Currently visiting Europe from Australia. The heat's undeniably quite bad, but it's high time Europe started investing in public infrastructure, building codes, and service laws to support people in these heat waves. I'm shocked at how difficult it is to access water anywhere!!

Nobody is saying that fish are moral agents that can empathise with other beings. That doesn't man that they're not moral subjects; the ability to understand that one is causing harm is not a prerequisite for the ability to suffer oneself. I think everyone knows this intuitively, but it does feel good to have our less moral habits be justified by memes that we would otherwise find to be illogical.

Shame, i thought Furiosa was awesome, although there were only about 5 people in the cinema. The critics seem to be giving pretty favourable reviews too, would definitely recommend going and checking it out. Hope this isnt the nail in the coffin of Mad Max.

Imagine stumbling home after a night out and you see fucking Barnaby Joyce on the road haha

Worth noting that the motivation for this is to give the state parliament extra powers to reveal fuel information from retailers about supply levels. The government requested six retailers provide supply chain information, but only three complied.

Can't mentally decline if you were never sound of mind in the first place!

I find it difficult to imagine a future in which humans aren't making fun of impaired cognition.

I think the context is what's most important, if anyone actually directs such language (be it retarded, idiot, etc) towards people with genuine mental impairment, that constitutes a slur. But the word 'retarded' literally means 'slow', and is still regularly used (including by myself) in scientific and technical contexts (compared to racist or homophobic slurs, which are only ever really used in a 'slur' kind of way).

I wouldn't really have a problem with calling people 'slow' in jest, and I don't think many would. Imo if not 'retarded', it'll be something else with the same meaning.

Went on to play a few months ago with mates, all 4 of us had accounts deleted. Wtf, why wasn't it an automatic process...

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.

Nah I'm guessing because it's a popular opinion

I want to put Skype's corpse on a banner and wave it around to all the software that's currently undergoing enshittification.

The media is one thing, but the silence from politicians is deafening. I haven't checked in the last day but on the 27th I only saw 4 representatives from WA even mention it.

He didn't come out btw, he's been openly gay for a long time (although some voters are only finding out about it now he got elected). He is still very much a far-right politician (for some reason).

Fwiw, I wish the two parties were more cooperative, but it takes two to tango. Greens aren't obliged to blindly pass every bill that Labor proposes, the burden is also on Labor to negotiate their proposals to gain majority support.

What a flog. A lot of people need to resign over this, including Minns himself.

There is no acceptable context for many of the videos we have seen.

Sigh... peak culture wars.

The IPA is a right-wing think tank that pretty much exists to mislead the public, so take this data with a grain of salt. As a side note, that article really sounds like it's written by a teenager haha, the wording is so weird and cringy and not certainly not befitting a statistical report.

It is true that the vast majority of Australians support celebrating on 26th January though, even if the extent may not be as large as portrayed here (pollsters generally seem to show ~60-70% support). But still, to have 30-40% of the population not keen on celebrating the national holiday is extreme (hell, even 10-20% would be pretty noteworthy). The notion that "the debate is over" is pretty flawed for that reason alone.

Ultimately, even though I haven't really heard any strong arguments for keeping the date, I don't think there's enough public willpower to change the date until we one day leave the monarchy, and hopefully pick a nice date in summer to recognise a new level of independence as a nation.

I hope the people of Sydney keep protesting today after this. Every one of these policemen need to be held accountable, there is no justifiable context for this.

Not super familiar with Resolve polls but I do find this pretty difficult to believe, that only 16% of the country would OPPOSE a ban on Palestine protests. Would definitely need to see similar polling independently reproduced to take it seriously.

That said, I'd wager a non-trivial chunk of the country is apathetic and would be against all protests, full stop.

Wait, the rest of the country doesn't have a fuel cycle?? Huh.

Pro: you can reliably get "cheap" fuel on a Tuesday.

Con: Everyone gets fuel on Tuesdays, and you will sit in traffic to fuel up. And if you run out of fuel on a Wednesday or Thursday, you're gonna be (even more) broke.

We needed a negative control, dammit!