naevaTheRat
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Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
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- Comment on Fears Vitamin B6 levels in energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster could contribute to rise in B6 toxicity cases 3 weeks ago:
There is a massive rise in b6 poisoning. Although it’s in fucking everything leading to double dosing. E.g. magnesium supplement? b6, hangover cure? b6, energy drink? b6, multivitamin? b6 etc
…org.au/…/pyridoxine-toxicity-from-over-the-count…
TGA gonna regulate it. Rare win for that horrible body: …org.au/…/sweeping-vitamin-b6-restrictions-propos…
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
But… you didn’t take a look at the report and were talking about the most anodyne interpretation when they
a) explain why 18 b) explain the scope c) break down the kinds of attraction by age group d) break down the kinds of offences
Asking if you looked at the report and what you thought about one of the most shocking things is completely reasonable.
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
Why did you have to be so rude and smug earlier? you hadn’t read that part of the report so you didn’t have a good reason to assume I was making shit up.
I copied the title of the authors in that piece, I don’t want to inflame people, I wanted a discussion of something I found extraordinarily shocking.
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
Would have sexual contact with a child younger than 10 years if no one would find out (4.0%)
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
It happened the other way because the vast amount (97%) of convicted offenders are men, and that expert consensus is men are vastly more likely to offend. People have limited time and money, so research is funded when it is able to clearly state its impact.
I wish we had infinite resources in the academy, but we do not.
- Comment on Report into NSW strip searches last decade. 1.5% of strip searches resulting in any sort of conviction above possession. 82.4k strip searches performed. 4 weeks ago:
There are many requirements in the police training manual. For instance anyone being searched at all is meant to be taken somewhere private and their dignity preserved. I assume most people have seen this not happen.
Same gender is one such requirement.
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
At least one Australian expert says between 3% as likely as men to 25% as likely as men to offend. See below.
You can just look stuff up you know.
Joe Sullivan has spent 26 years counselling child sex offenders in the United Kingdom and is visiting Australia to attend an international police conference at Bond University on the Gold Coast.
While experts agree the majority of paedophiles are men, Dr Sullivan says women are responsible for more offences than previously thought.
“What I can say for certain is that it’s way more prevalent than people fully appreciate or understand,” he told the ABC.
"There’s some research to suggest it could be as high as 25 per cent.
“However, when you look at the representation within the criminal justice system it could be as low as 3 to 4 per cent of overall convictions.”
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
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- 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). 4 weeks ago:
Well it’s hard to say. Their sampling is pretty good, although mostly reflects the white population here as they discuss.
We don’t really have better stats than self reports, and this is a good study of self reports. You could dive into the data to see exactly what are the major areas, they’re probably not assault and more likely to be pornography.
Keep in mind it’s not uniform, the wierdos and freaks are amusingly less likely to. It’s more likely to be the well dressed guy with a family. So social elites. Depending on your crowd you might be pretty unlikely to know someone who does this.
- Comment on Report into NSW strip searches last decade. 1.5% of strip searches resulting in any sort of conviction above possession. 82.4k strip searches performed. 4 weeks ago:
Australia, or at least NSW, is a police state. You are getting filmed, tracked, your browsing history saved, your financial purchases archived, you need government ID regularly updated which requires entering your biometrics into a database.
This /is/ what living in a police state is. No it’s not as bad as it could get but we are already there.
- Report into NSW strip searches last decade. 1.5% of strip searches resulting in any sort of conviction above possession. 82.4k strip searches performed.rlc.org.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
They headline is the summation of the distinct people that answered at least one question in the grouping: “Men who have sexual feelings towards children” with an affirmative response
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
It’s obviously more important to judge people on what they do but just the prevalence is wild.
Some no doubt is power, given wealthy men are more likely. I think power destroys human minds and no amount is safe.
Even so, when I look at like 20 year olds they look and act like, well, children. Definitely not people I’m attracted to. I’m only 35, and I would say healthy 45-30 ish is what seems hot to me. Although I will admit I’ve always been drawn to people based on if they’re clever (and how much they’re across RAAC ;p)
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
Did you take a look in the report though? Like 1 in 25 men surveyed saying they’d rape a 10 year old of nobody found out
- Comment on Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture. 4 weeks ago:
I keep meaning to reply to this and never getting around to it. Now work is intensely busy and I can’t really do it justice.
Just wanted to apologise for dropping out from a rare nice lemmy convo.
- 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). 4 weeks ago:
You should read the study if you want to know why it was done the way it was done. Scientists are very good at explaining why the criteria they selected are the criteria they selected.
- A survey found 1 in 6 men admit sexual feelings for children. So is paedophilia increasing? (2023, linked study is worth a read).theconversation.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 31 comments
- Comment on Fears Aboriginal languages are being lost, as communities work to save them 1 month ago:
Don’t use the passive voice and weasel-words. If you want to make claims make them.
It could be argued that the use of the passive voice and the abstract attribution of an argument to a nebulous other. A practice which has been described in some literature as the use of “weasel-words”, has a deleterious effect on comprehension and dilutes discussion by making unclear distinctions between the beliefs of interlocutors and mere speculation.
- Comment on Guardian reporting on antisemitism plan proposed by government. Sweeping proposals including withdrawing funding from unis. Envoy claims that academia is steeped in antisemitism. 1 month ago:
It’s antisemetic to report on an army gunning down semetic civvies.
- Comment on Guardian reporting on antisemitism plan proposed by government. Sweeping proposals including withdrawing funding from unis. Envoy claims that academia is steeped in antisemitism. 1 month ago:
I dunno how much blood is personally on his hands, but the government certainly continues to support and arm their genocidal regime.
Settler-colonial solidarity I suppose :s would be nice if our lords and masters could be on the right side of history for once.
Something I really struggle with on this shit, is the government has cracked down so hard here, but like aboriginal Aussies are still undergoing genocide here as we speak. Massive overpolicing, massively higher deaths in custody, massively higher deaths in healthcare, horrific amounts of racism. Yet apparently we need a special action body on legitimising Israel :|
- Guardian reporting on antisemitism plan proposed by government. Sweeping proposals including withdrawing funding from unis. Envoy claims that academia is steeped in antisemitism.www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture. 1 month ago:
I find that the historical precedent of commons and allotments has many appealing safeguards built into it. And end to corporate buy ups and land speculation for instance. In leftist economic theory a distinction is usually made between personal property (stuff you use, your toothbrush etc) and private property (the means of production, agricultural land, factories etc held by individuals or companies for the purpose of exploitation).
It might serve a farmer to say over-exploit land and wear it out but a community that lives there, presumably having young people and children, are unlikely to feel that way. Similarly is a community unlikely to leave a field fallow because holding land that is not in use to later sell is very profitable. People invested in their personal property and local community, the business of living somewhere and presumably some of them farming the commons; they are still invested in paying attention to the environment and quality of the land.
You have probably heard of the tragedy of the commons but this was based off highly unusual transient conditions (sort of like the alpha wolf study) and historical evidence points to many enduring and stable arrangements. ian.umces.edu/…/the-triumph-of-the-commons-no-act… is a good primer and Ostrum, E’s work for further study if curious.
I am defs also keen on citizen’s assemblies, more democracy is awesome and evidence shows that true democracy (i.e. broad opinions and randomly drafted shmucks) consistently returns good results.
- NSW government reaches agreement with rail Union. 92% of workers vote to accept 12% payrise over 3 years.www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture. 1 month ago:
I would agree, which is why I tend to come down against private property/privatisation of land. It serves everyone to have agriculture, but only if that agriculture is done in a way which serves everyone. Of course a community controlling its land and allocating it to people who want to use it to benefit the community is no guarantee they use it responsibly, as we can see with this one.
Managing things like environmental impact requires a very large scale view and coordination, a river might be able to tolerate run off from the first farm, but by the 50th downstream it might be cooked. It’s difficult to expect the person at the first farm to really understand their impact and responsibility. Significant attitude changes are needed, almost everyone in Australia behaves in ways the earth cannot sustain and which violently exploit other animals including other humans (e.g. our diets, our trinkets). We really need to reframe what being a human in the world means and what responsibilities it entails, and set up institutions that make it easier instead of harder.
- Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture.www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to news@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 2 months ago:
What people think of as absurd or not is informed by culture which marketing attempts to shape. There are absolutely dishes and combinations enjoyed in other cultures that would turn your stomach.
Something like potato gems needs to be understood to be in the same category as gummy worms. Not a normal meal food, a treat which is absurdly rich.
Price per calorie is obviously not the major concern, and I put to you most people probably have no idea about how much energy is in what they eat or what its nutritional merit is. They make decisions based on their impression of what is a reasonable food in whatever category.
Potatoes and fish are meal foods in our culture, and culturally they retain this after being deep fried and battered. However bread which is a meal food does not retain meal food status if battered and fried. See what I’m getting at?
If you can buy battered potatoes in the frozen veg isle, next to the peas, and it has pictures on it informing you that this is an entirely reasonable food to put on a plate with peas then you might easily grab some for that purpose.
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 2 months ago:
Sigh, read what I wrote re gummy worms.
Also sugar isn’t addictive, not in any meaningful way. It is pleasureable but labelling it as an addiction is a health crank position.
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 2 months ago:
The health star rating is under reform! Good news!
And I think regulating the content of food based on nutritional guidelines is quite difficult, a bit joyless, and likely to backfire and entrench established food products and production while hampering stuff like plant based alternatives which may represent healther and more ethical ways to produce hyper palatable treats.
I think it’s easier to place restrictions (at least now) and what can represent itself as good and normal parts of a human diet as opposed to what is essentially a starch or fat based lolly.
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 2 months ago:
Sure but the idea that humans are silly automatons that follow price exclusively dies in first year econ classrooms. Canned beans are extremely cheap and much closer to a food you can sustain yourself on, yet marketing promotes the idea that fish fingers and a side of chips is a more reasonable meal than baked potato and a side of beans with sauce, which doesn’t feel reasonable. Palatability is also not the most significant factor because people also aren’t serving fish fingers and a side of gummy worms despite gummy worms being extremely cheap per calorie and hyper palatable.
We’re a long way from being able to restrict the sale of junk food legislatively but not that far from being able to prevent things like showing hot chips on a dinner plate as something reasonable to serve.
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 2 months ago:
Look I am a straight up commie, my pipe dream is humans working together with mutual consideration in mind (an idea that makes you nearly unspeakably radical lmao). Do you know how fucking elated I would be if we could just like ban advertising on “junk food” and idk have it be plain packaged?
Chips are nice, I like chips, I just don’t think companies should be free to try hijack our biological drives to maximise destructive pleasure habits.
We can have a little vice, as a treat.