spiffmeister

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[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:

“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.

This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 16 points 9 months ago

Definitely not something a corrupt person would say.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If they're "permitted to year shorts" why not just skip the skirt and let them wear shorts?

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Even with a 10% pay cut the VC will be remunerated over $1,000,000 per year, even despite the university's poor financial performance.

Afaik the ANU VC earns about $650k (here). Not that this isn't probably 6-8x what most others in the university earn.

Pretty much agree with everything you say though. I'm about to graduate from ANU and I'm glad to be leaving tbh.

I would just add that, while the unis are managed poorly, the cuts to the sector by successive governments can't be excused.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.

That's not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

It really can't be that hard to be better than Dutton. Truly astounding.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago

Maybe they have some condition which compels them to blow up medical centres, and eventually they'll be firing missiles at hospitals in Europe because there's none left in the region

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 18 points 10 months ago

You're assuming that they scouted this and carefully planned it to ensure they wouldn't cause damage. I doubt that.

Seems like they did:

The canvas of the painting is protected with a glass screen, a factor Just Stop Oil said they had taken into account.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 14 points 10 months ago

The headline reads like an onion article.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Guess we need the NACC to investigate the NACC

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

There's an android app called URLCheck that can strip unwanted bits off the end of urls and then open them as well.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

It's okay, they can use AI to teach it to save money

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