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Uhhhhhhhhhh thoughts and prayers??? /  E:God loving danmit why do I snype gbs every time I post in your dang mean grey forums?! Synthbuttrange posted:
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Luneshot posted:Seconded. I've definitely seen "business district" but I don't think I've seen it abbreviated as CBD- "downtown" is far more common. It's super annoying that suddenly it's started meaning weed oil so Google results about searching for stuff in the CBD in Oz are all messed up.
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Jan 9, 2020 04:26
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Twiggy digging deep 
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Jan 9, 2020 04:39
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Not as deep as his mines. Remember, Twiggy is running/advocates for the indue card. gently caress him. If he and his companies paid proper tax hed be 'donating a billion.'
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Jan 9, 2020 04:58
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Horsebanger posted:it boggles the loving mind that someone in this country thought this man was charismatic. How does anyone resist the temptation to call him a oval office upon trying to interact with him in any fashion? That's either amazing restraint or abject stupidity.
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Jan 9, 2020 05:01
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StrixNebulosa posted:American reporting in, I have never heard of a CBD in my life, so thanks for explaining that. New Orleans calls its downtown the Central Business District 
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Jan 9, 2020 05:13
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Jan 9, 2020 05:49
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Gridlocked posted:Twiggy digging deep He likes to give and it's an impressive number but as others have said it isn't exactly breaking the bank for him. Either way that's $70m they didn't have before. Gina apparently gave some money too but won't say how much. Just think of how that money can help, not where it came from
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Jan 9, 2020 06:07
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luncheon meat posted:He likes to give and it's an impressive number but as others have said it isn't exactly breaking the bank for him. Either way that's $70m they didn't have before. Yeah this. He is a multi billionaire, most of it from mining. However 70mill is 70mill right now.
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Jan 9, 2020 06:12
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Gift horse, mouth. Alberta burned this year I wish our monster capitalists helped.
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Jan 9, 2020 06:30
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i keep misreading your name as heather poops. i'm sorry 
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Jan 9, 2020 06:31
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bell jar posted:i keep misreading your name as heather poops. i'm sorry MODS
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Jan 9, 2020 06:34
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Pap is a type of poo anyways. Koala babies eat it. They’re weird animals. Sydney air is much clearer today. I’d forgotten how many buildings were in the skyline.
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Jan 9, 2020 06:43
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Quantum Shart posted:Don't forget this one. loving yikes. holy poo poo that's insane there's absolutely no way any wildlife near this would ever make it out except for a loving miracle
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Jan 9, 2020 06:44
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No mods, no masters in here. This is Australia. All help is very welcome and it's amazing to see how much other countries are lending us a hand. https://twitter.com/AusHCPNG/status/1215081335754084353 As well as the Americans, Canadians, New Zealanders and Singaporeans, Papua New Guinea are now sending us people to help fight the fires. Fiji has also offered us monetary aid. Thank you neighbours!
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Jan 9, 2020 06:46
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Thats pretty generous considering how Australia keeps dicking over PNG.
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Jan 9, 2020 06:48
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luncheon meat posted:...Gina apparently gave some money too but won't say how much. She probably gave some recently homeless person on the street 20 cents in passing. Even that probably caused her considerable actual pain. Rest of your quote still makes sense even without the first part of this quote. Regarding ScoMo: sincerely hope one of his little PR exercises has a fire jump containment lines and the miserable c-word has to experience first hand some bloody suffering for once in his cushy, pampered existence.
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Jan 9, 2020 06:50
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Jan 9, 2020 06:51
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Toxic Mental posted:holy poo poo that's insane Conservative estimates are currently over 1 Billion (yes with a B) animals have been killed. https://youtu.be/LsiD5tB9yrc  There's a near mythical element of the indigenous and even in some way pastoralist connection to land in Australia. It has always been a fragile, unforgiving place that demands respect, so to see the unique flora and fauna decimated this way is just heart rending.
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Jan 9, 2020 06:51
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-09/nsw-bushfires-kill-over-a-billion-animals-experts-say/11854836quote:Over a billion animals and "hundreds of billions" of insects have been killed in bushfires throughout New South Wales this season, according to leading wildlife experts. So it's pretty grim.
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Jan 9, 2020 06:54
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Synthbuttrange posted:Suddenly worrying about bushfires + all the flammable cladding. i work for the victorian state government in the building industry and i could list off the top of my head at least fifteen high rise buildings you could turn into grenfell just by sticking a lit cig between the cladding panels on the ground floor. mind you there's very few buildngs in the bush tall enough for the cladding to be a problem so the bushfires wouldn't really affect that issue
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Jan 9, 2020 06:55
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Yeah that was more in relation to the 'what if fires get closer to the cbd' line of chatter from earlier. Not a great line of thought, no matter how unlikely it is so far.
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Slugnoid posted:i work for the victorian state government in the building industry and i could list off the top of my head at least fifteen high rise buildings you could turn into grenfell just by sticking a lit cig between the cladding panels on the ground floor. Whoa, lucky the CBD hasn't been inundated with smoke haze which is full of burning embers! /checks notes UH OH
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Jan 9, 2020 07:34
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Horsebanger posted:it boggles the loving mind that someone in this country thought this man was charismatic. People had already experienced Shorten and decided they didn't like him so ScoMo got the "at least he isn't that guy" pass. Turns out he's a wanker, oopsie! Slugnoid posted:i work for the victorian state government in the building industry and i could list off the top of my head at least fifteen high rise buildings you could turn into grenfell just by sticking a lit cig between the cladding panels on the ground floor. Please tell me someone got axed for that bullshit, or at least a strongly worded email
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Jan 9, 2020 07:36
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lmao if you think anyone's going to suffer for covering buildings in flammable cladding. (aside from the people inside )
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Jan 9, 2020 07:40
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Yeah as far as I can tell the builders - who were still using the cladding after the Grenfell fire and knew the risks - have just said "it was legal when we built it so too bad so sad" and saddled the owners (through the Owners Corporations) with the rectification bill.
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Jan 9, 2020 08:10
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or they've just phoenixed themselves. (the practice of killing off their company but starting a totally new absolutely unrelated company, not the setting themselves on fire type phoenix)
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Jan 9, 2020 08:17
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loving assholes
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Jan 9, 2020 08:22
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nockturne posted:She probably gave some recently homeless person on the street 20 cents in passing. Even that probably caused her considerable actual pain. How long do we reckon the PM's got before he gets the traditional Party Knife In the Back? It's practically Auspol tradition at this point, and nobody's happy with ScoMo now. Snowglobe of Doom posted:Whoa, lucky the CBD hasn't been inundated with smoke haze which is full of burning embers! We've gotten relatively drat lucky with the smoke this week in Victoria, because the original AQI forecast models were pretty loving dire for Tuesday onwards. Most of Victoria's actually gotten off relatively light, considering at one point Thursday was just predicted as "BLACK cloud over Vic*cough*toria" out of a known colour range of green/yellow/orange/red/magenta. We're still get some of the nasty stuff tonight, so if you're in/around Melbourne, make drat sure you're sealed up indoors as much as possible.
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Jan 9, 2020 08:43
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I was just going to post "hey, the smoke hasn't been nearly as bad these past two days". Dang.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:How long do we reckon the PM's got before he gets the traditional Party Knife In the Back? It's practically Auspol tradition at this point, and nobody's happy with ScoMo now. The first thing he did when he claimed office was to get the party rules changed so that a spill motion required 2/3 of the partyroom to vote out the current leader. (Note that Labor already had a similar rule in place, and an even higher threshold of 3/4 to remove a standing Labor PM.) I wouldn't be surprised if they ignored that and replaced him anyway because the LNP is hosed if they continue with him as their figurehead
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Jan 9, 2020 08:52
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If they have half the party on board can't they just change the rule back?
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Jan 9, 2020 08:55
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Kangaroo Island got worse today
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Hyperlynx posted:I was just going to post "hey, the smoke hasn't been nearly as bad these past two days". Dang. https://aqicn.org/forecast/melbourne/ This should be in your daily bookmark-checking right now if you're in Victoria. Keep in mind that it's been subject to change as they update the model (and has been repeatedly this past week, thankfully) and the map is in UTC time (ie; subtract 11 hours). Snowglobe of Doom posted:The first thing he did when he claimed office was to get the party rules changed so that a spill motion required 2/3 of the partyroom to vote out the current leader. (Note that Labor already had a similar rule in place, and an even higher threshold of 3/4 to remove a standing Labor PM.) What particularly makes me think he might/hopefully be done for was trying to trot out the line of "This isn't the time for politics". If ScoMo was sure the Liberals weren't sharpening knives and had his back, he wouldn't be trying to play things off that way.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The first thing he did when he claimed office was to get the party rules changed so that a spill motion required 2/3 of the partyroom to vote out the current leader. (Note that Labor already had a similar rule in place, and an even higher threshold of 3/4 to remove a standing Labor PM.) The rules can be changed with a standard 50% + 1 majority though.
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Memento posted:Yeah as far as I can tell the builders - who were still using the cladding after the Grenfell fire and knew the risks - have just said "it was legal when we built it so too bad so sad" and saddled the owners (through the Owners Corporations) with the rectification bill. In Victoria we cracked down on the practice after the lacrosse fire in 2014 and the cladding audit was well underway before the first whiff of smoke at grenfell. We were aware of the problem and that it was a ticking timebomb even back in the bailieu days when guy was the planning minister, but it took dan andrews to actually do something about it. Working for the government and actually seeing first hand the various ways the LNP bend over backwards for their big business mates is mind bending. Synthbuttrange posted:or they've just phoenixed themselves. (the practice of killing off their company but starting a totally new absolutely unrelated company, not the setting themselves on fire type phoenix) the new 'corporate builder registration' scheme in victoria should fix that 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:How long do we reckon the PM's got before he gets the traditional Party Knife In the Back? It's practically Auspol tradition at this point, and nobody's happy with ScoMo now. 3 days to 1 month, tops. quote:We've gotten relatively drat lucky with the smoke this week in Victoria, because the original AQI forecast models were pretty loving dire for Tuesday onwards. Most of Victoria's actually gotten off relatively light, considering at one point Thursday was just predicted as "BLACK cloud over Vic*cough*toria" out of a known colour range of green/yellow/orange/red/magenta. Very good advice. Be safe East Coast buddies
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I’m waiting to see what tomorrow brings but the authorities up here are rightly freaked out by the forecast and this week hasn’t been conducive to their containment plans. It’s likely the upper mountains will be fine but those who live further down will have issues if the fire decides to kick up a stink in the heat.
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Jan 9, 2020 10:02
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PT6A posted:How does anyone resist the temptation to call him a oval office upon trying to interact with him in any fashion? Everyone I know who's shown support for the prime minister on facebook has been an evangelical Christian. That branch of Christianity is a fascist cult at this stage. They're gonna love Dutton.
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kangaroo island is breaking my heart. the top echidna researcher in the country lives there, wild among the echidnas that she loves (i'm not joking, she's an extraordinary person). i saw a devastating photo earlier of the owner of the wildlife park carrying a dead koala and kangaroo to a mass grave
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