Nonameuser678 @ Nonameuser678 @aussie.zone

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Cool good luck Labor members but it's gonna be super hard if your party keeps taking donations from fossil fuel companies. Oh and good luck convincing them not to open new coal and gas mines.

I wish I knew this before I wasted so much effort trying to build relationships with assholes.

Tertiary education is a scam and you should have listened to the people who tried to tell you this.

Currently doing a phd and wishing I could go back in time and tell myself not to fucking do it. They really get you with that opportunity bullshit but the whole thing is a fucking pyramid scheme imo.

This and reducing flying is the best 'bang for your buck' in terms of individual actions imo. Even just starting by not eating beef is better than nothing.

Pretty sure people voted for it back in the 90s

Are there people who genuinely enjoy ads?

It's not really that simple and a lot of these things are out of people's control. People who eat more meat than they need to just because they can are the ones who should be changing their behaviour. Not the people who have a constrained diet due to circumstances like poverty or medical conditions. But even then we should be targeting large scale polluters rather than just focusing on individual behaviour change.

Everyone should try and reduce the amount of meat they eat as much as they can. Same goes for flying and driving.

It not being conscious or self aware. It's just putting words together that don't necessarily have any meaning. It can simulate language but meaning is a lot more complex than putting the right words in the right places.

I'd also be VERY surprised if it isn't harvesting people's data in the exact way you've described.

Charlie Kaufman's work comes to mind. But he adapted a lot of stories he wrote as novels.

Annihilation is one as well I'd say. Even though it's based on one of my favourite books, the movie did a good job of taking the premise / vibe and making it into something quite original. The book is definitely better by far, but I respect the artistic direction of the movie.

At an inspection for a rental property the agent, mid small talk, said "and I'm glad it's people like you (white, cishet couple) checking this place out, the owner is not keen to lease the place to people who aren't white".

Honestly everyone should read the statement if they have the chance. It's really not as controversial as the racist no campaign makes it out to be. It's actually quite basic in what it's saying and asking for. And it does feel like it's a statement from the heart.

It'd take it as a compliment Melbourne

Probably because their 'disagreement' is about whether or not certain groups of people should exist.

It's all about how you word it. For instance I'd call this out of the box problem solving or lateral thinking. ADHD can often give you hyperfocus on whatever you're interested in which I would describe as passionate and creative engagement with projects.

I'm in the opposite end from the tech industry (people industry) so I could be wrong here. But I do have ADHD and have learnt a thing or two about how to frame certain traits.

It's hard to summarise in a comment but I'll give it a go. I should also note that this is just my understanding and opinion so I encourage you to seek out more information and formulate your own views where possible.

Neo classical economics is the technical term I guess but you might be more familiar with a similar concept known as neoliberalism. As it's associated with Reagan and Thatcher it's also referred to as Reaganomics or Thatcherism. At the heart of neoliberal ideology is free market fundamentalism or the idea that unregulated, profit-motivated, markets are the best way to distribute resources. Doesn't matter what these resources are (health, food, housing, iPhones etc), neoliberalism tends to see things as products and not human rights. If you're in America this will sound pretty normal to you, but for us non-americans who have things like universal healthcare, it's a strange way to distribute a human right.

Another key part is this idea that when rich people get richer it benefits society because wealth trickles down (you may be familiar with the term 'trickle-down economics'). Therefore economies work best when those with the most capital (the rich) are left alone to do what they do best and government's role is essentially to facilitate this. There's a lot more to it than this and encompasses a range of issues.

Why do I think it's a cult? Because we have all the data now to show that trickle down economics is not a thing, that equality is getting worse, that people are suffering because their human rights are not being met. And yet we are still using this approach. Sure, this is a situation where the powerful don't want to give up power. But I also think the rich and their servants (governments) do actually on some level believe in the ideology. It's very much a church of capitalism. The pandemic rely illustrated this on such a visceral level.

This policy would genuinely improve my life and reduce barriers to accessing essential medications. That's what good government policy is supposed to do.

HAARP is an old school conspiracy theory. I haven't heard someone bring this one up in years. It's your classic government control the weather theory.

The real truth of 9/11 is far darker than the idea that it was an inside job. It being an inside job implies that the Bush administration was competent.