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  • Per some of the comments above - add urgency, being in / not being in control, exertion are all part of it.

    Finishing a half marathon

    Attending a concert with 20k other people and singing one of my favourite songs at the top of my lungs

    The 30 to 40 seconds after my first experience scuba diving

    Surfing, believe it or not. - the feeling of being picked up and pushed forward at the same time, then being in control / out of control and elated at the same time

    Dancing in darkness to uplifting music, sometimes even exercising in the dark

    Riding downhill trails in the dark (wirh headlight of course)

  • It's a bower bird performance centre. Quite literally. They make an area where they can perform for a mate.

    They like the colour blue so collect heaps of blue things and decorate their bower with them.

    This one has got a bunch of milk bottle caps, milk bottle cap rings, blue plastic straws and what look like pegs.

    It sounds funny till you think about stuff that humans do for exactly the same reason (to be "interesting" to a prospective partner)

  • Bingo. I think that's the key to it - if you do it with the intent of getting something from someone, people will work that out pretty quickly and resent it. It comes over as being...greasy.

    If it's done from the perspective of having genuine interest, care and empathy it makes it easier to work as a group.

  • Not the most manipulative but

    Keep a log of the birthdays, hobbies and names of spouses and children of colleagues, managers, team members and customers.

    I learnt this from a guy who did executive search. People remember you, when you remember what is important to them.

    When I've lead teams it's one of the first things I find out - note down when someone says "yeah Gary that's my hubby, he's super into gaming"

    • Gary (husband.)
    • likes gaming

    When you're a manager, your teams families, partners and friends know your name. Reciprocating that - learning who is important to them - is really important.

  • becoming an officer in the salvation army requires signing documentation. Likewise ministers need to be ordained.

    So maybe expand the definition of regulation to include public institutions which have defined rules or codes of conducts. Leaving out the clanging irony of the multitude of crimes committed through organised religion.

    Journalists is a weird one. I think back in the day it would have been that they trade on their public reputation. Less so now when I can start up a blog on college sports and call myself an investigative journalist.

  • Orrrr....hear me out here

    This is a news article about a set of social media posts and has absolutely no link or relevance to the voting register.

    you know the cool thing about people voting? You know who has voted and in what age group they are. Then you can look at the age group and say things like hmmm wow thats weird there are like 34 million people in the US between 18 and 24, but only 7 million of them voted, I wonder if the other 27 million would have swayed the margin on an election decided by hundreds of thousands of votes

    Young people aren't participating yet they have the most skin in the game. It's daft.

    Imo Implement compulsory voting, introduce third parties that can act as a protest vote, watch what the fuck happens. Suddenly the major parties have to be accountable outside their base.

  • Late Gen x and early gen y had an off-line childhood and digital adulthood. I think that explains a fair amount about computer literacy, because a lot of what they were exposed to is the base config so they had to learn their way up.

    although I find that there are plenty of both that are absolutely clueless about tech

    Another weird thing that changed in that generation was communication style. Sms and email bred their own language and abbreviations..

    Other notables - digital wayfinding (online maps and Gps), music purchase and consumption, proliferation of social media, adoption of online persona, all changes that gen x / early y lived through.

  • Disagree on one point - independent research. Higher ed should be the venue where research that's not directly attached to a commercial body can sit. I'm supportive of running a small surplus on fees as long as it's directed to research, otherwise you're stuck with governmental and commercial grants which frequently come with strings attached.

  • Yes. VC for ANU has done 10% voluntarily and asked senior leads to do similar or opt out of annual salary increase.

    Melbourne, Monash, UniNSW who knows.

    Edited to add - she was on about 1.2 million per year so doing a 10% reduction in salary is probably a role saved.

  • Wore a maroon coloured hoodie

    The dude who asked me this also stared fixedly at the crotch of my board shorts and asked me "where's your package, man?" upon me exiting climbing out of a (cold) plunge pool

    I clearly looked confused, so he says "where's your piece?"

    Dude clearly spent a fair amount of his time cataloguing the outlines of flaccid penises through boardshorts for whatever fucking reason.

    I was offended, ish, till I heard the growers vs show-ers thing. Mine retracts while not in use, it's quite convenient.