Peddlephile

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But at least the person next to me was able to run away and get help or call the authorities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Doom, Event Horizon, Hereditary, Silence of the Lambs, The Big Short, Frank... There's heaps of movies out there for us people who steer well clear of romance. They're just not mainstream and I'm fine with that.

The only romance movies I really like are The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates and the 1995 Pride and Prejudice series. I think it's because the characters actually have depth and are fun to watch.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From where you're standing, everyone is left.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably doesn't like WFH because people can clock off when their task is done and he can't ask them to work unpaid overtime.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A lot less than farming meat which requires all the cost of growing that and ensuring the animals are fed and watered until slaughtering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Juvenile huntsman maybe? I only say this because huntsman feet look like they would look great with socks and this one could use four pairs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Until Australia considers cycling as a legitimate mode of transport, you'll never see any changes. The average person just sees a person on a bike as a casual cyclist at best and a Lycra wearing wanker at worst; not as a person legitimately using the road to get somewhere.

We've actually spent tax dollars sending council members over to Holland to check out the safe bicycle infrastructure there to bring the knowledge back here. Wonder what came out of that trip...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

So, how do we engineer a situation in which the richest suffer most? End of capitalism?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Dragon Age origins.

Exceptional writing and I walked right into it just expecting a cool fantasy game. I got hit with my first experience of in game romances, the shock of betrayal, the sacrifices... It was such a brilliant experience. Makes me really, really want to play it again now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I thought it was more like 80%?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is where the US is waves ahead of Australia. The indigenous population is small now (2%) but hasn't always been, and we put them (and still do) through many, many atrocities... If you're at all interested, check out indigenous deaths in custody. There's also the constant destruction of their traditional heritage (birthing trees, rock art etc.). The stereotype here for an Aboriginal is that they're drunkards and drug users. This is not reality but a huge majority think this.

As a country, we have deep seated institutionalised racism that has taken root and flourished over the last few decades. We have this national way of thinking where the indigenous population needs to comply to our laws, our way of life. If an indigenous family wants traditional education, nah - go to one of the 'normal' schools. Want to learn an indigenous language? Nah, learn German or French or Japanese.

We also have severe tall poppy syndrome where we can't let anyone have it better than anyone else. Our Australia Day is also a huge issue since it's on the day of the first colonists landing.

All in all, we don't have an equivalent because we have a rotten attitude to our first nations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's what's likely going to happen, and there is a very high chance that it will get dismantled again, just like Abbott did after Rudd set up that very thing.

All it will take is a media barrage in favour of the Coalition and we'll be right back to where we started. History repeats, and so on, and so forth.

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