If you don’t know, vote no!

I just saw an opinion piece by Chris Kenny in the Australian whinging that the “majority” of the media isn’t giving Dutton a free ride on nuclear. Bro you are the majority of the media. ABC and the Guardian have much smaller audiences

I can’t remember where but they mention in the report that SMRs were the most suitable form of reactor for Australia according to some industry consultation and it being difficult to realise the full costings of the large scale “traditional” nuclear reactors due to government subsidies, lack of transparency and different labour costs in Australia VS somewhere else 50 years ago.

Do you think the Coalition (or any hypothetical but still possible Australian Government) could actually deliver nuclear by 2040? Given the lack of expertise and experience, as well as pushback from States and lack of private investment I think it’s really unlikely

For anyone interested the full report may be found here: https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/2024-06/20240612 UTSACRI BIDA Poll 2024 - Australian views on the Australia-China relationship_Introduction and executive summary_0.pdf

However, the report fails to say what the actual questions are…

Some interesting excerpts:

Acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS: Nearly half of Australians (48 percent) agreed that ‘The Australian government’s plan to acquire nuclear submarines under the Australia–UK–US (AUKUS) trilateral security partnership will help keep Australia secure from a military threat from China’, a four-point increase from when the view was first measured in 2023 (44 percent).

Victoria residents (71 percent) were significantly more likely to agree, while Australian Capital Territory residents (29 percent) were significantly less likely to agree.

so the subs aren’t terribly popular.

The possibility of military conflict with China within three years: Half of Australians (50 percent) said that ‘Military conflict with China within three years is a serious possibility’, a continuation of views expressed in 2023 (51 percent). Twenty-three percent disagreed and 27 percent expressed neutrality.

And the media/LNP narrative about war with China is kind of working.

What they should do is instead associate with fossil fuel companies or climate denialism and see how quickly the media changes their opinions

better bang for your buck

No, you’ll definitely get bang with nuclear 💥💥💥

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That’s not how copyright works, if it did GitHub would own every project on their site.

I’m sorry I did that, it was out of lack of experience and a knee-jerk reaction to reports from users who weren’t happy about posts all being lumped in the one community. I’m not proud of the mess that was early on, and I’ve switched the priorities to look after this community first, and allow the others to grow in their own right alongside this one. Pretty much the advice you gave when questioned, just quite some time later. Thank you for your contributions to this community.

I can’t filter by community but you’ve got the most posts out of the regular posters:

1. You: 392
2. Me: 328
3. @zero_gravitas@aussie.zone: 304
4. @vividspecter@lemm.ee: 261

Special shout out to @MHLoppy@fedia.io who has been doing a lot of posts here as of late and @Mountaineer@aussie.zone who made a lot of posts here in the beginning which really helped to get this community going.

Here you go:

You’ll have to chase up Melbourne if you want your medal for highest points

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Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign

I’ve been having a think as to the best way to go about this and I think we should be promoting Aussie Zone instead of Lemmy, just because it’s easier for casual users to get their heads around:

• We’re an ad-free place to have good quality discussions about Australian life and politics, just like reddit, except it’s run for Australians and not for profit. We’re also connected to a worldwide network of similar forums where interesting discussions can take place about issues of a global scale with communities also dedicated to memes.

At the end of the day it was just an ad for a doll, the “feminism” stuff they did was moreso to attract the twitter blue checks, so that it would be a culture war crime to dissent on it

I’d blocked that from my memory, thanks for reminding me

I watched this one as a bit of a joke really, kind of left going what the fuck? I usually like it when a movie leaves me feeling like that, but I don’t know it was a bit weird and silly. Would the world magically be better if it were only women running things? Unlikely, all humans are humans there are women on both sides of the political spectrum. Just like men you can’t say that women feel a certain way. I don’t know it was just a bit weird that’s all.

I wanna be clear all of the weird, sexist and political responses aren’t something I support. At the end of the day though is was just an ad for a doll which apparently is responsible for the achievements and ambitions of women in the latter half of the 20th Century. I’m not a woman so I don’t really know

I think it was just too long, maybe at half of the length they might have thought more about what belongs in there

Anything from Marvel ever. Except maybe Guardians of the Galaxy, but it’s all way too long and just boring, I don’t know I always find fight scenes to be extremely boring in films, I’m more interested in the progression of the story over some dragged out fight

even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.

Especially this, with all of the drama Lemmy.world causes (and is still causing - just got a test comment I sent on there last week today). It would all come down to what is more cost effective and how the parallel federation stuff helps in 0.19.5. I think something that would make this possible is to add another view (Subscribed, Local, All, Moderator View), call it “Curated” to have posts show up from the local feed of another instance or add communities to it (all under control of the Admins). That way if we had another instance we could encourage people to sign up there for load balancing, we could also run sister instances with different default settings (i.e. disabled downvotes or open community creation or open registration). A year ago it looked like the mods of some of the Australia related subreddits wanted to migrate their communities here. Interestingly they haven’t stuck around, perhaps due to not getting power?

Absolutely! Complacency is one of the worst vulnerablilities you can have