What, exactly, is considered standing? I wipe in a squat position, with my buttocks raised off the seat in order to allow easy access. Is that standing, or sitting?
And I see a lot of people here expressing fear that their hands might touch the... [
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How about 10 questions any climate change "skeptic" should be required to answer:
Excellent list. Reminds me of my list creationists should be required to answer:
1. Do you believe certain characteristics are passed on from parent to... [
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Thanks to that webcam, it looks like I'm going to spend the day being a Man Who Stares At Goats...waiting for them to catch on fire.
No action yet. [
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How do you expect anyone to take you seriously?
Well as I said, I don't expect you to take me seriously. I don't care what you, personally, think, since your attitude of ignoring clear indicators of risk puts the future of my child in danger.... [
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I really don't want to get on my whole climate-change-deniers-are-off-their-fucking-heads horse again, but I thought this would be interesting. One of the steaming piles of bullshit that has come from the leaked climate emails is the idea that... [
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My thinking is something like, "Inferring carbon dioxide levels and/or temperature from tree rings is a major piece of the evidence for global warming?" If that were true, I'd be looking for better evidence because it seems pretty obvious... [
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Does anyone know the overlap of creationists and climate change deniers?
It's not really an overlap, but I remember thinking last week that the percentage of people who felt the leaked emails discredit climate change was very similar to the... [
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But you're wrong when you state there's no majority consensus among scientists.
And consensus isn't how science works, anyway.
Science isn't a case, as the media sometimes make it out to be, of "the truth lying in the middle". The... [
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There are too many people in the room. You can only watch.
Sounds like a badly organized swingers party. [
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Government bureaucracies are entrenched and filled with lots of highly-paid employees with great benefits who can't be fired even if they do no actual work.
For the record, my experience with government employees is that inefficiencies arise from... [
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2 weeks ago
Fielding will do the same unless some ridiculous idea of his is adopted and it goes to committee.
Did I correctly hear that Fielding wants a royal commission into the ETS and the science behind climate change, chaired by Ian fucking Plimer? Words... [
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My fear is that I will divest of all of this stuff, freak out, start buying more junk, and be right back where I started.
Don't worry about this. You will enjoy it, and feel free. A retreat is in order. Do you have some vacation time coming up?... [
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2 weeks ago
Anthropogenic climate change had better not be the lynch-pin of any argument, mainly because it doesn't exist.
Spoken with the true courage of a willfully ignorant fuckhead. Congratulations.... [
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Oh man, I wish I'd found this thread earlier. Now I'm too pissed to make sense.
It's a very weird outcome - are we seeing the creation of the world's first climate change denialist party? As someone said on Twitter - maybe they'll for the... [
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As a scientist whos work intersects pretty heavily with climate change related stuff, I could see almost nothing in these emails that was the least bit nefarious. Some of the FOI-related stuff seemed a bit weird, but I deal with strange data-sharing... [
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It certainly looks professional, with that white background.
Sorry. Sorry. [
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3 weeks ago
Denalists, at least from talking to a few, aren't so much against the science, per say, but the economic and policy implications thereof.
Exactly. Hence senior Australian Senator Nick Minchin declaring last week that "Environmentalism was... [
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4 weeks ago
You can't have a really useful concept of "censorship" that applies only to governments. Corporations have power, too. Especially in our society.
This. A thousand times.
People who bitch about 'censorship only applies government'... [
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A simple observation:
A lot of countries have parliamentary systems where bipartisanship isn't practiced, and progressive politicians can be rowdy, vicious, argumentative and willing to attack the opposition and call out shameless lies.
A lot... [
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"Owning a dog really is quite an extravagance, mainly because of the carbon footprint of meat," he says.
There are two elephants in the room here. The first is that my dogs eat chicken necks and other offcuts that I ask my local butcher... [
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I live in one of the most bogan suburbs in Hobart, which probably makes it one of the most bogan suburbs in the country. A clear bogan majority, infact. The suburb is mostly public housing units. I bought my own house from a 38-year old... [
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Jimbob: Are you still hungy, CJ?
CJ: Ummm, yeah.
Jimbob: What would you like to eat?
CJ: Toast, please.
Jimbob: Okay, what do you want on your toast?
CJ: Vegemite, please.
I have this conversation with my 3-year old at least twice,... [
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favorited 16 times, recently by Admira, blueberry, ZaphodB, tehloki, smoke, sebastienbailard, Flashman, Pope Guilty, alteredcarbon, miss-lapin, doozer_ex_machina, harriet vane, Jilder, ravelite, GeckoDundee, chrismear
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I always imagine it's like Jello mix without sugar and with spam mixed in.
Try to imagine pouring a shitload of salt into a pint of Guinness, then boiling it down to a thick, shiny sludge.
No, scrap that, just go buy some.... [
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A quick observation from someone's who's been out hiking for 3 days, came back and discovered this an hour ago.
To me, it feels more like voting than the previous system did.
The binary state of "this comment was faved, this comment... [
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I really hate to link to what amounts to a climate-change denial blog (although thankfully, it's not a completely insane), but someone else has crunched the numbers and come to quite a different conclusion.... [
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that said, i personally believe that employers should be free to fire anyone for whatever stupid petty biased reason they please.
Well then, you're a morally corrupt arsehole, and I hope you're living in a box on the sidewalk within a year. If... [
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I don't understand what that imeem thing everyone's linking to is supposed to be about, because all it does is complain that I don't have iTunes installed. Funny, I never realized iTunes was a prerequisite for listening to music these days.... [
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I finished reading some Literature last night. I won't mention the title or the author, except to say the author had previously won a nobel prize in literature.
The book was an unmitigated piece of arrogant, self-indulgent crap. Huzzah for... [
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Don't worry, Artw. We went though this all a decade ago in Australia with Pauline Hanson and the One Nation party.
The BNP won't last long on the political scene, because the Conservatives will the election and adopt all their policies,... [
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Bugger this party in power nonsense, filibustering, and threats of a "nuclear option."
You know, I don't think I'd ever heard the word "bipartisanship" before I started getting interested in American politics. It basically... [
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It's truly disturbing, that people like CountSpatula are so willing to trust their health to a private company with no motivation beyond profit, and think they'll somehow magically do a better job, for cheaper, than the government. The evidence... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Lizc, zardoz
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2 months ago
Because every other government has solved this issue to the satisfaction of their respective citizens.
So, so not true! I am deeply unsatisfied that when I take my son to visit his doctor, for free, so she can give us another prescription for his... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, aeschenkarnos, rokusan
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2 months ago
I like this. It looks fantastic, and running around as that fox is great.
But I don't understand why the fox's owner is some runestone-collecting hipster.... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by krilli
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2 months ago
Hi. I'm Australian. We are pretty racist. I'll just get in with that before delmoi gets here to say it first.
But more importantly, beyond that, "Hey! Hey! It's Saturday!" it a completely fucking stupid show that died a decade ago and... [
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favorited 17 times, recently by axon, turgid dahlia, b33j, chronic sublime, harriet vane, liza, aeschenkarnos, Duke999R, smoke, nudar, h00py
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2 months ago
If this thread had been about NZ I'm sure my posts would look very similar to yours.
I think most Aussies in this thread would look to New Zealand and credit you with doing a bit better than ourselves, at least in terms of dealing with your... [
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2 months ago
(I should note that I wish the bigoted antics on The Footy Show would get this much attention.) [
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2 months ago
There would have been much more of a hostile reaction.
But, as the incident with Sam Newman and Nicky Winmar showed, the perpetrator would keep their job and the show would stay on the air.... [
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2 months ago
how would they feel if somebody did a skit in black face sending up an aboriginal character? Would they consider this off limits or is racism endemic to a degree that you can get away with pretty much anything on national television?
The kind of... [
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2 months ago
6 months into a post-doc, I have I social life. And I did during my PhD as well. Sure it's possible, and sometimes necessary, to put in long working hours, but these hours are generally ones in an invigorating, fun environment (I hope...I guess it... [
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Learning, practicing, and getting a feel for scales is vitally important. Get a simple blues scale (this is in the key of A)... [
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2 months ago
Fools. Don't you know this is a plot hatched by Obama and carried out by the CIA, FBI and Council on Foreign Relations? Prints of this painting will all have GPS tracking devices embedded in the frames, so they will be able to locate and round up... [
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2 months ago
2) That they didn't link to some corporate PR legal mumbo jumbo page, but instead to an EFF site.
This, I think, negates the "evil" tags in this post. Google aren't doing this because they're evil and nasty. They're doing this because... [
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2 months ago
It'a fairly commonplace.[citation needed]
Dude, just Google it!
Google has been receiving a growing number of Cease & Desist notices and takedown demands – now averaging 30 a month – in the three years the search engine has been sending... [
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