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Of course, the thing I wrote that got reposted by Kaz Cooke contains multiple asinine typos: "Just as baffling, in *a* bipartisan sense, as the idea that Bill Shorten *is* a Vice Chancellor". I swear I'm not actually borderline illiterate.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Of course, the thing I wrote that got reposted by Kaz Cooke contains multiple asinine typos: "Just as baffling, in *a* bipartisan sense, as the idea that Bill Shorten *is* a Vice Chancellor". I swear I'm not actually borderline illiterate.
Just as baffling, in an bipartisan sense, as the idea that Bill Shorten as a Vice Chancellor. We're meant to believe that Vice Chancellors possess unique skills commensurate with high level corporate CEOs (thus their pay) but can launch careers with zero specific experience.
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Just as baffling, in an bipartisan sense, as the idea that Bill Shorten as a Vice Chancellor. We're meant to believe that Vice Chancellors possess unique skills commensurate with high level corporate CEOs (thus their pay) but can launch careers with zero specific experience.
For sure - but the trajectory of healthcare involving ever-more-impressive-but-expensive fixes for "lifestyle illnesses" isn't sustainable. Arguably we should be figuring out why so many people are binge eating/drinking and not exercising, too - there's a despair element. Capitalism at its finest.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
For sure - but the trajectory of healthcare involving ever-more-impressive-but-expensive fixes for "lifestyle illnesses" isn't sustainable. Arguably we should be figuring out why so many people are binge eating/drinking and not exercising, too - there's a despair element. Capitalism at its finest.
Correct. Excellent stuff in that opening part: "I was garbed all in white, the color of Moby Dick and vanilla ice cream. Ugly". and "I saw the Old Moon with the New Moon in her arms, hovering above a row of poplars. The grass was silvery and sparkled. The night was bargaining weakly with the sun".
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Correct. Excellent stuff in that opening part: "I was garbed all in white, the color of Moby Dick and vanilla ice cream. Ugly". and "I saw the Old Moon with the New Moon in her arms, hovering above a row of poplars. The grass was silvery and sparkled. The night was bargaining weakly with the sun".
To quote one of my favorite F/SF authors:
"That's what Eichmann said, and look what happened to him" (Roger Zelazny)
"That's what Eichmann said, and look what happened to him" (Roger Zelazny)
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
To quote one of my favorite F/SF authors:
"That's what Eichmann said, and look what happened to him" (Roger Zelazny)
"That's what Eichmann said, and look what happened to him" (Roger Zelazny)
This guy is an obvious moron, and is no doubt spruiking The Worst Healthcare Policy Ideas Ever Advanced, but around a third of our health spending and over half of the premature deaths in Australia come from "lifestyle" preventable chronic diseases.
preventioncentre.org.au/about-preven...
preventioncentre.org.au/about-preven...
What is the burden of chronic disease?
Burden of disease measures the impact of living with disease and injury and premature death. Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in Australia.
preventioncentre.org.au
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This guy is an obvious moron, and is no doubt spruiking The Worst Healthcare Policy Ideas Ever Advanced, but around a third of our health spending and over half of the premature deaths in Australia come from "lifestyle" preventable chronic diseases.
preventioncentre.org.au/about-preven...
preventioncentre.org.au/about-preven...
Why would they? Labor has waved through every fossil fuel project for the last term and a bit. I had thought they would at least stop a few, just to show they were with things, but no.
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Why would they? Labor has waved through every fossil fuel project for the last term and a bit. I had thought they would at least stop a few, just to show they were with things, but no.
The passive voice is getting quite a workout in that headline, I hope it's at least getting paid overtime. "... was left vulnerable to exploitation", lol.
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The passive voice is getting quite a workout in that headline, I hope it's at least getting paid overtime. "... was left vulnerable to exploitation", lol.
Are they? This is a government that frequently resorts to passing regressive policy with the aid of the Coalition, knowing that they can't get it past the crossbench.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Are they? This is a government that frequently resorts to passing regressive policy with the aid of the Coalition, knowing that they can't get it past the crossbench.
The Loser Colony doing a great job of coming late to a tech trend for no apparent reason.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The Loser Colony doing a great job of coming late to a tech trend for no apparent reason.
[ thick Russian accent ]
"recoveree methods arrr verrry important for dis protocol"
"recoveree methods arrr verrry important for dis protocol"
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
[ thick Russian accent ]
"recoveree methods arrr verrry important for dis protocol"
"recoveree methods arrr verrry important for dis protocol"
Very trad. Next I expect someone to be doing that whole "sword and scabbard" thing we used to make from fallen Norfolk Island Pine foilage, or making one of those little paper fortune-tellers/chatterboxes. Maybe they could figure out the future of the Coalition on it!
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Very trad. Next I expect someone to be doing that whole "sword and scabbard" thing we used to make from fallen Norfolk Island Pine foilage, or making one of those little paper fortune-tellers/chatterboxes. Maybe they could figure out the future of the Coalition on it!
They have few enough sitting days as it is; are they taking the piss, sitting there playing on their phones? Particularly galling since they'll pontificate at length about teenagers in schools on phones.
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
They have few enough sitting days as it is; are they taking the piss, sitting there playing on their phones? Particularly galling since they'll pontificate at length about teenagers in schools on phones.
I've been loving the anecdotes about Hemingway as very, very, mediocre boxer (who also sparred too hard). Jack Dempsey refused to fight him since he figured Hemingway would come out way too hard and he'd have to hurt him for real.
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've been loving the anecdotes about Hemingway as very, very, mediocre boxer (who also sparred too hard). Jack Dempsey refused to fight him since he figured Hemingway would come out way too hard and he'd have to hurt him for real.
I'm tickled by the idea that death taxes are somehow worse in terms of reducing incentive to work than, erm, taxing people's earnings from work.
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I'm tickled by the idea that death taxes are somehow worse in terms of reducing incentive to work than, erm, taxing people's earnings from work.
I had a couple Asian friends who metabolized alcohol that poorly (they'd go red from one drink, and practically asleep from 3). It didn't seem like a nice cheap scale-down of the Potato Europe liver since there wasn't an equivalent 'pleasantly buzzed' phase for them.
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I had a couple Asian friends who metabolized alcohol that poorly (they'd go red from one drink, and practically asleep from 3). It didn't seem like a nice cheap scale-down of the Potato Europe liver since there wasn't an equivalent 'pleasantly buzzed' phase for them.
I hope you got her this one
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I hope you got her this one
Good piece. These "centrists" don't notice how little respect the right wing has for their ludicrous notion of compromise and will happily move the goalposts. In 2007, Labor tries to compromise with Turnbull, but "compromise" on climate in 2025 means trying to compromise with "No Net Zero" Canavan.
October 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Good piece. These "centrists" don't notice how little respect the right wing has for their ludicrous notion of compromise and will happily move the goalposts. In 2007, Labor tries to compromise with Turnbull, but "compromise" on climate in 2025 means trying to compromise with "No Net Zero" Canavan.
I first read about hGH in Fred Hatfield's "Power" back in 1990 (which was the very first book I'd seen on any kind of lifting; insane beginner guidance book). He had chapters on various substances and his chapter "hGH: Breakfast of the Sasquatch" began:
"Sasquatch. Big feet. Lordy me, what next?"
"Sasquatch. Big feet. Lordy me, what next?"
October 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I first read about hGH in Fred Hatfield's "Power" back in 1990 (which was the very first book I'd seen on any kind of lifting; insane beginner guidance book). He had chapters on various substances and his chapter "hGH: Breakfast of the Sasquatch" began:
"Sasquatch. Big feet. Lordy me, what next?"
"Sasquatch. Big feet. Lordy me, what next?"
I'm still laughing at the "You shot my brother in the name of justice" sequence. Insanely good stuff.
October 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I'm still laughing at the "You shot my brother in the name of justice" sequence. Insanely good stuff.
The *do* need a vote from an LNP senator to pass the kind of laws that they want to pass, though.
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The *do* need a vote from an LNP senator to pass the kind of laws that they want to pass, though.
I think of this quote when I think about the idea of AGI meaning "human and artificial intelligence have reached functional parity". Many effects of AI will help achieve this; unfortunately, most function by lowering effective human intelligence (e.g. hollowing out education).
October 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I think of this quote when I think about the idea of AGI meaning "human and artificial intelligence have reached functional parity". Many effects of AI will help achieve this; unfortunately, most function by lowering effective human intelligence (e.g. hollowing out education).
seem determined to move further and further to the center-right (and not even a principled center-right, but sort of an intellectually slovenly mix of authoritarianism, state intervention and corporatism).
October 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
seem determined to move further and further to the center-right (and not even a principled center-right, but sort of an intellectually slovenly mix of authoritarianism, state intervention and corporatism).