Zagorath

Zagorath, 1 hour ago

Fuck me that’s stupid.

Australian politicians from our main two parties very obviously think like this as well. But they’re both—even the right-wing “hates the poor” party—smart enough to not fucking say it out loud. They even pay lip service to the idea housing should be “affordable” from time to time.

Zagorath, 1 day ago

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Zagorath, 1 day ago

Wtf kind of Randian hellscape nonsense is this? They should be allowed to charge double to exploit people who are already disadvantaged by the way other companies are treating them? Fuck this nonsense.

Go create your own bear-infested village somewhere nobody with any morals has to live near you. But this time do it from scratch rather than ruining things for the people already living there.

Zagorath, 1 day ago

Interesting. This is certainly not the first time there have been markdown parsing inconsistencies between clients on Lemmy, the most obvious example being subscript and ^superscript^, especially when multiple words ^get used^ or you use ^reddit ^style ^(superscript text).

But yeah, checking just now on Jerboa you’re right, it does display correctly the way you did it. I first saw it on the web in lemmy-ui, which doesn’t display it properly, unless you use the triple backticks.

Zagorath, 14 hours ago

Australia elected someone pretty close to a socialist once. Not really a socialist, but far more left wing than anyone America or Britain has elected in living history, and far more left than anyone Australia has had since.

America organised a coup against his Government. And like, yes, we all know America loves doing coups in foreign countries. But usually it’s countries most Americans would perceive as “third world”. Either a political enemy or a neutral irrelevancy. (To be very clear, I’m not saying they are irrelevant, but that most Americans would think of them as not very significant.) But in 1975 they did it to one of their ostensible closest allies. Because he was too left wing for Ford, Kissinger, and William Colby. (Side note, in looking up who was the director of the CIA at the time, I discovered that Colby was succeeded in that role by…George Bush Sr. They elect literal spies for president??) And because he threatened to close down their spy base.

Zagorath, 11 hours ago

Hawke was good, but he also started (greatly accelerated under Keating) our slide towards a neoliberal UK-like “new Labor”.

I was talking about Whitlam.

Zagorath, 20 hours ago

TIL opposing genocide and getting in line with 146 out of 193 UN members is “out of touch and destructive”.

Zagorath, 19 hours ago

He is right to an extent

Disagree. I understand what you’re getting at, but I don’t think it accurately represents what he said. If he had said “the Greens set this up to fail because Labor has no interest in supporting Palestinian statehood”, he would have been right. But he didn’t say it would fail because they don’t support it, he said it would fail because “it’s procedural”.

If Labor had decided to amend it to be more clear in what it would accomplish (because it would not, of course, actually result in the nation of Australia recognising Palestine, just the House of Representatives, a mostly meaningless gesture), or if the Labor Foreign Minister had turned around and recognised it officially through their powers, he would have a point. Heck, I’ll allow Labor to the end of the week for me to say “hey, actually, Labor did the right thing here”. But as it stands right now? Labor has no defence. Anything they try to say is a transparent attempt to avoid saying “we don’t support Palestinian statehood” while holding exactly that position.

Zagorath, 1 day ago

Labor’s excuse:

Greens were deliberately setting up the vote to fail, due to procedural motions in the lower house always being opposed.

Whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean.

It failed 80 votes to 5. The 5 included the 4 Greens MPs and independent MP Andrew Wilkie. The fact that there were only 80 noes makes it hard to say precisely who they were and indicates that everyone was so sure it would fail by a large margin that Labor and the LNP didn’t bother whipping up their MPs to go vote for it. Disappointing that the other independents didn’t bother either.

Zagorath, 17 hours ago

genocide is base of Palestiian politics, not Israel.

Israel has been a genocidal state for decades. They’ve just become more “mask off” recently thanks to the casus belli provided to them by an event which anyone could have told you was an inevitable result of Israeli policy. (Policy that literally included propping up Hamas specifically because they’re more extreme than PA and thus were more likely to destabilise things, which Netanyahu had no interest in.)

UN, just another example of “out of touch and destructive”

Love how you just make up irrelevant bullshit because it’s convenient to your genocidal mindset.

Note that I didn’t say anything about what the UN thinks. I mentioned that the vast majority of countries in the world recognise Palestine. I just used UN membership as a proxy for what counts as a country. A convenient but imperfect definition (for example, Palestine and Taiwan).

Zagorath, 4 days ago

Coals to Newcastle works well in Australia too. (I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard that in practice though.)

Zagorath, 16 hours ago

I can’t quite get my head around which way she’s bent)

I think if she unraveled she’d by lying on her back, feet away from the camera.

Zagorath, 17 hours ago

I dunno if TFL is a good example to use. It’s just straight up a government-owned corporation and it uses a .gov.uk eTLD.

Zagorath, 15 hours ago

Title is fully editorialised because the official one completely ignored the union vote. I also added information not actually in the article, but it seems to be true from what I saw in other places (a mixture of Facebook and The Australian, or I’d have avoided linking to a Murdoch paper even with the freebooted text). From what I saw, this is probably the 3rd in “recent” history. 1971 opposing the Springboks tour, then 2019 for a variety of things including opposing the racist Ramsay Centre partnering with UQ (this vote succeeded, and academics also seem to have been very opposed to it, but the partnership went ahead anyway), and then this year’s vote.

I saw no numbers on the 1971 vote, but that there were 420 in 2019, and unconfirmed claims of 500 inside and over 1000 outside this year. Even if those claims are a 3x overstatement it’d be larger, so I felt confident with that editorialised title.

Zagorath, 4 days ago

I didn’t read the “in med school” part and was expecting the reveal to be that she actually took a material science course.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

At the very beginning I had to switch from ABP to uBO. I actually used ABP specifically because I wanted to allow through some non-obtrusive ads, because I think it’s morally right to let companies make a profit if they’re not being overly obnoxious about it, and ABP’s Acceptable Ads policy is great for that. Unfortunately ABP was slower to implement something to avoid YouTube’s fuckery, so I switched to uBO. Google has shot themselves in the foot because now instead of a small number of ads getting through, none do.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

Yeah it’s sad, because antisemitism absolutely is a real thing and it should be stamped out. But at this point I’ve becoming primed to assume any accusation of antisemitism is actually a lie attempting to cover up criticism Israel’s war crimes and genocide.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

This is particularly bad because Queens Wharf Rd has been closed for the construction of the mega-casino since 2017, making it very difficult to get into the CBD by bike from the Bicentennial Bikeway, the most heavily-trafficked bikeway in the city.

And since 2022, the nearest bikeway ramp was also closed due to Metro construction. So this lift has, for the last 2 years, been the only way to get into the CBD by bike anywhere close to Victoria Bridge & Queen St. And it’s insanely unreliable.

And of course the LNP Councillors would rather spend effort blaming vandals than actually addressing the underlying problem: that the lift itself is essential due to a lack of other options.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

Have you watched her latest video? Or more importantly, have you read the comments under it? The amount of irony in how many of them don’t understand the entire video was (as one of the few comments that actually got it said) “a 1 hour video of pure deadpan sarcasm” in a video about people not getting the point of an earlier video. It’s just a hilarious time.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

I think what @i_love_FFT means is that on the Ottoman map you kinda get France, and then directly on the coastline right north of France you get Jutland. It’s sorta like if you took Europe and did a ripple cut to remove the Netherlands out of it.

Zagorath, 1 day ago

My problem with “blocking” on many platforms is that all it does is mean you don’t see their comments. But if they can still see yours and reply to them, you leave yourself at a disadvantage where to outsiders it may seem as though you had no response, and thus they appear to have “won”.

Zagorath, 8 days ago

2022 Australian floods. Woken up pre-dawn by a car alarm set off by rising flood waters. Thankfully I had the foresight to park up on the street, which was a higher level, because water was more than half way up the height of the wheels by then in my garage.

All the proper roads out of the area were flooded already before I left, but thankfully I could get out by driving through pedestrian areas of the university I live near.

That was a very anxiety-ridden day as I waited until I could go back to assess the damage. Luckily the water only reached about 3/4 the height of the garage, which is below the 1st floor apartments. My apartment is at the top of a very small (like 5 m vertical) hill, just enough that we got off safe when neighbours did far, far worse.