Lodespawn
@Lodespawn@aussie.zone
- Comment on Bill Clinton releases video statement after Jeffrey Epstein testimony | ABC NEWS 2 weeks ago:
he seems like more of a handjob guy …
- Comment on Bill Clinton releases video statement after Jeffrey Epstein testimony | ABC NEWS 2 weeks ago:
I guess I just find it jarring. Trump is clearly showing signs of dementia with his constant rambling verbal diarrhea into western media, but most of the time that only makes you think that maybe a lot of 79 year men sound like that, but then you hear someone like Clinton (or Sanders) talk and it brings Trump’s steep decline into clear focus.
It is wild that Trump is in the position he’s in with the state of his faculties and capabilities.
- Comment on Bill Clinton releases video statement after Jeffrey Epstein testimony | ABC NEWS 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran and stands with the Iranian people’s ‘struggle against oppression’ 2 weeks ago:
Ergh, probably need to start drafting a letter telling my local Labor member that I think it would be a shit idea to throw actual support at this nonsense and that it would be a self-own to chuck a Howard and follow the US down the rabbit hole, hopefully they just stick with “thoughts and prayers” for this one …
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Comment on New Liberal leader Angus Taylor says he wants to focus on housing affordability 4 weeks ago:
He might offer something that looks like quick relief to get some votes and then walk it back to something his big donors want. Hopefully the Australian voters will have long memories on this.
That said … he and a bunch of liberals are still getting voted in, so there are clearly electorates out there with more than half their constituents who think the Coalition are not a bunch of incompetent slimeballs. I don’t want to get into backing a team, Labor are making some shit decisions, but I don’t see the Coalition roster changing much and the scale of the corruption during the Howard, Abbott and Morrison years is wild. Their goals during those times were clearly focused on division and fucking over the little guy in favour of the big end of town. Until their focus at least changes to a more socially progressive take on the term “Liberal” they certainly won’t be getting my vote.
Currently I think the only benefit of them is that if you preference them immediately after Labor they serve as a good vote-sink to protect against the minor RWNJ parties from getting any votes.
- Comment on New Liberal leader Angus Taylor says he wants to focus on housing affordability 4 weeks ago:
Yeah you couldn’t really say Labor isn’t captured by corporate interests at a federal or state level but at least their corruption isn’t as blatant as the Coalition. I’m honestly shocked at how easily country voters are duped into voting for the Nationals.
Albanese and Labor do seem to make quite a few dubious decisions, I wonder how effective sending letters expressing my opinion might be on the Labor policy of toeing the line …
- Comment on New Liberal leader Angus Taylor says he wants to focus on housing affordability 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on New Liberal leader Angus Taylor says he wants to focus on housing affordability 4 weeks ago:
Luckily the coalition has limited ability to block anything of consequence right now, hopefully they don’t get the opportunity to manipulate the population with their bullshit.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on Angus Taylor rolls Sussan Ley to become Liberal leader 4 weeks ago:
I see the Liberals have decided to lean into their party roots of wanton corruption …
- Comment on Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target 3 months ago:
Haha like they ever earnestly support any kind of climate target beyond selling off as much coal to their pals
- Comment on Anon saves up 7 months ago:
Interesting, I got the impression it was a regulatory requirement. My wife’s firm did the same thing, but maybe it was just company policies where we worked.
- Comment on Anon saves up 7 months ago:
What a champ!
- Comment on Anon saves up 7 months ago:
Yeah the company I worked for let you shift 5 but you had to take them within the first 3 months
- Comment on Anon saves up 7 months ago:
No no, this was multiple old guys and in addition to long service leave, they just never took leave.
For the UK I think the policy is in support of worker rights, in a round about kind of way. If you let people pay it out then they might never take leave and won’t get the benefits of actually having had a break from work.
- Comment on Anon saves up 7 months ago:
They just get lost in the UK too, most places seem pretty good about making sure you take them though.
At the first full time job I had in Oz there were a bunch of old dudes who had each accrued over a year in untaken annual leave. The company had to crack down on it and make them start taking it because it was a huge liability, both financially and as a risk to actually getting work done. They had to develop plans for them to take it a couple months at a time.
- Comment on Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions] 7 months ago:
If they really wanted to be counted either not supporting or supporting a bill depending on where the mi ority sat, then they’d make the effort to get in and vote, otherwise it can be assumed they are sideing with the majority. They are voting with their actions.
- Comment on cursed knowledge 7 months ago:
What’s a roach bin?!
- Comment on Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions] 7 months ago:
If someone didn’t attend a likely majority vote then I most certainly will assume they agree with the majority, and will treat them as such.
- Comment on Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions] 7 months ago:
Huh? Can’t you just assume that if they were a sitting member at the time and their name isn’t in the 6 or less that voted nay then they voted yay?
Seems like a nothing burger …
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 7 months ago:
It’ll be pretty funny if a mushroom learns to drive before Musk’s cars
- Comment on That's really not okay 8 months ago:
Because paper is just thinly sliced tree, like prosciutto
- Comment on Have a good trip 8 months ago:
Blurst Bong …
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 8 months ago:
Hoo boy Netanyahu is gonna be invading Elon Musk and having settlers selling up shop in 3, 2, 1 …
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 8 months ago:
Yeah we’ve structured the system so companies are mostly only responsible to shareholders, and shareholders really only care about short term gains with their only liability from the company is financial. Companies are always going have a focus on short term gains because thats what the system demands.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 8 months ago:
Yeah the whole missing entry level job thing for most industries is going to backfire with exploding wages for experienced people. Without training grads and apprentices there’s an ever decreasing pool of experienced people to pick from.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 8 months ago:
I find the AI summary can be helpful when searching, but also not much more helpful than a summary of the first few search results which are mostly only loosely related paid for advertising …
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 8 months ago:
So do you frame the problem to the LLM, get it to spot out an example piece of code and then run through that initial attempt to get an idea of how to approach the problem? Kind of like prototyping the problem?
I take it you find that more efficient than traditional code planning methods? Or do you then start building flow charts/pseudo code from that prototype and confirm the logic to build more readable or efficient code?
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 8 months ago:
My gut feeling, based on the kind of repetitive nonsense I see them produce and bang on about, is that a lot of management types see AI efficiency because the work they do is repetitive and easily aided by AI input so they assume everything can be improved by it.
Not to say I don’t see the benefits of a good manager, I just don’t think they are that common.