Ilandar
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- Comment on Do migrants feel they belong in Australia? The answer is complicated 28 minutes 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 4 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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'? 1 day 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 6 days 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.
- Comment on This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. 1 week ago:
Is Albanese trolling?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he was devastated by the scenes of police and protesters clashing on the streets of Sydney during a rally against the visit of Israel’s President Isaac Herzog.
“These are scenes that I think shouldn’t be taking place. So people should be able to express their views peacefully, but the police were very clear about the routes that were required if people wanted to march, to go a particular route, and for to ensure that this was done peacefully,” he told Triple M Hobart.
The prime minister said inviting Herzog was appropriate and urged those who disagreed with the visit to “express any views peacefully” and “in an appropriate way”.
“Now people will have different views about the Middle East and we have been critical and have received some criticism from the Israeli government,” he said.
“But we do need to be able to have people express any views peacefully in an appropriate way.”
Anyone with a brain knew this would happen. This cunt preaches about civility and respect constantly, yet he and his government seem to be doing everything they can to incite conflict. Just don’t needlessly invite extremely controversial guests into the country. It’s not hard.
- Comment on French authorities sink tonnes of cocaine bound for Australia, then release suspects 1 week ago:
Why didn’t they drone strike the ship and kill its entire crew? Are they stupid?
- Comment on ‘Take them away, crush them’: Australia faces an ebike surge that some say poses a health emergency 1 week ago:
Why is the guardian conflating E motorbikes and normal legal ebikes?
The article is about illegal e-bikes that bypass the speed restrictions.
- Comment on Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless' 1 week ago:
That’s not a solution to this problem, though. It’s definitely an important change for the quality of education, but if kids still have unlimited access to their phones between ~3 PM and whenever they fall asleep + unlimited access on Saturdays and Sundays then it’s not doing much to rewire their brains or keep them safe.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They’re just saying what we all knew to be true at the time. No voters weren’t voting on the proposed changes to rhe Constitution.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They have a point. Why play devil’s advocate on a subject you admit to knowing nothing about?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
‘Forgotten War’ by Henry Reynolds and the SBS documentary series ‘The Australian Wars’ are good accompaniments to this. Both go into the significant clashes in more detail.
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 4 weeks ago:
Again this is just in my experience, but it’s definitely an older generation (like Gen X and up) order. A lot of these people didn’t grow up with espresso coffee and they still drink garbage instant coffee + hot water and some milk at home. That’s what coffee is to them, so when they go out they get a flat white because it’s the closest thing to what they drink at home. If they want something fancier they’ll order a cappuccino and if they’re not a milk drinker they’ll get a long black. Because they drink coffee at home in the same way as they drink tea (add boiling water and sip over a very long period) they often ask for their flat white to be “extra hot”, which usually means absolutely scalding which of course completely ruins the milk but they don’t care as long as they can sit there and sip it for like 2 hours while chatting. The concept of coffee as something served to be enjoyed immediately and in a short amount of time is completely foreign to them.
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 4 weeks ago:
This is a bit of a strange argument from the author because they start by saying people are ordering flat whites because they’re “too afraid to admit” they want a latte, but later they claim that actually many people have no clue about coffee and don’t even know what they’re ordering. The latte is the most popular order by far in my experience, way more popular than both the flat white and the cappuccino. We are well beyond the point of people feeling embarrassed about ordering one. The second point about many people not knowing what they want /not knowing anything about coffee is much more accurate.
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 5 weeks ago:
The DJs are usually pretty popular regardless, in my experience. They play later at night when there is less going on and people are drunk and just want to have a good time dancing under the bats.
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 5 weeks ago:
No need to apologise, your rant was justified!
- Comment on Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning 5 weeks ago:
Sendle was dogshit. As someone who runs a small business and uses the much more reliable Australia Post, it always annoyed me when I’d buy something from another small business and they’d completely cheap out and use this terrible service to save a few dollars. It shows a complete lack of respect to the customer, for whose order we should feel responsible for until it arrives safely.
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 5 weeks ago:
Okay, I can definitely understand what you mean now. Yes, it’s pretty obviously designed to deceive.
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe the photos aren’t demonstrating the problem but I can’t really see where it suggests there are two sticks in the pack. There are definitely way worse examples of misleading packaging out there.
- Comment on Magic mushroom use rises despite concerns about little known paralysis syndrome 1 month ago:
the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year.
Nine Perfect Strangers?
- Comment on After Deadly Attacks, Australia Debates: Do Shark Nets Work? 1 month ago:
The New York Times has had an Australian bureau for many years.
- Comment on Will Reddit's challenge to Australia's "social media ban" succeed? | Constitutional Clarion 1 month ago:
Thanks for the summary! I’ll definitely be following it more closely if she thinks it has some legs.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 2 months ago:
Sydney + Melbourne is closer to 40% of the nation’s population. Not really sure why you’re talking about states, that’s a complete strawman on your part.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 2 months ago:
Did you not read the page you linked?.Most of the incidents are in Sydney or Melbourne or their outer suburbs/districts. And yes, bigger cities tend to have more social problems.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 2 months ago:
Look through the list of terrorist attacks (successful and prevented) in Australia, you’ll consistently see the same two cities coming up. It is hysterical and/or arrogant to immediately frame this as a national issue when it’s just simply not. Australia is not mono-cultural, we shouldn’t be extrapolating out from two cities and pretending the other ~60% of the population suddenly has something to fear.