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Paraphrasing Omar El Akkad, "One Day Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This".
As: bodies pile up; direct & bloody consequences felt by guilty & innocent alike; indirect consequences & dreadful aftermath felt by all; & the true drivers finally revealed; we will ALL have been against this.
Australia: Go Iranian democracy! Go international law! Go USA!
Hegsworth: “Regardless of what so-called international institutions say, [the war is] all on our terms, with maximum authority, no stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise"
Australia: War good because USA
USA: War good because Israel
Israel: War good because smite Amalek
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It's funny to me when people who love to go on about second order effects of economic policies and the challenges of central planning without local knowledge suddenly drop all of that when it comes to foreign policy.
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Australia supports the war.
Is it lawful?
Not our problem! Also, we support the war. No further questions!
rules based order. you love to see it. you really do. rules. order. so many rules. so much order.
you look at it and you say, “wow. that’s a lot of rules.” and you know what? it works. it just works. people said it couldn’t be done - but i built the greatest rules based order in history.
I’m beginning to think the United States is not a reliable negotiating partner, let alone a treaty partner or ally
Make film about how man’s condition causes uncontrollable curses & slurs, how ignorance of this leads to blame, stigma & social exclusion
Movie wins at award night, but his condition causes uncontrollable curses & slurs
thus blame, stigma & calls for social exclusion, now at mass scale
incredible
It looks like Labor is getting ready to announce plans to expand the size of the federal Parliament, for only the third time in the history of the Australian federation, according to the SMH www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
The slur is horrendous and it’s understandable people are hurt and shocked…
But it’s genuinely disturbing how eager people are to construct elaborate rationales for why someone should be held as morally culpable for involuntary tics caused by their neurological disorder.
It was literally an awards ceremony in which a film about his life and his condition was multiply awarded, as well as Sinners being likewise multiply awarded. We can certainly say that the organisers should have had robust plans in place.
Multiple things can be true:
The speakers should not be exposed to racist slurs.
More support and more forethought should have come from the organisers in relation to this risk.
The solution can’t be that people with disabilities just stay home and avoid being seen in public.
John Davidson has well documented severe lifelong Tourette’s coprolalia, where he blurts out taboo comments that are maximally inappropriate.
It’s not Davidson’s fault - cancelling him makes no sense. His condition literally made him do it.
Everyone loves to talk about acceptance of mental disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions, disabilities etc… until something problematic happens.
People like to resolve the dissonance by saying the condition “doesn’t make them do that”.
But sometimes - including this time - it absolutely does.
This is my policy
what the… not one I had on the 2026 bingo
Haha no that was me. Nice memory. I’d never heard it from anyone else and have been saying it for about 10 years
Happy valentine's day ❤️
"interaction with police" what are we doing here?
each justification for police interference isn't there: traffic (no), risk of crowd crush (historic route, small protest = no), separation of protestors from counterprotestors or from some other thing (going in opp direction of herzog, no counter-protestors = no)
just 5000 was the expectation (small protest) and the gov invokes special powers, the police block a march on a historic route, they show up in their hundreds, and the proposed march to parliament (during a time of very low traffic) is in the opposite direction of where the president of israel is.
I'm not sure what this is about, but some states of normalcy can be more flexible, dynamic and open than other normals.
We're doing it lads, sortition-based hiring
he shoulda used ai
Yeah the efficiency divided (with ALP characteristics) is hitting hard. It doesn’t have to hit contractors either, apart from some vague moral pressure to target them. But in practice it’s hitting across the board, basically a hiring freeze atm.
tragedy of the commons here, where mass ai spam lowers probability of given applicant winning, in turn shifting optimal approach from few high effort applications to many low effort (ai). reinforced by employers adopting low effort shortlisting (ai) for same reason. feedback loop. bad equilibrium
They can also apply for 100 in the time it would take people to apply for 10. Acquaintance spat out 300 applications in 2 weeks of unemployment and got offered a good job. I think it’s very unlikely it would have been so fast in the present market without sheer numbers.
Probably different for small specialised orgs, but increasing big ones are shortlisting by feeding into ai which looks for key words. Robots are more optimised for such robot evaluation.
