Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- 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. 21 hours ago:
Ah, Elinor Ostrum! Every damn time i run into her, i forget how to spell her first name!! I always type in Eleanor, and am confused when i get unexpected results!
I love her Triumph of the Commons stuff, it really helped identify some nigling problems i had with the Classical Economics arguments i’s listeningbto when i first heard about her work. Thanks for sending me across to her work again, i’ve enjoyed the reminder sesh today!
To the point about the farmer, i’d say it would have to be a fairly uncaring or stupid farmer to be that inattentive to their land that they wear it out. Even in the article about the Wombats we’re talking about a community of farmers who’ve been on the land for multiple generations, so while some of their members wombat killing practices are stuck in a colonial self centered mindset, their ongoing land use makes me assume not all their practices are stuck in time.
I’m interested to know how definitive your drawing the distinction between personal property and private property?
How would you say that gels with my emphasis for peoples personal agency including over the means of production and my belief that this gives stability over ones own life and becomes a driver of innovation and prosperity?
^Note, I’m currently in an ongoing pickle with the terms ‘growth’ and ‘productivity’. I’m not sure they capture a meaningful image of a Nation’s economic health. And am growing increasingly wary of using them. So thats why i use ‘prosperous’ here. It indicates success, without necessarily indicating ever increasing growth or productivity.^
- 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. 2 days ago:
I’d definitely fall on the side of maintaining private control over land in many areas, farming is certainly one of those. Even the unending title we have, i think gives an assurance and stability for the primary user of that land.
Those kinds of enduring stability, i’ve come to believe, are a key source of Australian productivity and ingenuity. Where we identify it, i think we should protect it.
Community controlling land mightn’t work out any better either. Scale sometimes blurs issues the individual can see clear as day.
To demonstrate with your farms along a stream example, and i suspect i’m taking what you wrote too far, so bear with me,
where a community controls the land and parcels out responsibilities to work that land it necessarily removes the individual, farmer/owner, from their personal closeness to that place.
I could very easily imagine a scenario where that 50th farmer down stream doesn’t notice or even know about the toxic stream going by their farm because they simply aren’t that closely invested in the place they’re in. After all its often farmers themselves who call an alarm on environmental issues. Farmers were some of the first to link the toxic run off to Dupont in the US beacuse they saw it in the environment they knew best.
I think theres one idea rising in the European zeitgeist. That of Citizen’s Assemblies. The bringing of a representative/randommised sample of people face to face, to participate and make the democratic decisions, could help us here as well.
I think so, so many of our intractable problems come down to a lack of discursive clarity. Citizens Assemblies is at least a model that attempts to improve that.
- 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 days ago:
“It’s their sacred entitlement to make a living, regardless of the consequences.”
Thats the attitude that needs to be changed. A mentality so self centered its oppressive to think of others will always result in destruction and conflict.
It comes back to the problem of how to give people enough agency to live their lives successfully, without sacrificing the environment and context that success is built upon.
Or, to put another way, how to protect personal property which leads to personal agency, but limiting personal property that leads to oppressive ownership.
We probably have it more right in Australia than many other places, at least legally. No one really owns land, its all vested in ‘the crown’ in the end, (btw thats different to the King), and its actually closer to a reference to god.
Our problem is we aren’t acting how our laws are written, we act as if we have full and sole control on everything in our name. When it reaches the courts it thankfully doesn’t seem to always go that way. But culturally and politically we act in a more American way than our nation’s laws are designed.
- Comment on Do electricians know what a bin is? 5 days ago:
Thats a keeper! When they go to the trouble of the cups you know they’re really acting on it.
Its been a couple months since this post, and i’m still finding offcuts about the place from these electricians i had.
- Comment on ABS shares a pretty average joke... 1 week ago:
Hahaha! Thats such a dad joke!
- Comment on Help! 2 weeks ago:
Creepy. Looks a bit like Daniel Radcliffe?
- Comment on George Orwell revisited. Our Government keeps lying to us - Michael West 2 weeks ago:
I think Australia needs to look at its sovereignty and make some hard choices. But i’m not sure i’m with Michael Pascoe on labelling the submarines deal terrible.
Its a few months old, but Malcolm Turnbull hosted a talkfest on the issue at the start of the year with people with a lot more knowledge, the discussion was vigorous and mixed, its worth a listen,
Episode 1, Is Trump all Froth and no Bubble? - Defending Democracy
Before that i also listened to Decouple, a Canadian podcaster, Dr Chris Keefer, he had an interesting conversation on the subject with an Aidan Morrison, Director of Energy Research at Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies. They also had an interesting perspective,
So i don’t know if these submarines are a bad idea, and it seems pretty complex to work through.
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- Comment on Car crush 3 weeks ago:
Good luck getting insurance to cover that!
- Comment on ‘We have a mandate to act’: PM throws open doors to bolder agenda 4 weeks ago:
Well the industrial model it came out of came with pay rises for the work force for the productivity gains. So its use was acceptable to the workers then.
Not sure that was really a great set up, because a lot of the productivity gains were from implementation of technology, not so much better work in general by the employee base, although that was also the case often, but the technology changes were the larger productivity increases.
What you’re suggesting is coming up to what Maynard Keynes imagined as a future. People producing as much or even more, with less time spent on the work. Soyou’re in good company.
I don’t imagine a system like that will come in this century though. Too much competition between Nations and peoples, not enough machines to do the work.
- Comment on ‘We have a mandate to act’: PM throws open doors to bolder agenda 4 weeks ago:
Productivity isn’t great because of the kinds of jobs the people of this nation increasingly do, and likely will do for the foreseeable future.
And, sorry if this comes across a bit morbid. Until the baby boomers shuffle off this mortal coil in greater numbers, any serious productivity gains in certain industries are overtaken by the medical, care, and other old-age related, usually low productivity, work the country is providing.
Its because of this, that i’m sceptical that ‘productivity’ is a good measure to be relying on so heavily to gain an honest understanding of the working economy.
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 4 weeks ago:
Or maybe, !Shovelready
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 4 weeks ago:
Maybe !unChased ?
- Comment on Bit of snow up in the ranges this weekend 4 weeks ago:
Oh wow! Okay very interesting, i’ll have to keep a look out when i’m bush walking.
- Comment on Bit of snow up in the ranges this weekend 4 weeks ago:
Is that a wind direction indicator? Or just an ornamental cap for fun?
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 weeks ago:
Haven’t been dedicated to downvoting it all the time, but the one track posting behaviour is uncomfortable to see. Its such an unapologetic agenda. I suppose there could be something to respect in it as a user’s goal, i don’t know.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 5 weeks ago:
I don’t take fake internet points seriously! Who would do that!
I’ve barely even noticed that both the people who have replied to my comment have a higher upvote total than me.
Nope, i don’t care at all!
Not on iota!
Okay, maybe a little… /j :p
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 5 weeks ago:
Similar reason for Zero_Gravitas?
I hope so, i’s a bit spun out when i saw them both on this list.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 5 weeks ago:
Hmm, looks suss.
I read a comment somewhere recently that the upvotes and downvotes don’t really do anything on Lemmy.
If thats the case, is their seeming coordination for downvoting having a meaningful effect?
- Comment on Amazing. 5 weeks ago:
It can sometimes grow to quite a large fund for people.
Damian Gordon saved $46,000. He described it as a hobby for him. What a legend!
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 1 month ago:
I had no idea Blahaj was Australian run! Super interesting!
Are there any more Australian instances?
I suppose AZ was just the first to really dive in to fill that Australian communities niche in a somewhat organised way.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 month ago:
It means the Liberals finally have the dead weight slackened from their necks. They have a chance now, and more clear air than they’ve had in years to develop some good policy.
If the Nationals really want Nuclear, then they’d make a long term argument for setting up a pathway toward a sustainable industry that inserts alongside the renewable rollout as the energy requirements of the nation expand. But i predict they won’t, because technology isn’t their goal, coal, is their goal.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.
Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.
Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…
The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,
Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server
The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.
Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.
Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.
I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 1 month ago:
From what i’ve seen so far on here, i think you’re hovering around the same space i’m at. I think theres a lack of diversity of sources.
AZ seems always at risk of becoming a Guardian and ABC news reposting site. It makes sense, they are the so readily accessible and very high quality sources in their own rights.
But i don’t think its great for AZ as a value proposition for continuing and new users. It also means that conversation might become stalted and defined by the Guardian and ABC outlooks, again not bad, but diversity of voices is useful.
I’m not talking Murdoch propaganda trash btw, links need to have a certain connection to reality.
I’ve thought for a while now, the best way to do this would be for a cadre of the continuing posting users adopting a diversity of sources mantra with their posting. It takes more work, but the result could deliver a more valuable proposition to the rest of the users looking through the communities.
I act on this as a personal mantra with my posting in c/AussieEnviro, and c/Perth/Western Australia, i need to get myself organised to do the same with c/rage.
The glaring problem is, of course, the diversity of sources doesn’t result in high upvote numbers, so its a principle that seems to lack user engagement, (with some exceptions). I don’t know why that is, maybe a confort thing of knnowing ABC and Guardian, or maybe too many articles from different sources are a bit too obscure for the mainstream AZ user. I don’t know.
- Comment on Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death 1 month ago:
I’m not really there with that description. It emphasises a pillar of the feuds over others. But I suppose you could argue the same of my initial description.
I intended it to encompass that, but i suppose arcane isn’t really seen as 20th Century inclusive.
But none of it really matters while the medieval destruction of these people continues.
That was my point denigrating the description of their superficial reasoning to ‘arcane feuds’. Any reasons for the conflict no longer have meaning against its barbarity.
If peace ever comes there is no justice that can be metered out, no reparations that would satisfy. The Israeli state is doing to another peoples something akin to what the Nazi State did to the Jewish Europeans, and other marginalised groups.
I know i’m not informing anyone of anything new here, sorry.
- Comment on Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death 1 month ago:
This is heartbreaking. The Israeli people supporting this disgust me. They have no justification for targeting and killing all these people due to some arcane feud.
I’s listening to Podsave the World, his description of a little girl sitting traumatised after a bombing, then starting to bleed profusely from her nose, and the realisation that these were her final moments…
This is disgusting, and i’m ashamed of my general friendliness to Israel in the past. They deserve none.
Others who support, or commit similar crimes disgust me as well.
- Comment on Jacinta Nampijinpa Price joins Liberal Party as leadership race heats up 1 month ago:
Read the article after this comment… and yep
- Comment on Jacinta Nampijinpa Price joins Liberal Party as leadership race heats up 1 month ago:
The reason for this has got to be to swell the numbers for Angus Taylor to become leader.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 2 months ago:
That is an interesting perspective. A kind of standard setter position can be hard to quantify. Is it better to be in the tent or outside.
But thats really been the heart of the issue for over a decade, its a key decision that i wish the emotional barbs would give more space to, because its omportant to get right.
I’ll say the industry was put on notice during the Gillard Government over live sheep export that thjbgs needed to change, and a lot of changes seemed to be made from Austraoia’s end.
But the underlying issues after hand over i can’t see have changed much. So isuppose you could take that as a point against that case that Australias influence lifts the standards of all in this area. But thats a circumstantial point at best.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 2 months ago:
Good opinion, and it seems you agree,
My opposition to your words
~My vote doesn’t matter so you give me the lie to it
Is tackling the same notion as,
It’s for everyone; there’s a pervading notion that voting is either irrelevant, useless, or a balancing act to find the least-worst option
So you actually agree with me, you just don’t understand you do.