. quote:Over the weekend, the echo chamber of conservative websites and think tanks that push climate science denial swung into action, urging readers to visit Ridd’s crowdfunding page. Oh, curse that naughty zeitgeist, it is SO POWERFUL.
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Behold the crystal ball of the future:Bloomberg posted:A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits to press legal claims. How long until this becomes a talking point in Aus?
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# ? May 22, 2018 05:29 |
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Isn't that how you would describe fwa for non EBA employees?
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# ? May 22, 2018 05:36 |
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The great barrier reef is in great shape. Oh good, my laundry is done.
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# ? May 22, 2018 05:41 |
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ewe2 posted:Oh man this has got it all, climate denialism, misconduct, lawsuits, echo chambers, fleecing the easily-persuaded readership... I really wish they’d replace the phrase “climate science denial group” with “a pack of tremendous fuckheads” in order to maintain journalistic truth in reporting.
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# ? May 22, 2018 05:47 |
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Dude McAwesome posted:I really wish they’d replace the phrase “climate science denial group” with “a pack of tremendous fuckheads” in order to maintain journalistic truth in reporting.
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# ? May 22, 2018 05:49 |
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snoremac posted:For real though, they should avoid the term "skeptic" because they're not skeptics, they're being paid to push corporate propaganda they know is BS. Agreed. “Fossil fuel industry lobby group” perhaps.
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# ? May 22, 2018 05:53 |
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Peter Dutton, you have no loving moral high ground to talk about kids in detention centres you dishonest piece of garbage.
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# ? May 22, 2018 06:07 |
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ewe2 posted:Oh man this has got it all, climate denialism, misconduct, lawsuits, echo chambers, fleecing the easily-persuaded readership... Last year I attended a talk given by a professor from JCU who has spent decades studying the reef, and more recently in particular on the effects of increasing water temperatures on coral growth, or lack thereof. His talk was really informative (and depressing) and I’m glad he doesn’t have work at the same place as this dickhead anymore.
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# ? May 22, 2018 07:02 |
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Clive Palmer is planning on building Adani 2: Electric Boogaloo. quote:Palmer’s company Waratah Coal has announced plans for the new mine in the Galilee basin, adjoining Adani’s proposed Carmichael project. The footprint of Alpha North would be nearly triple that Adani’s mine. It would be 144,000 hectares and 130km long and would use open-cut and underground methods. Given the rapidly decreasing price of renewables how on earth are they assuming that coal will be price competitive in 12 years time?
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# ? May 22, 2018 07:06 |
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fiery_valkyrie posted:Clive Palmer is planning on building Adani 2: Electric Boogaloo. No one in their right mind would give him the money to do that. *Checks latest updates from the Banking Royal Commission* Oh...
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fiery_valkyrie posted:Clive Palmer is planning on building Adani 2: Electric Boogaloo. Met coal is pretty high at the moment. Thermal coal is not doing too bad. Given most accountants cant see more than a fiscal year ahead, makes perfect sense. It's a pie in the sky mine along with Adani. The real threat isn't global warming or our impending (and deserved) doom, it's the other coal companies who can see a rerun of the bust where coal prices tanked due to a monster oversupply. They wont tolerate that poo poo behind the scenes. Wouldn't surprise me if he saw Adani's trick - as long as Carmichael is on the books, Adani is technically solvent. As soon as they wipe it from the books, Adani is in deep poo poo.
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# ? May 22, 2018 07:33 |
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there's no way clive palmer will still be alive in 2030
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# ? May 22, 2018 08:54 |
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this broken hill posted:there's no way clive palmer will still be alive in 2030 Good.
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this broken hill posted:there's no way clive palmer will still be alive in 2030 Did that piece of poo poo end up paying his refinery workers? Or did his pretense at illness shield him from any responsibility there?
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