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  • my kid is movin to AU

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  • The sun isn’t always a fixed distance from earth. It’s closest in January

    Forgive me if I'm just missing a joke, but it's not about the distance, it's about the angle. In the summer the angle means the days are longer, and sunlight travels through less atmosphere (and is therefore less attenuated) before it reaches you and gives you sunburn.

  • One Nation picks up surprise NSW Senate seat for former British soldier Warwick Stacey

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  • Yeah, it's not great.

    I'd look to explain it as part of the flight of voters from the Liberal party, but would people who were turned off by Dutton really choose to vote for One Nation instead?

    I think, unfortunately, it's probably genuine gains by PHON, and unlikely to just evaporate at the next election.

  • Andrew Leigh, warns Australia is one generation away from “US-style inequality”

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  • Don't worry, I have full confidence the U.S. will always stay one generation ahead of us 🫡🍔

  • Albanese says ‘we follow our own path’ after UK, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions over Gaza

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  • None of what I said is a rule or anything. I was only making suggestions (I said "you can"). The comment got a few upvotes, though, so I'm not alone in thinking it's a good way of going about things.

    To be honest, I hadn't considered the possibility of posting the screenshot as an alternative thumbnail. At the time I was suggesting putting an excerpt in the body as a means of posting an excerpt at all while still linking to the article, but you found another way to achieve that which I can see definite advantages in.

    I think a lot of people here prefer text in general, though. Recent examples of people pasting key excerpts as text in the body: https://aussie.zone/post/20764770 https://aussie.zone/post/20646025

  • One Nation picks up surprise NSW Senate seat for former British soldier Warwick Stacey

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  • if his stories are to be believed

    As a general rule, you shouldn't trust what a One Nation candidate says about anything.

    It's unclear if any of the biographies cited in the article would have been verified before being posted by those organisations. He did give a lecture on ransom at the Australian Army Research Centre, which would seem to be an indicator they judged him as credible in that area.

    It's an unusual feeling to see a One Nation member who appears to be competent. Almost certainly a bad sign.

  • Albanese says ‘we follow our own path’ after UK, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions over Gaza

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  • And if you want to point out a certain part, you can put it in the body of the post (even as an image if you absolutely must, but copy-pasting the text would be better)

  • Highbrow politics posting: Anyone else noticed that Susssan Ley is David Littleproud with some foundation, mascara, lippy, and a wig?

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  • Hmm, not seeing it... Got any pics that make this apparent?

  • [Satire] Sussan Ley electted leadder of Ausstralian Libberal Partty

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  • Second-last paragraph explains the background:

    Ley, a known Numerologist, famoussly added an extra character to her name under the belief that the SS would make her life better.

  • Dumped cabinet minister says Richard Marles a 'factional assassin', and demotion partly due to outspoken views on Gaza

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  • Able to speak more freely now that he is on the backbench, Mr Husic was blunt in his assessment of the Netanyahu government.

    "We've seen just in the past week or so, the Israeli parliament say it wants to annex Gaza and effectively that is a form of ethnic cleansing. We've seen the starvation of its people through the failure to provide humanitarian assistance," he said.

    "It should be held to account. Starvation is a war crime."

    I'd have more respect for Husic if he had gone harder on this when he had more to lose. I'll take whatever we can get, though.

  • MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat

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  • Agreed. If there's any confusion among voters, I reckon it's largely due to NSW's optional-preferential ballots being inconsistent with the federal ballots. NSW should change to mandatory-preferential for the sake of consistency - and because it's better - but the major parties benefit from the optional.

  • MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat

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  • Labor and Coalition accused of being on fossil fuel ‘unity ticket’ as thermal coal exports hit record high

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  • If you vote green in one of those districts then you’re endorsing the Liberal Party of Australia to Drill Drill Drill, baby.

    That's not how preferential voting works.

  • Pro-Palestine educators send teachers new classroom resource challenging ‘Anzac mythology’

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  • Are you talking about Australian war crimes in 1918 or the fucking events of 1947.

    Both - they're drawing parallels between the two events.

    That quote is actually from the booklet they published last year, which you can find here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FzMIZo-GZLtrakJKkdITx5zhzRSvnPeK/view

    Specifically, in this section:

    WHAT DOES PALESTINE HAVE TO DO WITH ANZAC DAY?

    Few students and teachers sitting through the annual Anzac ceremony, for instance, would associate Anzac day with Palestine — but the first Anzacs invaded Ottoman Palestine in World War I, and they took control of the land and the people for the British Empire.

    After the armistice in 1918, Anzac soldiers of the Light Horse brigade remained in Palestine, waiting to be demobilised and sent home to Australia. During this time, some returned to the Gallipoli Peninsula, where they engaged in what was described as the “holy task of locating the graves of Anzacs, and in collecting trophies for the Australian national memorial collection,” solidifying the nationalist myth of the Gallipoli Landings, the anniversary of which was already being observed as Anzac day from 1915 onwards.[1]

    Such acts of quasi-religious myth-making about the Anzacs have continued to this day. In 2017, to mark the centenary of the Anzacs’ capture of Palestinian territory, then Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten attended a commemoration service at Beersheba with Benjamin Netanyahu.

    In his official address, PM Malcolm Turnbull stated that the Anzacs “like the State of Israel has done ever since … defied history and with their courage fulfilled history. Lest we forget.”[2] His words are striking, not only because of the monumental historical narrative that they invoke (the Anzacs “defied” and ‘fulfilled’ history), but also because of the way in which they situate the Anzacs as “courageous” heroes who birthed two nations.

    Turnbull was right to connect the Anzacs’ military successes with the creation of Israel. The Australian victories set in motion a series of devastating events, enabling the fulfilment of the Balfour Declaration, where Britain agreed, despite separate and contradictory promises, to recognize “a National Home of the Jewish people” to be located in Palestine, and the establishment of a “Jewish National Colonising Corporation for the resettlement and economic development of the country [Palestine].”[3] In short, the British mandate was secured in part by the Anzacs, and this laid the ground for the creation of the state of Israel, while preventing the creation of a Palestinian state.

    There are some other parallels with Israel that Turnbull did not draw. If both countries form their identities through stories of noble military successes, they both also hide a history of horrific, racially motivated violence against Palestinians. More than this, the brutal massacre committed by the Anzacs at Surafend chillingly portended the Nakba, the catastrophic displacement of Palestinians in 1947-1949.

    Turnbull did not share this darker parallel because it did not suit the heroic myth-making project of the Australian and Israeli governments to do so. As teachers, however, it is our obligation to bring this history to light.

  • Labor vows to consider strengthening Australia’s animal welfare body after shocking abattoir revelations

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  • "vows to consider"

  • Why exactly are STIs spreading more and more across Australia?

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  • 😆 Don't worry, I nearly posted a similar reply myself

  • Why exactly are STIs spreading more and more across Australia?

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  • You are correct, but I believe MHLoppy was just making a joke about how 'MSM' is also an abbreviation for 'Mainstream Media'.

  • Queensland council abandons EV charger installation plan after 'dirty nickel' media report - ABC News

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  • How often do you run backups on your system?

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  • Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent?

    Only you can answer this. How many days of data are you prepared to lose? What are the downsides of running your backup scripts more frequently?

  • Elon Musk's enemy, USAID, was investigating Starlink over its contracts in Ukraine

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