What are frogs?
blondechinesehair 30 points31 points 15 hours ago

I think it’s one of those women from the crime documentaries that doesn’t want to be identified

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Bogdanopf 1328 points1329 points 16 hours ago

A video reporting corruption in Australia is banned on /r/australia

Very strange behaviour

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zzzip101[S] 681 points682 points 16 hours agox2

u/dredd try banning the vid now

Edit: I'd like to dedicate my awards and achievements to u/dredd. Thank you for helping me create awareness to this video.

Edit 2: For context, mods in r/australia has been banning this video from being posted for "brigading". It appears more so that they are trying to silence the other important voices in our community just because it does not align with their political views

This is a shame as it would provide fruitful discussions to Australia's political scene and potential corruption going on in the background. I personally don't barrack either party and these discussions are important to me because I will go into the next election well informed about the respective political parties and their contribution to our state.

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HingleMcringleberry1 87 points88 points 14 hours ago

So that concrete structure at ‘Nerrandera’s blue-green big wave pool urban surf park’ is a spillway. So it’s designed to spill once it gets over filled with rain, etc., so the actual earth embankments don’t fail. The ‘new’ concrete is an added height to the spillway maximum flood level (MFL)...I reckon it’s a half assed attempt at curbing the releases of the BG algae during flood - a tick box, if you will, to satisfy an environmental spec without having to raise the entire dam, which would be millions to tens of millions to do (which is essentially what it is, and if you sent a dam engineer to do an inspection on it, it would be placed in a high risk category due to its proximity to the river and the high risk contents it’s intended to contain). ** I’d be happy for a dams engineer to chime in and correct me here...I’m just a filthy geologist working in the dams space.

Just my two cents.

Fuckin corruption man.

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MagoLopez 75 points76 points 14 hours ago

I posted the video on r/australia. Let see how it goes

Update: permanently banned and muted, guys! We did it! Fuck u/dredd, you fucking scumbag lol

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Epicliberalman69 201 points202 points 16 hours ago

Mods are spooked, either someone in the LNP spoke to them, or their still butthurt over the AUWU video.

Edit: reward the post for traction, not me

Norm MacDonald reads the card he bought for Conan when Conan got the Tonight Show hosting job
evilgwyn 48 points49 points 1 day ago

The true gold was the friendships we made along the way

TIL: You cannot afford a 1 bedroom apartment on minimum wage, ANYWHERE in the U.S
Xander707 259 points260 points 1 day ago

It’s pretty weird how so many people actually defend the current state of things. As if asking for bare sustenance living in exchange for 40 hours of your life every week is somehow radical or unreasonable. Minimum wage should be a living wage. In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt said “ In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.”

What is controversial about this? If you work a full time job, whatever job that happens to be, you should be able to support your basic needs for independence. A one-bedroom apartment, healthcare, groceries. Not even going to include things like a vehicle (since in many cases you could find a minimum-wage job within biking distance or use public transport), or cell phone, cable, internet, etc. what is luxurious about this? Why is this controversial? We all depend on the many, MANY minimum-wage and barely-higher-than-minimum wage jobs to provide services we use daily. These are not just high school jobs. Whose working as a retail cashier at 10am on a Thursday? It is absurd that a country as well-off as America can’t provide a living wage to a huge amount of workers. It’s shameful. And so are the people who defend this status quo.

cramduck 533 points534 points 1 day ago

Averaging per state does some weird stuff, though. California's minimum wage is $12/hr, and you can easily get a 1bd place for ~$800 /month up near chico, etc.

"The other side of Schizophrenia" Negative Symptoms.
Rix-in-here 2 points3 points 1 day ago

Wow.. he perfectly described my personality... Who I am... I thought I was... normal