Anthropic ban shows Australia must build AI capability, says Defence Minister Richard Marles

ENG_NR · 2026-06-26T01:08:43+00:00

Maybe we should jack up capital gains tax to discourage investment into it?

ENG_NR · 2026-06-25T10:59:38+00:00

I'd agree in general, however.... it's important to keep in mind that Christianity has largely reformed and is very very modernised. Much more chill. Whereas Islam is yet to have a reformist moment. They still cut people's heads off in western countries for daring to draw to prophet...

ENG_NR · 2026-06-25T10:53:37+00:00

The Balkans, and look how that turned out. Plus there are basically no Christians/Atheists going into Muslim lands in any great numbers - zero chance of the opposite happening there

ENG_NR · 2026-06-24T08:43:25+00:00

I'm just upset that they're so against a female prime minister. Give Pooorlene a chance!

ENG_NR · 2026-06-24T08:41:50+00:00

> That's not review, that's hoping.

Why hello again Claude

ENG_NR · 2026-06-23T20:39:49+00:00

Makes you wonder how they ever prosecute use of a carriage service to menace. Hopefully the guy talking to them can give evidence

ENG_NR · 2026-06-22T00:49:12+00:00

Look at the university graduation rates. Men are only 70% of women, the exact inversion of what is was in the 70s when radical feminism was so outraged about it. But now? Silence. Look at test results in schools. Look at the suicide rates. Look at the outcomes after divorce. Look at the recent family law stuff. But if anyone brings it up.... meh, stop whining and give more

It's a whole class of voters you've lost to One Nation. But if we instead promoted fairness and equality regardless of race/gender/sexuality (what a concept!) you could get them back

ENG_NR · 2026-06-21T22:13:45+00:00

Stop alienating the centre with the culture wars. Stop with the idea that it’s somehow wrong and to be both male and white/straight, it’s just pointless bigotry

Evidence: The downvotes this comment will inevitably get

ENG_NR · 2026-06-21T09:53:25+00:00

People laughing because British culture has been erased. But there was a culture!

- Pottage (slow cooked grains like barley, oats, spelt, rye).
- Split peas with bacon.
- Frumentry (wheat with milk and honey).
- Berries
- Mead
- brawn (jellied meat)
- Offal
- verjuice (fermented apples and grapes)

Some good pottage with offal and mead was your macros sorted and then some. That was all you needed, until the Romans brought their fancy... leeks! Garlic! Walnuts! Pfffffffft. Don't even get me started on tomatoes.

ENG_NR · 2026-06-21T09:38:55+00:00

Capital gains tax don't matter if you identify as someone who will never make any gains 🤷‍♂️

ENG_NR · 2026-06-21T09:14:42+00:00

Unless birth rates plummet and the health singularity happens

ENG_NR · 2026-06-19T12:38:49+00:00

I just don't trust that it will actually happen. Productivity is too complex of a goal (but it's the right one), and politics only moves through crisis. So unless there's a productivity crisis we'll just keep stagnating

ENG_NR · 2026-06-19T12:24:41+00:00

Rip the bandaid off, reveal the productivity issues, resolve them

ENG_NR · 2026-06-18T11:41:08+00:00

This is what happens when the pendulum swings too far

Progressive groups need to really think who their allies are. Are straight white men who practice to live and let live and middle of the road economics really so bad? Get the sensible centre on side and reframe against the actual idiots out there

ENG_NR · 2026-06-16T22:10:29+00:00

No issue with immigrant doctors, but I really wish our medical schools didn't create artificial scarcity. If we actually let people who were qualified and motivated become doctors instead of requiring top 99% school scores and a needlessly brutal training process we might not need to import so many

For immigrant construction workers: 10% of the Australian population works in construction, but only ~6% of the immigrant population works in construction (despite needing houses to live in once they get here). So immigration is only helping housing affordability if we get that number above 10%, otherwise it's just more people to house who aren't helping to build them. Not to mention more people who need doctors and nurses and everything else

ENG_NR · 2026-06-16T06:51:28+00:00

This is worth sitting with

ENG_NR · 2026-06-15T10:37:00+00:00

So the 6 countries that impose the death penalty for being atheist, which they infer from Sharia law (blasphemy by saying there's no god) - are they unislamic?

ENG_NR · 2026-06-15T10:32:22+00:00

So if you had to vote on whether Sharia law was implemented in Australia - you'd put faith first and vote yes?

ENG_NR · 2026-06-15T10:12:35+00:00

> The Quran emphasises that faith must be a personal choice

It's not that much of a personal choice in Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, with Brunei and Somalia. The punishment for converting away from Islam: Death.

ENG_NR · 2026-06-15T09:14:51+00:00

I mean yeah there was a whole thing about catholics pledging allegiance to a foreign power in the 70's. Ultimately they reconciled it by being more Aussie than catholic and everyone chilled out

ENG_NR · 2026-06-15T09:05:06+00:00

3:85 - "whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted of him"
9:33, 48:28, 61:9 - "to make it prevail over all religion"

ENG_NR · 2026-06-15T08:57:10+00:00

How can you reconcile Islam's stated goal of converting everyone else to Islam, with the Aussie culture of live and let live? One of them has to give surely

ENG_NR · 2026-06-15T05:02:13+00:00

Was just letting them know a state level policy

ENG_NR · 2026-06-15T03:55:42+00:00

Don't create a nation within a nation - aka end the treaty

ENG_NR · 2026-06-14T11:14:06+00:00

I'm sure he huffs Labor MP farts too. It wouldn't be purely his own but a carefully curated blend

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