guillem
@guillem@aussie.zone
Testing the waters.
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 hours ago:
In not snake, why snake shaped?
- Comment on 'Not the laws of Australia': Sex discrimination chief reacts to UK ruling on definition of a woman 1 week ago:
They should force the SC pronounce itself as to what tf means that for them. I’d bet they are unable to give a definition of “biological woman” that doesn’t leave out a lot of what they think “true women” are. Carriers of two X chromosomes? Outliers. Carriers of no Y chromosomes? Outliers. Possessors of a uterus? Outliers. Producers of the big gamete (Rowling’s favourite) unless-unable-to-due-to-a-condition-that-is-morally-acceptable? Outliers everywhere. Then those outliers should sue.
Also curious why they aren’t worried about defining men. They should be forced to unless they want to tacitly be defining men as non-women. Which would be funny, but probably undesirable for them.
- Comment on 'Not the laws of Australia': Sex discrimination chief reacts to UK ruling on definition of a woman 1 week ago:
I don’t get where do they see the accomplishment in defining “woman” as “biological woman”. Aren’t the terms “biological man” and “biological woman” sort of blurry depending on what criteria (chromosomal, hormonal, physiological…) one uses? Or is “biological woman” exactly defined somewhere in the UK? Are they going to define “man” as"biological man" and risk leaving a gap where some people belong to none of those categories, or are they going to define it as “not a woman”?
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 weeks ago:
That’s called exonyms, and in part are a natural consequence of some language speakers not being able to reproduce some sounds of other languages.
You could call Georgia Sakartvelo, or Morocco Almaghrib, for example, but many would struggle with the tv or the gh. Or the s in Mesr for Egypt, which isn’t actually an s like the English speakers know it.
And what would you call Switzerland? There are three official languages.
- Comment on Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis 3 weeks ago:
Yeah sorry what a mess of a comment. I sometimes say “we” and “here” meaning different things without realising. I might have a bit of an identity crisis.
Left Spain. Am in Australia. The comment was written from a Spaniard perspective.
- Comment on Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis 3 weeks ago:
Sorry to add the depressing side but we have been protesting the rising costs of housing for decades and nothing seems to be improving. The slogan “You aren’t going to own a house in your whole fucking life” is almost 20 years old now.
We, like the Americans, keep voting right for fear of the job stealing immigrants, and then the centre-right for fear of the right steering further right (“useful vote” they call it).
I left more that 10 years ago, though. We managed to put the left in the government in the meantime, in exchange for their support to the centre-right. I don’t know how are they doing, but if there are still protests my guess is there hasn’t been a lot of improvement.
I’m too dumb to understand economy but the problem seems global and above a single country’s agency.
I won’t die on this hill tho, I haven’t pit much thougjt into my comment.
- Comment on Aussie Lemmyvision - closes 31st March 2025. Today! :o 4 weeks ago:
Linking it for you: aussie.zone/post/18782079
- Comment on Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King Charles 1 month ago:
Peter Dutton, describing it as “another attack on our systems, on our society and on our institutions”.
It could perfectly be VOX’s Santiago Abascal talking about the king of Spain. They really come out of cookie cutters.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 1 month ago:
It’s something quite personal. Visualize your day today at your destination, what kind of situations and needs will you encounter, and jot down the words that you need to construct the sentences you’ll need.
You might want to supplement your list with something like a visual dictionary.
- Comment on Anti-trans campaigner hit with apprehended violence order over ‘disturbing’ conduct 2 months ago:
Binary, an anti-trans activist organisation that was renamed from the anti-marriage equality group Marriage Alliance in 2018 after same-sex marriage became law.
When your goal in life is to hate somebody.
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 months ago:
Just for the sake of clarity: Franco re-established it and Leonor’s gramps had Franco’s blessing.
- Comment on Athletics Australia becomes Australian Athletics in 'bold new' rebrand 2 months ago:
Logo has changed for better.
- World losing half a trillion to tax abuse, largely due to [Australia and 7 other] countries blocking UN tax reform, annual report findstaxjustice.net ↗Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment