Helen Sullivan: How Australians became the world’s biggest gamblers: The prevalence of slot machines – known as #pokies – in pubs and clubs across the country and betting on sport has created a culture of wagering
"It is a quiet night in Fairfield, in Sydney’s western suburbs. Inside a small brick building, a dozen Gamblers Anonymous members help themselves to coffee, tea and miniature meat pies. The meeting is taking place in a suburb that has one of the city’s lowest median incomes, and highest levels of #gambling losses. A fifth of the state of New South Wales’s 25 most profitable gaming clubs are here, according to government data."
"But it is a problem throughout the country. #Australia has less than 1% of the world’s population. It has 18% of the world’s poker – or slot – machines, according to the Australia Institute."
Yeah guys #Linux is frickin great y'all I just spent the like IDK 25 minutes tryna figure out how to get Java-based BD menus to play in VLC media player
I mean I got it working but my god that was a lot of searching and yet I'm pretty sure the solution was just like 'downgrade the VLC Java BD Menu plugin' or some shit.
#ClimateDiary My daughter drew this hour glass and stuck it on her window a few years ago, at the height of my and her climate activism, with @parents4future and all.
Now it’s all faded, and in many ways time has already run out. 1/2
I can relate to finding it hard to think about positive outcomes, and have been mainly trying to improve my immediate environment for biodiversity & also sharing food plants (mainly perennial) with friends, to try to ensure the growing skills and plants are established should there be any food supply shocks.
It’s not a cheery outlook, but it is within my sphere of influence.
I am lucky that my work is in habitat restoration.
After years of study, it's rare that an article substantially shifts my perspective on climate, but this year, this one did.
Why? Because it offers the understanding of how to improve the local climate that affects our lives. Meaningful, life-changing local action, rather than lobbying global governance or drop in the ocean emissions reductions.
Hence your #HabitatRestoration makes so much sense even if/as global change accelerates ✊
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JunkDrive #4: Expanded Weapons and Armor Tables for CY_BORG
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Publisher: Sad Fishe GamesThis supplement takes the d12 starting weapons, d6 starting armor, and d10 booster mods tables and doubles them. The entirety of the document is available in the preview. Check out the other JunkDrive volumes: JunkDrive #1:…
Amalgams Remastered
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Publisher: White WolfThis one took a long time to make, but I did want to challenge myself. While normally I use existing powers as inspiration this time I wrote a lot of these abilities from scartch. The powers are more focused on being fun, story driven…
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