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Our lawyers and ourpolice work hand in hand to get as many criminals convicted then overturned as possible. Our most famous lawyer even got elon to rename twitter after them.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:I remember a couple of short stories that kind of freaked me out, including one where someone was raised in a house where words meant the opposite, and then it was burning down, and someone asked if there was anyone in there, and they answered "no". First one definitely is Paul Jennings.
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Oct 18, 2023 02:10
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Victoria hired the bird lawyer from Futurama.
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Oct 18, 2023 02:19
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I would just say ah well rego just went up $100 for everyone hope ur happy.
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Oct 18, 2023 02:25
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Bucky Fullminster posted:I remember a couple of short stories that kind of freaked me out, including one where someone was raised in a house where words meant the opposite, and then it was burning down, and someone asked if there was anyone in there, and they answered "no". Yep, I recognized all of them.
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Oct 18, 2023 02:30
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Anidav posted:Victoria hired the bird lawyer from Futurama. the edgy reboot for harvey birdfluman
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Oct 18, 2023 02:34
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SecretOfSteel posted:Got the full series of Harry Potter on my shelf and now I'm not so sure I even want it there. Sell it to someone and donate the money to a charity that supports trans kids.
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Oct 18, 2023 03:11
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Burn the books and post it on X formerly twitter
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Oct 18, 2023 03:24
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Doctor Spaceman posted:First one definitely is Paul Jennings. Ah then the second one almost certainly is too I think. they were hosed up man! JBP posted:I would just say ah well rego just went up $100 for everyone hope ur happy. sounds like we need great cycle infrastructure to facilitate realising the potential the e-bikes have to offer ASAP.
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Oct 18, 2023 03:25
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Bucky Fullminster posted:I remember a couple of short stories that kind of freaked me out, including one where someone was raised in a house where words meant the opposite, and then it was burning down, and someone asked if there was anyone in there, and they answered "no". For bonus childhood despair, the second story includes a dog. I remember as a kid noticing that Jennings never uses exclamation marks. It really sticks out when you notice it. "Help," I screamed, as the squid ate my shoes, sort of thing.
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Oct 18, 2023 03:35
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Bucky Fullminster posted:I remember a couple of short stories that kind of freaked me out, including one where someone was raised in a house where words meant the opposite, and then it was burning down, and someone asked if there was anyone in there, and they answered "no". I know it's not the point, but if words meant the opposite to this person, how were they able to understand the question?
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Oct 18, 2023 04:22
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I do wonder how Round the Twist holds up.
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Oct 18, 2023 04:55
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Brons spinning penis
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Oct 18, 2023 05:02
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garycoleisgod posted:I know it's not the point, but if words meant the opposite to this person, how were they able to understand the question? I don't remember. Maybe it was only certain words? Maybe they had escaped and been partly re-educated? What I do remember is this genuinely horrifying ambiguity, at the end of what was already a pretty horrifying story. Was probably the most I'd ever been affected by literature, or any media really, and it's interesting to hear that other people had a similar experience. He even made Bee cry this year! what the gently caress Paul.
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Oct 18, 2023 05:05
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I don't think it was every word was opposite, I think it was more like yes and no were swapped, and maybe dark and light etc
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Oct 18, 2023 05:29
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Maybe the people performing unethical linguistic experiments on children deserve to burn to death? 
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Oct 18, 2023 05:32
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Freaky stories for kids were all the rage in the 90s, often with shockingly dark endings. I actually think I remember that story. And it comes off more as karma for the parents effectively making their kids unable to communicate or function in the outside world. Turns out that becomes a liability when you actually need to rely on your kids for anything!
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Oct 18, 2023 05:43
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Maybe the people performing unethical linguistic experiments on children deserve to burn to death? yes I think this was the ethical question he was giving literal children to wrestle with
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Oct 18, 2023 05:44
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happy to let WA self govern if we retain the mineral rights
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Oct 18, 2023 06:18
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Rock Puncher posted:happy to let WA self govern if we retain the mineral rights I only support WA independance if all mineral rights and land is returned to owners.
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Oct 18, 2023 06:29
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Bucky Fullminster posted:yes I think this was the ethical question he was giving literal children to wrestle with And it's left unclear as to whether the answer of "no" is actually the person trying to say "yes," or if they've realised their language has been backwardified and they are knowingly consigning their parent to death... I haven't read those books in decades, why are they engraved on my brain like this.
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Oct 18, 2023 06:58
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The story is No Is Yes and I just reread it. The point of view character is a boy, who is introduced to the girl who speaks backwards by her father, who has been experimenting on her to see if a human taught language wrong by another human can relearn it from TV (the conclusion being no, no matter how much TV watches she doesn't learn correct English). The boy tries to arrange a midnight meeting with the girl to rescue her, but forgets that she mixes up 'tree' and 'lamp post', so the meeting never happens. The girl is caught going back into the house by her father, who attacks her and causes her to drop her candle, which starts the fire. The boy gets her out of the house in time, but falls unconscious from smoke inhalation. The firemen have to ask her if anyone is inside the house. No Is Yes posted:The fireman leaned closer. His words were urgent. 'Is your father in there, girl? Is anyone in there? The roof is about to collapse. Is anyone inside the house?'
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Oct 18, 2023 07:52
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Recoome posted:Lol Victoria didn’t get its excise up for hybrid/electric vehicles, get real lawyers Victoria smdh lmfao this is a disaster for the states.
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Oct 18, 2023 08:12
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Why not just put a road tax on tyres? They'll wear evenly for electric and fuel vehicles. And the more you drive, the more they'll wear down. The heavier your vehicle, the more they'll wear down.
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Oct 18, 2023 09:02
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I reckon put a tax on the magnets in the engines, that's also a good idea.
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Oct 18, 2023 09:08
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Konomex posted:Why not just put a road tax on tyres? They'll wear evenly for electric and fuel vehicles. And the more you drive, the more they'll wear down. The heavier your vehicle, the more they'll wear down. Except they also randomly puncture and need replacement (even when new) and are already expensive so you're also massively harming people who are already having a terrible day.
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Oct 18, 2023 09:47
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i say we detonate the rabbit proof fence and let wa fend for itself
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Oct 18, 2023 10:22
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Why don't we tax income instead?
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Oct 18, 2023 10:35
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HazCat posted:The story is No Is Yes and I just reread it. Apparently that story was meant for an older audience and wasn't meant to end up in a book for little kids: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-08/paul-jennings-on-his-memoir-books-and-own-troubled-childhood/12685294
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Oct 18, 2023 10:59
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Non Compos Mentis posted:i say we detonate the rabbit proof fence and let wa fend for itself the fence is not on the border lol
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Oct 18, 2023 12:03
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Spookydonut posted:the fence is not on the border lol Yes but it does go near / through mukinbuden and the more that place explodes the better
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Oct 18, 2023 13:38
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HazCat posted:The story is No Is Yes and I just reread it. yes well thank you for your diligence in tracking down and faithfully reproducing a traumatic childhood experience lol. bee posted:Apparently that story was meant for an older audience and wasn't meant to end up in a book for little kids: quote:"There aren't many things that I wish I hadn't written, but probably one of them was No Is Yes," Jennings reflected this week. Ah, and thank you for helping it make some more sense at least.
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Oct 18, 2023 14:41
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froglet will not be surprised by this, but i remember reading No Is Yes as a kid and loving it, and probably the first thing to make me think about things like experiences etc being very relative. I met Paul Jennings when I was in primary school, which was really cool. Along with that Wierd Al looking guy from the Red Dot adverts yelling about the price choppers, as he was an author & illustrator too.
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Oct 18, 2023 16:07
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Konomex posted:Why not just put a road tax on tyres? They'll wear evenly for electric and fuel vehicles. And the more you drive, the more they'll wear down. The heavier your vehicle, the more they'll wear down. The set of tyres that came with our car lasted about 60,000km To be equivalent to the Victorian EV tax that would be adding $600 to each one.... It would basically wind up being the equivalent to increasing stamp duty by $2400 since most first owners likely sell their car around the 5year mark, often before the replacement point of the OEM tyres.
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Oct 19, 2023 00:52
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Konomex posted:Why not just put a road tax on tyres? They'll wear evenly for electric and fuel vehicles. And the more you drive, the more they'll wear down. The heavier your vehicle, the more they'll wear down. Softer compound tyres aka sports tyres wear faster and usually unevenly due to suspension setups on sportier cars and probably do less damage to the road surface than hardened 100,000km bob Jane specials and truck tyres.
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Laserface posted:Softer compound tyres aka sports tyres wear faster and usually unevenly due to suspension setups on sportier cars and probably do less damage to the road surface than hardened 100,000km bob Jane specials and truck tyres.
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Oct 19, 2023 02:09
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Just make SUV, ute and truck tires cost mega bucks and tires for compact cars tax free. Done? Business owners will claim it back off tax anyway so it will just cost shift back to the Commonwealth a lot of it. SUV owners and non-readies with utes we want to penalize anyway. It’s almost more important to incentivize people to use smaller vehicles than it is to switch to EV anyway. Carbon emissions from constantly rebuilding roads due to more and heavier vehicles are huge. Everything needs to about incentivizing small cars, public transport, walkability/cycling.
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Tyres are also releasing microplastics into the environment which we have no idea of the impacts of on health. Lol, lmao. Also, stop loving about with means tested oooh tax on this, tax exempt on that bullshit. Poor people have to travel further to work, often have worse access to public transit, so raise taxes on the rich and invest in public transport, bing bong, loving simple. I hate this policy brain bullshit. All flat vehicle usage taxes are in practice regressive, so just use the existing tax system. hooman fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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Oct 19, 2023 02:45
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ban cars, mandatory busses and trams trains are also acceptable
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GoldStandardConure posted:ban cars, mandatory busses and trams Eventually yes, but we need to put the infrastructure in place first. Also make places walkable/bikeable. Also provide priority for housing to people with mobility needs to be near services and their workplaces and so on and so forth.
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