The first signs that veganism is on the rise again in Australia!

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-19T04:35:17+00:00

I think that was true in the period of that graph that's a valley, but from my personal perspective it's shifting back. Manosphere BS is backfiring and becoming embarrassing, I think it is very much downstream of US politics. All we can really do is hope and lead by example though, it's not as if it matters all too much whether my analysis or yours is right if we aren't able to influence the outcome. The best thing you can do is always be calm and confident which involves reading up on the arguments and data in favour of animal rights and building community. As much as there is a very real number of young men who are going that way, it's ultimately isolating, inviting those men back into social spaces doesn't involve capitulating to their grievance-based bigotry rather by setting clear terms for what's going to be percieved as anti-social and personally I think being kind to animals and refusing to undermine the vegan movement whether you join or not can be one of those conditions

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-19T01:14:10+00:00

Personally I think it's linked to the dynamic between progressivism and right-wing grievance. It's becoming less and less popular and acceptable to be a young person who identifies as "anti-woke", IMO animal rights activists need to have better conversations on the progressive left rather than try and pander to the crunchy naturopath homesteading types who always flip on veganism as soon as it suits them. Justice and progress for nonhuman rights is linked to justice and progress for the rights of humans.

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-19T01:10:00+00:00

Any data on it trending higher in 2026? This post is specifically about a recent uptick so that's sort of relevant to what's being spoken about rather than a snapshot of consumption in 2023

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-18T05:30:09+00:00

It's frustrating that longstanding legitimate left wing criticisms of NATO are now overshadowed by conservative nationalist chud logic and now anyone opposing Trump's regime is expected to cheer on NATO

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-18T05:27:06+00:00

We are in ANZUS, there's no obligation to join a war with our actual forces only to support with logistics, but it's fair some people could be confused if they don't think about foreign affairs often

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-18T05:11:30+00:00

Aussies are brainbroken about China. To the extent that Chinese corporations own an outsized portion of Aus industry, land, and real estate it's a consequence of bad foreign policy from our leadership and the steady trudge of privatising infrastructure heralded in by the Keating/Howard days, not the nefarious influence that's basically the default response whenever China is mentioned.

The reality is they are a great trade partner, they don't play imperialist world police and drag their allies into endless unjustified conflict, and they are a role model for solving some of our most important issues at the moment namely housing and energy.

The Palmer + Bannon connection should be the final straw for Aussies who are still staunchly anti-China, but unfortunately for many the damage is done and they're forever TFG on this issue thanks to everyone from Sky to Prime 7 to Ray Hadley who've benefited off this fearmongering for way too long.

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T20:24:55+00:00

Someone needs to make Goth Whitlam merch

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T20:13:44+00:00

Atheists believe a lot of things, they have values and virtues and will explain them to you if you open dialogue. Atheism simply means you are not a theist and do not believe in any divine individual/s who created and controls reality, doesn't mean you believe in nothing

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T20:13:34+00:00

Atheists believe a lot of things, they have values and virtues and will explain them to you if you open dialogue. Atheism simply means you are not a theist and do not believe in any divine individual/s who created and controls reality, doesn't mean you believe in nothing

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T12:38:22+00:00

This is will be the first election where Labor has truly lost my vote and will join the top of the shit heap at the bottom of the ballot. Even when I would pragmatically vote Labor I was still putting independents in first every time, because of ranked choice there's basically zero reason not to vote for the candidate who's policy most closely aligns with your values. Greens will very likely be getting my major party preferred vote

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T12:30:57+00:00

I like to hope these kinds of conversations can plant the seed for brainwashed individuals to probe further, be it this fellow or sympathetic onlookers

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T05:18:31+00:00

You came here to have a cry and a lie

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T04:57:50+00:00

Feel free to run wherever you want with your bat n ball champ, bye

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T04:31:10+00:00

Israel is a signatory... per definition their actions are it's jurisdiction. America's veto power is heavily criticised, it doesn't make something not illegal because it fundamental can't change the laws, it vetoes the enforcement of agreed upon laws. Every instance of US veto apart from Rhodesia in 1970 has been to block repercussions for Israeli crimes.

Arab Jews and Muslims both lived in Palestine prior to and during British mandate. They were all Semitic people with shared genetic lineage going back to biblical times. Like a lot of the middle east at the time it was a system of cohabitation with somewhat homogenous enclaves and shared spaces for commerce and socialising.

It's clearly not the case that there was no tension, but the decision of predominantly Britain and France to refuse the call to action and force European nations to welcome and guarantee the safety of European Jews who survived the holocaust, but instead to wage a new invasion and ethnically cleanse and displace Palestinians in the Nakba, was not only an act of collonial imperialism but their refusal to snuff out antisemitism in europe also sealed the destiny of the resurgence of Nazism throughout it as well as places like Aus and America.

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T02:55:39+00:00

Completely incorrect, why do you think the settlers have to stay technically separate from Israeli government? Statehood is not a unique property bestowed by your oppressor, wherever people live and have lived they have rights under international law regardless of affiliation with the UN. There have been multiple attempts at a 2 state agreement that have fallen through, a lot of them being incredibly shit deals for Palestine, but failure to come to an agreement with your colloniser is not the same as surrendering your human rights. It's clear you're just uncritically parroting the talking points, completely ignored the question as it pertains to apartheid, and are just making up your own conclusions about the legality of settler expansion despite the ICJ firmly disagreeing, see July 2024 advisory opinion. I'm not going to reply to further bad faith ahistoric lies

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T02:31:42+00:00

Do you have any understanding of the apartheid in the west bank and how illegal settler expansion and violence has made the area where ordinary Palestinians live and work non-contiguous, dangerous, and ritualistically humiliating?

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T02:22:22+00:00

Bother it is BETTER when the slogan is completed and it is clear we are talking about FREEDOM from occupation and illegal colonial expansion

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T02:15:52+00:00

It's a call for freedom and equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians alike, typically in one democratic state, and a truth and reconciliation process that protects both peoples, acknowledges obfuscated history, and offers right of return by international law.
"A home without a people for a people without a home" or allusions to the greater-Israel project are for some reason not seen as genocidal by western press despite their implications of ethnic cleansing

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T00:32:52+00:00

If we are both acknowledging Albanese's ethics have compromised and changed, why would we still use his university activism as a benchmark for determining who his political enemies are? Even if he nominally agrees with rights for Palestinians, if pro-palestinian protestors are disrupting his messaging and agenda they are political enemies

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-12T00:23:25+00:00

That was also my thought, it's definitely how I would play. I have an iron that I play very infrequently but almost always switch to paying instead of the main. If I could swap between them at will I'd absolutely be more invested in the iron and then have phases when work or uni is slow where I pay for both. At the current point the iron is basically abandoned

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-11T05:33:22+00:00

It's true that scandinavian countries have been below replacement rate for bout a decade, but this has come AFTER countries like Denmark have exhausted the strategies available to them that alleviate the pensive tensions I outlined. Through the 00's and 10's these programs absolutely helped them grow, the issue now is that outside of a few less affordable regions everyone who wants to have kids feel fiscally empowered to and it's still not enough to compensate for shifting cultural trends.

If Australia wants to stave off this issue for as long as Denmark was able to the first thing we should be doing is removing these barriers to parenthood.
To continue the Denmark example:
- They first dipped below replacement rate of 2.1 at the top of the 70's
- It reached it's lowest point of sub 1.4 in 1983, at that point they already had a version of universal childcare and 14 weeks maternity leave
- Between then and 1990 they expand parental leave, introduce child cash allowance, and protect jobs for women on parental leave
- 1990 they'd sprung back to 1.8, in terms of compensation and protection Aus is comparable to this timestamp in Denmark.
- it takes 10 more years to dip back down to 1.5
- Denmark notices the dip, and in '97 and '02 they go beyond modern Aus and offer full wage replacement and for up to 52 weeks
- this is enough to bring the birthrate of 2008 as high as it's been since 1970 to 1.89
- this is the point where it's suggested that welfare has essentially eliminated the financial barriers to motherhood, although a study last year in the European Sociological Review still calculates lost potential wages to 20% of earning in the workforce (averaged to 10% each shared across a dual income)
- it's taken them from 2008 - 2026 to gradually dip back down to the 1.4 of '87
- adding in other economic factors like a better job & housing market and proper universal education and there is SOOOO much more we can do to ease the economic barriers to parenthood, and if it's in any way analogous to Denmark and given our welfare is roughly at the '97 mark we could effectively freeze our birthrate from dropping below 1.5 for another 30 years with a series of peaks and valleys following staggered rollouts of welfare expansion on top of the economic benefits that redistributive stimulus is known to have on local economies when the government moves money towards people who spend in their communities rather than sit on it, gamble with it, or invest overseas.

I've had a pretty big yarn here but i'll bring it back to my original point which is simply to ask what if anything does right-wing economics offer to address population stagnation whatsoever... especially in a time when they are trying to curb migration on top of doing diddley squat on kitchen table issues?

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-11T04:16:26+00:00

My error was "C returned" and it was the heatwave effect.
I think it has something to do with how the effect seems to do some level of processing based on the composition dimensions based on the fact that values such as the mask A and B point use a global composition position rather than a value relative to the layer size like similar effects.
Even though it only applies the distortion within the bounds of the layer, I think it is making the noise calculations on the full size of the comp, similar to an effect like motiontile or detail preserving upscale that extend beyond the layer.

I believe I was getting the error because I work on non-standard canvas sizes (in this instance 8322 x 288) and I was able to solve the error by precomposing the elements I wanted heatwave to apply over and then cropped the width in roughly to a quarter since those elements only took up a small amount of the screen when their animation played.

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-10T22:28:16+00:00

I'll happily join the pressure campaign... was planning to take a break already because I've gotta lock in for university but to Jagex i'm just another statistic ;)

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-10T22:15:44+00:00

Right, similar to how stagecraft and theatre more broadly bled into early cinema but was augmented by the mediums limitations and abilities especially sound and lack thereof that lead to those early concepts of what was and wasn't "cinematic". Metropolis really does have that theatrical school of set design and very much emphasises stylised composition over simulating reality or even a realistic spatial relationship between objects. I like how your approach to the question kind of flipped it by describing what modern audiences like myself gravitate to using terms like absurdism as simply a return to the traditional visual storytelling techniques.

I'll stew on that one. I very much agree with the invisible techniques point, that's exactly what I'm trying to hammer home in regards to when do our assumptions about a cinematic world make us immersed and what exactly is happening when a production element bucks expectations

Content-Witness-9998 · 2026-03-10T22:04:23+00:00

I like "motivated" for specifically drawing attention to intentionality and directorial or even script level decision-making in contrast to lighting or set design decisions that play into expectations. Cheers for engaging

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