spiffmeister
@spiffmeister@aussie.zone
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 1 week ago:
The bill has been passed, but doesn’t come into effect until next year.
- Comment on US tech companies joins winemakers, film studios and drug companies in urging Donald Trump to target Australia 3 weeks ago:
Adobe Haven’t these dickheads been charging Australians more for their products than anyone else for decades?
If you’re going to urge the US to target Australia it should be within the rights of every Australian to just torrent your shit if they want.
- Comment on Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King Charles 5 weeks ago:
Hey we’re sorry about the referendum, here’s a picture on a fiver instead.
- Comment on Liberals Plan To Blow Current Educator-to-Child Ratios To 1:50 1 month ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
I remember reading that the government was hoping that because we run a trade deficit with the yanks they wouldn’t do this. Look forward to that just being the assumption and the government having done 0 planning.
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 2 months ago:
They really aren’t buzzwords, it’s simply a short way of describing what the Uluru statement proposed. The issue is that the failure of the voice both encouraged the right wing to shit on indigenous issues and tell labor that it’s not worth the political capital to touch you indigenous issues.
If you want concrete policy goals then you could look at the royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody and email your MP to act on the recommendations. Or see if you get anything out of the reports from the yoorrook commission if you’re in vic.
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 2 months ago:
“here’s 3 simple things we should be working on”.
Three things to work on would be truth, treaty and voice? Those aren’t simple though.
I think the nation accepting the voice would have been a step towards reconciliation, since it would have been a sign showing the nation accepts wrongs that exist in its history.
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 2 months ago:
Spoiler
It loops seamlessly every 90 or so minutes
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 2 months ago:
Don’t forget the money he’s given.
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 3 months ago:
I hope you’re right, but I suspect a case like this will not count still because “oh the payroll didn’t work properly” means you didn’t do an audit but you didn’t deliberately do it.
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 3 months ago:
“deliberate” seems like a pretty high bar. Of course it doesn’t stop employer groups crying that literally stealing is being made illegal.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 4 months ago:
It then law is written loosely enough they may just try to apply it however is politically convenient at the time. Don’t like people using signal? Guess signal is social media lmao.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 4 months ago:
Nevermind then. I wasn’t giving them much credit but it was still too much it seems.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 months ago:
Thanks Bill! Really saving the taxpayer there.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 4 months ago:
The legislation does note that some services are “excluded”, but does not name specific platforms. For example, while services providing “online social interaction” would be included in the ban, this would not include “online business interaction”.
Looking forward to watching Facebook claim it’s all a business interaction because they’re selling the user data or something. Also surely this includes any and all online forums.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 4 months ago:
If they were rushing through the bill then any amendments in the senate would require the bill to go back to the house. Partially explains the reluctance to consider amendments (though why bother with debate then).
Depressingly
The ban is, however, backed by 77% of Australians, according to a new poll.
Most of whom probably don’t care how it was passed or details on the amendments.
- Comment on The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed 4 months ago:
Honestly, reducing the teaching + publish-or-perish + the constant need to apply for grants would go a long way towards fixing the review process. Academics have to spend a lot of time doing a lot of non-academic work that peer reviewing properly sometimes gets pushed down the list of priorities.
- Comment on David Crisafulli vows to repeal ban on developer donations and ditch ‘corrupt’ full preferential voting system 5 months ago:
Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.
- Comment on David Crisafulli vows to repeal ban on developer donations and ditch ‘corrupt’ full preferential voting system 5 months ago:
It’s not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:
“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.
This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.
- Comment on David Crisafulli vows to repeal ban on developer donations and ditch ‘corrupt’ full preferential voting system 6 months ago:
Definitely not something a corrupt person would say.
- Comment on ANU asks staff to give up agreed pay rise to help reach $250m cost cuts 6 months ago:
Even with a 10% pay cut the VC will be remunerated over $1,000,000 per year, even despite the university’s poor financial performance.
Afaik the ANU VC earns about $650k (here). Not that this isn’t probably 6-8x what most others in the university earn.
Pretty much agree with everything you say though. I’m about to graduate from ANU and I’m glad to be leaving tbh.
I would just add that, while the unis are managed poorly, the cuts to the sector by successive governments can’t be excused.
- Comment on Academic publishing - pfft 6 months ago:
Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.
That’s not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.