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ewe2 posted:gas op ban thread ban ewe2
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Oct 1, 2015 03:17
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Birb Katter posted:Sniping stops today - Tony Abbott Quoting to appreciate, and preserve. I'm sure some idiot mod will edit it to include such trenchant information as "the irc channel where you can talk to the worst posters" or "party affiliations for each individual poster, for some reason"
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Oct 1, 2015 03:34
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Negligent posted:So what if Tony Abbott ate an onion? Tony Abbott eating an onion was extremely funny
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Oct 1, 2015 03:56
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Lid posted:http://www.theguardian.com/australi...-getting-bigger I walk past barangaroo every day and honestly, it's fine. it's just another part of the high rise cbd, and it make sense I wish it didn't have a loving casino though. gently caress casinos
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Oct 1, 2015 04:24
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This is a vomit worthy opinion piece, IMO http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/president-obama-was-wrong-australia-is-not-like-the-us-20151002-gjztja.html
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Oct 2, 2015 06:45
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Whoops, sorry. On the upside we agree again, perennial enemy Monster Under Your Bed.
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Oct 2, 2015 06:48
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Ian Winthorpe III posted:Hey everybody, hopefully you're all gearing up for a great weekend. Just thought i'd plug a couple of new episodes of my podcast that may be of interest to all those who care about this great land and our future and want the Sheeple to WAKE uP! Which one is you, again?
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Oct 2, 2015 07:14
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Can someone PLEASE post the age, race, and occupation of the people who got murked so we can determine how much the thread can joke about it? There are clear guidelines.
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Oct 2, 2015 10:57
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Pred1ct posted:Apparently Newman just wrote a biography in which he is very, very bitter about being voted out. Oh hells yeah
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Oct 2, 2015 12:06
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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/compulsory-insurance-for-cyclists-nsw-government-considers-schemes-20151002-gjztv2.html Australia is lame
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Oct 2, 2015 13:02
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Hobo Erotica posted:This is from the end of the last thread, but it's calling it a 'medical procedure' which illustrates the lack of understanding of the issue. It's like calling offshore detention an 'immigration procedure'. That doesn't mean that what it actually entails isn't potentially objectionable. In this case, they're talking about the termination of human foetuses. In their view, life begins at conception. While admittedly debatable, it's not arbitrary or indefensible. Where do you think it begins? At what point would you stop allowing abortions? 14 weeks? 22 weeks? 28 weeks? Full term? Unless it's full term there's a line there somewhere, so what consequences should there be for the parties involved if they cross the line? Agreed.
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Oct 3, 2015 07:57
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I don't have the slightest reservations about abortion whatsoever. I am perfectly fine with late term abortion purely at the mother's discretion. But I don't believe the voices anti-abortionists should be suppressed, either.
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Oct 3, 2015 08:06
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Anidav posted:The days of penalty rates are numbered as we move to a seven day economy, says Malcolm Turnbull. Seriously gently caress this poo poo.
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Oct 6, 2015 02:20
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Everyone is talking about the economic impact, but what about the cultural one? Sunday being a day of rest is an old tradition. A tradition that maintains some tiny modicum of social cohesion. With that gone the walls between all of us get even higher.
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Oct 6, 2015 02:22
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On the other hand, the public won't vote for this will they? Right?
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Oct 6, 2015 02:23
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Apparently there is a big push in Spain to abolish the siesta too. Globalism is cool
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Oct 6, 2015 02:25
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 Way to support public education Shorten, you loving dickhead.
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Oct 6, 2015 02:31
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Milky Moor posted:I worked a job where I was potentially working five of any seven days a week. People who've never done this - AKA Turnbull - can't understand that that does to your ability to have a life beyond work. It absolutely destroyed my hobbies and social relationships as well as my general health and wellbeing as a consequence of that. It's hosed. We should be moving to a four-day working week, not seven! There is a reason why so many hospitality workers are alcoholics.
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Oct 6, 2015 02:45
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I can see them running a campaign about how great it would be to go to the mall on Sunday and how the Unions want to destroy it. Also the entire retail sector will dump millions on the campaign
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Oct 6, 2015 03:03
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open24hours posted:A true conservative would force the shops to close on Sundays. Seriously. What the hell happened to "conservatives"? I guess if the old order you want to restore is actually medieval feudalism they're being consistent. Actually, now that I think about it, even medieval peasants had Sundays off.
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Oct 6, 2015 03:09
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Lol good poo poo
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Oct 6, 2015 23:13
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Can everyone please stop trawling the internet for racist nobodies to post? You aren't helping, you're making it worse.
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Oct 6, 2015 23:14
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Cartoon posted:
Saying it's all the cops' fault is an equally stupid addition to that list.
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Oct 7, 2015 01:34
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BBJoey posted:Ah okay so we just round up this small group of people and the problem's solved, we don't need to change anything else like our attitudes towards asylum seekers or our military action in the Middle East, there won't be any more radicalisation? Well that's good to know, thanks for solving the problem. He didn't say "problem solved", nor did he say anything about ignoring our cultural problems. Get a grip.
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Oct 7, 2015 01:58
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-07/breast-cancer-gene-cant-be-patented-high-court-rules/6833232quote:The High Court has ruled the breast cancer gene BRCA-1 cannot be patented. This is a serious precedent. I'd like to hear what someone in the medical/pharma sector thinks about it, and the competing futures here. On the one hand we have expensive, R&D heavy drugs incentive by stacks of money. On the other, we have public, open research available to anyone who wants it. I lean towards the latter, but I don't really know enough to make that judgement strongly. I also find the idea of patenting a human gene philosophically repugnant. Amethyst fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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Oct 7, 2015 02:02
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Yeah they do it periodically. Same with bicycle helmets.
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Oct 7, 2015 05:44
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Diet Crack posted:Lock up all impressionable kids. This is a really inappropriate and stupid response to what was just posted, dude. I mean I know we are against the police state here, and I agree with you that the raid last year was poorly conducted. But CCTV of a kid meeting suspected terrorists hours before a murder? Come the gently caress on. This isn't the time to be all "hurr duur paranoid stupid cops what's next their going to outlaw punk music lmao"
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Oct 7, 2015 13:43
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I think he agrees with the critique in the article he posted.
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Oct 8, 2015 03:54
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open24hours posted:Not really. Some of her points are reasonable but she's all over the place. She isn't referring to the kid there. She's referring to the research into 100 "lone" jihadists she has been conducting over the years at curtin university. What she says about the kid amounts to "it's too early to say what caused this", which is the only reasonable thing anyone has said about this whole mess.
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Oct 8, 2015 04:10
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open24hours posted:Perhaps there's a good reason to separate the actions of 15 year old you know almost nothing about from the actions of another 100 'lone jihadists' rather than trying to conflate them, especially if you're trying to argue against speculation. I think contextualizing an event like this in real world research, counter to the hordes of brainless pundits blaming it all on parents/culture/police/whatever else they pull out of their rear end is a reasonable and in fact responsible thing to do.
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Oct 8, 2015 04:17
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open24hours posted:Sure, but it would probably help if people knew what what actually occurred during the event they are trying to contextualize before writing an article about it. This is a really bizarre reaction, though, since the broad thrust of the entire article, which you haven't focused on at all, agrees with you 100%. The small section you are focusing on is there to demonstrate how flawed existing media speculation is. It isn't to say "this is definitely what is happening". It's there to demonstrate the uncertainty around cases like this. quote:The fact is that radicalisation is not just a complex process but a rapidly changing one. Any attempt to develop profiles of violent extremists today may no longer be relevant tomorrow. More importantly, perhaps, attempts based on flawed understandings of radicalisation are bound to fail.
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Oct 8, 2015 04:28
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Hobo Erotica posted:Is this a bong joke? She's a good friend of mine It's not a joke. I'm disgusted the ABC is pushing drug culture onto our children at such an early age. Next time you're snorting coke with your ABC hipster friend at a absinthe bar in Surry Hills, tell her she should be ashamed of herself.
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Oct 8, 2015 13:31
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-20/missing-documents-relating-to-trade-union-royal-commission/6870756 We are so utterly hosed with shorten in charge. Good job ALP, you had every opportunity to take advantage and you threw it away by putting a corrupt apparatchik at the top.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:29
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open24hours posted:Are you going to present an alternative argument? You offered zero justification in yours. Given the range of views on this issue in the community, it seems to me like the line should be somewhere in between conception and birth. Where that is is a source of endless debate about trimesters and brain waves and foetal development, but it seems like the best path to a reasonable compromise for everyone.
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Oct 23, 2015 04:01
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open24hours posted:Discussions about brain waves and whathaveyou are just a desperate attempt to escape the inherent arbitrariness of the process. I don't think so. The difference between a zygote an embryo, and a fetus is one area where the distinction is plainly obvious.
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Oct 23, 2015 04:06
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open24hours posted:Maybe in a morphological sense, whether it's ok to kill one and not the other isn't so clear cut. Not being clear cut doesn't mean it's arbitrary.
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Oct 23, 2015 04:08
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open24hours posted:Do you think it's not arbitrary? I haven't expressed my personal view, but I'm not going to reduce the other arguments down to a cartoon sketch. Arguments like bifauxnen's about the fetus' relationship to a woman's body are reasonable. Arguments from the other side about the personhood of a fetus after a certain stage of development are similarly reasonable. With a fraught issue like this, we compromise as the debate progresses.
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Oct 23, 2015 04:11
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open24hours posted:Both of those arguments rely on an abritrary decision to grant rights to a foetus/baby at some point. There's no objective transition from non-human to human. You are pretending there is no philosophical basis behind those ideas. The notion of personhood isn't granted arbitrarily outside of a hypothetical made up situation for the sake of an argument. Animal Rights activists aren't acting arbitrarily. When a woman talks about the inviolable boundaries of their body as sovereign, they are doing so on the basis of their own personhood, granted through a philosophical dialectic. When an anti-abortion activist claims personhood on behalf of a foetus based on neurobiological signifiers, or even spiritual beliefs, they aren't doing so arbitrarily.
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open24hours posted:It's more that I think the distinctions, even if couched in philosophical language, are arbitrary. I know that a lot of people think that their beliefs about the permissibility of early-term abortions and the impermissibility of late-term abortions have some basis in reality. I disagree with them. If you believe that it's completely arbitrary then there is no rational basis for 99% of our entire legislature. Your position is a nihilistic black hole.
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