Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Car crush 6 days ago:
Good luck getting insurance to cover that!
- Comment on ‘We have a mandate to act’: PM throws open doors to bolder agenda 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Or maybe, !Shovelready
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 1 week ago:
Maybe !unChased ?
- Comment on Bit of snow up in the ranges this weekend 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Is that a wind direction indicator? Or just an ornamental cap for fun?
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 2 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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"? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Read the article after this comment… and yep
- Comment on Jacinta Nampijinpa Price joins Liberal Party as leadership race heats up 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
No i meant consumerist.
The carelessly detached mindset that is promoted by my vote doesn’t matter so you give me the lie to it leads to a benign indolence of voters, making them just like shoppers listlessly wandering around a mall, being mildly entertained for a few moments by some trinket.
Also, i want to be clear, I’s clearly stating Mandatory voting as a first step, not an only step. Lots more could be done, someboptions are as you highlight. Lots more can be done is Aus to, we are far from as effective democratically as we could be.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
Yeah the fish farms, i wish they’d worked better than they have. Years ago they were touted as such a sustainable way of business. Its sad to see the reality never lived up to the hype.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
Yeah, there’s definitely a risk premium that can come into proceedings where decisions and their implementations are rolling through quickly, can’t think of a specific international example… oh wait, yes i can :)…, but the policy for the live export ban is super slow, predictable and with plenty of finacial supports.
One silly argument against live export that I heard some people parroting is that if Australia doesn’t do it some other country will and the standards of care for the sheep will be much lower than ours. That’s just bullshit IMO.
Even if that did happen, big if, thats happening all over the world in all kinds of areas. We can only control what we do, and attempt to set a better example where we can. It is such a bullshit, and cynical argument. As soon as i hear that, i generally start thinking the other person is debating in bad faith.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
“Forcing” by essentially hitting people on the head with Parsley isn’t exactly the same as the sentiment in your comment.
If people really don’t want to vote in Australia, they don’t vote, theres fines sure, but they’re not big, and i’d be surprised if they chase people for it.
But theres more people than you’d think who never enrolled to vote, thereby never getting a fine, and also never voting. I’s listening to a podcast, i think it was Ben Raue’s, where they demonstrated that the participation rate is actually probably lower than reported due to non-enrolled people not voting. So in percentage terms its maybe high eighties, still good… but… So the rosy picture sold by the media isn’t quite on the money.
If turnout is low then give the lie to “my vote doesn’t matter”.
This is a consumerist centric view to take. People have self regard for themselves and their immediates above others. I’m not saying some neo-lib greed is good shit, we humans can just find it difficult to see much further past our immediate priorities.
Parties, and Governments aren’t a mall filled with products for casual perusal, they’re a tool we’ve collectively come up with to deliver a greater vision for the tribe’s success in general. But these tools need feedback, and they need energy to function properly.
They only work if theres participation. If people don’t want to bother with that, then they’ll find sooner or later an even less generally amenable decision making system will guide the future of their tribe.
Its the same as the old Bread and Circuses saying, distracting the masses and suppressing their voice makes it easier to seize more control.
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 1 month ago:
Welp, i think you’ve convinced me on that.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
Well, put it this way, whats harder?
Everybody of voting age has to vote.
Or (for example),
Number the candidates in order of most preferred. (Ranked Choice)
I think the first one is simpler to communicate than the second, and in an electoral reform decision like this simplicity of communication is very important.
But thats my point, not that IRV or MMP, et al, are uniquely hard or complicated to understand.
- Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night 1 month ago:
The Greens’ only failure is one of PR. That Labor supporters have been so successful in their lies that even people on left-leaning Lemmy believe them.
I don’t think theres need for a conspiracy here Zag, if i’ve forgotten a concession the Greens managed to get in the Bill that went through around November time, thats just my poor memory. My bad.
As such i’d still call it a pyrrhic victory due to the amount of time wasted on a key issue the electorate wants action on.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 1 month ago:
Hahaha, i’ve heard nothing but dunks on Taylor, its been pretty funny. There’ll be a collective national groan if they select him i think.