Sasha
@Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Yes, that Sasha
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
Yep, sure am vegan. I’m not making a both sides are the same argument, sorry if I mistakenly said so.
While I despise attempts to unfairly shift blame on the consumer, I generally do as much as I’m to not support things that are either harmful to the environment or unethical. I am vegan because I believe in animal rights before anything else though.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
I’ve said what I’ve said, I stand by it and don’t really intend to keep arguing, but I’ll add that focussing on energy production is misleading and a distraction from the fact that there are far larger sources of emissions that we are responsible for. As I understand it the targets they’ve set are the way the industry was going regardless, I could pull the data and analyse it but I honestly can’t be bothered putting that much work in, the report here has some nice charts to give you an idea of how those gains where locked in prior to the 2022 election. If you’ve got data to backup that Labor is directly responsible for a significant portion of this I’d love to see it, because it’s very hard to find any analysis for that.
The economy argument is often thrown out by Labor, but it’s an exceptional flimsy one on two fronts. For one the wellbeing of people and the environment are significantly more important (fight me, the economy is a form of violence), but also resource extraction doesn’t really contribute that much to tax income anyway, it’s pretty much only good for the wealthy elites. They take in enormous profits, contribute next to nothing to the greater good all while writing off the immense harm as an externality. It’s a wealth transfer project, in short.
If Labor wants to show that they actually care, they’d nationalise all those extraction projects and put in a plan to halt all exports while securing the livelihoods of those in the industry.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I am.
The system is preferential, but the outcome of many an election is indistinguishable from a two party system. The system is not good enough, just because it’s able to work sometimes isn’t enough, especially when it “working” still results in an awful lot of unnaceptable shit happening.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
Oh I’m aware, I said as much in another comment. Sorry, I’ve mislead you on what I meant.
My problem with voting is that the entire system of government in this country does not do anything to meaningfully address the problems of entire swathes of the population, and voting does very very little to address that.
It appears to work, if you’re sufficiently privileged to not be among those persecuted, oppressed, raped and murdered by those in power. There are individual issues that are sufficiently mainstream so as to be addressible in this way, and climate change is one of them, but even still we needed to have made major change a long time ago.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
If LNP wins we will continue to burn coal as our primary source of energy for another 30 years.
This is what the ALP is actively trying to do, if you haven’t been following along… They’ve approved new coal and gas extraction projects for 2050 and beyond. You know, when we’re supposed to be at net 0???
They’re not doing anything to prevent this, they’re not taking climate change seriously and they are sucking up to the industry at the expense of everyone else.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
I do vote?
Doesn’t change the fact that voting generally does fuck all in terms of meaningful change, especially as we watch both of these major parties destroy the ability for smaller parties and independents to challenge them.
And so we are essentially left with a choice between being killed, and being killed but they smile while they do it. You change the options you can vote for by protesting, this is an exceptionally important part of modern democracy and it cannot be ignored.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
I guess you didn’t read anything I wrote, because as I said, ALP is not doing anything near enough. So yes, we have to protest them and we should. Tell me where I ever said we should vote the LNP in? Protesting ALP is not the same thing as endorsing the LNP and pretending that is, is embarrassing. It’s similarly embarrassing that your acting like this is the one and only election we’ll ever have and that if the LNP win they’ll just hold power for eternity.
The narrative you are pushing right now is harmful and does not get anything done, it’s a delay strategy that gives an objectively terrible party licence to continue being absolutely dog shit.
I’ll say this again, if the ALP ignores what is literally being screamed in their fucking faces and loses the election, then that is on them and no one else. They’ve been in power for three years and have done fuck all with that time to make any meaningful change.
Threatening their power during an election is basically the only chance we’ve got that they’ll listen, I don’t know you and I’ve no clue what you’ve done for this fight, but I’ve watched so many friends sacrifice themselves and be absolutely crushed by the oppression of this government for very minor actions. Their only response to activism outside of the election cycle is to crush it and silence the people most affected.
Nothing else is working and I’m sick and tired of this bullshit getting people killed, destroying entire nations and ruining the chance for anyone to have a bright future.
You can be that asshole while the world dies saying “well isn’t it great the ALP did this instead of the LNP” because that’s all you’re saying right now.
It’s completely moronic to give anyone a free fucking pass to fuck everyone just because they use lube.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
Even if this is true, if people are voting based on climate in the first place then this isn’t going to make them go “well, might as well vote for the LNP” more they’ll go independent or Greens as we saw in the last election.
We have preferential voting anyway, focusing on the big two parties is immensely myopic and a stupid argument that everyone used to silence legitimate criticism of the Democrats before the last US election. (The Democrats lost because they had a shit platform and didn’t care, not because people criticised them)
The main goal of basically every climate activist group right now is to force whoever forms government to do so as a minority. This is both good for climate, and liberal democracy as a whole by helping move beyond a two party system. (Not that I have any love for liberal democracy in any form, but it’s still a positive change)
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
Just because one party is bad doesn’t mean we should settle for the slightly better one who are still actively burning our future, that’s an absurd argument on the face of it.
We need to call out everyone for the shit they do because the fact is these guys are not good enough, they are not infinitly better than the LNP, they’re marginally better and their entire climate change plan mostly relies on doing nothing and letting industry progress the way it’s already been going.
Rising Tide is not lying about anything and misleading voters, the fact of the matter is Labor is doing all this shit and an election is the best possible chance to force them to be better. If they lose the election then that’s on them for not shaping up and doing better, as people are literally shouting at them to do.
Fuck the ALP and the LNP I won’t settle for ecocide in any form. If the ALP doesn’t change then it doesn’t fucking matter because the end state is going to be the same regardless. We are not at a point where we can sit on our fucking hands and wait for slow change to save us, people are actively dying and we’re blazing past tipping points like there’s no tomorrow.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 2 weeks ago:
They do, genius.
Why shouldn’t they protest the currently sitting government when they’re the ones actively fucking us?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🚲 Saturday 5 April 2025 2 weeks ago:
Jealous! I’ve barely got time for one fortnightly game, but today one of my mates is trying out DMing by running a one shot. Should be awesome!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🚲 Saturday 5 April 2025 2 weeks ago:
I’m so pumped to play DnD again, it’s been forever since I’ve had the time to join.
- Comment on Bring your friends! 1 month ago:
I appreciate the question, honestly.
It is mostly about pink washing, we’ve certainly seen plenty of that sort of thing coming from Israel as they try to sanitise the genocide.
I think there’s an important point to be made on cops though. While in some communities, the police have only ever been a good presence that makes people feel safe, there are many others where police represent only violence. To the indigenous and immigrant communities, police are a force who rip families apart, physically assault and even kill people in custody. Trans people face similar discrimination and violence, and there’s essentially no incentive for the police to change.
- Comment on Bring your friends! 1 month ago:
Yeah… Believe me I am not keen on it, fuck meta
- Comment on Bring your friends! 1 month ago:
We’re trying to get protection from discrimination and vilification while securing everyone’s right to gender affirming care. The Queensland government recently suspended it for minors and a federal review into gender affirming care was announced, in other countries thus has lead to an increase in violence and unfair scrutiny into people who just want to live peacefully.
If you’ve decided anarchy is deranged then I can’t convince you of why any of those points are important, but I will say that it’s simply that we recognise that our struggles are all bound up together, the intersectional approach is the only right one.
- Comment on Bring your friends! 1 month ago:
I assume more information will be announced on the Instagram page
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- Comment on How close are we to "manually tuning" LLMs? 2 months ago:
It would be easier and faster to just train it on the stuff you want it to output. There are hundreds of billions of weights in models like gpt, and no one really knows what any individual one does.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 4 February 2025 2 months ago:
I fucked up the inside of my lip at a show and it’s making me fucking miserable. I hate having to swallow half a tube of medijel just to eat…
While I’m here, if you’re a decent person and want to help protect trans rights in Australia after the Qld government decided to fuck over trans kids, come to the state library at 10am this Saturday.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Trans inclusive radical misogyny
Personally I don’t, I can see someone not hating that kind of humour as much as me thinking it’s funny, in which case I guess it would be.
- Comment on Checking in 3 months ago:
I don’t know I just downloaded this to shitpoat
- Comment on Checking in 3 months ago:
NO
- Comment on Checking in 3 months ago:
I can’t explain this
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 3 months ago:
Just another downside to living in Tassie
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌃 Sunday, 5 January, 2025 3 months ago:
I had a lovely chat with a magpie today, they’re extremely friendly in my area. He was sitting on a low fence and I asked if he’d been in a fight because some of his neck feathers looked a bit shit, he seemed okay though.
- Comment on TIL: Certain councils offer subsided compost bins through CompostCommunity! 3 months ago:
Oh boy…
I accidentally left my bokashi bin cooking for almost an entire year and it ended up infested with flies. When I popped the lid to get rid of it I was simultaneously horrified at the infestation and fascinated by how much everything had broken down. It was basically a brown ooze, the only remaining things I could recognise were some pistachio shells
- Comment on TIL: Certain councils offer subsided compost bins through CompostCommunity! 3 months ago:
Holy shit they even have bokashi kits
- Comment on It's fundamental to Australia's democracy. But is your right to protest under attack? 3 months ago:
Authoritarian measures like this are not how you stop people protesting, this won’t lead to anything except further police violence being inflicted upon the best people in Victorian society.
I really hope Allan reconsiders, but I know she won’t…
- Comment on Thefts linked to cost-of-living drive rise in Victoria's crime rates 3 months ago:
Just remember to steal from the capitalists, not each other. I really don’t want to lose a third bike…
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024 4 months ago:
I put an emergency blanket over the window in my study because that’s the only window where sunlight comes in directly, it’s made an enormous difference and it was free lol
