Sounds like ARMA, walk for an hour and get shot from God knows where. Just like real life!

As others have stated, we explicitly don’t have free speech in Australia.

We also don’t have any laws requiring political campaigns to be truthful. And as we saw, the day after the vote was done. All the leaders of the “No” campaign flat out abandoned indigenous people and explicitly said they wouldn’t be fronting a new referendum for recognition in the constitution without the voice. A promise they made repeatedly.

The leader of the opposition who spearheaded the no campaign has been called a fascist by his peers. And once commented that if elected he would do away with parliament and elections if he could.

It doesn’t matter. 63% support among indigenous folks is still a landslide.

You’re not arguing in good faith though. Accusing someone of racism like that. So you can go fuck yourself for all I care.

80% indigenous support polled prior to the campaigns starting. After a relentless campaign of misinformation courtesy of Murdoch. The actual number that voted yes was 63%.

In regional Aus, there is a popular, free-to-air, 24/7 Murdoch-run news outlet, Sky News Australia, not to be confused with Sky News. It is right of Fox News, closer to OAN.

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Yeah, usually if I get stuck in my head I’ll just go work in the garden. Bit of sunshine and toil usually gets me unstuck.

The rule for all memes like this:

If you’re like “yeah I sometimes do that,” then you’re likely just a normie. If you do stuff like this all the time, every time, well, maybe…

Over 63% of indigenous people voted in favour of the voice.

You are repeating propoganda.

Australia is way more racist than the US. And more right-wing.

The US just doesn’t have compulsory voting, which means a minority of nutjobs can dictate politics. And even then, Trump lost.

Australia has compulsory voting and voted this way lol.

US is going through a labour organising revolution right now. While unions are left in the cold and experience dwindling power in Aus, even with the Labor party in power.

That’s what the article is about though, the travel required. You can apply this to a lot of industries thoughm the amount of times companies I’ve worked for have flown a team of engineers somehere for a meeting that could have been a video call is obscene.

It’s been a great year for pollinators in my yard, with some super-interesting shifts in the dominant pollinators. I’ll definitely be taking part.

I remember when Vicforests hired a firm I worked for to measure canopy loss. We used drones and satilite data.

Previously they just drove some analysts out to the most tree-covered areas and had them extrapolate from their position on the ground.

After we delivered our result to them, they went back to the old method.

They always play silly games like this. Then you end up with articles a decade later with headlines like “Australia’s deforestation worse than previously known.” With attached quotes like “we couldn’t have possibly known.”

I’m seeing more native bees and hoverflies in my yard this year at least…

They were full month too early though…

Yeah, folks are super reasonable compared to other social media sites, for the most part. The occassional nutter isn’t propped up by some PR company bot net to drive engagement so they just end up downvoted into oblivion.

It’s refreshing.

Yeah I’ve got arms like an orangutan. Despite the amount of stuff I’ve smashed my watch 5 pro against it’s still scratch and scuff free.

Block me too, cheers.

Seems like the entire Western world is dealing with a rise in anti-social behaviour on the roads since the pandemic started.

We have a family premium plan and I still got this message. Guess I’ll cancel YouTube Premium now…

I get most of the content I want via patreon anyway now.

Ditto.

A big problem in Aus is the industry culture. They don’t care about using technology to improve results. They only care about cutting costs, even if the final product doesn’t meet the previous standard.

And we’ve seen that with VFX across the globe, the overall quality dropped drastically. Because studios play silly buggers to weasel out of paying VFX companies what they are due.

From what I hear, even DNEG is in trouble, and were even before the strike.

It’s a race to the bottom it seems.

My honest hope for the film industry is likely the same as yours. That we have smaller productions with access to better post due to improvements in AI-driven compositing software and so on.

But it’s likely that a role that was earning $$$ before is devalued significantly. And while I’m an unabashed anti-capitalist, I think a lot of folks misunderstand what this sudden downward pressure on income can do. Cost of living increasing while wages shrink is an awful combination

I’m 35, left a six figure job, folding my company and starting an electrician’s apprenticeship. To give you an idea around what my views about AI are. And of course this is as an Australian. We have a garbage white collar work culture anyway.

I think there will be a net improvement. But I worry that others will fail to adapt quickly. Too many are writing off AI as this thing that already came and went, but the tools have just landed, and we don’t yet have workflows that correctly implement and leverage these yet.