Gorilla Salad posted:

But in horror story news, Stopping The Boats has taken a hell of a loving turn over in Europe.

(Guardian: "Far-right activists are planning a sea campaign this summer to disrupt vessels saving refugees in the Mediterranean, after successfully intercepting a rescue mission last month.")

It's Whale Wars but even more racist and incompetent!

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The Victorian Government has said it will not cooperate with the Federal Government's proposed plan to test welfare recipients for illicit drugs.
"It simply won't work, and it's cheap, populist nonsense designed to create a smokescreen as to what really drives disadvantage," Victoria's Mental Health Minister Martin Foley told 7.30.
"We've made it clear to the Federal Government, at two ministerial councils, that we're not interested in being part of this scam because all it will do is create even more demand for services that are already stretched, that are already under pressure from Commonwealth cuts, and we won't have a bar of it."
"If the Commonwealth wants to go out and demonise people and pretend they're doing good work in this space, let them do it somewhere else," Mr Foley said.
"Because all it will do in Melbourne and Victoria is drive more people into disadvantage."

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

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Firstly, she's not actually nude, because she has neither clothes nor private parts. She's effectively just wearing a kind of holographic body stocking. That's the conceit. However, like you said, that's what it makes you think of. We've backed into the canon and had this conversation even before we ever showed pictures of Cortana. Why is she doing that? Why would an AI pick that? Well, we have other AIs. We have one who dresses like a wizard. We have one who dresses like a World War 2 pilot. They do it because they feel like it's a part of their personality. In Cortana's case, because she's illegally cloned from a real human brain, she's a little bit different than other AIs. One of the reasons she does it is to attract and demand attention. And she does it to put people off so they're on their guard when they're talking to her and that she has the upper hand in those conversations. It's kind of almost like the opposite of that nightmare you have where you go to school in the nude, and you're terrified and embarrassed. She's kind of projecting that back out to her audience and winning intellectual points as a result. That's not why she was designed like that. That's how we've backed into our fiction. But that's the conceit and that's why she does it. She expresses that in her other behaviours and we've invested in that aspect of her persona.

Anidav posted:

Mark reads pol

Bogan King posted:

Remember these guys. Turns out they are doing it rough with brand loving new cardboard.

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Early this morning, before the workers moved in, a City of Sydney representative walked through handing out a letter to the homeless describing the camp as a "public nuisance".

"The accumulation of items in Martin Place, including a barbecue, gas bottles, tents, food and other items has been determined to be a public nuisance as it materially affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of other users of Martin Place," said the letter, written by David Riordan, director of city operations.

DancingShade posted:

Back then people thought it was all an adventure. It wasn't until ships full of thousands of maimed troops started coming back and sweethearts started abandoning their former fiances at the dock with horrified looks en masse that people took mortality into consideration.

Remember back then the propaganda was all about volunteering for danger to show how much of a man you were.

Korgan posted:

They're loving with you. I have to attend appointments with my provider once a fortnight at the most. And yeah, the "job searching" they "provide assistance and facilities" for is a loving joke. Years back I was having to come in once a week to use their computers for job searching. PCs running outdated windows, slowest internet connection so your searches take forever (but it's ok, here's the local paper on the table and oh someone took the job section with them, welp), grimiest loving keyboards and mice you ever saw. Walking into that room was the most humiliating, demoralising thing. I finally found a job through no assistance of that useless pack of shits and they had the gall to mail me a satisfaction survey and then ring me once a week to remind me to fill it out and return it or otherwise my personal agent would get a low mark.

abc posted:

Sydney bio-hacker Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow — his actual name —

norp posted:

There was an article in the conversation when the rumours of it came out a few months ago that detailed this will be the first time a cardinal has been charged with this - ever.