JBP posted:

Blonde Australian girl accepts Columbian 6kg package of headphones no questions asked and gets on plane.

https://fundrazr.com/51EP39

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://fundrazr.com/51EP39

guys the comments here are hilarious.

Cheap Trick posted:

I think it was Ludlam's communications manager who made the point (on Twitter) that no-one from the Greens has been invited onto the show in the last 6 months.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Cartoon posted:

I don't know but it's got free bass! I'll let myself out. No need to get rough.

JBP posted:

The four year jail deal requires that you rat on a cartel. Seems like a pretty bad deal imo.

ShoeFly posted:

I work for Fairfax. This is going to be a fun week.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

My favourite thing about the Australian is when people let their wives comment on their accounts and they end their comment with "Wife".

JBP posted:

You need to apply to fair work and follow laws. It's not actually illegal to take industrial action, but it is unlawful since there's a process. It was never lawful to strike either.

ewe2 posted:

Practice, and the fun of panic. Regime change must be planned for.

Bogan King posted:

Absolutely digging the fact that Trump has blown off Towelcum again


Turns out the party for possibly maybe destroying the ACA is more important than meeting Cuckballs. Maybe we should have suggested a Trump tower opening up in Sydney.

NTRabbit posted:

Someone has to help fill the void once Fairfax finally goes under

cohsae posted:

That's gotta be written by one of those predictive text algorithms right? They're testing if they're ready to fire everyone and replace them with computers.

evilbastard posted:

So the question always becomes :

If [Cost of Testing] x [Number of Users] > [Amount of money saved] then it's pointless.

In Florida a test of 4086 recipients found 108 people drug affected (almost all of it marijuana), and 40 people cancelled the test for unknown reasons.
The test cost $30 / person, which was refunded if the test was found to be negative

Total cost was $30 x (4086-148) = $118,140

$489 welfare saved per person who failed/skipped the test = $489 x 148 = $72,372 in savings

Therefore, the trial cost $45,768. It turns out that welfare users don't have a huge disposable income to buy drugs. Who knew ?

But the people who do the testing will pocket a nice big gift from the government, and this is another step towards normalisation of cashless welfare cards.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

If you get rid of this part the policy works

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Do you submit the piss to the JSA or Centrelink?

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

I'm not going to suicide bomb the Daily Telegraph but by god I'd love to suicide bomb the Daily Telegraph

Anidav posted:

The army only takes those capable of doing the job. You wouldn't want a bludger defending our country! (in response to a person saying dole recipients should be forced into the army)

YOU WOULDN'T TRUST A BLUDGER WITH YOUR LIFE

hooman posted:

Holy poo poo, is it just a universal rule everywhere that the people who want to be in politics are the worst possible people to be in politics?

What the actual gently caress. "We're a grassroots party, lol you selected me now I'm goping to do loving whatever gently caress you."

Jesus christ.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

Why is he wearing a suit?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

NTRabbit posted:

And the banks were giving less donations to the Lib campaign funds, because they decided not to throw money after a losing prospect

Zenithe posted:

I highly doubt it would even punish the poor that well. If this thing does actually gain traction, it would be the easiest thing in the world to sell it for cash. $1 ~ 85c on a basics card etc.

e. monetarily, for making people feel like they are poo poo, it's probably not bad.

Starshark posted:

Scary times for the humanities. Glad I got my degree in when I did.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/12/humanities-students-budget-cuts-university-suny?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Humanities departments in America are once again being axed. The reasons, one hears, are economic rather than ideological. It’s not that schools don’t care about the humanities – they just can’t afford them. But if one looks at these institutions’ priorities, one finds a hidden ideology at work.

Earlier this month, the State University of New York (Suny) Stony Brook, announced a plan to eliminate several of the college’s well-regarded departments for budgetary reasons. Undergraduates will no longer be able to major in Comparative Literature, in Cinema and Cultural Studies, or in Theater Arts.

Three doctoral programs would be cut, and three departments (European Languages and Literature, Hispanic Languages and Literature, and Cultural Studies) would be merged into one. Not only students but faculty will be affected; many untenured teachers would lose their jobs, and doctoral candidates would have to finish their studies elsewhere.

This is happening at a time in which high salaries are awarded to college administrators that dwarf those of junior or even a senior faculty member teaching in at-risk departments. That discrepancy can only be explained through ideology. The decision to reduce education to a corporate consumer-driven model, providing services to the student-client, is ideological too.

Suny Stony Brook is spending millions on a multiyear program entitled “Far Beyond” that is intended to “rebrand” the college’s image: a redesigned logo and web site, new signs, banners and flags throughout the campus. Do colleges now care more about how a school looks and markets itself than about what it teaches? Has the university become a theme park: Collegeland, churning out workers trained to fill particular niches? Far beyond what?

The threat of cuts that Suny Stony Brook is facing is not entirely new. In 2010, Suny Albany announced that it was getting rid of its Russian, classics, theater, French and Italian departments – a decision later rescinded. The University of Pittsburgh has cut its German, classics, and religious studies program.
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This problem has parallels internationally. In the UK, protests greeted Middlesex University’s 2010 decision to phase out its philosophy department. In June 2015, the Japanese minister of education sent a letter to the presidents of the national universities of Japan, suggesting they close their graduate and undergraduate departments in the humanities and social sciences and focus on something more practical.

Most recently, the Hungarian government announced restrictions that would essentially make it impossible for the Central European University, funded by George Soros, to function in Budapest.

These are hard times. Students need jobs when they graduate. But a singular opportunity has been lost if they are denied the opportunity to study foreign languages, the classics, literature, philosophy, music, theater and art. When else in their busy lives will they get that chance?

Eloquent defenses of the humanities have appeared, essays explaining why we need these subjects, what their loss would mean. Those of us who teach and study are aware of what these areas of learning provide: the ability to think critically and independently; to tolerate ambiguity; to see both sides of an issue; to look beneath the surface of what we are being told; to appreciate the ways in which language can help us understand one another more clearly and profoundly – or, alternately, how language can conceal and misrepresent. They help us learn how to think, and they equip us to live in – to sustain – a democracy.

Studying the classics and philosophy teaches students where we come from, and how our modes of reasoning have evolved over time. Learning foreign languages, and about other cultures, enables students to understand how other societies resemble or differ from our own. Is it entirely paranoid to wonder if these subjects are under attack because they enable students to think in ways that are more complex than the reductive simplifications so congenial to our current political and corporate discourse?
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I don’t believe that the humanities can make you a decent person. We know that Hitler was an ardent Wagner fan and had a lively interest in architecture. But literature, art and music can focus and expand our sense of what humans can accomplish and create. The humanities teach us about those who have gone before us; a foreign language brings us closer to those with whom we share the planet.

The humanities can touch those aspects of consciousness that we call intellect and heart – organs seemingly lacking among lawmakers whose views on health care suggest not only zero compassion but a poor understanding of human experience, with its crises and setbacks.

Courses in the humanities are as formative and beneficial as the classes that will replace them. Instead of Shakespeare or French, there will be (perhaps there already are) college classes in how to trim corporate spending – courses that instruct us to eliminate “frivolous” programs of study that might actually teach students to think.

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/JamesSilver3/status/863307662963859456

Zenithe posted:

NEWS FLASH, SDA EVEN SHITTIER

They are actually arguing with Coles against a nightfill worker who thinks that the current agreement is not where it should be.

Like, just gently caress off. Why are you even calling yourself a union if this is what you do.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Haha you think any of us will be allowed to retire.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

I mean I'd imagine most of their due paying members are kids in school or just out of it aren't they? I don't really blame them for not knowing how poo poo the union they're trusting to protect them from exploitation is. I hope that new association takes off, because that's far more likely to work out than simply not paying dues to the SDA until they fix their poo poo. Because lol.

AgentF posted:

I was in the SDA when I had my first job packing shelves at Coles and had no idea what anything was. I imagine it's the same for all their members.

Bogan King posted:

I'm sure that the everything else Brandis has done has helped drive nails into the coffin. He doesn't exactly scream success.

Lid posted:

It's... happening?

NTRabbit posted:

I wonder which self absorbed, power hungry, unhinged sack of poo poo the top of the Greens ticket is helping to drag the SA vote down?