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 Routine police check at Sydney home leads to huge $132m drug haul 2 days ago:
Bute is a shining example of the failures of drug policy. GHB is, aside from having a low therapeutic index and being contraindicated with alcohol, not very dangerous as far as drugs go. In a better context, especially one in which concentrations were known and manufacture required the addition of say a dye and a bitterant to help prevent date rape it would have been much less harmful.
Bute (which is metabolised to ghb) is diverted from industrial sources, which increases risk of contam. The metabolic delay causes people to redose and then OD, and it’s harder on the body because of liver metabolism. Because of it’s valid use in industry in large quantities it’s almost impossible to control.
Yay, good work. Such winning. Saving so many lives. I love ODs and organised crime.
- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 3 days ago:
exhausting your vote might be bad depending on your seat.
Also be careful with some minors. There are a lot that are essentially just the LNP or worse.
- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 3 days ago:
Yeah I’ve seen him called that and I enjoy copying it. To be fair to him, which is easy since there’s so little to defend, he’s not a Nazi. He is a racist fascist though, so we’re wading into the phylogeny of idiot ideologies for evil morons to mark out the differences.
- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 3 days ago:
Dirty to pull this out now. If it works, if there really is a smoking gun then this is masterful politicking. If it backfires it’ll be another classic second term labor foot-gun.
The LNP under “90s Queensland police are too kind and understanding to aboriginal kids” kipfler can’t be handed the reigns of government. Australia will take decades to recover if it ever does.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You’re fine, it’s practice.
Some of those wires are quite thick which will pull heat away fast making soldering with shitty equipment hard. A good soldering iron* set to the correct temperature will help massively. Flux gets you then last 20% of the way. Most solders are flux cored, but a little pot of rosin flux you either dip the end of a wire in or dab on (i use a sharpened chop stick because no static and cheap) and suddenly the solder flows like water.
Remember not to heat the solder and instead heat the joint. My favoured technique is to “tin” both sides individually and then put then against each other and a quick touch with the iron to make the joint. Ensures you have good contact and doesn’t require growing extra fingers although it is slower.
Hobbiest electronics don’t need perfection, some failure is fine you can always repair it since you made it.
Never be embarressed to learn a new skill!
- don’t worry about crazy expensive name brands tbh, there’s some pretty great stuff coming out of China quite affordably if you’re willing to trawl through reviews. Not the bottom dollar stuff but usually about ~30% cheaper than the Japanese brands or Weller
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 1 week ago:
Intervention for people falling down into the propaganda? Sure. Once you declare yourself the enemy of almost the entire human species idk how much tolerance you deserve.
You don’t accidentally decide that killing everyone who isn’t a straight white cis man or a subserviant straight white cis woman is a good and worthy goal.
Like I don’t care how lonely you are, that’s fucked. Join a stitch and bitch don’t plan a race war.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 1 week ago:
It’s centrefire so probably at least 180 meters out, but the lack of consistency is hilarious considering it’s almost certainly supported with a front rest and using telescopic sites
Nobody is good at something without practice, but they’re displaying that because they think it makes them look like tacticool threatening shooters which would be cringey even if it was actually impressive.
It’s aggravating they’re such a danger because they’re all such pathetic losers. They want to be completely odious people and they’re not even good at it. It’s almost offensively pathetic.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 1 week ago:
Look I know this is incredibly petty of me but the grouping on those targets there’s a photo of is dogshit.
Anyway folks remember, a judge found that Mr Sewell was “of good character” and had a history of helping young men. Just if you’re confused as to how this shit is allowed to happen.
There’s one fucking thing you do to Nazis, it’s self defense.
- Comment on No one feels safe in Zionist Australia 2 weeks ago:
No no, the children are Hamas, the buildings are Hamas, the food is Hamas, the journalists are Hamas, the aid conveys are Hamas, the UN is Hamas, the ICC and ICJ are Hamas. It’s Hamas all the way down, or at least it would be if anyone had been harmed, but nobody has been. Neighbourhoods just sometimes collapse.
- Comment on HRT, contraceptive pills to cost less in $573m major women’s health pledge 2 weeks ago:
It probably does, unless it’s explicitly post menopause hrt. Regardless it’s fantastic news, well do I know how much having a hormone deficit can fuck up your life ;)
- Comment on No one feels safe in Zionist Australia 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe you’re always trying to defend a colonial project of extermination. You’d be making excuses for Rhodesia if it was around today lmfao. Racist idiot.
- Comment on No one feels safe in Zionist Australia 3 weeks ago:
Shits cooked. The genocide in Gaza is so straightforwardly evil and Aussie media is just enabling Zionists. So much for the fourth estate.
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 3 weeks ago:
The APS has pretty clear policies on the use of these tools in general. Some experiments are being run but largely policy is “no, it’s a liability nightmare”
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 4 weeks ago:
Satire outlet.
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 4 weeks 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. 5 weeks ago:
Thank you
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 5 weeks 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 weeks 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.
- The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening.www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 54 comments
- Comment on Centrelink mutual obligations scheme paused amid scrutiny on ‘failing systems’ 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
