I’d hazard a guess that the ATO thinks it’s above the law.
That is, it will apply the law in order to enforce its rights against Australian citizens, but it doesn’t see itself to be bound by those same laws.
Clearly those fuckers have never read the history of the French revolution.
“[a] new study suggests red wine headaches might be caused by a combination of alcohol and a certain polyphenol, an antioxidant called quercetin [from red grape skins].
To arrive at their hypothesis, researchers looked to another known cause of alcohol-induced headaches: a genetic variant that is common in people of East Asian descent and that leads to headaches, flushing and nausea if they drink alcohol. The variant interferes with how the body processes alcohol, leading to a buildup of a harmful compound called acetaldehyde.
“In small amounts, we can handle” acetaldehyde without feeling sick, says Lara Ray, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who specialises in alcohol use disorders and was not involved in the study. But when alcohol isn’t metabolised properly, “the body then shows this aversive response”
Apparently quercetin impedes metabolism of acetaldehyde.
Just don’t say anything, they’ll get bored and give up when no one says anything.
Who? Car industry, gubment, whoever.
They? The legends of the Guardian: The journos of the woke pustule.
Turns out the hypocrites hate hypocrisy, making them super concentrated hypocrites.
As a minority you can’t take on 60% of the population and expect to win. That being the 60% that own SUVs.
Henri Bergson proposed that the existence of things precedes their possibility.
Except of course, with respect to his essay on the subject.
Even after the fact, it’s existence does not lend imagined prior plausibilty to the possibility of its future and as yet unrealised existence.
You see the problem there, right? If you don’t, then you’ve proved my point.
Put simply, the man was innovative giant in French philosophy. A yard stick in a carrot field of broken hearts.
I’m going to slip on the Nostradamus hat for fun.
All these first generation electric cars, they’re going to be junk when the battery dies and the importer/manufacturer washes their hands of the issue.
Especially those Chinese and American ones. Neither country is known for its great engineering nor genuine concern for it’s customers.
The Europeans, they will support you but it will cost more than the car’s worth.
If I was going to extend my mad early adopter habits to cars, I’d be going Japanese or Korean. Just saying.
Skarma is a special category of Karma….defined by me on this 29th day of November, 2023.
Say you happen to be gay and also have a low sperm count, and you’re not that bright.
You might, for example, say “it’s not my fault I don’t have kids”, and even extend this sentiment to “it’s someone else’s fault that I don’t have kids” and/or “someone else should fix my problem, or be responsible for compensating me accordingly if they can’t”.
That’s exactly what I read yesterday on the ABC website. Kid you not.
https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/being-childless-was-not-my-choice-but-people-assume-it-was/103108862
Skarma is a special category of Karma (usually bad) when you blame “others” for what just happens naturally, or what is dished out to you by fate.
You are supposed to just suck up life as it unfolds, and not complain if it doesn’t match some idealistic vision that you sponged off Youtube or near similar.
Skarma is self-inflicted through a warped sense of entitlement, and the victims will do anything other than accept this fact.
In my time I have seen quite a few Phoenixes (don’t really know what the plural of Phoenix is, to be sure..).
They usually go like this – directors put company into administration, creditors get fucked over, company restarts without creditors’ debt and the original controlling interest just rolls on in charge, with mountains of bad karma to work though.
This only works because the controlling interests get to “manage” the administration process, either formally (though a security interest), or informally through a beer agreement with the administrators (who may, or may not be, old schoolmates).
Here’s a proposed solution. In the instance that the business is “sold” in administration and continues to operate (no matter who the new owners are), then all the former creditors receive SAFE notes in the new company equivalent to their outstanding debt.
SAFE notes aren’t held as a liability on the balance sheet, so they don’t influence the calculation of solvency. On the balance sheet they are “other equity” and are automatically converted to shares in a next round of funding (with a discount if added to the SAFE note), if there is one. If there is no funding event and alternatively there is a dissolution event (administration) or a liquidity event (exit), then they can be converted to shares or cash ahead of the event, at the holder’s desire.
In one case they get their money back (more or less), and in the other, they optimise their position for claiming tax losses as they prefer (income or capital loss, for example). When they receive their SAFE notes they get to issue them in the name of any person or entity they wish – again to optimise their tax options.
Seems like a fair and reasonable alternative to the dreaded “Administration Phoenix” that screws over the creditors. The very existence of this scheme would prevent the directors even considering such a miserable option.
Until the SAFE note is converted or otherwise settled by negotiation, the company can’t pay dividends or directors loans etc. in fact you could go the whole hog and give the SAFE note holders control of critical business matters, as if they were investors in liquidated prefs.
Duplicitous Personality Disorder, or otherwise known as DID in the DSM.
It’s bloody useful if you want to get off the charge and you’ve got a greedy and/or woke psychologist in the mix.
“it weren’t me your honour, it were that other bloke…”
The Institute of Natural Intelligence. INI.
A vocational tertiary institute for training in jobs that are inherently both AI-resistant and robotics-resistant.
When I say “resistant” I mean the way some watches are water resistant. Best efforts and all that, but don’t get the fuckers wet.
Who would teach at said INI? Academics of course, with a pile of help from AI, because they’re lazy fuckers.
Actually, it’s possible that academics aren’t as crazy as I thought. Their work environment is so irrational that it makes it sort of AI proof, unless we can train the models on irrational data.
But that seems like a dangerous suggestion, no? Just ask chat GPT…
“Whether or not it is a good idea to train AI on irrational data depends on the specific application. In some cases, it can be helpful for AI to be able to understand and respond to irrational behavior. For example, an AI chatbot that is designed to provide customer service may need to be able to handle interactions with customers who are angry or upset. In these cases, training the AI on data that includes examples of irrational behavior can help it to learn how to respond in a way that is de-escalating and helpful.
However, there are also risks associated with training AI on irrational data. If the AI is not able to distinguish between rational and irrational behavior, it may start to believe that irrational behavior is normal or even desirable. This could lead to the AI making decisions that are harmful to itself or others. For example, an AI that is trained on data that includes examples of violence may be more likely to use violence itself.”
So yeah, nuh. It’s probably best just to live with the academics as they are.
They have four legs each and can run the INI, no worries. Mate.
Western society is being gaslit by the wokes.
After some well earned and deserved early gains, the wokes are now taking the piss.
Individually they’re not aware of this, but collectively they’re abusing each other’s empathy.
And collectively they’re just abusing the rest of us. And playing chicken with the conservatives.
Bertrand Russell’s observation comes to mind; there’s nothing especially noble about the oppressed, or their mates.
Don’t buy it!
Supposed 25 year warranty but the paint on the kitchen door fronts and drawer fronts is wearing through after 3 years of normal use.
Their complaints system is designed for you to give up
If you keep going they just say it’s normal wear and tear and not a factory fault, and therefore your problem: no warranty.
I’m never going back, ever.
Humans are at it again, destroying the natural habitat of a species that is consequently on the brink on extinction.
This time it’s the pubic louse.
Think the Brazilian.
Where are y’as on this one, woke army?
Electrically earth swimming pools. It ain’t that hard.
It’s not mine, it’s Nic’s.
A strip of cloth covered in the non furry, hooked plastic side of Velcro.
All the socks would stick to it and be able to be removed from the dry laundry in one glorious lump, for subsequent processing.
In my case I’d just hang the lump from a door and whip off the socks when I needed them.
Data point for evidence of utility: after laundering, my socks are stuck to the exposed Velcro on my shorts.
Microsoft are either incompetent or malevolent. They’re are the only two ways to explain their products.
I imagine they are both, in fact.
My data point being that all the errors resulting from their incompetence just happen to be in their favour (hence the malevolence).
The incompetence is the excuse they use when charged with abusing their market position.
That is true of every large B2C corporation, almost without exception.
As one approaches the age of 60, you do notice the real world and it’s ageist ways.
Effectively, opportunities are cut off for you, or you do it yourself, because of your age.
The ‘do it yourself’ part is interesting. Effectively you anticipate ageism and go out of your way not to be a subject of it, thereby reducing your opportunities.
And yet, it’s still real.
These days, the peak of your perceived powers are around 48 years old. And that number is dropping.
Gone are the days of the old fellas ruling the roost. Unless somehow they’ve institutionalised their power, e.g. in politics.
Using the gender wars as a yardstick, we should start calling out ageism for what it is. Name and shame…
And then start organisations like OFIP, old fellas in IP, to promote our collective equal opportunity rights.
But that’s the thing about getting older; you can’t be fucked and you’re not that stupid. So it’s self propagating.
That is, you don’t want to be perceived to be equivalent to that ageing hipster blonde chick with big glasses and weird lipstick, bemoaning about the opportunities denied her by the patriarchy that have hampered her over-privileged and under-performing work career.
The gender correct (sic) pronoun has always annoyed me because it sounds grammatically incorrect. There’s only one of them, and yet they are plural.
But then I noticed we all do it. When we don’t know the gender of the person we will say “when are they coming?”
So we’re all grammatically incorrect. What English needs is a solution that isn’t plural.
Arguably (and very) the French have a solution. La and Le can be abbreviated to L’.
Noting that she and he, him and her, etc are derived from each other (generally the feminine just has an added ‘s’ or switched out and an ‘i’ for an ‘e’) we could adapt the French solution thusly;
She and He => ‘e or #e
Him and Her => H’ or H#
What is the best way to exploit a mostly uneducated consumer without fear of getting caught?
It seems to me that all you have to do is find an “edge case” and extrapolate to buggery.
For example, someone with very high blood pressure shouldn’t consume excessive salt, and that’s a fact. Well it is if they want to keep living.
However, for the rest of the population it doesn’t matter how much salt they consume.
And yet they have been told to cut back. 99.99% of people believe this without question.
In this case no one profited as far as I could tell. Maybe it was a practice run to see how gullible people really are…
What followed?
Margarine
Cholesterol
Sunblock
Vitamins
Probiotics
Prebiotics
Supplements
Vegetarianism
Veganism
And the list goes on.
The counter argument is similar to the that for gambling. Ya gotta be in it to win it ..
Sure someone profits, but if it gives people hope and doesn’t make them destitute, what harm is being done really?
“Sunscreen usage is climbing, but so are melanoma and skin cancer rates: this, researchers say, is the sunscreen paradox.”
It’s actually worse than it sounds. A study in Canada showed higher skin cancer rates where there was higher sunscreen usage.
You should see them squirming; hiring researchers to follow sunscreen users so they can blame shoddy slip/slop/slap practices on the results, etc.
Having learned the concept of Occam’s Razor as a kid, it would seem to me that the obvious line of research would be to look at the chemical toxicity of sunscreens, especially in UV light, and those of their degradation products.
Avobenzone, octinoxate and oxybenzone: sure these chemicals absorb UV light, but chemically they look pretty nasty and the sort of chemicals that you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy’s skin.
Titanium dioxide, now that’s a known super efficient photocatalyst. Why in the hell would you put that in there? Creating radicals just where you don’t want them.
That’s right, I’m suggesting the solution is the problem. Those UV absorbing chemicals and their degradation products are probably carcinogenic.
Just saying … seems bloody obvious to me.
So Phil sends me a ngram plot showing that the term “conspiracy theory” didn’t exist before 1950 and it’s taken off like a piano out of a window since then.
My view is that there were only conspiracy hypotheses before then. But ngram surprisingly suggests that this blog is the world’s very first use of the term “conspiracy hypothesis”.
You beauty! Little jig, etc.
I’m going to suggest that the post-50’s progenitors of novel social and political explanations didn’t actually think they were hypotheses, which is partly why others labelled them as theories.
It was a case of dishing out left handed compliments to unworthy retards.
There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that these were facts, mate. And being facts, you’re clearly mad, mate.
Actually they are all hypotheses and pretty bad ones at that. Not one of them either (a) stands being tested with prior data, or (b) has any utility in predicting the future.
Your average Conspiracy Theory does surpringly pass the Occam’s Razor test, generally being the simplest of all possible solutions (e.g. It’s the Rockefellers…). “Simple” is the word you’ve got to focus on there. They’re still shit.
But generally they are pretty funny, so that’s something to hang onto.
What these people were doing prior to 1950 remains a mystery. Although I would point out that the most prominent inventions of that decade were: the transistor radio, Sputnik, the flight data recorder, the Breath-a-Lyzer, the barcode, the polio vaccine, and the hovercraft (and of course, now we must add the Conspiracy Theory to that list).
My money’s on the Breath-a-Lyzer as the catalyst of change that switched on the loonies. Of course they would pick the polio vaccine and they would be incorrect as usual, even if they weren’t.
I wonder if you have to pay off good luck with bad karma?
Say you win the Everest multi.
It was a promotion by the NZ tab, a free bet where you choose the finishing position of all 12 horses in the race.
Against the odds, some bloke won it and got $10m at no cost.
One chance in 500 million. That’s 12 factorial if your wondering.
There’s what, 4 million kiwis, so the TAB never thought they’d be paying out. Lol.
He’ll be paying that luck off for the next 5 generations.
So this bearded bloke in overalls was selling “artisan melanzana”. I had to ask..
Italian for eggplant
Organic with visible flaws
Special weirdo small variety
Washed in distilled water
Picked by virgins under a full moon, all genders btw
Packed in tissue paper and carted in reusable old school wooden boxes
Also displayed in said wooden boxes with chalk board pricing reminiscent of the great depression,
And it was fucking expensive…
One security guard to another;
“I hate being six foot four”
“Here’s the deal Maxwell.
I need to bring on 5 people this time period.
You seem like a solid fit.
Your invitation is attached, the password is 3105.
I look forward to hearing back from you Maxwell.
Jesus”
I couldn’t make this shit up…
This is what Google has inexplicably decided that I’m interested in;
How the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked a climate catastrophe
“She knew I struggled” Adrian Edmonson on confiding in wife
Almost 100,000 customers have Centrelink payments paused
BYD Seal logs huge order tally in just two weeks
$20 bottle of South Australian wine named world’s best
Why are there so many grumpy men on cruises?
I didn’t find information on how to plan financially for parenthood so I wrote a book
(The answer is their wives, btw.)
I got halfway through the article thinking it was modern day slow reveal journalism, but no, the bird is actually called the powerful owl, lower case. No shit.
“Powerful owls are expressive and strangely compelling — their powerful ‘woo-hoo’ hoot carries across the night. It’s soulful [and] I love it.”
Not surprisingly there’s hardly any left and yet they’re simultaneously on the brink of becoming the next bin chicken.
The unexpected solution to this unexpected problem is, of course, that we give some academics (specifically, Ms Zvolanek and Dr Parsons) some money to ponder the inexplicable. I’m in.
offshore westerly 