I try to respond to every genuine engagement. I block trolls, contrarians, and provocateurs because life is too short.
The CFMEU gives unions a bad name, which is bad for all workers.
They need to remove their rot and implement big changes to transparency and hiring policy. It will take decades of successful meaningful action to earn back public trust.
Else, the government will use them as an excuse to come down hard on all unions via legislation and in public discourse, which helps nobody but the big end of town.
Return to windmill 🗿
That’s a great question. I tease, but first step is realising the problem and you’ve done that. Much harder is acting on it.
The truth is nobody really knows. It’s new. Addiction to it is also new as is the research showing its deleterious effects on the brain.
If I was looking for somewhere to start by trying to read a book a every week or two. Alternate between appealing fiction and an important topic. If you have readings set by your educational institution - do those instead. Reading and digesting plaintext information works a lot of your brain and doesn’t come with any immediate answers to questions, it will help you build your patience back.
RIP Korean students in formative years learning critical thinking and social skills.
Govt-funded Chatbot about to gaslight them that every idea and question is genius-level, and that social connections are something a computer can fulfil.
Because FOSS isn’t the problem. The problem the law seeks to address is profit-driven big businesses like Meta and Fortnite who don’t care to provide any protections for kids or actively target them in their manipulative behaviour, hence targeting the laws at the actual problem (non-FOSS software).
Fucking embarrassing how little pressure it takes Labor to cave to literal Zionist Lobby pressure tactics that cost them far more in the US, breaking against their own longstanding laws and policy as the reporter points out.
Though I will say that they are helping me convert former Labor voters into future Greenies. So… not a total loss.
This excellent (as always) reporting from MWM is helping.
I’m running a 10 year old ‘western stuff’ PC and I don’t run into any issues.
Planned obsolescence exists in single-manufacturer products (smartphones, white-goods), even moreso in vertically-integrated businesses (Apple, Samsung).
It doesn’t work at all in the PC industry where component suppliers compete for market dominance, because if their company puts out a shitty product that fails more rapidly than a competitor, they lose sales and brand reputation in a crowded market.
And remember, keep yer stick on the ice.
The US president is such a toddler.
Fuckin embarrassing.
My computer has some gold in it, but I wouldn’t characterize my computer as ‘gold’. Same way modern irons have almost no iron in them. 🤷
For everyone skeptical, we have a central “do not dial” scheme that you can add your phone number to and legally opt out of ever getting a telemarketing call that has worked very well.
Likewise we have “do not ring” notices people can self-apply on doors making it illegal for door-knockers to bother you that has also worked very well.
So this is just bureaucrats trying to extend that thinking to gambling ads on the internet… They mean well, but it’s much more technically complex to hide a certain type of ad from specific users and I don’t think they get that.
Would be much, much easier to just ban gambling ads… But as other have said, they’re big political donors in some states…
Its a good thing you’re spending on infrastructure and services then, and not just building massive amounts of debt due to reduced taxes on the wealthy, defence contracts, propping up AI, and funding the Trump family.
Good job standing up to unsafe bullshit in the workplace. It’s never easy.
I know you didn’t ask, but Punters Politics is great btw… Very level-headed political analysis in the videos I’ve seen from him, and he seems to be getting through positive messaging to a young demographic with his approach. Which is so important with all the mountains of cash being astroturfed into fake groups like ‘Advance Australia’ to push pro-oil&gas and anti-Greens messaging to that non-politically informed demo.
That’s crazy that LG installed adware by bundling it up with Windows drivers and delivering it through Windows Update.
If companies can send adware through Windows Update packaged simply as ‘drivers’ and Microsoft doesn’t even raise an eyebrow even once this is known, reported and questioned by media, then my already low opinion of their quality control drops precipitously.
🤓 Actually almost all modern clothes irons are made with an aluminium* soleplate now, to minimize corrosion. The soleplate makes up most of the metal content of the iron, and is then coated with a thin layer of non-stick coating like non-stick paint, plastic/polymer, or stainless steel.
https://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Clothes-Iron.html
*I’m Australian.
This reads like they’re more pissed that products didn’t get cheaper, than they are that companies lowered food standards immediately after regulations disappeared.
Remember this anytime some lassaize faire dipshit talks about regulations not being needed because ‘the free market regulates itself’.
Same for monopolies. Which now exist in virtually all major industries thanks to deregulation or weakened regs.
Goebel you say… I wonder if they modified their surname to something slightly more palatable after the war, but weren’t very creative.
Am I wrong or have they still not found any evidence for the shooter to be associated with any left-wing groups or movements? Seems like it’s still a churchgoing, gun-loving, right-wing, Mormon boy who “had enough of his [Kirk’s] hatred” and thought, “there is too much evil and the guy spreads too much hate” so did what he’d been brought up to do - eradicate evil… seems like Kirk is only a martyr for the ideology of hate?
This cornfield is truly peak vice-signalling.