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Don't believe everything you think On the land of the Yugambeh people surrounded by sharks Figuring out how to use AI for good

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This has been a long time in the making. Well over a year ago had been meaning to start putting this together but had the opposite of writers block. This is just a little snapshot really, an ideas dumping ground of AI textual creativity.
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The difference between Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle is firstly, Frankie Boyle is a much much *darker* comedian in his humour, and occasionally you can miss the mark with some jokes, but he usually punches up, not down. And he doesn't keep repeating the failures...
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Just realised we've gone like three whole weeks without a once in 500 year flood event
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@lauracaixxao @TerribleMaps At least it's not missing from the map for a change!
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"who previously earned as much as $200,000 as a senior adviser when he was just 24" That in itself is a major problem. No one has enough experience at age 24 to be a "senior advisor"
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@rolandmcs Similar sentiment here 😂
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@AboutIndia @US_FDA Why do you think this is better than a vaccine? It has horrible side effects, it's not some great miracle cure. And who do you think makes it? Pharmaceutical companies!
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@ledredman @RishiSunak Not just gaslighting, world beating gaslighting
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@daniel_ley "Never drive through flood water" BMW drivers "You can't tell me what to do"
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@SexCounseling @realDonaldTrump The majority of people who come to Australia by boat are genuine refugees, which is a legal way to immigrate. The vast majority of illegal immigrants in Australia arrive by air and overstay visas, which is illegal
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@JueDaJones @Cupcakes_n_Rap Why would a promiscuous 30 year old wait until late term for an abortion?
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You can't park there
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@RonnieJones5 @BBCBreaking The only one who's made a decision here is Novak Djokovic, believing the rules don't apply to him
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@DidaBrownSr @marktait78 Bit of a chicken and egg scenario
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@OzIndie @odeIive @moranmarc13 Good morning, and in case I don't see ya: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night! This and Eternal Sunshine are fantastic movies
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@mikecosgrove @JamesRobichaux @DanPriceSeattle Same in Australia. Our tax/GDP rate is less than one percentage point higher than the US, yet we have universal healthcare. If you factor in what Americans pay in insurance as a tax then it's massive compared to other countries
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@Telegraph Chop the good students in half, leaving those who did poorly at English to work at the Telegraph and get more headlines like this?
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@johnb78 Singapore is a similar example, it looks nice, and is even nice for the middle classes and even a lot of lower classes, but that's reliant on an underclass too
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@kymmytha @Apocalypte @scattermoon Even Australia is expediting visas for Ukranian citizens currently in the queue and fast tracking new visas, and we have a complete a-hole govt in power at the moment.
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@TheGeneral_0 @TheInsiderPaper Seems to mostly be people on the right who are the perpetrators
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@zinifax @DianneCostin Well, either NSW has been getting terrible advice that's the opposite of every other state & territory in Australia, or they're not following the advice given
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@GTCPotter66 @Stillberto @JacquiDeevoy1 With that much blood loss, if he was able to still get an erection, then I'd say it gave him a super power
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@BradleyTim @Kellie_Martin That's the weird thing with alcohol, being sober around drunk people you wonder why the hell you'd want to spend time with them. When drunk though, they're all your friends. It's a "stupifier"
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@bethrielly "Australian style immigration" Spending insane amounts of money to look like you're winning a fight against an invisible enemy that doesn't exist to distract from the fact you're not running the country properly
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@amazingmap Roughly 4% of the Greek population live in the red area
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@simonahac Ha, inspired me to do one of Brits view of Australia and vice versa. The UK one is pretty accurate except for the well dressed people.... and the inner London sheep 😂
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@H2Ninja @KetanJ0 @harry_horton @trussliz To be fair, he was originally their export, he's being returned due to a manufacturing fault
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@eyceeslim @myahsmommy0624 True, although someone who's been married multiple times, unfaithful to each one, is very much not a Christian
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@de_pivo @1goodtern @MaxwellNia Unfortunately people in developed nations forget about a lot of "eradicated" diseases, especially ones that do exist elsewhere but don't where public health measures have in effect eradicated it
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@mikegalsworthy And why isn't it considered insider trading? Laws need to be changed
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Going to be some different parties complaining about FPTP this time around...
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There was talk a while back about Australia not being ready to have a PM with a non-Anglo-Saxon name like Albanese. Needs to be a very traditional English, state premier name like Malinauskas, Palaszczuk, Berejiklian, Gutwein, or Perrottet
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@rolandmcs Why is the silent majority SO LOUD
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@LusciousLani That Cleveland, TN woman from Canada (apparently), just had to join Twitter to write two posts: attacking Trudeau, and getting involved in an Australian court case 😂
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@OwenPaterson It's almost as though the EU has taken back control of its borders
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@moranmarc13 They moan about the "elites" travelling by private jet to an environmental conference, they moan about a child sailing to America. They moan about kids these days needing to be wrapped up in cotton wool, yet when one puts herself out there like this they still moan!
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@TDEMomof3 @Stop_Trump20 I dunno, the fake brunettes are worse
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@ca5ual_Vibe5 @MediumSizeMeech The fact this has a nudity warning is genius! 😂
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@Lucy__Vixen @theJeremyVine Just go straight for a crotch grab, as based on the hand washing habits of a lot of men that's what you're effectively doing anyway
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@charlie30592056 @Kathbum Poor child, hopefully she gets a better male influence in her life, as well as learns how to spell from someone other than you
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@oooblahhh @JohnBarilaroMP Starting to think there's going to be a private jet charter tonight with a bunch of people escaping on it
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@realwackyguy @RealGameQuoter 160 years of knowledge they've since forgotten
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@Mindelbrot @SirCumfy The Vaccines could replace the lot!
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@Sillyshib @secretbort Is that why he skips over Thursday and Friday and Saturday in 7 days. He wanted to say "Gave her a KFC moist towelette on Thursday"
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@TartanTories @MoggMentum He'd be better off using the Temporary Dictator (Benevolent) Act of 1872 as it gives him much more power
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@LindenG @_ElizabethMay The whole story is a bit fishy
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@LozzaFox Ignore the neighsayers
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Can YOU recall what you had for breakfast the morning The Queen died?
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@endofbellcurve @MikeStuchbery_ An Englishman, an Englishman and an Englishman walked into a pub...
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A lot of questions here...
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@sjcnj @rhysblakely @DrGrumble If you think $17741 per day is the "cost" of care you're nuts
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@NoCatsNoMasters @vszyb @Asher_Wolf @united They charge people for checking in luggage, then get annoyed when people only take carry on, then they lose luggage and wonder why people only take carry on 😂
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@sallymcmanus Why didn't the CovidSafe app have a QR code feature? Then it may have actually been useful
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@fascinatorfun @TheStephenRalph @lloydhardy @pritipatel @ukhomeoffice @BorisJohnson @UNODC_AML @EU_AML @GoodLawProject @metpoliceuk I find it odd such high amounts are being put on credit cards, usually they need to go through a process involving a purchase order, and accounts department etc
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@Tabberfield @monaeltahawy @Carriageworks @UNSWCentreIdeas @clementine_ford The patriarchy is also quite harmful to men, I don't see why so many insist on defending it. Everyone should be attacking it
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@ChristineKPPD @sarahinthesen8 12 ships, you forgot the one carrying ScroMo's press photographer
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@plaasklaas @RobDenBleyker @mikeyface They create a lot of jobs in justice departments
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It makes you think
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@ghorst76 @DeadLioness @MtnGrl4 Just as as comparison, the Space Shuttle had a 99% survival rate, considered one of the deadliest forms of transport. So you're saying it's 3x deadlier than the Space Shuttle. Wear a mask, like you wear a seatbelt
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@CatPurry9 This is the problem of "living with covid", it results increased risk of dying of other things too
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@elisabethbraw Who would have thought visas issued purely on a financial basis would pose a national security risk...
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@lawscholar @GHS And that is why a lot of money has been spent on improving car safety and road rules
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@kaylacardillo @ylecun @elonmusk Zuck doesn't feel the need to have an opinion on everything and start controversies unnecessarily
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@BritishAlba @SkyNews Why aren't we free to call him a twat? ITV made a commercial decision, we shouldn't mess with the free market. The government didn't silence him, so it's not a free speech issue. Also, he walked off set.
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@RichardAOB @ArmyStrang @DanKaszeta That's not actually a wombat, it's a drop bear, there's no way you'd catch me holding it!
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@fessdoc @DoctorAngry There was probably a LOT OF white powder stuck up there
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@GrogsGamut @Juanita_Phillip Is this now "robocop"?
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@TurnbullMalcolm A good reminder of what Thatcher said in 1990
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@_JohnMcDermott @Murdoch_RC Bit like Israel and Palestine, so many of the current issues are due to the arbitrary creation of borders under British rule
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@JodamiSeti @Glaven1994 @NoContextBrits IKEA could start changing an entry fee to their stores just by categorising them as "escape rooms"
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@terkey76 @Jeremy_Kirk @joshgnosis @Optus Best thing is to look here and see for yourself if you have an Optus account and what information has likely been leaked
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@captaintrash7 @David_Slotnick "the why should I pay... " argument is stupid because via insurance you're still paying for others anyway...
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@nick_coatsworth What are your views on NSWs legislation, and how the proposed Victorian legislation differs from other states?
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@Jeremy_Kirk @equis_group The term hacker really shouldn't be used in this case. They basically left the doors wide opened, not locked, and making out someone has broken in
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@GrogsGamut To be fair they can be pretty hard to find in Chemist Warehouse, it's a nightmare finding them there
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@ClimateBen @coastalmom11 The only real uncertainty at this point is which of our major screw ups as a civilisation will lead to the end of it
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@RettopNoj @YouAreLobbyLud The alcohol tests are FAKE. The insurance companies don't have to pay out if the driver tests positive
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@EntrepreneurVyl @RexChapman What's this a metaphor for ? Tucker is batshit crazy?
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@VABVOX Was there any actual context to this? As I'm curious if he was even trying to say something that made some sense whatsoever...
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@JumzyRau @Redpainter1 If you just go off Trumps Twitter feed and no media, you can easily come to the same conclusion
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@blockchainrun @ianbremmer Problem is, are Russia's redlines more important than all the ex Soviet countries freedom that they choose?
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@Vic_Rollison @laurenboebert If only Americans were able to see outside of America...
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@Fergie_Kate @demarionunn @Feiryred Weekend at Lizzies, the sequel to The Crown
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@BrandungP @MLevitt_NP2013 I think it would be safest if we put everyone it a wooden cupboard for their protection, they will be safe then. Perhaps best to lie this cupboard down so it doesn't fall over. Even better, put it underground for extra protection
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@agreen @keithedwards Don't need to imagine
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@AlexInAir Must be the highest number of aircraft lost in the Bermuda triangle ever
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@KevinKautzman @naomirwolf They finally doing it in London? Great to hear
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@CatchYrselfOn22 Define woke.
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@RettopNoj @nick_coatsworth When failure occurs, just redefine success!
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@YouLikeThisNow @Victor_ryy @vanman_1000 @DiscussingFilm Your logo is a rip off of Domino's, so I suspect you're an expert on all things shit
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@sdjacksondc @seanspicer @realDonaldTrump Wouldn't it be funny if Trump accidentally sued his way to losing by blocking ballots that would have pushed him over the line
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@KaindeB @AncestoralVoice @MomJeans44 @lorrainemking Lol, the tabloid media is LITERALLY proving Harry's points in his book about the media, because they have no other way of operating other than to lie
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@StevePeers @mojitoBaB One day overstay has been enough to send people to Australia's offshore detention centres. That's the Australian style immigration system they voted for
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@miffythegamer Don't be mean... horses have beautiful faces
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@AdamMcKola @Edwina_Currie it's actually 5 days entertainment, less than £50/day....
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