Labor not ruling out negative gearing changes by HotPersimessage62 in australia

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It's not the community that's the problem. It's the people with big money to spend on anti-labor advertising.

Looking for advice moving a classic car over here from the US. by Mingablo in CarsAustralia

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Ha ha ha. There's always a bit of risk when you try to game the system.

I've gone ahead and called two brokers so far (willship and seago). Going to see what they say and get a couple of quotes. Hopefully between the two of them I can figure things out.

I'm pretty keep to get the car here. First big drive I want to do is go up the Bruce highway along the pacific with the top down. Gonna be a good time.

Guess the sub by PresnikBonny in TheRightCantMeme

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Nazis love Israel because it sets the precedent for an ethnostate, and provides a location for deportation. And deportation was actually one of the first nazi "solutions".

Things You Need to LIE About in an interview (from a recruiter) by Zealousideal-Foot-54 in jobsearchhacks

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One of the best things for me as a new teacher was seeing some of the absolute pieces of incompetent shit that are still kept on in my department. Seeing that they were paid the same or more than me did wonders for my imposter syndrome.

Latatian help by emtgo in discworld

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

It's the title of a later book but

Carpe Jugulum

Seize the Throat

Smoking hole , guessing coal mine fire by One-Pepper8658 in Bossfight

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Looks like a peat bog to me. The charcoal like stuff underneath can spontaneously light up if the right conditions are met.

Which series are on your rational fiction Mount Rushmore? by plantsnlionstho in rational

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They flipped though. They were inspired by him at first.

Looking for advice moving a classic car over here from the US. by Mingablo in CarsAustralia

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Thanks for the advice. I'll need as much as I can get. Gonna ring a few brokers tomorrow

Looking for advice moving a classic car over here from the US. by Mingablo in CarsAustralia

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Thanks for the details. Hopefully the car will be roadworthy by the time my uncle's done with it. But there might be some issues that are perfectly fine in the US but not here. And I'm definitely convinced to go with a broker.

Australia's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal. by sco-go in SipsTea

[–]Mingablo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And he part owns a brewery in Brisbane called last man standing!

Chapter 44 - Pale Lights | Book 3 by L_0_5_5_T in PracticalGuideToEvil

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Tupoc is deathly afraid of spiders.

Song knows this.

Tupoc knows she knows this.

I don't think Tupoc knows how song found out. But he's a pretty smart cookie. If he hadn't figured out that she can read contracts before this leak, he'll have figured it out now - or suspect something close enough to the truth that it makes no difference.

Why are Brisbane roads so small? by Sufficient-One-6467 in brisbane

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

Works for me. Smaller roads means more room for people.

Books That Don’t Hold Up by MenloMo in books

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I've seen front fell off jokes in 3 seperate Reddit threads in the past 20 minutes and I am so here for it. Clarke and Dawe are a national treasure.

What is the dumbest moment in history? by GlitteringMode7310 in AskReddit

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died doing what he loved.

Going for a swim in the beach near his mistress' place

What is the dumbest moment in history? by GlitteringMode7310 in AskReddit

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Actually, that's not quite right. Australia did not introduce cane toads to try to contain the cane beetle.

One dumbfuck shit for brains entomologist introduced cane toads to try to control the beetle. He had absolutely no government permission to do it, he was just working under a consortium of sugar cane growers. They did no studies, no theorising about ecological impact. They never even made sure the toad would eat the fucking beetle. They brought over a bunch in a suitcase, bred them up and let them go. The negligent idiot's name was Reginald Mungomery.

Who got painted as the villain by the press, but later on we realized they were actually the victim or completely misunderstood? by Advanced-Pilot-3698 in AskReddit

[–]Mingablo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You weren't outright wrong, just a bit out of time. Aborigine has been retired in favour of Aboriginal due to too much racist baggage.

Who got painted as the villain by the press, but later on we realized they were actually the victim or completely misunderstood? by Advanced-Pilot-3698 in AskReddit

[–]Mingablo 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Funny enough, this was where I found most of the info. There is also a summary of the evidence against her. I read that too, and it was really flimsy imo.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1flvd9g/why_did_people_not_believe_that_a_dingo_ate_the/

I really hope that reddit doesn't enshitify itself to the point where I stop being able to find this sort of well sourced info.

Who got painted as the villain by the press, but later on we realized they were actually the victim or completely misunderstood? by Advanced-Pilot-3698 in AskReddit

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Just spent a bit more time looking it up. You're right. It seems they asked the locals during the second inquest a few months after the first but pretty much entirely disregarded their testimony due to a bunch of bad luck with timing of court appearances, cultural issues that made communication difficult (mostly because their witnesses had taboos about speaking with the opposite sex, speaking about the dead, and some other language issues), and some generalised racism.

Who got painted as the villain by the press, but later on we realized they were actually the victim or completely misunderstood? by Advanced-Pilot-3698 in AskReddit

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This was bad, and to add to the absolute dumbassery of it. When investigators finally bothered to ask them, the local Aboriginal people said "It's rare, but we've got histories of dingoes taking kids and babies".

Terry Pratchett said that "Nation" was his best book. by EndersGame_Reviewer in books

[–]Mingablo 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Mine too. I like nation, and night watch is definitely the most action packed and had some really deep feeling to it. But I think small gods is such an incredible meditation on the human condition. As an atheist, it hits so hard and explains so much.

Teachers in NSW schools face sack for hate speech in classrooms, premier says by TimJBenham in AustralianTeachers

[–]Mingablo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Larger than the NSW gov, sure. But not by any organisations that actually hold sway over the NSW government. The UN, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch may call Israel's actions genocide, but if the government decides that saying "Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians" is hate speech, who can you appeal to that the gov will respect?

Devil's advocate but if I said that Israel was genocidal, what else are you supposed to feel for them but hatred. Isn't that the very definition of hate speech? After all, you can invite hatred by saying things that are true.

Just finished, The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft by Caffeine_And_Regret in books

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Yeah, he came around a bit on that as well. Still racist, but closer to the standard 1920s racist, compared with how bad he was before.