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- Comment on Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis 4 days ago:
I’m surprised (or maybe not that much) that there’s no mention of the historical context of the 1936 revolutionary war, which was partly driven by inequality. How much land must fall into the hands of the wealthy few until we see something like that again.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but millenials have been doing it since we were kids. It’s not that hard, just embrace the joy of naughty computing.
- Comment on Parents, patients, doctors weigh in on [Queenland Health] hormone freeze debate for trans kids 3 weeks ago:
Difficult topic to discuss in a sensitive and respectful manner.
“He’s among a group of psychiatrists who argue the gender-affirming treatment model discounts underlying psychiatric issues in youths who present with gender dysphoria.”
Reasonable statement that deserves some discussion.
“There is NO reliable evidence that trans identification can be differentiated from psychosis,” he wrote on X last year.
And immediately this individual’s credibility is tainted by a hyperbolic and disrespectful statement. I wish the ABC wouldn’t do that.
There are a small number of people who detransition due to misdiagnosis, which should lead to a discussion about lack of access to high quality psychologists when you’re trying to figure out what you need to do to feel OK.
- Comment on 'Investor' is a dirty word for first-home buyers — but are they the real villains? 4 weeks ago:
Affordable housing is a bullshit term. It should be defined based on income, whether that’s wages or welfare. Secure housing for everyone should be a no brainer in this country.
- Comment on Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message? 1 month ago:
It was a well meaning but failed ideological experiment that was never revised because it was locked in by the voters when benefited from it. Short term gains, short term thinking.
- Comment on Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message? 1 month ago:
“Peter Dutton is promising to introduce divestiture powers to our competition laws to break up the monopolies and near-monopolies that dominate the Australian economy.”
Right. The fact this dick head felt it was meaningful to shit out this mental turd without further examination tells you all you need to know about his integrity.
- Comment on Gift of speech 1 month ago:
BTW, this is what an Aussie bush doof looks like. Music courtesy of Russian psychedelic boffins Kindzadza and Psykovsky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCrIPWFXEbU
- Comment on Gift of speech 1 month ago:
Thank you for your address Mr or Mrs Ambassador.
- Comment on Gift of speech 1 month ago:
Went to an Aussie bush doof as a teenager and had some Americans come smoke bongs with me at my camp site. They were dressed up as ninja turtles. After a while I realised one of them had his plums hanging out his shorts and they were painted green. Americans love taking things too far.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 1 month ago:
If you want to understand this issue at a deeper level, I recommend you watch some of Tom Tanuki’s videos on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-INUscTJg
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 1 month ago:
The judge is too ignorant to recognise that “helping young men” is actually grooming young men who are too lost or wrong headed to realise they are being exploited by a moronic loser.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
The problem is that mainstream media has less integrity now than it did 30 years ago. The national broadcaster in Australia for example has been infiltrated by right wing people (BTW I don’t want to get rid of ABC, just wish it was better). To cut through the propaganda, people need to acquire the skills to find their own media sources. Unfortunately that also means getting technical ability with computers now. Best thing I can think of is helping less adept people to navigate the space. Otherwise we end up with a much weaker democracy. Listening to C-SPAN callers in 2022-2024 scared the hell out of me and made me think Trump was gonna get voted back in. People stuck in legacy media space are getting brainwashed. I wish it was easier to curate RSS feeds for non-technical friends and family.
- Comment on Repair, replace, refund, cancel: Problem with a product or service you bought 2 months ago:
Have you ever bought or rented a tape that wasn’t quite right…
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 2 months ago:
I feel like Tim Heidecker’s parody of rogan says more than this article did www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Iyg9fznvM
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 2 months ago:
When I see people trying to define positive masculinity, they list traits that are actually good traits I look for in female partners, or male friends. This leads me to believe that the complaints about emasculation are confused ones. I know my mostly absent father complained to my mum about emasculation once. Well, step up and be strong and responsible like most single mothers have to do. Too many guys expect to be respected just for being male. Prove it. Be a good person, male or female.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart screwing with our allies politics. 2 months ago:
- Comment on A baby boomer tried to show me a positive side to the cost of living crisis. It didn't help 2 months ago:
This idea of boomers typically being emotional immature resonates with me and my life experience, but do you have any ideas why that’s the case? I’ve ruminated on it a lot. I suspect less job competition could be a factor? Lower stakes in life and the ability to be less self censoring maybe? I hear so many of them say fucked up stuff and generally be very unserious. See no incentive to understand the world their kids live in etc. I had to work so fucking hard just to be able to rent my own place and get out of share housing and they didn’t have any trouble like that, but act like I just don’t work hard enough.
- Comment on Milan says no to all outdoor smoking in Italy's toughest ban 3 months ago:
Good news! Cigarette juice!
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 months ago:
For many people being disabled is a daily grind. Add poverty to that. They don’t get a holiday from it.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 months ago:
It’s important to acknowledge that when questioned about this decision, Bill said that he only knew of one case where NDIS money was uses for this purpose. While simultaneously saying it cost too much. I had such high hopes for this guy. But it turns out I was just ignorant about labor party politics. Now he’s off to his vice chancellor gig, to further the agenda of university as a business and not a vehicle for improving society. Fuck these old useless policitians pulling the ladder up behind them.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 months ago:
Also acknowledges the fact that those at the bottom of this awful economic hierarchy miss out on some of the things that “regular” people take for granted. You know, the basic enjoyments that make life bearable so we don’t off ourselves. Everyone should consider themselves one accident away from being destitute if they don’t have family wealth. Then consider what your life could be like in that scenario. A car crash happens, and then you could spend the rest of your life never touching skin with another person.
- Comment on CFMEU under administration jeopardises workers’ safety 4 months ago:
Vic socialists when possible also.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 months ago:
It also has a significant emotional dimension, which I think goes undiscussed too often. And ties in with feelings of self worth.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 months ago:
To all these commenters casting judgement, I challenge you to go 12 months without any sex or masturbation and see what that does to your mental health. Now imagine being physically unable to do that for the rest of your life without paid help, which you cannot afford. Otherwise fuck off.
- Comment on Bill Bailey on ABC Classic plays a theme tune for the Australian Ibis 4 months ago:
There were so many of them at the farm I worked at that they made them the icon for the farm’s produce. Coming to the city and hearing them referred to as bin chickens was weird. It’s more a reflection of our intrusion on their environment than anything else.
- Comment on The 50 best Australian songs of the 90s 4 months ago:
Puretone - Addicted to Bass.
- Comment on From baby boomers to alphas, every generation struggles when buying a first home 5 months ago:
I was born in 1990, and the only people in my age group that I know who are buying houses are doing so with the help of family wealth. So long social mobility.
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- Comment on Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’ 5 months ago:
