NaevaTheRat
@NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org
Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
I use arch btw.
Credibly accused of being a fascist, liberal, commie, anarchist, child, boomer, pointlessly pedantic, a Russian psychological warfare operative, and db0’s sockpuppet.
Pronouns are she/her.
Vegan for the iron deficiency.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 12 hours ago:
How many actually will vs how many innocents you just abandon. Like how many people actually presented to doctors or hospital after getting vaxxed, missed work etc.
I think this fear of other human beings behaving in ways you probably would never dream of, nor would you expect of almost everyone you know, is misguided.
Society can afford a few mooches if it’s the price of helping the needy. We support an entire class of mooches with stuff like CGT discounting and that doesn’t help anyone.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 1 day ago:
I agree, part of keeping trust in collective health measures is trusting people when they say they are hurt by them and trying to help.
These people did a prosocial and sensible thing, they got hurt in freak accidents, they deserve respect and compassion.
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- Comment on Wind power: CSIRO asks Australians to chart their farts for research 1 day ago:
CSIRO hastening the trend in culture by explicitly making us a nation of fart huffers.
- Comment on Day 4 of trial of Kristian White who definitely didn't straight up murder a 95 year old woman armed with a walker and a fruit knife. 2 days ago:
she’s living up to the paramedic tradition of being completely awesome and down to earth.
- Day 4 of trial of Kristian White who definitely didn't straight up murder a 95 year old woman armed with a walker and a fruit knife.www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
huh, this story is really old and of dubious origin but afaict the original websites are down and I can’t be bothered going into archives.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
It could be made up. Probably really.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
They’re probably studying metabolic syndromes on cognitive function.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
I am not sure if you’re being deliberately contrarian to protect cognitive dissonance, or just wildly ignorant of how studies are conducted.
In the most literal sense a study is made of a battery of experiments that are each run across a series of tests. This is also just “an experiment” colloquially since they’re all testing the same area. They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).
I have stolen lab rats marked for death, I know what I’m talking about.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
wholesome animal experimentation. So cute and wholesome how they keep them in shitty cages, feed them a bland diet, and kill them the moment the experiment is over.
What a nice story.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
Nah, it’s funny ribbing them over their egotistical exceptionalism. you know they almost named their country freedonia?
Imagine meeting a German who refers to themselves as a Eurasian, cringe shit that is.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
We can have a little pogrom against usaians as a treat.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 1 week ago:
Whitlam. No competition, most good things in Australia can be traced to the government under him and very few bad things.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 1 week ago:
Yeah recency bias is always a thing.
- Comment on Australians who think inequality is high have less faith in democratic institutions, study finds 1 week ago:
I would also add the subtly that this question:
On the whole, are you very satisfied, fairly satisfied, not very satisfied, or not at all satisfied with the way democracy works in Australia?
Is not “do you want more or less democracy?”. We only nominally have a democracy, we can’t for example fire a government (non violently) that broke all it’s promises. We can’t force certain bills to be presented or not, we can’t directly vote on any issue, our workplaces are almost exclusively dictatorial. Even within the system we have defects like the popular vote to seat count being completely whack because of single member seats in the lower house (very unusual among democracies).
Saying you are dissatisfied could mean you’re an authoritarian dickwad, but so could saying you’re satisfied. People who want more democracy, lots of citizen involvement, and more accurate representation of the people are not against democracy but would also say they’re very unsatisfied. I mean society is getting measureably worse while we careen into a global crisis of apocalyptic proportions, who the fuck things this is working?
- Comment on Melbourne Cup 1 week ago:
Hope each of you are happy about the dead horses
- Comment on Burning out: how Australia’s bid to cut smoking rates exploded into suburban tobacco wars 2 weeks ago:
This was inevitable and forseen.
Realistically recreational drugs can’t be priced out of existence. Stuff like plain packaging is fantastic, more funding to help addicts quit would be good (e.g. naltrexone pbs trials) would be nice.
At a certain point you just have to accept not getting 100% of people off them, and recreational drugs are the place for a government monopoly so there’s no profit incentive to undermine cessation efforts.
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, byd has some pretty ‘budget’ entries for sale elsewhere.
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 2 weeks ago:
what does this have to do with what my wife and I would want?
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 2 weeks ago:
I have found that being slightly racist and doing a bit of a Chinese accent makes the BYD voice assistant understand me better 😬
I want this to be true so bad. The idea of like having to put on a comedicly overwrought accent to make a machine understand you is 👌
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 2 weeks ago:
Axe the rear seats and this is something my wife and I would likely love when the dogs have died.
We take our kona electric in some pretty silly places but I’ve nearly gotten stuck a couple of times in muddy gravel having only 2WD and lowish clearance restricting some of the paths we can take.
Hoping to do some long arse road trips across the desert in the next couple of decades.
- Comment on Inquiry warns distrustful public wouldn’t accept COVID measures in future pandemic. 2 weeks ago:
So this might have been the case however:
- Australia maintains a strategic stockpile for events like this.
- There was at one point no evidence masks stopped spread (after all, we didn’t know how it spread). Some people touted this as evidence masks don’t stop spread. This is a perversion of how evidence works and a very silly thing to think.
- You cannot change messages and expect people to keep trusting you. you need to be honest.
Australia’s readiness had been criticised for years, indeed it used to be one of the ways I bored everyone stupid at house parties when I got political. If the stockpile of masks was insufficient this was massively forseeable, although I think it was actually adequate and the pollies were just reckless idiots for panic reasons.
- Comment on Inquiry warns distrustful public wouldn’t accept COVID measures in future pandemic. 2 weeks ago:
Idk where you experienced it but I did not get the impression of party politics taking a back seat.
Federally the LNP played with misinformation (e.g. children can’t spread it, a completely absurd statement) in order to push on with their business first agenda. Ultimately instituting a deeply corrupt and flawed bastard welfare measure that was terminated early. Not to mention losing vaccine deals because of arrogant pride.
In NSW the LNP favoured the rich east, and played politics with masks. Notably Dom being photographed outside without a mask. They literally deployed the military on westies while being like “oops lmao” every time someone from liberal heartland caused an outbreak.
I was absolutely disgusted with the cowardice, contradictory statements (don’t use masks, wait use masks, don’t go out, now go out, oops go back), and venal politicking. It is completely unsurprising that despite the admirable performance by the APS and existing strategic stockpiles trust in government was utterly annihilated.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to the future bwahahahaha.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 3 weeks ago:
Two things can be true. The lack of transparency exhibited by the chinese government is at best extremely suspicious. Also we’re not doing too hot, have a very dark history with white supremacy, and the treatment of asylum seekers is crimes against humanity that some people should absolutely face justice for.
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
Do you or have you ever worked in science? I did for a bit and that was not my impression.
One cannot really argue that science as practiced is very effective at certain things but it is also extremely far from being objective in practice. Especially the further you stray from simple physical systems.
Also like I never saw someone formulate a hypothesis in any sort of formal sense haha.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 3 weeks ago:
The SDA is thoroughly captured.
- Comment on Woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone in regional NSW 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I’d rather not imagine it as it sounds unpleasant. I’d rather make silly jokes about phones and move on with my life because investing time worrying about one person who was fine in the end seems less fun than telling jokes.
- Comment on Woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone in regional NSW 3 weeks ago:
Phones continue to have unprecedented health consequences.
initially spent an hour attempting to free her while she was hanging upside down before they called triple zero for help,
on one hand, that’s confidence in your own abilities so cool. On the other, holy shit that’s a long time to wait before deciding to call in expertise and equipment.
Her phone could not be recovered
Grief hangs heavy over the triumph of rescue.