It is interesting because cats (a common pet) are a huge problem for native wildlife. But I don’t know why, beyond it being normal and people often having the means to provide for a pet.
Recently I’ve seen lots of people adopting former racing dogs after a lot of news came out about ethical concerns in the greyhound racing industry.
Exactly. Luckily it tends to get fixed up once it reaches the clouds.
It might be easier to use the save button (star)
Then simply go to your profile page to see your saved posts:
The water here is flipped upside down too. That’s why you sometimes see it written as H2O instead of H2O. In year 9 chemistry class, we had some joker combine water the wrong way and it just splashed down to the ceiling until it evaporated.
If I had five cents for every time I’ve seen a comment talk about ‘weird AI’ and I’ve read it as ‘Weird Al’, I would have ten cents.
It doesn’t help that the original comic says that exact word as the punchline.
Absolutely. Plenty of freely available PDFs and other formats online.
Exactly, for example just look at real cases of people born intersex and try and plot out which of them are ‘more’ or ‘less’ male. [Human] sex isn’t binary and it isn’t an orderable continuum. It’s a complex result of reality and a simple binary model just isn’t realistic.
I’m tired so please correct any mistakes.
If we just take the current count as-is (55% counted, 34 seats decided, 3 in doubt):
19 votes is a majority.
If Labor get all three remaining, they end up with 18 and need any one extra vote to give them a majority.
But if Labor only get two and the other goes to Lib/Nat, only Lib, Nat or the Greens can give them a majority
If Lib+Nat get all three remaining, and if we assume for the sake of example that they always have one nation and aus christians, they still only have 17 and need either Green or Labor for a majority. Greens can also still give Labor a majority in this situation.
If, somehow, one nation, christians or cannabis get all three, they can give Labor a majority without Greens’ help, but can’t give Lib+Nats a majority without Greens.
The bottom line is, in any situation from here, Labor cannot form majority alone, and Labor+Greens will always form majority. However, if Labor are lucky, they could instead form a majority with Legalise Cannabis Australia, or another minor party, rather than Greens. And, obviously, Labor and Liberals can always form a majority on issues they agree on.
Hoarding a scarce, essential resource to make money is villain shit, yes. Get a real job, Margaret.
That said, the real villains are politicians for not outlawing housing investment. Privileged opportunists will do it until it’s illegal.
There arr some great sailing guides on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
If we’re going to be specific, then those restrictions just mean it’s not FOSS according to the Free Software Foundation. The source is still open, it’s auditable.
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Yes, and abstaining only gives them a larger proportion of the votes.
Find the left wing candidates (the senate has some even if your local ballot doesn’t) and preference them, if you want to help keep out Lib and Lab.
The article includes some details which make it clear there’s no room for benefit of doubt, this is an extreme abuser.
A One Nation spokesman said Senator Hanson was “aware of the circumstances around Mr Black’s conviction.”
who have now picked up the Greens as a partner in their coalition
What do you mean? At a glance, I can’t see any information about Greens as a partner to the LNP-Nationals coalition, nor do I see any reason why either side would want to join one.
Why do you want Labor gone?
I know you weren’t asking me, but I want them gone for stabbing the labour movement in the back, repeatedly, including the recent corrupt administration of the CFMEU. There are other reasons, but the Labor party defanging the labour movement says it all for me.
and no one in the rest of the world respects them
That’s a bit near-sighted. Their regional neighbours obviously aren’t happy about them, nor 5EYES states like Australia, but to other regions like Africa and the Middle-East, their long-time bullies are countries such as the US, Britain and France (and in many cases that’s not just pushing boundaries, but a full-on military occupation and colonisation), so China’s relatively-peaceful diplomacy there in contrast to IMF economic strategies has certainly won wide respect there, and I suspect the USA’s recent diplomatic suicide, destruction of USAID and other forms of ‘turning inward’ will make China more appealing to distant countries as a stable and (in their eyes) relatively friendly partner.
About half the world (the Global South) generally sides politically with them more than the West, so this isn’t just nitpicking. The bottom line is that with three main powers to choose from, China (despite their rudeness in our region) is the one which has hurt the least of them.
This quote from a US DARPA medicine worker gives a typical example of how distant countries perceive Western and Eastern powers:
When you were on the ground, how did our engagement in Africa stack up with Chinese and Russian engagement? Did you cross paths?
Yeah. There’s an example of where we were waiting to go in to meet with an African delegation. I won’t name the country, but our team was prepared to speak in French — we had translators. And we got half an hour with the delegation from their Ministry of Health. We walked out, and the Chinese delegation came in, but they went to the effort of not only knowing French, but also knowing a local language that none of us had ever heard, and they spoke in that language to their hosts. We were ushered out. The Chinese stayed for three hours.
They had developed a deeper relationship than we had, mainly because they were outspending us. Obviously, they built the African CDC and have made some major investments in Africa. Now, are we losing that diplomatic battle? It’s hard to say, but I can tell you that they’re putting an enormous amount of funding into Africa to develop as much credibility as they can on the infectious disease and clinical front, furthering the agenda that President Xi has laid out.
Yep.
You should vote, but your vote is statistically near-worthless. You have political power far beyond your vote, especially for people working useful jobs. Unions and their members have the ability to pressure governments into doing the right thing by us rather than the bosses. Weak unions mean weak rights.
It’s aggravating they’re such a danger because they’re all such pathetic losers.
Exactly. When communities have organised in response, the NSN get chased up the road even when they bring out knives (see: failed attack on Gummo Cafe). But when a community does nothing, they’re left with a group of a couple of dozen interstate tourists trying to seek attention and intimidate people, often with a police line protecting them. Any group of a dozen, no matter how pathetic, will make unorganised individuals less likely to do anything, and the problem only grows if they gain greater numbers to mobilise.
One of them is on record at a UK fascist conference saying that when they’re outnumbered and getting told to leave, they “feel like shit, it’s horrifying”.
It’s as if the Liberal Party studied at the US election and forgot to look at how their citizens, and the world for that matter, are reacting afterwards. We know what an efficiency department looks like now.