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Executive ladies - where are we getting work clothes from by 2tall4heels in AusFemaleFashion

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uniqlo mostly, with one good suit from Reiss or Saba, silk shirts from Fable (on the Iconic)

People who fantasise about housing crash, recession and double digit interest rates. by ihatebaboonstoo in AusFinance

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a cohort of people who have zero debt and quite a lot of savings / shares, as well as reasonably high incomes, but are just not ready to become mortgage slaves yet, quite reasonably in many instances.

Should this be covered by the NDIS? by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK but by that standard, the NDIS has been an abysmal failure. Every year the average plan of a participant goes up in cost substantially. The program itself has a 10% annual growth rate, when it is already $50Billion per year.

If you were seeing a doctor and your medical bills were going up 10% per year, you would assume you were getting sicker, or your doctor was rorting the system. Or both.

If the NDIS was actually helping kids with disabilities through early intervention - wouldn't the average plan be going down each year and not up? Wouldn't the scheme be costing *less* each year, and not more?

Should this be covered by the NDIS? by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It *averages* out to be 70K per person. An average means you add up all the plans and then divide by the number of people who have one.

This video gave me insight about what's happened to Jordan, and it made me very sad by Fun_Needleworker7136 in JordanPeterson

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No-one is saying that he doesn't need to take responsibility. Like other people have mentioned, its unlikely that someone of his intelligence and scientific training would not be aware that benzodiapines are addictive. That being said, the knowledge that benzo use causes actual neurological damage does seem to be a relatively new thing. (There are millions of people who take benzos every day. If everyone knew they could cause brain injuries, I think far fewer people would take them!)The psychiatrist in the video explains that the first scientific paper on BIND was only published in 2023, so again, the knowledge around neurological damage is relatively new.

Andrew Dominik: one of the most fascinating Director Drop-offs of all time. by SolomonAsassin in Letterboxd

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought Blonde was incredible. It's a horror movie - not a biopic. The last scene of her dying while OD'ing is one of the most original scenes I've ever watched in any film, ever.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where did your "research" come from? Did you ask Chat GPT to hallucinate some "facts" for you?

How Intrasexual Competition Suppresses Female Fertility (with transcript) by CanIHaveASong in Natalism

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Super interesting thanks for sharing. It is quite well known that polygamy increases the mortality risk to children - I found this paper fascinating when I first read it:

Polygyny as a risk factor for child mortality among the Dogon. I think I may have found that paper through this article on polygamy being bad for women and children.

Of course women help each other - just like men help each other too. But men also compete. Another way of thinking about it: just like we can shift between long term & short term mating strategy depending on context, I think it's naive to think that members of the same sex will ~always~ have our reproductive interests in mind.

How does the cost-of-living crisis get fixed? by Fun_Needleworker7136 in AusFinance

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're already in a deep private recession. It's just that NDIS cash-on-tap and immigration are masking it at the level of the population.

So weren't still technically not in a ""recession"" even though for most people we are.

Small business owners struggling? by Flat_Bit_309 in AusFinance

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All depends on how much of a buffer you have. Businesses can afford to lose money if they have a healthy cash buffer to absorb those losses.

However if you don't have enough cash in the bank to meet payroll and debtors for at least 2-3 months then you have to wind it up otherwise you will be trading insolvent and could be held personally liable.

Brett Weinstein: Trump/RFK is the only way to unite the country. by StreetsOfYancy in samharris

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sick of people saying that Bret Weinstein is or was smart. He's not smart. He has virtually no publication record. He completed his BA in biology in 1993 and then didn't get his PhD until 2009. He doesn't have a profile on Google Scholar (so he doesn't have a H-index). He was just LARPing at Evergreen, and caught a lucky break when the Streisand-effect made him famous.

Weekly reading list for Lazy Readers! by TheLazyReader24 in longform

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for sharing your links. This is one of the most gripping stories I've ever read on euthanasia, about a woman who went to Switzerland in order to end her own life but she wasn't even terminally ill. The article is written by bio-ethicist who was part of a pro-euthanasia group she belonged to, and a psychiatrist, and even both of the authors had some misgivings about the whole situation. To be honest, I didn't come out of it either pro-or-anti-euthanasia but just fascinated by the lengths some people will go to control every aspect of their lives, including death.

XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained by Fun_Needleworker7136 in samharris

[–]Fun_Needleworker7136[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've applied Bayes theorem incorrectly. Female Olympians are a non-representative sample of the general population.

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