dillekant
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- Comment on Unions warn Albanese 250,000 members may abandon Labor at next election as bitter rift widens 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, this could have convinced me in the early oughties but I’m worn out now. There’s a song and dance about how powerful the Murdoch media is but firstly that’s no longer as true as it was, and most importantly, any time Labor has had the chance to shut them down, they haven’t taken it. Literally the laws which got Labor offices raided were supported by Labor. At some point I’m going to stop believing the “small target” strategy is a real strategy and start to believe that this is what Labor actually is deep down. The toothless NACC, the active protection of the perpetrators of Robodebt, making a rod for their own backs, this is just who Labor is.
There are other unions, and if I can take a minor detour, some of them, eg teachers and nurses unions are majority women, and Labor walk over them, time and time again, whereas unions like CFMEU and TWU will strike. Health and Education are being gutted from a skills perspective, and the lesson they’re being taught is that if you stand up like the other unions, you’ll get your necks cut off. COVID came and “went”, and Labor were in power for a good chunk of it, and they’ve not had the Unions or the workers backs. The majority of deaths happened / are happening during Labor in government. How many of those were Teachers? Nurses? With friends like these…
What even is the point any more? What is there to lose when unions are basically unable to stand up to their own? When Labor must shunt to the right of the coalition. Some people blame the right for the “right wing ratchet”, but to some extent this has been engineered by the left to make the right look less favourable to their voters. I don’t give a shit about Labor, I want some fucking solidarity.
- Comment on Unions warn Albanese 250,000 members may abandon Labor at next election as bitter rift widens 2 months ago:
There’s also the possibility of a split. If enough of the unions want to split, and it does look like it, it’s possible that “left Labor” and “right Labor” split into two parties.
- Comment on Unions warn Albanese 250,000 members may abandon Labor at next election as bitter rift widens 2 months ago:
Frankly Labor has been taking advantage of the unions for a very long time, consistently kneecapping them, and has been doing so back to the Hawke / Keating years. This isn’t a “compromise” anymore, because the right just keeps on taking and taking.
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 2 months ago:
I keep mine in an ever growing wishlist, which I never get back to, but it stops me from feeling like I forgot anything.
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 2 months ago:
I’ve given up. I’m going to just keep adding to wishlist and nibble on a new one every now and then.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
This is fine. I don’t mind a diversity of opinion here. I agree that Proton is a stop-gap solution, and that most older games are going to need it, and newer AAA games are not going to support Linux all of a sudden.
However, I do think that we should continue to encourage developers to create native builds when they can. Indie devs tend to do this and it’s a pretty great experience. Not only that, it often enables playing on unusual devices such as SBCs. For example, UFO 50 was made in Gamemaker, which offers native Linux builds, and it’s already on Portmaster. You basically can’t do that with Proton.
My problem is calling people who want Linux native games misguided or wrong. I really don’t think that’s helpful.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 2 months ago:
I wish he wouldn’t repeat the idea that Proton is acceptable to game devs and Linux users shouldn’t demand native games. I’m much closer to Nick’s (from Linux Experiment) idea: That these games work as long as a company like Valve pays for Proton. The day Valve stops is the day these Proton games start to rot. For archival, for our own history, and for actual games on Linux, we should want Linux native games.
The thing is, the “no tux no bucks” crowd doesn’t advocate for other people to say the same. The proton crowd is actively telling the “no tux no bucks” people to shut up, and it’s not very nice. We need a multitude of views to succeed in the long term as a community.
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Tiny Glade PC - Beautiful RT Visuals - 60FPS on a GTX 1060! 2 months ago:
Oh wow this is Bevy and Rust?! RIP to everyone saying no “real” games are made in Rust.
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Tiny Glade PC - Beautiful RT Visuals - 60FPS on a GTX 1060! 2 months ago:
Bespoke
- Comment on The Doom mod that turns Margaret Thatcher into an undead cyberdemon has been removed by Bethesda yet again, this time for 'disobeying a ZeniMax employee' 2 months ago:
Yet another reason PC is superior.
- Comment on The latest Coalition scare campaign about Labor may scare itself more than voters 3 months ago:
Yeah agree with what you’ve said. I think your example of Tactical voting lines up with Zagorath’s detailed explanation. Makes perfect sense.
Overall, my main point was that there were a cohort of “small l” liberal voters who accept the science on climate change, and basically cannot vote for the LNP any longer, but for aesthetic reasons really would prefer to stay away from the Greens or Labor.
- Comment on The latest Coalition scare campaign about Labor may scare itself more than voters 3 months ago:
Thank you for the awesome analysis. To try and put what you said intuitively, I guess the “strategic” voting is to compromise as early as possible with a group whose “second choice” would be your last choice (and that is also a very popular first choice but only just popular enough to win). Does that sound correct?
So in your political compass, instead of picking the closest option to you on the compass with a Greens/Labor vote, you would pick a spot closer to the overall vibes of the electorate with a Teal vote to solidify that choice against an even further to the right choice which would win by a narrow margin?
- Comment on The latest Coalition scare campaign about Labor may scare itself more than voters 3 months ago:
Sure, what I have is anecdata, but I will say the study is focused on the teal voters, whereas the people I’m talking about were members or organisers. They did door-knocking or sausage sizzles or similar.
For this comment, I’ve decided to go to the actual study rather than use the ABC’s interpretation of it.
Firstly, the analysis is that there are fewer “rusted on” voters, which is consistent with what I’m trying to say. A bunch of rusted on LNP voters have become less rusted on, so to speak. The first half of the analysis broadly agrees with what I’ve been saying.
I don’t know if ranked choice voting really works with “tactical voting”. Someone would need to draw me a diagram, but overall the way most people vote is to put the candidate they like the most at the top, and the candidates they like the least at the bottom. If they distrust the majors, they put the majors “later”. Basically, if you think the Teals are going to get up, but you want the Greens, you’re still better off putting the Greens on top. There’s a very small corner case where the a bunch of small parties can trade places based on a handful of votes but it’s not common, and if you want the Greens but are happy with Teal, you’d still put them in the order you want.
I think what’s happened is that they’re looking at 2019, the Scomo era. By that era, the voters I’ve been talking about would already have shifted to Labor or the Greens as Option 1, something they would not actually want, they just wanted a Scomo Coalition even less. I think the Teals actually are the first preference here, and a lot of these guys used to vote LNP in maybe 2015.
- Comment on The latest Coalition scare campaign about Labor may scare itself more than voters 3 months ago:
I don’t think that’s a good read of what’s happened given the “teal” voters I know about. Almost to a person, Teal voters are ex-Liberal voters. Pro Hewson, pro Howard, pro Turnbull. A lot of them probably excused Howard’s “Stop the Boats” as the realpolitik of keeping the ONP vote down (something which didn’t really pan out long term).
However, even at Abbott many were noping out. First because they could see how much trouble Turnbull was having, but also because Abbott really was the jerk they saw Howard pretending to be. The “minister for women” probably also hemorrhaged a bunch of women voters too. That I think would have meant the success of the Teals, but not a landslide, until Morrison.
The fact that he could just operate a kleptocrat government, no real skill, no real goals, just ill tempered and mean spirited. I think a bunch of Liberals were looking for a new home, and that was in the Teals. Those liberals aren’t coming back because the LNP isn’t going back to being the LNP. The nationals have taken over enough of the agenda that reactionaries are the only ones left in the Liberal party.
The reactionaries have thoroughly “won” the LNP, all the way over to being the alt-right. Brain-dead “young liberals” will keep the ball rolling over but no serious person is going to care about their stupid ideas. Over time the Liberal part of the coalition will lose votes as the coalition increasingly embodies the National Party agenda. At that point the Nationals might wonder why they are in a coalition with a party which has fewer members than them. What happens to the Nationals at that point is unclear, because Climate Change doesn’t fuck around in 2040.
- Comment on Bungie's former Marathon reboot director Chris Barrett reportedly ousted following inappropriate behaviour [Eurogamer] 3 months ago:
Man these guys should try putting more effort into making the game rather than harrassing their employees.
- Comment on The eagerness to grave dance on unpopular games has become a bad habit 3 months ago:
My main issue with it is that everyone is using it to push their own narrative about why the game failed. People doing the “It’s a woke game, so it went broke”, or “it’s a saturated market”, or whatever. These are just reactions, not data driven analyses.
- Comment on 'There was an attempt to brush us away': How six Australian MPs took the cause of Julian Assange to Washington 5 months ago:
Barnaby Joyce??!?!?!?!??!??
- Comment on Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs 6 months ago:
Yeah I can’t remember where I read that but it’s definitely a possibility IIRC.
- Comment on Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs 6 months ago:
Pumped hydro is not exactly a dam. There’s a hole and 2 water reservoirs. Yes there’s a cost but so does anything.
- Comment on Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs 6 months ago:
You also can’t just turn nuclear on or off. You’d need to also get rid of existing solar. Ie: get people to disconnect rooftop solar to make nuclear work.
- Comment on Robodebt knackers the Nacc! In this country, justice is only for the powerful | First Dog on the Moon 6 months ago:
sad facts :(
- Comment on (Pauline Hanson) The Man From Snowy Hydro 6 months ago:
Honest fact: It’s dear, but firstly, AUKUS is more expensive, and secondly, when it’s storing energy we’re going to forget the amount we spent and really enjoy the amount we’re saving.
- Comment on Robodebt knackers the Nacc! In this country, justice is only for the powerful | First Dog on the Moon 6 months ago:
Wow there isn’t even a punch line, Andrew Marlton just skewers those involved. I think this was a criticism of the NACC when it was founded. Albo basically neutered it till it was useless.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 7 months ago:
There were a bunch of game company closures in Australia in the 2000s and now there are a bunch of Australian indie devs, as an example. The cycle takes a long time though.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Tetris 8 months ago:
It’s so bite sized yet moreish.
- Comment on Phil Spencer, long cast as Xbox’s saviour, may be remembered as the man who killed it 8 months ago:
I don’t think it’s a death, it’s more of a transition. Firstly, a lot of XBox games have been coming to PC, intentionally, because Microsoft basically own the market*. They’ve also created XCloud + Game pass, possibly the most convenient way to play games, and you don’t need an XBox.
The real people who’ve turned on the device itself has been devs. Some of the stuff they’ve been saying at GDC have been at the same level as the stuff they say about Linux as a target. Like your game shouldn’t be that dependent on platform, it hurts things like archival.
- Comment on Labor concedes Tasmanian election, leaving Liberals to negotiate with new crossbench 8 months ago:
To maybe make my point clear: The Greens didn’t “concede”, and neither did JLN. Labor appears to be stating (although the auto-summary below seems to throw some grey area in here) that they’re just not interested in a minority government, and I just don’t think that’s what the voters wanted them to do here.
- Comment on Labor concedes Tasmanian election, leaving Liberals to negotiate with new crossbench 8 months ago:
Pretty scummy. We elect representatives and they have a duty to try and form a government. If they don’t want to form government then vacate the slot.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Hello. The Verge is shit and manipulative in the way they framed this, but SBI is a beat up. It’s the usual gamers not really knowing how games are made.
- Comment on what do y'all actually host? 11 months ago:
Lol this is very similar to my setup. I also have an xmpp server (ejabberd), grocy, and fresh rss on digitalocean.