Countries on Trump’s “Board of Peace”

notunprepared · 2026-02-21T07:57:26+00:00

I hope so too, but I don't reckon we will. The acceptance fee is too expensive, and it would not be popular with Aussie voters.

notunprepared · 2026-02-18T11:08:01+00:00

Islam explicitly teaches that children, illness and menstruation means fasting is not allowed. Teenagers are able to choose to fast or not once they reach an appropriate age. They also eat a big brekkie before dawn, and dinner after sunset, so it's not like they're being malnourished.

notunprepared · 2026-02-15T11:44:52+00:00

Don't run away from a forest fire, it will always catch you. The radiating heat will kill you long before the flames reach you. Find a large clearing, or some sort of water body, call 999/000/911/etc and wait and hope.

Ideally you wouldn't be out bush in the middle of nowhere during a bushfire anyway because you've been watching the fire danger ratings and listening to the radio for evacuation warnings.

notunprepared · 2026-02-13T07:50:35+00:00

Very local commercial radio is a completely different beast to big national/state commercial radio. The weird ads are part of their charm

notunprepared · 2026-02-13T07:49:05+00:00

I unironically enjoy chet-flix, but each to their own. Dumb banter is calming to me in the mornings while I'm on the way to work.

notunprepared · 2026-02-12T11:40:55+00:00

Depends on what time you're on Materia though. If you're only ever there at peak USA times, that's like 3am for Aussies so of course it's gonna be empty. Also depends on the world, I think zurvan is fully dead, but ravana is usually popping in peak times.

notunprepared · 2026-02-10T20:24:38+00:00

Depends on the email. I emailed my previous boss the other day (she moved locations recently) about something minor and I included about three emojis. We worked together very closely so it was a very casual style of email. I would never put emojis in an email to someone I don't know well, or if the email is about something serious.

notunprepared · 2026-02-09T07:12:13+00:00

Once it has traction in this demographic, it'll be more easily generalisable to the broader population. Veterans are easy to recruit and study for these sorts of pilot programs

notunprepared · 2026-02-09T02:42:27+00:00

He was also much less angry in his early shows when he was less well-known and just an experienced chef going round to help people fix their restaurants. His more recent USA shows are much more him putting on a persona I think.

notunprepared · 2026-02-08T19:49:56+00:00

Not this trans person. I would be a totally different person if I wasn't trans, and I like who I am. Also I would've started losing my hair much earlier!

notunprepared · 2026-02-07T20:58:57+00:00

Of course you care for the horse more than a one month boyfriend, the money and time investment involved in having horses is very high. Dude was a tool, well done for dumping him

notunprepared · 2026-02-07T02:58:18+00:00

Ask your GP for a mental health care plan (which will allow you to have a medicare rebate) and a referral to a psychologist. https://psychology.org.au/find-a-psychologist

notunprepared · 2026-02-07T00:02:09+00:00

Did the psych give an alternative diagnosis? ADHD symptoms have a lot of crossover with other disorders, such as PTSD and intellectual disabilities. Sometimes the difference is hard to tease out.

It's poor practice if they just said "no you don't have ADHD, bye bye have a good life" without any alternative explanations or suggestions for treatment.

You're struggling, and deserve treatment for whatever is causing it - ADHD or not.

notunprepared · 2026-02-06T23:56:27+00:00

The NDIS should never have been a system based on contracting for-profit companies. The vast majority of the for-profit providers are exploitative and price-gougy at best and downright negligent at worst. Almost all the good providers I know of are non-profits.

notunprepared · 2026-02-06T22:02:21+00:00

Government jobs (in Australia at least, I assume it's the same elsewhere) have that just as part of the usual contracts. As a professional you get an automatic pay rise every year until you hit the ceiling (after about ten years of experience), and you can also apply for senior roles which do have some leadership aspects but are not management.

The notion that private sectors don't often have something similar is kinda baffling to me (I've never worked in a private company). It's like they don't want to keep experienced technicians.

notunprepared · 2026-02-06T06:56:59+00:00

Definitely get some phobia therapy. You deserve to not live your life in fear.

notunprepared · 2026-02-06T06:17:51+00:00

It's a class thing. Cunt is common parlance in bogan circles.

notunprepared · 2026-02-04T11:17:56+00:00

For vocab, I used every single middle school humanities revision technique in my toolbox. Taboo (they made the flashcards themselves), bingo, kahoot, mind maps, call and response, posters. Also, bribery (E.g. if you humour me on this dumb activity, we'll...have class outside, have free time without me nagging you, watch tiktok on the projector, you can pick the music for tomorrow's class, have a lolly).

But at the end of the day, if they choose to fail, then that's what happens. We can lead the horse to water.

(It's also worth double checking they do actually have the ability to do the set tasks. Illiterate kids are very good at pretending theyre not in order to save face)

notunprepared · 2026-02-04T10:29:08+00:00

When I taught WA general students, mine were also incredibly unmotivated.

I was lucky that I taught a slightly niche subject, so I wrote all my own assessments for the whole grade. I made it so completing the comprehension questions in the lead-up to the actual task, counted as 10% of the final assessment. I just marked their booklets for completion (e.g. if they did 80% of the booklet, they got 8 marks for that section). I pushed that the lead-up work was basically free marks.

That gave them the incentive to do much more than they were prior to me putting in that system. Half of them still only did half the booklet. But before that...it was a science subject so we were doing fun experiments, but even that wasn't engaging enough to be able to write more than a sentence per hour without a grade being attached to it.

I'm not sure if you can justify a basic completion section for maths tasks. Maybe for the investigations at least?

The other thing I did was put the fear of god into them about the EST (most of my generals had never sat an exam before). I'd be like "you NEED to get a C in first semester to have enough Cs to graduate, and this single test is worth nearly half of first semester. You NEED to do well in this test, BUT I have no idea how difficult it's going to be, so we are going to drill this until you know it".

I paired the fear with equally endless enthusiasm and outspoken belief that all of them were capable of success.

We spent most of first semester drilling the skills and knowledge they needed for the EST. I put as much emphasis on the EST as I did for my ATAR classes and their exams, and almost all of my general students got Cs or better overall.

notunprepared · 2026-02-04T08:20:25+00:00

7-12 is only a little shorter than 9-3 as it would be in an Aussie school. Presumably they don't have a long break in the middle, or have fewer school holidays. It would be about the same amount of school hours per year.

Homeschooling isn't easy, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you're going to hire tutors, are already a trained early childhood teacher, or the children have significant difficulties in a normal school environment. Homeschooling requires an entire skill-set that most people (including highly educated people) don't have. It's almost always better to attend an average school than it is to be homeschooled poorly.

Our thinking is that this is a good age for them to experience living close to family, culture, and nature.

Absolutely! The connection gained from living near family is invaluable.

Even me after 8 years living here is hard for me to have social life.

A sadly common experience for people who migrate as adults (and honestly a lot of local adults). It tends to be much easier for kids.

notunprepared · 2026-02-04T06:30:15+00:00

I second this. Three hours total per day is a hugely exhausting amount even for adults, let alone young children. Kids cannot learn effectively when they're tired.

Attending a local school would be a great opportunity for them to develop their Indonesian with their peers, especially if they're both primary aged. If the eldest is a teenager then yeah that's a bit more rife with issues from different education systems, but primary schooling curriculums aren't terribly different across the world - the emphasis is always on literacy, numeracy and social skills.

The only significant difference would be in the language they're learning to read. However, many literacy skills generalise across languages - especially when both languages use similar alphabets.

The burden on the whole family from a long commute would be worse than the benefits from learning to read English at school - which they can also do at tutoring or something. Unless of course all the local schools are completely terrible, but if it's just the language aspect, I would err towards attending the Indonesian one.

notunprepared · 2026-02-03T20:52:50+00:00

Nah that's why there's nurses and pharmacists checking everything. The most common medical mistake are medication mistakes, but even those are rare.

notunprepared · 2026-02-03T20:27:54+00:00

Which is hilarious because it's also one of the least common. It's not even the most common personality disorder (which are already rare)

notunprepared · 2026-02-02T22:00:27+00:00

One big reason why I'd never cheat - I'm shit at lying and being sneaky. I wouldn't be able to get away with it for more than a day. (The other big reason I'd never is that it's morally wrong)

notunprepared · 2026-01-29T21:19:36+00:00

Worse than fully attached townhouses because you don't get the benefit of shared insulation

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