Yay!

Nearly one-third of respondents expect their lives to get worse over the next four years. That is up from 29% last year.

... Is that 33% ? 32% ? Guardian pls

Interesting section on Immigration and Multiculturalism

The A in "mAsked" is valid to create wordplay, I respect that.

The rest might all be syphls. Or perhaps it's Armageddon minus Oxygen.

Could you expand on this?

The most I do is a raffle at the pub a couple of times a year, but I treat it as pure fundraising. I literally don't even want the prizes and give them away.

I saw a thread elsewhere with people retelling stories and it clicked with me how early this, and two-up, were introduced to us, but also how it was often introduced through institutions such as schools and workplaces.

At least it wasn't a dolphin's blowhole.

A beautiful read

Thanks! I found a high resolution version of that picture to work with from a stock image site (unnecessary in this case but good practice), then used GIMP (other photo editors can do the same) to Fuzzy select (aka. Magic Wand) the white background areas, shrink the selected area by about 10 pixels to retain a small white border, then delete the selected background to leave it transparent. With a bit of experience, this doesn't take long to do as the plain-coloured geometry is easy to select.

Tattooed on my face too.

The Jewish Council of Australia are pretty cool from what I've seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Council_of_Australia

I also like the design of the stick figures, although I think the Four Hands is a better logo in this context. Here's a tidy version.

Tagging @No1@aussie.zone @MisterFrog@lemmy.world @Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone

Where is this assumption coming from?

The article supplies a small amount of counter-evidence, even:

The Health and Community Services Union, meanwhile, has eight members running this election – none for the Labor party it is affiliated with. Its secretary, Paul Healey, has signed off on flyers encouraging members to support the Greens and Socialist candidates.

I've witnessed a small amount, and am also aware of organised antisemitism through neo-Nazi movements. And from my perspective, the fact that I've seen less of it than anti-indigenous/Arabic/African/Muslim bigotry doesn't make it any less real and less important to stamp out alongside other bigotry.

(It probably helps that I don't spend much time in places where people are comfortable expressing bigotry).

I have plenty of friends who graduated as computer scientists or cybersecurity professionals, and a few over at UNSW said that there was an intentional emphasis on learning skills that won't make them disposable - learning low level languages like C and some basic assembly language (which is not far from 1s and 0s) with minimal library use, so that they can do the debugging and security auditing that will stump others who just learned JavaScript or Python for quick scripting (useful languages in their own rights). Compare to the thousands of city people who couldn't survive without electrical appliances or delivery services, because we're so used to that advanced infrastructure that we couldn't survive in the bush for a month. (not a great analogy, since our power grid is far more dependable than most programmers)

I think we're seeing a similar situation referenced here. The shortcut comes with a long cost.

I've had sexual partners ask me to perform painful or very dominant acts on them. Nothing that would risk serious injury, and anything around the neck is a non-negotiable limit for me (no safe way to strangle), but yeah, people aren't all the same and some people request things things you and I would consider unenjoyable and disturbing.

Someone mentioned erotic asphyxiation, but since most people aren't just suffocating themselves outside of sex and they're learning this through pornography or word-of-mouth, I suspect it's more about the concepts of control and strength, and of animalistic primal desire. Both giving and receiving, some people find comfort and security in the feeling of someone having control over them.

0. I don't think that's what the statement means. I believe it's saying the sites they surveyed each have between 35 and 45%. A "bad" site would be closer to 45% and a "better" site closer to 35%.

1. Even if it were talking about a mean (average), it would take far more than a single site out of hundreds, let alone millions, to offset the average that far. The mean of [ 0 , 2 , 0 , 5 , 3 , 12 , 3 , 8 , 10, 4 , 7 , 4 , 5 , 3, 99 ] (one extreme out of fifteen) is only 11, not up in the 30s

To clarify, is this talking about winning entire state gov elections? As in, in the future, ON wins QLD? I look at the long-term damage done by someone like Bjelke-Petersen.

A couple of seats gives them power but can backfire. Giving them a government allows for serious political corruption and more ability to maintain their power.

If this ABC podcast episode backed up that comment with some analysis, I'd like to give it a quick listen. Was it just recent?

It's a pretty tough 2PP in this seat. Georgia Tree and Luke Herdegen, from what I've seen already, are both disgusting people who should not be given that level of political power.

re: Georgia Tree (and maybe someone have a better overview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5lonT0WfI

Hard disagree from me. Their candidates are already imploding and that isn't stopping them, what will change if they win more seats? I don't want to let ON's benefactors capture government just to hope their voters decide to wake up.

It's important to emphasise that we won't have the commercial mass media or mainstream social media on our side for this battle.