Gorgritch_Umie_Killa @ Gorgritch_umie_killa @aussie.zone

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Good answer.

I'd forgotten that episode. Time for a relisten, Turnbull has done a good job with that podcast.

He probably needs another host though, someone else to bounce off to liven him up a little.

I heard Shorten is about to become quite a lot less busy....

Oh interesting, thats part of the same family as Geraldton waxs, the myrtles? I can see that kind of thing going really well with gin. Next time i have some, i'll have to pick some and infuse it myself, see if its good.

Yeah, its definitely noticeable. The problem for them is it undermines legitimate points they might make at times. Especially when they target a smaller platform like AZ.

The PM has been on the phone this week putting Australia's case to gain an exemption from US tariffs on alluminium and steel.

A key talking point was the fact that we need good supply of these for our airline industry.

Oh, and btw this incident involving an Australian surveillance plane just occurred with China.

Whether its a bit of good luck, or Australia and China nodding at each other about US tariffs. Or whether it Australia acting of its own accord.

This has now become a billboard demonstration for the US executive of why Australia must maintain these industries.

side note:

• Does OP ever post anything but negative stories about China? If this is the case, should we be engaging with their posts?

The fundamental problem is that housing has become a product and an investment market, rather than the right outlined by Leo O'Connor 82 years ago.

Cutting immigration doesn't fix this, so you're incorrect.

Its so exciting people are starting to recognise and experiment with native Australian ingredients. They've been sat there in plain sight for so long, and are just so great.

I's able to go to Wildflower a few years back, its a restaurant in Perth CBD with a focus on these ingredients. The things they did with things like desert lime, wattle seeds etc were so delicious, geraldton wax, the bold freshness of so much of it was really surprising.

The most surprising thing was the paired mocktails, infused again with all kinds of native australian ingredients. I's having the paired wines, my partner was having paired mocktails, and the mocktails were so much better than the wines.

Interesting, so i take from that, they see some issues themselves. Be interesting to see what actions they take with that in mind.

For my own interest just looked on lemmyverse.net.

I knew they had a lot of communities, but at 10,612 communities, phew, who is modding all of that!

A human might not, but you have to wonder if Treebeard was cruising round Isengard after the battle collecting arms and legs of the dunlendings for his vase on his dinner table back home.

Wow! This is new! For me, i mean. That'll be useful to keep track of cheers!

Yeah, LW is a little problematic. It'd be interesting to read the LW admins and mods take on this. Whether they feel stretched, or see the issues the smaller instances see, or whether their size and centralised role is what they like.

The only thing i remember from a ways back is the admins have an express mantra of user growth.

You know, i's gona say its mostly not been an issue, like i think we're down to a few hours, but then i tried to find the last time the LW lag time was spoken about on the local c/meta and i can't see the discussion i'm thinking of.

So i think we're pretty good now, i don't know i need a Lemmy Worlder to come and comment on something to test it ;)

What Blaze said, or make sure your on an instance that suits your interests and rely on Local tab as the filter.

Be it Nation (like myself at aussie zone), or special interests (like the instance "vegan theory club"). These instances Local feeds are very different from All Lemmy, and days often go by without any passing referal involving US politics.

It doesn't mean you can't participate in the All tab discussions trending across the Lemmy instances, but it does mean your own Lemmy instance provides a kind of safe harbour, or comfortable place to retreat to when the trending posts get too much.

I's exactly the same as you. Big Lurker. I exhuded much lurk energy.

I think where we differed is i made an active decision to mod a community. And held myself accountable as if i have a responsibilty. Importantly i decided to be an active supporter and user of said community. I branch out a bit now, but my overwhelming set of activity is in the niches.

It seemed possible, Lemmys small enough, and my niches are plenty small enough to not feel overstretched.

As a Lemmy Worlder the perspective must be different though for you. I was talking to /u/Blaze@feddit.org about this a few weeks back, and he said it feels much more like reddit on the large lemmy instances. I imagine that must make it seem overwhelming? unnecessary? (You'd have to tell me), to think about modding communities as an avenue to getting actively involved.

Not if yer a fucken orc!

So you're attempting to represent percentages of population and their wealth in terms of the land area covered?

If this is so, i don't understand whats happening at the bottom of North, and Top of South Island.

Are the numbers in the brackets number of people in that section?

Looks like an interesting design, but it needs a little more work to work well as a quick visual understanding of the data being communicated.

The video creator boils Jordies views down to, Labor won't change the system, they just want to be in the drivers seat of the shitshow. A slightly unfair take, because the creator doesn't look at Jordies' reasoning.

Jordies' reasoning is usually, Labor don't have the power to get rid of the elite, everytime Labor try, they're crushed. This is because being the party of government isn't the only centre of power in this country. And while its very strong its a very transient form of power. Therefore Labor have to play ball to a certain extent with these other power centres, then setting up the best direction politically possible in the time they have.

Theres other systems Australia could move to, where power is distributed differently, as the video creator obliquely suggested. But the creator has an underlying assumption those undiscussed alternative systems would, in fact, be better for the country. And most importantly, that the Australian people would see and appreciate the benefits, readily agreeing.

But his critiscisms of Jordies are very valid. If i decide to listen I always take Jordies and crew as partially informed commentators, and not to be relied upon for your base of information on a subject.

The IGA shops are small businesses, there might be a few owners who are large enough, with multiple stores to call themselves medium size, but the vast majority are owner-operators.

The large conglomerate your referring to is called Metcash, they're the primary wholesaler to IGAs but also wholesale to other shops. They also own the IGA brand in Australia at least, i don't know if theres a North American connection with the IGA brand up there.

I wouldn't assume they pay a better wage, thats almost certainly a store owners decision, which means it'll vary store by store. Maybe Metcash might give 'guidance' but they don't have direct control like Coles, Woolies, Aldi, Costco.

So, when you buy IGA more of the profits are remaining local with the owners of that store.

If i remember right Metcash' assets are through product sales and brand ownership. This is also why Metcash will likely never be able to conpete properly with Coles, Woolies, Aldi, and Costco because all of those companies have the land and buildings their stores are situated on positively affecting their borrowing capacity, Metcash doesn't have that therefore fundraising for expansion, or technology upgrades is more difficult.

That extra layer of (internal but not internal) wholesaler sales i believe is the reason why IGAs are slightly more expensive. But even then it depends on the type of IGA we're talking about, there are some really fancy ones and some not so fancy ones.

I suppose everything i just wrote is based off knowledge over 10 years old now, but i think its largely still true.

I'm not surprised that this is your routine. The food pics i've seen you post always look damn good.

Is this one of those Utopia rebrands where everybody on the phone kept calling it 'Australian Athletics', and the CEO was always correcting them?

I'm getting real Nation Building Australia vibes.

I'll vote for Stanislaw. That guy seems up Lemmys alley.