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- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 hours ago:
Just because you don’t intend to insult someone doesn’t mean you’re not ignorant.
It doesn’t take really any empathy at all to recognise that someone might prefer to be called an undocumented immigrant rather than an illegal one.
I think people really are used to being called the wrong thing, or the wrong pronouns. In reality, if you accidentally misgender someone they often won’t bother to correct you if you’re merely a passing acquaintance, but if you’re more than that they might politely correct you in a non-confrontational way.
People being upset about someone making a genuine mistake and calling them the wrong thing is not the norm, and if someone did that it would be pretty weird.
The term “illegal immigrant” may be a description, but I’m sure you can recognise that it’s not a very dignified one. You probably don’t refer to people you like as “that fat guy” or “that woman with the huge ass”, despite those phrases being descriptive.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 6 hours ago:
Calling someone an illegal immigrant to their face can be an insult
So why would it be ok to refer to a person that way just because they’re not around?
This meme is a commentary on how to teach kids to treat others in a dignified and respectful way.
The same way retard became handicapped and suddenly out of nowhere handicap is not dignified enough, so it became disabled.
That’s true. The progression of language in this way is well documented. It doesn’t diminish someone’s entitlement to feel offended at being referred to as a retard. It’s just how dignity, respect, and language works.
When referring to other people, it’s a common courtesy to consider how they might like to be addressed, and to use that term. It doesn’t matter how you feel about the phrasing or what you would have called them a few decades ago.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 7 hours ago:
I don’t really understand what you’re getting at.
Obviously there are words which are in themselves an insult. There are also words which are not, and there’s a spectrum of different words in between which are more insulting or less insulting or insulting in specific circumstances.
Undocumented migrant is clearly a more dignified way to describe someone than describing them as an “illegal” immigrant.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 7 hours ago:
Describing a person as an “illegal” immigrant is dehumanizing, given that only acts can be legal or illegal, not people.
“Undocumented” immigrant is the generally accepted term.
It doesn’t really matter which you feel is the more accurate or better term. For all intents and purposes they have the same meaning, and one is clearly more dignified than the other.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 11 hours ago:
I cant believe i have to explain this but…
There’s lots of ways you can refer to people. Some are respectful, some are not.
This might shock you but some parents teach their kids to be respectful of others. Avoiding labelling people in ways they might not appreciate is a good start.
It may be a “fact” that someone is an “illegal immigrant” but I’m sure you can see that term is intended to portray the person in a specific way.
Its also a fact that such a person is an undocumented migrant trying to feed their family, or maybe even an asylum seekers fleeing persecution.
So yes, representing facts in a racist way is racist. Well done.
- Comment on About 3m Australians affected by unlawful Centrelink debt calculation to be eligible for up to $600 compensation 2 days ago:
Too little too late, but better than nothing.
Centrelink is a parody of how Australian Government Departments should not behave.
Some Ministers, and Commissioners, ought to be held personally accountable for overseeing very obvious violations of the laws they are supposed to be upholding.
- Comment on We all had one 2 days ago:
I realise this is not OC but sharing photos of your kid’s embarrassing mistakes is pretty awful.
- Comment on We all had one 2 days ago:
IDK. Usually this comment means youre missing a joke but I’m obviously missing the joke too.
- Comment on localhosting: selfhosting to the min 5 days ago:
There’s a use case for this but who knows how big this niche is, and ultimately that’s what will determine success or failure.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 days ago:
Sure, it’s common to have healthy relationships, friends, a job, and take care of yourself.
However, it’s also common to endure brief or extended periods of not being able to do these things for a whole variety of reasons. It might be illness, caring for loved ones, children, loads of things.
- Comment on This day of protests has given me optimism for the upcoming counter-protests against the cryptofascist "March for Australia" this weekend 5 days ago:
What this ultimately means is, the “March for Australia” is a project by neo-Nazis and other White Supremacists using toned-down, big-tent, populist rhetoric with the intent of conning regular patriots and nationalists into standing alongside them “for Australia”.
This is exactly how they roll.
If you say anything about this protest at all they will say “we just think the current immigration levels are unsustainable” but in reality it’s just a way to normalise hatred.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 5 days ago:
Sure, in the context of physical abilities.
However, i think bands of hominids who care for each other have a survival advantage. I guess thats who we’ve evolved to be social creatures.
Also, nanna might not be able to hunt mammoths anymore, but she knows what to do in years when the mammoth dont come.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 5 days ago:
Come on, it’s not about crime. It’s about control, and normalising the presence of military forces in American cities.
- Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! 6 days ago:
I do use nextcloud for my small consultancy team but I dislike it immensely, mostly due to personal preferences.
I think I pretty much just don’t like having one platform that does everything. I want to self host my own cloud, I don’t want to self host a thing that provides a cloud.
Additionally, and this really is just a personal preference, I dislike php projects almost as much as Java.
Primarily I use nextcloud’s file sync. This aspect is IMO extremely well implemented. It seems to work very reliably.
We do use contacts and calendars. If there were good alternatives I would switch to them but sabreDav et al lacks a good UI. I’m aware you can disable this functionality in nextcloud.
Anything else that can potentially be integrated is better hosted separately IMO.
- Comment on Why is it so common to be interested in true crime when at the same time you're disturbed by it? 1 week ago:
Being disturbed is engaging.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Yeah. The dunning kruger effect is a real problem here.
I saw a meme saying something like, gen AI is a real expert in everything but completely clueless about my area of specialisation.
As in… it generates plausible answers that seem great but they’re just terrible answers.
I’m a consultant I’m in a legal adjacent field. 20 years deep. I’ve been using a model from hugging face over the last few months.
It can save me time by generating a lot of boiler plate with references et cetera. However it very regularly overlooks critically important components. If I didnt know about these things then I wouldn’t know it was missing from the answer.
So really, it cant help you be more knowledgeable, it can only support you at your existing level.
Additionally, for complex / very specific questions, it’s just a confidently incorrect failure. It sucks that it cant tell you how confident it is with a given answer.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
That’s a really salient point - there are a lot of other impediments to “fairness” which are much more relevant.
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 1 week ago:
Lots of love for LibreOffice.
Its a great opensource project that just keeps chugging along being great.
My team and I use it exclusively in our consultancy. Complex documents and spreadsheets all day long. LO never gets tired.
Without LO id be beholden to Microsoft.
Apache should really release the rights to the name OpenOffice and let LO have it.
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 1 week ago:
The ribbon UI sure is shit.
LO has a command palette which is handy when looking for obscure functions. Shift esc.
- Comment on What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice 1 week ago:
This is the most poorly reasoned comment I’ve read in a while. Well done.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m the father of twins.
My daughter looks a lot like me, but my son doesn’t. My son is going to be taller than me, but my daughter will be my height.
It’s just the genetic lottery.
- Comment on Israeli politician to address Australian event virtually after visa cancelled 1 week ago:
Pathetic, honestly. He just wants to cry about not being allowed to spread hatred and stoke foment in person.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 1 week ago:
Get a dog up ya Bibi.
- Comment on If regulated properly, ebikes could one day replace cars for millions of Australians 1 week ago:
I guess this is a problem everyone needs to encounter and in some cases it may well be insurmountable.
I’m lucky I guess in that I don’t sweat heaps (although I do sweat). It does get a lot worse when I’m on anti-depressants - that’s awful.
Also with the e-bike doing most of the work I’m not over exerted on my way to work.
Proper bike gear wicks the sweat away from your skin. This includes bike shorts with a chamoise (?) This gear is expensive, but it does tend to last a long time.
I have work clothes and some wet wipes in my bag, so I wipe myself down and then get dressed. It’s a 10 minute chore.
Another, perhaps more controversial angle is… people can kinda deal with it? There’s a difference between not showering for several days and some perspiration resulting from moderate exercise on the way to work. I get that’s a personal issue and everyone’s ability to encounter that depending on preference and context, but it’s unreasonable for colleagues to expect everyone to arrive at work primped and pampered.
As an aside, I’m diabetic. Regular exercise is critically important to my management of this chronic illness and will extend my life expectancy considerably. To me, this is a priority over most other considerations.
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 1 week ago:
I know you’re trying to be funny but that’s exactly what we, and they, are doing. Developing something this complex requires a lot of resources and has a lot of inherent risk. It makes sense to share that risk - everyone involved carries some.
We can’t go it alone but we definitely want the subs, we don’t want to just pay for them because then these partners have us over a barrel indefinitely.
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 1 week ago:
Weird take.
In a democracy, you can see exactly how your tax money is spent.
In the interceding years your income taxes would be much higher if not for GST.
If they’re changing tax laws, it’s to end up with more money at the end.
In this case, this is true. Quite obviously the intention is to get more money from companies and less from low income earners.
that extra money? It amounted to about $18/week.
In this case, it’s $3,300 a year - enough to pay the tax on the first $22k of expenditures. It’s right there in the proposal. No one is saying “I support 15% GST in return for a vague hand wavy notion of lower taxes”.
- Comment on If regulated properly, ebikes could one day replace cars for millions of Australians 1 week ago:
I’ve had a cargo bike for a year or so. I definitely prefer riding it to work than taking the car.
It’s not for everyone or perhaps even most people. The weather here can be tricky and I struggle to imagine most of the office dwellers I meet riding a bike.
I agree that the modded or “ungoverned” ebikes and scooters are incredibly dangerous, not just to themselves but to others. A 14 year old just isn’t equipped to evaluate risks. Honestly I’m kinda surprised there aren’t more catastrophic injuries.
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 1 week ago:
Building this big complicated thing is complicated!
If only there was some way we could share the risks with a few other countries. Maybe even someone who’s tried it and fucked it up.
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 1 week ago:
I dont think that would get much support, do you?
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 1 week ago:
Under our model, the GST rate would increase to 15% and exemptions would be removed. To ensure equity, every Australian adult would receive a $3,300 annual payment, effectively making the first $22,000 of spending GST-free. PBO modelling shows this could leave the bottom 60% of income earners better off, even before accounting for the personal income tax cuts enabled by the additional $24bn in revenue.
I whole heartedly support this. Spot on.