Dogs are just as sensitive to their handlers’ body language as they are to whatever substance they are supposed to detect. If the handler’s interest is piqued, the dog is more likely to indicate a false positive to please them. And a positive indication from the dog is probable cause to search, so...

I get your point and I agree. The sheer blindness to historical reality and statistical probabilities still gets to me tho (although given who we are talking about, shouldn’t surprise me).

How could anyone claim that they are 100% ‘white’? It’s absurd. I haven’t done a DNA test, but my tree is about five generations of English peasant, probably more (we fade into the mass of common surnames past 1850ish), so I wouldn’t expect any surprises (cause peasant farmers don’t get out much). But there have been…

Is there even a single case of a ‘bad hombre’ getting deported? Every report I’ve seen is ICE going after low hanging fruit or straight up deplorable injustice like Anwana - not the evil MS-13 rapist-killers that they promised. 

using their womanhood as a sorrow-gathering bucket while still getting to use their whiteness as a suit of armor 

I draw the line at obvious druggies (cause I don’t want anyone to hurt themselves with my money or support organised crime), but smokes/alcohol/the TAB? It’s legal, it’s taxed, if that’s really what they want, fine. (And as someone pointed out, the TAB will let you sit all day, while the increasingly gentrified cafes…

Oh she’s had it planned and paid for for twenty years, after the divorce i was still a minor and my brothers only just adults, so she got a whole bunch of things things sorted and filed away. (It also shows she knows her children, I’m in charge of EVERYTHING cause my bros will be wrecked, per grandma’s and godmum’s…

Well, you need a medium to propagate sound waves, so he is technically correct that the racist/Nazi/altright echo chamber this spews from is not a vacuum... 

Don’t forget the kids who were ‘discharged because they turned 18’ - discharged to who exactly? Their families? Back to ICE and adult detention? Dumped on the street to become one of welfare statistics they love to throw around? Deported to god knows what kind of hell? 

My mum has had her plan for years. There are to be balloons, lots of yellow, she wants us to decorate the casket with stickers and glitter, and has declared only happy crying, cause she’s going to Heaven with God, so it’s not a sad event! And I have specific instructions to watch a few drama-llama friends don’t take…

Depends. For a single person to maintain a home, car, food, insurance etc, not really. For a multi person household (family with kids or elders, adults in a share house), it can free up enough time and labour to make a big difference in the quality of life of everyone. And quality of life means tax savings down the…

Heh, I just joined a Tassie state gov dept, and after the CA abortion tweet thing, everyone was a bit ‘well, what ARE we allowed to do?’ (The policy is ‘being reviewed’.) So being able to gossip and speculate about federal politics was a bit of a relief.

Heh, I looove potato scallops. (W/ chicken salt!) Then I moved and I have to remember to say ‘potato cake’ cause here we have real scallops at the fish n chips. Which are also amazing but much more expensive.

Not really, that’s probably the professional firefighters, the ones with tertiary level training and decades of experience. Think generals, not privates. The money and resources they represent would be multi-millions, and the stored knowledge  and skill may be irreplaceable. 

As a white woman in Australia, I’m calling bullshit on pretty much everything in that screed. The experience of new immigrant groups in Aus can be shitty, but it’s nothing compared to the daily shitshow depicted on these pages. And it’s not racism to be bullied by private school kids, they’re just fuckwads, it’s like…

I am sobbing quietly on the bus to work. Dammit Michael! 

Kookaburras are technically kingfishers, who changed their diet to lizards and snakes. We used to watch them whack their catches to death on the back fence before tossing it back. Magpies love a little raw meat too, and will learn your face and return with their babies.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh C’Trumplhu M’larhgo wgah’nagl covfefe!

IA! IA! C’Trumplhu covfefe! 

FYI, Australia has a universal system (also called Medicare). You can rely on Medicare only (which is currently getting harder, as rates have not kept up with inflation), you can get private insurance (covering dental, optical, allied, ‘wellness’, and hospital services like premium tests, private rooms etc not covered…