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New types of leave being introduced at my workplace: Gender affirmation leave Recognition of aboriginal kinship relationships for the purposes of leave Aboriginal cultural leave This is getting beyond ridiculous. No longer about equality but rather about special privileges. No meaningful pay rise though despite inflation and interest rates smashing living standarsd.

Yes it's Beyond, I made a mistake. Enforced - War Remains

Welcome. I am about as musical as the cold vacuum of space so no bands. I have produced one EP though and got my credit on it...did help I co-owned the "label" that released it! 😆

Incubus - Beyond The Unknown aka Opprobrium due to copy right issues Black Flag - My War Black Flag - Slip It In

Yep. I am surprised you're surprised. In all the years you've known me, I've never hid my interest in power and traditional heavy metal. I mean how often do I include an Iced Earth or Blind Guardian album here? Oh and Iron Maiden is my number 1 band of all time. So of course a speed metal band with a 1980s sound and fair dollop of heavy metal and penchant for memorable tunes is going to rock my world. I'm actually listening to random tracks from Burning Witches, who remind me of later Iced Earth. Not too bad even if unoriginal.

That is so cool to see all that wildlife. Though I am a shit swimmer and basically a coward so I'll stick to pools and visiting fish at aquariums!

But surely you still love Reload more?

First listen was very promising. There's still some glam influences but the speed and heavy metal are back. Production is back to the classic sound and the song writing seems good on first listen (I'm one of those who needs dozens of listens to get to fully know an album).

You're a funny dude! 🤪

IMO Endgame is their best 21st century album. Also agree the Sick The Dying and the Dead is great.

Enforcer - Nostalgia Out now on Nuclear Blast.

Morbid Angel - Covenant Enforcer - Nostalgia Two songs in and seems like a return to speed and heavy metal. Production is back to 1980s too. Thank fuck!

I went to a vigil last night for women and children who have been murdered in domestic violence. They had a lived experience person speaking and I was shocked at who they chose. So you'd expect a woman or child survivor. No, it was an old friend of mine, who now identifies as woman but no surgery and still dresses like a man. Now my wife and I stopped being friends with her because she was a compulsive liar, a narcissist and is malicious including engaging in behaviour against her ex-wife that is defined as domestic violence (attempts at coercive control). Now she defines herself as a victim (we know there wasn't anything as the cops never laid charges against her crippled near dead and at times paralysed ex-wife). In any case hard to believe a woman in a wheelchair who at times couldn't speak or move could beat up a fully grown healthy man. This is the modern world: a dude vaguely identifying as a woman and who despite having engaged in some nasty shit of their own speaking on behalf of murdered victims of domestic violence.

For me So Far, So Good...So What! and Peace Sells But Whose Buying are their peak with SFSGSW being my favourite Megadeth album.

If we're really lucky, Trumpy becomes president and him, Xi and Putin have an epic show down and send us all to nuclear oblivion. We can only hope.

Cancer - Death Shall Rise Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Monstrosity - Imperial Doom

Carbonised - For The Security Edge of Sanity -Nothing But Death Remains Revenant - Prophecies of a Dying World Clearly in the mood for some ancient DM!

Superb album and also my favourite Nevermore album.

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power Slayer - Reign in Blood

Elephant

Drugs - fentanyl overdose. Great singer but clearly stupid.

I'm in Australia and I work in government. It isn't necessarily lobby groups, it's professional industry bodies which are basically guilds eg Australian Medical Association or the various Royal Colleges of medicine. Same applies to everything here. The goal is to minimise consumer protection and reduce corporate liability and responsibility. Eg I had an issue with my telco. Optus, ripping me off and refusing to deal with my complaint. I went to Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman who then directed me back to Optus. Why? Well guess who sits on the board of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman? Optus (and other major telcos). That's how everything works in Australia - the rich make their own rules and the system is designed to protect them or privilieged groups. Hence doctors and nurses at my employer can keep killing people including babies and covering up for paedophiles for 20 years and nothing is done to change it. Sometimes I think we need a 1917 style revolution.

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell Black Sabbath - Mob Rules Perhaps their 2 most perfect albums! Enforced - War Remains - not bad and maybe even a slight improvement over Kill Grid. Much better than High Command who lost all intensity and went too melodic on their nwe one.

Wow that's insane but not surprising. Laws are often written with massive input from professional bodies whose main goal is protection of their members. In essence a lot of crime is in fact legalised.

In addition to covering up for paedophiles, my employer kills people including babies. It is supposedly a hospital, not a narco cartel or ISIS. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-02/baby-died-after-launceston-general-hospital-failures-coroner/102287910 This is the fifth death due to negligence in 2 years. Several years ago there was a documentary about 14 wrongful deaths. Nothing was done then and I doubt anything will be done now. Perhaps doctors and nurses who contribute to the death of a patient through negligence should be charged with manslaughter?