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Pile Of Garbage posted:Homelessness mainly, of which indigenous people are a large majority. Yagan Square is actually very new, created when they sunk the train lines from Perth station next to it. That said homelessness is still a big thing in four blocks in any direction of that location. The closest thing they have is those button activated / timed toilet cubicles but I don't think they have sharps containers.
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Pile Of Garbage posted:Is it bad if you spend ages waiting between jabs? Unless it's changed very recently, Pfizer is optimal at 8, AZ is optimal at 12. I'm not sure about the comparative effecacy reduction on reducing from optimal interval, though, it may be that Pfizer doesn't drop as much as AZ with the shorter wait given how common the 4 week interval is. I remember seeing some studies a few months ago showing AZ drops hard when tested at 6. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Aug 24, 2021 |
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bell jar posted:I don't know anything about Perth, is that area a sex worker hotspot? Or a homelessness hotspot? Or just a series of very unfortunate incidents happening to people who are indigenous? It's right in the middle of the CBD, where a majority of the homelessness services are concentrated. What's happening is two things: Firstly, there's an explosion in homelessness. Rents have skyrocketed, the COVID protections for tenants have disappeared, there's very little new public housing being made available (all of which is going to the most needy, and since there's so much need, that bar is being raised ever higher and higher), and aboriginal people face astounding housing discrimination. Homeless shelters are generally some mix of full, scary, dangerous, infectious, patronising, needlessly cruel, or run by religious nutters. Rent assistance/the dole doesn't even factor in here - it's not enough to get a private rental, or when it is, it's away from public transport, services, friends, family, etc. Secondly, there's been an anti-homeless people sentiment (ugh). Case in point, the Mayor of Perth, Basil Zempilas, who ran on a platform of literally running the homeless out of the CBD. Because how dare they want access to all the services located in the city centre, right folks?! Clearly he's not the only one, though, because in recent years councils, the public transit authority and various landowners have been doing various things to discourage people from sleeping on properties or on land for which they're responsible or to otherwise encourage them to move them on. This has lead to the traditionally more sheltered areas homeless people could previously rely on as a reasonably sheltered (or at least safer) place to sleep at night (e.g. beneath the Lord St bridge in East Perth) becoming fenced off or otherwise made inaccessible or inhospital to these people. So the homless of the CBD now have two choices - find one of the vanishingly few quasi-sheltered places to sleep that's out of the way, probably somewhere you'll be less likely to be asked to move on (but land up aggravatingly far away from services you need), or sleep in a reasonably high-trafficked area near the services you are using every day where you will be safe(r than you may be otherwise), but also exposed to the elements. As a woman, I can definitely understand the appeal of sleeping in a highly-trafficked/patrolled public space over crossing your fingers and hoping nobody else finds or follows you to the quiet, dark, out-of-the-way place you sleep at night. Additionally, Yagan Square's busport opens early enough a person who's spent the night on the street could feasibly go inside to warm up a little and few would notice. The situation is such in the Perth CBD there's minimal shelter, anywhere that would otherwise be suitable is either already taken or has loving spikes and railings and other bullshit installed to keep people from sleeping safely there, and the Perth CBD is already a wind tunnel. When society removes the conditions the local homeless people rely on to get through the night safely, the homeless people die. That's it.
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froglet posted:This has lead to the traditionally more sheltered areas homeless people could previously rely on as a reasonably sheltered (or at least safer) place to sleep at night (e.g. beneath the Lord St bridge in East Perth) becoming fenced off or otherwise made inaccessible or inhospital to these people. I loving hate that we don't support the homeless more. Honestly nobody should have to sleep rough, we can do way better as a society. But you do your argument a disservice with this one; this encampment was getting to the point where they were blocking the only pedestrian/bike thoroughfare into the city along there and I was threatened and spat on multiple times for daring to simply ride into work. The detour was about 3km to avoid it.
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norp posted:I loving hate that we don't support the homeless more. Honestly nobody should have to sleep rough, we can do way better as a society. Oh I'm quite familiar with the area, I used to ride my bike through there every weekday on my way to work and copped a handful of threats, though admittedly I haven't done so in a while. That happening underlines my point: Since so many different parts of the city are using hostile architecture to keep the homeless out, and the number of homeless has gone way up, what ends up happening is the disadvantage concentrates in the one spot and spirals out of control, which is what happened at the Lord St bridge. It's a vicious cycle - the council/landholders do something to discourage the homeless, the homeless then move on to the next available area that isn't entirely awful to them, but now there's more of them due to a double whammy of low housing availability and the other places they'd previously stay being rendered inaccessible or inhospitable by the aforementioned councils and landholders. So the council/landholders do something to discourage the homeless...
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Probable sovereign citizen/obviously mentally ill person breaks into WA 47-year-old woman has been remanded in custody to serve 14 days' quarantine after allegedly speeding through a checkpoint at Western Australia's border with South Australia and ramming a police car. Just after 10 o'clock Monday morning, Brenda Elena Bleazard allegedly led police on a dramatic high-speed chase while driving a Volvo wagon and towing a caravan. Police said she reversed her caravan at speed into a police car, tried to run over an officer who was approaching her car on foot and threw a large jar full of petrol at an officer before trying to light it on fire
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Eediot Jedi posted:Probable sovereign citizen/obviously mentally ill person breaks into WA Look it’s been 57 years so it’s only understandable that people will take the necessary steps to get to the grand final
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Pile Of Garbage posted:Is it bad if you spend ages waiting between jabs? We are literally becoming more like America with astroturfing via sketchy polling companies.
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Eediot Jedi posted:Probable sovereign citizen/obviously mentally ill person breaks into WA Notably she would not stop demanding they let her leave Australia. She was trying to leave Australia via caravan.
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To go home to her small self-declared sovereign nation yes
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Konomex posted:.She was trying to leave Australia via caravan.
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Eediot Jedi posted:Probable sovereign citizen/obviously mentally ill person breaks into WA This is pretty funny footage though.
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ShoeFly posted:lol 1000 cases by Friday At least they didn't skip the nine hundreds. I would blow Dane Cook posted:This is pretty funny footage though. Up until I saw the bit of flame fly over the bonnet, yeah. I was wondering why the cop had an extinguisher with them.
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Eediot Jedi posted:At least they didn't skip the nine hundreds. Apparently she was throwing molotovs well, brain worm versions of molotovs
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If I can take it back to Canavan and his tweet re: The Wiggles for a sec. And I'm sorry if this is/has been blindingly obvious to everyone else but me. But I understand what he is doing with it, and what others have done similarly in the past. You see The Wiggles having a non-white or female member is not new, or even news worthy. No one gives a poo poo. Not even the vast majority of conservative Liberal voters care that The Wiggles now(sic) have an Asian person doing the funny silly kiddie songs. But when Canavan tweets out his "go woke go broke" soundbyte, THAT becomes the news. So Canavan gets himself in the papers, and gets himself in the papers as being a good conservative. Also, given that the factual truth of what he is railing against wouldn't bother even the most conservative dyed in the wool Liberal voter, through a game of Social Media Telephone, the story gets told, and re told, and re told and half heard then retold again through someones auntie Beryl etc. until it becomes canon that The Wiggles are now all drag queens forcing kids to sing songs about how White People are all evil and communism is the only way. So this workes in his favour, because he now has all his supporters going "it's good that Matt Canavan is fighting against this sort of horrible PC gone mad culture when no one else is." And when confronted with facts about "It's only an Asian Wiggle.", the supporters, already riled up against the imaginary strawman go "Yeah, that's fine, but he is not fighting against Jeff the Purple Wiggle, he is fighting against the Trans-Antifa-Climate-Terrorist-Socialist agenda that is rooly trooly there."
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BrigadierSensible posted:If I can take it back to Canavan and his tweet re: The Wiggles for a sec. It's virtue signalling and everything is always projection.
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Lol the DHHS booking website has been down for 24 hours now and the phone line hangs up on you, I really picked the worst time to get my first jab
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They licensed a Hispanic Wiggles like fifteen year ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3ibvSkSdQ It's some tiresome poo poo, girls in Star Wars, n-words in the Wiggles, girls not having big jiggly titties in video games. None of these freaks actually care about any of these weird peccadillos they're just gormlessly trying to appeal to a base that doesn't appreciably exist The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Canavan's just transparently angling himself to fill the George Christensen shaped hole the is LNP is going to have when he's finished coasting out his term
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The Peccadillo posted:They licensed a Hispanic Wiggles like fifteen year ago I love the Yellow Wiggle's filthy mo.
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droll posted:Culture war distracts from class war.  hooman posted:It's virtue signalling and everything is always projection. And it's going to have zero impact outside of his electorate. The Wiggles are bigger than Australia.
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freebooter posted:Lol the DHHS booking website has been down for 24 hours now and the phone line hangs up on you, I really picked the worst time to get my first jab Didn’t you decide not to get AZ when you had the chance and decided to wait?
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Comstar posted:Didn’t you decide not to get AZ when you had the chance and decided to wait?
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Comstar posted:Didn’t you decide not to get AZ when you had the chance and decided to wait? I think he followed the ATAGI advice for his location and age group 
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Correct, I did, and my annoyance atm is that I was waiting in line for my first Pfizer jab as Andrews announced it was more broadly eligible to my age group, and in the 15 minute waiting area afterwards we were only given a QR code and an instruction to book our second dose online - no option to do it manually with any of the staff there - and of course the website had already melted down and remains melted down.
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As if anyone needed this to be checked but I'm glad they did:quote:Gladys Berejiklian says Sydney's lockdown conditions are harsher than any of those previously imposed in other states. Is she correct?
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https://nswhvam.health.nsw.gov.au/vam Following that, answering all questions honestly brings up this:  Yeah I'll just ignore that and do whatever the most corrupt political sociopaths who are desperate to preserve their image would recommend.
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Comstar posted:Didn’t you decide not to get AZ when you had the chance and decided to wait? You need to learn when to shut the hell up, Comstar.
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Eediot Jedi posted:Strong Wiggles opinions in this thread nominally for adults. perepelki posted:the protester guy punching the horse is the most powerful image of our time Alf Deon Eades, a 46-year-old Noongar man, was allegedly attacked by other prisoners and found critically injured in his prison cell on 26 February 2019. He died in hospital 13 days later. His injuries included a broken neck, severe brain swelling, and facial fractures and lacerations. Six prisoners charged with murder have pleaded not guilty and will stand trial later this year. ISSUES RAISED Injured in custody, force used.
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perepelki posted:Friendly reminder that if you live in so-called-Australia you’re on stolen, unceded, Aboriginal land who cares perepelki posted:Aboriginal peoples are more vulnerable to covid & there’s now Elders hospitalised with it. that sucks and we should get those people vaccinated as a priority perepelki posted:I prioritise Indigenous lives & communities over footy games, & so should you again, who cares
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bell jar posted:who cares
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