ilovepiracy

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[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

While this argument makes sense on paper, it completely nullifies the point. Both should be taught for the following reasons:

  1. You can educate people all you want, but that will not stop the people who simply never gave a flying fuck.
  2. Okay, now you're back to square one, there are evil men out there that don't give a fuck about anyone and WILL abuse you given the opportunity. Thank god they received a talk about how you shouldn't hurt women when they were in 6th grade.
  3. You are now still in a situation where you have to respond to violence, but since self-defence wasn't taught to you, you have to be a helpless victim of said violence.

"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war."

[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But then the whack-a-mole game continues, and you're constantly having to find new extensions to serve the same task. When you could simply switch to firefox, deal with the very minor growing pains, and keep using uBlock with no problems whatsoever.

I agree, but I think his closing statement says more about his position than anything else. "Losers fight battles that are already lost, winners look for new battlegrounds." Which I agree with, it's pessimistic to say that mining corps have won. But it's true. Labor will need to move to 'new battlegrounds' to have any chance, the example provided was the Future Made in Australia proposal. Jordie helped me connect the dots that THIS is the new battleground. Government owned industry in the next advancement of infrastructure/electricity.

 

Informative video into the history of trying to tax the mining industry in Australia, and the extensive lobbying and media control that the mining industry has. Would love to know your opinions on this.

[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks great. I would love to run this, but I live in the middle of Woop Woop so I'm not sure how crucial any data I collect would be.

[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The single greatest policy any pollie could ever implement would be proper taxation on gas/mining/oil companies. Completely absurd, but not surprising at all to me that it isn't in effect though, with Murdoch media and all. Imagine how great this country could be if we had Norway levels of taxation on mineral assets.

[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I know you just said you shut up about it, but I’m currently in a junior sysadmin role and was wondering what area of IT you’re in?

[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've spent a fair bit of time in Denmark, small population with fewer news sources makes thing spread VERY quickly. Not to mention, they are very patriotic. I'll ask some Danish friends about it and report back.

[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Exactly. LLM's assisting people in writing soul-sucking corporate drivel is a good thing, I hope this changes the public perception on the umbrella of 'formal office writing'. (including: internal emails, job applications etc.) So much time-wasting bullshit to form nothing productive.

[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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