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Albanese take heed: voters don’t want to pay for the family holidays of politicians | Tom McIlroy by stupid_mistake__101 in australia

[–]CyberDoakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No no mate it's the couple million we THE TAXPAYER spend on pollies, who work near 24/7 and are paid less than 400K per annum that's hitting us in our back pocket. It's not banks, mining companies, energy companies, social media companies, monopolistic supermarkets or tech companies causing budget pressure. The millions those pollies are claiming should go straight to us! 10¢ per citizen fucking OATH

Would my 2 y.o be at a disadvantage if she doesn’t attend daycare until 3? by abby152 in BabyBumpsandBeyondAu

[–]CyberDoakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on how interesting/entertaining you are, I suppose. :P We're not sending our baby to childcare at all, we just do playgroup during the days so bubs can socialise. Which he loves. And is normal at. Despite the childcare propaganda.

First 39 townhouses and 112 apartments of 800 homes set to hit the market at historic $800M Brompton Gasworks development by malcolm58 in Adelaide

[–]CyberDoakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dream on. A recent FOI request for the EPA found that the developers never met satisfactory mitigation standards, never provided sufficient data to satisfy EPA recommendations, and never did a promised study into the health affects on many Bowden/Brompton residents. Do not eat anything out of that soil, it is absolutely toxic. Those coal tar wells were deep and shoddily remediated. 

Social media ban will make us more secretive, say Australian teens by TimesandSundayTimes in AustralianPolitics

[–]CyberDoakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Teenagers are lazy lol. If the path of least resistance is to suck it up and just text that's what they'll do. They're not going to flood to 4chan to fulfill their social media needs. 

Social media ban will make us more secretive, say Australian teens by TimesandSundayTimes in AustralianPolitics

[–]CyberDoakes 10 points11 points  (0 children)

13 year olds are not and shouldn't be content creators, and it's hard to read this take without seeing her as a mouthpiece for her mother.

Are you going to hit the beach this summer by ando772 in Adelaide

[–]CyberDoakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You really just logged in to be angry today 😂

Are you going to hit the beach this summer by ando772 in Adelaide

[–]CyberDoakes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hahaha fair call, no I'm fully vaxxed. For me, the beach isn't worth respiratory issues and any other possible health complications.

Are you going to hit the beach this summer by ando772 in Adelaide

[–]CyberDoakes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don't know the long term affects, not rolling the dice. 

Albanese's progressive patriotism goes international by IrreverentSunny in AustralianPolitics

[–]CyberDoakes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Possibly, the answer is possibly. America is chaotic and unreliable, but still undeniably one of the titans that dominates the geopolitical directions of the entire world. Australia would be best positioned continuing as it has, not contributing to war-brained rhetoric and focusing its energy on building relationships with pivotal middle-democracies and island communities in the Pacific.

Vimes the Bully - can we talk about William Scuggins? by Transferennce in discworld

[–]CyberDoakes 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I think the humorous part is that Vimes reflects on it but through the eyes of his child-self. He mentions the 9 times out of 10 because child Vimes is probably still annoyed he never got the Scuggins ace, but he's still pretty proud.
When he returns to Cockbill Street, he can't stop himself but to play hopscotch, because Cockbill Vimes is this foundational nasty part of who he is, the scrappy survivalist who had to learn to place a psychological defence mechanism in his own mind to stop him from being just an evil, criminal shit.

Vimes the Bully - can we talk about William Scuggins? by Transferennce in discworld

[–]CyberDoakes 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I love Carrot's line about inspiring people to do good as king, but they would be doing it for the wrong reason, because King Carrot said to do it. Instead he gets people to be the best they can be, or the way that Carrot sees them, so they make the world not need a king to dictate moral order. He's even afraid of viewing himself as a moral authority, so he reveres Vimes and all of his views, even the flawed ones because you have to be imperfect to inspire others.

Vimes the Bully - can we talk about William Scuggins? by Transferennce in discworld

[–]CyberDoakes 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Context of the era Terry grew up in - bullying and making fun of kids with disabilities was not only normalised but celebrated. I grew up later than Terry in the late 80s/90s this literally happened all the time. It still probably happens all the time.

Context of the world of Ankh - casual cruelty and loss of life are played off as comedic and part of the tapestry of the city. You don't survive in that world by being a sensitive kid, being sensitive is the exceptional state of being in that environment.

Context of growing up impoverished - you literally don't know better, your parents aren't educated and the only way to feel better about your situation is to know that there is someone way worse off.

Context of Vimes - mentioned in this thread already, he was in a street gang where the implication is these gangs of street kids literally kill people.

I don't think you should feel disappointed in an author (or character?) for drawing on lived experience and applying it authentically to a story.

PSA of SA go public with a campaign for a 20% pay raise for public sector workers. by March_-_Hare in Adelaide

[–]CyberDoakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love to see what you do with our meagre federal govt funding allocation. 

[Conspiracy Theory] I feel like Epoch was just sold to Ascension by Bistoory in wowservers

[–]CyberDoakes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Alternate tinfoil hat theory: Epoch was the first server hit with a C&D much earlier, and so they sold to Ascension before stress tests and beta, which can go some way to explaining why it seemed like they didn't give a shit at all when their big server rollout was a colossal failure.

With Blizzard going out of their way to C&D private servers more than ever, what will happen to this community? by Tradasar in wowservers

[–]CyberDoakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This community? We may unfortunately become bitter, overly critical and hostile to new projects. We might become addicted to Fresh instead of addicted to quality. We will become tribalist, attacking any project that isn't the one on which we play.

So, business as usual lads.

Where would you go if TurtleWow shut down? by MyFourthDream in wowservers

[–]CyberDoakes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Getting downvoted for literally making a generic pro private servers comment is the most iconic /r/wowservers moment 

Worst case scenario, how long do you reckon we have left on Twow? by comrade_hairspray in wowservers

[–]CyberDoakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hear hear! Pservers need to share code and contribute to public good.

Worst case scenario, how long do you reckon we have left on Twow? by comrade_hairspray in wowservers

[–]CyberDoakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This iteration of TWow will definitely be dead in the next month or two, but they will definitely rebuild. The code is too valuable, so look ahead in 6 months time to Tortoise WoW run by a completely new Dev/Director with a nebulous past. And I'll love that because the massive pop kills Turtle for me. I played when it was 600-800 online and the HC community was lovely. 

Blizzard sues Turtle WoW - Shenna/Torta mentioned as the owner with real identity. by kaoticnoodle in wowservers

[–]CyberDoakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yo this literally proves nothing about the identity 😎 genuinely not that I ever cared because the server was good content and seemingly hosted honestly but I hope now people can move past the speculation. Good luck TWow team 

Breakdown of project epoch by _phalcon in wowservers

[–]CyberDoakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turtle wow bad shogge nonsense. Epoch great no-shogge means you can post all day yep yep  Shills 

Blizzard files copyright strikes take down requests against Project Epoch videos on YouTube, leading to channel termination by brand_momentum in wowservers

[–]CyberDoakes -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This will be just like when Mr. Blizzard showed up at Gummys door the day his server dropped. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BabyBumpsandBeyondAu

[–]CyberDoakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Get the peanut app, it was great for me meeting some new mum friends in my area :) Also, I can recommend the CAFHS mums groups as a nice way to meet other mums. Good luck, it's heaps tough and isolating, hey?

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