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[raptalia]

Maybe over the top on my part but we get enough fake news without the FTA TV adding to the list. Channel TEN aired a heatwave health warning which is quite appropriate if we are going to have a week of 38 plus temps but when they do it for one hot day the risk is that a really essential warning will loose it's impact.

The BOM definition of a heatwave is excessive heat over three or more days. The exact temperature will depend on locality.

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/heatwave/knowledge-centre/understanding.shtml

 

[Contested Marx]

Stop. Reading. The. Advertiser. And. Watching. Free. To. Air. Television.

 

[Festerz]

Channel TEN aired a heatwave health warning which is quite appropriate if we are going to have a week of 38 plus temps but when they do it for one hot day the risk is that a really essential warning will loose it's impact.

TV news are desperate to get video footage for their stories. If there’s no footage to go with a story it doesn’t get to air.

All of them, including ABC, are more than willing to manufacture hype around a local story to garner views and where there is stock footage or easy to grab footage to go with it. It’s why they troll court houses and follow the GRN emergency scan.

And what could be easier than to manufacture a heatwave story when it gets anywhere near 39 degrees and get a reporter to broadcast live from Glenelg or another local beach during their news program?

Has been that way for as long as I can remember.

 

[edgie]

Stop. Reading. The. Advertiser. And. Watching. Free. To. Air. Television.

Yes, let's all rebel against msm and get our news from rebel news

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[Contested Marx]

Yes, let's all rebel against msm and get our news from rebel news

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Yes, cos there's only "msm" or rebel news and nothing in between

 

[raptalia]

So now it is LGBTQIA+ ? If they add any more letters in the acronym they will have a full alphabet. A CHOP like me will feel quite left out.

Apparently this group now covers 4.5% of the Australian population and I guess the more letters they add the bigger the group becomes. With the increase comes the greater risk of offending someone. It is not surprising that the percentage of people identifying as LGBTQIA+ is much larger among younger Australians.

The issue is all to do with the 2026 Census which, according to Anthony Albanese, will have a question about sexuality in it. Of course there is a Federal election due next year and Anthony may not be Prime Minister at the time of the next Census and Peter Dutton may have different ideas.

ABS releases first-ever estimates of LGBTI+ Australians

LGBTI+ advocates say the data can help inform government decisions about Australia's sex- and gender-diverse community.

www.abc.net.au

 

[EskimoPAFC]

So now it is LGBTQIA+ ? If they add any more letters in the acronym they will have a full alphabet. A CHOP like me will feel quite left out.

Apparently this group now covers 4.5% of the Australian population and I guess the more letters they add the bigger the group becomes. With the increase comes the greater risk of offending someone. It is not surprising that the percentage of people identifying as LGBTQIA+ is much larger among younger Australians.

The issue is all to do with the 2026 Census which, according to Anthony Albanese, will have a question about sexuality in it. Of course there is a Federal election due next year and Anthony may not be Prime Minister at the time of the next Census and Peter Dutton may have different ideas.

ABS releases first-ever estimates of LGBTI+ Australians

LGBTI+ advocates say the data can help inform government decisions about Australia's sex- and gender-diverse community.

www.abc.net.au

Is the A for asexual, aromantic or ally?

(or perhaps avocado, in order to exclude Bryce from Married at First Sight from joining)

 

[TazD]

Is the A for asexual, aromantic or ally?

(or perhaps avocado, in order to exclude Bryce from Married at First Sight from joining)

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, interesex, asexual/aromantic/agender +

 

[It Just Is]

So now it is LGBTQIA+ ? If they add any more letters in the acronym they will have a full alphabet. A CHOP like me will feel quite left out.

Apparently this group now covers 4.5% of the Australian population and I guess the more letters they add the bigger the group becomes. With the increase comes the greater risk of offending someone. It is not surprising that the percentage of people identifying as LGBTQIA+ is much larger among younger Australians.

The issue is all to do with the 2026 Census which, according to Anthony Albanese, will have a question about sexuality in it. Of course there is a Federal election due next year and Anthony may not be Prime Minister at the time of the next Census and Peter Dutton may have different ideas.

ABS releases first-ever estimates of LGBTI+ Australians

LGBTI+ advocates say the data can help inform government decisions about Australia's sex- and gender-diverse community.

www.abc.net.au

Blows my mind that we are still wasting time and money on a Census in 2026, let alone anyone caring for the questions. Can’t they just ask the Chinese for the data?

 

[raptalia]

Blows my mind that we are still wasting time and money on a Census in 2026, let alone anyone caring for the questions. Can’t they just ask the Chinese for the data?

Yes, those robot vacuum cleaners and car computers should have all the data they need.

Off track but interesting...

On the subject of technology Swedish field research recently proved that it is quicker and safer to push a button in the old car radio than it is to swipe a touch screen in a modern car.

Shocker! In Cars, Physical Buttons Are Easier Than Touchscreens

A study showed that it is less time-consuming to push a button, as drivers have been doing for decades, rather than operate a touchscreen infotainment system.

www.caranddriver.com

The bottom line is we have no idea how much of our personal data is stored and by who.

 

[Duck Farmer]

So now it is LGBTQIA+ ? If they add any more letters in the acronym they will have a full alphabet. A CHOP like me will feel quite left out.

Apparently this group now covers 4.5% of the Australian population and I guess the more letters they add the bigger the group becomes. With the increase comes the greater risk of offending someone. It is not surprising that the percentage of people identifying as LGBTQIA+ is much larger among younger Australians.

The issue is all to do with the 2026 Census which, according to Anthony Albanese, will have a question about sexuality in it. Of course there is a Federal election due next year and Anthony may not be Prime Minister at the time of the next Census and Peter Dutton may have different ideas.

ABS releases first-ever estimates of LGBTI+ Australians

LGBTI+ advocates say the data can help inform government decisions about Australia's sex- and gender-diverse community.

www.abc.net.au

We must be nearing the point where we can just use the plus sign.

Also, Albo needs to legislate the rainbow flag as Australia's fourth official flag just so we can watch Dutton's head explode at press conferences.

 

[Aussie in exile]

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, interesex, asexual/aromantic/agender +

Australia has had its fair share of these people ever since the First Fleet arrived, when the male convicts outnumbered the female convicts.

 

[edgie]

..
Off track but interesting...

On the subject of technology Swedish field research recently proved that it is quicker and safer to push a button in the old car radio than it is to swipe a touch screen in a modern car.

Shocker! In Cars, Physical Buttons Are Easier Than Touchscreens

A study showed that it is less time-consuming to push a button, as drivers have been doing for decades, rather than operate a touchscreen infotainment system.

www.caranddriver.com

..

Safer, and nicer, and not value. Touchscreens are the ultimate money saver for automakers.

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[raptalia]

We must be nearing the point where we can just use the plus sign.

Also, Albo needs to legislate the rainbow flag as Australia's fourth official flag just so we can watch Dutton's head explode at press conferences.

Australia must be the only country on the planet to have three official flags. In this case I have to agree with Dutton. Maybe we should have another referendum to decide on the Australian Flag Mk III ?

I am not too fussed what the ultimate design is but pollies standing in front of 3 or 4 flags is divisive and ridiculous.

 

[raptalia]

Australia has had its fair share of these people ever since the First Fleet arrived, when the male convicts outnumbered the female convicts.

Quite correct The First Fleet that arrived in Sydney Cove in January 1988 consisted of all male crew, convicts and marines. The first females arrived aboard the transport Charlotte on February 6th. Apparently there was widespread public debauchery on evening of Feb 6th.

 

[TazD]

Australia has had its fair share of these people ever since the First Fleet arrived, when the male convicts outnumbered the female convicts.

Most likely before too.

 

[Festerz]

So now it is LGBTQIA+ ? If they add any more letters in the acronym they will have a full alphabet. A CHOP like me will feel quite left out.

I view myself as a small l liberal but freely admit I have no feckin clue about any of this. And I agree with what Ricky Gervais said about this gender stuff - who in the 1980s would have thought that publicly stating that someone with a penis must be a male would be one of the most evil things you could say 40 years later.

But I think its true with most things - live long enough and you'll see just about everything you once took to be facts based reality or morally right v wrong turned on its head.

Take homosexuality for example...

 

[Duck Farmer]

I view myself as a small l liberal but freely admit I have no feckin clue about any of this. And I agree with what Ricky Gervais said about this gender stuff - who in the 1980s would have thought that publicly stating that someone with a penis must be a male would be one of the most evil things you could say 40 years later.

But I think its true with most things - live long enough and you'll see just about everything you once took to be facts based reality or morally right v wrong turned on its head.

Take homosexuality for example...

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You could label this graph "Port Adelaide supporters' views on whether we should we sack Hinkley?" and rescale the horizontal axis from 2012 to 2024 and the curves would be same.

 

[Grave Danger]

I wonder how long it will take Big Pharma to recover the cost of tooling up for the newly mandated 16 tablets per pack limit on paracetamol sold in supermarkets and servos/convenience stores. I'd fully expect Colesworth to sell the smaller packs for the same price as the ones they've replaced, but I bet they'd be paying the supplier less.

The way you buy painkillers has just changed. Here's what to know

Restrictions on how you're able to buy paracetamol come into effect this weekend, and are aimed at reducing related overdoses and deaths in Australia.

www.sbs.com.au

 

[GremioPower]

Bringing this to its proper thread.

IIRC you are Catholic but probably not old enough to remember the Latin mass pre Vatican II. As a kid it was a joke that the priest said "My father plays dominos better than your father plays dominos".

No. I’m a CV2 Catholic (I’m 44). I have only been in a couple of Latin masses.

I believe CV2 must be understood in connection with CV1, not against it. I do respect the traditional Latin rite (and the priest being “ad orientem” — i.e. looking at the altar). Still, I also enjoy diversity.

I lived in Washington, DC. Besides English, I also went to masses in French, Spanish, and German (mostly due they being the one available near I eventually was).

 

[Grave Danger]

We're not parochial over here in Wessstern Australia...

 

[raptalia]

Jail term doubled for 'muppets' involved in 100kg cocaine import attempt

Two Victorian men who attempted to import more than 100 kilograms of cocaine worth $17 million into South Australia have had their jail terms more than doubled on appeal.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Grave Danger]

Interesting Four Corners program coming up tonight...

How the ATO was fleeced for $2b by a scam so simple you could do it on your phone

It was a scam so simple it took just minutes on your phone, where you could tell the tax office how much money to pay you, and it came through within days.

www.abc.net.au

Meanwhile...