zeddog.bsky.social
Teacher, feminist (yeah? wanna go?), former ALP candidate (over it), wannabe world traveller.
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In Egypt, they wear puffer jackets when it's 20 degrees.
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I would suggest that the timing of events begins with the thumping Labor win in Tasmania federally, which might have put thoughts in certain minds.
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Wow, wait until the author of this reads a science fiction novel. His mind will truly be blown.
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The high grade pebbles you usually reserve for your mate.
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Done the usual thing of trying to find one in our town, to be told that the orders are in but no one actually knows when they'll get them.
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China, as an e.g., emits 30 times more than we do, largely because on their reliance on coal and oil. If exporting gas to them reduces their emissions, that's obviously a good thing. On the other hand, if we're at zero, but China is still using coal and oil, the benefits are minimal.
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Sorry, misread you. Thought you meant we had to help those we export to to innovate. If they don't, and keep burning oil and coal, then much of what we do is irrelevant. (Of course, we should still do our bit...) but surely the onus for their emissions is on them.
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Of course. But surely the countries the gas is going to are the ones who should be at the forefront when it comes to innovating? Japan, China are scarcely lacking in resources when it comes to science.
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If only we had such a party, instead of one which pays lip service to the role.
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Of course, in the pre election commentary, the ABC had articles talking up the Liberals in Western Sydney, and it's hard to let hold of a dream. #auspol
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There was, however, no 'lucky escape', and virtually no evidence to support the contention that the Liberals ever had a chance of making an impact, or that the results in Western Sydney were crucial to Labor's win. #auspol
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Given the wide range of results on primaries (generally, the 2PP consistently swung Labor) you could take a handful of any of these seats to draw any conclusions you wanted to.
Some had strong independents running.
Some had strong swings on primaries to Labor.
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Read several articles, only seen staffers referred to.
Point is, shouldn't assume that an MPs sexuality automatically puts them in the frame.
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Went to the Swagman for a work do. A mate of mine and I filled a bowl with glace cherries.
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Well, I do have a very small penis.
It's almost non existent.
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Right, so exporting natural gas - if it replaces coal in the country we export to - results in less emissions overall.
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Doesn't it depend on what fuel the countries we're exporting to are currently using? For example, if it reduces their dependency on coal, then selling them gas would reduce their emissions.
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And you're calm and sane and rational.
I get it.
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Who is are?
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Apologies, he was involved with a staffer.
The important point here is that there was no suggestion that MPs were involved.
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Wow, how arrogant of you to assume that people weren't engaged* and didn't know what they were doing, and were dumb enough to be tricked by Wilson into voting for him.
Strange in an electorate which is so highly educated.
*wasn't engagement Zoe's job?
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So you think Zoe's voters were so dumb that they were fooled by the colour of a guy's shirt and went in and voted Liberal?
You can methink all you want.
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So you can't prove your assertion.
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Chuckle.
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Great, link to the video.
I'm trying to leave emotions out of this in order to understand the result.
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Again, demonising Wilson's campaign will not help understanding why he regained the seat.
If there's not an understanding of why he regained the seat, then further seats may be won back by the Liberals.
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Here we go - no MP was accused of this behaviour.
The whistleblower was a staffer referring to other staffers.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The problem is that it's used to describe MPs who may not have used the prayer room for anything other than prayer.
"MP is gay therefore they misbehaved in the prayer room' is a homophobic line of reasoning.
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Yes, I can see how that's connected to what I posted.
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Easy to check, why don't you do it?
Trying to wish away what happened in Goldstein won't change anything.
Analysing and learning from it might.
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What the Liberals were meant to be was conservative - not against change, but not rushing into it, making sure that it was necessary and evidence based and acting with caution.
Still holds the country back, of course! #auspol
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I don't think they were in Goldstein - they were in seats that the Libs thought they could win, and they'd given up on young Timmy.
There are lessons to be learnt from what happened there, it's dangerous to ignore them just because it's not the result one wanted.
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No. That wouldn't have won over voters.
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I'm not sure that's true - I've only seen allegations that one person did (one person too many, I admit).
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I wish people understood statistics. And trends.
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The first part of the graph is public information. The trend line is fantasy.
The 'exception' is also purely speculative.
Yes, it's worrying that it isn't going down now, of course.
(Misinformation is misinformation, whichever source it comes from, and it is rarely helpful).
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Good, then you should be able to produce a graph which shows that.
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As I said, it's quite possible it was always going to plateau.
(Wish it didn't, of course).
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So stay at home all the time, then.
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Gee, I wonder why.
Are you seriously suggesting that we should stay in our homes 24/7, never visit anyone or go anywhere, without any hope that things will get better? (We all knew lockdowns were temporary).
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Actually, that emissions basically seem to have plateau'd after lockdown is quite remarkable. You'd have expected some bounce back to pre lockdown levels, as 'business as normal' resumed.
(And yes, we should be concerned that they're not now going down).
Regardless, the assumed trendline is absurd.
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Hmm...I thought it was people like yourself who taught me not to assume that a trend would inevitably continue in the same direction.
Perhaps the numbers had gone has far down as they could due to lockdowns, and were then going to plateau.
The trend line shown is a huge assumption.