Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read). 2 days ago:
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 3 days ago:
Bold of you to assume the people advocating for this know how to use a VPN.
- Comment on PM brushes off push for Israel sanctions as a 'slogan' | Canberra CityNews 4 days ago:
I dunno, maybe it would. I don’t give a crap. If your contract requires you to aid in a genocide, it’s a shit contract and you should break it.
- Comment on PM brushes off push for Israel sanctions as a 'slogan' | Canberra CityNews 4 days ago:
But the prime minister refused to answer a question about whether Australia would impose further sanctions on Israel as demanded by the Greens and other pro-Palestinian campaigners.
“What we need to do here is to have very clear statements and actions by the Australian government that make a difference, rather than respond to a slogan on a protest,” Mr Albanese said.
Australia previously imposed sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, two far-right Israeli ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, who have been accused of inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Yes, we do need “clear…actions by the Australian government”. Like sanctioning an apartheid state and all of its leaders, not just two ministers. Like banning the export of weapons (and yes: parts that go into weapons are obviously weapons).
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- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 5 days ago:
The Canada goose.
- Comment on Checkmate. 5 days ago:
This post being literally right after this one in my feed is hilarious.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 6 days ago:
For thee?
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 6 days ago:
As for bike lanes, winter is a major factor.
But actually, even in Canada. And even with bike share programs.
So actually:
Canadian cities aren’t doing enough to build mass transit [and bike lanes]
Is all you need. End of post.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 6 days ago:
Muh Queen!
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 6 days ago:
85% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the American border. And yous claim you don’t want to be part of them.
*(runs and hides)*
- Comment on do you think he realizes he's mumbling in this scene? 1 week ago:
Hmm. Yeah I guess it’s hard to see that as anything other than mumbling. Idk why he’d be mumbling there tbh.
- Comment on Harbour Bridge protest shows Labor is losing ‘middle Australia’ over Gaza 1 week ago:
Must feel bad realising your pro-genocide stance is putting you in an ever decreasing minority, eh?
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 1 week ago:
Sorry, it’s early and I couldn’t find a nicer analogy
I mean, you coulda just gone with “the boy who cried wolf”.
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 1 week ago:
I think it comes down to the fuzzy definition of “ruling”. The physical size and position in the food chain are among the factors that make dinosaurs rule the mesozoic, in my mind.
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 1 week ago:
Most of the more famous dinosaurs were actually from the cretaceous period. T. rex, stegosaurus, velociraptor (and the deinonychus and utahraptor that the movie Jurassic Park’s depiction of “velociraptor” was based on), triceratops, ankylosaurus. Pretty much all the non-avian dinosaurs the average person could name, other than sauropods like brachiosaurus, lived in the cretaceous. Some of those I named did admittedly first evolve in the jurassic, but most are most well-known in the cretaceous.
Though fwiw, birds did first evolve in the jurassic.
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 1 week ago:
The first flying dinosaur evolved from a non-flying dinosaur. The word for a “flying dinosaur” is “bird”. (Sort of. Bird isn’t a scientific term, arguably crown-group birds don’t include the first flying dinosaurs. But in that case the first bird evolved from a flying dinosaur which evolved from non-flying dinosaurs, so it still works.)
- Comment on Universal Adds 'No AI Training' Warning to Movies 1 week ago:
- Comment on Universal Adds 'No AI Training' Warning to Movies 1 week ago:
Can it be legal, at least in theory?
The legality of training AI is a far from settled subject. Some have argued it’s copyright infringement. Others have said it’s transformative to a degree that should be sufficient for fair use to apply. Yet others have said that it’s most akin to a human looking at art and being inspired by it, which is not copyright infringement at all.
If you want my take, we should judge the output, not the training. AI can be made to generate an output that would be copyright infringement if a human did it, and it should still be infringing if a human does. But most AI slop is just slop with no resemblance to much of anything. That’s crappy, but not copyright infringement.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In most states, MPs are kicked out upon conviction, and can be reinstated if their conviction is overturned on appeal before an election to replace them has been held.
NSW is unique in that they get to stay until the appeals process is entirely completed. So basically this guy is now incentivised to do everything he can to slow down the legal process, because as long as he does, he remains an MP and will draw an MP’s salary.
The Parliament has the power to suspend him, but they are only allowed to use that to protect the integrity of the House itself, not as punishment. And IMO it’s hard to justify suspending him as anything other than punishment. Deserved punishment perhaps, but punishment nonetheless. It’s up to the NSW legislature to fix their bad laws, but as the laws stand, IMO his lawyer is correct.
- Comment on Universal Adds 'No AI Training' Warning to Movies 1 week ago:
pirates of Silicon Valley
That is a fantastic movie and it’s a shame it’s not available for streaming anywhere.
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 1 week ago:
I suspect it’s partly just coincidence. Prior to the K–Pg extinction, the sky was ruled by non-birds. Pterosaurs. In fact, the late Cretaceous saw some of the largest creatures to ever fly, like Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx.
At the same time, it was also not mammals that ruled the ground, it was, as many an eight year-old can attest, dinosaurs.
The K–Pg extinction event may have killed off all the non-avian dinosaurs and pterosaurs, in part because of their larger size. So the very thing that made them “rule” before is what killed them off, and conversely, the very thing that kept avian dinosaurs (i.e., birds) and mammals from ruling during the Cretaceous is what allowed them to survive that event and evolve to fill the many niches vacated by non-avian dinosaurs after the event.
- Comment on Water Snek 1 week ago:
Oh right. Yeah I haven’t had the Facebook app installed on my phone in like a decade.
But yeah, clicking on an image on the Facebook website doesn’t actually add it to your browser history, because Facebook tries to act like an SPA, a decision they made seemingly specifically to frustrate the user. Because in addition to not adding clicked images to your browser history, they also will refresh the page if you tab away and come back after a minute or two.
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 1 week ago:
Context clues would make it obvious that that is not what’s meant.
- Comment on NSW government kills debate on protesters paying for police presence after exceeding cap 1 week ago:
Well at least we know our politicians won’t be getting up to any naughty sexual activities anymore!
- Comment on Water Snek 1 week ago:
Eh, not really. It’s more that at this level the difference in performance between men and women closes significantly, with some ultra swim records being held by women. For the English Channel specifically, the current record for speed of crossing is held by a man. So it’s not particularly amazing that it was a woman (though it is amazing that it was a physically disabled woman!), but neither would it have been amazing had it been a man.
- Comment on Water Snek 1 week ago:
Why are you being judgy about what websites someone uses?
- Comment on Water Snek 1 week ago:
I’m not actually sure what you mean, but if I’m understanding it correctly, uhh, what? No they don’t. If you click an external link on Facebook they send you to it with a redirect, so they know you went to that site, but they don’t know of any further links you might click.
But anyway, that’s not relevant to this here, because it was a photo shared on Facebook, not an external link.
- Comment on Negative gearing reform is back, but young voters now hold the power 1 week ago:
The proposal is to limit it to one property. So small-time investors still get the full benefit of it, while larger ones (1% of investors have 25% of negatively geared properties is what they said on Insiders, I think) get cut drastically.
- Comment on Water Snek 1 week ago:
Also, there was this hilarious comment under the original image:
