I see war memorials as a reminder of what we’re trying to avoid, not as a glorification.

You’re right, it doesn’t at all capture how disturbing the reality is.

Ignored privacy settings; unknown third parties can train AI models on data scrapped from private images and video host on common social media platforms.

I might be reading to much in to the previous commenters use of the word had. But you’re at arguments make a lot more sense today than 30 years ago.

It certainly was fear that stopped Australia from building a nuclear industry in the 90s. It made a lot of sense then. Today, it’s hard to see it anything more as a diversionary tactic.

I’ve not heard of naplan described as child abuse, but my uneducated position is inclined to agree. Standardized testing, comparative ranking, ECT to me feel like necessary evils that should only be used when required, not applied board strokes.

In am interested to read more about the impacts of standardized testing if anyone is knowledgeable.

I work in a large university with a policy of lumping as many administrative duties on the academics as possible.

Why do we want professors coding credit cards to university accounts, managing employment contracts and job listing’s, offices for staff, travel bookings ect ect? Is this how we want our tax payer grant money spent?

Nah good on you, fight the good fight. It wasn’t series of mistakes it was deliberate policy choices. Policy choices that show no sign of being changed. Capitalism has eaten democracy from the inside out, it will continue dancing around inside is skin till we see it for what it is.

I use launtel, I pay a premium i think, but I don’t know because I’ve go no desire to change.

Sounds like the opinion of someone who’s never been blackmailed before.😅

I fully support you voting like that, and I still think mandatory voting is better than optional.

Well I didn’t see either a TV add for either side. I did heard a lot more ‘Don’t know vote No’ than anything else. I’m not sure anecdote is particularly helpful though.

Multiple if those things you listed have clear factual answers, and to say otherwise is an easy demonstrable lie.

Statement was one page, anyone can read it. The 26 pages was relevant documents, such as meeting minuets released with an FOI, which again anyone could read.

It was clearly a vote on voice, the referendum question made it clear.

If you can claim what you want, and as it seems people are going to believe you, how absurd is this going to get before we have to do something? We going to see attempted removal of politicians without reason? We going to see claims of rigged elections?

Truth is important. Lots of things are political grey area, but if we let demonstrable facts become questionable democracy will fail.

Probably hard to determine but I’d love to see proportion of no voters vs Murdoch news viewership. I feel like every other correlation could probably be tied to that variable.

That’s not the definition of racism.

Giving people in a wheelchair a ramp onto the train is not ableism.

Giving children a booster seat in a car is not ageism.

Bigtory is about discriminating against people based on an attribute. So you’d need to argue that the rest of Australia is having their government representation taken away by the voice.

The entire point of the voice is try and treat people equally by addressing the intergenerational issues caused by systemic racism.

Hahaha, that’s a fair question. I also realised later that jb hi fi don’t stock the steam deck … in aus. I had been looking at the nz page and made a poor assumption : https://www.jbhifi.co.nz/handheld-gaming-console/steam-deck-gaming-console-512gb/426726/

It also turns out whilst dicksmiths actually sells steam decks in aus they are now just a third party market place.

It does, however, support the point i had suggested - that the lack of steam hardware in Aus is a ‘personal’ thing, given that you can get them from a first party supplier in nz but not here.

Australia fined valve over return policy. I think it’s personal.

You can buy them from Dicksmiths or JB

Nothing to do with cost, overlord Mudcock didn’t want foxtel to lose customers to internet streaming.

Gamers nexus had gtx 1070 in their starfield performance review, so it can work on a 1070. 30fps on low settings I think though.

I dunno, I’ve been blown away with how stable Arch is over the last 5 years I’ve been using it. I’ve not updated for 6 month + periods, i was worried but I just needed to update the keys first. Also I don’t even have a boot usb, apart from install (and learning some hard lessons about UFEI stubs) I’ve not had to recover a single time.

It’s a stark contrast to 2011 when I decided I just didn’t have time to do my PhD and maintain my arch install and went back to Windows.