Dramlin

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• Commented on Place your bets
  It was during my nursing training, back when we trained in hospitals. It just floored me that they knew she was a poor teacher but kept her on AND fronted us to explain why we didn't pass her subject! I...
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  Ahh memories. Way back 40 years ago I failed a subject (as an adult) -- notable because it was the only one I ever failed. I think all of us failed it. The teacher was hopeless, she kept jumping around...
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  Reminds me of a conversation I once had with someone from World Vision, telling them I didn't support them because you couldn't support Australian children in need through them. "It's too political" was her response. And about 10 years ago,...
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  Today, yes, but this has been so for quite some time now. I watched Bowling for Colombine when it came out with a friend of mine who was in Sydney at the time, a well-travelled African American gentleman, who came...
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  "Why do US inhabitants hate each other so much?" I don't know but I do know that no one kills more Americans than Americans....
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  Which factor, when you consider that there are people alive now who had first contact with white fellas, is pretty damning. David Dalaithngu, the famous actor who died last year, was one such, as were the tribe they dispossessed to...
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  My first experience of Indigenous health in Darwin showed me the same suite of chronic diseases I was used to seeing in Sydney -- but a decade earlier. Which is to say I would see a medical history which, in...
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  I have never seen an image of an Indigenous Australia, prior to the arrival of white fellas, wearing hats. Or footwear for that matter. They did, in some places at least, wear headbands to keep their hair off their faces,...
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  Ahh, memories. The look on the face of the Flat Earther who'd run an experiment with a laser to prove the earth was flat and proved the curvature of the earth instead... Sadly I don't believe it made any difference....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Well there are plenty of cave paintings and such like that prove Indigenous Australians have been here for well over 40,000 years so all the sciences used for that, for starters....
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  I remember when Die Hard 4.0 came out, and when the bad guys transmitted an image of the White House being destroyed I immediately thought "And anyone not in sight of the White House doesn't know that's not true."...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  OMG -- an undead Bun-Bun??? Doesn't bear thinking about really!...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  They'll keep in your fridge for up to 2 years....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I can personally recommend a handful of raw almonds as a much nice way of easing heartburn than OTC concoctions such as the ones you tried....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  "Welcome to Australia, the land of the fair go." Also where living on country your ancestors have been living on for longer than anybody anywhere else in the world (well except where people were rounded up and put on missions...
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  That was my first and, to date, sadly, my only Worldcon. Got to the Dealer's Room on the first day in time to discover that the Foglio's had already sold out all the stock they brought, but did get to...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I ran into a similar problem when working at a university, where some of my students were doing a TAFE course (vocational training) rather than a uni course. For the uni course we were pretty invested in making sure that...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  We used to have a small number of sheep until a neighbour got dogs they didn't control. People would say how cute they were and ask us how we could possibly eat them: "Oh we don't eat them, we eat...
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  I remember being on my first trip to the States in the '80s, and one of our tour guides telling us she had three jobs and was studying. I was horrified by the number of people with similar stories, who...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  The problem would appear to the missing part -- the training. It's work to make an informed decision, and so many voters don't do that work....
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  "Franchise" by Isaac Asimov anyone?...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Or as I like to call it, after first watching it a couple of years ago: "Oh this is what it's like when there's a grown-up in the White House"....
• Commented on WTF
  Makes sense!...
• Commented on WTF
  Well that explains a lot, but... Socks?...
• Commented on WTF
  Our family has Steve, the god of parking. He has a name so we can thank him when he does something nice for us....
• Commented on WTF
  I still have a friend up there who's an avid cyclist, plus my partner used to train for triathlons in Darwin -- worked out well when we went to Langkawi for an Ironman event. I can't seem to find it...
• Commented on WTF
  I lived in Darwin for a decade, and had a few culture shock moments when I arrived. One of them was seeing an address on an ambulance sheet that said "Longgrass Bagot Road". There's a sizable if usually transient population...
• Commented on WTF
  This reminds me of a short story I read once where aliens crash landed and utilised materials belonging to a human who owned the property on which they crash landed. They wanted to repay the human but due to scale...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Possum/merino socks -- best things in the world! Our road would be a great place to test AIs for cars -- three species of little hoppy things, one species of bigger hoppy thing, possums, Tassie Devils, an echidna, bilbies, quolls,...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  And this is why you do not try and drive at high speed past a wedge tailed eagle on the side of the road. They will most likely take off, very slowly, just as you get close to them and...