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Something has gone wrong, his transformation into red skull seems to have paused.
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May 14, 2020 08:16
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Turks posted:Any attempt to reduce house prices that affects everyone equally regardless of their circumstances is doomed to fail. The only way to reduce house prices is to make them unattractive as an investment. All your suggestions are things to overcomplicate (Catholic Church might not like the last line for instance) and keep on the cottage industry of tax minimization through property. One of the intents of the broad based land tax is specifically to tax the house people live in so that empty nesters and the like downsize instead of keeping the 4BR +study (which then keeps a family sized house in the market for families). Additionally; in its simple state, it is already a very progressive tax because most rich people want to live in the luxury that comes with likes of a >3.5M AUD Peppermint Grove cottage whilst I was happy to live in a house that was worth ~240k in 2010. A good example is my 70+ yr old father, has a hundred acres near Gympie - 6BR home built in the 30's + separate shed/granny flat, awesome garden, lovely orchid and no intent to sell the property - he bought it with a war service loan in the 70's so it is capital gain tax exempt but not stamp duty exempt. With a land tax, he would be paying a percentage of the assessed value each year (which would presumably be a lot more than rates) so all of a sudden, it gets real on whether he really needs that property or maybe he should downsize into a 2BR unit in town which would be a cheaper exercise now as he would not be coughing up to help pay for two sets of stamp duty as he transfers.
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May 14, 2020 08:56
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https://twitter.com/ConnorCJolley/status/1260826766085505024
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May 14, 2020 08:58
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Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Fascists and Socialists. Or Anarchists and Socialists. Or Capitalists and Socialists. Or Socialists and Other Socialists. drat Socialists! They ruined socialism!
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May 14, 2020 09:15
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Electric Wrigglies posted:All your suggestions are things to overcomplicate (Catholic Church might not like the last line for instance) and keep on the cottage industry of tax minimization through property. One of the intents of the broad based land tax is specifically to tax the house people live in so that empty nesters and the like downsize instead of keeping the 4BR +study (which then keeps a family sized house in the market for families). Additionally; in its simple state, it is already a very progressive tax because most rich people want to live in the luxury that comes with likes of a >3.5M AUD Peppermint Grove cottage whilst I was happy to live in a house that was worth ~240k in 2010. Sounds to me like the lunatics are running the asylum
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May 14, 2020 09:28
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If we assume that access to housing is a fundemental human right, as we assume it is for access to water and food and education and health, and if we assume that the government is in theory at least somewhat responsible to its citizens for ensuring access to these fundamental rights, it seems more reasonable to me that we should approach the discussion from the perspective of how we reach these minimum obligations and then provide a ground floor for the market to compete with, rather than asking how we can manipulate the specifics of a system that is inherently, specifically aimed at turning a fundamental human right into a speculation-driven commodity. It's like giving a sociopath control over your children's education -- if your goal is to have it as cheap as possible, great! If you actually care about a minimum level of assured quality, then maybe you shouldn't let a sociopath dictate the range and desirability of given solutions - your motivations and goals absolutely do not coincide. Basically what I'm asking is, is there something inherently bad about the idea of an increased state role in the direct supply of housing (particularly high density and semi-planned neighbourhoods), or is it that it's just not considered politically feasible in Australia? Or do we just assume that the only thing less competent than the "free market" to manage human rights is the state? I don't mind the idea of some level of speculation in the housing market, there will always be people who want (and can afford) more, but it should be restricted to a reasonable portion, not the whole drat thing.
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May 14, 2020 10:39
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And creating/perpetuating a system whereby the greatest part of most people's conceptual wealth is directly reliant upon rampant speculation and the commoditisation of a fundamental human right.. seems counter-intuitive to me? It's like giving your slaves part share in a collar-and-shackle manufacturing plant - to earn their individual freedom, they must perpetuate the system that created them. Maybe that's a bit floral but I just woke up
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May 14, 2020 10:43
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Bulk housing designed and built by a group that wont live in it (public servants, consultants) tended towards failure. While the UK was building disastrous estates, Australia was mandating a portion of new development be set aside to low income housing. It avoided the concentrations of under privileged and tended to minimize the rise of gated estates that have become a thing in the US. Over time the mandating went the way of the dodo I think because if eroded developer profits and people tend to not like living near the underprivileged. I would like for the distributed public/low income housing to come back somehow but in my exposure to providing housing for others, I know it is a really soul destroyingly thankless task that is much harder than you would think possible.
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May 14, 2020 11:52
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we should get austrian expertise, they have some pretty nice public housing
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May 14, 2020 12:08
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Electric Wrigglies posted:Bulk housing designed and built by a group that wont live in it (public servants, consultants) tended towards failure. While the UK was building disastrous estates, Australia was mandating a portion of new development be set aside to low income housing. It avoided the concentrations of under privileged and tended to minimize the rise of gated estates that have become a thing in the US. Over time the mandating went the way of the dodo I think because if eroded developer profits and people tend to not like living near the underprivileged. Strongly agree with all of this post. We need to be creating greater minimum requirements for public housing in new developments (e.g. minimum 15% of the properties in the build should be earmarked as public housing), and creating greater incentives for developers to build more (e.g. you want to build an extra floor? Okay great 50% of it has to be low-income housing). Housing is just one part of the picture, unfortunately. We need a lot more early intervention services but the problem is, a lot of the people who would benefit the most from them would be totally opposed. I honestly don't know how you help those people, or their children (short of removal, which is its own can of worms).
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May 14, 2020 12:13
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thatbastardken posted:we should get austrian expertise, they have some pretty nice public housing Karl Marx Hof 
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May 14, 2020 12:18
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https://twitter.com/AusOpinion/status/1260703191173197824?s=20 hell yeah, mega normal take about a bunch of people not dying
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May 14, 2020 12:43
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Man whose car has not slammed into a wall: "I guess I didn't need to brake after all"
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May 14, 2020 13:01
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hawaiian_robot posted:https://twitter.com/AusOpinion/status/1260703191173197824?s=20 What's the bet it is not really a tilt at the modelling in context of the Covid discussion but more in that one of the refrains of the anti anthropic global climate change theorists is that modelling of global climate is too chaotic to be successfully modelled and therefore any conclusions drawn from them are likely to fit the agenda of the modeler as opposed to reality. This is yelling again "Don't trust the models!"
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May 14, 2020 13:13
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blindidiotgod posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/beneltham/status/1260407662291779584 There’s a large likelihood that no casual academics will remain employed now at my institution, so basically the time to do anything university related was 10 years ago, RIP
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May 14, 2020 13:33
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thatbastardken posted:we should get austrian expertise, they have some pretty nice public housing what even is austria. sounds like a cough.
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May 14, 2020 14:15
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Recoome posted:There’s a large likelihood that no casual academics will remain employed now at my institution, so basically the time to do anything university related was 10 years ago, RIP I mean the Jobs protection framework explicitly prevents unis from shifting casual workloads onto ongoing staff, and it's retrospective once signed onto so this shouldn't be happening. That said there's a weird hosed up perversion going on among the VOTE NO campaigners that the emphasis should be on protecting casual employees who, legally speaking, never had a loving leg to stand on, rather than fighting for conversion and real job security. There SHOULDN'T be any causal employees teaching at our universities, they should all be made ongoing.
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May 14, 2020 14:19
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I saw the photo of Dutton on the last page and thought, "Wow, his head's getting rounder and rounder. I should open Photoshop and map it to a sphere." Then I wondered if I could make it spin, and now it's doing this and I don't know how to make it stop. https://i.imgur.com/DRxZIOF.mp4
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May 14, 2020 14:40
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that's. wow.
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May 14, 2020 14:56
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hawaiian_robot posted:https://twitter.com/AusOpinion/status/1260703191173197824?s=20 wasn't the point of the models that, if we did roughly what we ended up doing, it'd stop a UK/Italy style breakout?
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May 14, 2020 15:38
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Sending the grim reaper out of business seems like a good news story.
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May 14, 2020 15:38
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JBP posted:Sending the grim reaper out of business seems like a good news story. Johannes Leak craves the deaths he was promised.
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May 14, 2020 16:19
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That comic also implies there's a Reaper for each country because he's fuckin' flat out in America.
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May 14, 2020 22:27
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There were three Australian reapers, but after death services were privatised there's one reaper on the same pay for twice the cost
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May 14, 2020 23:07
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Nutsak posted:That comic also implies there's a Reaper for each country because he's fuckin' flat out in America. [300,000 people dead from COVID-19 worldwide] Leak, Dribblings of Leak: "The reaper in the dole line lol"
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May 14, 2020 23:11
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Electric Wrigglies posted:What's the bet it is not really a tilt at the modelling in context of the Covid discussion but more in that one of the refrains of the anti anthropic global climate change theorists is that modelling of global climate is too chaotic to be successfully modelled and therefore any conclusions drawn from them are likely to fit the agenda of the modeler as opposed to reality. You’re giving way too much credit to the mental capacity of: -climate sceptics -COVID sceptics -The son of a man who couldn’t work out how to operate a balcony
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May 14, 2020 23:28
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l o loving l
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May 14, 2020 23:42
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Breakfast Burrito posted:This reads like a parody
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May 14, 2020 23:54
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MysticalMachineGun posted:l o loving l My "Not run by Nazi's" headline has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my headline.
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May 15, 2020 00:05
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Don Dongington posted:I mean the Jobs protection framework explicitly prevents unis from shifting casual workloads onto ongoing staff, and it's retrospective once signed onto so this shouldn't be happening. I mean you say this but it's already happened. In my department, any marking that would be given to the casuals have already been put back onto the permanent staff. Like I get it, us casuals are the first against the wall but it's not for lack of trying, like seriously I'd love to be in some form of permanent work but I'm also finishing my doctoral thesis so. Like it's good that we'll be able to protect the majority of jobs or whatever and we really shouldn't be opposing this at all, but I'm definitely loving the fact that it's ONCE AGAIN the younger academics who are being toasted by this, but that's life. Can't wait to finish my degree and punch out of academia/the university sector forever. Recoome fucked around with this message at 00:37 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 00:34
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-15/coronavirus-queensland-virgin-australia-explainer/12247046 It seems to me the real story here is how did the Federal Government manage to put over $200 million into REX to keep them flying without gaining any fiscal position in the company. With the additional side effect of putting the Singapore owned company in a position to now compete with the beleaguered Virgin Australia. I mean how many time do you get to screw the same pooch? And the whole other story here is how the gently caress do you get to be $7 Billion dollars in debt before anyone decided it might be a good idea to start unfucking yourself. The idiots at the helm of Virgin Australia saw the mountain surely at around $1 Billion debt and thought it would be a good idea to burn another six flying straight at it. Named and Shamed please. https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/company-overview/virgin-australia-board-of-directors/ tl;dr - Ms Elizabeth Bryan AM BA (Econ.), MA (Econ.)  , Mr Paul Scurrah (ex travel agent), Mr Trevor Bourne MBA  , Mr Ken Dean B.Com (Hons), FCPA, FAICD , Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston, AK, AFC (Ret’d), Ms Judith Swales B.Sc, Mr Ray Gammell Bachelor of Arts degree, Master’s degree in Business Studies,, Mr Hou Wei (?) , Mr Kevin Xing Master in Applied Finance, Bachelor of Finance,, Mr Warwick Negus BBus (UTS), MCom (UNSW), SF Fin , Mr Marvin Tan BA International Relations. There surely must be some HECS debt refunds available to these victims of such poor financial management training.-/- In further wtf actually news: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-12/no-evidence-document-angus-taylor-criticised-clover-moore-over/12239994 quote:key points:  Can't image why having the Kartoffelfurher as head of the AFP would make anyone even suspect a different result. This is 100% gold plated bullshit. gently caress this.
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Recoome posted:I mean you say this but it's already happened. In my department, any marking that would be given to the casuals have already been put back onto the permanent staff. Like I get it, us casuals are the first against the wall but it's not for lack of trying, like seriously I'd love to be in some form of permanent work but I'm also finishing my doctoral thesis so. Yeah I mean we live in a country where the majority of people doing the teaching ~3 months ago can be fired with 30 mins notice and no severance beyond any hours worked and not yet paid. People are suggesting the NTEU has never cared about this, but that's totally false. We recognise that for the union to survive, we can't have the majority of our members in insecure work, and that it's only a matter of time before ongoing staff start finding themselves casually employed after the latest round of restructure musical chairs, so even those of us in "safe" tenured spots started to appreciate the risk a few years ago. Our key focus over the last few years has been to fight casualisation, but also find ways to be more welcoming and inclusive to casual members. Part of that involved us dropping the rates for casual members significantly, and then when COVID hit, we dropped them entirely. Casual membership is now free. The Jobs protection Framework provides more job security to casuals than ever before. If a university signs on - which they will need to do to get access to the fraction reduction for ongoing staff - any casuals put out of work from sometime in march need to be considered for any new work that comes along. Any work that was historically performed by casuals must remain with casuals. This also applies to fixed term staff. The NTEU and University joint committee are the arbiters of this operation, and if the uni start playing sillybuggers, they end up back in the poo poo. Casual and Fixed Term staff will be more secure in their allocation of work and continuation of employment than ever before under this scheme. As for the argument being trotted out by No Concessions "What about the casuals who lost their jobs before march 18" or whenever the key dates are - What the actual gently caress do you expect us to be able to do about that? Seriously? We've fought ongoing creeping casualisation for years, we've campaigned on it for a decade or more, we can't change history, the abortion that is the fair work act or neoliberalism, and we can't suddenly become all powerful. But holy poo poo, if this deal gets up, the union will have more power to hold universities to account than ever before, and you betcha we'll be using it to fight against insecure work, as well as redundancies and untenable workloads.
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REX can go and gently caress right off imo. They tried to stand over rural councils in SA, telling them if you dare collect rates or regional airport fees from us we're going to cut your services indefinitely under the guise of COVID-19. To my knowledge every council told them to gently caress off rather than being scabs.
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May 15, 2020 02:34
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-15/eight-new-coronavirus-infections-recorded-in-nsw/12248890quote:NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned people to stay off Sydney's public transport network at peak times, as the state relaxes some coronavirus restrictions.
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bandaid.friend posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-15/eight-new-coronavirus-infections-recorded-in-nsw/12248890 Right??? how else do they think people are going to go do the things they are allowed to do again? Do they think everyone drives?
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May 15, 2020 03:55
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The Before Times posted:Do they think everyone drives? Of course they do.
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May 15, 2020 04:03
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Derr just Uber 45 mins each way to your 4 hour minimum wage hospo shift it's not that hard people
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May 15, 2020 04:05
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All government policy and messaging is built off the strong foundation of No Take!! Only Throw.
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The Before Times posted:Right??? how else do they think people are going to go do the things they are allowed to do again? Do they think everyone drives? Get a bicycle and enjoy the non-existent cycling infrastructure!
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