Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 2 hours ago:
Yep, we have sh.itjust.works/c/localllama may as well use it, don’t see why not
Especially with LM Studio/ollama able to run on a headless server
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 4 hours ago:
What about Mistral? chat.mistral.ai/chat
- Comment on aussie pride worlwide 4 days ago:
I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.
I go into giant warehouse size of small city find what i want, price is decent i go through self checkout and leave 👍
everytime I’ve been has been fine? except when I look for a small widget that has 10 in stock on the website but there’s none on the shelf because scumbags have stolen them all but 99% of the time it’s fine
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 6 days ago:
So the idea with this comment:
The number of people repeating “I bet it won’t tell you about Tianamen Square” jokes around this news has - imho - neatly explained why the US tech sector is absolutely fucked going into the next generation.
is that people have misplaced their concern, not at the fact that it’s censored but that the US has lost the technology high ground and won’t get it back for at least a generation?
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 1 week ago:
ngl I’m still confused
what the tech they made can actually do
It’s AI, it does AI things, is it because China can now do the things we do (coding/development/search queries etc) that are just as good as America that it’s a problem?
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 1 week ago:
I’m slow, what’s the point? how does people joking about the fact China is censoring output explain
why the US tech sector is absolutely fucked going into the next generation
- Comment on Trump's powerful new allies don't much like Australia 1 week ago:
All that text to say not much? He doesn’t like that we want companies to pay tax
Fair enough, there’s no need to postulate what he might do when he’s just a moments notice away from threatening … literally anything, who knows what the crazy monkey will do or say at any time
- 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 1 week ago:
Criminal or not the golden rule has been around for a long time
So have wars over land
Their actions were and are immoral, dare I say evil
Welcome to the world, there’s a reason we signed up to a 300 billion dollar deal for some submarines and it’s not because we enjoy the look of them
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 1 week ago:
The video discusses the growing political divide, particularly focusing on how men, especially young men, are shifting towards the right politically.
The narrator critiques the Democratic Party’s efforts to appeal to this demographic, highlighting various missteps and tone-deaf attempts at outreach. Here are the key points:
Gender Divide: The video starts by noting the increasing toxicity in gender discourse, with examples of anti-male sentiments from media and social media.
Political Shift: There’s a discussion on how young men are moving towards the Republican Party, while young women are leaning more towards the Democrats. This shift is particularly notable in recent election data.
Democratic Party’s Struggles: The narrator criticizes the Democratic Party’s last-minute efforts to win over young male voters, such as creating spaces for white men and using Tim Walz as a “secret weapon” to appeal to male voters. These efforts are seen as superficial and ineffective.
Social Media Reactions: The video includes reactions from social media, highlighting the divisive and often dismissive attitudes towards men’s concerns. Some tweets suggest that men need to “be better” or are inherently problematic.
Critique of Pandering: The narrator mocks the Democratic Party’s attempts to pander to men, such as ads featuring Tim Walz doing stereotypically masculine activities. These efforts are seen as insincere and condescending.
Bernie Sanders: The video mentions Bernie Sanders as an example of a candidate who successfully spoke to the demographic the Democrats are now struggling to reach. His focus on working-class issues is highlighted as naturally attractive to men.
Call for Change: The narrator expresses frustration with the Democratic Party’s messaging and calls for a more inclusive and effective approach to win back young men. The video ends with a plea for the party to evaluate what they’re doing wrong and make changes for the betterment of society.
Overall, the video is a critique of the Democratic Party’s strategies and a call for more genuine and effective outreach to young male voters.
This is the influence we get from America flooding in
Basically left wing progressives are inherently anti-male and anti-white male and social media helps amplify and push these beliefs far and wide because left wing progressives and women love supplying them with content
Racists Take a DNA Test www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HlGhVgV3Yw
“MEN ARE USELESS!” - After Dark Edit www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI1wptoSLaM
5.5 million views jesus
and I had these videos endlessly appear on my youtube homepage for ages because I watched MMA
Combine that with a lot of guys not doing great in life and then they get to see plenty of women being given a hand (admittedly this was a 30 second search, I don’t even want to imagine how far and wide these programs and monetary advantages are being given to women extend to):
www.vic.gov.au/womens-board-leadership-program
In recent years, Victoria has seen great progress in the representation of women on boards, with women now making up 54% of all public board positions in 2023
So when already make up a majority of board positions and they still get given more advantages regardless:
The Victorian Government is sponsoring 50 women
The 2023 Diploma of Governance scholarship will provide governance training and networking for all women to advance their board careers in the not-for-profit sector.
And yeah, you’re going to breed resentment when men apply and get denied and then look up why
I gotta stop procrastinating on me studies so yeah not gonna engage on this one anymore
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 1 week ago:
I basically only see men attacked for
Hmm maybe this might help (it came out 3 days before the election) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSw04BwQy4M
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 1 week ago:
Do you actually feel attacked? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone criticised for like being strong and capable
I don’t get it, where is the link between being attacked and being strong and capable?
- Comment on Solar power surpasses coal in EU for first time 1 week ago:
Current EV batteries are not even close to being suitable for grid energy storage
What do you mean?
www.abc.net.au/news/science/…/104498552
It can definitely store more than enough to power a household over night, for some people potentially a week, If I use 10kwh a day and have an 80kwh+ size EV battery it will definitely provide me with enough cheap power for a week and complimented every time the sun comes out
I still don’t understand why there aren’t great big fat energy pipes connecting Europe to Algeria and getting in a whole ton of that year round cheap sun energy
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
the people of sydney are genociding people? that’d be news to the people of sydney
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
who didn’t read the article 🫵
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- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 4 weeks ago:
congrats you’ve learned why communism sucks 😅
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 4 weeks ago:
you have a basic understanding that a country doesn’t have to be full blown aids communist to have socialist elements right?
capitalists aka normal people who aren’t broke uni students are worried about the declining birthrate because people like you and me will get old and need support, if there is not enough people to support us we’re going to have a bad time
this is opposed to a regular communist nation (vietnam, soviet russia etc) where having a bad time was normal
- Comment on Two Brisbanes? 5 weeks ago:
Interesting! tried again just now and didn’t have the same thing happen, very odd!
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on New Years Eve 2024 5 weeks ago:
Arguing with people on the internet about geopolitics especially with regards to the European financial situation, my favourite hobby
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 weeks ago:
Oh the hilarity! Someone on a French instance stepping in. 😁
Maybe this is more relatable to you:
France pension reforms: Macron signs pension age rise to 64 into law www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65279818
And you are the loudest protestors as well! Thank you for very likely personally proving my point (IRL as well!)
can’t wait for the socialists to be out on the streets when other peoples money runs out
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 weeks ago:
ive read more than you
Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 weeks ago:
can’t wait for the socialists to be out on the streets when other peoples money runs out
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 5 weeks ago:
thanks labor
- Comment on Where to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks in your capital city 5 weeks ago:
clearly a play by the sick leaders of the state
Yeah… the sick police…?
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said she had “grave concerns” about the risk industrial action could pose to those “trapped in the city” after New Year’s Eve celebrations at Sydney Harbour.
“I haven’t ruled out that I will recommend to government that we cancel the fireworks,” she said.
“It’s that serious because 250,000 people … come in during the day, they spend all day in the city but when it’s time to go, when the fireworks are over, the job is to get them out safely and quickly and if there’s no transport, we can’t do that.”
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/…/104747566
typical police wanting to ensure people can get home safely and quickly, and not be trapped in the city… unreal hey guys? 🙄
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- Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 1 month ago:
According to Ed Husic, the Minister for Science, Indigenous Australians were “the nation’s first scientists”, whose insights, obtained “through observation, experimentation and analysis”, rested upon “the bedrock of the scientific method”. Nor is Husic alone in making those claims. Thanks to generous taxpayer funding, a burgeoning industry promotes “Indigenous science” in venues ranging from schools to universities.
But to call Indigenous knowledge “science” grossly misrepresents the nature of the scientific enterprise that emerged from the intellectual revolution of the 17th century. The error is neither innocent nor harmless: it both devalues that revolution’s achievements, which made Western science into an engine room of human progress, and projects a romantic, yet fundamentally condescending, vision of Indigenous culture.
To refer to the changes that occurred in the 17th century as a revolution is not to ignore the solid foundations on which they built. The notion of science as an activity that, in the words of Diogenes Laertius (180AD-240AD), seeks to “understand things as they are” through the “rational explanation of phenomena”, was well known in classical antiquity and persisted into the Middle Ages.
However, the great thinkers of the 17th century radically transformed what Kant later referred to as science’s “regulative principles”: that is, the rules that distinguished science, as an activity and as a body of knowledge, from mere knowhow. At a fundamental level, the transformation involved a dramatic change in the conception of the cosmos.
In effect, the 17th century upended the Aristotelian view of nature, which claimed that the basic properties of matter differed in the various parts of the universe. Nature, the proponents of the new science argued, was homogenous, uniform and symmetrical: matter was the same throughout the universe, governed by the same causes or forces. Moreover, those forces were mechanical: the very essence of science lay in uncovering their laws of motion.
In turn, those presuppositions of regularity and homogeneity underpinned a change that proved momentous: the rejection of Aristotle’s prohibition on metabasis, that is, on the transposition of methods from one discipline to another.
The sciences, said Rene Descartes in 1637, could not progress “in isolation from each other”; they all had to advance, and could only advance, by adopting common methods, centred on developing mathematical representations of the phenomena they were seeking to explain.
And the test of those representations had to be both analytical and empirical: analytical in terms of mathematical correctness; empirical, in that it had to be shown that the representation could be used to recreate the phenomenon.
Truth, in other words, was “fact” in the Latin sense of the word: that which can be done or made. As Giambattista Vico summarised the new thinking in 1710, “verum et factum convertuntur” – the true is that which can be converted into fact, ie, can be done in practice.
That is why Newton, to prove the existence of a centre of gravity, devised the famous experiment of the rotating bucket filled with water. It is also why Francis Bacon resuscitated the Greek term “praxis” – the unity of theory and practice – in the Novum Organum (1620) to describe the “scientia activa” of experimentation, which, far from diverting study from its object, was the sole means of “augmenting” it.
Those contentions, and particularly the emphasis on factual replicability, provoked vociferous objections from the so-called Occasionalists, who feared the implication that we can master the making of the universe in the same way as does the creator. However, the pioneers of the new science were cautious in their claims. Yes, mathematical techniques could accurately model limiting cases, such as motion in a vacuum; but they only approximated actual outcomes. And it was improper to speculate about the underlying causes of phenomena beyond what could be directly observed and experimentally verified.
Hence Newton’s great outcry, “hypotheses non fingo”, “I feign no hypotheses”, regardless of how much superficial completeness adding unproven hypotheses might give his system.
That intellectual modesty opened the road to a recognition of the uncertainties inherent both in the actual operation of the laws of motion and in their testing. In what ranks among humanity’s great breakthroughs, Blaise Pascal’s work on probability theory, and Thomas Bayes’ formalisation of inductive inference, set the basis for the systematic hypothesis testing that allowed Western science to progress at an unprecedented rate.
But that rate of progress also reflected another crucial feature of the intellectual revolution: its openness. Traditionally, true knowledge had been seen as esoteric, handed down, within closed circles, from one generation to the other and validated by the weight of inherited authority. By the end of the 17th century, that notion had been utterly discredited.
Instead, theories, models and experimental results were widely published, discussed and contested, vastly accelerating their development.
In short, what defined Western science and made it absolutely unique – and uniquely powerful – was the tight integration of formal methods, rigorous verification and public replicability. Additionally and crucially, it was self-aware, devoting ongoing attention to the regulative principles with which scientific practice had to comply.
The contrast even to China could not have been starker, helping to explain why China’s initial advantage in virtually every area of technology stalled and then collapsed. As for the chasm separating science from Indigenous knowhow, with its secrecy, its anthropomorphic explanations and its reliance on the authority of elders, it can only be measured in light years.
However, Husic’s claim is not just absurd. It is, like Bruce Pascoe’s fantasies about settled agriculture, deeply patronising. Husic plainly does not grasp the complex of ideas that comprise the scientific method. But he clearly believes that Indigenous culture, if it is to be respected, must be cast as an anticipation, if not a mirror, of Western culture. If we had science, whatever that may be, they must have had it too – and many centuries before us.
One might have hoped that the decisive refutation of Pascoe’s contentions by Keryn Walshe and Peter Sutton would have laid those views, and the broader attitudes they embody, to rest.
Yet they live on, thanks, in part, to sheer ignorance. Also at work is the conviction that historical accuracy and intellectual honesty matter less than “celebrating” Indigenous culture – a conviction that, far from promoting science, offends the unbending commitment to the truth that is science’s very essence. Significant too is the now ingrained hostility to the Western achievement, and to the scientific spirit, which is among its glittering jewels, with it.
However, spinning fairytales is no way of convincing the community, and young people in particular, of science’s vast potential. Nor will it do anything to reverse the continuing fall in the number of high school students taking core science subjects. Having a minister for science who knows what the term means will certainly not solve those problems. But it would be a sensible place to start.
Henry Ergas AO is an economist who spent many years at the OECD in Paris before returning to Australia. He has taught at a number of universities, including Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the University of Auckland and the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique in Paris, served as Inaugural Professor of Infrastructure Economics at the University of Wollongong and worked as an adviser to companies and governments.
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 2 months ago:
The west gave weapons to kurds and then left then to die like cowards.
If you cannot argue accurately please don’t bother arguing at all.
The bulk of CJTF-OIR’s combat operations have consisted of airstrikes against Islamic State; various ground forces have been deployed including special forces, artillery, training, and military advisors. The United States accounts for the vast majority of airstrikes (75–80%), with the remainder conducted by Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, Belgium, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.[22] Although the task force is not under NATO, all 32 members of the military alliance are contributing to CJTF-OIR.[23]
By the end of 2017, CJTF-OIR stated that its airstrikes had killed over 80,000 ISIL fighters.[24] The coalition also provided $3.5 billion in military equipment to the Iraqi Armed Forces,[25] billions more to the Peshmerga, and trained 189,000 Iraqi soldiers and police.[26] It has also provided significant support to the Syrian Democratic Forces, with which it coordinates various operations.[27]
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 2 months ago:
Small difference, ISIS are the most disgusting animals/people on the planet, the most extreme militant muslims in a world full of extremist muslims.
The muslims who left Australia to go join ISIS were looking forward to gang raping children, beheading anyone who doesn’t join islam and committing an actual genocide:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi_genocide
Over a period of three years, Islamic State militants trafficked thousands of Yazidi women and girls and killed thousands of Yazidi men;[14] the United Nations reported that the Islamic State killed about 5,000 Yazidis[5] and trafficked about 10,800 Yazidi women and girls in a “forced conversion campaign”[15][16] throughout Iraq. By 2015, upwards of 71% of the global Yazidi population was displaced by the genocide, with most Yazidi refugees having fled to Iraq’s Kurdistan Region and Syria’s Rojava
The IDF are our allies and are fighting the people like this
metro.co.uk/…/one-tiktok-video-led-rescue-isis-se…
She was repeatedly raped and traded between different fighters, according to the newspaper.
After being married to a 24-year-old Palestinian from Gaza. who was allegedly a member of Hamas, she was taken to the Isis stronghold of Raqqa.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 2 months ago:
awww they no longer get sex workers which is basically like sending them down a coal mine, i can see how that would be comparable to you