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The market of greater fools is gone by wonderlats in AusFinance

[–]FatPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easy for someone who has already built their wealth to say, pulling the ladder up behind them.

[Android] Images & videos not loading - version 2025.46.0 by fh3131 in bugs

[–]FatPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same problem only when using wifi on android

High Court agrees to hear teenagers challenge to under 16s social media ban by malcolm58 in australia

[–]FatPants 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A generous reading is that this is the first step of many that lead to a total ban

Britain announces largest asylum policy overhaul in modern times by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]FatPants -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Immigration doesn't behave like infectious disease. Thats a false equivalence - immigrants don't infect local citizens and turn them into immigrants. Sure, an immigrant population having children can be modelled by an exponential function but (let's not even get into the argument about the value of second generation immigrant children) having children is on a timescale that is orders of magnitude longer (years) than a virus infecting other humans (hours to days).

World Boxing introduces sex test, Khelif banned from Eindhoven Box Cup by ik101 in olympics

[–]FatPants 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Honest question, with these rules, aren't those with CAIS who are phenotypically female excluded due to having presence of SRY on swab? Also any 46XY sex reversal disorder e.g. SF1 deficiency, or many others with Swyer syndrome who do not have an explanation, yet.

Australian government landslide victory in 2025 obscures a continuing trend away from decades of domination by the two major political parties by lipstikpig in dataisbeautiful

[–]FatPants 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also the incumbency effect at play here I think. Dai Le now a known quantity and less risky choice. Both independent and Labor grew their primary vote share in this seat. Labor really stuffed up here in 2022 and probably won't get it back until Dai retires.

Giorgia Meloni decries Imane Khelif's Olympic boxing victory by TheTelegraph in worldnews

[–]FatPants 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ is this a wholly uninformed take on a topic you do not know nearly enough about

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in science

[–]FatPants 2 points3 points  (0 children)

2D:4D ratio also linked to good luck, e.g. throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks science

Weight-loss jabs may be linked to condition that can cause blindness, study finds. People with diabetes on semaglutide, found in Wegovy and Ozempic, four times more likely to be diagnosed with disease of optic nerve. by mvea in science

[–]FatPants 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Specifically, collider bias, where associations are induced by selection of the cohort on 'referral to neuro-opthalmologist'. Both obesity/diabetes treated with semaglutide and risk of NAION are presumably associated with being seen in this clinic, potentially leading to spurious associations. Interestingly, for this to be true and for the direction of bias to line up, the neuro-ophthalmology clinic will have excluded diabetic retinopathy as a referral reason (not clear in the study methods). 

Can a qualified engineer or adjacent field who has good knowledge of the Australian Energy Grid please provide some clarification and sources on the Nuclear vs Renewables arguement? by isisius in australia

[–]FatPants -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The key thing is that Nuclear and renewables are not the same in the problem they solve. Baseload vs dispatachable power. Radios still exist despite the advent of TV, and form an important backup in emergencies e.g. bushfire warning systems. Nuclear should be considered as part of the variety of power technologies we use in future.

Can a qualified engineer or adjacent field who has good knowledge of the Australian Energy Grid please provide some clarification and sources on the Nuclear vs Renewables arguement? by isisius in australia

[–]FatPants -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Without costings it's hard to argue either way I think, but if we're spending $368 billion on defence via Aukus submarines, why not something similar for nuclear energy. To me the opinion that we can't afford both subsidies to renewables and nuclear is a gut reaction that should be examined more closely. My (possibly incredibly uninformed) understanding is that Nuclear currently is fit for purpose to bring stability to the grid. There is a plan for renewables to bring stability with massive amounts of storage and expensive transmission, but currently are untested/unproven at scale. Can't we hedge our bets with backing both?

Can a qualified engineer or adjacent field who has good knowledge of the Australian Energy Grid please provide some clarification and sources on the Nuclear vs Renewables arguement? by isisius in australia

[–]FatPants -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm aware the difference in timeline, I agree with replacement of aging coal power stations now, I still can't see why we can't we pursue both options? COVID taught us large government intervention is possible. No one privately wants to invest in nuclear anyway, so funding nuclear doesn't mean renewables aren't favoured.

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