zero_gravitas

zero_gravitas, 2 months ago

… but you can guarantee other Instatockers who want their five minutes of fame will be out there collecting whatever they can get their selfish mitts on …

Yeah, but hopefully this has at least made people aware of the law now, enough that this kind of thing will get people reported quickly.

I worry, though, that people might keep an animal secretly until it’s non-rehabitable, at which point they figure they can get away with doing the same thing these people have done.

I don’t know if it’s possible under the law, but swift seizure of the proceeds of crime would go a long way. Probably most people aren’t going to want to go to the hassle of getting licensed, so at least they will be black-and-white in the wrong and it’s doesn’t have to be investigated in detail whether they’re making profit.

I imagine (I’m not a lawyer) that it might be hard to delineate what exactly is commercial gain from the animal, and what is commercial gain from ‘expertise’ or ‘life experience’ of the keeper.

I’ll be interested to see where the book deal goes from here. I expect proceeds will be given to wildlife causes (upkeep of the bird is fair enough), and I’m hoping there will be a HEFTY chapter towards the end about how you should not do what they did.

zero_gravitas, 2 months ago

There’s specific exemptions in these laws for clubs. I’m not a lawyer, but from what I’ve read, I think if they were to do the paperwork to set up the room as a women-only club somehow, they’d be in the clear.

zero_gravitas, 2 months ago

Off-topic, but because a few people have been shocked when I’ve mentioned it lately, just a note that Schwartz Media outlets - including the Saturday Paper - have long been under boycott for their erasure of Palestinian people (the owners are strongly pro-Israel):

The Schwartz Media group has faced accusations of supporting Zionism and Israel, and of avoiding critical discussion of both, as ABC journalist John Lyons has written. Indeed, as Randa Abdel-Fattah has observed, Schwartz Media “has what seems almost a policy position of avoiding coverage of Israel (and not publishing Palestinians, let alone Palestinians critical of Israel)”.

The company is currently under boycott from Palestinian and other writers in solidarity, including many First Nations writers, because of this continued work of erasure. Projects like The Sunday Paper — in contrast to the Schwartz-owned The Saturday Paper — have arisen to highlight this and to build alternative spaces for political discussions around indigeneity and solidarity.

from: …com.au/…/statements-from-the-soul-zionism-indige…

zero_gravitas, 2 months ago

The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)

zero_gravitas, 2 months ago

Stuff was still coming through slowly when I made this post, but it seems to me like it’s gotten worse since then. No announcements that I could see over on !lemmyworld [EDIT: direct link seeing as if there was an announcement it wouldn’t have federated across to us 😆 - lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld?dataType=Post&sort=New], but maybe it’s only an outbound problem?

zero_gravitas, 2 months ago

TIL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure)