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 Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy – is multi-level marketing in trouble? 4 minutes ago:
I’ll have a look. Most IKEA is complete junk but sometimes their products are ok. I hate MDF so much I basically never look at them, awful carcinogenic material with all of the disadvantages of wood and none of the benefits.
- Comment on Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy – is multi-level marketing in trouble? 51 minutes ago:
Got any hot tips on high quality affordable glass containers without plastic components? Standard gaskets, or ones which can be cut from silicone and replaced as needed are ok.
Ideally should survive small drops and boiling water.
There are expensive junk ones at my IGA but something like old Pyrex would be good.
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 14 hours ago:
Imagine valuing your own opinions so little you invite random people with zero accountability to manipulate you.
If that is your desire read my snippy dissection of the transcript.
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 14 hours ago:
Le Guin was a real one.
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 17 hours ago:
There’s also a transcript at the bottom.
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 17 hours ago:
Unfortunately all the witty repartee in the world won’t alter the fundamental logic of capital. These ghouls are bought and paid for, they profit from our misery. Why would they fix it?
If they’re lucky one, maybe two idealistically motivate policies survive a career in party politics.
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 17 hours ago:
Shorty calling people against gambling ads “anti gambling zealots” I guess me, a homebrew is also an “anti drinking zealot” since I don’t want that advertised. I also love acid and don’t want that advertised so I guess I’m an anti LSD zealot too.
I HATE our lords and masters so much. Their spineless doublespeak, their beady-eyed bean counting. It’s so incredibly civilised to measure out acceptable allotments of misery.
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 17 hours ago:
we’ve always had a strong outdoors and sporting culture 8<
Yeah sure I guess
8 and that tends to lend itself to betting and to gambling
say again? Playing cricket at the beach lends itself to betting how? Gambling industry defs tries to push this hard but I dunno if it falls out.
Australians lose an estimated $25 billion a year from gambling […]. And the majority of that is lost through poker machines, but certainly sports betting has been growing in recent years.
So… outdoors and sports doesn’t lend itself to gambling? Actually most gambling is indoors and not sports?
John, gambling victim: I think at the moment, the whole online gambling system is broken in regards to offering the vulnerable punters levels of safety and avoiding gambling harm. Because from my experience, these gambling companies are just there to try and extract every cent out of you.
John is close to realising the fundamental problem of corporations here. We’ll welcome you when you come round comrade.
Bill Shorten spoke out both on Q&A and on Radio National Breakfast about what he thought were the risks if you brought in a blanket ban on gambling advertising. He was worried that if you got rid of the gambling ads and had a blanket ban, that would see the demise of particularly regional TV, journalism in these areas.
So uh gambling is a tax on the vulnerable to fund sports? Sounds like an argument to nationalise the industry shorten, limit harms and so forth? I mean if sports in regional towns needs subsidies lets do it at least. I care more about that than pay rises for pollies and nuclear subs eh?
Steve Cannane: Now, I’m not sure what Bill Shorten was relying on for those figures. He’s never actually told us what the evidence is that suddenly that industry would all fall apart.
lol, lmao even
Steve Cannane: We spoke to Kai Cantwell on Radio National Breakfast. He’s the CEO of Responsible Wagering Australia, and they represent five of the largest sports betting companies in Australia. And he was particularly opposed to an online ban on gambling advertising. And what he was saying was that if you brought something like that in, you would then see an increase of illegal offshore providers and Australians gambling with those offshore providers.
Right, again someone making a strong argument for nationalising the industry then?
Steve Cannane: After that interview, I emailed his office and asked for a source for that Norway study. His office never got back to me about that. So we spoke to Stein Langberget, who worked for the state monopoly, because in Norway, it’s a state monopoly that runs gambling. It’s not private enterprise. And he said that it was only 6% of the market there was offshore. And he said they had decided themselves as the state-run monopoly to stop marketing publicly and stop advertising on TV because they believed it was harming children. And so they took that decision themselves.
Yeah ok so the above mate lies and evidence suggests nationalising is and banning ads?
- Comment on The Productivity Commission wants all Australian kids to get 3 days a week of childcare – but it won’t be until 2036. 23 hours ago:
You seem familiar with this looking at the instance you run.
I’m keen to hear your thoughts on why these subsidies are harmful. What do you think is a better approach for pre-school aged childcare? Or do you not want it?
The state steralised me so I’ve no personal stake, by sister who’s quite wealthy and very uh unradical feminist (more women as bank ceos type) seems very keen on this stuff for gender equality reasons given childcare often falls to mothers. Keen to hear the other side if you don’t mind writing up your thoughts?
- Comment on Chemistry 1 day ago:
chemists live longer because all the poisons are fighting each other.
- Comment on High-speed rail plans may finally end Australia’s 40-year wait to get on board 2 days ago:
Payoff is longer than 3 years so it won’t happen.
- Comment on Someone got woken up on Sunday morning 🤣 4 days ago:
Used to ride before arthritis took it. Fuck loud pipes, they don’t help you enough to justify the social burden if they ever help you at all.
- Comment on Australia’s climate ambitions have a modern slavery problem as materials for renewable energy technology is likely sourced through forced labour in China, researchers say 6 days ago:
I’m not disagreeing with the goal but we have some pretty fucked working conditions here. Picking stands out, fucking messed up industry.
- Comment on Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do? 1 week ago:
Are people surprised by this?
Aussie privacy law is a joke
- Comment on Australian Parliament Tables Motion Condemning China’s Assimilation of Tibetans 1 week ago:
Not even but like literally this country. There’s less justification for the Australian government to claim sovereignty here. When you look at how aboriginal Aussies are treated, by the legal system and the health system for example, it’s hard to argue it isn’t genocide of a minority who have a claim to this land.
I get so frustrated at how, meaningful issues about the dubious actions of nation states are justified under international law become political theatre for power struggles.
Basically all large nations have peoples that want to split, but because international law requires nations to recognise a people before they get the protection of the law nobody properly does it as everyone could say “ok, you first”. International law is important, it lets us resolve conflicts without war and somewhat check superpowers. Reducing it to farce is a tragedy.
- Comment on I am really trying here, ok? 1 week ago:
Is mass spec hard to explain? Zapy deflecty binny county correlatey.
- Comment on Australian Parliament Tables Motion Condemning China’s Assimilation of Tibetans 1 week ago:
I sincerely hope that this wave of anti assimilation centered around China manifests as a universal view that peoples have the right to break away from states.
Like holy shit to I hope for a future where states crumble and fragment, where indigenous Aussies can claim the red center (at least), the Catalonians and Basque people can break away etc.
International law is so strongly biased in states favour (because they make it) I would absolutely fucking love for anti Chinese sentiment to manifest as actual fucking consistent viewpoints.
