Interesting stuff
Craig…no doubt the owners of Nature are highly sensitive to how I react to their editorials.
Take it with a grain of salt”. GSCO words. That’s pretty much the modus operandi of a scientist isn’t it? If one wants the best we have pursuit of knowledge through science that investigates the natural world to become more of an agent of change for social justice then congratulations this is a step in the right direction.
Not without precedent. Scientific American published a crock of shit recently calling E.O Wilson a racist
The science publishing policy thing isn’t about the famed “Nature” scientific journal, first published in 1869. It’s referring to “Nature Human Behavior”, a much smaller and more niche publication first established in 2017.
From the Bight to the Gong! Overnight Equinor partnered in the proposed Illawarra wind farm.
Energy for the Illawarra, 67% of dividends for the Norwegian government.
State intervention doesn't work.
About time, now all the other States will have to fall into line or lose more nurses to Victoria. Who could possibly have foreseen a crisis in nursing?????!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/30/free-degrees-for-...
wally wrote:The science publishing policy thing isn’t about the famed “Nature” scientific journal, first published in 1869. It’s referring to “Nature Human Behavior”, a much smaller and more niche publication first established in 2017.
you're right
I got sucked in by their misleadung title, i was wondering why it wasnt more widely reported
it still sucks, but not the turnaround i thought it was. I just created a storm in a tea cup, sorry about that, i'll go hide in the corner for a while
wally wrote:The science publishing policy thing isn’t about the famed “Nature” scientific journal, first published in 1869. It’s referring to “Nature Human Behavior”, a much smaller and more niche publication first established in 2017.
Nevertheless it carries the Nature brand and the gravitas that comes from that. But if one wanted to argue that social sciences isn’t a real science anyway than the above decision provides a (another?) good example why.
A useful technique for some of the forums?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/31/grey-rocking-how-to-bore...
Looking forward to 4 corners on Monday night. Surely AJ can’t last too much longer in his job as chief profiteer. https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2022/09/03/qantas-keeper...
Supafreak wrote:Looking forward to 4 corners on Monday night. Surely AJ can’t last too much longer in his job as chief profiteer. https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2022/09/03/qantas-keeper...
'The Spirit of Australia'
Sad.....
Lufthansa paid back its debt, Qantas bought its own shares https://michaelwest.com.au/lufthansa-paid-back-its-debt-qantas-bought-it... What’s the scam? The German government lent the money (1m euros), jobs were saved, service standards preserved. The Australian government gave billions in public subsidies instead of loans, standards plummeted and 9,400 lost their jobs while management banked the JobKeeper.
The scam is that, unlike many of the world’s airlines, Qantas is not bound by any minimum service obligations, let alone an obligation to pay the money back. #better economic managers
Supafreak wrote:Lufthansa paid back its debt, Qantas bought its own shares https://michaelwest.com.au/lufthansa-paid-back-its-debt-qantas-bought-it... What’s the scam? The German government lent the money (1m euros), jobs were saved, service standards preserved. The Australian government gave billions in public subsidies instead of loans, standards plummeted and 9,400 lost their jobs while management banked the JobKeeper.
The scam is that, unlike many of the world’s airlines, Qantas is not bound by any minimum service obligations, let alone an obligation to pay the money back.
Spirit of Australia!!
This guy has got some bottle...OMG!
Wot is even more frightful...New UK PM had just shared a cup of tea with the Queen.
Is London Bridge falling Down?
Should we expect any Change?
1981 Queen / Prince / Princess Australian 50c Coins
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0118/3652/2558/products/Untitled_2_7ae...
2008 Queen / Prince UK 5 pound Coin
https://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/2008-Prince-of-Wales...
2018 Queen / Prince UK 5 pound coin
https://www.changechecker.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/70th-Birthday-o...
2023 Aussie Coins are changing...to King Charles Coins. ($5 Note > Eminent Aussie?)
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/huge-changes-...
Reckon the Monarch loving Yanks will pay a $Trillion for all our Aussie Queen coins!
Seriously worth considering! Pay off the debt!
Supafreak wrote:Looking forward to 4 corners on Monday night. Surely AJ can’t last too much longer in his job as chief profiteer. https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2022/09/03/qantas-keeper...
Disappointing but not surprising revelations on 4 Corners and now this
https://apple.news/ASE9a4zvPRg2gB0T6eUShHw
The Lions had a ripper second half and broke the G hoodoo. It’s on!!!!!
seeds wrote:The Lions had a ripper second half and broke the G hoodoo. It’s on!!!!!
Enjoy but I can't see them getting past the Cats. Melbourne looked lost from half time. Brilliant moves by Fagan after the break, coach's win.
Either way it’s one step further than they have gotten last couple of years so I’m stoked. They were written off against the Tigers. I was at the Gabba and it was an incredible game and win.
They were written off last night also and an amazing fight back to win. Gotta be heaps of confidence gained after breaking their previous finals let downs and to win at the G also after a hell of a long time so hopefully it will be a good showing win or lose.
Supafreak wrote:
Gold.
Excellent opinion piece on a debate Australia seems to be unable (or too immature) to have. Treating our elderly with respect and having a true (nonemotional) discussion about ageing, death and dying.
Let's remove the histrionics and talk about the realities
"Beds are filled with the frail and elderly suffering conditions that are manageable but not curable. These patients spend a long time in hospital, which would be OK if they benefited, but many don’t. Instead, hospitalisation swaps one problem for another and leaves them deconditioned, isolated, and confused."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/14/there-is-no-magic-...
Old beetroot and morriscum sure do get around
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Air Niugini have pulled out of their Brisbane - FSM route so currently there are no direct flights from Australia to Pohnpei.
If you want to go to P-Pass you'll have to fly to Hawaii and take the island hopper towards Guam, or fly to somewhere in Asia, then Guam and get the island hopper heading back to Hawaii. Either way is costly and time-consuming.
Where'd you dig that info up from Stu?
Is it just that they haven't re-started the route after COVID? Or it's over for good?
carpetman wrote:Where'd you dig that info up from Stu?
Is it just that they haven't re-started the route after COVID? Or it's over for good?
From Allois. It's on his IG account.
He says it's the first time in thirty years that Australians haven't been able to fly direct to Pohnpei but I don't think that's correct. First time I went I had to fly QANTAS to Guam, then connect with Continental's island hopper.
More recently, Air Niugini filled the route from 2016 onwards but they stopped it in mid-2020 and haven't resumed it.
I've been investigating flights there recently and the overall flight time and cost is a massive disincentive. There are too many other options that are cheaper and closer. If a bunch of Swellnetians email Air Niugini and express interest in them opening up the route again it might get them thinking. It can't hurt.
[email protected] or the form on https://www.airniugini.com.pg/about-us/contact-us/
If you live in northern Aus the PNG route was ok but from anywhere else it was still a pain.
Internal flight to Bris. Fly to PNG. Island hopper from there.
Cheaper and better than the Nauru route but still a lot of other places you can get to a lot easier.
Those coming from the northern hem will be happy with the decision though. Should be pretty quite over there.
From memory I went Syd-Cairns-Guam then the island hop thru Chuuck, somewhere else and then Pohnpei…
Epic trip. Wouldn’t think about doing it again.
Might if there was a direct flight.
And continental were real dicks about only allowing 2x boards max per person. Which kinda sucks when you snap one.
Quota's......wtf....!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-20/australian-commandos-in-afghanist...
Not sure what it is you think commandos are trained to do? Even why they’re selected to be commandos ?
Sure ….some war is instigated in order to generate profit, we send in the military and then ge5 upset when crew do exactly the thing they are trained to do. Doing their job.
Are you also surprised when the fella on the deep fryer at MacDonalds starts cooking French fries ?
If you want to blame someone, blame the politicians who put the soldiers in that position and then abandoned them to the media when they act as we trained them. We need bad arse people to do bad arse shit in our name sometimes. If their expertise, psychological tendencies and skill set is mis allocated by higher ups then don’t blame them.
It's bizarre, these guys are trained to be killers and people get upset when they're violent.
And while we're at it, I really hope that mindless American-style "thank you for your service" bullshit doesn't take hold in Australia.
I do appreciate militarily service people. They might sit around training most of the time but they’re the line between ourselves and possible violent death or usurpation by an unfriendly nation.
Thanking the service folk before they’ve seen action is no hardship. It’s akin to the way the US astronauts were publicly feted and made into national celebrity heroes before they’d ever strapped themselves into a rocket. This was done so when the day came to launch, the astronauts felt so obligated to an expectant public that they would override the natural urge to tell NASA to stick the idea of being shot into the remote dangers of space up their arse and instead waved bravely to the crowd as they got inside a fifty metre high pile of explosive jet fuel hoping it worked as promised. Their social rewards of respect and gratitude were heavily front loaded to quell potential cowardice at the crucial moment.
Than you Aussie service people past/ present/ future.
Fucked if I’d even want to take orders, let alone orders to get shot at.
Yeah nah, that behaviour is a ploy to make things like Iraq beyond reproach.
Social engineering for political and economic gain.
Australia is bad enough but what I saw coming out of the U.K. after Iraq and during Afghanistan made me feel deeply uncomfortable.
And the U.S. of course is a whole other level of manufacturing consent.
"They might sit around training most of the time but they’re the line between ourselves and possible violent death or usurpation by an unfriendly nation."
Jeez, rarely.
Not in our lifetime.
I'll say thanks for your service to WW2 vets, the rest I just have understanding and empathy for.
I’m not offering my body to navy sailors down at the docks in fawning gratitude, just happy and grateful they are there. I’ve always felt that way. Nothing to do with Iraq or propaganda. They may not have been required to make the sacrifice in our lifetimes ( so far) but that’s not their fault. They stand ready and willing.
I believe in the necessity of armed forces too, but I think blindly "thanking them for their service" is problematic.
Agreed, more culture war claptrap. We should all be alert to the creep of jingoistic sentiment in public life. "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
AndyM wrote:I believe in the necessity of armed forces too, but I think blindly "thanking them for their service" is problematic.
+1 Andy. Couldn’t agree with you more.
A few years old but breaks things down replete with a bit of giggle
and another piece of the puzzle explained
A simple explanation of trickle-down economics. pic.twitter.com/ziFK0121KL
— The Exploding Heads (@Exploding_Heads) September 22, 2022
Fliplid wrote:and another piece of the puzzle explained
https://twitter.com/Exploding_Heads/status/1572887669319041030?ref_src=t...
Classic
Lol the QE video was funny but only because of how inaccurate and misleading it was. Just pure misinformation and propaganda.
Very easy to completely pick it apart but in response to its main criticism, the reason central banks buy the bonds in the market as apposed to directly from the govt is so they can also push up prices (push down yields) across the term structure/yield curve, which flows through to consumer/retail and business interest rates.
So they kill two birds with one stone: reduce bond yields and interest rates, and create market depth enabling govts to issue bonds and hence borrow money (at favourably low interest rates/bond yields).
Some of this stuff is discussed in the recent review of the RBA’s bond purchase program released a few days ago at: https://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2022/sp-dg-2022-09-21.html
Next on Sick, Sad World:
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/call-for-m...
I mean it's perfect click bait and I thought "This is going straight to the forum."
Lol, they don't do themselves any favours do they. I don't eat animals for health, ethical and environmental reasons and wish nobody else did either, but trying to convert people is such a waste of time. Just shut the fuck up, live your life and if someone is interested in your example let them ask, then have a civil conversation.
Have it cunts