Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on 9,500 O-type blood donors urged to donate immediately 6 hours ago:
Not currently, though the Red Cross/Lifeblood are not responsible for this, the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s regulations are. A change to the rule is being worked on.
To put it in perspective, it was only in 2022 that we started allowing donations from people from the UK thanks to their mad cow outbreak they had in the '80s.
- Comment on 9,500 O-type blood donors urged to donate immediately 6 hours ago:
O-type is O- and O+. That’s a hyphen, not a negative sign.
O- is definitely the most valuable, since it can be given to anyone. But O+ isn’t far behind, since it can give to all the positive types, which is 86% of people, according to your source.
- Comment on 9,500 O-type blood donors urged to donate immediately 8 hours ago:
I just signed up to donate tomorrow. It’ll be my first donation in like 2 years, after being diagnosed with low iron. I did get give the ok from my doctor to go back to donating much longer ago, but I was a little suspicious about the circumstances,* so I decided to put it on hold longer-term.
If you don’t already know your blood type, go ahead and sign up anyway. There’s no lack of use even for other blood types…and O-type is the most common in Australia anyway. Donating whole blood is super easy. The worst part IMO is actually the tiny pinprick they take before the donation to determine your haemoglobin level. The needle used for the actual donation is a complete doddle. You may get a little light-headed afterwards and it’s probably not a good idea to do heavy exercise, but that’s a very short-term effect.
As a bonus, they tell you your ferritin level every 10 donations (including first) and haemoglobin every time. And they’ll tell you what your blood type is.
Oh, and you get free snacks afterwards.
* My ferritin levels were only just inside the normal range, after a few weeks taking supplements bringing it up from levels that had my sister (who is a doctor, though not my doctor obviously) saying “YOU ARE SO UNWELL HOW” and “Your bloods are like an 80 year old lady’s”. And I was told to stop taking the supplements at that point, despite not much being done to fundamentally change anything.
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- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 1 day ago:
Yeah I don’t have much of an intuition of how accidental poisoning would change between those ages, but 17–25 is famously the most dangerous age on the road, so I wasn’t surprised to see it higher.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 1 day ago:
I am astonished that “accidental poisoning” is higher than car crashes in 25–44.
- Comment on The city is so lively 2 days ago:
Ok thanks for clarifying what you meant in that edit. But I don’t really understand what you mean by toxic. Could you point to a handful of examples of the toxicity from within the last month or so?
- Comment on The city is so lively 3 days ago:
But it’s the instance you’re still on?
- Comment on The city is so lively 3 days ago:
!fuckcars@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK that the Australian Prime Minister said CEOs of multinational corporations conspired to undermine his elected government 3 days ago:
White ant is another name for termites. Just as termites literally destroy the structure of a house from the inside, a person “white-anting” is acting from within to take an institution down. In the case of Rudd, the goal wasn’t to destroy the Labor party per se, but to take down the Gillard government by, for example, leaking details of what were supposed to be closed internal discussions to the press. And it had the effect of helping Labor lose the following election, giving Australia 9 more years of conservative rule.
- Comment on YSK that the Australian Prime Minister said CEOs of multinational corporations conspired to undermine his elected government 3 days ago:
Rudd is probably correct about this, but You Should Know that he’s also an arrogant fuckwit who tried to pass climate legislation that his own treasury modelling said wouldn’t reduce emissions for 25 years (since this was in 201p, that means we’d still be a decade away from emissions falling). Since the conservative Coalition was never going to support any climate policy, and the left wing Greens refused to suppose such a lazy token effort, that meant his centrist Labor party’s policy failed to pass.
And because he’s such an arrogant prick, he absolutely refused to negotiate to bring about a better policy. Instead, he eventually got ousted by his own party, and the replacement leader did negotiate and did pass real, meaningful climate policy. Until those fossil fuel interests helped the Coalition win the next election, Australia had world-leading reductions in CO~2~ emissions.
Oh, and that election loss was not helped by Rudd’s own white-anting from inside the Labor party…
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 4 days ago:
Oh nice, thanks. Just watched that segment and he really didn’t pull his punches.
Yeah I was already familiar, from other news articles and from watching some of the case (the court case was broadcast on YouTube).
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 4 days ago:
I don’t know how you can possibly think that is relevant
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 4 days ago:
I’m not really interested in anything you, a random Lemming, have to say about whether or not it’s a genocide. And you shouldn’t be interested in anything I say either.
What you should be interested in is the growing scholarly consensus. Organisations like the United Nations Special Committee into the matter, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Court of Justice have all stated either that it definitely is or plausibly could be genocide. Academic researchers into genocide are “surprisingly unanimous”, with only a small number of zionists denying it at this point.
As for “name calling and bullying”. If you deny genocide, then stating that you are a genocider is neither of those things. It is a simple fact.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 5 days ago:
Oh damn. I thought you were a reasonable person with different views until this comment. It took you an impressively long time to come out with the explicit genocide denial.
I’m surprised Beehaw of all places allows genocide denial, tbh.
- Comment on Opinion: Australians remain deeply sceptical about the value of private healthcare – it’s time for radical reform 5 days ago:
Precisely. Now is precisely the time for Labor to do some bold progressive changes. Like fixing this extortion. Like dental and mental health into Medicare.
But I’m not holding my breath.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 5 days ago:
Stop the whataboutism. Stop defending genocide. Nothing Hamas does or could do can defend genocide.
But if you really want to play that game: everything Hamas does is also Israel’s fault. Israel created Hamas. They funded Hamas deliberately as a way to destabilise the Palestinians. They create oppressive conditions in which a militant organisation like Hamas is bound to thrive. Everything that Hamas does is a predictable outcome of Israel’s actions, and the ultimate blame lies squarely on them.
But again, that’s irrelevant. Because even if Hamas’s own actions weren’t Israel’s fault, Israel’s actions obviously are. Murdering children, doctors, and journalists by the hundreds are classic fascist moves. Displacing people en mass from their homes is genocide. Collective punishment is a war crime. Deliberately starving people is a war crime. Stop defending genocide.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 5 days ago:
I think it’s very important to start from the place of acknowledging that nothing Hamas does or has done is relevant. Whether someone condemns Hamas or wholeheartedly supports them, or (as most people probably do) sit somewhere in between, really doesn’t matter. Because genocide is absolutely, totally, inexcusable. Even if Hamas were committing genocide themselves, that does not excuse Israel’s genocide. And the fact is that Hamas isn’t committing genocide. They literally could not if they wanted to. They haven’t the power necessary for it.
Any organisation that is censoring people who accuse Israel of genocide, or who play whataboutism games by trying to ensure that condemnations of Israel are always followed by condemnations of Hamas, are abetting genocide.
This meme summarises it nicely.
A cartoon of a cat saying “It’s impossible to starve children to death in self defense”
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 5 days ago:
Oh awesome!
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 5 days ago:
No, listen to all the words he said that Palestinian freedom needs to come, not at the expense of other people.
- Comment on Fediverse Social Media Guide 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Opinion: Australians remain deeply sceptical about the value of private healthcare – it’s time for radical reform 6 days ago:
What we need to to dump the government extortion that is the Medicare Levy Surcharge and the Lifetime Health Cover loading scam.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 6 days ago:
Maybe. I couldn’t find the report if it did, but that’s not a huge surprise given how hard this is to google for.
I’d be extra interested if it happened under the current Media Watch host, who has ties to zionist organisations (he studied at Moriah College, a member of the zionist “Jewish Communal Appeal”), and started on Media Watch in February or March this year.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 6 days ago:
From what I can tell, the average ABC worker is on the right side of this. But ABC management seems to have a direct line to the genocide supporters. And when the Israel lobbyists tell Kim Williams (or formerly Ita Buttrose) to jump, he (she) asks “how high?” We only need look at the Lattouf case or, less sensationally, Sandy Gutman, to see that.
That’s why what repeatedly happens is the right thing happens at first. Then management gets wind of it, usually because of DMs from lobbyists, and orders a reversal.
In this case, I think what probably happened is it got uploaded as normal. Because that’s what they do. Any vaguely interesting segment of television gets uploaded to their website and iView. Then the Israel lobby saw it, saw that he was calling out their genocide, and got on the like to Williams or Hugh Marks or someone else on the board or management, and they sent down the instruction to nix it.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 6 days ago:
Someone has an archive of the video: xcancel.com/…/1927235160472215770
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 6 days ago:
Ah interesting. That edited statement was not there when I first read the article. Frankly, I don’t believe the ABC’s claim. If it were true, that’s an answer that could easily have been provided in time for publication. They’ve come up with a post-hoc excuse after seeing how much play this story was getting. They had initially hoped to quietly acquiesce to the pro-genociders without attracting as much attention as the last time they did so.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 6 days ago:
He’s calling for an end to the genocide, and for the Australian government to cease promoting genocide by doing two-way arms trade with the genocidal state.
Anything else is whataboutism.
- Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview 6 days ago:
The URL of the removed article: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-26/…/105338640
I’m currently on www.abc.net.au/news/contact providing “Feedback” criticising the ABC for this decision. In my message, I’m noting:
- The ABC’s legislated requirement to provide a broad range of perspectives
- The growing international consensus that Israel is committing genocide
- The ABC’s recent history of caving to pro-Israel pressure (and the waste of taxpayer resources in taking their Lattouf case to court) and how this latest case is showing a trend that damages the ABC’s reputation for impartiality
And calling on the ABC to explain why this was removed, immediately reinstate the interview, and commit to ensuring they do better about representing human rights in the future. I encourage others to do the same.
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- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 1 week ago:
A civil suit, yes. But the description was to press charges. I thought it implied a private prosecution, rather than a suit over damages.
