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Gridlocked posted:Cairns doesn't want him, they need that reef alive. Too late. People up here do gently caress all to help the reef. Any activist or politician concerned with bleached and dying coral is promptly told to "Shut the gently caress up" by local business owners because they don't want the secret (albeit a poorly kept one) getting out that the reef is hosed. It's an entire city of people hoping that by ignoring a problem they will be able to maintain their short term cash-flow.
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Aug 27, 2019 01:08
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Bompacho posted:It's an entire city of people hoping that by ignoring a problem they will be able to maintain their short term cash-flow. *An entire planet
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Aug 27, 2019 01:11
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Anidav posted:drat that 7AM episode on climate science Pffft emotional response to the guaranteed climate apocalypse lol I you haven't found yourself in a comforting drooling stupor over everything
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Aug 27, 2019 01:13
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Bompacho posted:It's an entire city of people hoping that by ignoring a problem they will be able to maintain their short term cash-flow. see also: "my family has been farming this land for five generations and hasn't changed a single one of their practices in all that time and now you're telling us we have to adapt? gently caress off! ...help my cows are underwater, i'm not asking for a government handout but i need and deserve a government handout because i've been on this land for five generations" nankeen fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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Aug 27, 2019 03:11
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the "on this land for five generations!" people piss me off so bad because it's like, congratulations? your great-great-grandparents murdered the people who'd been on the land for five thousand generations, their descendants cleared and bulldozed and fertilised it into oblivion, your parents and you had the benefit of modern scientific knowledge that you chose not to use and now here you are clinging to your useless wasteland for dear life because you think you're entitled to it and hate the thought of anybody else getting it even if they'd make better use of it than anyone in your stupid loving family ever has
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Aug 27, 2019 03:21
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Anidav posted:drat that 7AM episode on climate science It's all part of Albo's plan for the markets to determine the Adani coalmine. Just keep paying taxes, citizen.
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Aug 27, 2019 03:37
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Bompacho posted:Too late. People up here do gently caress all to help the reef. That was a real surprise on visiting a friend in Cairns: the taxi driver who virtually interrogated us about southerner's perceptions of how global warming was killing the reef. Times are hard, now that everyone believes the reef is dead because of the dishonest media!! Incidentally, we could really use some rain. Really really really. It's weird how little rain there's been.
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Aug 27, 2019 04:35
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Didn't someone in here have to story about a scuba company sneaking in old photos from before the reef was trashed? That blew my mind
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Aug 27, 2019 04:45
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nankeen posted:the "on this land for five generations!" people piss me off so bad because it's like, congratulations? your great-great-grandparents murdered the people who'd been on the land for five thousand generations, their descendants cleared and bulldozed and fertilised it into oblivion, your parents and you had the benefit of modern scientific knowledge that you chose not to use and now here you are clinging to your useless wasteland for dear life because you think you're entitled to it and hate the thought of anybody else getting it even if they'd make better use of it than anyone in your stupid loving family ever has
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Aug 27, 2019 04:51
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nankeen posted:the "on this land for five generations!" people piss me off so bad because it's like, congratulations? your great-great-grandparents murdered the people who'd been on the land for five thousand generations, their descendants cleared and bulldozed and fertilised it into oblivion, your parents and you had the benefit of modern scientific knowledge that you chose not to use and now here you are clinging to your useless wasteland for dear life because you think you're entitled to it and hate the thought of anybody else getting it even if they'd make better use of it than anyone in your stupid loving family ever has I do like your turns of phrase. Some of your poetry is very good too.
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Aug 27, 2019 04:54
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cohsae posted:Didn't someone in here have to story about a scuba company sneaking in old photos from before the reef was trashed? That blew my mind Yes. That was me. Do you want the post quoted again...? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3684877&perpage=40&pagenumber=27#post438679159
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Aug 27, 2019 07:09
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Anidav posted:Yes. That was me. I like how you're the best journalist newscorp has.
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Aug 27, 2019 08:46
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Anidav posted:drat that 7AM episode on climate science The article it was based on in the monthly (assuming I have the right one) was brief but devastating, being a climate scientist must be the most depressing loving job The author said after giving talks on the climate science, she often goes back to her hotel room and just weeps cos the planet is going to die, we know and can literally stop it, but won't
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Aug 27, 2019 09:08
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I love 7AM because giving articles a human voice enhances the message.
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Aug 27, 2019 09:18
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https://www.theguardian.com/austral...isit-icac-hearsquote:The current New South Wales Labor secretary saw an Aldi bag filled with cash after a visit to the party’s state headquarters by Chinese billionaire and banned donor Huang Xiangmo, a corruption inquiry has heard.
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Aug 27, 2019 09:36
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My first car was a stick
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one day I might have the bag of cash, and I'll know who to give it to.
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Aug 27, 2019 09:43
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https://twitter.com/nathanhondros/status/1166252019750854656?s=19 Lmao
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Aug 27, 2019 10:03
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That article is amazing.
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Aug 27, 2019 10:23
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Sorry I haven't been paying attention but why is WA Labor exploding?
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Aug 27, 2019 10:51
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Woah cool it looks like some Corbynist poo poo is going down, yeah?
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Aug 27, 2019 10:54
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Victoria just passed the Birth Certificate reform legislation, meaning trans people in Victoria won't have to have expensive surgery in order to have correct ID documents
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Aug 27, 2019 11:33
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Awesome. Just awesome.
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Aug 27, 2019 12:09
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Anidav posted:Sorry I haven't been paying attention but why is WA Labor exploding? Some of the factions from the right teamed up to start a new group called progressive labor because of course they did. Then McGowan opened up the state conference with a motion to disallow one of them to sit for some reason I forget and they all chucked the shits and walked out during the welcome to country. Then they chucked the shits at Albo because he wants to ditch Sekta from the party for being a neaderthal. Then I think they realised they were being fuckwits and not accomplishing anything constructive and a bunch of them quit the group.
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Aug 27, 2019 12:31
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1125267861981810688
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Aug 27, 2019 12:53
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The Labor-Green-RBA coalition is destroying this country
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Aug 27, 2019 13:01
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The Before Times posted:Victoria just passed the Birth Certificate reform legislation, meaning trans people in Victoria won't have to have expensive surgery in order to have correct ID documents VIC good
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Aug 27, 2019 13:02
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nankeen posted:the "on this land for five generations!" people piss me off so bad because it's like, congratulations? your great-great-grandparents murdered the people who'd been on the land for five thousand generations, their descendants cleared and bulldozed and fertilised it into oblivion, your parents and you had the benefit of modern scientific knowledge that you chose not to use and now here you are clinging to your useless wasteland for dear life because you think you're entitled to it and hate the thought of anybody else getting it even if they'd make better use of it than anyone in your stupid loving family ever has I'm having arguments about whether or not people should climb Uluru on facebook (slow night), and so many people are saying 'who cares what previous generations did or thought?' and naturally they have shared 'support r farmers' stuff.
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Aug 27, 2019 13:04
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Previous generations climbed the rock, who cares if we can't?
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Aug 28, 2019 00:27
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our pauline failing to climb the rock and having to be rescued will go down as one of the finest moments of 2019
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Aug 28, 2019 00:36
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nankeen posted:our pauline failing to climb the rock and having to be rescued will go down as one of the finest moments of 2019 my favourite is this bit: https://twitter.com/jennineak/status/1165061101286936576
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Aug 28, 2019 02:16
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That was pretty good. Well done kid.
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Aug 28, 2019 02:28
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The Before Times posted:my favourite is this bit:
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Aug 28, 2019 02:43
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https://www.theage.com.au/national/...2bqEgiwZ3IBIKAQ After five weeks of helping Chinese classmates I fired off a furious email By Meshel Laurie lmao
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Aug 28, 2019 03:19
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I read that last night, s tier boomer posting tip to toe
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Aug 28, 2019 03:21
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Aug 28, 2019 04:28
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Why the hell is the Saturday Paper still running articles about Morrison's sacking from Tourism Australia? Do they not realise that none of it means anything to the Liberal supporter, the party, their donors, or any of the broke brained redneck PHON/PUP first preferencers that got them elected again? He won the unwinnable election and he's basically Liberal Jesus now. He will totally tank the economy and turn the country into a theocratic/Randian hellscape (it's 50/50 atm) and it won't even matter. These people are above the law, they're above the constitution now and they will never give up until they have salted the earth and made it impossible for a real opposition party to exist, let alone take power.
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Aug 28, 2019 04:57
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JBP posted:https://www.theage.com.au/national/after-five-weeks-of-helping-chinese-classmates-i-fired-off-a-furious-email-20190827-p52l8f.html Zenithe posted:I read that last night, s tier boomer posting tip to toe Seems like a reasonable take though? (Though not a deep or fresh one.) This has been an issue at Australian universities for some years; neither local students nor lecturers and tutors nor the well-below-fluent international students themselves deny it. Am I missing something? Or are we just snickering at the woman's naïveté?
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Aug 28, 2019 05:12
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Yeah it’s not all xenophobia. Cuts in government funding mean universities are more and more reliant on using international students as cash cows to remain solvent. This means potential students are aggressively recruited to attend universities despite not having the foundational skills to succeed. They pass their courses because lecturers are pressured to inflate their grades, because from the administrator’s perspective all that matters is they keep paying tuition fees, not that they actually learn. It’s doing a disservice to the international student - we’re charging them a hell of a lot for an education they’re not receiving. It’s not a sustainable business model. To compound this, universities - especially the Group of 8 - are extremely exposed to fluctuations in the Chinese market. At most Go8 universities, more than half of the international student cohort is Chinese. There’s also the CCP spying on everyone which is not ideal.
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Aug 28, 2019 05:32
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