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What is the issue you're having?
I think it's just because I scale down my portions too much. If I did the normal family sized potato bakes that are in the recipes I'd just eat it till I'm bloated. I'm not sure why they don't work out for me. The potato just doesn't soften enough but if I cook it longer it burns on the outside. There's no happy medium. I probably should just cook a normal family sized one and try to practice some restraint.

I do a mean sianudh tortilla (basically cubed potato deep fried then cooked in eggs with some garlic and bacon.
 

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Inflation being such an issue, let's exasperate the problem by demanding higher wages to cope with it, rather than reign in our spending to cope.
Fuck, society is stupid!
Nurses and RTBU want 15% in the same week, Berejiklian would offer 3%
 

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I think it's just because I scale down my portions too much. If I did the normal family sized potato bakes that are in the recipes I'd just eat it till I'm bloated. I'm not sure why they don't work out for me. The potato just doesn't soften enough but if I cook it longer it burns on the outside. There's no happy medium. I probably should just cook a normal family sized one and try to practice some restraint.

I do a mean sianudh tortilla (basically cubed potato deep fried then cooked in eggs with some garlic and bacon.
Have you tried loosely covering with foil for the earlier part of cooking?
 

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Nurses and RTBU want 15% in the same week, Berejiklian would offer 3%
Deflation for ALL wages, double the rate for senior managers and above, to reduce inflation.
Fuck everyone, including me, only way to reset and get things under control.
 

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These “paddle protestors” in Newcastle protesting coal etc, did they consider that their singing and protest used power or where they using solar power?!
 

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These “paddle protestors” in Newcastle protesting coal etc, did they consider that their singing and protest used power or where they using solar power?!
Pissing in the wind, the Hunter says coal is King, infrastructure all the way to Mudgee nearly and Narrabri, props the country up in hard times, pays for floods and fires, maybe Nuclear and solar might ease it but sixty coal trains a day stay, someones buying it, what did they expect the Government to do?
 

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Something that really shits me (and this is why I very rarely use communal toilets in the office) is when you step into the bathroom, and some dickhead is there pissing in the toilet bowl as opposed to using the urinal. I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO THAT SHIT FFS.
 

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Something that really shits me (and this is why I very rarely use communal toilets in the office) is when you step into the bathroom, and some dickhead is there pissing in the toilet bowl as opposed to using the urinal. I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO THAT SHIT FFS.
Hearing them shart is even worse lol
 

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How did the prick that stabbed his wife 30 times in front of their 5 kids get his avo reduced so he could go home in the first place.
 

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Shit witch hunts that compound themselves and being talked into buying a $400 Samsung by Optus that only rings for ten seconds isnt worth $400 because you have to ring back the missed call every, surely a phone should ring for at least twenty seconds, bought some downloads and still ten seconds.
All that technology.
 
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How did the prick that stabbed his wife 30 times in front of their 5 kids get his avo reduced so he could go home in the first place.
The art of manipulation. Pretending to be “rehabilitated” in order to move back in with her as she was pregnant with their 5th child. And before anyone dares to blame her for having more children with him (media has a real nack for victim blaming especially with this case), we’re talking about a young 29 year old woman who immigrated from Lebanon after she married him, resettled here with her and her family back home, believing that she was in safe hands.
English was her second language and she has no immediate family here.

But What really got me with this is the assumes who just think that “walking away” is the solution to DV and that it’s her fault for staying.

Here’s the reality. When a woman has endured years of violence, having to rely on her partner for financial support, housing and etc to be able to care for her young children because he love bombed her and stripped away any form of freedom by painting the fairytale narrative convincing her that she will be looked after and that she doesn’t need anyone else in her life but him, while at the same time her life, identity and freedom is all stripped away like pieces of clothing, she’s left with nothing but 4 walls and a monster. How anyone can believe it’s easy to escape a situation like this just shows there are people in humanity that no matter what the situation is, they will always find a reason to not respond empathetically because they fortunately never had to endure such difficult situations in order to feel some form of sadness for the animals that we live amongst in humanity!

I’ve seen men commenting on SM about this, claiming that she must have provoked it. Women trying to compare their stories saying they dealt with worse and managed to leave or that if she reported that many times she should’ve left.

For me what grinds my gears with this is the level of inhumanity from people who claim to be good people!
 

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The art of manipulation. Pretending to be “rehabilitated” in order to move back in with her as she was pregnant with their 5th child. And before anyone dares to blame her for having more children with him (media has a real nack for victim blaming especially with this case), we’re talking about a young 29 year old woman who immigrated from Lebanon after she married him, resettled here with her and her family back home, believing that she was in safe hands.
English was her second language and she has no immediate family here.

But What really got me with this is the assumes who just think that “walking away” is the solution to DV and that it’s her fault for staying.

Here’s the reality. When a woman has endured years of violence, having to rely on her partner for financial support, housing and etc to be able to care for her young children because he love bombed her and stripped away any form of freedom by painting the fairytale narrative convincing her that she will be looked after and that she doesn’t need anyone else in her life but him, while at the same time her life, identity and freedom is all stripped away like pieces of clothing, she’s left with nothing but 4 walls and a monster. How anyone can believe it’s easy to escape a situation like this just shows there are people in humanity that no matter what the situation is, they will always find a reason to not respond empathetically because they fortunately never had to endure such difficult situations in order to feel some form of sadness for the animals that we live amongst in humanity!

I’ve seen men commenting on SM about this, claiming that she must have provoked it. Women trying to compare their stories saying they dealt with worse and managed to leave or that if she reported that many times she should’ve left.

For me what grinds my gears with this is the level of inhumanity from people who claim to be good people!
We don't know what he's said or done to get her back there either. I worked with a woman who took years to get the courage to leave her partner. The guy basically has threatened to torture their daughter in front of her before killing them both if they ever left. And she seemed pretty convinced that he was capable of it. Her ex had a pretty serious criminal record for violence he'd been caught perpetrating which according to her wasn't even the tip of the iceberg.

So I struggle to understand why women don't find an exit strategy. But I do know that in many cases there's fear and emotional manipulation playing a part.
 
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We don't know what he's said or done to get her back there either. I worked with a woman who took years to get the courage to leave her partner. The guy basically has threatened to torture their daughter in front of her before killing them both if they ever left. And she seemed pretty convinced that he was capable of it. Her ex had a pretty serious criminal record for violence he'd been caught perpetrating which according to her wasn't even the tip of the iceberg.

So I struggle to understand why women don't find an exit strategy. But I do know that in many cases there's fear and emotional manipulation playing a part.
Without going into it too much, most women have exit strategies. They can’t exhert them because these men either find out where they end up OR they end up with ADVOs and this lady is an example of just how the law doesn’t protect these women when they do follow the exit strategy.
They introduced coercive control laws which in itself was well over due but don’t introduce laws if the punishment doesn’t outweigh the crime.
 

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If it’s anything to go by, they said the AVO was changed that he could go back home, there was a incident at the school leading up to it.
 

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Dictator Public announcing telling us how it is in the 2020s.
Fuck off idiot.
 

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Shit witch hunts that compound themselves and being talked into buying a $400 Samsung by Optus that only rings for ten seconds isnt worth $400 because you have to ring back the missed call every, surely a phone should ring for at least twenty seconds, bought some downloads and still ten seconds.
All that technology.
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Optus fella finally figured that out thanks but gee they shitted me off for not knowing at first
 

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'New Outback Truckers' is same shit as 2017, can it and bring on Australian Railroad or Australia Dirt Bike enduro series
 

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'New Outback Truckers' is same shit as 2017, can it and bring on Australian Railroad or Australia Dirt Bike enduro series
All of these reality series based on jobs seem very manufactured. I only watch them occasionally. Seems like no truck can get through a run without a breakdown of some kind of getting bogged.

None of the mining shows can get through an hour show without every one of the miners having massive equipment failures.

If it's about cutting timber it's the same. Somebody almost gets wiped out by a tree or the equipment breaks down. Sometimes it's supposedly inexperienced staff causing issues.

And I know that if things just went well in any of these shows, nobody would be interested. So the manufactured mini dramas are a necessity to keep people watching. But it does get a bit old if you watch these shows much.
 
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