Zagorath @ Zagorath @aussie.zone

Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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It's pretty normal to count the thumb as a finger. I find it strange that you would not.

If you were asked "how many fingers do you have", would you answer 8, or 10? Surely, everyone knows the answer is 10 (assuming no physical abnormalities)? On a fingering chart, music will instruct you to play a note with your thumb with the number "1" and your pinky with the number "5".

I will always discuss this and never let it go uncommented on

I dunno, sounds like the one who's made it their whole personality might not be spectral here.

It was stuck in the Senate for half a year?

Sort of. If you look at the timing of its actual passage you can see that even though it was first introduced to the Senate in March, Labor didn't actually even schedule it to be debated until May. So That 6 months is down to 4 right off the bat.

After that, things get more complicated. Without a doubt, some of the delay was indeed caused by the Greens. But some was still caused by Labor, too. I forget the precise timeline, but circa June or July, Labor agreed to some compromises with the Greens. The Greens continued blocking the bill and arguing for more compromise out of Labor.

At the time, I was actually upset with the Greens and thought they should have accepted the initial compromise. But after talking with someone from my local Greens MP's office, I found the trick...despite agreeing on a compromise with the Greens, what Labor actually presented was the original, un-amended plan. It took weeks more before Labor finally actually presented in Parliament a Bill that they had negotiated to get Greens support on.

We are a conservative country, the Greens are currently polling within 3% of One Fucking Nation

Just looking at the latest polling, Labor + Greens poll at 47.5%, while LNP + One Nation + Trumpet of Patriots at just 43.5%. Labor are ahead of the LNP. Greens are ahead of One Nation + Trump. And if you look at the last actual election results, the Greens outperformed One Nation by more than a factor of 2.

So yeah, we're a country with a lot of conservatives. But we have a lot of progressives too. And the Greens' job is to represent the views of the people who voted for them in Parliament. That means pushing, hard, to get Labor to do more than just fiddle around the edges, as they are so often wont to do. In the case of the HAFF, it meant pushing Labor to increase the amount invested in total, and also to make sure it wasn't only a long-term project that might eventually pay off...if the LNP doesn't dismantle it first, but that it is also able to start doing good work immediately, by requiring a minimum spend instead of Labor's planned maximum spend.

Thanks for linking that article from Sriranganathan. I hadn't read it before. I found that interview he showed a video clip of particularly galling. That is precisely why I support the Greens and I have become more and more upset at Labor over the last 3 years.

They didn't block critical funding. They stalled a long-term project by a few weeks, and in the process improved that project both in the long term and forced it to include some benefit in the shorter term, before passing the improved policy.

You're right. The intent of copyright was ostensibly to protect artists' ability to make a living off their work.

Fwiw Occam's razor is actually a little more precise than "choose the simplest explanation". Specifically, it defines what "simplest" actually means, in such a way that makes it easier to see how you could describe Hanlon's razor as a special case of Occam's.

Occam's razor is that you should choose the solution which requires the fewest assumptions. Assuming someone made a mistake is precisely one assumption. That they were acting maliciously requires several, including having the motive to do it and, in a case involving large organisations, having the capability to cover it up.

Imma be honest, I don't know what they said either, but in part it's because your comment that they're replying to didn't make sense.

“Humans” nor “Americans” are a group that espouse moral authority.

This doesn't scan at all.

Yesterday's ABC article is a bit clearer that the latest news is the charger is going ahead.

I don't disagree with you that these people are taking a message that seems inconsistent with the biblical portrayal of Jesus. But the above comment was criticising people "who feel the urge to spread Christianity in any way". Which, yeah. Fuck them. If someone wants to do their research and convert to Christianity because they like it, more power to them.

But introducing children to that nonsense (by which I mean belief in resurrections and other obviously ridiculous bullshit, even if it's not directly used to cause tangible harm) as though it's fact at a vulnerable young age should be considered child abuse. And preying on vulnerable lonely or depressed people and using highly manipulative tactics like love bombing the way many evangelical branches of Christianity do, as do Mormons and I believe Jehovah's Witnesses, should also be considered abusive behaviour.

Oh merde. That's embarrasing. I can only blame it on the fact that I was on my phone and never bothered looking that closely at it.

C'est plus pire parce que je parle plus qu'un peu francais, et j'ai appris l'espagnol pendant trois ans. (Mais j'etais nul en espagnol...)

The best thing you can do is advocate for a change to a different system. Instant Runoff Voting would be the bare minimum. Proportional systems like MMP are even better.

Even construction companies need finance and HR

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the envelope seems to be entirely French, but the letter seems to be entirely English?

But yeah, politicians do keep profiles on you, and it's really disturbing. Here in Australia at least, they're exempt from most privacy laws, making it completely legal. When some Jewish people started getting "happy Hanukkah" letters…well, they were not happy.

Umbrella Academy was a hate watch for me. I loved the experience of watching it with my sister, even though I absolutely detested the show itself. Every single one of the characters is just the worst fucking person with zero redeeming qualities, and they somehow just get worse as the show goes on.

I tried many times and I did always like it, but for some reason I never felt the urge to finish the first season.

Ooh, me too. I got more than one season on my second attempt, but I'm honestly not sure how much more. Definitely didn't get through 3 full seasons. I enjoyed it, but...just not enough to go out of my way to keep watching it.

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To edge their bets? 😳

There's no misunderstanding, just pragmatism. I'm saying that the fact is that today there is a national government, and that elections for that government should not be run in a fractured way that makes it easier for bigots to take control.

the solution isn’t telling people what not to believe

Absolutely correct. However, I think far too often in society we err too far on the side of respecting religion. As some examples:

• Religious institutions or individuals should not be permitted to discriminate on the basis of either religion or religious belief. A sexist teacher can't choose to not teach women. A racist bus driver can't say "no black people on my bus". A religious doctor, or any doctor at a religiously-affiliated hospital, should not be allowed to refuse to provide certain procedures because of their religion.
• Religions should not receive special taxation status.
• Religious rituals like prayers should not be involved in any civil procedure like the opening of parliaments and city councils.
• The only time religion should ever be involved in actual Monday-to-Friday schools should be as part of dispassionate academic discussion of theology, not from the perspective of evangelising.

Etc.

So Fake London is now known for more than just stroads, then. It's stroads and rapists.