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tithin posted:

gently caress all going on this month, no one wanted to make a new thread

the sentient potato is apparently making waves and pissing people off but there's nothing new there, something something white south african farmers, something something being killed by subhumans (that no one else in the rest of the world apparently caught)

there was a local election the greens expected to romp home in and hosed up superbly

there's gently caress all going on this month, and gently caress all else happened last month that I remember

welcome to auspol april, it's 3 days late. enjoy.

I mean my state is hosting a big rear end sports thing and you ignored it as usual.

but also day one and whoop look a cyclo be looms up north.

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GoldStandardConure posted:

UBI: Universal Bolsheviek Initiative - give everyone an AK-47 so we can overthrow the government and have Full Gay Luxury Space Communism Now.

AK-47s for evvvverybooody

*Woooooohhhhoooo*

c&cgenerals.midi

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What I for one cannot stand is these Scottish people coming to our country and taking our jobs.

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tithin posted:

Maybe if you lazy aussies got off your arse and took care of your own poo poo, you'd not need foreigners to do work you dicks are too lazy to do

God love you Tash. One day I promise I will find you a munchy box in this country. Also in your honour I actually tried Buckfast s few weeks ago cause of all the times you'd talk about it. It was nasty.



No personal talk: we are apperently doing great at the com games but the public transport network is fuuuuuuuucked.

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Real :biotruths: time: soy milk tastes bad tho

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hooman posted:

How the gently caress does a study even cost 50 million dollars in the first place. Holy poo poo that's an insane amount of money. If you take a team of 20 and pay all of them 100k a year it's still going to take 25 loving years to go through 50 million goddamn dollars.

I need to eat lobster every night bud.

Also the budget goes beyond just wages but yeah I get your point

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bell jar posted:

How would you describe two french people, a montenegrin, two germans and one finn? I'm guessing European

Do they all walk into a bar?

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Anidav posted:

Apparently the ABC is reporting that the Woolworths shut down was a part of a global Russian Cyber attack in response to Syria lol

Coles is the silent Russian puppet

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So News Breakfast suggesting Greens proposal to legalise weed and let people grow up to six of their own plants on their property.

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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:

6 plants is a 2-3 month investment for about 2 grand worth of dope even if this wouldn’t tank the price for it on the black market ya numpty

If people are growing their own poo poo how the gently caress do I tax it though?

Also the medical Whatits group is not very happy about it

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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:

I keep hearing this as a reason decriminalisation and legalisation are mutually exclusive but we let people brew and drink their own beer and yet somehow alcohol taxes are still collected

Yes but it will be easier to put the taxation into the new thing as a federally regulated thing than like liquor which is state regulated and had a big mix of old legalisation.

Dimebag posted:

You tax the gently caress out of the initial seed purchase and any specialised or hydrophobic equipment? Wouldn't be as much revenue as selling through chemists but it would be better than the nothing they get now.

It would be but why miss out on the opportunity to cash in on taxing bassed on quantity sold as well. Hell we could work in some home made processing and get in on the medicinal market to help prop up the economy. Taxing the seeds is a good idea but it will be easy to avoid once you car people legally growing their own. Also taxing equipment is a bit too broad because other enterprise may want that kind of equipment.

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bell jar posted:

Stop being such a loving bore and smoke some weed dude

As someone who works in multiple positions with 0 drug and alcohol tollerence policies even if I wanted to smoke I couldn't.

I can't have a couple of beer on weekends that I'm on call which sucks in major events where what I really want is a beer after the day is done but you never know if someone is going to call you up after you think your done and go "Man if you're free poo poo hit the fan again" at which point you fell like a right cock if you go "Uuh I can't."

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bell jar posted:

lol if you follow those. do you even get tested

Honestly I've only been tested once at work and once at the other thubf but a big part of it is about integrity. Like when you sign on part of the deal is you're declaring you have a BAC of 0 and no non-perscription drugs in your system. Also before starting ops you have to tell your superior if you're on prescription drugs incase they wish to reassign you.

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bell jar posted:

Christ dude that sucks. Glad to work in a job where people don't really give a poo poo about what you do outside work. What do you do??


:negative: This sounds awful, why would you need to disclose your medication to your superiors. What could you possibly be doing that's that important

Emergency services operations. Yay know floods and cyclones.

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bell jar posted:

Both of yall have my condolences, I do my best work stoned out of my gourd (allegedly)

I also don't get paid for it

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asio posted:


My point about the drug syndicate boogeyman thing is that the policy is half good and half bad, and the bad half is based on validating the boogeyman cliche.

Letting people grow their own cannabis is good. Fighting crime by turning the industry into a government monopoly is bad.

People take drugs to escape. "Prevention" comes from living in an equitable society where people are valued. Removing independence in the cannabis industry does not help prevention.

A government program funded by the cannabis industry to encourage people to not consume cannabis is some "be all you can be" straight-edge humanism nonsense.


By all means keep independence in the industry but slap on a good tax and ensure there is enough public advisory regarding the negative effects similar to alcohol and tobacco. Have regulation of sale and supply, and public use again similar to alcohol.

I understand a number of people will be very opposed to this but :shrug: my two cents.

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Dimebag posted:

I think you are pretty spot on, make it so the point of sale is somewhere that currently are set up to deal with large amounts of pharmaceuticals securely, chemists. This would given them something new to sell that isn't lovely wooden toys/rascist dolls. If it's more of an open market allow "farmers markets" or co-ops to be set up with regulation so local growers can still make money off their crop or allow them to sell into chemists directly.

Given its new legislation make the minimum age 21 which would go some way to counter the developing brains should not be on drugs argument.

Allow use of weed in licenced premises(not likely as the AHA would pitch a fit if they lose revenue on alcohol to weed unfortunately) in smoking areas, this way you could have a joint at a gig in the smoking area. Don't allow it on the street similar to the way tobacco smoking is going giving a small fine that's more of a nuisance than crippling like $75 or so.

Use the public advisory board to develop a test for drug driving that is related to impairment rather than presence and take the money that's being flushed down the toilet each year on sniffer dogs, detective work and in the courts back into health and education.

Then use all of the above to work out harm minimisation techniques for more powerful drugs. Maybe smash some capitalism along the way?

I'd actually go the American way and have shops specifically set up to sell and store. It would be easier for legislation to be met if you're not layering it ontop of others.

The age issue is defiantly the way to go though there is the question of how this will interact with your next idea of licensed venues given they are shared with 18 year olds. Of course as with everything it should be up to the venue to decide if people can use on their premises. This will let some venues specialise in services and others not to. The whole passive smoke thing will be a big deal obviously.

Regarding street use don't treat it like smokes treat it like booze. Won't stop people from putting it in rollies but hey.

Also don't stop the dogs because you can still nab people for dealing without the appropriate licence but now you have a whole industry on your side going "stop cutting into our profits". Home growers or small outlets can operate like wineries.

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Dimebag posted:

Yeah but the main issue with dogs currently are false positives, what would this be like when weed is legal and you are getting positives where people have weed on them legally?

Just like now no-one is riding the train through Sydney with pounds of weed on them, you may get someone with an ounce for personal use but your not going to catch Mr Big. How would you differentiate between someone with an ounce of store bought weed and someone with an ounce of black market weed? Check the receipts? That's making the cops store security with dogs.

That is a valid point. I was thinking along the lines of the similar set of offences in some states now where there is a threshold for how much is on your person to decide between if it's for personal use or if you're dealing. Yeah you're not catching Mr Big with it, but you're keeping the industry (hopefully) faithful that the government is caring about supporting them in their business. If you're going to tax it for the dosh you're gonna be picturing all those deals as cash you're losing out on. But I maybe thinking too small term.

Don Dongington posted:

Dogs alert inaccurately like 77% of the time

You idiot

You loving moron

Source your quotes


4:30 shows two people in an echo chamber inside a speedo garbage fire.

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JBP posted:

Is Peta Credlin a news presenter lmao

IIRC following the whole scandal she did some bits on well known even and fair news channel SkyNews along side well known smart man Andrew Bolt and they offered her own segment.

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JBP posted:

Roberto di Nugtokey



:iceburn:

Also now I need to go watch more playground politics which I'm really behind on .

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Anidav posted:

Maybe we should start building recycling facilities now

Nah just landfill the lot of it mate she'll be right!

gently caress adani right off.

Spend the fish on setting up recycling processing facility. Make dosh selling recycled plastic and poo poo. Generate jobs and growth for the region you put it in. Save the planet.

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ANZAC Day operations training tonight.

I'm standing next to a rock (it's a natural memorial to Vietnam veterans) all morning. This has some of my colleagues jelly of my easy job and me unhappy that I don't actually do anything.

At least I'm helping to coordinate the local march.

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QUACKTASTIC posted:

I bet it's a pretty nice rock though

I'm told we have concerns about people tripping over the rock when going to place wreaths. This is bad because people tripping is bad and they don't look down to see the rock. Also not a great look on ANZAC Day to walk on s memorial to the fallen .

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Don Dongington posted:

Are they worried about civilians, or officers

Mostly school kids and vetrens with walking sticks.

Apperently a few years back one of the old boys tripped on it and fractured his ankle which is pretty nasty when you're 80.

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JBP posted:

Sounds like these veterans need the nanny state now more than ever

Making jokes about aged care is scary man.

My folks will be in the aged care required bracket in 10 or do years time and I'm already worried about how I deal with that.

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Don Dongington posted:

Hopefully you'll be able to use all that sweet rock guardin' money to take care of them!

You're under the impression I get paid to guard the rock.

I do not. It's all volunteer work in the SES my lad.

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Banks in Australia as bad as the Sideshow Bob campaign from the Simpsons.

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Kommando posted:

How the gently caress is it still 50/50 2PP

Death is uncertain

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Anzac Day job done! Only minor chaos at the march for me; though issues with schools obeying instructions re: dropping off their kids were still there.

Dawn Service was good but I had the easy job: stand to attention for an hour.

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bigis posted:

Each poo poo, Valve. I've submitted a refund request for DayZ, I wonder if I'll get my money back.

I actually pulled out the ACL on my Star Citizen purchase that I made way back when it was still something new and to be believed as a fancier multiplayer Wing Commander. They denied me twice saying they can't "offer you a refund at this time" and then "you are not entitled to a refund at this time" and then immediately went to "we will grant you a refund at our discretion" as soon as I went ACL and ACCC guys.

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Solemn Sloth posted:

Cool so Canada has incel terrorists and Melbourne has furries doing smash and grabs

Wait whut

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I'm really over people being "gutted" about things. It's the go to buzz word of "look how sad I am" and it's really annoying.

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JBP posted:

I don't like anything about it. I'd rather play Skyrim.

I spent more time trying to set up Skyrim to be a cool hunter-mercenary-viking simulator with cool monsters, weather mechanics, increased lethality and cloathing mechanics than I did playing said moded game.

I started as a hunter in the woods and got eaten by wolves. Twice.

Then a troll ambushed me and it regenerated faster than I could hit it with my sword.

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