naevaTheRat
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
I use arch btw
- Comment on Under half of young Australians believe democracy is always a preferable form of government 2 days ago:
You’d prefer to be ruled by a subset of them?
- Comment on Under half of young Australians believe democracy is always a preferable form of government 2 days ago:
Romans tried that, sucked for them. Learn from history, don’t as Marx said repeat it as farce
- Comment on Under half of young Australians believe democracy is always a preferable form of government 2 days ago:
I think your brain is maybe a little broken by the propaganda here. Democracy != westminster shite or tyranny of the majority. It’s just broadly rule by the people. Proper democracy works via consensus with protections for marginalised voices, and can grant people revocable authority when fast decisions are needed. Like you can democratically decide to listen to a firey when your house is on fire without giving that person dictatorial powers.
- Comment on Under half of young Australians believe democracy is always a preferable form of government 2 days ago:
I think if you really experienced democracy you would believe that. Like when would democracy not be preferable?
- Comment on Under half of young Australians believe democracy is always a preferable form of government 2 days ago:
Unsurprising when our government claims to be a democracy but isn’t really. Like obviously people would lose faith in democracy if you think that it’s voting for liblab despite wanting someone else, watching them be unaccountable, watching them ignore popular reforms, going to work under a dictatorship, experiencing oligarchy whenever you procure the means of subsistence etc.
Australia is not a democracy in any meaningful sense. I mean ffs you can’t even fire your member if they just lie lol.
- Comment on Why some in Australia are mourning Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei, as criticism mounts 3 days ago:
I mean, you don’t become a head of state without a certain degree of approval. Seems a bit oppressive to try prevent people, especially since it’s probably combined with mourning the destruction of a country in an illegal war.
- Comment on Health star rating to become mandatory on all packaged food in Australia 2 weeks ago:
I’m not really a fan of the system but consider:
Every chip bag is labelled, one is 4 star, one is 1 star, maybe that makes someone pause and make a better choice? They were going to buy a chip bag anyway.
Alternatively you stand before a wall of chips, they are all one star, are you going to not buy a bag of chips?
- Comment on Babkiiueria (TV movie, 1986, 29m) 5 weeks ago:
Good shit, I remember watching that in school. It’s really sad how little has changed politically.
Similar vein is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Fest_des_Huhnes
Good luck finding good subtitles but it is a mockumentary where “all africa TV” sends a crew of anthropoligists into the heart of upper austria.
It mostly shows, in a light hearted fashion, how an outside view and a camera can heavily distort reality and present false narratives.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 5 weeks ago:
Yeah nah. I get where youre coming from on wanting the community to be safe, thats fair enough and no one wants to see another tragedy like bondi or port arthur. You’re argument isn’t very good though.
First off saying the vast majority of aussies agree doesnt really prove something is right or moral does it. like majority views have been dead wrong on loads of things throughout history so thats not a great foundation for truth.
Then theres this idea that more guns automatically means more murder and the global picture actually shows thats pretty shaky. Look at places like switzerland or new zealand with decent gun ownership but way lower murder rates than plenty of countries with tight restrictions.
Own australian experience is worth a look. After the 96 reforms we saw gun crime and shootings drop and stay low which kinda shows our current laws work pretty effectively for what theyre designed to do. So the system as it is has been a success story overall. Almost all gun crime in aus is DV and that’s more a reflection of our femicide problem since plenty of blokes are murdering women without them.
Another thing is you mentioned needing to avoid another massacre before getting rid of hobby licenses but then if you look at the uk which has way stricter gun laws they’ve had a bunch of terrible terror attacks using knives and vehicles and homemade stuff or acid. Basically determined bad guys like these daesh sympathising cunts will find a way regardless which means maybe the focus should be on who gets guns not just how many exist. We live in a world where can 3d print a semi auto pistol, I don’t like it but we do.
Also gotta remember not all guns are the same right, a bolt action 22lr rifle used for target shooting or farming pests presents a totally different risk profile compared to a shotgun or a handgun, or even a bolt actiom in 303. The law already mostly recognises that with different license categories and storage rules. I think we’re a bit lax with 223 and 308 rounds in particular, preferring the handgun licensing model myself. I’d also like to see restrictions on ammo stockpiling and having to keep a log of rounds discharged vs purchased but that’s not the convo anyone is having. treating all guns and rounds with a broad brush is just silly.
in the end i reckon its fair enough to have the conversation about community safety and thats what our national agreement was all about. but the arguments gotta be built on solid evidence and consistent logic not just feelings or what everyone down the pub reckons. because the second we start making laws based on that we might end up with rules that dont actually make us any safer.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 1 month ago:
Why does it bother you that I enjoy putting holes in paper while squinting?
I’m not going to hurt anyone, I take safety seriously and store my guns and ammo securely above and beyond legal compliance. I have undergone training, police checks, periodic audits. Who am I hurting?
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 1 month ago:
Is English a second language for you?
They did not say “this is a fight for our lives” they said “this is the fight of our lives”, for vs of do you see?
It reads as “This political fight is likely to be the most significant fight — in the context of gun regulation — that we will participate in during our time alive”.
It’s meladramatic, but that’s part of politics and rhetoric. You have to rile people up.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 1 month ago:
This is why I plink with my great depression era Winchester budget target rifle.
100 years of use and still shooting clovers.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 1 month ago:
People who don’t shoot have literally no idea. It’s as ignorant as someone asking why a family might want more than one car.
I think stockpiling guns in the same calibre is a bit iffy, particularly once you’re past the point where you might want to use irons. Imho the nsw regs are a little cooked, you usually face more scrutiny for the first gun in a category than any other when it seems that maybe the reverse should be true after a couple.
I also think stockpiling ammo is a concern, since ammo is actually the hard bit to make and the dangerous part.
At least in nsw though we had laws and regs that just needed adjustment. You had to give reasons for each gun. Strengthen checks there, have a look at limiting ammo stockpiles/requiring reasons if you buy a whole lot.
Being spoken down to by people who have only ever seen guns in a war museum is a bit painful.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 1 month ago:
You can survive without lots of things people want.
You can survive with one outfit, without ever going camping (harms the environment after all), without soft drink or fast food, without recreational drugs, without a video games or books.
That’s poor framing. The question is does the activity someone wants to engage in (and the tools involved) represent an unfair burden or risk to others in society. Now we can have that conversation about firearms in general but this limit is arbitrary and unsupported by evidence. It’s entirely vibes based.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 1 month ago:
There’s precisely one thing in this law that might have actually prevented the massacre and it’s the more rigourous background checks.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 1 month ago:
Thought crime is so awesome.
You looking up info about poisonous plants? Clearly a murderer! Read true crime describing how someone stalked someone? Obviously you’re about to do it.
Thought crime wooh all aboard the fucking thought crime train. Intent? Harm? No you thought bad thoughts and gained black and fell knowledge. To the torture cells with you!
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 1 month ago:
I don’t really care about toilet soap very much tbh. I only bought this one because the special made it seem cheaper than the bulk shit I buy normally.
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 1 month ago:
Sorry for being unclear
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 1 month ago:
Here is how it looks on the shelf. The description of the contents isn’t visible, the lack of blue shealth is covered by a cardboard print of a sheath and the identically sized second plastic bubble is entirely obscured to avoid cluing you in that it’s not 2 of the same thing.
The only reason to design it this way is to trick people. What defense can be mounted?
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 1 month ago:
idk about that, they are primarily surfactants and gelling compounds. By keeping the wet portion of the bowl coated with surfactants they seem to decrease the rate at which biofilms form.
I spend less time scrubbing toilets. It might depend on toilet material, local water chemistry, and potentially diet if your experience differs so much.
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- Comment on Australians Overwhelmingly In Support Of Gun Law Reform 2 months ago:
So I shoot an ancient 22 for fun. Cards on the table.
I actually think Australian gun laws are a mix of good and bad but the reaction to this is very kneejerk.
Some stuff like magazine limits is hilarious, it’s a metal box and a spring. If you wanna kill people it’s trivial to make. The new limits in nsw are a bit low and don’t really account for the different risks guns pose, nor do they address the problematic aspect of stockpiling ammo.
Cartridges are hard to make, give me a cartridge and I can turn a nail and pipe into a crude but lethal firearm. A 3d printer and a pretty decent disposable gun. A few months with a computer and a garage and I could make an extremely lethal and durable weapon from scratch.
We currently don’t do much to stop people piling up ammo. In nsw at least less scrutiny is applied to the nth gun in a calibre than the first which is arse backwards.
I wish more people knew more about these things so we could have better laws.
Also as a vegan, every carnist that feels disgust at hunting but not farms makes me actually sick. Hunting is way less brutal for a number of reasons, even horrific stuff like hunting pigs is waaaaaay less bad in scale than your nommy bacon farming where they die screaming in gas chambers by the billion.
- Comment on Australia, Japan Establish Strategic Defense Cooperation Framework 2 months ago:
Why the fuck are those that yolk us always signing deals with racist failing regimes?
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 4 months ago:
A right winger misrepresentating a situation to appear more sympathetic? Say it ain’t so.
- Comment on Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first 5 months ago:
Don’t gell-mann yourself.
If it spits out plausible looking but incorrect things you notice with high frequency, how much do you not notice?
- Comment on Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first 5 months ago:
Haha fucking idiot clankerwanker.
These machines generate plausible text. That’s all.
- Comment on The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead. The US can’t provide the submarines. The UK can neither make up for the shortfall nor co-develop such a submarine in a reasonable timeframe 6 months ago:
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 7 months ago:
historical materialism
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 7 months ago:
There’s actually a really good method of analysis that is highly predictive about the actions of classes of people politically.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 7 months ago:
Very hinged lemmy comment.
