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I'm 43 now, and I've now seen three distinct phases in my life regarding attitudes towards gender/sex. Here's a handy guide for determining which one is the correct take: 1) Pre-1990ish: "Little Billy can't play with dolls b/c he's a boy and everyone knows boys don't play with dolls" ❌ 2) 1990-2010: "Little Billy can play with dolls if he wants, boys can play with dolls. It doesn't make him any less of a boy" ✅ 3) 2010 - Present : "Little Billy IS a girl because he plays with dolls, because everyone knows boys don't play with dolls" ❌ As we can see, #2 is the correct choice. #1 and #3 are examples of toxic right wing gender norms, and toxic left wing gender norms, respectively. That's the funny thing about gender ideology; despite its adherents loud claims that they are somehow smashing traditional gender-based norms and stereotypes, they're actually rigidly enforcing them. The truly enlightened viewpoint is that there is no right or wrong way to be a boy or girl and kids should feel free to explore and play with whatever they want without activists with an agenda slapping an inappropriate label on them and forcing them into a pathway towards lifelong medicalization and dependency on Big Pharma.

@TRobinsonNewEra Unconscionable. I am happy to fund a wrongful death lawsuit against these disgusting excuses for law enforcement. They damn well better have been fired.

So its like this. You work for 45 years, you buy a house and pay it off. Meantime you buy some shares and some other property to help pay the way in retirement. The whole way through you had to pay tax BEFORE you put money into these investments. But according to @tanya_plibersek, your kids should be paying tax again when you die. Ponder that. Why save? Why put money away? Why take care of your own family? Because people like Plibersek and @AlboMP just want to take it from you.

Completely useless, but skills I still want to learn..

Chinese diver Quan Hongchan, 17, barely splashed after her dive and the jump was rated as perfect.

Female “pilot” got triggered…

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@OzPollies @realRick_AUS @DHughesy Glad to see it, go Hughesy!

@realRick_AUS Good to see 👍 @DHughesy

Look who is starting to wake up.. Not in my life I would’ve thought haha Why aren’t more people speaking up? You’re complicit if you don’t

@UnpluggedOz @markbouris But no issues with the first home buyer coming from overseas and outcompeting local kids?

@ArghhR @markbouris No, I think property investors shouldn't be competing with first home buyers.

My first thoughts on the Treasurer’s budget last night. I’ll be sitting down with highly renowned economist Chris Richardson today to break it all down. The conversation will be available on all podcast platforms tonight

Yamaha has developed a self-balancing motorcycle that can drive itself and even follow its owner around. The MOTOROiD 2 uses facial recognition, gesture controls, and an active balancing system that keeps the bike upright even without a rider.

@bryan_johnson No 10 is 100% incorrect, but good luck to you sir

This is it. Everything learned spending millions on longevity. From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie. To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews. 0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug. 1. Be in your bed for 8 hours 2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight 3. Don’t eat right before bed 4. Calm foods for dinner 5. No screens 1 hour before bed 6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything) 7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store 8. Avoid fried foods 9. Shoes off at the door 10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries 11. Walk a little after meals or air squats 12. Get your heart rate high routinely 13. Lift heavy things 14. Stretch daily 15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night 16. Make an effort to drink water 17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low) 18. Protect skin in midday sun 19. Stand up straight 20. See at least one friend once a week 21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things) 22. Circulate air in rooms 23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body 24. Go to the dentist 25. Avoid sitting for long times 26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud 27. Alcohol is bad for you 28. Finish coffee before noon 29. Avoid bright lights after sunset 30. If obese, look into a GLP 31. Sleep in a cold room 32. Texting while driving is dangerous 33. Turn off all notifications 34. Limit social media use 35. Don’t smoke anything 36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed 37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music 38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule. 39. Avoid long distance travel where you can 40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly 41. Do less… most things don’t work. Bonus points if you get your blood checked. Start here, it will change your life.

@UnpluggedOz @markbouris So you think property investment should disappear? Who is going to rent out properties, let me guess, the state 🤔

@markbouris Negative gearing should not be allowed under current tax law. The whole point of negative gearing is to make a loss. If there's no intent to make a profit - it's not an income producing activity - so losses aren't deductible. Property investors are greedy cnuts.

Been offline for a few days. A few comments: 1. The Australian government is digging their own grave with these CGT discount changes. 2. The One Nation by-election win is a harbinger of a trend just finally beginning in Australia. It's the beginning of 'the big one' - when ordinary Australians finally decide they have had enough of both corrupt, slimy slides of 'mainstream politics' (as Albo calls them) and kick them to the curb where they belong. 3. 1 will propel 2, because business interests in this country have largely been silent on mass migration due to the stigma associated with publicly being against it, but they will not remain silent when the thing they care about most is jeopardised: money Australia punches above its weight intellectually. We are a small population but we do genuinely have some smart people here. It's just that they largely all leave and go to America, where they are not treated like shit and don't have their wealth stolen from them by a corrupt government who then allocates the stolen capital into things that benefit themselves. It is incumbent on all Australians to call out just how corrupt this government is - and really now, every Australian government for the past two decades. We are long past the point of platitudes and friendly suggestions. These people must be removed from office. They are incompetent, they lack integrity, they have no right to be telling hardworking Australians how to live their lives, and they certainly have no right to steal 50% of your money for starting a successful business - only to then allocate that capital into fraudulent schemes like the NDIS. The audacity of this government to say that removing the CGT discount is about intergenerational equity is disgusting. Yeah @AlboMP please explain to everyone how removing the discounts your boomer generation voted for and used to pump the living shit out of your non-productive property portfolios, and which now the next generation can't even use to be incentivised to start a BUSINESS (not even buying/selling property or shares), is 'equitable'. What a lying retard this bloke is. He has zero understanding of economics. The absolute audacity to do this, after using taxpayer's funds to subsidise demand into the housing market to inflate their dogshit properties supposedly worth millions of Pacific Pesos, is insane. It's the type of immoral shit that could only possibly be dished out by a bloke who has taken from the public his entire life. Not a single private sector role. Truly pathetic shit. We need a referendum to exclude any person who has not served a decade in the private sector from public office. These people could not be entrusted to run a local pie shop let alone a country. The funny thing about all of this is the boomers have sewn the seeds for a truly radical person a decade from now to literally just steal all their shit. That's the mood they have created. No one will give a shit. They will remember who stole from them. 'You steal my opportunity? Okay, I will remember that a decade from now when we have power, and steal every last cent back' - this is the political environment we are heading towards over the next several years. Things are going to get very extreme... Best analogy is Germany 1930s. Australians deserve better, and One Nation is the beginning of that, not the end.

The Moon

He’s dead on.

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry. The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine. The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true. The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either. The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought. The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to. The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus. He is confident. He has always been confident. The confidence has never been the problem. The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem. Source: COVID19 VACCINE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES

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The world’s first "full-full-full" (a triple backflip with a 360° twist in each flip), landed by Tofig Aliyev in 2025.

This episode was scrubbed from broadcast syndication. Can’t have kids accidentally laughing at 1940s animation. Better to memory-hole it so future generations never learn how humor used to work before the pearl-clutching era.