Ilandar

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'They're safe here': Australia offers entire Iranian women's football team asylum⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran National Woman’s Soccer team to be forced back to Iran, where they will most likely be killed BY ME!” Trump had said.

  He forgot to say the quiet bit for once so I added it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the sad reality of our times that many people would prefer to spend their time virtue signalling and circlejerking about how they’re not part of a problem than actually contribute to finding and implementing a solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The survey wasn’t run by The Conversation, it publishes news articles co-written by academics not academic studies. In the case of articles such as this one that were written by people who have just completed/published a new study, it’s usually a successful pitch made by the researchers to The Conversation. The authors of the research and the article were clearly listed on the right side of the page under ‘Authors’. As I said in another comment, usually the research being written about has actually been published elsewhere and can be directly linked in The Conversation news article. In this case, the research is awaiting publishing which I presume is the reason why it was not linked to in the news article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your intuition is 100% right, there. It’s always easier to hear “it’s not your fault” and they know this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Downvoting not because the topic is unimportant but because the new study is run by this news agency

  Which “news agency” are you referring to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. The connection between all of these things is that they involve relationships. Humans are social animals that can suffer from loneliness and AI companies are exploiting this in a similar way. Loneliness is a common thread throughout all of these AI psychosis suicide cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why so many people default to “wouldn’t happen to me, that person was just stupid” every time this happens. Did you guys not read the bit where he was being encouraged to commit violence in public by the chatbot? If it’s getting to that point then there is clearly a massive fucking problem that needs urgent addressing, regardless of the intelligence of the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans are very social animals and these companies prey on the lonely by making their chatbots as affirming, sycophantic and approachable as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The concerning thing to me is not the numbers themselves but the way kids with no other obvious connections to hate (e.g. my father is a wife-beating neo-Nazi) are developing these belief systems through unrestricted exposure to the internet. It’s part of a much bigger problem that includes things like religious extremism and racism. In many cases they aren’t going out of their way to find these rabbit holes, either. Social media algorithms recommend Andrew Tate type shit and then bombard their feed with even more of that stuff after the first watch, and adults would never know until the kid gets to the point where it’s developed into a core life philosophy for them and is affecting their real world behaviour. This can happen at any age, of course, but it’s just sadder to me when it’s young, impressionable minds that are being taken advantage of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally Conversation articles link to the study in question, but this one hasn’t been published (yet). Not sure why the editor(s) didn’t just wait for that first. I agree that it’s lacking detail/context and feels a bit incendiary without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coles Australia has been collaborating with Palantir since 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an ABC article, it’s from The Conversation. It’s also pretty old, that’s probably why data was a focus (there were several high profile data breaches around that time).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some Australians are spending $35,000 a year on food delivery apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of Uber Eats specifically, another rising problem is the lack of competition. Menulog is dead and there are concerns about DoorDash’s future too. Of course, the obvious answer is to not rely on these services at all but we all know many people will not do that. We are going to end up with another monopoly in the food delivery space and this will become an even bigger problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some Australians are spending $35,000 a year on food delivery apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to know a guy through online gaming who was like this. He was from country/outer suburbs (not sure how you guys qualify that) Victoria, moved to Melbourne for uni and then a career. He was in his early-20s and was a typical young Australian male with very poor financial literacy. We used to joke about his Uber Eats spending (AFAIK it’s no longer a problem for him), but for many people it could easily turn into a very serious addiction.

  It’s not surprising to me that for people around his age, living in the city, this could become a big problem. You’ve just come into a lot of money (relative to your teenage life) with your new job, you’re surrounded by ways in which you can spend that money at all hours of the day, the choices are right there on the device you carry with you and use for 5+ hours a day, and they appeal to and are designed to target very primal instincts that can be difficult to control. Particularly when your brain is overwhelmed by long work hours and constant stimulation and wants to default to making easy choices. If you’ve gone from your parents house to life as a single adult, you’re suddenly in control of all your financial decisions and don’t have to answer to a partner or family member when you do dumb shit like waste most of your money on overpriced food.

  The ease of access we now have to easy dopamine hits through shopping, food and even sex is very problematic when it’s tied to an addictive-by-design device that we carry with us 24/7. For younger generations that have grown up online and seem to be struggling with face-to-face social interaction more than previous generations, always being able to default to the equivalent of a dummy for adults to fulfill these base desires is another layer of the problem. There’s no friction to help reset your brain and think about the longer-term consequences of what you’re doing. It’s just constant, instant gratification via the phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emergency warning text and siren to be sent to every phone in Australia [July 27 at 2pm AEST]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes, I have actually seen this before now that I think about it. A German streamer received one of these alerts about a month ago because there was a chemical accident in his city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emergency warning text and siren to be sent to every phone in Australia [July 27 at 2pm AEST]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the German one play a sound too? When I was in Korea I received alert messages but there was no associated “siren” like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Australian election countdown officially begins, campaign kicks off⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that you’d really know as the streets are no longer covered in soon-to-be waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate committee features climate disinformation, the Atlas Network, and Dr Karl's clash with One Nation - ABC News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We won’t even get the small satisfaction of these people admitting they were completely wrong about everything because they will be dead and/or irrelevant before that happens. They can literally just make a career out of being a complete fucking moron with no clue about anything and then peace out and leave the rest of us to clean it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes people proud to be Australian? The answer might surprise you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The topics that Australians least cited as a source of pride included: religion, military, and surprisingly — sport.

  Okay, that one is genuinely surprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No-brainer': Why more young people like Zoe are rethinking their 'Australian Dream'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone remember which 2010s Coalition member it was who once said something along the lines of “just move to the country” in response to concerns over housing affordability?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coles downplays meaning of 'Down Down' price tags and advertising in case against ACCC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some additional context not provided in this article is that Woolworrths is being sued for something very similar. In fact, Woolworths was actually the first supermarket to start doing this, with an even shorter cycle, and there was an internal debate within Colss as to whether it should report Woolworths to the authorities. Instead, Coles decided to copy the fake discount strategy. Yet more evidence that these supermarkets are not real competitors and work to maintain their financially beneficial duopoly at all costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do migrants feel they belong in Australia? The answer is complicated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute interviewed more than 8,000 migrants from the fastest-growing communities — China, India, Pakistan, Nepal, the Philippines and Iraq — to examine how migrants experience belonging in Australia.

  It would be interesting to see the breakdown by community. Some of those are definitely more established and less targeted and we know that migrant communities tend to be accepted by White Australian society over time, eventually adopting similar discriminatory attitudes towards more recent waves of migrants (see Southern European migrants).

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do people keep posting Techdirt blog pieces in the Australia community? The guy who writes these pieces is an American who has been fully against regulation since the very beginning. He is just quoting a Guardian Australia article and interspersing his own high modality commentary which adds nothing of value. Why not link the actual article instead?

  In any case, the Guardian article implies that teenagers with disabilities can no longer contact their friends (not true) and that alternative online spaces do not exist (also not true). Just a couple off the top of my head are My Circle and Livewire. Of course, like most fearmongering pieces on the social media ban’s “impacts”, the Guardian Australia article makes absolutely no attempt to suggest alternatives or even interview someone from one of these organisations. The reporting on this issue has been lacklustre and full of confirmation bias since the very beginning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If siblings are willing to come to that agreement between themselves then I think that’s fair enough. I just don’t think there should ever be default expectations about who gets more or who was the best child. That kind of thinking demonstrates underlying personality and relationship issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely the latter. Thinking you’re getting “paid” is such a bizarre way to approach inheritance, it actually suggests you didn’t care about your parents at all. In any case, the other siblings shouldn’t have to say “show me the money” because the sibling with an unequal share of the inheritance should immediately be willing to share it regardless of what it said in the will. Keeping everything for yourself because “mummy and daddy said it’s only for me” is the way a child’s brain operates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly the type of selfish and greedy attitude I’m referring to. You’re not owed anything for being a “good child”, you don’t earn an inheritance like it’s some kind of delayed job bonus. The parent brought all of you into the world without your permission, they should leave an equal amount to all upon leaving it. If people have an issue with that then it says a lot more about their ego and inflated self-worth than anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like if you have a sibling like the one in the article no amount of planning is going to prevent this situation. Some people are just more greedy and selfish at a base level. Like what kind of person is left an entire house and thinks “yeah, I deserve all of this and my siblings deserve nothing”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health star rating to become mandatory on all packaged food in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose there must be people out there who rely on this system to tell them how “healthy” food is, but I’ve certainly never met them. I feel like most people base their opinions off the name and packaging (“it has X, it must be healthy!!!”), the ingredients list and nutritional information table, or simply don’t care at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With their first female leader gone, can the Liberals shake their 'women problem'?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Betteridge’s Law of Headlines in full effect here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New video sheds light on beginning of altercation between police officers and a Town Hall protester⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It kinda does. You can see things heating up in the background leading up to the flashpoint where someone in yellow to the left of the victim appears to be shouting and gesturing at bike cop before pushing at their bike. Yellow person gets pushed back but it changes the tone (previous bike cop and victim were standing calmly watching things together), bike cop pushes the victim back who then appears to make some very quick motion with his left hand towards bike cop. Bike cop interprets that motion as some kind of threat, starts pushing the guy but gets tangled on his bike and falls, creating this situation where they’re pulling on the shirt of the victim to support themselves and therefore dragging the victim forward making it look like he was more involved than he actually was.

  All of this happens in a couple of seconds, and it’s a very tense situation so I can understand how maybe from a different angle people misinterpret actions as threats and things can escalate. This is exactly why you don’t take this kind of approach to large scale protests, though. It creates unnecessary tension and puts everyone at risk.