naevaTheRat
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Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
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- Comment on David Shoebridge says ‘we’re here to replace Labor’ in first remarks after being elected new Greens leader 1 day ago:
Sounds bitter, hope she won’t undermine. Shoebridge is… fine and probably a better choice as the public face/chief cat herder.
Whether it should be a member vote is interesting. In theory the membership determines policy and the leader is the person elected by the caucus to help them work together/keep messaging clear.
In practice the leader has a lot of influence on what policies are put forward or pursued. Expertise in politics is useful for determining what is practicable though so…
swings and roundabouts. No firm stance from me.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 1 week ago:
They have a duty to yes, but how well or poorly they do that has absolutely nothing to do with whether the hack is criminal.
Openai should be prosecuted for making and using malware.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 1 week ago:
internet security is bad yes, but having bad security doesn’t mitigate the crime of trying to break in.
If we accept that line of reasoning we get to a very weird place where we start putting the onus on victims to protect themselves not perpetrators to regulate their antisocial behaviours.
- Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altmanwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 20 comments
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 1 week ago:
I love that your example of Australia being attacked is Australia being attacked because Australia declared war at the behest of another state.
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 1 week ago:
ah yes, vibes based geopolitical analysis
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 1 week ago:
You tell me, if you’re confident in your opinion it must be because you’ve researched it a lot and are well informed about their military posture. why would they?
Be concrete, what would they gain? How much would it cost? How long would the war be? What would the attack look like? What forces would be involved?
I think you’re operating in the idealism land of china bad us good evil vs good is why war. Can you actually state your position and reasoning in material terms?
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 1 week ago:
That is invalid framing. I do not think it is likely that china will attack us, I think the alliances we are in and hosting usa military shit makes it more likely, I think it is fairly likely (say >2% in 50 years) that we will declare war on china.
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 1 week ago:
They did not invade Hongkong the British had a 99 year lease and china had sovereignty.
You can not like that, or how reintegration was done, but it doesn’t make it an invasion.
I’m not going to engage in good faith if you are going to be histrionic and disingenuous.
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 1 week ago:
Do you think the usa is? I think a state being a gentle giant is an absurd criteria to avoid getting into alliances with their primary antagonist that pits you against them in a war.
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 1 week ago:
I loathe idiotic posturing that reduces politics to aesthetics and reheated opinions served up originally by propagandists.
The world is material, politics are real. We can understand and improve it by analysing it clear-eyed and dispassionately and then find the best way to realise our passions.
You have to live in a fantasy land to think war with china will help anyone.
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 1 week ago:
Sigh.
The usa has the largest prison population in the world and the highest per capita rate of imprisonment and yet we still work with them and even have an extradition treaty. They have a terrible and enormous war machine and prosecute multiple illegal wars constantly and yet our government signs treaties with them.
The EU allows fascists and eugenicists to control Parliament and openly run as these parties and our standards harmonise with theirs and trade agreements are signed.
Taiwan was literally run by facists and the government worked with them. The ROK is like 8 chaebols in a suit and has fuckall workers rights and we work with them.
Japan is an intensely racist and misogynistic society with a horrifically corrupt and unjust judicial system and yet they are allies.
Saudi Arabia is… well I don’t need to go into it.
The reality of the world is that if you make an enemy or every state that does something objectionable and inhumane you will rapidly find yourself a very pure alliance of one amidst a civil war as that purity is established.
Australians cannot gain anything from this. A peaceful and integrated APAC only benefits the freedom and good fortune of everyone. Human rights hardly flourish in an atmosphere of paranoid spying and warmongering.
- Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 23 comments
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy fucking loves misogyny.
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- Comment on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics 5 weeks ago:
There’s a fictional world in which these machine learning techniques are developed ok submissions that are volunteered, rollout is socially and politically responsible, control and means of production are democratised, and development is guided by public interest.
Unfortunately we don’t live in that world and I think given the one we live in it’s actually completely reasonable to find the outputs repulsive.
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 1 month ago:
The stuff generated by these things is always so generic anyway, like it seems superficially different because it’s inhuman but it’s all different in the same way.
You never get the cool stuff like the trolls that you’re fighting actually being anarcho-syndicalists struggling to raise protection money to pay off an evil wizard because someone was put on the spot while in a silly mood and started riffing.
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 1 month ago:
Also you could write down the artist’s name and that way there’s at least the possibility that someone might commission them or purchase art if they like the style.
- Comment on Why Australia Doesn’t Have Novelty Candidates like Count Binface 1 month ago:
Wait wow, you mean these feckless losers and cartoonish authoritarians aren’t having it on?
- Comment on End of an era? 2 months ago:
omg learn to write
- Comment on End of an era? 2 months ago:
consoles predate gaming pcs and likely your existence. Your comment’s spirit is not false but it is a lie. do better
- Submitted 3 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know aboutwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 3 months ago:
That’s a hilarious misrepresentation of tax laws in NZ lol but just taking the logic, why doesn’t everyone just only invest in panama or some other tax haven?
Could it be because more than just “how lowest tax?” goes into where people can start businesses? Hmmmmmmm?
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 3 months ago:
citation needed.
CGT changes are adjusted for inflation and still represent an extremely attractive vehicle for people. What else are you going to do with money you’ve amassed, sit on it like a dragon?
All it does is shift some or the tax burden to rich arseholes and make hoarding land less attractive (even adam smith thought landlords fucking sucked).
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 3 months ago:
The budget you silly sausage. Unsurprising that you think it’s a bad one with reading comprehension like that
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 3 months ago:
Might make for some sweet singles put out by based drag queens?
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 3 months ago:
It’s actually pretty good though
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 3 months ago:
She’d be better because she’d be worse at executing her agenda and any government electing her would be wracked by infighting