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[Lomas]

I didn't know politicians put thoughtless claims like it's big footy Random thoughts thread.

But hey her electorate must be uber stupid , so it makes sense then.

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To be fair, the whole system is a toilet over there. Not saying it is great here, just not anywhere the level of the USA.

 

[Hojuman]

To be fair, the whole system is a toilet over there. Not saying it is great here, just not anywhere the level of the USA.

Imagine our feds here fighting with 52 states Quagmire.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

The meme went over your head[emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]


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No, I got it, I just wanted to have fun with it.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Imagine our feds here fighting with 52 states Quagmire.

Not to mention the partisan divisions run even deeper over there.

 

[Ligma]

No, I got it, I just wanted to have fun with it.

Woah fun police here, you can’t do that here[emoji35]


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[Snake_Baker]

Sutton is either lying or he doesn't know what he's talking about.

 

[rickety]

Sutton is either lying or he doesn't know what he's talking about.

 

[Snake_Baker]

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Both.

If he's not lying then his level of incompetence for his government position is staggering.

There's no option C.

 

[rickety]

Both

Which also answers your previous question, imuo

 

[Hojuman]

Has anyone ever been to an epidemiologists convention ?

Nope. They never have them. Can't get them all in the same room together

 

[see see]

I knew I shouldn't have invested in all those high silver 50 cent coins back in the 70s!

It's actually the 1966 50 cent coin which has the highest silver content. I've got a whole sh*tload that I inherited from my mum. Just checked online and they're worth close to $30 a piece these days. Nice.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

It's actually the 1966 50 cent coin which has the highest silver content. I've got a whole sh*tload that I inherited from my mum. Just checked online and they're worth close to $30 a piece these days. Nice.

Sorted out my old man’s various pennies, 3-pence and shillings, with the highest value coin being around the $1,200 mark. Not going to sell them yet.

 

[Lomas]

It's actually the 1966 50 cent coin which has the highest silver content. I've got a whole sh*tload that I inherited from my mum. Just checked online and they're worth close to $30 a piece these days. Nice.

There was a silver price boom in the late '70s when the price of those coins went through the roof. Everyone started hoarding the coins and, from memory, the market collapsed after Christmas. Still worth a fair bit, as you said. Lots of people who stockpiled them then still have them, like my father, because they thought the good times would come again.
Girl at my high school used her father's stash in the vending machine at school because they came up as 20c pieces. Still a bit of legend about town.

 

[Royal Flush]

Sutton is either lying or he doesn't know what he's talking about.

He's Andrews' Muppet.
Career killing I think. Well in medicine anyway.
He'd make a good aroma therapist I think

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[Snake_Baker]

He's Andrews' Muppet.
Career killing I think. Well in medicine anyway.
He'd make a good aroma therapist I think

The sad thing is I actually think he is the cabinets expert on this matter, and he's staggeringly incompetent.

There's talented undergrads who would leave him for dead when it comes to this.

 

[Del191229]

The Brazilianization of the World - American Affairs Journal

The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original country of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with a future denied, and in which this...

americanaffairsjournal.org

This is long but hugely worthwhile

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

The Brazilianization of the World - American Affairs Journal

The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original country of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with a future denied, and in which this...

americanaffairsjournal.org

This is long but hugely worthwhile

Reads like an almost Marxist-style critique in some parts, but it was interesting nonetheless.

I was interested in this bit the most:
Precisely the same mismatch of ideas and reality is now being found in modern times. “Conservatives” encourage the forces that destroy things worth conserving (say, the family); liberalism means defending the illiberalism of surveillance apparatuses; hyper-individualism winds up reifying essentialist conceptions of race (such that group belonging is treated as logically prior to the individual person); the Left is increasingly the party of the highly educated and well-heeled. All around we’re confronted with deaptation, an idea the philosopher Adrian Johnston has taken from memetic theory to describe the way that an initially adaptive memetic strategy later becomes useless or even counterproductive.5 If liberalism was a set of ideas appropriate to the bourgeoisie’s rise and then consolidation—all in the name of freedom—it is today in a state of deaptation, wielded in defense of hierarchy and domination.


Hard to disagree about the inherent contradictions, but I believe that contradictions have always been a part of each political ideology and that we have tried to make the best of a crap situation. The pessimistic (realist?) tone of the overall article was also interesting. Something to think about in the grand scheme of things.

 

[krakouers]

For the businessman who needs to head to site:

 

[Snake_Baker]

For the businessman who needs to head to site:
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The only thing missing is the flouro orange cravat.

 

[DesertRoo]

The Brazilianization of the World - American Affairs Journal

The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original country of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with a future denied, and in which this...

americanaffairsjournal.org

This is long but hugely worthwhile

Great read, certainly interesting looking at differing cultures and their symbolic relation to each other..

I often think a lot of these problems come from putting the cart before the horse. Developing countries should always invest in engineers first, it seems as thou they’ve fallen in the trap of listening to industry, they created billionaires but the infrastructure was never built.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Developing countries should always invest in engineers first, it seems as thou they’ve fallen in the trap of listening to industry, they created billionaires but the infrastructure was never built.

Developed countries also.

 

[DesertRoo]

Developed countries also.

They create industry..
America knows this, that’s why they poach ‘em on ridiculous salaries.. an experienced engineer can command ten time the salary in the US compared to the rest of the world.

 

[Snake_Baker]

They create industry..
America knows this, that’s why they poach ‘em on ridiculous salaries.. an experienced engineer can command ten time the salary in the US compared to the rest of the world.

If "politics" is not about the control over material civilization, then it's basically a ****ing religion.

The natural sciences create material civilization, then the bullshit follows.

 

[DesertRoo]

If "politics" is not about the control over material civilization, then it's basically a ****ing religion.

The natural sciences create material civilization, then the bullshit follows.

You can seperate politics from political philosophy…
In its unadulterated form it’s about groups of people getting together to best organise society.
Once you add philosophy it’s about gaining as much power within that sphere as posible..

 

[Snake_Baker]

You can seperate politics from political philosophy…
In its unadulterated form it’s about groups of people getting together to best organise society.
Once you add philosophy it’s about gaining as much power within that sphere as posible..

Then let's not call it "politics" at all.

If you and I get together to research a cure for cancer, or design a footpath, then that is a "collaboration", not "politics".