Gorgritch_Umie_Killa @ Gorgritch_umie_killa @aussie.zone

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Long time reddit lurker here. I'm active now i'm here. I wonder how many peeps there are here like me?

I actually came here to comment the same thing. For any philosophy question, be it a person, or an ideology 'Philosophize This' is one of my first stops every time. Stephen West (i thonk thats hos name) explains things so well, and respectfully no matter who he's talking about.

And i've only caught one of his episodes on Anarchism, but it was packed full of really useful information for an initial basis for understanding.

So, a little while ago climate change deniers used the fact of fluctuations in temperature throughout the year as a basis for a false claim that climate scientists were hiding the 'real' data in the less jumbly plots you suggest the use of. (And any sensible person would see the benefits of).

Whoever produced this is likely aware of those cynical and false claims, and decided they don't want any risk the point they are making, being similarly undermined.

This concocted nuclear energy debate, being pushed by the industry, is such a powerful reminder that while attitudes in aggregate can change across generations, the same propaganda previous generations fell for, future ones will also fall for.

This is analogous to 'clean coal'. The whole campaign rests on these technical truths that are cynically used to make sweeping generalisations about an industry in order to shape the good faith arguments and policy recommendations against the industry as radical and over-reaching to the casual observer.

Maybe i'm not understanding the issue properly.

Why are we unable to make name changes of communities to essentially reclasify them? And at the same time consolidate/remove some of the communities and tip them into broader subject area communities?

So i'd be down for name changes like this. Maybe c/Perth - WA, c/Melbourne - Vic

For me, i've always treated c/Perth as WA in general, but i think thats more to do with having such a dominant city, for instance half of applecross is owned by wheatbelt farmers (i might be exaggerrating here lol). Perth as a stand in for WA kind of makes sense because almost everybody has a connection to it anyway.

For somewhere like Queensland maybe it makes less sense though.

Elephants must have hay fever!

I find it so crazy when i stumble across a post of yours in the wild! Hi!

Some of that reads, wastefully but hilariously like Utopia.

Other parts, ie, the number of staffers in the premiers office, as well as the closeness of control the premier has over senior public servants is very worrying.

Political and corporate, (though unrelated here), secrecy in this country has become an issue we need to deal with. But, its just like global heating, the effects worsen over time, but theres no one moment where its unequivocably the cause of a negative event.

I know your joking, but can i hijack your comment a bit. Your comment kind of reflects my thoughts when i joined Lemmy.

I like Perth, so I made that my 'thing' to contribute to Lemmy. So I echo the other commentor, "be the change", and have a 'thing' that you do here.

It's helped me stay way more engaged, and have way more fun on here than I ever did on Reddit. If it's turtles cool! If its something else, also cool!

This was always gonna happen. I wonder who it'll be? BHP maybe?

Ha, i didn't mean shit-find like that, i meant just looking at random useless stuff! But your definition very much also works!

Yeah absolutely agree with your points, the echo chamber point is less worrying though because the active users will likely find points of difference more often.

I really enjoy the process of discovery, a more appropriate label for what i do is 'shit-finding', so i suppose the lemmy/fediverse system naturally suits my online behaviours.

I've only seen the Negative and Positive moniker of a feedback loop used in reference to the direction in which addition or subtraction is occurring and it multiplying due to previous addition or subtraction. https://www.albert.io/blog/positive-negative-feedback-loops-biology/#Positive_Feedback_Loops .

I had some of the best fried chicken of my life up Degraves street, been too long so i couldn'tsay the name of the place. Definitely a good area to check out though.

Maybe i should have made the assumption comment more clear by specifying 'Note:'. But this was an addendum to the above story. Because i realised if we don't agree on the bias, then the story makes little sense. And i'd need to explain it more.

In terms of a site wide political agenda, i never said there was. Telling people how to vote. I haven't. Please don't insinuate that i have.

We all have our biases and interests, mine probably come across fairly strongly due to my fairly high activity. But a lot of what I post is just to keep c/Perth relatively interesting and active.

For your last comment. Its an interesting hypothetical. I'd be surprised with a poll result where the LNP landed in the middle of the pack for aussie-zone, especially the Nationals in that. It would actually gratify me, as Nationals are generally more popular in rural areas, and i've tried to incorporate more than just Perth articles in my run of base posts for c/Perth.

Of course. That we're big or influential in any way wasn't my point. My point was i'm glad theres a space that isn't captured by those interests.

"Politically aligned (We aren't at all)", you remind me of a funny story i heard about a US national anarchist movement meet up. I think it was from Steven Keen on the debunking economics podcast.

They decided to all meet together for a two or three day conference and begin a more organised push for their political aims. By the end of the time not even a Chairperson had been decided on due to disagreements. And this is just a section of the so called 'left'.

Its a bit pithy i know but i thought, the original telling at least, was funny.

I'm assuming we can agree there is a progressive bias in the commentary, and types of content shared here, otherwise the story makes no sense.

This is why i like Lemmy, and less centralised, but robust, power structures in general. Right wingers can be on here, i'm sure theres a few somewhere. But their unsubstantiated claims aren't going to be coddled by a friendly platform or news outlet.

Slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome wasn't always slavery in the modern 'Atlantic slave trade' sense we have now. For instance a Greek may actually wish to become the slave of a wealthy Roman household in order to gain Roman citizenship when they were bought back off that household.

David Graeber's, Debt goes into this in far better detail, RIP.

Thats a hard question, the way you've posed it, because 'culture' doesn't really indicate a clean homogenous group that rules another, and there'll be few examples because most leaders of nations could be said to be quite disconnected from the winning ruled people's culture anyway, and the kings or emperors were the conquerers really, not the people. But i'll have a go at providing a cleaner example for the sake of the challenge.

The 'Mongols' Kitan or Liao, when they defeated 'China', they knew they wouldn't be able to hold their rule over the coastal populations without having a seat of power. So outwardly they adopted the practices of the Chinese. This is apparently why the Forbidden City was initially Forbidden. Because the mongols used that area, among others, to continue to live privately in tents like they'd always lived.

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/the-forbidden-city.aspx

Another less clean example would be the 1066 Norman takeover of Britain. The Normans undoubtedly left their mark, but they never actually erradicated the anglo-saxons culture. And in doing so the two cultures mixed. You can see artifacts of this in the etymology of english words, for instance the difference between 'beef and cow' i think is a good example.