shirro @ shirro @aussie.zone

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The idea in Australia is to place the responsibility on the social media companies.

The government isnt filtering traffic or enforcing behaviour. It is fining companies if they don't implement a form of age verification that is compliant with privacy laws.

We can't even make these companies pay tax and obey other laws so I am not very optimistic but at least it raises awareness of the problem.

A woman is absolutely a threat to another human. Any animal that size is. That you think women are harmlessly is ironically, misogyny.

Yes all people are potentially dangerous.

But the biomechanics in adults are very different and need to be recognised. Statistically the physical intimidation is mostly one way when you account for sexual dimorphism in height, weight, reach, muscle mass etc. There are always exceptions but women live in a very different threat environment. That isn't misogyny.

If people tend to hate what they fear and mysogyny is literally hatred of women like what the fuck? Perhaps some men are terrified of emotional harm. I can understand that but perhaps they would be better off with some therapy or a bit of self awareness.

I don't understand misogyny at all. What's it all about? If you were homosexual and were raised in an ancient Macedonian army or something perhaps you wouldn't see a mother, sisters, daughters, lovers, work colleagues, neighbors, friends but who lives like that? Boys who live in front of a screen and are too anxious and scared to go outside? Racism I can kind of understand if you only have superficial knowledge of other people and cultures.

Once that testosterone kicks in at puberty women aren't generally a physical threat to men. I don't really understand all the fear of them. Some women are really, really cool. Like serious friend material and lifelong partner stuff.

These systems are based on the flawed assumption that poor people and minorities are less able to manage money that others. It is hugely discriminatory and treated poor people (and specifically the most disadvantaged racial group in the country) like criminals and addicts. It removed personal agency and forced people to use specific retailers, preventing them buying used goods and fresh market produce. The program was expensive and the only people who benefited were the company running it. It is populist divisive nonsense.

Anyway the point is digital payment systems can absolutely be used in democratic states to enforce spending behaviours and you can even see how it starts with people here believing such a system is justifiable. Then it gets extended to other minorities. The elderly, veterans, disabled, unemployed.

Fortunately in a democracy we can educate people as to why overly simplistic solutions that appear to protect vulnerable people are in actuality a really bad idea.

Sadly not entirely true. The incredibly shitty previous government in Australia widely trialed a racist, classist cashless welfare card for indigenous people. Recipients got 80% of their welfare on it and it could not be used for alcohol, gambling or cash incase they spent it on drugs or porn or other "sinful" things.

As we become more dependent on digital systems there are new ways for our privacy and freedoms to be eroded which makes participatory democracy all the more important.

Almost all my transactions are contactless payments and it pisses me off that they all go through VISA when there is a perfectly good local network for debit card payments.

A lot of the deficiencies with Australian health care are due to tight budget control. Insufficient staffing etc. Health care is expensive but I believe our government health care spending is less per person than the US despite having a more equitable system.

Some of the cost pressures on our system are likely due to increasing use of private services. You can feel the dream of universal health and education slipping away here as bits are carved off for the private sector.

Commented this elsewhere as an Aussie. It makes a quick buck for some NZ business person but it kills your reputation. Great country. Should be great products. I would buy 100% made in NZ above anything but local. It's crazy not to promote local content when you have such a strong national brand.

Public hospital care is free and very good in my experience but we have a mixed public/private system and there is usually a gap between private fees and public compensation. So for most people going to a doctor or specialist isn't free (it can be but generally isn't) but it is subsidised.

Prescriptions are the biggest win. Trump wants to take those away. It will be over my dead body.

I love our labelling so much in Australia. Nutrition and origin. The only crap one is health star which is misleading. I occasionally buy NZ products and think we should be closer to an economic union like the EU but their labelling is much worse and I worry that they repackage products of different origin which hurts their reputation for the sake of some quick profits.

I disagree on that. The Euro is the second most widely held currency and is a more obvious choice. Working constructively with China is economic reality. Submitting to them is unnecessary. This isn't post-WW2. I don't think we need a single reserve currency.

There is no doubt China is going to benefit greatly. A huge number of developing countries have been deserted by the US that first walked away from soft power through US Aid then penalised the poorest countries with outrageous tariffs. China has been by far the smarter player.

An attack on China is an attack on US allies that supply China with resources. Australia hasn't fully woken up to this bastard act with our little 10% tariff and history of acting like a 51st state but we might be as fucked as Canada before sanity returns to the US.

China can't beat the US in this battle but all they have to do is endure the pain and wait for the US to lose interest. So ultimately China wins. But we all lose through this stupidity (probably shouldn't really call it stupidity as it diminishes any bad intentions at work here. There are people in this admin who should understand the consequences). Fuck Trump and his administration and the Republican party and their voters and the apathetic fuckwits who didn't vote. No single person is responsible for this and no single person can fix it. People need to man the fuck up and fix the shit they have unleashed.

The 16 is expensive. I would never buy one. I would rather upgrade my desktops. It is not unreasonably priced given the unique design but its clearly a premium niche laptop that goes way beyond just repairability. My personal opinion is that they over complicated the design of the 16. Its an amazing design concept but a compromised mass production, mass market device. I expect we will see some lessons from that with the 12" which should be engineered for cost.

The 13" laptops aren't too bad. I bought the cheapest tier DIY and added my own parts a couple of years ago. I want to upgrade some things but I can't justify it. I keep my laptops until they fall apart. I had several held together with tape, with missing keycaps, upgraded ram & ssd and even soldered on replacement ports. I am very tempted to buy a 12" for my kid if the prices are good but if they are more than twice the price of an MSI Modern its going to be a tough sell as an education laptop.

Edit: Looks like they fucked up the price of the 12", at least in my currency. I thought with a plastic body they would have gone much more aggressive on price. I can buy a couple of MSI which are permanently discounted with same or better performance and throw one out if it breaks.

Here you go: https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/114297967333461078

They are more expensive than high volume budget laptops but inline with other premium laptops. They aren't unaffordable for working people in developed countries.

If I have another laptop die in rural Australia there is no local repair or replacement. Usually I take a gamble and buy the cheapest shit I can find, accepting it is disposable. I paid premium for the self repair and upgrade options and I will do again.

Yes it is. The first version introduced in the 70s under Whitlam was called Medibank but the Fraser government fucked that up. So the Hawke government reintroduced universal health care as Medicare in the 80s and Medibank persisted as a weird government owned private health insurer which Abbott privatized.

Our family does a reasonable amount of editing in kdenlive every week (youtube, education etc). A decade or so ago practically every video editor on linux felt incredibly unstable. I remember trying to work in Cinelerra. Now shit just works. There are a couple of things in the workflow that still need other tools but kdenlive has been fairly solid. It could do with some minor usability tweaks to make it friendlier to people coming from other editors and for beginners. Also I wish the gpu acceleration (movit) was stable enough to be enabled in MLT in kdenlive builds. Focussing on stability makes sense though.

Using infinite energy to employ infinite monkeys to recreate the work of one Elizabethan playwright is not a business plan.

Stop using windows, office and azure and this company and their bullshit go away.

Testicles descent outside the body for good biological reasons.

Australia's top 3 export markets are China, South Korea and Japan. If they put retaliatory tariffs on the US we should pick up extra business as we will have a price advantage. When the US duped our old conservative PM, Scummo, into pissing of China they put up trade barriers and our "mates" including Canada, NZ and USA all gained at our expense. It's nothing personal.

We don't export much to the US and 10% is as low as it goes. Without retaliation the US tariffs would only be a tax on US consumers. But the retaliation from other large economies will damage US exports and jobs and give opportunities to other nations. Thanks, I guess.

a lot less CGI than I was expecting.

Less CGI is just invisible CGI Hollywood consistently lies about the amount of visual effects used. If it is done well, as it mostly is in a movie like this, it isn't too distracting so I don't know why they lie about it.