NaevaTheRat

@NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Satire outlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The impression that I’m getting is that some people are angry at not being praised, having people say mean things sometimes, or at the possibility of being passed over because of what rather than who they are.

  Which I get it, that shit sucks. But like women are dealing with that too. Idk if men experience like getting catcalled and being like “shit, am I in danger now?”. Do guys feel like you need another man to walk with you home from a train station at night?

  It just seems a bit to me like there’s not much empathy here from the blokes complaining. Yes we should all be kinder to each other, and being looked over is awful. On the latter women are looked over all the time and surely broadly making opportunity 50:50 (realistically because women live slightly longer a true unbiased society would see a very slight majority women in major positions). Like look at Parliament and tell me women aren’t held back from power.

  And with mean stuff being said like yes that is rude but again women also deal with that and worse. It doesn’t seem like a reason to hold a grudge, it seems like a reason to band together to equalise everything so the fear and suspicion can stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious if you have any episodes you would recommend? I have seen the worst. I wonder what the good ones are and would be interested to better understand the appeal.

  I tend to go for very dry and academic podcasts. We’re not so different, maintenance phase, when diplomacy fails, Australia in the world, tech wont save us etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… he seemed like a kind of person I’ve known but it’s a few snippets from an interview. Maybe there’s a more charitable way to read it, more of a joke.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Centrelink mutual obligations scheme paused amid scrutiny on ‘failing systems’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dole bludgers rhetoric is just useless eaters dressed up and made palatable again.

  It is government policy that 5% of people actively looking for work are kept unemployed to supress wage growth and weaken labour as a social force (not Labor). That’s one in twenty people actively looking for work. It is also government policy to demonise those same people.

  Cool and Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance cost of Los Angeles wildfires may be felt in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Competition can result in dynamic improvements in value and also in service quality. A nationalised company with no competition can stagnate and be just as destructive as a commercial monopoly.

  This is the propaganda put forward sure, but this argument works just as well for privatising medical insurance (Medicare is just an insurance program), roads, rail, telephony, building regulation etc. We know how those turn out.

  It’s not fundamentally addressing the problem that insurance is not something you can innovate in. Something like a house costs X to rebuild, that’s somewhat flexible but at the construction level not the insurance level (unless you’re proposing vertically integrated insurance and construction?). The chance of a house being destroyed is Y per month, you charge Z such that Z - operations > Y x X

  There are complicated methods of spreading the risk across multiple suburbs and such so your capital reserve isn’t anhilated in one fire but everyone must be insured so across an industry there is no efficiency to find there and the only other way to improve yield is finding ways to deny claims which just pushes the costs onto society so that is not something a government should try to encourage.

  If it is not nationalised then either high risk suburbs are not insured, the government subsidises insurance in high risk suburbs which is just silly, or the government insures high risk suburbs. If the latter this is worse as private industry gobbles up the profitable suburbs and we all foot the bill for the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance cost of Los Angeles wildfires may be felt in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nationalisation of Utilities, like Water, Power, Telco, Rail, Roads, etc does make sense, but Insurance, Banking, Media needs to be private (although government-funded competitors are great at keeping the industries honest).

  Why? That’s just an assertion. Mathematically I only offer you insurance if it is, on average, a bad deal for you. It’s just a casino for houses, the house always wins.

  Private businesses aren’t charities, but everyone suffers if houses cannot be rebuilt, or people cannot replace the tools they need to flourish after a car accident or break in etc. We all bear the cost of this anyway since we all have to be insured which is (cost of covering this damage + profit). It is effectively a regressive tax for a scheme which doesn’t cover everyone equally.

  When people aren’t covered it’s a disaster for everyone and it’s cruel to leave people in the lurch. The government sets the social conditions (property crime, availability of welfare etc), the environmental conditions (natural disasters, harms from pollution etc), and releases land to build on (risk profile). Community bodies such as government are the only bodies that make sense to run insurance for, and it motivates us not to e.g. release land that’ll flood and just say “lol sorry you poors who had to live there because we won’t densify”.

  Please make your argument for privatisation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Cherry Finely Provides An Update On Hollow Knight: Silksong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  2035, come back to my zuckermusk hab unit after a hard day in the lithium mines. Silksong has released. Saved all my metacoin for this, haven’t had a hot shower in years. Boot it up, it’s beautiful. The art brings tears to my eyes, makes me remember a world beyond concrete and steel. Level one, let’s go. Movement so tight it’s euphoric, get to first boss.

  Electricity rationing kicks in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower Thought: Being a republican who hates the liberals is a good thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It hasn’t, it refers to neoliberals. The massively dominant ideology with near total hegemony in the anglosphere.

  Neoliberals couple some elements of classical liberalism with some rather courageous (in the yes minister sense) beliefs about the magic of free market capitalism and a diminished role for the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance cost of Los Angeles wildfires may be felt in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Leaving insurance privatised is insane to me. The whole of society hurts if people can’t rebuild their lives and we just let people screw people for as much as they can then drop them the moment is looks like turnabout might be coming. Ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to see the rare 'Sun-skirter' comet entering Australian skies this week - ABC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Upgraded the telescope this year and have had nothing but cloudy skies since (all new scopes come with free clouds).

  Hopefully I can get a stickybeak. Might have to go to a more open area though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians love cheap books. Here's why that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re focusing on mass market stuff too much and you’re tech-brained. Publishers are basically necessary for non fiction as you need fact checkers, legal cover if making claims about humans that might sue you and research access and assistance.

  Marketing help is needed for anything that isn’t already popular, income is needed while you work, editing is an extremely hard job that is a profession for a reason. Relying on something like patreon or YouTube where you have no real rights is an extremely precarious way to live open only to people with extremely specific skills around self promotion.

  There are reasons beyond authors being dumbshits why Australian authors struggle and every author ever will tell you it’s a terrible way to make bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians love cheap books. Here's why that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, “Your inner fish, the video game”. I can see it now. “Debt: the first 5000 years the Netflix series” rivetting viewing.

  Margins on books are awful, authors are largely paid a lump sum for publishing because they need food and sales on a book are often quite small. Like a few thousand small. Keep in mind you also need money while you are writing a book before it’s being sold.

  Patreon models and self publishing only works for smut and pulp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians love cheap books. Here's why that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh right, yeah that is a correct thing to be confused by. I was talking market and you were talking effort and we were both probably thinking: what the fuck sort of idiot is this person? :p

  It’s just generally true that being an indie creative while having to pay rent or get thrown to the street to starve and die is very difficult. People with vision and drive make the most valuable culture, and capitalism sees that as inefficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians love cheap books. Here's why that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because outside of some textbooks they are almost entirely solitary efforts until editing, which is a very difficult thing to pull off. They have smaller audiences, take longer to ‘consume’, can’t be sold for as larger margins, and they are not easy to monetise in other ways aside from sale. Additionally physical copies are much more expensive to make than digital copies of media, and many book enjoyers want physical copies.

  Just look around, nobody gets rich making books. Mass market tv/film and video games are staggering profitable by comparison, and hence easier and more attractive to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians love cheap books. Here's why that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the invisible hand of the market belongs to an illiterate fool?

  FBP seems like a bandaid in a car crash. Capitalism isn’t a good framework for anything except making like 100 awful people disgustingly wealthy making and distrubuting cultural artefacts. Book are just hard to make and hard to enjoy relative to Netflix slop and video games etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bathroom Reno Question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Curious how this turns out if you don’t mind telling me. I think the internet has made a lot of us a bit Pearl clutchy. Most scammers aren’t very creative and scams usually follow some common patterns like advanced fee, romance scam, pyramid scheme, ponzi scheme, phishing, or fraud.

  This is unusual enough that my guess is a bloke who wants to work for cash under the table while illegally staying or something that is trying to establish references. It’s not my shit on the line but so take your own council but if you feel secure and you reckon it’s a real company in the UK this guy is tied to you might get a sweet deal helping an illegal planeperson get established.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bathroom Reno Question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a little odd. It is confusing as a scam, potentially pressure you for cash or case the place while working.

  If they’re insured I’d probably check it out if I had a secure dwelling a big scary bloke at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woolworths says it will 'do more' to celebrate Australia Day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Culture war, get yer stupid culture war here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised it hasn’t been a law already??

  why would it be? the people who make laws don’t work for wages, they pay them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you want for Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If people were less busy atm (sister has a 2 year old and 2 one year olds) then probably also true. But it’s the offer that would be meaningful, moreso than some random item that’ll collect dust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you want for Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A hand with some yardwork I’m putting off but idk anyone who would value helping to dig out a stump less than 60 bucks haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? you think that it’s on the whole good and wouldn’t be better if replaced by a system of smaller, more topic focused networks where administrators have less access to user data and less ability to control conversation? Where infrastructure was less vulnerable to single point failure?

  Do you remember what irc, xmpp, and bss’s were like? Or were they before your time. One angry admin on lemmy.world could compromise ~170k users and they’re large enough that they could also distribute malicious files to like half a million computers. That is so obviously not good I feel completely baffled that you don’t see the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and federates socmed can easily assume responsibility for messages by not having mass sign up and moving to a trusted users, largely self hosted base. Lemmy is designed around replacing reddit with all the massive flaws of that.

  I mean tell me you think lemmy.world is contributing to the world haha.

  you could easily assume legal responsibility for what you published under a slightly different model where you only hosted your own content/the content of trusted users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you want more social media companies? Ideally the industry is regulated out of existence, at least in its current form.

  What social good is served should not be in the hands of companies mining data and advertising. Forums, self hosted federated systems, and chat rooms were/are all vastly superior in terms of social good:harm ratio.

  Making it completely unprofitable and impossible to comply with under current mass signup sell ads models would be the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a moral panic. When I was a kid sitting close to the TV would make you blind.

  I hate this dodgy piece of legislation. I want socmed regulated to hell, like no non-curated recommendations that aren’t transparent filters like ‘new’ or ‘top votes’, full responsibility as a publisher for the content of messages etc. I just don’t see how a slapshod reactionary ban is going to do much useful for society broadly.

  I feel like the platforms will remain just as addictive and cruel, kids will just start using them later, kids will get around bans to use unregulated shithole sites, and people will wash their hands of understanding the actually nuanced problem of kids and screen time.

  Meanwhile the police state expands. Cool and good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tbh I’m more concerned about kids on cod or battle.net than insta chat (research has found a lot of kids using Instagram for absurd numbers of hours are actually just chatting).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨back to the ocean we go⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we are ugly, mutant fish.