Auspol Oct: Painting a vivid picture of an example of how broken media has become.

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Count Chocula: Dec 25, 2011; WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR ENVIRONMENT
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In Pacific Rim, a kaiju actually attacks Sydney Harbor.

# ? Oct 25, 2018 12:52

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# ? May 24, 2024 12:48

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Striker Eureka is a great Australian giant robot name, but its crew are the most British Australians I've ever seen.

# ? Oct 25, 2018 12:59

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Australian Super Significant Event Notice posted:

At AustralianSuper, our priority is helping members grow their super for a comfortable retirement � one of the ways we do this is by managing risk.

To better manage liquidity risk, we're introducing a cap of 70% on the amount you can invest in the Property option and the ability for AustralianSuper to freeze switches, contributions and withdrawals into and out of the Property option for a maximum period of up to two years, in exceptional circumstances in response to a market stress event. The changes will take effect from Monday 19 November 2018.

Property instability ahead. Market reorienting downwards. itshappening.gif

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:05

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

AustralianSuper are very good.

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:06

Zetsubou-san: Jan 28, 2015; Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

if anyone with a sub to Crikey is will to post the text from this article, I will be grateful. tia.

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:09

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Striker Eureka is a great Australian giant robot name, but its crew are the most British Australians I've ever seen.

and it works perfectly for the type of ham the movie is.

Shatterdome Marshal Hercules Hanson is the most amazing movie name. Ever.

Also always an excuse to repost this screenshot of when I was playing MechWarrior and killed John Howard as Striker Eureka:

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:14

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

From the Australian front page:

quote:

EXCLUSIVE
Morrison opposed Age Pension relief
Pm
9:47PMRICK MORTON
Scott Morrison as treasurer was against �dropping a Tony Abbott-era policy to raise the pension age to 70, sources said.

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:15

kirbysuperstar: Nov 11, 2012; Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

GoldStandardConure posted:

Also always an excuse to repost this screenshot of when I was playing MechWarrior and killed John Howard as Striker Eureka:

That's a really good screenshot.

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:15

Count Chocula: Dec 25, 2011; WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR ENVIRONMENT
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The director of that movie has won multiple Oscars. He made it several years after Pan�s Labyrinth. It�s amazing.

On a less fun note:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/urgent-hearings-over-sick-refugee-children-thrown-into-doubt-20181023-p50bh4.html

Urgent court hearings that decide if dangerously ill refugee children should be flown to Australia have been thrown into doubt after the government challenged the Federal Court's ability to order humanitarian evacuations.

In an unprecedented move, the Morrison government has questioned the Federal Court's authority to commence cases that allow sick children to be brought to Australia for emergency medical care.

These people are MONSTERS. They should be tried by the International Criminal Court. There should be a national outcry about it!

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:17

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

From the Australian front page:

I've been thinking about the leaks Morrison has been getting published for awhile now and being a fellow who frequently talks to people with skin in the journalism game I predict the following:

Leaks continue, Media allow a Shorten Government to get in as resistence at this point is basically futile.
Bill Shorten becomes Prime Minister
He cracks down on negative gearing and all this property speculator bullshit
Wages remain stagnant
People blame the rising cost of living on the eletricity companies or their real estate agents they rent from but are too loving scared to blame it on stagnant wages.
Media clamps on Bill Shorten's leg and never lets go, blaming his anti boomer policies for causing rents to go up on working class brick brains.
Bill Shorten loses the election to a Liberal who gets a free pass by saying the housing market was fine under the Liberals due to ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
Wages remain stagnant

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:22

Count Chocula: Dec 25, 2011; WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR ENVIRONMENT
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https://twitter.com/RevMattK/status/1055432310244474881?s=20

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:23

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

Count Chocula posted:

The director of that movie has won multiple Oscars.

this sounds unlikely, i'm going to need a source on this

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:25

say hello.jpg: Feb 16, 2012

Zenithe posted:

That dude was seriously mentally ill. IIRC he was dabbling in a lot of bad stuff like white supremacy in addition to the (mostly) harmless nonsense of time cube. He ended up jumping in front of a train.

I went to uni with the guy I was actually in a group assignment with him in database 1. He would spend the classes reading time cube with his nose pressed up against the monitor was pretty surreal. Apparently he interrupted/hijacked a lecture to try to tell people about time cube. I ended up deferring and after I got back I found out what happened. I only found out about how far his obsession went here on SA quite a few years later.

Onto conspiracy things. I've been told that we have nukes however they are disassembled into components. Now normally if these components are within a certain distance of one another they are still classed a nuclear device. The theory is that because of the size of Aus we can store the components with out them being close enough to be classed as nukes.

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:34

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

We do apparently have so much uranium that the Aborigines have a word for land that's too radioactive to survive in.

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:38

Jonah Galtberg: Feb 11, 2009

say hello.jpg posted:

I went to uni with the guy I was actually in a group assignment with him in database 1. He would spend the classes reading time cube with his nose pressed up against the monitor was pretty surreal. Apparently he interrupted/hijacked a lecture to try to tell people about time cube. I ended up deferring and after I got back I found out what happened. I only found out about how far his obsession went here on SA quite a few years later.

Onto conspiracy things. I've been told that we have nukes however they are disassembled into components. Now normally if these components are within a certain distance of one another they are still classed a nuclear device. The theory is that because of the size of Aus we can store the components with out them being close enough to be classed as nukes.

this or variations on this is something that some states absolutely do

but I have serious doubts that Australians are competent enough to keep something like that a secret

# ? Oct 25, 2018 13:40

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