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- Comment on When your most obnoxious coworker starts up with their bullshit again 1 day ago:
Yes, but for 40 years.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipeline 1 week ago:
I get that. I don’t know that the losses add up as the group was unheard of, but they didn’t pull the ban out of their ass. I think they did everything to try and hide where it came from.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipeline 1 week ago:
We’ll, they did it on response to protests from a right wing group. I presume they worried that they would be associated with illicit content. It may be that they took a global view rather than western view of what’s acceptable.
I have no doubt that they wouldn’t care what people buy if there was nonprofit to lose.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 1 week ago:
Yes, but throw the book at all of them equally.
If he is prosecuted for hate speech, then remove his visa. Why are the “Aussies” getting off scot free. Why the double standard?
I used to think the Victoria laws banning swastikas etc was overkill. In this day and age, who’d be an actual nazi.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 1 week ago:
Who watches the watchmen? The same legal mechanism that was used here could be used against someone protesting the destruction of the environment. We’ve already seen similar. Or the Israeli genocide. We’ve already seen a peaceful protestor lose an eye. She was presumably a citizen given she was a candidate for election.
I understand the paradox of tolerance. I also understand state overreach.
I think the police and courts have too much power to stifle legitimate protest already. This will be a reason to stifle it more.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 1 week ago:
Like the recent greens candidate who was actually a lawyer, protesting Palestinian genocide and lost her eye due to excessive police force.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 1 week ago:
Haha, yes. I think there’s a difference between being intolerant if Nazi beliefs people facing equal punishment and singling out people that are not citizens for different treatment.
That is, of course, how the Nazis started out. Of course all Germans were to be treated equally. Guess who weren’t considered real Germans.
Why are the police that approved the rally not facing repercussions? That’s what if like to know.
- Comment on South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament 1 week ago:
I’m not a fan of Nazis, so I’m glad there are repercussions. I’m not a fan of people expressing views, even when awful, having machinations of the state used against them.
He deserves it, but will the next person?
- Comment on NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers 2 weeks ago:
Some of those that work forces….
- Comment on Barnaby Joyce will not recontest New England seat at next election 1 month ago:
Lol, compares it to a marriage break down. And just like his marriage breakdown, the reason may be because he is cheating with another.
Party of family values.
- Comment on Barnaby Joyce in advanced talks with Pauline Hanson to join One Nation 1 month ago:
I though they only wanted white people?
- Comment on Grattan on Friday: believe it or not, there would be a case for more federal politicians 1 month ago:
Doesn’t regular redistricting prevent the need for that?
- Comment on Just one more thing 2 months ago:
I take your original point at face value with the assumption you are not anti semetic. However, it can also be interpreted as saying I think antisemitism is acceptable.
The same post could be said about white people or Americans. It rarely is used against those from those groups that are not wealthy. Antisemitic sentiment affects the average jew and not the wealthy ones with large influence, which is few and that influence is because of their wealth and/or political influence as a conscious plan, not their religion. In fact they are more likely to hide behind their religion to campaign for things that have nothing to do with their religion or ethnicity.
- Comment on ‘Thriving Kids’ could help secure the future of the NDIS. But what will the program mean for children and families? 3 months ago:
The cost blowouts with the ndis aren’t just ramping up care. Due to the massive increase in funds available, demand increased significantly. So prices rose on lots of stuff. Those in allied therapies are charging hourly rates in the 100s of dollars, where previously, their hourly rate was 60-80. There is a private style system but public style demand. This is less efficient.
Think of going to a public hospital out patient, with lots of waiting and queuing, versus a therapist charging for an hour, having no admin support (why bother as it’s just a cost), so all admin (eg payments, booking appointments )are done during appointment time, billed to ndis. In a hospital, all that is passed off to admin workers while the therapists just see more patients, at a lower hourly rate. Then look at equipment, sometimes costing thousands. Hospitals have it as a shared resource. Private therapists have it now too, but it’s used less frequently and so less efficient from a cost point of view.
The whole point of the scheme is great, but we don’t suddenly have a whole bunch of extra qualified staff. So, to encourage staff, qualified or not, prices went up. Then you have people, who are desperate, willing to pay anything, and then suddenly having a blank cheque. This should normalise over time, partly from a,rhetorical forces, partly from trying to rein in spending, like this.
This is before you even consider inflation was over 25% combine over the last few years, with double the participants. Add on the inefficiancy of rapid ramp up. Look at employment in government and non government spending over the last 3 years. It’s concerning for the economy in general.
- Comment on I fast-forward through the songs... 3 months ago:
Buffy and scrubs are the only two where it was good and worked and made sense in the show. Star Trek strange new worlds has tried to follow that, with making the story make sense to have singing, but it’s just cringey.
- Comment on The guy President Trump nominated to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 3 months ago:
Riot? Insurrection, coup?
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
Yes, I find with any remake or reboot, you have to be ready to abandon preconceptions of what you wanted or expected. Fan service is good and bad. There is no point in a remake where it is all the same. Generally, of it’s a ground breaking classic, the remake is bound to disappoint. It can never be as groundbreaking or original, by definition. Subverting expectations can be good but it requires reference to the original, that the original can stand on its own without
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
For me, I found the bits that were most a copy of the anime to be most disconcerting and disappointing. What they did differently was more interesting.
I did like Major, I didn’t like Dr ouelet but I like Juliette binoche. It was a bit stilted. Michael Pitt was a bit one note and underwhelming but it might also be the concept has dated since the original.
The actor for Major is currently in foundation, of that’s your jam.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
Haha, yes I did. It got criticism for whitewashing. That’s not on Herz that’s in the producers. She did as fine a job as of expect anyone to do, but it’s a pretty robotic role.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
But was still a fun character and it was a ludicrous but fun movie. At that time, they were leaning into the cheesez rather than trying for gritty, in the Daniel Craig era.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
Independence day was great when it was released. Men in black, too.
Lucy was interesting. Ghost in the machine wasnt as good as the (amazing) original, but was still good.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 3 months ago:
There are degrees of collapse too. I don’t mind if all the billionaires and corporations are left holding the bag. I am concerned that we have a collapse of the stock market and lost jobs and recession globally.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 3 months ago:
True, but I still don’t hope for a collapse. A soft landing is better, if unlikely.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 3 months ago:
A collapse will lead to job losses in the short term.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 3 months ago:
No, the general economy is pretty poor right now, the AI collapse will cost lots of jobs, incomes and lives. A collapse doesn’t just affect that industry. It spreads and affects finance and lending globally.
- Comment on Anon saves up 3 months ago:
Gosh, I’m quite shocked at the UK. They are not ally pretty good for workers rights.
The worker in Australia may have accrued long service leave. It’s a seperate entitlement that means younger 3 months leave at once,.on top of holiday entitlement, after working somewhere for 10 years.
- Comment on We know the Sydney Harbour Bridge march against the killing in Gaza was huge – but just how big was it? 3 months ago:
If the police can’t accurately assess numbers, how can they assess risk?
- Comment on Anon saves up 3 months ago:
I’m guessing it was USA and they were just lost.
- Comment on Reddit pauses its paywall plans 3 months ago:
Oh, I know the mods of larger mods tried to monetise but I thought that was more in allowing posts from advertisers to appear as grass roots and to silence other voices. I didn’t realize they were being baited along with promises of payment.
It’s funny that the value in reddit over lemmy is the small communities. While they could certainly be monetise, doing so makes them lose their value. Lemmy has the same generic large communities but lacks the volume of users to have as many niche communities. hopefully that changes over time.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US 3 months ago:
Lol, you think steam decks won’t go up in price too? Sanctions affect everything. If you already have a deck you’re unaffected but if you already have a switch you’re also unaffected, for now…
I have a PS5. I don’t intend to ever buy a console again. That era is dead.