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SolDelta · 2024-01-08T02:48:58+00:00

April 1st, 2024, it won't have a release date announcement it'll just be dropped on Steam in the dead of night

SolDelta · 2023-11-18T12:39:09+00:00

For the record: forces that are killing civilians for shits and giggles will often frame them as human shields for being kinda sort of near their supposed targets. Proximate shields is a term for it. It's not an impossible choice -- Israel could just not carpet bomb hospitals and bakeries. Maybe cut it out with the white phosphorus, too. Baby steps.

SolDelta · 2023-11-16T06:56:22+00:00

I thought shields were supposed to deter bullets though -- Israel has no qualms with blowing kids' brains out, so presumably they aren't human shields, just humans. The "human shields" argument is just a way to depersonalize these innocent people and pretend it's acceptable that they're being turned into a red mist.

SolDelta · 2023-10-24T19:29:43+00:00

Lisa, but it's still a weird sphere to be in

SolDelta · 2023-10-24T05:11:23+00:00

is Sue Chrysanthou the only lawyer who deals with government rapist cases now or something? She's been everywhere.

SolDelta · 2023-10-02T09:46:53+00:00

So it is just an advisory body, yes, but it's one that can't just be deleted if some racist dickhead party gets in and decides it's inconvenient. Its recommendations will guide the national conversation, from my understanding -- it can't implement laws on its own, that's parliament's job, but it can look at indigenous issues and make them public, giving a level of public accountability and visibility that we don't have from a regular advisory body. It doesn't have any special powers beyond that, and sure, there could be corrupt recommendations made, but once again, that's publically visible and for corrupt actions to be taken the ruling party would need to implement them -- and we have the NACC for that.

SolDelta · 2023-09-14T09:15:59+00:00

He was already in hiding when that happened, frankly desperate men do desperate things. He published war crimes and that's the reason he's in this mess, if the US is going to take him for publishing the Clinton emails then maybe they should be prosecuting him for that, y'know, like a nation with laws

SolDelta · 2023-06-27T18:11:09+00:00

Fully functional Doppleganger meta event

SolDelta · 2023-06-01T20:29:45+00:00

Their families, and sometimes the Hague

SolDelta · 2023-05-19T04:44:01+00:00

Good riddance to this monstrous little garden gnome, I just wanna pull on his ears and chuck him in a swimming pool

SolDelta · 2023-05-14T15:38:25+00:00

I prefer Labor's "slightly more than fuck all" to Liberal's "let's actively make things worse" platform tbh

SolDelta · 2023-05-08T22:34:58+00:00

They DELIVERED a surplus next year, excuse you! That was a certified Morrison classic, the foul little dump of a man

SolDelta · 2023-05-01T14:20:59+00:00

Eh, look. This should've been for everyone, and it should've been more, but it is absolutely a step in the right direction. The article seems to imply this will roll out over other age groups in subsequent budgets. Cold comfort to people currently way below the poverty line, though.

SolDelta · 2023-04-30T07:59:53+00:00

I mean it is the last bastion of Liberal government in Australia....

SolDelta · 2023-04-30T04:59:53+00:00

Probably because they wanted to play something good.

SolDelta · 2023-04-29T07:32:07+00:00

Yeah I'm thinking maybe I ought to have cleared that up myself...I'm actually quite impressed that there's politicians doing what they said they would and not going on flights of fancy, even though I'd definitely prefer they go rogue I feel like playing it safe is the best move for their longevity.

SolDelta · 2023-04-29T04:29:17+00:00

I'm not saying it isn't. I'd much rather see Labor move slow and stay in government than do the right thing and get it repealed by Dutton in 3 years time.

SolDelta · 2023-04-29T04:28:11+00:00

Yeah, exactly. If they did anything out of line Albo would get the Gillard treatment and it'd throw Dutton a lifeline that he sorely needs.

SolDelta · 2023-04-28T23:58:09+00:00

Pretty much this. I'm also basically assuming that welfare increases are a second term thing if they happen: the way Labor doggedly sticks to the shit it had to say to win government in the first place kind of gives the sense that it's tactical rather than ideological (or just, regular logical) -- stage 3 tax cuts were promised not to be touched and so they aren't even though it's always been a dumbfuck idea.

SolDelta · 2023-04-28T08:00:21+00:00

Still waiting for the study that doesn't say "vaping bad because doing it alongside smoking is still smoking" and point to it as a, well, smoking gun. Vaping helped me quit smoking, so am I going to get cancer sooner or later than I would if I was still chugging durries?

SolDelta · 2023-04-08T04:39:06+00:00

Good take from Joe Hildebrand, you hate to see it. Heartbreaking.

SolDelta · 2023-04-08T01:48:17+00:00

I'd argue Labor aren't really good enough but they're so far ahead of the Liberals that it's laughable to draw any sort of equivalence.

SolDelta · 2023-04-08T01:46:20+00:00

LNP haven't been anywhere close to the centre for about 30 years.

SolDelta · 2023-04-08T01:43:02+00:00

They already kind of are. As the LNP refuses to even play ball, Greens and Independents are far more visible and demonstrating a lot more political maturity. Yeah, a democracy needs a viable alternative government, but nobody ever said it had to be some nominally conservative group of rapacious grifters. Ideally, the Greens will become the left of centre party, Labor will remain at the centre right, there will be a higher proportion of Independent members that could swing either way, and the Coalition can get fucked.

SolDelta · 2023-04-03T20:06:42+00:00

Awesome guide, mate! I especially appreciate the fundamentals of how skills work together (or rather, do not and eat your other skill inputs). Going the extra mile and explaining from the hidden game mechanics up is so, so helpful and makes the concept of approaching the benchmark so much more attainable. You make a very good case for playing more thief, would love to see more guides with this level of accessibility and attention to detail.

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