hanrahan
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- Comment on ICE Agents Arrest Workers From Mexican Restaurant Where They Just Ate 1 day ago:
LSD in their food?
- Comment on atlas shrugged as jesus wept 1 day ago:
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Like this lady ? I wonder why /s
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- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 1 day ago:
Haha
I was just watching a YT travelogue of a US guy in his 50s (Gen X) who was travelling the world with a backpack because he cant afford rent in the US.
- Comment on No time to warn or to prepare: Natimuk met the fire of our future 2 days ago:
This was in an article about summer.reading, and was in Bob.Brown’s recommended summer reading list, seems prescient
www.booktopia.com.au/…/9781925456752.html
Voters refuse to take this seriously and move the Overton Window by voting Green.
Climate chnage and time are the solution, you can’t deny reality and the laws of nature forever.
- Comment on An Company(ies) that Converts Classic Automobiles to Automobiles with Solar Panels Built into Their Skins? 2 days ago:
Solar panels on cars are a needless gimmick. Better mounting a lot of them on the roof of your home and charge off that (and feed into the grid etc)
Whike converting and old ice car to electirc is possible it’s going to be a shitty idea, theres a reason ecars use a skateboard design and no axels etc
Better to ride a bicycke, much better.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 days ago:
As is GAB
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 days ago:
Probbly not at the mgtow Lemmy instance.
- Comment on Emergency warning for Great Ocean Road as record-breaking downpour sweeps cars to sea 2 days ago:
We live in interesting times.
- Comment on Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade deal 2 days ago:
Lets go! Bringing tje world closer ex US is a great thing
I’d be in France.
- Comment on Malnutrition deaths are soaring in the US – especially among seniors 1 week ago:
Sure it us, you:re seeing it in action.
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- Comment on The case for EU-Japan ties and a 'Democratic 7:' EU, UK, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada -- [Opinion] 2 weeks ago:
As an Australian, i wish we could join the EU. It’s a grand experiment bringing people together and i wish we were part of it in this worsening and fractious world.
- Comment on Leaked plan to limit blocking of abortion on moral grounds 2 weeks ago:
Have to appeal to religious nutters who (and by this I mean Christians, other relegions see no issue AFAIK) have lobby groups in parliament
Another example
…com.au/…/anti-abortion-activist-joanna-howe-bann…
Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe has been banned from South Australia’s upper house for allegedly using “threatening” tactics towards politicians.
In another incident roughly a week earlier, Dr Howe sparked outrage by labelling prominent women– such as SA Greens leader Tammy Franks– as members of a “baby-killers club” on social media. Franks responded, saying the posts were intended to incite hatred.
- Comment on Spiralling costs spark 'urgent' overhaul of $2.3b battery subsidy scheme 2 weeks ago:
the less money the power companies can make
Service fee will just go up. And like water you can go “off the grid” if poles run past your house
We (m and f couple) lived off grid for 10 years with a 2kW solar and a 5/7kW inverter easily in Northern NSW.
Now back on grid with a solar sysyem (no battery) in Tassie. Hard being off grid here with solar, shitty winter sun. Were frugal anyway, so can’t be fucked hetting a battery. (and remote, getting anyone to do anything is problematic)
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
Shame they cant address the root cause:
Thw root cause is giving women agency. Careers education etc and mostly free of religious indoctrination (eg Quiverful etc)
If women have a choice, the majority choose 0,1 or 2. For every woman that chooses 0, you need another woman choosing 5 just to tread water. Hungary and Poland are throwing a fortnue at it and gerting no where, as is Russia. Australia, Sweden etc all have less then replacement, the only reason Australia keeps growing it’s population is immigration. You either do that, or you take away womens right to choose, or your population goes backwards. (Or aim for some sort of stasis where deaths = births + immigration)
You can’t grow the population forever, so you have to address the issuie at some stage anyway.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
Will they do this? No, because it would require thinking outside of the box too much and would be seen as too extreme.
That still won’t work. There is no develooed country on the planet eg Sweden, Australia etc thay does not have a less then replacement birthrate. When given agency outside of a patarchial and/or religious society, most women will choose 0,1 or 2 kids, all below replacement.
For every women choosing 0 you need another choosing 5 just to tread water. That Japans and Koreas are less again may be work related but it would still be less then replacement, no matter yours, or any other suggestion.
None of this is a probelm, it’s just differnt.
Growing the population is just kicking the can down the road because you can’t grow it forever anyway… We already have a over strained biosphere; pollution, resource depletion, climate change, accelerated species extinction etc
This entire thing is a nothing burger.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 4 weeks ago:
Why we use trucks for freight as much we do is beyond me.
Tony Abbott had Lindsay Fox “toys” on his prime ministerial book shelves as an examplw.
Why ? becase we keep.voting for politcans who have little interst in rail or oublic tranzport in general.
Even when we do something belated, like the Inland.Rail project, it doesn’t go to the port in Brisbane, nor carries in to port of Gladstone but ends in teucking depot in Brisbane.
As many people were killed by traffic murders on the day of the Boncli shootings as by gun.
- Comment on This is what my coworker pictures every time I say lemmy. 4 weeks ago:
Looking for the down side here…
- Comment on This is what my coworker pictures every time I say lemmy. 4 weeks ago:
Firat time I heard it was on the Kenny Evertt Video Show
Kenny was a bit of legend, rumor has it he was the one that first played Bohemian Rhapsody on his BBC music radio show, everyone else said it was rubbish or too long.
- Comment on New Community: Pen & Paper 4 weeks ago:
Swapped back to poefed and this time it worked… i have.no idea.why…
- Comment on New Community: Pen & Paper 4 weeks ago:
I keep.getting an error when logged i to Piefed.social and rying to sunscribe but it works with my Lemmy instance
- Comment on Recommended email providers? 5 weeks ago:
Tuta ?
- Comment on If you are a refugee, you will be turned away by both close allies and the most hostile adversaries of your home country. 5 weeks ago:
In 1943 Hanna Ardent weote a small essay called “We Refugees”
- Comment on A vote to approve an AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront will now pass 1 month ago:
If people didn’t want this shit horror they could have voted Green at the last election, I know I did. Alas…
- Comment on Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn 1 month ago:
And we encoruge them by rewarding their behaviour with our vite
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 month ago:
Paying someone 70 hours has the same cost as paying two persons 35 hours, right? (In my country technically no, because higher base taxation)
What he wants is to pay one person for 70hrs, the same as he’d pay one person for 35 hrs.
- Comment on How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun? 1 month ago:
They can’t drive
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 1 month ago:
FFS…300km/hr from a car, no proeblms, 25 km/hr o a pushie, literally armageddon
