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Anidav posted:Mr Hansen said junior police members exposed to the protest movement were now "battle hardened" ahead of major action planned for the the International Mining and Resources Conference in Melbourne towards the end of the month. that's a cool and normal thing to say.
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*Senior Sgt Brown etches another stick figure person on the side of his helmet*
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Oct 13, 2019 22:14
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*Bald, twitching junior police officer* "I no longer fear the wretched screams of man."
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Oct 13, 2019 22:41
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If they were so concerned about police resources they could always just not arrest protesters.
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Where are these people getting those numbers for ALL bills per week. My last power bill alone was $60 a week
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 they are made upAlthough my power bill for a family is about $37/week and I'm not super happy about that. And according to western Power it's a bit higher than other comparable households.
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We probably use a lot of power because MrsMG is home with the kids a lot (both are too young to start school, no child care) but I also think those "here's your average power usage" comparison graphs are laughably out of date.
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Im in a suburb that skews from ghetto to 3mil+ Riverside properties so the suburb average is going to be pretty innacurate but Synergy use a system where you can enter your household appliances etc and they will spit out the household comparison based on that. I suspect it's mainly sliced on suburb/region and rooms in the house.
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Dear Mr Barrie, Lol. What a loving joke. Where's your citation for any of your productivity claims? Also you apparently aren't aware that Australia is among world leaders in robotics. (Source - https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/research/new-index-ranks-countries-that-are-ready-for-robots-ai/ ) quote:Rounding out the top 10 countries were Japan, Canada, Estonia, France, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. China, which is often thought of as a leader in the AI and robotics space, ranked No. 12 on the list. A/ A job B/ An education C/ A clue D/ Slightly smaller clown shoes so you don't trip over them quite so often.
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norp posted:Im in a suburb that skews from ghetto to 3mil+ Riverside properties so the suburb average is going to be pretty innacurate but Synergy use a system where you can enter your household appliances etc and they will spit out the household comparison based on that. If you don't have rooftop solar, your numbers are going to be seriously hosed up compared to the median no matter which suburb you live in in Perth, because it's everywhere now. Synergy is apparently struggling to manage things atm because so many people are posting negative or close to 0 power bills, and even with the incredibly jacked power prices in WA they're having income issues. WA needs to introduce an interest free loans scheme for solar already, get 100% density, start shutting down Collie and come up with a new tariff scheme to maintain the grid IMO.
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Ah yeah, I joked to my wife that we managed to buy one of the only houses in the neighbourhood without solar so that would definitely influence it. I'd love to get solar but I have other debts to clear up first before getting into debt for panels and there do seem to be some shonky operators out there, making it harder to find a good one. They may even still do a good job with the panels themselves, but there's some predatory selling practices going on in my area with unsolicited phone calls, made up government rebates, etc.
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Don Dongington posted:If you don't have rooftop solar, your numbers are going to be seriously hosed up compared to the median no matter which suburb you live in in Perth, because it's everywhere now. Im renting in bayswater and even I have solar.
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NPR Journalizard posted:Im renting in bayswater and even I have solar. Next year I need to get the other residents & the strata on board with installing solar on our apartment block.
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GoldStandardConure posted:Next year I need to get the other residents & the strata on board with installing solar on our apartment block. The biggest pain with that is putting the complex behind a single Meter and submetering everyone can share the generation. Unless the complex is already big enough for that.
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drat, all these lone wolves, who can stop them?!?
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So for those who haven't been following US politics, the Republicans have now emailed their talking points to Democrats twice in the last couple of weeks. Not wanting to be left behind on the stupidity train, the Libs follow suit: Guardian Liveblog posted:Before we get there, we have a bunch of things to not talk about.
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Really, it's just efficient to do this now so we don't have to hear 5 ministers say the same loving thing all damned week. Edit: PM Talking notes posted:In 2018-19 the government spent more than $170bn a year on social security and welfare, representing more than one in three dollars or 35% of all commonwealth spending. That amount equates to about 75% of the total amount paid in personal income tax Is there somewhere I can make an ABC Fact Checker request. This seems like it would rate as "misleading" at best. Intoluene fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Cartoon posted:Dear Mr Barrie, Okay now do this one. The chief executive of appliance retailer Winning Group has railed against the poor work ethic of Millennials and warned of another "huge correction" in financial markets, as social media-influenced consumers rack up debt and live beyond their means. "People are expecting more than what they put in. Some of the people coming in for interviews, their expectation of what they should be paid versus how much they're expected to work is just crazy," said John Winning, the fourth generation boss of the appliance company. At 35, Mr Winning is technically a Millennial himself but that doesn't stop him from haranguing the generation, saying while his company employs some great Millennial workers, they are "few and far between". "You train them up and by the time they've finished the two-month training, they're either looking for the next thing or asking for a promotion or more money," he said. "When I think of hustling, I think of rolling your sleeves up and working from early in the morning to late at night. They see hustling as a get-rich-quick scheme or another easy solution." The 113-year-old whitegoods retailer has two major brands, Appliances Online and Winning Appliances. In the last financial year it turned over $650 million in sales out of its 16 stores across the country. In comparison, rival The Good Guys reported $2.15 billion in sales last financial year off 105 stores. Mr Winning claimed sales are increasing by $100 million a year, despite the overall appliances market dropping 7 per cent in sales, which he said was due to increasing price competition from Asian manufacturers. "Korean and Chinese brands are getting stronger, and as they're fighting for more market share they're doing it through price. Seventeen years ago, it would be $20,000 for a 50-inch plasma TV, and now you can get the same thing for under $1000," he said. Mr Winning also echoed the downbeat sentiments of the broader retail sector, which has been repeatedly labelled as "recessionary" as consumers fail to respond to stimulatory measures. "Margins are as low as ever, pricing is as competitive as ever, so it's certainly a tough market," he said. But while other retailers have attributed the downturn to weak consumer confidence, low wage growth and a struggling housing market, Mr Winning blamed the prevalence of social media and get-rich-quick schemes causing Australians to live beyond their means. The rise of Instagram has been "damaging to society", he said, as users strived to display the "best 1 per cent" of their lives, leading them to live a lifestyle they couldn't afford. "I think the world's living in this desperation of wanting more, and that's getting people into a lot of trouble," he said. "People expect they should be able to spend all this money on eating out because they see all their friends on social media eating out breakfast, lunch and dinner, having these great lives and going to Europe every Australian winter. "So there's a lot of debt and a lot of people really struggling to maintain the lifestyle they're used to. The world has to go through another huge correction.
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So are we spending too much or not enough? Or both?
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Purk posted:So are we spending too much or not enough? Or both?
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Millennials are killing everything except the planet, which is absolutely not dying at all.
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Did the article at least point out the fact that Winning appliances is a family owned business and the guy slamming milenials was born into his job and probably used family connections to create his start up?
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Purk posted:Did the article at least point out the fact that Winning appliances is a family owned business and the guy slamming milenials was born into his job and probably used family connections to create his start up?
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Anidav posted:"The world has to go through another huge correction." 
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Ha ha ha holy gently caress
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Of loving course.
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So much winning it hurts.
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Every. Single. loving. Time.
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Gee why the gently caress am I not surprised?
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it's going to be interesting to see what happens when the first ex rebellion protester gets murdered by police, that's one possible flashpoint
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when daddy takes pity on you but you're still too stupid to realise it
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fauna posted:it's going to be interesting to see what happens when the first ex rebellion protester gets murdered by police, that's one possible flashpoint Please remind me of the last time a protester was killed in Australia.
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I’m the 4th generation CEO whining about millennials not wanting to work to advance their career
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JBP posted:Please remind me of the last time a protester was killed in Australia.
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extinction rebellion has its problems but at its core it's about the most privileged in society actually getting the chance to use that privilege for societal benefit. straight white boys and girls are less likely to be victims of police violence, so they've been able to get arrested en masse, and when one of them does die the uproar will be so much greater than if it were a marginalised victim - just look at the charlottesville murder and how the tone of reporting changed when a nazi killed a young white woman. it's weaponising australia's bigotries against the state, and i admire that
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