Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Jewish American columnist Thomas Friedman says he was uninvited from 2024 Adelaide writers’ week over ‘timing’ 2 days ago:
This is getting very complicated. Maybe they should stop trying to silence each other and start listening to each other. Both, neither, or one of these people might have trash views and ways of expressing those views, but if the board has already signed off on the invitation to the festival, then they need to back that decision. Only something quite heinous coming to light should demand a reconsideration.
Also if all these super smart people on these high flying boards can’t find a way to strip away the power imbalances brought by personal connections at a writer’s festival and provide a fair space for expression, then I’m worried for the meritocracy of the way board positions are given…
- Submitted 5 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 23 comments
- Comment on ‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised 5 days ago:
We need a society that once more values its dreamers and visionaries, those who uncomfortably go against the grain of what and who we are, exploring our nightmares so we might better know ourselves and create new dreams that reveal other ways of being. Not so much underfunded and undervalued as unsupported and despised, our future artists are the key to building the social fibre that will sustain a healthy, resilient and successful Australia
Feels like he’s talking his book, so to speak. I’m not against supporting the arts, but theres a lot out there thats just a waste. Like those government grants that are awarded are so often filled by some schmuck who just wants an easy pay day.
Another reason i think he’s talking his book a bit too much is that he’s made this fairly flimsy claim about arts being the social fibre of a nation as opposed to sports being the sugar high. I don’t know, they both seem pretty sugary to me, the fibre has to be in the strength of connections in the contextual communities of the individuals in that nation.
- Comment on Russia’s war in Ukraine carries a warning for Australia: prepare for possible conflict in the Asia-Pacific 5 days ago:
Couldn’t agree more with you’re assessment. I’m more hopeful Australia can pull its finger out its arse with military manufacturing.
Yes we’ve shut down an insane amount of primarily manufacturing based industries, (eg cars, thanks Liberals, ya dumb cunts!), the mining and construction industries have a large amount of incidental manufacturing for repairs and unique materials, while our knowledge base from universities and the small military-industrial machine puts us in a okay position to ramp up onshore production of many items, not too mention our wealth and borrowing capacity.
But we will need to relinquish the neoliberal monetary policy only choke-hold on our economy, and allow fiscal spending to direct a greater proportion of our economy than we’ve seen in most of our lifetimes.
I also think while NATO and Europe should always be kept on friendly terms, we need to invest in our neighbours. We may recieve support from far off allies, but those commitments may only go so far. See the British decision to desert the region after Singapore in WW2 for an example of the limitations of far off allies.
So strong allies in our region including Indonesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Islands countries et al, that are bound to us through geography, and we to them can bring a deeper/different form of mutual defence commitment. Its time for Oceania as a region to become a more serious idea.
- Visit Of Israel’s President To Australia Opposed - Fremantle Shipping Newsfremantleshippingnews.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Sydney protest restrictions extended for 14 days as activist group vows to file legal challenge this week 1 week ago:
High court challenge would likely be successful if you can demonstrate the law in practice is a defacto ban.
- Comment on Sydney protest restrictions extended for 14 days as activist group vows to file legal challenge this week 1 week ago:
Oof. Rough, but fair.
- Sydney protest restrictions extended for 14 days as activist group vows to file legal challenge this weekwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- "Absolutely devastating". Israel bans aid orgs from Gaza, publishes Aussie antisemites list - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Snow forecast for [Tasmania] on Christmas Day 3 weeks ago:
You’re kidding!
- Comment on "Intifada is what the kid is doing. Terrorism is what the tank is doing." -Palestine Action Group Sydney on IG 4 weeks ago:
I see the context you provided in the linked thread. This is a fucked response. Maybe its a good idea to edit your comment with that context here?
From u/rcbrk,
Context: NSW government is about to try criminalising the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’, with other aus governments also considering it.
- Comment on "Intifada is what the kid is doing. Terrorism is what the tank is doing." -Palestine Action Group Sydney on IG 4 weeks ago:
Not sure this belongs on c/Australia. If you want to crosspost it to Aussie Zone perhaps its more appropriate to crosspost to c/overseasnews.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 4 weeks ago:
Dammit! Don’t be goin showin me that! I’ve already got the kids too much!
Maybe they could get a present from Mrs Claus this year as well… hmm… i’m gona have no money in January at this rate.
- Comment on The Billion Dollar Balcony. ASIO's sovereignty failure - Michael West 4 weeks ago:
Such an important question isn’t it. What are we doing here? I feel like the importance and emphasis so much of our society is placing on superficial culture war whipping mules has blinkered them to the real and far more consequential matters the State faces.
Such as, the triple planetary crisis which is ignored at every possible opportunity, or the destabilisation inherent of a switch from a unipolar world to a multipolar world (yes we probably have the threat of China well understood, but seem not to consider the wider implications for other nation’s behaviour in that world, namely the USA’s, (until maybe this year).
- Comment on The Billion Dollar Balcony. ASIO's sovereignty failure - Michael West 4 weeks ago:
I’ve felt increasingly this way for a long time now about the Military and our reliance on allies with fundamentally different challenges and increasingly different world views from Australia’s.
Australia and New Zealand, and our whole oceania region need to start taking our future planning and preparation seriously as a region with a future, or we will find ourselves on the actual road to serfdom.
I’ll give props to the Albanese government who have made significant progress with pacific islands, png, and Indonesia over this last year, but this is a start to a project that needs bipartisan, and emphatic support otherwise our region will be at the mercy and whim of the large powers in this world for the next century or more.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on 'Just a happy kid': 10yo Matilda among Bondi Beach terror attack victims 4 weeks ago:
“If fanatical evil can cause so much pain, what can fanatical goodness do?”
In the wake of the attacks, Rabbi Lewis said his cousin would have urged people to respond with kindness.
“Eli would be saying, ‘Go and do another good deed. Go and help another person. Go and care for another,’” he said.
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- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Cancer Council's iHeard articles - responses to claims people have heard about cancer 1 month ago:
leukaemia or melanoma
I don’t know enough about cancer, is melanoma a blood disorder? I thought it was skin cancer?
- Comment on Cancer Council's iHeard articles - responses to claims people have heard about cancer 1 month ago:
You know how theres those questions in life you’ve never considered, yep, this is one for me! Holy shit, cancer can be passed from mother to baby! Insane!
Q.
If a pregnant women is diagnosed with cancer, is it likely the baby will also develop cancer?"
A.
Although it is possible, it is extremely rare for a mother to pass cancer on to her baby during pregnancy. To date, there have only been around 17 suspected incidences reported, most commonly in patients with leukaemia or melanoma.
A case in Japan in 2009 was the first to be hailed as proof that it can happen. In that case, a mother was diagnosed with leukaemia soon after she gave birth, and her baby daughter was diagnosed with lymphoma when she was 11 months old. Although two different types of cancer, the cancer cells of the mother and baby carried the identical mutated cancer gene. The baby hadn’t inherited the gene, meaning the cells must have come from the mother. The baby’s cancer cells had an additional mutation making them invisible to her immune system, allowing them to cross the placental barrier and survive without being attacked.
But in the vast majority of cases where cancer is diagnosed during pregnancy, which are uncommon to begin with, cancer cells can’t pass from mother to baby. Nor can cancer cells pass from a mother to baby through breast milk. Women who have been diagnosed with cancer are advised not to become pregnant, however, because chemotherapy and radiotherapy can harm the unborn baby.
- Comment on Law Council opposes extraordinary powers for ASIO 1 month ago:
Shit! Well, sorry!? I didn’t mean that as a personal attack to anyone in particular, especially not on AZ/Lemmy. I was mildly praising the Law Council, a fairly staid and conservative grouping of the ‘powers that be’, likely made up of an ‘in group’ of Australian power players. So I see them as a group that wouldn’t always understand or accept the problems with an overly securitised state.
- Comment on Law Council opposes extraordinary powers for ASIO 1 month ago:
Sometimes there is genuine and thoughtful pushback against the security services in this country.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on National study finds where you live influences your body weight | News at Curtin 1 month ago:
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- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Na, its to pop a cultural crisis balloon the media was blowing up last year.
There will be some tangential benefits, i think the no alcohol before 18 is a good analogy, the only problem is there can be some benefits to social media, whereas theres not a really an upside to alcohol.
But largely its due to talk-back wankers, and the Government not wanting a distracting fake cultural crisis. Commercial media in this country suck large round ones.
Anyway, thats my view.
- Comment on National study finds where you live influences your body weight | News at Curtin 1 month ago:
Yeah, thats true. I know they made assessments by postcode, so that data is probably in the report somewhere, the full report is open and available at that link.
Also considering Midland is SOR, which i definitely don’t always consider, maybe the vast majority of the population would be SOR, so comparing uneven population sizes might be leading to a quirk.
- Comment on National study finds where you live influences your body weight | News at Curtin 1 month ago:
I can’t believe there is a North or the River South of the river divide in BMI for Perth! Is there more fast food SOR?
- Comment on National study finds where you live influences your body weight | News at Curtin 1 month ago:
