ziltoid101
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- Comment on Queensland whooping cough vaccine numbers down in pregnant women amid huge surge in cases - ABC News 5 weeks ago:
If you’ve got a baby in the family, please ensure that you’ve had a booster in the last 5-10 years. It’s also really important to get the pregnancy vaccine for pertussis to protect newborns. We desperately need to get this epidemic under control.
- Comment on Revealed: 15 Australian universities to have their international student cap slashed 3 months ago:
So, the government’s picking up the funding slack… right?
… right?
- Comment on More than two-thirds of Australian homes have building issues, new report says - ABC News 3 months ago:
I don’t know what to think about housing anymore, I’m just so tired. The new builds around my parents house look shoddy and just plain ugly, not to mention first thing developers do is remove any and all trees and put concrete over the entire block. “Nimby” has become such a buzzword and a scapegoat but like, it’s hard not to have a bit of empathy, and anecdotally lots of people would be supportive of these new developments if they weren’t all shit. These concrete jungle suburbs will be around for decades at least. But also, the housing crisis is real and developers are saying that red tape around building quality is slowing them down. I desperately want a place to live, nothing fancy but at least safe and liveable. Is it genuinely impossible to have density and build quality?
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- Comment on Melbourne Symphony Orchestra says it made 'error' in cancelling pianist's performance after Gaza comments 4 months ago:
Concert security is getting really stringent atm. With the government raising the terrorism threat to probable, large events are increasing security measures. Given how much publicity this has gotten, how controversial it is, plus how intensely passionate people are about the palestine/israel conflict, I can see why they wouldn’t want to go ahead with this. Someone was stabbed at a world music concert at the Perth concert hall last sunday too!
- Comment on Melbourne Symphony Orchestra says it made 'error' in cancelling pianist's performance after Gaza comments 4 months ago:
Eh, they played the ukranian national anthem before concerts in 2022. I could see where you’re coming from if the soloist actually said something controversial but his statement was literally along the lines of “war crimes are bad” - cancelling his performance for that is a much more inflammatory political statement (hence the huge backlash) than what he said in the first place imo.
- Comment on Are we going down the same path as US politics? 5 months ago:
It does seem like whatever integrity there was in politics is quickly vanishing. I’m relieved we don’t have quite the same attitude towards religion compared to the US at least. I think Australia is a long way off being a theocracy, whereas the US could be one as soon as next year.
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- Comment on 8 months ago:
One opening at Curtin Uni (WA) today as well. Curious to see how universities handle it, the demands seem pretty reasonable to me.
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- Comment on I'm Alive (as of April 2024) - FriendlyJordies 8 months ago:
I don’t hate him but I wish people would watch his videos with a bit more critical thinking. I’ve talked to a few left-wing people that were swayed into voting Labor (or in one instance, Bob Katter) because he did a video before the last federal election that ridiculed preferential voting. I watched this video and it was filled with straight-up misinformation (I’ve worked as a vote issuer/counter many times before). In my experience he’s not actually made Australia more progressive, I don’t know any of his viewers that have switched from LNP to Labor, but a few that have gone from Greens to Labor. I don’t know if they still do it but he used to have a brigading group on Facebook, which always spread his videos around and filled them with positive comments on Reddit and the like. I know he’s popular outside of that but it’s hard to determine exactly how organic his reach is.
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- Comment on Sam Kerr allegedly called police officer a ‘stupid white bastard’, source says 9 months ago:
I get that it makes sense to have laws to protect people against racially aggravated harassment, but this feels like a stretch and a huge waste of time and resources. That said, Sam Kerr is a role model and this kinda behaviour shouldn’t be seen as ‘based’ or anything imo.
- Comment on Barnaby Joyce captured on video lying next to planter box 10 months ago:
Imagine stumbling home after a night out and you see fucking Barnaby Joyce on the road haha
- Comment on Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate 1 year ago:
I think the only thing one can do is to scale back the doomscrolling and try and maintain some sort of hope that things will get better (and vote accordingly, of course!). Both reddit and lemmy have been incredibly depressing as of late.
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