Maybe its supposed to be, “Out with the teapot in with the mug”?

Been a bit partial to vanilla icecream with one of those mini nonnas apple pies lately. If i’m feeling adventurous, a bit a custard to.

The car industry execs should be laughing their heads off at naive bank execs assuming they know more about it than the car execs. Don’t they think the car execs already know what the risk and competitive nature of their own business.

Guess what bankers, this is how you produce positive growth in a real productive industry, and its risky business. Instead the bankers prescription assumes managed decline.

It’s like that new guy at work who constantly tells everyone about ‘hacks’ only they’ve discovered, when everybody already knows about them.

Whats the link?

Glad to see someone has mentioned this. Huge gains in time in the day for a huge part of the population.

Looks a nice sitting area.

Their logo looks a bit like the Carlton United Brewing logo.

Everytime i go for a walk i see something new that i haven’t noticed before.

Doing what to casual observater seems like the same thing over and over again, can actually be the process of developing a deeper understanding of the subject area than before, (in this case your local neighbourhood).

This helps in an unexpected way. I’ve been low level questioning why Marcos has received such a quiet western media response upon his families return to power.

It seemed out of step with, you know, the US sphere’s “values” statement. This article got me a little further in understanding the US relationship with Duterte leading up to the event.

I’d have thought SA is less dry than the Mojave, but i guess i should remember that walking around Fallout New Vegas wasteland Mojave might not be the same as the real thing.

I’ve thought a fun promotional tag would be,

Aussie_zone, the socials alternative

Possibly recognisable from a certain media outlet ;)

Its probably better to focus on aussie_zone and any future sister servers rather than lemmy or fediverse as a whole.

Its a broad church out there. Last night i’s reading about the Maven AI controversy. People here on Aussie_zone might be cool with promotion, (also might not be), but others on Lemmy might not be, its not practical to check with everyone on every Lemmy server, and it’d not be nice to garner a perception of speaking for them.

Challenge that moderator to ‘Street Countdown’, i bet they won’t even show.

It won’t halt all monied influences, lobbyists won’t be hit by this it seems, (its complicated to hit the bad lobbyists without hurting the good), corruption will crop up, but its a great reform nonetheless.

What i think it will do best is reset the tone from monied interests walking honourably through the front door, to sneaking guiltily in the metaphorical back. The reputational risk increases the costs for business people being seen to be influencing politics too much.

Bonus the lack of funding might reduce the amount of scare campaigns and political slinging matches due to the campaigns needing to attend to their own platform messages in a campaign rather than their opponents. Of course there’ll always be the outlying elections where the opposition can get away with virtually no platform.

Exciting news!

Sister instances would be my preferred option, it could mean we build the communities, but never have to sacrifice this instances culture by getting too large on a single instance.

Adding another view would be the way to go for sister instances to connect in a deeper way than the rest of the fediverse but still maintain some semblance of separateness.

It puts me in mind of the EU bloc, a supranational organisation, where the culture and way of life of the participating States is maintained, but many benefits of the closer connectedness are granted.

I’d be keen for a more descriptive view label than ‘curated’. Maybe it could become an extra field that admins launching sister instances are able to fill in themselves. I guess this is something we’d have to approach lemmy developers about.

Giving them the ability to have a uniquely descriptive name could be fun though. In our case it could be Australasian Allied Instances (AAI), or Australasian Union of Federating Servers (AFUS), or my personal favourite “Warboss Gorgritch’s Waargh on the Fediverse”.

and, my mind is mush, i’m going to bed…

I think your right about a need for critical mass.

Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign is probably a topic that should be discussed at some point. Be it of this instance specifically, or Lemmy in general, or even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.

You don’t fucking know shit about it

Nor do you.

Its a largely uninvestigated report at the moment. Maybe people who believe her will turn out to have misplaced their trust, maybe theres a more compliacted series of events, maybe she is lying.

Point is none of us know more than whats been said so far; theres no reason to outright disbelieve someone when they make a serious complaint about discrimination. Otherwise, if we do, we’ve learned nothing from historic discriminatory abuses in all manner of circumstances.

I read this article yesterday. Its such a nothing burger. All the writer ends up saying is the economies alright at the moment, and there doesn’t seem to be anything analysts are worried about in particular, ‘but, but, wait, thats what they always say before a black swan event!’

I’m not saying i’m particularly happy with the state of the economy, (my gripes are related to systemic things that Albo refuses to touch).

Tl:dr

1. An xmas hols fill in, made some unrelated post referencing the atrocities happening against palestinians.

2.Whatsapp (i think) group in Aus decided to launch a targetted campaign to remove lettouf from broadcasting.

3. Other people from the same group took screenshots and went public

4. ABC management screwed up, and probably deserve all the punishment they get for having such a wrong headed and knee-jerk response.

Yeah, this is important. In such a small traditional media environment they probably feel like they don’t have much choice. They should look for talent in new and independent media if they don’t already, theres still plenty of people out there, they just have tiny loudspeakers.

Haha, different interpretations of State i guess.

I’d interpret your example as policies of the Government of the day, which represents the State, (like the managers represent the ABC), for a short tenure of the life of the respective entities.

My interpretation in line with what might come to mind when you talk about a Statesman. Good current examples would be John Kerry, Angela Merkel, or closer to home, Julie Bishop. These people have their political aims, but they also realise the continuation of the State as a living entity has a use in its dependency and therefore importance. Noticeably, they’re more internationally focused where its enormously important to take a wider breadth of view in regards your own State and its continuing existence.

An Australian story of Tragedy!