|
Ranter posted:What class do you think you're in if you find calling aristocrats and bourgeoisie mentally ill rejects offensive? The hell did you manage to read into that?
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 03:29
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 07:35 |
|
|
The parts of that Azaelia manifesto that are a bit accurate (and a lot of it is just her having personal beef) back up my long-standing theory that the Sydney 2000 Olympics were one of the worst things culturally to happen to Australia.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 03:54
|
|
|
Senor Tron posted:The parts of that Azaelia manifesto that are a bit accurate (and a lot of it is just her having personal beef) back up my long-standing theory that the Sydney 2000 Olympics were one of the worst things culturally to happen to Australia. I'd believe it. On another note apparently there's gonna be an all-round welfare increase after all, I wonder if the over-55s-only thing was leaked on purpose to gauge sentiment or they just backpedalled after it pleased literally nobody.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 04:01
|
|
|
The nation has never recovered from Strawberry Kisses
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 06:16
|
|
|
The true dire state of Australian music can be summed up with the fact that we nowadays get to put an entry into Eurovision, and it isn't TISM.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 07:25
|
|
|
King Gizzard can release 100 albums and it still won't be enough to atone for the sins of Tones and I
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 07:56
|
|
|
Tony did what now?
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 08:02
|
|
|
BrigadierSensible posted:The true dire state of Australian music can be summed up with the fact that we nowadays get to put an entry into Eurovision, and it isn't TISM. TISM are exclusively popular with ausgoons which shows you exactly how unimportant they are to our musical landscape.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 08:24
|
|
|
Sparticle posted:King Gizzard can release 100 albums and it still won't be enough to atone for the sins of Tones and I
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 08:31
|
|
|
Sadistik Exekution - imagine Norwegian Nazis had grown up in suburban straya but were too scared to blow up some 20 year old catholic churches This is your kulcha
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 09:03
|
|
|
Hoping for a reprieve for struggling families in tonight’s Federal Budget
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 09:08
|
|
|
Laserface posted:TISM are exclusively popular with ausgoons which shows you exactly how unimportant they are to our musical landscape. They're popular with people that went to uni in the 90s as well.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 09:19
|
|
|
Wizard Master posted:Hoping for a reprieve for struggling families in tonight’s Federal Budget Hope is about all you're likely to get
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 09:30
|
|
|
Do you think they'll gently caress with the stage 3 tax cuts and raise the dole? I suppose we're gonna find out...
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 09:36
|
|
|
BrigadierSensible posted:The true dire state of Australian music can be summed up with the fact that we nowadays get to put an entry into Eurovision, and it isn't TISM. We should really submit Pendulum and let them play the abc theme remix
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 09:47
|
|
|
Jezza of OZPOS posted:liking king gizzard and tame impala at the same time is such a profoundly mentally ill position that you should be able to legally force someone to take anti psychotics and effexor against their will for expressing it Elitist gatekeeping, in the AUSPOL thread? Redezga posted:I don't know how you can even pretend to think you like or understand music if you don't like Regurgitator. I love the gurge but didn't want to be adding stuff from 25 years ago, felt a bit boomerish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1l4UJW04Y NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 09:56 on May 9, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 09:49
|
|
|
quote:TAHP’s 7 policies:
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 09:51
|
|
|
lih posted:
No.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 10:00
|
|
|
Real capitalism has never been tried
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 10:45
|
|
|
I saw the part about Elon Musk's Boring Company and immediately went "oh, they're all idiots".
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 10:57
|
|
|
At least the Medicare changes might bring back some bulk billed GPs. Everything else in the budget is a bit of a joke.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 11:25
|
|
|
NTRabbit posted:Elitist gatekeeping, in the AUSPOL thread? People here still believe TISM are relevant and good The Gurg' are fine.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 11:52
|
|
|
It’s starts dumb it gets worse, there’s plenty of land that isn’t national park to use for a new city. I don’t know jack poo poo about the hyperloop beyond musk being involved, which should have been enough to doubt it but I looked it up wikipedia posted:Technical University of Munich Hyperloop set the hyperloop speed record of 463 km/h (288 mph) in July 2019 at the pod design competition hosted by SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 11:55
|
|
|
Fundamentally, everything about it is stupid. Maybe if you designed a new city that's going to use it from day one, it would be "practical". But then your city will be a huge, empty, barren, unwalkable nightmare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWvagC5ccyY&t=2847s A Good Username fucked around with this message at 13:13 on May 9, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 12:41
|
|
|
A Good Username posted:Fundamentally, everything about it is stupid. The doco The Experimental City goes into this, with the idea of building a city specifically around a few types of technologies and urban planning ideas to see how they would work in practice. The mode of transport they would have planned around was a dual-mode vehicle, that could drive like a car on a street or attach to something like a track or cable and basically become a cable-car and drive itself to a location. If you like urban planning and insane pie in the sky ideas, check the doco out. It's good.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 13:39
|
|
|
BrigadierSensible posted:The true dire state of Australian music can be summed up with the fact that we nowadays get to put an entry into Eurovision, and it isn't TISM. Clearly you've not heard Voyager, then! They're great, I've seen them live, they are perfect for Eurovision.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 17:14
|
|
|
Speaking of urban planning and transport, on a recent ride I came across the big red circle, which is full of trucks coming and going from the big distribution centres - (DHL, FedEx, Woolworths, Linfox, etc). If you moved these facilities to the little red circle at the end of the train line in Leppington, and connect to the international port by joining up with the green line, you could take a significant percentage of trucks off the road and onto rail.  From there it could tap into the e-cycle network previously outlined, and you can send pretty much anything pretty much anywhere with virtually no emissions or noise or traffic accidents. And the stuff that does need cars and trucks will have way more space on the roads to do it. And if we're feeling particularly constructive we could build a train tunnel along the white line, from Parramatta to Epping, to save the entire eastern rail line from having to go all the way through Strathfield and the city and across the harbour.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 17:28
|
|
|
Bucky Fullminster posted:Speaking of urban planning and transport, on a recent ride I came across the big red circle, which is full of trucks coming and going from the big distribution centres - (DHL, FedEx, Woolworths, Linfox, etc). If you moved these facilities to the little red circle at the end of the train line in Leppington, and connect to the international port by joining up with the green line, you could take a significant percentage of trucks off the road and onto rail. What’s in the little red circle right now?
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 21:39
|
|
|
lih posted:parrahub on ice
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 22:31
|
|
|
I've had a quick scan of some of the budget papers (mostly because I'm keen to understand the impact on psychology) but here's some interesting points I've pulled out:quote:- The government expects the public service to grow by 10,000, with approx 3,000 being converted from existing consultants. The majority of these are Department of Defence.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 22:31
|
|
|
Bulldoze all Australian cities into the sea and get the Saudis to build Neom 2 from Sydney to Perth.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2023 23:13
|
|
|
Mola Yam posted:Bulldoze all Australian cities into the sea and get the Saudis to build Neom 2 from Sydney to Perth. No matter how big you build that rabbit proof fence the bastards will still get through.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 00:14
|
|
|
Recoome posted:I've had a quick scan of some of the budget papers (mostly because I'm keen to understand the impact on psychology) but here's some interesting points I've pulled out: Taking money out of tertiary education will indirectly effect psychology as well, so good job there
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 00:28
|
|
|
Recoome posted:What’s in the little red circle right now? According to google earth, very little. Terra Nullius. It’ll be fine.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 01:20
|
|
|
MysticalMachineGun posted:Taking money out of tertiary education will indirectly effect psychology as well, so good job there from the sounds of it they sound like rort/pork barrelling grants to mates of the Coalition in the sector
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 01:41
|
|
|
Should be able to update on Thursday, re: Budget impact on tertiary ed. But the logic that Labor would have a rather huge pool of money to toss around through discontinuation of 9+ years of coalition rorts is relatively sound, when you consider the Morrison era flagrancy alone...
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 02:33
|
|
|
I'd love to know who has Labor over a barrel that they must proceed with the Stage 3 cuts. Even if they kept the cuts between 45-120k, it's amazing that they continue to wedge themselves on this issue.Don Dongington posted:Should be able to update on Thursday, re: Budget impact on tertiary ed. But the logic that Labor would have a rather huge pool of money to toss around through discontinuation of 9+ years of coalition rorts is relatively sound, when you consider the Morrison era flagrancy alone... I think there's definitely some breath holding that the "efficiencies" will result in the funding going where it needs to go. Not sure if it's a funding increase but again, interesting nonetheless. MysticalMachineGun posted:Taking money out of tertiary education will indirectly effect psychology as well, so good job there The line item about a redesign of the higher-ed pathways for psychology really should be a big one. We are currently in the process of deciding the updated psychologist competencies with an eye on looking at the specific endorsement competencies, which in-turn will influence how we train psychologists in the future. The system, as is, is very cyclical with several groups holding powerful yet somewhat conflicting interests (Ahpra, APAC, DPRET, individual universities) over how psychs get trained. We are talking the very long game here (it took about 10 years for the 2010 reform of psychology to really take root) but hopefully this is the first good step - wish we had greater clarity and engagement rather than a single sentence down the line. Edit: DPRET is the Division of Psychological Research, Education, and Training, and basically is extremely influential in advocating how psychs are trained. It's made up completely of academics from psychological research, clinical, social, or cognitive psychologists. In the peak body which advises how psychologists should be trained, none of the specialise in training or workforce planning. It's a huge blindspot we continue to have as a profession. Recoome fucked around with this message at 03:28 on May 10, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 03:24
|
|
|
labor are just unambitious cowards who are terrified of being seen to break a promise i think it's possible they remove the worst of the stage 3 cuts in next year's budget, they've shown they will cave to pressure a little bit this year, and it'll be easier for them to make an argument about inflation, the deficit, or whatever right before they take effect, but i'm not exactly getting my hopes up
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 03:49
|
|
|
They seem hellbent on addressing what they perceive as their weak spots, or at least what they think the media will hammer them on. Hence the contradictory "stage 3 tax cuts already legislated, no plans" and "budget repair/fiscal responsibility is the most important thing". I think Albanese was grilled by Karl Stevanidiot this morning along the lines of, "you PROMISE you won't increase taxes?", "SUPER pinky promise?", "you rule it out for the next thousand years, right" - it's one of those stupid media journalism things where they just ache to get a shot of a politician ruling something out, regardless of the reason, so they can hammer them over broken promises later. It's ridiculous, stupid, and characteristic of the main way many people get their news. Also c.f. the insane focus on surpluses as the key indicator of fiscal responsibility - but only for the ALP.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 04:25
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 07:35 |
|
|
America has, (after far too long a time, and only in a Civil case), managed to do to Trump what we should have done to Christian Porter. Forgive the hot take, but: Rape is bad, rapists are scum, and deserve no place in public life or elected positions.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2023 05:02
|
|