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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

I guess "oyul"? I can't really describe that first sound, maybe a shortened "or" as in "horse" (non-rhotic). The second vowel I've represented with a "u" is a schwa.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

I would love to tell you, but I have no idea how to convey that in text

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I think get the premise, but what does the caption mean?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The sound is longer in "air" than "egg" and "leg". Egg and leg are perfect rhymes for me

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Bill Gates doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft anymore

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 21 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Secret out-of-court settlement is an option.

Also known as "bribing your way out of the law"

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 14 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

...Why is the Department of Energy responsible for nuclear weapons?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

With that set up you could install Ark twice!

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Thanks, you just made me realise I used the same vowel in "air" and "egg" and it makes me uncomfortable.

We do the same re: fridge in Australia, although stores are increasingly moving them to fridges recently.

My speculation is supermarkets maximise for cost, homes maximise for longevity.

Alternatively, homes tend to get hotter than supermarkets.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Upvoting a news article does not remotely imply celebration of the news

 

Despite him blowing the whistle on the egregious use of power by the Tax Office with an understanding that he was protected, he wasn’t. He’s been caught out by inadequate laws that purported to shield him, but instead lured him into a situation where he and his family has suffered for seven years.

 

Guardian Economist Greg Jericho shows - with interactive graphs - how the RBA's interest rate policies have missed the mark and depressed Australian living standards in an unprecedented way.

 

Furness recommended the Nacc revisit the controversial decision, which had already been the subject of 900 complaints when she promised in June to inquire into the matter.

Following the inspector’s recommendation, the Nacc will now appoint an “independent eminent person” to deliberate afresh on a possible corruption investigation into robodebt.

 

They found a 110 year old thylacine head in a bucket of ethanol in the back of a cupboard in a museum with RNA intact.

 

former Queensland secretary Michael Ravbar – who’s been dismissed together with almost all other officials – said he would launch a challenge against the legislation passed last week to put the union into administration.

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