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2024-10-30 23:48:17

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@npub1gj9…27jn When the tide of disapproval arrives on-shore, it has little regard for who had their sandcastles built there before.

2024-10-07 02:48:39

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@npub163d…j6ra It makes me wonder. If this many solar panels in Queensland alone are being retired and feed-in tariffs for rooftop solar at a downward trajectory, will people replace their EOL panels? I would think unless battery deals get better or government legislates a feed-in floor that many may decide the economics doesn't stack up.

2024-09-04 23:49:02

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@npub19y9…4pdc Or when recently he proposed throwing Taiwan under the Chinese bus saying it would effectively just get sorted without US intervention. Keating was and is a wander.

2024-08-29 12:54:34

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@npub1cmg…rzd2 I don't know how to fix it, but it seems like it is this
https://support.google.com/a/answer/14114704?hl=en

2024-04-01 05:35:53

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@npub1fmd…s0u0 Your tax dollars at work.

2024-03-06 10:58:02

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@npub12f4…c89f The licence plate on the Mini looks like the old style Victorian number plate FWIW.

2024-02-02 00:18:40

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@npub1zj0…lg4v @npub1ms4…za2g I agree. There are many aspects of medical practice that are concerning. Patients who are seriously unwell often have to be their own advocate.

2024-01-31 06:57:41

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@npub1wwr…xwey Many years ago, on the advice of his paediatrician, we moved our then young prem baby out of the inner city suburbs to a town about 30 minutes drive outside the urban fringe. No more asthma attacks and sickly baby turned into thriving baby.

2024-01-29 23:40:16

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@npub12qt…etv6 Ouch. My partner's cousin had bad eczema. She changed all skincare products to one's with shea butter. Cleared her skin completely. YMMV.

2023-12-03 23:54:22

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@npub1t06…fnv9 There is a uniqueness of perspective, but there is also the possibility of missing the learned social contexts. Some context is missing for Max as much of the social constructs are learned in younger life. Still, an interesting article. What part(s) particularly, made you think it a sad commentary on Australian masculinity?

2023-12-02 00:56:29

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@npub14nv…s5mk @npub1cy0…ggw4 In all likelihood, the hunter gatherer communities were probably dominated by opportunistic acquiring of resources more than gender based assignment of tasks.

2023-11-30 00:36:24

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@npub1cc3…qs70 Old news??

2023-11-24 06:14:28

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@npub1yl3…323t So you know the stats process well enough to be confident this stands up at a population level? If so, I willingly defer.

2023-11-23 22:58:40

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@npub1x9t…tl38 At some level, the desire to move past the conflict has to be greater than the desire to continue. This, of course, only really applies to those who have the power to end the conflict. Others are ignorant of the conditions needed for peace and are left to dream of peace.

2023-11-12 01:58:13

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@npub1cc3…qs70 These announcements seem to go unexamined. The price per treatment is $425,000, treatment cycle is 21 days, yearly number of patients is 57, from Google. Assuming all patients have a full year dosing that's over $400 million, or around $7 million per patient.
Call me cynical, but the headlines ignore the fact of the limited patient numbers and most women would read the headline and think if I get breast cancer, extremely common, that I will get this treatment, extremely uncommon.

2023-11-06 05:19:12

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@npub1wuv…lqq7 The speed limit is 130 kmh on some roads in NT. There was no limit on the Stuart hwy, but road quality is an issue, like on many roads in Oz. There's more to driving than speed limits. The limits put in place are designed so that most travel occurs safely given general conditions of road, general capabilities of ordinary cars, average driving skills, etc. Good drivers take into account many factors. Future IMO is semi-autonomous like Tesla Autopilot with added insufferable limit nagging

2023-09-26 22:05:52

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@npub1xyu…sj27 The Victorian Liberal Party is #Unelectable. Andrews leaves knowing that barring self inflicted fatal wounds, Labor should have at least another election win in 3 years.

2023-09-20 02:53:08

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@npub12gn…4w7a The LNP is #Unelectable precisely because they take these positions. The desire to build nuclear has nothing to recommend it in Australia. It's a very expensive technology with a long lead time and requiring extensive and long term governance. IMO, this is about large donations to the party and pork barrelling the jobs with a side order of sticking it to the Greens. The average voter will be more interested in solar and battery rebates than nuclear power plants.

2023-09-15 20:53:58

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@npub1utc…c0ud The interesting thing for me is Shorten's position. I think he recognises that calling No voters racist or anything else derogatory will in effect cement their No position. The old saying about catching more flies with honey than vinegar comes to mind. #auspol

2023-09-12 09:40:19

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@npub1g0v…pfty Can you post The Guardian article link please

2023-09-10 10:32:56

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@npub1ezn…3rul @npub18lk…kfdk Can we please avoid the "men always benefit from gendered society" generalisation. Some men do not benefit.

2023-09-05 08:19:42

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@npub178q…r8m5 The laughable aspect of these intergenerational reports, is despite their recommendations to delay age pensions, successive governments have done very little about age discrimination in hiring practices. For many the experience is that if you have to find a new job after 50, you face extreme discrimination resulting in long term unemployment, gig economy exploitation, severe underemployment or sporadic employment. Australia is losing billions of dollars and valuable skills.

2023-09-05 06:00:45

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@npub1aqa…u0r3 Thank you for your descriptions and some view into your thinking. I can see the distinctions here in defining gender identity, in your case, agender? and gender biology, as defined by your current biological state, non binary? Sorry I might be getting this totally ass backwards and sort of grasping for the right words.

2023-09-02 03:55:26

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@npub190d…lfvr The simple answer is that workers and especially women have been sold up the river. Workers median wage is so historically low that many families now need two wages. Where are the well paid jobs for women? Women now make up more than the workforce, but suffer from being unable to advance. Employers essentially now have two workers for the price of one and still whine like stuck pigs if they have to pay more to their workers.
#australia #wages #genderedlabor

2023-08-27 09:21:11

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@npub1cmv…qyse When I'm driving around Melbourne suburbs, I see far more soccer mums driving around as sole occupants of oversized SUVs than just about any other category you can think of. While I still see a fair share of petrol heads and tradie SUVs, the bulk of men seem to be driving older small and mid size hatches and sedans.
America is different from here. Car sizes and numbers across the world have increased dramatically and this more than anything has been damaging to the environment.

2023-08-20 00:24:06

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@npub1p05…lcal I think that's what I said
Status quo = protect vested interest
No?

2023-08-19 00:18:07

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@npub1aqa…u0r3 I am badrecalling names. I developed a routine I try.
When I introduce myself, I make sure I tell them names don't stick well and that I may ask them again and please be patient.
I make sure when people introduce themselves that I get their name correct. I do this by using their name replying to introduction.
During conversations I try to use their name often.
This works well when I see people reasonably soon after previously meeting.
When I can't recall I confess it and start over.

2023-08-18 08:15:25

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@npub1v0a…25dp An attempt at analysis below, remember I'm not qualified/well read about train transportation.
VFT appears to be very expensive to implement in Australia and not economically viable without taking some jet passengers from a major route.
As speed increases, track quality and layout probably become much more important. Laying many hundreds of kilometres of new track is probably the expensive bit include some compulsory land purchases.
Therefore, the key is government social policy.

2023-08-17 21:58:30

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@npub1ztm…t758 How uncertain the ALP must feel to not risk much. While applauding the idea of keeping promises, there seems like vision is again last on the list.

2023-08-17 02:02:58

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@npub1c0y…g86v Is there a technical or in-use difference?

2023-08-14 04:49:10

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@npub1ulq…qjlj @npub15l8…v0gk Not just lower middle class white poor, but those of any colour suffering transgenerational poverty who have never felt like anyone has done anything for them.
They mistake IMO that The Voice is about disadvantage.

2023-08-13 22:45:26

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@npub1ulq…qjlj @npub15l8…v0gk The basis of many in the No camp is "why should FNP get this access, when we don't ". For this to hold water, they must reject elites and corporates also having this access. If their belief is "no one should have this access", with all that entails, then this is a legitimate although not necessarily pragmatic argument.
With all the muddying of the water, I am trying to keep the debate simple.

2023-08-13 11:52:43

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@npub15l8…v0gk Your point is what exactly? I think going through the list of those with existing priority access to parliament and executive government is not overly helpful. In my view, these groups should not have this access.
The question IMO that voters in the referendum need to ask themselves is this:
Do we grant priority access to FNP due to the history of this country?
It is not about disadvantage as other disadvantaged groups do not have this access. Nor self determination.

2023-07-30 11:14:43

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@npub1cmg…rzd2 @npub1kas…x68u Please thank your beautiful wife for these two videos. The little smile at the end of each gesture has brightened what has been a difficult day.

2023-07-28 22:43:23

Woke up this morning straight into my own personal pity party. The realisation today is that I have been the responsible one for far too long. I have worked far too hard for far too long and sacrificed way too much.

2023-07-20 09:17:42

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@npub1dp8…smpr Recently went through this process and ended up at a branch office. Every other level just buck passed
Back to the past, more tellers needed

2023-07-17 22:57:14

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@npub12gn…4w7a IMO Putin will never make that decision.

2023-07-17 12:00:23

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@npub1tth…8wvs Conspiracy theories are an easy way to justify a position the individual struggles to otherwise justify.
The conspiracies thrive in an environment where trust in political parties has been eroded to the point where individuals do not believe the public presentations of political figures.
In this backdrop, it is not surprising that these voters would choose No in response to any government initiated referendum. If the referendum fails, mistrust of government will be a main factor.

2023-07-10 11:20:00

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@npub1csr…v563 Goose GoldenEgg Execution #netflix

2023-07-08 00:31:17

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@npub1ql8…2ef6 I wish we were past the need for this. But we are not.
I have watched this conflict and see day after day babies, children, teenagers, parents, grandparents being maimed and killed. These are the civilians targeted and they are overwhelmingly Ukrainian citizens.
Russia has been using cluster munitions, phosphorus bombs, missiles, etc and indiscriminately targeting civilians.
There have not been major strikes on Russian cities like Moscow, St. Peterborough, etc.
Russia is evil.

2023-07-05 02:11:26

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@npub1kzd…eseq This post is uplifting in a strange way. There is so much hate expressed between trans people and cis males that I despair. By expressing this exactly as you have - a genuinely nice cis guy interested in your life, others that you are unsure how supporting they are - is where I hope we are. The others have not shown antagonism. There is at least the hope that they won't. And you being yourself and not being closed because of fear. You are awesome.

2023-06-30 02:51:33

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@npub132q…ua6v Isn't complexity fun?
"Age is just a number" is also about older people asserting their rights and not being pushed by society into sitting in a rocking chair. The same was being applied to weight.
"Fat people get oppressed because of our fatness." Agree. Transgender? Even more so.
"We get medical care withheld from us which causes harm and kills us."
Change doctors if feeling medical care is biased.
As cis white male and had my serious medical concerns dismissed, not all greener grass

2023-06-17 03:45:15

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@npub1cmv…vfap some others
Will you stop demonising unwed mothers as sinful?
Will you push for compulsory DNA tests of males to make them accountable for their actions?

2023-06-11 06:54:10

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@npub1n3e…zyxz And whether we like it or not, societal prejudices are instilled from the earliest stages of life.

2023-06-08 07:04:52

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@npub1xyu…sj27 Even from the opposition benches, the LNP seem unable to accept that not everything is under their control.
They have learned nothing about the damage this has done to their brand. Spin is not equal to win in the long term.

2023-06-07 01:09:34

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@npub1x9t…tl38 The answer is ...
Economists: reducing demand will put downward pressure on inflation
People on JobSeeker: Please spend more on Australian products and we might have a chance of getting a job
Economic rationalist: Reduce your spending by buying cheaper foreign goods
Economic radical: Don't participate in consumer society
Climate denier: Buy a new anything
Climate hipster: Buy a top model Tesla
The poor: I get a choice?? Not to spend everything????
The rich: I'm busy spending

2023-06-06 02:41:10

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@npub1qce…aw9z Translation
Labour hire companies = LNP tools to undermine unions
Industrial relations laws =
1. LNP definition = laws to limit or decrease union power i.e limit Labor's donor base
2. Labor definition = laws to limit or decrease employers power i.e limit LNP donor base
Welcome to the merry-go-round (Labor's turn to ride)

2023-05-31 02:39:01

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@npub12gn…4w7a It's certainly one of the key factors in #environmental degradation.
It doesn't get as much attention as other factors.
Preaching population stabilisation or reduction to lesser developed countries reeks of privilege and colonialism.
Many Western countries' birth rates would lead to population reduction were it not for immigration. This immigration is what props up the endless government quest for growth in GDP.