eureka
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- Comment on Whatever you decide to name 'em 1 day ago:
Does the name “french fries” get used?
- Comment on Albanese says ‘we follow our own path’ after UK, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions over Gaza 1 day ago:
Cheers, much appreciated mate!
- Comment on Albanese says ‘we follow our own path’ after UK, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions over Gaza 1 day ago:
Please post a link to the article instead of only posting quotes or sections.
- Comment on Victorian Liberal party prepares proposal to loan former leader John Pesutto enough money to pay the $2.3m in legal costs he owes to Moira Deeming 2 days ago:
Earlier this month, Pesutto was ordered to pay $2.3m of Deeming’s legal costs after it was found he repeatedly defamed Deeming by falsely implying she sympathised with neo-Nazis and white supremacists in December.
Ah, too bad he didn’t call out a proven case like Louise Black.
- Comment on Australian PM Albanese says Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is ‘an outrage’ 4 days ago:
Australia makes and exports different things to the USA. For example, there are some parts of their bomber planes that only an Australian factory makes. If we stopped trading it, they couldn’t buy any more of those bombers.
There’s also the impact of solidarity, where if we stop trade, then other countries are more likely to do the same. This effect has happened with previous blockades and with the general sentiment towards the conflict in Western governments, one country takes the first step and others soon follow.
It also means that, as smaller partners stop trade, the US soon becomes a single point of failure, where a port strike or community blockade (as some in the USA have done before) has more direct impact.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 5 days ago:
Wow, that’s surprising. It’s got less than a dozen users posting cute fox photos. Maybe they’re automatically blocking booru software, since plenty of others have porn.
- Comment on Australian PM Albanese says Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is ‘an outrage’ 5 days ago:
…that’s not how addition and subtraction works, my friend.
- Comment on Australian PM Albanese says Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is ‘an outrage’ 5 days ago:
and stop allowing the only export of F-35 fuselages in the world
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 5 days ago:
Findafox is a good, work-safe example.
- Comment on Australia has a proud history of standing up against human catastrophe. Gaza should be no exception | Ed Husic 6 days ago:
Yeah, I wasn’t going to say anything but I’m struggling to think of many times we’ve done that, especially as Australia overall (as opposed to some unions).
Maybe there’s fighting Imperial Japan, but Pig Iron Bob was exporting them resources after they were ready committing war crime massacres so I wouldn’t count it.
All that said, there are certainly Australians who do care, and I’m often pleasantly surprised to see people who seem absorbed by their phones or trying to avoid pamphlets double-take when they hear the issue we’re organising for and show interest or at least support.
- Comment on Hundreds join Sydney Uni Student General Meeting to reject university's new definition of antisemitism 1 week ago:
np www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/…/staterev/
(If you insist on something more specific to their local conditions, you’ll first need to help end the ongoing genocide to give the people in Palestine a chance to write up such a transition plan. They’re kind of busy right now and the Zionist Regime murdered most of their academics.)
- Comment on Hundreds join Sydney Uni Student General Meeting to reject university's new definition of antisemitism 1 week ago:
I agree, leaving isn’t the best way to protest this problem.
On the other hand, while staff themselves ought not to be blamed on the decisions of admin, we should also acknowledge that for them to do nothing is complicity. By-standing is not neutral behaviour. Some staff at multiple universities (and schools) have been involved in various forms of resistance, from direct physical support, to more passive resistance such as signing open letters and allowing students to make unauthorised announcements after lectures.
- Hundreds join Sydney Uni Student General Meeting to reject university's new definition of antisemitismsolidarity.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 16 comments
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
It’s pretty funny seeing the Wiki page for the Coalition listing six dissolution dates
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
This is what it looks like on Lemmy:
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
I didn’t see that coming. Wow.
I don’t know what this means as far as pragmatic effects like voting on legislation. Does that mean 9 Nationals go to the HoR crossbench?
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 1 week ago:
Could be a scraper? But it doesn’t sound much like one if the user agent wasn’t clear, or suspicious. A DoS attack would probably be making an odd request, intended to waste the most resources possible.
- Comment on The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide - The Shot 2 weeks ago:
Albanese is basing the ‘truthiness’ of his claim on the difference between selling weapons and selling weapons components.
In fact, some of those components are only made in Australia. We are a critical part of the war machine.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 2 weeks ago:
[I’m not sure if @ pinging works, so just in case it doesn’t, I’m replying just so you know I referenced this post over here]
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 2 weeks ago:
However, best to start as we would mean to continue.
Only if it makes sense. @ikt@aussie.zone has a valid point about having smaller communities until there’s enough traffic to justify dividing it up, which I personally think is less critical on aussie.zone due to how the site is set up but can be make-or-break on forums with distinct boards, where it just gets filled with 3 half-dead communities instead of 1 active, inviting community.
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Agreed.
- Comment on Cabinet reshuffle - Dan Repacholi: Special Envoy for Men’s Health 2 weeks ago:
In a Canberra press conference, Albanese said Plibersek was “very positive” about her move from environment.
Yeah I’m glad they’re leaving too. (Not that I have more faith in their replacement)
I can’t recall they’re being a minister or special envoy for men’s health before. Is this a first?
As far as I can tell, yes. It’s a new position and I see no evidence of any similar one before it.
Honestly, about bloody time - any gender study student worth their salt should be able to tell you a few of the issues uniquely facing men and how they impact society. The implied ideas that men are just the default, or that mens issues are just common sense to the man-dominated parliament, or that patriarchy doesn’t hurt men too, are all harmful to our society.
Fun little USA fact: the feminist movement played an core role in updating the FBI definition (used in statistics) of ‘rape’, which now acknowledges male victims as a result of their campaign. Men’s liberation and feminism have plenty of shared interests and succeed best as parallel and complimentary movements, or where applicable, as one umbrella movement.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 2 weeks ago:
As a counter question: if you’d prefer to see less news and politics, what sort of content would you prefer to be posted instead? There might not be enough.
I’ll leave this question to others, since my account is very much focused on news and politics.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 2 weeks ago:
Is there a specific issue you are trying to fix or is the duplication the issue?
It’s mostly the duplication, but also that it would frustrate people who don’t want to see all the politics posts. (For what it’s worth, I think politics is important and people should be informed whether they want to or not, but there are valid reasons for wanting to block politics comms for a while.)
Nothing’s really broken, but this is something that can be nipped in the bud if other users think it deserves fixing.
- Comment on Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death 2 weeks ago:
The crap I’ve heard Zionists say to anti-Zionist Jews, this is right on the money.
- Comment on Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties 3 weeks ago:
I always love ABC’s interactive visualisations. They’re usually well-made, and usually aren’t just tacked on jiggling keys.
(obligatory shout-out to explorable explanations^[wiki]^^[collection]^, a similar concept)
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 3 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel better, I can call you a fukken seppo wanker. Will that do the trick, mate? ;)
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- Comment on Rinehart blames ‘left media’ for Coalition wipeout, claims Australian voters ‘very short on understanding’ 3 weeks ago:
Now we all love a good chuckle at Clive Palmer’s money thrown down the drain, but spare a ha-ha for Rinehart’s $500,000 in donations to Liberal parties.
- Comment on Rinehart blames ‘left media’ for Coalition wipeout, claims Australian voters ‘very short on understanding’ 3 weeks ago:
It’s pretty funny that Gina asserts, or perhaps even believes, that the typical Aussie wants to cut government wastage more than Rinehart wastage.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges Liberal party to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss 3 weeks ago:
We’ve already got too many US patriots.
