Tomas Fitzgerald

I read the tax expenditure statement so you don't have to! Curtin School of Law. Standard academic disclaimers apply.

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@KosSamaras Have you read Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country”? It predicts this play by play for the reasons you give, 27 years ago.

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@Soccer_Ba11 @MarkStopa @marwilliamson That you feel the need to try to convince me speaks for itself. That your attempt is so incredibly feeble tells me so much.

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@MarkStopa @marwilliamson You are the richest country in the history of the world. Inability to give a fraction of the wealth you’ve extracted from the globe back to those most in need is unthinkably callous. If your budget is a problem it’s because your priorities are wrong.

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@smalltown_wife This is a bad take. Good legal thinking takes training and is unintuitive.

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@saraaaaajean I had to work through it word by word to even work out what people *could* be getting tripped up by. It’s a neat reminder that law has completely rewired my brain to the point that I have stop and remember not everyone thinks like this immediately.

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@KosSamaras Have you read Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country”? He spells all this out in detail in a book written 25 years ago. Genuinely terrifying how prescient he was.

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@MaxRovensky @dieworkwear Uh, maybe hold off on Arcteryx for a while (I adore their styling and functionality, but…)

https://t.co/1bdckJKj8E

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@philosophybites Sed contra: at least Trump is incompetent and has no idea what he wants. Filling the state with a bunch of Mill-fetishists who know how to write persuasively already nearly ruined us in the 20thC and those were just Classics majors. Real philosophers would be a nightmare.

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@wophugus @Noahpinion It’s because no-one who thinks that has ever actually coded one of the things. The moment you need to work up some dumb hack to stop your pose estimator picking the camera in the background instead the guy long jumping in the centre of the frame you realise the problem.

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@hamhammer27 I mean we kind of built one on Rottnest, but I somehow doubt that’s what he means…

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@cosmicjester Needed to channel Commisioner Hayne: https://t.co/NKSZPmYoRI

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@platanomics @BevansAdvocate The best critique is Alisdair MacIntyre’s.

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@wophugus @chesscom Counterpoint: I’m too old for time scrambles

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@Jackbmeyer Bad critique of models; well they didn’t account for X, (which the model absolutely did account for).

Good critique of models; they’ve assumed a 1% learning rate discount that kicks in 20 years before the first plant is actually commissioned, which is insane.

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@purplepingers Everyone wants to laud our great Western Heritage, but no-one wants to squat anymore. Sad! Squatting made this country great!*

*except for, you know… *gestures*

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@SimonDavisTas I choose the best is not “messaging”. It’s expression of a live lived very frequently in active fear of men.

The real issue arises when pundits collapse 50% of the world’s lived experience to a “messaging” problem.

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@gnostic_bf Abject clockfiddler nonsense. Typical.

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@SHamiltonian @dannolan I see you two are finally jumping on this bandwagon. Welcome to the right side of history.

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@kaakoda_moore @Josh4Freo 1% savings year on year starting *before the first plant is even commissioned* in the current inflationary environment is insane and anyone who claims otherwise is lying.

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@kaakoda_moore @Josh4Freo I’ve read both. You have not.