I think ChocolatChaud may have been deleted before it got caught. fraiserouge got banned first.

Oh I thought you or one of the admins was the one banning him?

afaict they’re getting banned by their own instance admins. Mostly LW admins, but a few other instances too.

If they make the rules more strict to exclude Israel

Israel shouldn’t be excluded because they’re not European. They should be excluded because they’re doing a genocide. The same way they already excluded Russia for their war on Ukraine. There’s no reason that should have any bearing on Australia one way or the other.

As for not rocking the boat, that’s an incredibly weak excuse. I’d rather Australia be kicked out of Eurovision permanently than give one ounce of support to genocide.

Homo sapiens* the s is not for plural.

But it’s a good thing you clarified that you meant H. sapiens, since there’s a strong argument to be made that earlier Homo species are also human. (And also that battles were had even before the divergence of Homo from Hominini.)

I went to the SBS website to submit a complaint, before realising that you actually can’t submit a complaint unless you specify a date of the program. And then I realised…we’re talking about an event that’s a year away? Surely that’s excessive. The last one wasn’t that long ago.

But yeah, our public broadcasters should not be promoting genocide. They were more than happy to boycott Russia immediately for their war of aggression. Why is Israel given special dispensation for genocide?

Oh yeah I get it. They didn’t think there was anything wrong with what they did at the time. I was merely addressing one part of your own comment:

which was effectively an attempt at cultural genocide

There’s no such thing as “an attempt at…genocide”. If the act was carried out with the intent to eradicate (even if, as was the case in Australia, they believed the eradication was in the best interests of the individuals), then the action is genocide, whether or not the targeted group actually ceases to exist.

If you think about it, that has to be the case. Otherwise we would say there has never been a genocide in history. The Nazis only attempted genocide against the Jews, Roma, gays, etc. But we don’t say that, we say what the Nazis did was genocide, even though Jews, Romani, and gay people still exist today. (And likewise, the genocide Israel is currently perpetuating against Palestinians is a genocide, not an “attempted” one, which is why the common genocide denialist’s attempt to point to numbers killed as a sign that it’s not genocide is irrelevant.)

Fyi there is no “attempt” at cultural genocide. Genocide is a crime in the act itself, regardless of the success of lack thereof in the outcome.

Not sure you understand the context here. This is complaining about motornormativity and how people can get away with murder if they do it with a car. It’s got nothing to do with nazis.

Not a federal thing. I was specifically thinking of the Brisbane City Council local government which was repeatedly removing “white ghost” memorials to Philip Pawsey…until the memorialists put a white ghost bike on a trailer parked in the bike lane (which is a legal place to park a car here…), which because it’s legally parked on the road, it would be illegal for them to remove. It ended up highlighting the irony of their failure to build proper infrastructure (i.e., separated bike paths where a car can’t park and thereby endanger cyclists) far more than a normal memorial would have.

Found the link.

This is atrocious. It needs more public attention.

…5 years ago, which is presumably why you chose to crop out the date before reposting.

Lucky he didn’t run Charke Kirk down

I was just thinking in another thread, how easy it would have been to kill Kirk with a car and just get away with it. Because I don’t agree with your comment here. Using a car is the best way to get away with murder. You have to be extremely unlucky to get any significant penalty when you kill someone with your car. Just ask the killers of Michael Hall, Carolyn Lister, Philip Pawsey, Richard Pollett, Richard Burden, and countless others around the country. Most of those were never charged. The one that was charged was never convicted. And our government spends more effort removing memorials than it does on actually addressing the problem.

Wait what? Have you got a link? It at least a date?

Haven’t seen much scrutiny

I’m pretty sure we criticised it pretty roundly in this Community (or other Communities on this Instance) back when it came out. But yeah, not much serious pushback from established media.

Catbox is blocked at the dns level by some Australian ISPs. For the sake of privacy you should really change your DNS provider anyway. Quad 9 is a good choice and easy to remember. 208.67.222.222 isn’t a bad secondary option.

Does anyone know if the actual descriptions for each role were shared anywhere online?

It’s a sparsely-populated country. We actually only use 4. 02 for NSW and the ACT, 03 for Victoria and Tasmania, 07 for Queensland, and 08 for SA, WA, and the NT.

There are then a further 2 digits (or 1 digit for the most populous areas) used for more fine-grained regions, like 073 for Brisbane and 0747 for Townsville. But at least when I was young, those digits would be part of the phone number you would memorise and type, even for other people in the same subregion. I’m not sure if they were compulsory or not. So my phone number as a child was 3XXX XXXX. If I had been on NSW trying to reach that, it wouldn’t have worked, and I’d have needed to know that it’s 07 3XXX XXXX. And internationally it would be 617 3XXX XXXX.

There’s this meme of ‘why is ChatGPT expert on everything but the area I have knowledge of’.

That’s just Gell-Mann amnesia applied to chat bots.

Cancer is not the only thing asbestos can cause. There’s even a name for it: asbestosis.

translated to something like ratio

Ratio is exactly the word we use in English bittorrent.