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Zenithe posted:They already do dumb stuff to get around this. Look at any large chocolate bar and there is always "share" or "family" or other thing that is basically telling you it's not meant to be eaten by one person. That way you get to market it as two or three serves and anyone who actually bothers to look at the nutritional information has to also notice how many serves they are eating. Chunky Kit Kats are the worst offender I've noticed, as it's actually three servings. A while back I took part in some market research on mandatory labelling which never got anywhere but the ideas were really very good. Most of us were tired of that kind of game on labels and wanted actual ingredients listed at actual quantities and actual locations of manufacture (another wizard wheeze to avoid listing ingredients is to just say "made from imported" and some guff about preservatives), but the food lobby squelched any chance of it happening. quote:My bottle has 4g per 100g, which doesn't seem excessive? Now you're making the serve excuse. It's bloody excessive if you can taste the sugar in a garlic butter sauce, which I was having with smoked cod so it tasted like sugar cod and was horrible.
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May 1, 2018 01:30
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The Archdiocese of Melbourne has issued a short statement:quote:We're not going to make a statement. Isn't the rule of law wonderful? I may have paraphrased.
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May 1, 2018 02:06
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Some nice pre-election Bendigo pork-barrel:quote:The Andrews Labor Government will support the next stage of Bendigo’s development, with a new GovHub office in the heart of the city’s CBD that will bring new jobs to Bendigo. I'm betting it'll be very near if not indeed right next to the current Vic Dept of Housing. Degree of difficulty +20 for the mysterious "amazing candidate" yet to be announced by the Libs.
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May 1, 2018 04:07
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Konomex posted:I hated landlords so much I became my own landlord. Free yourself from the yolk of landlord oppression and take up the yolk of bank oppression. Don't egg them on 
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May 1, 2018 10:11
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New Daily surveyed MPs about whether they could live on Newstart or had ever lived on benefits:quote:Turnbull government MPs have refused to say whether they could live on $40 a day – about the current rate of Newstart – as the nation debates the current rate of welfare payments ahead of next week’s budget. Well it looks like we can be sure of one thing all Liberals can agree on.
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May 3, 2018 22:46
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aejix posted:Morally reprehensible? Sure. Technically, it's externalizing, but yeah. It's short-sighted though, pretending that the costs are 'out there' is just ignoring that it costs the rest of the economy and there will be a reckoning. Cartoon posted:
More externalizing, and designed to be ignored by the MSM with an imminent Budget. And oh boy this will be a massive test of Bill, because they're going to shoot money out of a cannon at the electorate. The Before Times posted:rent assistance is pitiful though. You hit the maximum of $89 assistance if you are paying $240 per fortnight (for sharing. if you're renting outright then it's $189 maximum assistance at $289 per fortnight rent). But wait, if you're in state public housing, because you're paying a fixed percentage of your income to make it affordable, your rent assistance gets cut, which means the only part of the benefit that reacts in any way to market conditions is designed to be minimised.
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May 4, 2018 06:32
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aejix posted:True, i suppose i was more thinking along the lines of this essentially boiling down to yet another case of funnelling untold amounts of public money into privately owned businesses. Yeah that's also a valid argument, particularly when you line it up against their favourite catch-cry "governments wasting money", yeah and who got that money? Oh, a private company? What a surprise. So whenever you see that, take note of the industry sector because that's a signal for another dubious tendering process. I'm in favour of some kind of non-compete for ex-public servants and politicians, to at least cut down the revolving door between politics and industry that corrupts governments at all levels. Other industries have them for employees and these guys are always claiming they're "just" employees, so gently caress them, treat them like it.
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May 4, 2018 10:16
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bandaid.friend posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-07/quad-bike-makers-quit-safety-advisory-panel,-accuse-accc-of-bias/9726938 quote:The researcher who headed the TARS team, Professor Raphael Grzebieta, said criticism of the work is "absolute rubbish". Bingo. Cries of bias, sure, but what are they against? Fixing the design that kills people. Crush protection has been fought against for years, using the novel argument that fitting it would make manufacturers more liable.
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May 7, 2018 05:00
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I did a quick google on the crush protection debate, they've been fighting this since around 2014, particularly after WorkSafe in Victoria made anti-roll bars mandatory for quad bikes.
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May 7, 2018 10:17
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Guardian posted:Outspoken Nationals MP George Christensen is set to be ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church. In other news, a shark was made an honorary lifesaver today.
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May 8, 2018 02:04
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The Before Times posted:gently caress yes I can't wait to see the Vic Lib Mormon Party platform against this. "A bad donation is a little like a bad father..."
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May 8, 2018 10:27
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NTRabbit posted:The first response was a 'former adviser to two federal Coalition cabinet ministerrs and a Liberal state premier' who said "Taxation is theft. You can quote me on that. Also, public money is stolen money" Then let's stop paying politicians, they seem to be benefiting most from this "theft".
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May 8, 2018 16:12
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Tokamak posted:this is what politicians want to believe It seems to be the basis for their wages claims. Not seeing those cut because "government costs too much", eh. This was a poo poo Budget, the most cowardly from the Libs in a long time.
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May 9, 2018 08:20
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aejix posted:The answer is to have a guess what part of the budget that a piece of desiccated dogshit, you know the ones that explode into a white faecal dust cloud when you accidentally kick them because they've been in direct sunlight for weeks, like John Howard would look at cutting in order to pay for the increase of newstart. While I don't doubt that Howard would approve, it's not the the sole reason for his suggestion, it's a bonus feature. The prime reasons for his suggestion are: 1. He doesn't have to answer politically for what he says any more, so he can say the unpalatable things. 2. The unpalatable things are that the demographics of youth unemployment, general underemployment and older people on the dole by default because they raised the pension age and are trying to avoid NDIS have risen to a significant percentage of "never going to vote Liberal". Unless he starts saying "save the whales", this is the kind of response I'd expect from a neoliberal who wasn't just brainfarting.
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May 9, 2018 08:50
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aejix posted:Fair play on point 1, agreed there. It's probably the longnecks that are preventing me from parsing point 2 - you're basically saying that the focus groups/internal polling/whatever have shifted negatively in significant enough numbers that they need to pump in however many pints of virgin blood are required to reanimate the corpse of Howard, in order to get him to throw out a few soundbites that will be dutifully repeated ad nauseum on every murdoch- or commercially-owned media outlet without question, promising money to the exact people on whose face the Libs have spent their entire lives grinding their boots? No, I'm saying that Howard can see that Newstart is a problem, and isn't prevented from describing it like the people actually in office right now. It isn't a play from the media handbook because they don't care. Despite the RDS (Relevancy Deprivation Syndrome), Howard is actually trying to help the party see what the electoral dangers are.
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May 9, 2018 10:54
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Derryn Hinch puts his finger on the Newstart problem:quote:Independent Senator Derryn Hinch said he was disappointed the budget did not look at Newstart. Want those tax cuts passed, you know what to do, Malcolm. But the prize goes to the BCA (remember them, they're not at all political) for claiming it wanted the cuts aaaages ago. quote:"As the Business Council of Australia noted as far back as 2012 the level of Newstart '...may now be so low as to represent a barrier to employment'," he said. Really? It must have been under their voice alone in a room 10 stories underground.
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May 9, 2018 15:19
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Meanwhile in Queensland...:quote:A Brisbane councillor has been chosen over a current Turnbull government assistant minister to stand in a west Brisbane seat at the next federal election. The punchline? They got Prentice the same way. It seems the LNP can't find anyone outside the Brisbane City Council to run for seats. And this new boy is hilarious: quote:“There will be a very clear choice for voters, the LNP that manages the economy responsibly for the benefit of all Australians, or Labor – who wants to impose higher taxes, and take more income from the pensioners and self-funded retirees who live in this community," he said. I'm sure he'll do just fine.
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May 12, 2018 04:34
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More fallout from the Prentice-Simmonds preselection:quote:In Victoria, where the state Liberal Party has been a recent battleground between ultra-conservatives and moderates, a veteran political operative who asked not to be named, put it like this: Forget shooting yourself in the foot, this is a blunderbuss to the face. I don't think they can grasp how unprepared and unwilling the electorate is for this kind of vicious stupidity on top of a Federal budget that isn't the roaring success it needed to be.
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May 12, 2018 21:56
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naeka posted:But it has to say condition has exacerbated you can't get an exemption for same condition twice unless they put that. This is misleading. From personal experience, it has to be ongoing and sufficiently debilitating that you can't work more than 8hrs/week, and they can only be issued three times in a row. After that you'll need to have one of two interviews (possibly both), Job Capacity Assessment (which you need anyway if you want to claim DSP), and ESAT or Assessment of Work Capacity. Your doctor has to be specific about whether the condition is/is not going to improve within 2 years on the centrelink MC. In my case, I fall between the cracks a bit and I'm waiting on a 2nd neurologist appointment to be more certain of the physical issues but they've given me a year and a half off job searching because it was obvious that I was going to need it and the system couldn't permit rolling MC's.
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May 13, 2018 02:41
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naeka posted:Yup absolutely, there's alot of limitations on it and if you expect it to be more than a few months you are gonna wanna go straight for dsp instead. For long term illnesses newstart pressures are honestly gonna make you worse even if you get exemptions so you may aswell start the (extremely) difficult dsp process asap. Yeah, I'm not looking forward to it, but hopefully the specialist can make a clear enough report that the govt doctor can take on board. I was a bit surprised they found some slack in the system to be honest, but I think the problems with getting DSP appointments etc have been piling up on them in the last couple of years and they're just as frustrated with the limitations. They really need to rewrite the mainframe code hahahaha like that'll happen.
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May 13, 2018 03:07
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If half of government systems are the mess that Social Services are in, we're in a world of trouble. It's like sticky-tape fixes at best.
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May 13, 2018 03:25
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Lid posted:the accused Family Court Bomber trial started today Or if you prefer, a good podcast about it: http://casefilepodcast.com/case-13-the-family-court-murders/
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May 15, 2018 07:30
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It's a bit lowbrow but what the hell: https://twitter.com/tonightly/status/991493923515215872
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May 16, 2018 00:07
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It has a second city, it's called Fremantle
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May 16, 2018 08:19
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Birdstrike posted:good afternoon Anidav this is China Telecom, just calling to let you know that Taiwan, is indeed, #1. Actually I think you'll find the cat is #1.
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May 18, 2018 05:16
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drunkill posted:https://twitter.com/SecularLobby/status/998032800690262017 Pastebin for those wanting to save on their free articles. The idea of permanent, indexed chaplains is terrible.
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May 20, 2018 10:23
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The Before Times posted:I mean, there's no blood test, but there are some pretty good tools for diagnosis (if you're AMAB). There's already a system where a doctor can say 'i reckon this person can do x hours of work per week' but centrelink now use their own assessors who tend to vastly overestimate both chances for improvement and capacity to work. To be fair, they learnt that from Dept of Veteran Affairs, who've been making vets front up to multiple boards of doctors to justify their pensions for decades. If I do decide to apply for DSP I will have to go in with something difficult to argue with from a specialist. Also with the autism, there is also a lot of debate over the DSM definition of "spectrum" with good arguments for and against, and this is exactly why the govt is honing in on it because they can then say the science isn't definitive enough.
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May 21, 2018 07:28
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snoremac posted:From what I can glean from his article excerpt he seems upset that the bride was upstaged. He puts on this quaint act sometimes that makes me think he’s upset that he wasn’t born aristocratic and can only experience it vicariously or by licking the feet of truebloods like Abbott. No, he's really saying it in an attempt to "trigger lefties" so he can put on his act about being victimised. That's his MO, it's always the same. He attacks the weak for the jollies it gives his following, and pretends he's some kind of right-wing paladin alternately.
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May 22, 2018 01:04
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Oh man this has got it all, climate denialism, misconduct, lawsuits, echo chambers, fleecing the easily-persuaded readership...quote:Climate science denial groups from the UK, U.S. and Australia have leapt to support a controversial marine scientist who was fired from his job at an Australian university. It's great how this guy has been celebrated as a whistleblower when real whistleblowers are being hunted everywhere. quote:Over the weekend, the echo chamber of conservative websites and think tanks that push climate science denial swung into action, urging readers to visit Ridd’s crowdfunding page. Oh, curse that naughty zeitgeist, it is SO POWERFUL.
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May 22, 2018 04:22
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fiery_valkyrie posted:Last year I attended a talk given by a professor from JCU who has spent decades studying the reef, and more recently in particular on the effects of increasing water temperatures on coral growth, or lack thereof. His talk was really informative (and depressing) and I’m glad he doesn’t have work at the same place as this dickhead anymore. Yeah just imagine the morale working at JCU where you are watching the reef go byebye and all this poo poo blows up as well.
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May 22, 2018 22:50
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bandaid.friend posted:How do these people not expect to be caught? All this stuff seems really obvious Yeah it seems obvious, but gaming the system makes it difficult to stop, even when all the facts are present. A friend of mine was sued by someone with legal experience and even thought it was clear that they were gaming the system to harass him, it took years to make that obvious and the story hasn't ended yet.
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May 23, 2018 05:03
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hooman posted:Mark Latham continues to be insane. President-for-life Pauline would be too threatened. You surely don't imagine Latham wouldn't demand to be the leader of any party that would have him?
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May 23, 2018 20:45
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Hmm where have we heard "white flight" before? Yes, we're copying the USA again! What a lovely legacy and it's bipartisan too! I'm sure JBP will have a rational explanation for this! https://twitter.com/Kon__K/status/999170942688358401 Let's make a baked potato and by that I mean shoot Dutton into the sun.
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May 23, 2018 23:56
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this broken hill posted:these are the people who looked at an abundant fairytale paradise nurtured by peaceful nomads drawing on a hundred thousand years of knowledge and thought to themselves "let's kill them all, raze this poo poo to the ground and grow some loving wheat already" "What a useless desert, let's put cattle in it" "What a useless forest, let's put rabbits in it" "What a useless meadow, let's put sheep in it" "What a useless race, let's murder it or failing that, attempt to extinguish its even after we were forced to acknowledge their right to the land and their citizenship" OK the last one was a bit long-winded but lefties don't get the catchy phrases. bandaid.friend posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-24/analysis-when-will-the-next-election-or-elections-be-called/9788384 So, if I got this straight, they want a third bite at the cherry because splitting Senate elections is obviously not confusing the electorate enough to vote for them? JBP posted:Some people are racist or afraid of middle eastern/African people because of the media and don't want to live near them. Close but the original American context goes back to Levittown, William Levitt essentially invented the suburb and it was exclusionary segregation from the start. What "white flight" describes is what happens when that racism no longer receives active promotion by structures of authority, and real estate agents can't prop up the perceived loss in property values. The builders or developers may start out with the intention of a high-value, white suburb but obviously can't turn away anyone with the money, and the local government and other structures negatively promote racism and white flight by seeing the area as having lost value or increase in crime, or too expensive to maintain and a dozen other excuses. The media are only value-adding to that perception.
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May 24, 2018 02:15
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Gentleman Baller posted:Actually POC have a magical aura that makes stuff cheaper, food better, and racist assholes move away. Shhhh or they'll figure it out. Meanwhile, in Senate estimates... https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedOzPol/status/999461656101961729 
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May 24, 2018 02:38
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Sorry to add to the tweetfest but it's news from this morning: https://twitter.com/RossAndJohn/status/999415141467807744 but https://twitter.com/JmarrMarr/status/999488791223005184  well she was doing actual journalism on Sky whoops.
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May 24, 2018 09:45
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Lid posted:Lol It's so ridiculously self-serving, but I'll bite. quote:Removing the option for a ‘no-grounds’ eviction would make investment less appealing to landlords and would likely see an increase in short, fixed-term leases. Tenants are already competing with the likes of Airbnb, which is gradually taking long-term rental homes off the market. The reason they're competing with airbnb is because it's a dodgy form of "renting" which has less protection for tenants than the already dodgy system. If removing no-grounds eviction gives the absent investment property landlord the shits and they leave, that's good for the rental market. quote:We need legislation that continues to make long-term property investment appealing to landlords while protecting tenants from those who do the wrong thing. No we don't, we need the absent investment property landlords out of the market, try again.
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May 24, 2018 12:01
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:I don't get the big business tax cuts. They already don't pay, so is it just to rub it in our faces or what? You have to understand that the mindset of our political class is hierarchical: they consider big business to be a rung above them (since it is their preferred destination after politics) and there are other rungs, among them US right-wing think tanks. In such a mindset, it doesn't matter whether the tax cuts have any utility at all as long as they give them. On top of this, in the last decade, partisanship has intensified, and the governing party of the day ruthlessly roots out the oppositions political and public service appointments. This is the real culture war for them, and they intend to destroy the public service as a neutral buffer between them and the things they desire, handouts to those who will secure them a cushy appointment.
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Lol, even the Guardian liveblog has had enough:quote:So, not going to estimates, will be fighting the court summons, it’s actually Bill Shorten who has the questions to answer, and the whiteboard was nothing to do with her.
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