Nick
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Nick
@scrapegoat87
Scottish man in Australia. I like teacups.
Preston Katılım Ocak 2013
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@RichardDawkins Hi Richard, I read your book The blind Watchmaker for a genetics class when I was younger, and was very impressed. I think you've missed the clue that Claudia gave you, it doesn't have temporal experience (the map analogy). How would one be conscious without experiencing time?
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I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.
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@Bosslogic It's shit as well, I have one in smelling distance at the end of my street, bowfing.
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This new trend of Aussie KFC is the weirdest shit
pat 2: cruise control@ranmasaotome96
I am in flavour country
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@TElliott125 You have to force yourself to get up when the sun comes out and take melatonin to fall asleep at 9pm.
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@thepeacepoet99 It's like if Jimmy Savile and Rowan Atkinson had a baby.
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@trvthnvkeICBM @slugn0id @BurdenBurner It's a five minute walk from the central station, or you could take a train to either of the stations, it's free until the end of May.
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@slugn0id @BurdenBurner And where exactly are we supposed to park? And don't bring up nonexistent public transit infrastructure
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The brits are right. Instead of building a stadium 9 miles* from Manhattan* we could’ve just chucked the whole meadowlands complex in Central Park!

jules@masiamade
what kind of idiot builds a 80k stadium 15 kilometers from the city centre
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@saulgoodman178 @0xleegenz Please don’t take this advice, rule number one is to kill non-deductible debt.
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@0xleegenz Take that same money and put it in a broad market index fund. You’ll easy come out ahead of whatever interest savings you had.
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@AnthonySarich @PeterCronau Gina would never let Pauline get away with that.
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@PeterCronau This is a free gift to One Nation. It can add taxing the gas cartel to its net-zero immigration policy and hammer the unpatriotic Albo day and night. The ALP is No Nation.
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Albanese seems to think the gas companies are charitable institutions who love handing out pennies to the poor.
When in fact they are the most ruthless profit-takers, here for one reason alone, working against the public interest, plundering our national resources, sending most of both the gas and the profits overseas, laughing at Australia all the way to the bank.
May the ghost of Rex Connor haunt him till his end days…
“Mr Albanese says the industry pays company taxes and royalties, on top of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT).
"They pay around about $22 billion a year and, importantly, … you do need to acknowledge the tens of billions of dollars of investment that occurs in order to have that gas extracted," Mr Albanese told.
"And without that investment, that's come from North America and Japan, we wouldn't be having a debate because there wouldn't have been that extraction occur."
(All of which are the best arguments for nationalising the gas industry and keeping 100% of profits from our gas here.)
abc.net.au/news/2026-04-2…

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@UsmanAbidemiEsq In Melbourne it would be D, she would be charged with conspiracy to commit murder under 1958 Crimes Act Section 321(3).

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The UK will ban anyone 17 and under from ever buying cigarettes after the Tobacco and Vapes Bill cleared Parliament.
Anyone born after January 1, 2009 will never be able to legally purchase tobacco, aiming to create a smoke-free generation.
(bbc.com/news/articles/…)


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@MichaelWestBiz @S_GerardRennick I think it's how much money Gerard gets for promoting this garbage.
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@flying_rodent Do you not remember receiving an AOL CD Rom in the mail?
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None, not one. People told you the internet was good, they showed you their awesome games systems, they showed you their iPhones. Because the stuff was so obviously desirable, it sold itself. They’re having to push this stuff so hard because the public mostly aren’t interested.
Adam Conover@adamconover
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies having to be sold so desperately. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
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@rtbrownjr @BlueBoxDave Might of been worth thinking about that when they bid to hold World Cup games there.
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Multiple factors: tens of thousands of parking spots will be used for other things; walking there is illegal; FIFA demanded insane security & normal NJT routes will be severely restricted, and finally, NJT is required to recover its costs (which it normally doesn’t do—daily trains are subsidized). So requiring NJT to spend extra money per trip, and requiring trains as virtually the only legal way to get huge crowds there, means the cost skyrockets and, unsubsidized, amounts to about $150 round trip.
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@politicallyvoid @MelanieLatest Bali is predominantly hindu isn't it? That's why the baby suckling pig is such a traditional dish.
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@MelanieLatest There are 1.2bn Muslims in the world. A tiny percentage are terrorists. People seem to live happily in places like Dubai. Bali is in Indonesia where plenty go on holiday. Stop with your prejudices. There are plenty of horrible Christians out there too.
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melaniephillips.substack.com/p/an-unholy-ac…
The Pope said his aim was to build “bridges between the Christian world and the Muslim world”. But building bridges between sheep and wolves merely provides the wolves with an easier way to tear the sheep to pieces.
His condemnation of the war against Iran rather than the Iranian regime itself serves to line up the Vatican with the debauched amorality of countries such as Britain, France, Italy and Spain, which have taken a similar position.

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@BM56603 @Potstirrer111 Hope you didn't claim any interest payments as a deduction. The ATO wouldn't look too kindly on that if you weren't creating an income from it.
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@Potstirrer111 We left our investment property empty for the last 12 months we had it, gave us more flexibility as they were changing the rules for no fault terminations, so we got in before and turfed the tenants while we still could.
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@BridgetPhetasy Hold on, did they not even touch down on the moon? What the fuck.
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