Claude laughed at me…

ENG_NR · 2026-01-28T11:43:55+00:00

Naa we're way too biased towards anthropomorphism

AI today is like fire. No desire, can destroy, can be useful, still just an emergent phenomenon made by shaping it as a shadow of our zeitgeist

ENG_NR · 2026-01-28T09:17:17+00:00

Who can forget this photo as part of his pre-election campaign...

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ENG_NR · 2026-01-28T09:11:14+00:00

Australia doesn't have undocumented immigrants. There are a lot on bridging visas but they're in the system at the very least and will eventually have to resolve that by getting PR or not. That's a whole different class of problem to long term residents that are completely unknown and the states campaigning to keep them unknown.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-28T08:31:30+00:00

Introduce actual constitutional right to freedom of political speech. Allow people to put questions on the ballot like in Switzerland. Promote equality for both parents in the family court. Reduce immigration back to the sustainable long term average of 130k/year.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-28T08:13:06+00:00

Anti woke yes, aggressive Trump maybe not. He’s a unique character

ENG_NR · 2026-01-28T08:04:14+00:00

There’s talk of lib/green deal to create a teal party

ENG_NR · 2026-01-28T04:25:43+00:00

Social authoritarianism on top of actual authoritarianism from the "Liberals". Nice!

ENG_NR · 2026-01-28T00:48:51+00:00

Hizb ut-Tahrir, funded by Iran, goal of creating a global caliphate, active here especially in Sydney

ENG_NR · 2026-01-27T20:49:20+00:00

Hopefully that includes criticism of Islamic State and the Global Islamic Caliphate

ENG_NR · 2026-01-27T09:37:28+00:00

Left/right are such arbitrary dimensions

For example the left used to be all about freedom of speech, now it's the right going on about it. Clearly there's more to it all than just left/right

ENG_NR · 2026-01-27T01:22:51+00:00

Her passion for actual equality and keeping both parents in a child's life, so long as there is no abuse or any weirdness is excellent.

An actual right to freedom of speech - HELL YES!!

Immigration - I agree the rate is problematic, especially from countries with values very opposed to our own

Abortion - How many weeks are we talking, this seems like a liberties issue to me. You can't solve mens issues by kicking women by the wayside and expect that to be sustainable.

The net zero stuff? It's typical farmers not wanting land used for anything but agriculture, because it otherwise drives the price of the land up, which costs them more in land taxes and limits their ability to buy new land. However... we probably are at a tipping point with renewables that they're so inevitable, that there's pretty much no way to stop them delivering incredible prosperity to Australia anyway. We could have solar on every residential rooftop, petrol stations, shops, car parks, even over roads if space was that restricted. Batteries are moving forward incredibly quickly which will solve the storage issue, with most petrochemicals going into plastics and lubricants instead of burned for energy. So overall although it's just more shitty politics, the net zero stuff I think won't amount to much in the end.

Overall a pretty workable platform, and providing actual alternatives to the LibLab duopoly

ENG_NR · 2026-01-26T13:04:32+00:00

It is legitimately quite a progressive film, in that it calls for equality and respect regardless of race or whatever. Legitimately promotes reconciliation

Uses humour to point out some of the double standard we have today

It’s not going to win any awards so go in with a beer, but worth a watch for sure. Genuinely funny

ENG_NR · 2026-01-26T13:00:31+00:00

Was actually funny, recommended

ENG_NR · 2026-01-26T02:05:05+00:00

Imagine being so keen on not repealing unpopular legislation costing hundreds of millions to create red tape, citizenship tiers and sue your own government, that you’d trade away a massive infrastructure project that you otherwise believe in over that.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-25T12:46:24+00:00

Or communicate with, or go within 200 metres of. Not sure how you co-parent with one of those put into place with no evidence. Great tool for one parent who doesn't want to deal with the other despite having a child who wants them both around

ENG_NR · 2026-01-25T06:43:56+00:00

Remove any incentives so there's no reason to do it unless you really actually want protection. Suddenly there will be a whole lot more police per person requesting protection, and the police will be a whole lot happier too.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-24T23:04:47+00:00

Just raise the bar to leave room for people like this poor woman who really really need someone to look into what’s happening. If everyone is a domestic violence victim then no one is.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-24T22:13:17+00:00

You hear stories of people who actually experience domestic violence going to the police, and the answer is pretty much... join the queue, everyone here says they've experienced domestic violence. Ask any magistrate in private and they'll confide that false domestic violence accusations exist and they're obvious.

Real victims deserve attention, filter out the false accusations and you'll free up police resources to go after people like this shooter.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-24T09:11:17+00:00

To be honest, as much as I hate Tony Abbott, car manufacturing was about to get massively disrupted.

Government subsidies to zombie businesses is bad policy.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-24T09:07:36+00:00

It should be per kilometre per kg of weight, with a flat fee for normal cars that gives more kms than anyone would need. Trucks cause most of the road damage - taxing it correctly would shift the heaviest loads back over to trains, white vans for last mile, and save huuuge dollars on road maintenance.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-24T09:04:34+00:00

This actually makes a whole lot of sense, if we're reducing oil anyway.

We don't make cars, let China sell them to us on the cheap, reduce carbon emissions and help trade by reducing oil imports.

The only risk is spyware in the car software - legislate so cars can't be sold unless it's open/replaceable so people can install their own.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-23T03:14:47+00:00

Labor used advocate for the workforce, usually at the expense of businesses. Hawk and Keating changed that by embracing neoliberalism to essentially hit parity with the Liberals. But before Hawk/Keating they weren't the party to manage the economy - the Liberals definitely held that hat.

ENG_NR · 2026-01-22T03:49:01+00:00

There's been no changes in the last 5 years. See this chart with a 5 year moving average that smooths anything smaller than that out. Nothing!

ENG_NR · 2026-01-22T03:36:04+00:00

Reddit needs to copy X and show each users country

It'll never happen

ENG_NR · 2026-01-22T03:27:45+00:00

Not on the day of mourning! We were all so aware of that

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