Zagorath

Zagorath, 1 hour ago

I had to read this like 3 times before I realised what it was saying.

Partly that’s on me and my sleep-deprived state. But partly…“overlooking” is not synonymous with “overseeing”. In fact in this case they’re almost antonyms. (Executives “overlooking” the film branch implies the film branch is actually really good, but the executives don’t acknowledge that.)

Zagorath, 2 hours ago

Can’t believe that I actually believed David Littleproud when he said that the Coalition would be moving back to the “sensible center” after the election loss

It was always obvious that that wouldn’t happen. Logistically, how could it? All their more moderate members lost to even more moderate independents, or to the Greens. There’s no “moderate” remaining in the parliamentary Liberal Party.

Zagorath, 2 hours ago

If they had any guts, Labor would use this relentlessly to paint Dutton as “soft on crime”.

Zagorath, 19 hours ago

Holy shit. I remembered the original comic, but didn’t remember what the subject matter of it was. So if you hadn’t left this comment, I would have just gone on believing that the OP’s version was Randall’s version.

Zagorath, 22 hours ago

Personally I don’t much care how it looks. In fact with bananas and apples in particular, I find the more “perfect” examples are often the least flavourful.

But I will avoid bruised product. If there are noticeable soft spots, it’s staying on the shelf.

Zagorath, 22 hours ago

I think at this point he’s a dead man walking. They’re keeping him until the whole wave of criticism of the supermarkets duopoly has as abated, then they’ll dump him and say “look, we took action”.

Zagorath, 21 hours ago

Right but my point was that for me it’s not just one that looks less-than-fantastic. It’s one that might even look better but actually is inferior. Bruises in fruit & veggies actually affect the flavour/texture of the food.

Zagorath, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

The mainstream media only covers … protests when someone does something particularly sensational, or when cops start getting rough with people.

We’ve had weeks and weeks of thousands of people peacefully marching in the street, and no significant media coverage. But as soon as someone connected to the movement swears at a cop or graffitis private property or whatever, you can bet the media will be all over it.

Jonathan Sriranganathan, talking about protests in the CBD.

Also, speaking of Jonno, he was apparently at UQ yesterday when this went down and posted live streams of it on FB. Will share the text accompanying the second stream below, because there’s a lot of detail to it.

Post one

Post two

Post 2 textUpdate: Things have calmed down since this video but I just want to clarify what’s happened… - two Palestinian-Australians climbed onto the roof of a research building and made speeches criticising UQ’s support for the weapons industry and the Israeli genocide - about 60 or 70 students, staff and alumni gathered on the ground to listen and show support - the university called the cops, and when the cops got up to the roof to talk to the two men, they willingly agreed to come down - but then, over the space of about 15 minutes, heaps more police arrived - 12 to 15 police vehicles and upwards of 30 cops - students contined chanting and expressing opposition to the arrests - as the two protesters were escorted (without resisting) towards the cop cars, protesters spilled onto the road and continued chanting - then without warning, police started pushing people from multiple directions - cops escalated the situation and used far more force than necessary to move the students off the road - one person was pepper-sprayed without warning, another person was pushed to the ground - no-one else was arrested though and I don’t believe anyone was injured beyond the pepper-spraying and possibly the guy who was pushed over This was by far the biggest police presence I’ve ever seen on campus, and a complete overreaction. It’s important to emphasise though that while the police presence was ridiculously over-the-top, there were no other repercussions (as far as I’m aware) for any other participants. So don’t let the excessive show of police force deter you from participating in and supporting future protests. The strength of the university’s response suggests to me that they are genuinely worried about the pressure the protests are putting on their relationship with the weapons industry. Liberation and justice won’t just happen automatically without people pushing for it.

(Personally, I read the posts but didn’t actually watch the videos.)

Zagorath, 2 days ago

You lefty’s

This bothers me more than any political disagreement ever will.

Zagorath, 21 hours ago

I wish that were used. But instead we get this inverse, L/100 km.

Edit: after reading the article, apparently this is actually better. Even though km/L might seem easier to work with, it is misleading in terms of how you compare two vehicles.

Zagorath, 1 day ago

The outcome of that lawsuit was that APIs are not copyrightable

Not quite. The ultimate decision was that APIs are copyrightable, but that Google’s use of the copyrighted material was Fair Use.

It would not be unreasonable to suppose that as a matter of precedent, any reimplantation of an API is likely to be Fair Use, but because Fair Use is such a case-by-case thing there may be wiggle room in that.

Zagorath, 21 hours ago

Every other user on the road is forced to engage with it, including vulnerable users like cyclists and pedestrians. They didn’t agree to it. They weren’t asked if they’re okay with it.

And Tesla in particular, more than other self-driving ventures, has been incredibly reckless in what features they roll out and how easy they make it for their drivers to be unsafe while using it.

Zagorath, 22 hours ago

I think Mylio does this, even in its free version. I don’t think it’s FOSS though.

Zagorath, 22 hours ago

Regarding those injured but not the man who sadly died (apparently of a heart attack): this is why they always tell you to keep your seatbelts on at all times while seated.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

I’m even willing to add “large amounts of water & a big ladder, or sick/injured people” to that list.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

Try to keep non de-sexed cat

I’mma stop you right there. No, don’t do that.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

this feels more like an attack on Gina

That’s 100% what it is, and why I shared it in !ausmemes and not as a serious call to action.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

It’s quite simple. This person is committing the etymological fallacy. A word’s meaning today does not have to be exactly equivalent to its meaning in the past, or to the words it evolved out of.

But even in Plato’s depiction of love I don’t think they’ve quite got it right. “that includes romantic/physical love” seems to be conflating romantic love with carnal attraction, which is pretty strongly not what Plato was about.

Zagorath, 4 days ago

Off topic, but does this show get good? I love her standup, but after watching 2 or 3 episodes of this show I found it painfully unfunny, and not at all like the late-night show that it was billed as.