princessnorah
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
👽Dropped at birth from space to earth👽
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- Comment on Radio transmissions 2 days ago:
You’re forgetting the three other Xindi species, that are much less humanoid. The Avians, who look much like a pterodactyl. The Insectoids, who look like praying mantis. And the coolest of them, the Aquatics, who have amazing spaceships full of water rather than air, which made for some awesome scenes!
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
like you inciting violence upon British people for example, and feeling like that’s an okay stance to take
😂😂
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
Irish famine; Invasion of so-called Australia; Israel’s persecution of Palestinians; Indian-Pakistani conflict. Pick your poison.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
I’ll ask you again, are you going to take any responsibility? Otherwise I’m just blocking you, I’m tired of the sealioning now.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
You’re arguing in bad faith. I have literally, multiple times now, said I take accountability on behalf of my country. I just refuse to absolve yours of guilt and that seems to be upsetting you quite a bit.
Also I forgot that Charles was a British politician and not the King of Australia, a title he holds independently due to the Westminster Act you linked.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
Jag off mate. I’ve said I’m responsible for my country several times. Do you have any responsibility for yours?
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
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What the fluff makes you think that I fail to act? You know literally nothing about me. I can both take responsibility, blame YOU and your country, and act to change things for the better. I am pretty consistently out protesting, and out there donating my time and money to causes looking to change the status quo, even though I am disabled and on a pension.
THIS attitude is why people blame your shitty country for these things. Grow up.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
There’s no statute of limitations on genocide.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
I never said it wasn’t Australians fault as well. This is a really reductive take that shifts the blame for colonisation. Fluffing hilarious that you’re a feddit.uk user. Cope much for your country destroying the world?
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 days ago:
Australians were considered British subjects right up until the ‘Australia Act’ of 1986. I still very much blame Britain for much of the way Indigenous Australians have been treated. In the same way that I put a lot of blame on Britain for the current war in Gaza. Or the escalating conflict between Pakistan and India.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 days ago:
Oh no, I absolutely have ancestors in my past that have done horrendous things. And I’m Australian, so they were also British subjects ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for the executions, well I’d love to get my hands on Charles! #NotMyKing
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 days ago:
Ireland is absolutely part of the British Isles, just not part of Great Britain I would say that it’s generally only considered correct to call someone from Great Britain British, rather than the Isles as a whole though. However, in common parlance I would say that people from Scotland and Wales use Scottish and Welsh more than British, with people from England using English and British interchangeably, and people from Northern Ireland (that are unionist anyway) using the term British over Irish. That’s all to say, you’d probably get a smack upside the head for calling someone Irish British, and rightfully so.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 days ago:
Uhm akshually don’t you know that it was a subset of British society and not Britain as a whole. Jeeze, way to not be historically accurate.
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Hope the /s is implied but just incase. If you’re British and upset by this take, maybe your ancestors should have rolled out some guillotines when the French did. It’s not too late to get rid of Charles, Starmer, Farage, Johnson and the rest of these chucklefucks.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds announced, the first real Steam Deck competition 1 week ago:
Wtf is this headline? Even if you don’t count any of the previous Windows handhelds, the Legion Go S with SteamOS is absolutely a competitor to the Steam Deck, with a way faster chip.
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 1 week ago:
Someone should absolutely make that!
- Comment on the internet feels empty at certain times 1 week ago:
Meanwhile in Australia…
- Comment on Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are 1 week ago:
You’re very unpleasant. Have a nice day!
- Comment on Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are 1 week ago:
Yes, and? In Arturia’s case, it would mean that their very expensive to produce software could be sold by a competitor.
- Comment on Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are 1 week ago:
Not every single thing that’s non-FOSS is enshittified, sometimes things cost A Lot of money to develop and those involved deserve to be paid. A good example of such software is Arturia’s V Collection, a music/synthesiser program that requires access to original synths to recreate them. You own your license and can deregister it and sell your key to someone else.
- Comment on boymoder with bisexual cis gf 1 week ago:
anon’s gf is into girls and wants to see her gf all pretty. she has a fetish for seeing her loved one be happy.
- Comment on How to get GeForce NOW on Steam Deck, SteamOS 2 weeks ago:
If any Steam Deck owners are in the chat, would they be able to post their
/etc/os-releasefile’s contents? I think I could get this working under Bazzite, and after that it would be pretty easy to write a bash script to do it automatically. If you don’t want to share the whole thing, I specifically need:NAME="XXX" VERSION_ID=X.X.X VARIANT_ID=XXX
- Comment on How to get GeForce NOW on Steam Deck, SteamOS 2 weeks ago:
I wish this worked on my Lenovo Legion Go running Bazzite. Checking the logs, it is indeed erroring on the OS, but it also is having an issue with some dependency or another.
- Comment on Greens defector’s use of slur against fellow senator exposed in text leak 2 weeks ago:
Bloody amazing reporting SMH, censoring fucking and leaving the slur alone! 👏
- Comment on Minimum and award wages to rise 3.5 per cent from July 2 weeks ago:
(I moved this to its own comment to keep the explanation above a bit more succinct.)
This is actually something that bothers me quite a lot when I’ve had discussions with Americans about minimum wage. They see this figure of US$16.12/hour and go “well Australia doesn’t really have that much higher of a minimum wage than us” or “see we don’t really need to aim for anything more than $15/hour”. When the reality is that that burger flipper at risk of being let go without cause is actually making US$21.42/hour under their industry award and has their wage increases tied to CPI so they’re never worse off year over year.
- Comment on Minimum and award wages to rise 3.5 per cent from July 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone here has yet explained it properly for you. The way our unions work is a fair bit different than in the US. They don’t require 50%+ out of a single workplace to form, and instead represent entire industries. Any one worker can go and sign up for their union tomorrow. So part of what these unions then negotiate on is a sweeping “award” for the entire industry that gets negotiated between all major stakeholders. These are also hyper-specific, mandating pay raises based off skill level, responsibilities and seniority. As well, if you’re on a casual contract (i.e. non-permanent) then you get a 25% loading to cover not getting sick & personal leave, which is universal. All up this means that a very, very limited number of workers are only covered by/paid minimum wage. For example, if you’re an entry level, non-permanent ‘Food and Beverage Attendant’ (i.e. waiter/ress) working during the week before 10pm, you’re getting $30.13/hour. Same position but it’s a Public Holiday? $60.25/hour.^[1]^ The only people in the restaurant industry that are making that minimum wage are entry-level on a full or part-time contract that protects them from being fired without cause after three months. They also receive 4 weeks annual leave and 10 days sick/carer’s leave, pro-rata for part-time contracts. Everyone is also entitled to an extra 11.5% on top for ‘superannuation’ which is what our retirement benefits are called, going up to 12% at the same time as this minimum wage increase.
So, to summarise, Australian minimum wage isn’t really just one number. Via industry awards, it is actually an entire pay scale for almost every hourly employee in the country. This 3.5% increase affects these scales as well, hence why millions of workers are receiving this bump, they aren’t all on the minimum rate.
This is actually something that bothers me quite a lot when I’ve had discussions with Americans about minimum wage. They see this figure of US$16.12/hour and go “well Australia doesn’t really have that much higher of a minimum wage than us” or “see we don’t really need to aim for anything more than $15/hour”. When the reality is that that burger flipper at risk of being let go without cause is actually making US$21.42/hour under their industry award and has their wage increases tied to CPI so they’re never worse off year over year.
- These are 2024 numbers.
- Comment on For the little guys. 3 weeks ago:
Feral pigs have also caused huge issues in Australia.
- Comment on For the little guys. 3 weeks ago:
Again, I don’t think that’s true. Junglefowl live in incredibly dense tropical locales that would make it very difficult to hunt them.
As well, I think the concept that we would kill all chickens off so they would therefore be extinct because we have no use for them is, well, counter to what this entire post is about and not really much of a thought experiment. You could say the same about dogs, or cats, or any other animal humans decide to decimate. Hell, even each other at times… Even with junglefowl we could burn down their habitat until there were none left.
- Comment on For the little guys. 3 weeks ago:
Actually not even close to true for chickens. The Red Junglefowl, the species that gave rise to the domesticated chicken, is classified as Least Concern. As is the Grey Junglefowl, the Sri Lankan Junglefowl, and the Green Junglefowl that contributed to the gene pool. If you’re talking about Gallus gallus domesticus itself, then I think that gets a fair bit murkier as they never did survive on their own in the wild. However, with a population of 26.5 Billion in 2023, I think it would take a lot for them to go extinct, and it certainly wouldn’t happen overnight. It really varies in my opinion. Obviously species bred for meat consumption or cage eggs are going to struggle to survive on their own. But I have a Bantum hen that looks and acts like a Junglefowl, being able to clear fly over a 6ft tall person. She’s able to nest up high for the night, and is near impossible to catch. I strongly believe she’d manage to survive in the wild quite easily.