naevaTheRat
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
I use arch btw
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
She’d be better because she’d be worse at executing her agenda and any government electing her would be wracked by infighting
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 3 days ago:
I too would agree that the only poll that determines the government is the one on election day and we’ve seen that go one way or the other because of a few days propaganda (<3 the westminister system, so good).
I think it’s mostly that:
a) very few people read any sort of long form analysis or really any news at all.
b) rich people are highly motivates to distribute propaganda against this budget and to downplay how rich they are
c) lots of people who are yolked wage-slave proles (almost all the population) don’t understand how low down the economic ladder they are and aren’t motivated to think about it since it’s humilating in a culture that equated wealth with worth and worthiness.
d) shares are basically the only way you can (un)realistically dream of escaping your chains atm and “labour can tax you out of escaping” is easy propaganda for (b) to hit © with.
- Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed.www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 39 comments
- Comment on AUKUS will secure ~first rate~ second hand submarines in change of terms. 4 days ago:
Unfortunately I don’t think Australia will ever receive subs with soveriegn capabilities from the usa. No matter how much tribute we give them and how many soldiers we let them host here to keep us in check they’re not obligated to and their fleets and weapons systems are all behind schedule
- Submitted 4 days ago to news@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 3 weeks ago:
ABC radio also often contains way more enriching stuff than news. Longform discussion with experts, interviews and dicussions with random citizens affected by something, curated musical showcases (a good blend of classics and modern stuff like videogame music) that aim to teach audiences about a genre and promote Australian performers.
It’s legit some of the best stuff out there for entertainment that grows you and connects you to the broader political project that is Australia.
Fucking stupid to wall it up and make it harder to listen to than corporate slop.
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 3 weeks ago:
However was this solved before the ability to surveil everyone all the time? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
You know, we don’t actually know what roads are efficient. Let’s gps tag every car. Actually we don’t know at what hours of the day people need water, we could optimise this if we put a camera in everyone’s house.
I swear neolibs are more in favour of restrictive surveillance than the most ardent ML
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 3 weeks ago:
Baffling
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 3 weeks ago:
Oh they also killed RSS feeds for news.
- Comment on ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. 3 weeks ago:
I can only assume it’s a prelude to requiring an account like iview (guess who doesn’t watch abc anymore) for Metrics and licensing fees.
I’d rather we just fund the broadcaster and make it easy to use hey? A modern browser is not a default piece of software to have running. They’re some of the most bloated and ridiculous things that exist.
This country is fucking stupid, the government just repeatedly self owns by not understanding the purpose of providing easy and free access to state services. Having a national broadcaster to create a sense of community and shared purpose, and to lift up and inspire your citizenry along the safe lines you desire is like a really good thing if you’re a centralising bureaucrat.
Neoliberal business brain will be the end of community.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Minns doubles down on unconstitutional anti-protest laws. 1 month ago:
I think he’s a bit worse. He’s come out against democracy, protest, civil rights, and the though court. He’s also explicitly and uncritically backed the police in some of the worst mass police violence we’ve seen in recent times.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on NSW Court of Appeal Strikes Down Minns Anti-Protest Laws 1 month ago:
Piece of shit Minns still won’t admit he fucked up. The entire nsw labor party is in bed with whatever fucked up faction is behind him.
From corruption to genocide, who knew the corrupt fucks were holding back the authoritarians from power.
- Comment on The future is now. I generated this on the AI Horde, then converted it into a 3d model and printed it! 2 months ago:
That is genuinely interesting. The image suffers from the usual flaws in composition and style but the 3d model is corrected. Like the eyes aren’t fucked, the toes are fixed. Or at least from the angle you photographed.
Do you know how the tool works technically? Like what it’s doing mathematically? Or have a good link?
- Comment on The AI bubble bursting might be one of the best things for open source models 2 months ago:
That won’t happen. The chips themselves are useful for loads of industrial applications and the infrastructure itself is nontrivial.
Relatively cheap would still be tens of thousands of dollars.
- Comment on Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar 3 months ago:
Pretty derpy, we’ll see how this plays out in court.
- Our lords and masters line up behind the USA against a rules based order and the precedents established at Nuremburg.www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban 6 months ago:
There’s so many. I was there 2000 years ago when we just hung out on IRCs and xmpp.
If you actually dig into the studies a lot of the excessive socmed time of kids is chatting. what we used to do with MSN and shite.
Kids will find a way to hang out and share stuff. Probably better that it happens in the light.
I am reminded of older attitudes towards sex and teens. Preventing kids from being open about their sexual activities didn’t make it safe, it meant that people fucked in filthy places and didn’t have a proper education, or made friends with someone seedy as to get porn.
We should provide safe® alternatives, not ban things and then pretend that bored teenagers aren’t some of the most creative people on the planet.
- Comment on Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban 6 months ago:
I wish we could just regulate algorithmic recommendation and make companies over a certain size liable for content they promote (like publishing houses are) instead.
I am really concerned that this will do nothing to stop general social degradation and may actually cement the power of large operators by making smaller companies of ambiguous status legally risky; also pushing children to engage with hellscape platforms like 4chan or platforms run by other states Australia has less ability to regulate.
Also it’s a fucking privacy nightmare, but I’m aware that us tinhatters are alone in our damn Cassandra complexes as everything we’ve warned about happens over and over again.
- Submitted 7 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 7 months ago:
A right winger misrepresentating a situation to appear more sympathetic? Say it ain’t so.
- Comment on Fears Vitamin B6 levels in energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster could contribute to rise in B6 toxicity cases 9 months 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). 10 months 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). 10 months 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.