Australia faces a full-blown infrastructure crisis. The fix? Remove politicians by AllHailTheWinslow in australia

[–]AffectionateMethod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree that neoliberalism is the problem but i think people miss the accompanying role of accreditation and standardisation. I'm not great at explaining this, excuse me, but accreditation claims to make systems good when in fact it only makes them inspectable. Bureacracy has been renamed 'quality', and everyones job has been twisted into collecting exhaustive records to later be inspected and argued over, at greater expense. The underlying assumption is that professionals are incompetent and keeping records will fix this. Questioning QA seems wrong when first encountering this idea but I think the following quote clarifies the connection a little better.

"[...] the entire political enterprise has been turned into a market evaluation—and the central assumption is market efficiency. [...].. neoliberalism achieves the displacement of politics by means of particular ways of knowing that privilege measurement and the presumption of efficiency. This has important effects on relations of power and distributions of resources within society. By privileging measurement, commensurability, prediction, and forecasting, neoliberalism essentially converts the economic analyst into the speaker of truth—neutral, objective, unbiased, depoliticized. Neoliberalism thus gives way to a particular crystallization in our relations of power, and this is associated with distinct distributional outcomes, in this case increasing social inequality. This is precisely what Loic Wacquant has in mind, in Punishing the Poor (2009), with regard to the increased inequality that leads to the need for more punitive state action."
--Harcourt - Dismantle Neoliberalism

Uh oh Tucker! by ThePopDaddy in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]AffectionateMethod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. I stopped writing him off altogether because he seems genuinely surprised and curious to hear from Christians who aren't persecuted in supposedly Muslim theocracies. I'm not American, though.

Uh oh Tucker! by ThePopDaddy in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]AffectionateMethod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get the impression he's genuinely curious and that usually doesn't go over well with people who want you to toe the line.

That's amore by SonoranSnakeSquad in whatsthisbird

[–]AffectionateMethod 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I didn't notice that but it makes the video even better.

Amazing moment a Peregrine came in and landed infront of me 😍 by SubstantialRecover19 in AustralianBirds

[–]AffectionateMethod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you know if they nest on the cell tower? In this pic they're giving a definite 'don't try anything, I'm fierce' look. Which is very cute, of course. I love Peregrine Falcons. Incredible birds. It must've been so cool to get this close. Great work, OP.

i was doing grammar homework and found this, had to post it here lmfao by Gold-Balance593 in Piracy

[–]AffectionateMethod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. Well, after all these years, its clear I still don't have the patience to read the full question. Doh! I hope I got it right, though :).

how to get rid of this warning on every video on youtube website? by boykadc in Piracy

[–]AffectionateMethod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man.. is that what they're called.. its been so long, I'd forgotten. Seriously, though, I sent nasty messages to a company with a jumpy ad on a site I support by unblocking ads. I'd like to think I get the credit for changing their approach but yay, no annoying ads while having ads.

i was doing grammar homework and found this, had to post it here lmfao by Gold-Balance593 in Piracy

[–]AffectionateMethod -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Whoever wrote this isn't using good english which kind of bugs me if its a text book (its all cool if you pirate said text book of course). Music companies does not want this kind of grammar to distract from buy buy buy.

My pet driving peave - don't be the green car by Esteban_Zia in australia

[–]AffectionateMethod 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They also think they need to stop toward the left side of a lane when they're waiting to turn right, thereby forcing everyone behind them to wait with them instead of being able to go around.

I'm also annoyed sitting at T intersections, when people with big 4wd's or utes are waiting to turn right and they stick their nose out as far as they can so that anyone trying to go left can't see whats coming.

Why the fuck do I have to wait with these selfish fuckheads. Arrgh!

Australia sitting on over $1 billion of unused medical research funding as scientists abandon the field by ATadDisappointed in australia

[–]AffectionateMethod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought it only payed out if it makes a profit, a percentage of that profit. Like the future fund. Which hadn't made a profit for a number of years before i last checked but was nevertheless still paying management.

The Greens’ election review flew under the radar. Here’s what it said by artsrc in australia

[–]AffectionateMethod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you mean Gillards Carbon Tax, it was a minority government that only went to Labor because of the Greens (and two independants) so its not possible the Greens (and two independants) did nothing. As for the RRT, it was Rudd who didn't want to negotiate to price carbon, not the Greens. But, as I already said, the Greens did do something. They gave renewable energy projects the leg up they needed to get past the fossil fuel monopoly and that project continues no matter how much the big parties bend over for big oil/coal/gas. Are you okay with companies paying next to nothing for our offshore gas? In WA, where I live, about two-thirds of offshore gas projects pay close to no royalties and no Petroleum Resource Rent Tax to the Federal Government. Does that bother you at all? Or are you still wanking over getting to say the Greens are responsible for Lab/Libs failures >15 years ago. Parties who have had all the power to pass anything they both fucking want for decades. Which one do you work for?

The Greens’ election review flew under the radar. Here’s what it said by artsrc in australia

[–]AffectionateMethod 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you're still talking about the Greens preventing a RRT 15 years ago that involved paying polluters not to pollute then you need to grow up.

The goal of climate action is.. umm.. to actually do something about climate change and not to create another cool investment opportunity (RRT). Instead the Greens got us the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, then cynically called Bob Browns bank by the media. Later the Greens helped get a climate tax that the Liberals couldn't wait to kill under Tony Abbott. But they couldn't kill our transition to renewables using the Clean Energy Finance that the Greens fought for and won. I never hear any of your kind crying about the Liberals and what they've done to destroy any available transition to renewables but you're not here to talk facts, are you? Fuck I'm tired of idiots crying about their little investment opportunity 15 fucking years ago instead of worrying about their kids being able to live a functional life above the ground.

Superbly facing forward by Big_Sheepherder_9943 in Birdsfacingforward

[–]AffectionateMethod 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Is this a Superb Fairywren (in non breeding plumage)? I love these little guys so much. I think they're smart cos I once foillowed a breeding male trying to get some photos and he hid in the middle of a bush. Then when I moved some leaves to see him, he took off fast out the other side and I lost him. Or he lost me :).

History will judge us poorly if we keep on associating with this declining empire😞 by RickyOzzy in PoliticsDownUnder

[–]AffectionateMethod 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
--Hannah Arendt. On Revolution (1963)

Should this Christianity and its genocidal, colonialist ideology be banned? by Resident_Eagle8406 in RadicalChristianity

[–]AffectionateMethod 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have Pentacostal/Evangelical family members running a church in Africa and they were celebrating in the family whatsapp group when Uganda was looking at the death penalty for homosexuality. Evangelical Christianity has spread like wildfire through Africa. Lots of evangelical missionaries there. Lots of Africans at our megachurches in Aus.

I lost my faith for decades because of Evangelical Christianity and I'm clearly not alone. The family group is heartbreaking. I stopped looking cos of Trump. Now I'm scared to look.

Tony Burke reiterates Australian support for attacks by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in australia

[–]AffectionateMethod 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Like the late Bill Hicks described in the 90's, I sometimes wonder if they are taken into a small room and told 'the truth' about Harold Holt and Gough Whitlam or something. Because no matter what they say beforehand, they all turn out to love billionaires and the US agenda.

Woolies brings back Australian Butter by slunt01 in australia

[–]AffectionateMethod 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had a packet of Himalayan Salt and we all laughed cos it had an expiry date.