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- Comment on For the little guys. 5 days ago:
Feral pigs have also caused huge issues in Australia.
- Comment on For the little guys. 5 days 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. 5 days 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.
- Comment on Signal calls out Microsoft for poor implementation of Windows 11 Recall, blocks it by default 5 days ago:
I’d guess they’ll have an Opt-In for Enterprise editions?
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
While there has obviously been a lot of public talk about the reasons why, I do genuinely wonder how much came down to the Nationals not being ready for the Coalition to be led by a woman. I genuinely can’t believe the numbers are as bad as 4/28 for the Liberals and 3/15 for the Nationals that are women. Also insane that the Nationals have a larger ratio!
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
Regarding your edit, no, you don’t need a majority of Senators and no party has in a couple decades. What you need to form government is a majority in the House. However, at times when a majority has nog been possible, a PM can be decided when they have a majority of MPs in the House that will vote with them on confidence and supply. Confidence is a literal vote of confidence that happens, where if it fails, the PM is ousted and an election happens. Supply being the budget, which, if it can’t be passed, also triggers an election. Hence why Australia could never have a US-style government shutdown.
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 1 week ago:
…mastodon is still just a copy of twitter with no new features
What new features does Bluesky have…?
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 1 week ago:
Not every person reacts to stress in the same ways. Good on you for not smoking or drinking! But why do you need to shame these people who, as you mentioned, grew up in a different time and without the knowledge of the dangers involved? Knowledge that was actively suppressed by the tobacco industry.
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 1 week ago:
See this other person’s comment: lemmy.world/comment/17139785
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 1 week ago:
Your employer deliberately runs you into the ground because you’re overweight? How strange…
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 week ago:
No, you’re wrong here. ‘Right to Work’ laws are about preventing unions from controlling an entire workplace, forcing new employees to join the union. ‘At-Will Employment’ laws are entirely seperate from that.
- Comment on Victoria’s planning reforms could help solve the housing crisis. But they are under threat 1 week ago:
So your solution is that no new housing be affordable? I don’t really think trickle-down housing is the solution you think it is…
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree in principle, but from what I’ve heard the full screen “buy a new computer” pop-ups are pretty bloody annoying!
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I think you’re clearly underestimating how many people would install Valve’s OS. The number of people with a Steam Deck that don’t know that what it’s running is a Linux distro is pretty high. The other piece to this is that it’s not just a forced Windows update for a huge chunk of users, it’s a forced device upgrade. Valve offering a free upgrade that negates the need to buy new hardware would absolutely capture people’s attention.
- Comment on Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’ 2 weeks ago:
My guess is that even if she did, those friends wouldn’t want their intimate relationships sold for capital.
- Comment on Price defection slammed as Taylor and Ley confirm plans to run 2 weeks ago:
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s defection to the Liberal Party…
This really is trying hard to make it sound like she’s left the Nationals party and joined the Liberal party, when the reality is that she’s a Country Liberal Party (CLP) member that, as is her right, has changed her choice of which caucus she sits with.
- Comment on Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be able to find the comment, but someone in a thread the other day was talking about how the two major parties will “always control Australian politics” or some such and this just disproves them so much.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue that large parts of Lower Decks is as well honestly. Especially episodes where the main characters are busy with ship duties while the senior officers are off doing typical Star Trek plot stuff.
- Comment on Greens leader Adam Bandt projected to lose in Melbourne, leaving party without its captain - ABC News 2 weeks ago:
It only went from a 10.2% margin down to 6.5% with the redistribution, so it’s not like they turned it into a marginal seat or anything. Basically every time you have a group of people redrawing electorates, you’re going to have gerrymandering of some sort, but you can choose to regulate it in a number of ways. The AEC’s mandate is to try and reduce the incumbent’s margin where they can, rather than entrench them further, within the confines of averaging out the population with neighbouring electorates.
So, to answer your question, yes they absolutely knew what they were doing, but that wasn’t exactly a secret at all. Pushing seats to be as marginal as possible rather than favouring incumbents, giving opponents a fair go at winning it, is probably the best outcome we could ask from an independent redistribution committee in my opinion.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
Considering the massive, once in a generation, second-term swing to the incumbent government I’d say we’ve seen a massive repudiation of those culture war talking points. Obviously that wasn’t the only causal factor in these results, but it’s worth noting Morrison tried some anti-trans stuff in 2022 as well and look where that got him. I think the Australian voting public is smarter than to fall for that sort of rhetoric. Mandatory voting also helps because the more disinterested voters still have to make a decision, and I think most people believe in a fair go.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, so what if they listen to that advice and try to lean into the culture wars? So they lose some more elections, I think it would do a world of good for this country if the Liberals fell into irrelevance and we had a rise of politicians like the Teal independents that actually care about climate change.
- Comment on MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I commonly assert to people that we don’t actually have mandatory voting in Australia. The only thing that’s mandatory is showing up, having your name crossed off the roll, and putting your ballots in the box. Considering the sanctity we treat the secret ballot with, that’s always going to be the case!
Besides, I get a lot less irked by people doing that in Australia, because it’s still a very active decision that (some? most?) people make. Compare that to America where a bunch of lazy cunts just don’t bother (and a bunch more can’t vote because the government isn’t obliged to make it easy for them)!
- Comment on Election recap 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, I grew up in Ballarat and went to Uni in Bendigo, and I think the latter definitely skews further right. Ballarat is the home of Australian democracy, and folks are really proud of that fact. It’s always refreshing going home because people fly the Eureka flag without being racist cunts.
Catherine King is also just very popular locally. She makes sure to be quite responsive through her electoral office.
Anyway, all this is to say that if the Nationals tried a similar run on Ballarat they would have failed spectacularly. There was a 2.5% swing to Paula Doran (Lib) in Ballarat, but King held it still with a 10.5% margin.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 3 weeks ago:
You know what, that’s actually a really interesting perspective, thank you. I agree with that.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 3 weeks ago:
I think that any one voter can still have voted “wrong” in terms of their own beliefs and desires though?
- Comment on From 4chan to the White House: James Ball explains how failing to take games seriously has fed the populist right 3 weeks ago:
My immediate thought of leftist/progressive gaming influencers was F1nn5ter. I’m not really into that circle of content creation though.
- Comment on 8BitDo Ultimate 2 is getting full Steam Input support for more buttons 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I end up programming them with the Ultimate Software, usually to the stick buttons, but it would be nice to set them to stuff like bringing up the Steam Keyboard. There’s already a switch on the back of those so you could have a Steam Input mode and a Ultimate Software mode easily.
- Comment on Valve’s Proton, the reason most Steam Deck games work, has a version 10.0 beta to try 3 weeks ago:
Valve also contribute heavily upstream into the Wine project, but there are some fixes which “couldn’t” be upstreamed until v10. As well, the most recent Linux kernel has added some changes which specifically help with Wine and gaming.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 4 weeks ago:
Does Microsoft own Discord?
- Comment on Welcome to Country booed by neo-Nazis at Melbourne Dawn Service 4 weeks ago:
Clive Palmer’s stupid campaign ad that mentions “not needing to be welcomed to our own country” probably contributed to this. Especially because the guy is 26 and those are constantly rolling on youtube.