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Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

It’s generous of P Dutty to libel someone in a format that doesn’t have parliamentary privilege

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hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

Hollandia posted:

I'm with GSC

You are both joyless husks.

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug

hooman posted:

You are both joyless husks.

accurate

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

hooman posted:

Yes indeed the left forced those poor innocent reactionaries to become Nazis. If only we'd just used reason and logic and factual arguments they'd have been :decorum:'d into agreeing, just like every time in history this has also worked!

EDIT::killing:

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/Paul_Karp/status/1037614266470215680

Lol this is loving wild.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009




Dutton with the suicide hotline jab :stare:

Chadzok
Apr 25, 2002


A loving vicious burn for sure, but the wounds are primarily on Dutton's legs and unfortunately not life-threatening.

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

God there's nothing that raises my blood pressure than seeing clueless heads of real estate groups or MPs saying there's no rental crisis and just work harder.

The Before Times
Mar 8, 2014

Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.
the crisis is that it takes like a week to become qualified as a real estate agent, at which point you have way too much power over poor people.

Konomex
Oct 25, 2010

a whiteman who has some authority over others, who not only hasn't raped anyone, or stared at them creepily...

Cheap Trick posted:

Wondering if anyone here who knows something about marine conversation/biodiversity could comment on this? It's an email that's been doing the rounds at my workplace, courtesy of our resident hobby line fisher.


I've had a look at the Marine Estate Management Authority page linked at the bottom, and I can see that there's several sites where they're going to be banning fishing and hand gathering... but is it just right? Too overboard? I genuinely have no idea.

I've taught on the subject to a degree, I'm not super familiar with NSW's coastline, but generally marine species use areas close to shore to lay their eggs. There's not a large amount of research around recreational fishing, but the amount of it continues to increase, due in part to increasing populations and the increasing popularity of the "sport". There's several Australian Universities, and the CSIRO, who are starting to look into the impacts of recreational fishing, but for someone to cry 'it's not us, it's the trawlers that do all the damage' is an idiots cry, there is not enough data out there.

Basically, yeah, recreational fishing can damage the biodiversity, and we need to protect certain areas wholesale, what we would call nursery areas. Looking at the map I wouldn't call it an overreach. A secondary concern, listed in the documentation, is rehabilitating the habitats damaged, in part, by recreational fishers.

If he was a real fisher, he'd want to protect fish stocks so people can keep fishing forever.

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

The Before Times posted:

the crisis is that it takes like a week to become qualified as a real estate agent, at which point you have way too much power over poor people.

The agent's crisis of working out whether they want a new BMW or Audi.

Schlesische
Jul 4, 2012

Konomex posted:

If he was a real fisher, he'd want to protect fish stocks so people can keep fishing forever.

No.
Its not about making sure someones grandkids can fish, its about making sure he can do whatever he wants now.

froglet
Nov 12, 2009

You see, the best way to Stop the Boats is a massive swarm of autonomous armed dogs. Strafing a few boats will stop the rest and save many lives in the long term.

You can't make an Omelet without breaking a few eggs. Vote Greens.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-06/alkimos-next-big-development-sits-vacant-north-of-perth/10209946?pfmredir=sm

Am I the only one who thinks this is loving stupid? Sprawling out and out forever, destroy the habitats of the black cockatoos, sucking all the water dry...

I'm not even angry at the people who already live there - people go where the housing is affordable - I'm more pissed at all the NIMBY's and the state governments complete failure to encourage development of urban infill so we don't end up destroying a bunch of farmland and bush in an attempt to satiate the insatiable.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope

Konomex posted:

I've taught on the subject to a degree, I'm not super familiar with NSW's coastline, but generally marine species use areas close to shore to lay their eggs. There's not a large amount of research around recreational fishing, but the amount of it continues to increase, due in part to increasing populations and the increasing popularity of the "sport". There's several Australian Universities, and the CSIRO, who are starting to look into the impacts of recreational fishing, but for someone to cry 'it's not us, it's the trawlers that do all the damage' is an idiots cry, there is not enough data out there.

Basically, yeah, recreational fishing can damage the biodiversity, and we need to protect certain areas wholesale, what we would call nursery areas. Looking at the map I wouldn't call it an overreach. A secondary concern, listed in the documentation, is rehabilitating the habitats damaged, in part, by recreational fishers.

If he was a real fisher, he'd want to protect fish stocks so people can keep fishing forever.

Also, anecdotally, the dopey fuckers can't stop dumping their fishing lines all over the place which kills wildlife so gently caress 'em. They had their chance.

Whitlam
Aug 2, 2014

Some goons overreact. Go figure.
But guuuuys, the old men with depression will be sad!

Periphery
Jul 27, 2003
...

froglet posted:

Am I the only one who thinks this is loving stupid?

No. All sprawl is stupid and has very little/no justification beyond being a place for "cheap" homes that make lazy developers a shitload of profit.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.
ScoMo sighted at the footy sipping a frothy mate

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

Is that all? Call me when he's at

fiery_valkyrie
Mar 26, 2003

I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Chadzok posted:

A loving vicious burn for sure, but the wounds are primarily on Dutton's legs and unfortunately not life-threatening.

If he’s not about to whip out the email where Dutton clearly says “hey give this nanny a tourist visa for my mate” then Quadvlieg can gently caress right off. He’s been acting like he has the moral high ground, but he wasn’t complaining when he was head of Operation Torture Refugees.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/EeevilMonkey/status/1037463532793520128

https://twitter.com/quaedvliegs/status/1037501613693329408

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Enjoying this spat between two horrible and incredibly stupid people but it would have been nice if Quaedvlieg would have checked his timelines before publicly calling out Dutton

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
What did he actually get fired for btw?

Wasn't it bullying or something?

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Nepotism.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe
Friend of mine unironically posting that Tonightly Video.

Please save me.

EDIT: Froglet I'd come with you to the thingy, but I'm on a work wine tour on Saturday because I'm a class traitor.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope

BBJoey posted:

Enjoying this spat between two horrible and incredibly stupid people but it would have been nice if Quaedvlieg would have checked his timelines before publicly calling out Dutton

According to my in-depth, thorough research (I looked up his wiki article), he was head at the time it was just called Border Protection instead of Border Force.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008


when they know about the au pairs

I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Sep 6, 2018

Stoca Zola
Jun 28, 2008

Starshark posted:

Also, anecdotally, the dopey fuckers can't stop dumping their fishing lines all over the place which kills wildlife so gently caress 'em. They had their chance.

I can only talk about the local marine park, which covers the giant cuttlefish breeding grounds. I've been involved in a marine survey/clean up of that area for a number of years now and there usually isn't much in the way of lines and tangled tackle left behind. Shore fishing is allowed because it's difficult to do too much damage with one rod on the shore, whereas no one is allowed to fish from a boat in the park zone. But quite often we see people illegally fishing in the park zone; on a boat you can have a number of rods set up at once, and you can bring extra people to pad out your bag limit; the bag limit from a boat is three times the bag limit if you're on the shore by yourself.

The thing is there's no one patrolling the parks or enforcing anything. There's a Fishwatch hotline where you can dob in people doing the wrong thing, but when we've called about boats fishing in the restricted zone they don't seem interested, they'd rather wait at the boat ramp to confiscate people's undersize and over the baglimit fish. The Dept of Environment people that we give our survey data to, are interested in the illegal fishing but don't have any teeth to apply fines or take any action at all.

Maybe it's different in other states or there are different rules in different parks, but the idea that our local marine park has any impact at all on recreational fishing seems like the same kind of fantasy as Greens "preventing burn-offs and causing bushfires" or other such nonsense. No one stops you from having a good day on the beach with your rod; they just don't want you stockpiling enough fish to freeze and sell to your mates for weeks.

Jonah Galtberg
Feb 11, 2009


would not recommend reading this to anyone that's feeling mentally unstable, both in terms of the subject matter and the fever dream quality of the writing that draws you into the mind of an extremely unwell person

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007



Thanks for the answers, folks. To be honest, as soon as I saw the line "a cheap shot to grab some green votes, with very little understanding of the actual environmental impact" it raised a red flag in my mind, thus my questioning.

I had a suspicion it had something to do with overfishing but I wasn't confident enough to run with the theory.

fiery_valkyrie
Mar 26, 2003

I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

I’m not sure it’s anatomically possible for a person to have their head that far up their arse. And his writing style is that of a Mills and Boon romance crossed with a word of the day calendar.

Also this...

quote:

As I mused whether I would remain one minute longer than I was forced to inside the fences of these compounds if I was able to access the ‘open camp’ rule, we passed almost osmotically into the single women’s compound which jolted me out my musings and made me wonder whether long-burning romances or desires, hitherto thwarted by fences and systems inside the facility, were being consummated out in the Nauruan community under the open camp arrangement and were, no doubt, the cause of many a curfew breach and pregnancy.
The skin-pimpling sensation which had been with me in the men’s compound subsided and, as it always happened to me in female prisons, was replaced by a strange, blended sensation of sorrow, ruination, lechery, fragmentation and alienation. I wondered again as I had many times before what socialisation and influences cause me to feel this strange cocktail of sensations.

Is disgusting and hosed up.

drunkill
Sep 25, 2007

me @ ur posting
Fallen Rib

fiery_valkyrie posted:

If he’s not about to whip out the email where Dutton clearly says “hey give this nanny a tourist visa for my mate” then Quadvlieg can gently caress right off. He’s been acting like he has the moral high ground, but he wasn’t complaining when he was head of Operation Torture Refugees.

Nor complaining when he continued to recieve his 400k paycheque after he was suspended from his job for 9(?) months as head of borderfarce.

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Australia’s authority in Pacific 'being eroded by refusal to address climate change'

quote:

Dr Bill Hare, managing director of Climate Analytics and a lead author on the IPCC fourth assessment report, told Guardian Australia that Pacific leaders were growing increasingly disenchanted with Australia’s refusal to commit to cutting carbon emissions, even as their nations faced massive economic, physical and social disruption, even existential threat.

“The leaders are not fools, and they are increasingly confronted by the problems of climate change, in all its different dimensions,” Hare said. “The problem for Australia is it doesn’t have credibility on climate. Australia is an important player for many of the Pacific Island countries, well-respected and well-liked by the populations and the political leaders, but on climate change there is a chasm opening up.

“I hear it from Pacific leaders all the time: they are fighting to save their countries and their people and they cannot understand why the Australian government leadership can’t see the problems they’ve got.”

Hare said while the language in the Boe declaration was strong, the real test for Australia would be in its actions to address its own emissions, and in helping the Pacific with adaptation.

“The actions will not match the gravity of the declaration or the gravity of the need. There is a credibility gap: Australia is not acting on reducing its own emissions. All the leaders know that whenever the prime minister or energy minister says Australia will meet its Paris targets ‘in a canter’, that that it is wrong, it is factually incorrect – it is bullshit.

“They know Australia is working to slow down action on meeting Paris targets, they know Australia is promoting coal, and they know it’s going to cause a climate catastrophe. Australia has dedicated and able diplomats across the region, but the political leadership of the government is so far removed from reality, it opens up major problems for the country.”

Pacific leaders were confronting losing large proportions of their territory, and the forcible displacement of their populations, Hare said. He said leaders did not want their next generations to grow up dislocated, living in foreign cities like Sydney and Auckland, with the attendant loss of identity, culture and self-esteem.

Support for Australia could ebb away, with Pacific Islands looking to other benefactors – in particular China – which has made massive in its aid spending and diplomatic engagement in the region. China is set to overtake Australia as the largest donor to the Pacific, after pledging US$4bn in aid to the region last year.

Garbage country

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/get...l?crpt=homepage

hohohohoho

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lmao "negotiate your rent"

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting


Yeah, that was on 730 last night. Those dudes seriously live in some sort of reality distortion field, as if you can just walk about to an estate agent and low ball them on rent.

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

"You know, I'm a little short for rent this week due to kids school stuff, food, bills, basic living requirements, so here's $10"

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

Still better than a Ponytar

You Am I posted:

Yeah, that was on 730 last night. Those dudes seriously live in some sort of reality distortion field, as if you can just walk about to an estate agent and low ball them on rent.

They’ll be the first up against the wall as puppets of the bourgeois.

Granite Octopus
Jun 24, 2008

quote:

"Now's the time to lock your rent in because I'm of the opinion [that] in 18 months' time when demand outstrips supply, you're going to see rents really climb," he said.

"What we'll see then is the tenant really starting to squeal."

this guy is a real piece of work huh

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Halo14
Sep 11, 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGMrGlAHUq0

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