spiffmeister

@spiffmeister@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The Australia Institute also has a new youtube video on this bill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right the bill does not do that. The point I’m making is that the way in which you remove money from politics is important, not just the removal of it. If the bill essentially removed the ability for any other group to run other than the two major parties then it’s not a good bill.

  Do you think that donations are the only way of biasing a party or candidate? How many have gone to work for consultants afterwards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The guardian had a few articles on the bills also:

  Labor and Liberals could each get $19m more from the public under electoral law reform. What else would it do?

  Labor and Coalition accused of cooking up ‘secret deal’ on electoral rules as Clive Palmer signals court challenge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it be a good bill if donations were banned but only the two major parties get public funding?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutton is already testing Trump's campaign slogans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Advance has already said they will be targeting the Greens this election, and given both parties opposed the “truth in political advertising” bill you can bet it’s going to be a shitshow of misinfo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nacc to reconsider whether to investigate robodebt after ‘apprehended bias’ finding against commissioner⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Borderline corrupt behavior by the corruption commissioner okay because he didn’t mean it. Ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Labor Careerists Wrecking Australia’s Construction Union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this a clear demonstration of corruption by the ALP?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Queensland student loses case alleging school's uniform policy was discriminatory against females⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re “permitted to year shorts” why not just skip the skirt and let them wear shorts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic publishing - pfft⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.

  That’s not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Failure to launch: why the Albanese government is in trouble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It really can’t be that hard to be better than Dutton. Truly astounding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Six killed in Israeli strike on medical centre in central Beirut, Lebanon officials say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they have some condition which compels them to blow up medical centres, and eventually they’ll be firing missiles at hospitals in Europe because there’s none left in the region

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NACC redacts from FOI docs name of deputy leader who chose not to investigate robodebt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess we need the NACC to investigate the NACC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨David Pocock creates AI deepfakes of Albanese and Dutton as warning ahead of election⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay, they can use AI to teach it to save money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨David Pocock creates AI deepfakes of Albanese and Dutton as warning ahead of election⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fines that were actually enforced properly might work. In general though I think the feds probably need to run an education campaign about AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bill to kill a union: What is actually in the government’s CFMEU legislation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny because I can’t even see the LNP coming up with something this bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AUKUS revamped: Australia to indemnify US and UK against 'any liability' from nuclear risks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has already cost what, $430B? We should just throw in another few billion and build our own diesel subs for safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine digitally altered female MP into 'more revealing' outfit⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the new excuse any time a media company does something dodgy is “oh it was the AI sorry!”