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Work should give alcohol rations like sailors used to get!

“I’m 100% convinced that most of those denials were being made because the staff that was there were overburdened to the point of just blanket denying shit to make their KPIs”

And I am 100% convinced this type of thing is not an accident. Because why would an insurance company WANT to pay out more than they have to? Instead they slash staff which saves money on pay AND claims and the company can blame any drop in quality on the reduced staff!

It’s genius except for the part where they are killing paying customers!

Once Were Warriors

Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff’s harrowing vision of his country’s indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism, irresistible energy, and great sorrow.

Dysfunction, alcoholism, domestic violence.

But it’s not funny, sorry OP.

No embarrassing is something like shitting yourself in public or what RayGun did at the Olympics.

You are fine.

Newspeak: “In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to reduce a person’s ability to think critically.”

See also: “the officer’s gun discharged” instead of “police shot the man”

“A lay person is very easily impressed by a large number of followers,” said immigration lawyer Elektra Yao, founding partner of the Yao Law Group. “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist,” she said.

This world seems to get more anti-intellectual by the day.

Also as Snot Flickerman points out there are some real “The Handmaid’s Tale” vibes here and I would not be surprised!

“The rich are too rich, and the poor remain poor… (and people) lack confidence in their future, so they may be unwilling to have children.”

Sounds like it’s the same problem everywhere.

So question: will people accept the growing divide between rich and poor or will there be revolutions at some point ?

What would it take to make people rebel anyway ? I guess when there is nothing left to lose e.g. already starving to death ?

It was one of the main inspirations for the Matrix so it sort of has been made.

But yeah I could see a Neuromancer movie being good too! I can’t remember exactly how similar Neuro was to the Matrix because it has been so long but it did have the concept of “plugging in” to the network at least

edit Neuromancer TV series is coming soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(TV_series)

“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,”

Or the support of the press !

Police and government should not get to decide what we can protest or not.

Because according to Chris Minns, pro-Palestine rallies were to blame for the Bondi attack (it’s definitely not religious extremism everybody!!!).

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/19/anti-protest-laws-extraordinary-powers-nsw-premier-linking-gaza-rallies-bondi-terror-attack-ntwnfb

“The New South Wales premier wants parliament to grant his government “extraordinary powers” to effectively ban protests for three months, claiming the “implications” of pro-Palestine rallies could be seen in the Bondi terror attack that killed 15 people.”

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“When you see people marching and showing violent bloody images, images of death and destruction, it’s unleashing something in our community that the organisers of the protest can’t contain,” Minns said.

“The truth of the matter is, we can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW. The implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday.”

The novel that never stops being relevant.

Wrote two erotic fiction short stories, both of which will be audio books soon!

“Human rights groups said famine conditions in Sudan had been worsened by the Rapid Support Forces looting cities and destroying harvests, while the Sudanese army restricted humanitarian aid deliveries by blocking food shipments into RSF-controlled areas, severely limiting access to life-saving assistance.”

Sounds like both sides want the general population dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Sudan_(2024–present)

How do you know they are the same files though?

He is the Zangief of tantric sex!

Just ask Marjorie

THIS Marjorie Taylor Greene?

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2317992/marjorie-taylor-greene-husband-cheated-gym/

Just checking.

“Tantric Warrior” Craig Ivey should be in the Avengers or something:

“Thunberg, 22, was earlier arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide”. The British government has proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group.”

The group uses direct action to disrupt the UK arms industry, which it accuses of being complicit with Israel in conducting a genocide. Palestine Action have mounted 45 documented direct actions in the United Kingdom.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/un-experts-urge-united-kingdom-not-misuse-terrorism-laws-against-protest

“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.”

The Government asserts that the group is “terrorist” because some members have allegedly caused criminal damage to property, including at military bases and arms companies, with the aim of progressing its political cause and influencing the Government."

I think everyone has about 3 “versions” of themselves.

One version for work. One for family. One for friends and partners.

The work version is the least honest because so much is unacceptable to say at work and people self-censor a lot. Say the wrong things and you will get meetings, write ups and maybe fired. Everybody gives their boss to much information at least one time and learns why you don’t do that.

The friends and partners version is normally the most honest version and can be completely genuine for some. Good friends can be trusted to keep secrets and don’t judge.

Family is normally in the middle but this depends. If the family was incredibly old fashioned, conservative or religious then maybe a person would need to self-censor even more than they do at work?

I wonder if the jerky is good?