Le Guin was a real one.
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Le Guin was a real one.
There’s also a transcript at the bottom.
Unfortunately all the witty repartee in the world won’t alter the fundamental logic of capital. These ghouls are bought and paid for, they profit from our misery. Why would they fix it?
If they’re lucky one, maybe two idealistically motivate policies survive a career in party politics.
Shorty calling people against gambling ads “anti gambling zealots” I guess me, a homebrew is also an “anti drinking zealot” since I don’t want that advertised. I also love acid and don’t want that advertised so I guess I’m an anti LSD zealot too.
I HATE our lords and masters so much. Their spineless doublespeak, their beady-eyed bean counting. It’s so incredibly civilised to measure out acceptable allotments of misery.
we’ve always had a strong outdoors and sporting culture 8<
Yeah sure I guess
>8 and that tends to lend itself to betting and to gambling
say again? Playing cricket at the beach lends itself to betting how? Gambling industry defs tries to push this hard but I dunno if it falls out.
Australians lose an estimated $25 billion a year from gambling […]. And the majority of that is lost through poker machines, but certainly sports betting has been growing in recent years.
So… outdoors and sports doesn’t lend itself to gambling? Actually most gambling is indoors and not sports?
John, gambling victim: I think at the moment, the whole online gambling system is broken in regards to offering the vulnerable punters levels of safety and avoiding gambling harm. Because from my experience, these gambling companies are just there to try and extract every cent out of you.
John is close to realising the fundamental problem of corporations here. We’ll welcome you when you come round comrade.
Bill Shorten spoke out both on Q&A and on Radio National Breakfast about what he thought were the risks if you brought in a blanket ban on gambling advertising. He was worried that if you got rid of the gambling ads and had a blanket ban, that would see the demise of particularly regional TV, journalism in these areas.
So uh gambling is a tax on the vulnerable to fund sports? Sounds like an argument to nationalise the industry shorten, limit harms and so forth? I mean if sports in regional towns needs subsidies lets do it at least. I care more about that than pay rises for pollies and nuclear subs eh?
Steve Cannane: Now, I’m not sure what Bill Shorten was relying on for those figures. He’s never actually told us what the evidence is that suddenly that industry would all fall apart.
lol, lmao even
Steve Cannane: We spoke to Kai Cantwell on Radio National Breakfast. He’s the CEO of Responsible Wagering Australia, and they represent five of the largest sports betting companies in Australia. And he was particularly opposed to an online ban on gambling advertising. And what he was saying was that if you brought something like that in, you would then see an increase of illegal offshore providers and Australians gambling with those offshore providers.
Right, again someone making a strong argument for nationalising the industry then?
Steve Cannane: After that interview, I emailed his office and asked for a source for that Norway study. His office never got back to me about that. So we spoke to Stein Langberget, who worked for the state monopoly, because in Norway, it’s a state monopoly that runs gambling. It’s not private enterprise. And he said that it was only 6% of the market there was offshore. And he said they had decided themselves as the state-run monopoly to stop marketing publicly and stop advertising on TV because they believed it was harming children. And so they took that decision themselves.
Yeah ok so the above mate lies and evidence suggests nationalising it and banning ads?
You seem familiar with this looking at the instance you run.
I’m keen to hear your thoughts on why these subsidies are harmful. What do you think is a better approach for pre-school aged childcare? Or do you not want it?
The state steralised me so I’ve no personal stake, by sister who’s quite wealthy and very uh unradical feminist (more women as bank ceos type) seems very keen on this stuff for gender equality reasons given childcare often falls to mothers. Keen to hear the other side if you don’t mind writing up your thoughts?
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Seems like you’ll hate it. I would’ve thought you’d prefer guns in school and no welfare because governments governing pisses you off.
Are you planning on coming back or do you just it just annoy you that the usa isn’t the entire world?
Pokémon let’s go (to the star for a cheeky one) Eeve
Why?
Put aside your nostalgia for the game for a minute. Wouldn’t it be better if the game didn’t feature the slot machines? They’re
a) not important mechanically, narratively, or artistically.
b) presenting something socially harmful and addictive with absolutely zero context as to those harms.
c) Potentially some of a generation’s earliest exposure to gambling, and presented as an annodyne game with some mechanical benefits to playing.
The goal isn’t to keep Pokémon out of the hands of kids, it’s to encourage people to not include this stuff in children’s games. Imagine if you could just light a ciggy at some point in the game to give your Pokémon 5 experience points or whatever, it’s a completely gratuitous and possibly harmful.
Industry pressure is my guess. Easier to start with the “nuh dah” examples than get caught in the lootboxes == slots legal battles.
Payoff is longer than 3 years so it won’t happen.
I dunno you tell me what the subtext of opening with defending the cops and denying that cops target media. Then goes into both-sidesism.
And then wow look at what happens later:
But to say we shouldn’t place any blame on individuals over-simplifies the problem. There are multiple issues at play here, I don’t think you can just wave away the personal responsibility of the individuals involved.
Oh look it’s both sides are at fault again. If you’re filming at a protest, or even attending you have some personal responsibility for getting collaterally shot in the face or teargassed.
This is nonsense, the violence is extremely asymmetrical and involves the use of indiscriminate weapons. I mean imagine if a protestor fired rubber bullets or teargas into a crowd to hit a shell or LM exec, what would anyone be saying about that person? He’s not presenting some nuanced critique, he’s gone straight into defending violence which would constitute literal war crimes if it wasn’t the police doing it.
Used to ride before arthritis took it. Fuck loud pipes, they don’t help you enough to justify the social burden if they ever help you at all.
you usually work up grits. In general for edges that should end shaving sharp (e.g. kitchen, whirling) below 1k is rough work, profiling work, 1k or so is basic small chip repair etc, 3k is standard sharpen, and higher is polishing wank. You get what you pay for in general: cheap stones need soaking, the wear out fast (needing truing). Shapton makes some great splash and go stones.
However, there is one cheap 2 sided diamond stone that is actually quality. The sharpal one. Be aware diamond cuts extremely fast (good and bad), it doesn’t need truing or soaking. I recommend if you’re getting one stone get that. Learn proper bur minimisation technique and that’ll cover chip repair and get your knives sharp enough to cut seethrough sheets of tomato.
If you feel fancy add 1 micron stropping compound and a sheet of balsa wood to strop on.
Got it, saying protestors deserve to be targetted with indiscriminate chemical weapons = not being a dick. Pointing out that a particular user is calling for the sort of violence banned in the Geneva convention = being a dick.
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If that is your desire read my snippy dissection of the transcript.