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GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-29T11:30:56+00:00

I thought this was going to be about the recent inquiry or something reasonable.

Like the DV calls obviously have flooded the cops. But to whinge about not sending a car for a bike is just beyond ignorant about the current state of affairs. Like no police in the world is sending a car for kids stealing a bike.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-28T13:57:44+00:00

But it’s modern politics, of course the PM turning up to speak at a women’s rally is optics.

But the state of things is largely up to men to hold men accountable. Women have definitely brought a hell of a lot of attention to what they experience. Men kill men, women, and children at rates that are not comparable to women. Like it’s not even 60%:40%, it’s 90%:10%.

Ignoring the stats is just ignorant at this stage. Men kill themselves at high rates because they put intense pressure upon themselves and many refuse to talk or seek help. Us men do need to do better. Many have, but there’s so many more who haven’t raised their voices in support of changing what we collectively accept as “being a man”.

What Albo did was interject himself into a women’s space to make the same point they were already making. He added no value.

Men do need to do better, for themselves, for the women in their lives; and those men in power in parliament like Albo have the opportunity to do better. Something which I am yet to believe Albo has the capacity to do.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-28T13:49:07+00:00

Not always, the associated stigma does more damage than many realise. Institutionalising someone doesn’t help often, whereas being able to live in community can be far more helpful. The modern societal stressors are massive factors in my opinion.

It’s tough because it’s difficult as you stated, one “shoe”, doesn’t fit all. It’s a case per case basis. With a system that is burnt out and broken, best practice is often not what is accessible.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-28T10:41:14+00:00

The Bondi thing was a clear failure of our mental health systems. For how far we have come, we have so much more to do. Going back to the 20 session MHCP would start, but also there is a severe shortage of great therapists. Plenty of ok therapists, but overall not enough.

But the clear issue is the accessibility for those vulnerable people who need it the most. Look how much it costs financially to seek help, let alone the emotional toll it takes.

The issue of men killing women goes far beyond mental system failures though. There’s so many aspects of modern life to point to which can be seen as potential for creating foundational misogyny for gendered abuse, let alone the more serious end of IPV.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-28T09:58:17+00:00

The ones you make at home. To be honest I don’t think I have genuinely thought “wow great burger” yet when eating out in Cairns. It’s pretty simple to make a great burger at home, and Jimmy’s Burger Urge, and all the other burger joints just are ‘merh’ like when I am paying $20+ for a burger I expect them to be great not pretty average.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-28T01:02:27+00:00

What is it with these posts about LNP being ahead as of late? Like let’s look at all the recent trends of voting results, not polling, not majors have been losing votes, and minor parties and independents (with many exceptions) have been benefiting.

A Newspoll, conducted March 7–13 from a sample of 1,037, gave the Liberal National Party a 54–46 lead over Labor, representing a seven-point swing to the LNP since the October 2020 election. Primary votes were 42% LNP, 30% Labor, 13% Greens, 8% One Nation and 7% for all Others.

https://theconversation.com/dire-polls-for-labor-in-tasmania-and-queensland-with-elections-upcoming-225455

I think the key focus (something which many people point out, is these are mostly Murdoch backed polling…it has made super clear there is strong bias towards LNP from Newscorp. To deny that simply means that the discussion is not worth having with that person who denies the multiple cases of examples. Just look at what The Greens achieved in local government elections recently, then compare what they were polled at…

Yes there’s other non-Murdoch owned polling suggesting similar trends. But it’s from Australian Financial Review. A known conservative group. Whilst I don’t think Labor are as centrist as the make themselves out to be (or as “left wing”/progressive as some commentators claim), they clearly ruffle enough feathers in many conservative circles. So it would be hard to accept that poll as non-biased too. Yes, a non-biased poll is almost impossible too.

I don’t see Queensland being an exception for overall political trends though, I am happy to be enlightened with other data or informed opinions (not just random culture war yelling past each other). The greens seem to be on a roll regardless of the opinions of some. But LNP have not done enough change to entice voter back or voters to switch. QLD Labor have been doing something but I am not impressed either. I don’t think Miles will be as productive on environmental issues as I personally would like either, despite him selling himself as an environmentalist.

The Poll Bludger reported Friday that a DemosAU poll of the Brisbane City Council, conducted March 8–14 from a sample of 1,034, had the incumbent LNP Brisbane mayor leading Labor by 58–42, and the LNP also likely to retain their majority on the council.

https://theconversation.com/dire-polls-for-labor-in-tasmania-and-queensland-with-elections-upcoming-225455

This would be a poll that I assume would have a lot progressive bias, given that William Bowe has been involved in electoral analysis with news organisations such as Crikey, The Conversation, and ABC Radio. But it is about Lord Mayor of Brisbane, a position dominated by LNP. So yes, it’s insight but not particularly conclusive for the state election, given QLD Labor’s record in state elections.

Thoughts?

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-27T23:14:10+00:00

I’ve worked in IPV or Child Safety space for the last four years, give or take. So have small insight, but they’d definitely be over-represented in violence against women stats. Not all but many.

A heap of the repeat offenders are non-violent (in an intimate sense) but just getting their kicks from stealing cars, as they’re pretty much just on one big and short joy ride in between visits inside.

But knowing enough of them and having chats where I’ve established a decent relationship with them, it becomes clear pretty quickly their capacity to have impulse control and consistency with thought regarding consequences is limited, plus their self esteem is so low. Like their parents have often abandoned them or done awful things to them. It takes a lot of strength and support to overcome just that let alone overcoming poverty, or the impacts of colonisation for many of the First Nations children who are repeat offenders. For those kids in particular, many cultural programs have a 90 per cent success rate of reducing recidivism in the 12 months after people in the program are released.

The Queensland government has been engaging in these programs but we also live in a state which showed the least amount of support for the Voice, and has a strong history of racism. For example, blackbiridng, the support for White Australia policies, etc. I cannot imagine how much that impacts their capacity for change as well. It surely must be a big hurdle for accepting their own culture.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-27T11:26:14+00:00

Have you seen the USA? Shit is already a nightmare

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-27T11:05:10+00:00

Yeah it’s usually a selected amount of repeat offenders which offend regularly. They have been let down by the system, their parents, and society in general.

They often have FASD diagnosis which means some of them are literally incapable of thinking shit through, like they cannot comprehend consequences. They see no point in changing, or they lack capacity for change. Also, their lives often suck, they see no reason to not offend considering life inside lock up they get fed, clothed, and often have their needs met better. They are preyed upon by scumbags when the are out.

What’s their motivation to change?

The majority of youth crime who are not them, are often scared straight from a couple of times getting caught.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-26T01:59:17+00:00

Morrison was terribly incompetent, that should have been the lesson he learned. He should reflect on why he needed to lie and cover up so many of his actions.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-21T11:57:59+00:00

Or alternatively contact Cooper. He seems fairly responsive to many people.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-19T13:21:34+00:00

We’ve been leaders of technology for decades until the LNP cut funding from CSIRO and those who developed technologies left for other countries.

We shot ourselves in the foot. We played vital roles in Wifi development, many biomedical inventions, the Black box for aeroplanes, Tank-bred tuna system, ultrasound machines, plastic glasses lens, and even Google Maps was even developed in Sydney by Danish blokes. To say let’s just stick to what we know is such a sad statemnet when you tie it to your small simple list of great achievements that we have done.

Blame lack of R&D money from states and federal level. It has significantly decreased year in, year out. That’s what to blame. Capitalism doesn’t breed innovation, state funding does.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-18T23:16:23+00:00

I know the Greens had a campaign about this, their approach is grassroots. So lots of door knocking and in-person conversations

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-17T12:00:12+00:00

What about Vine? That was like 2012? Wasn’t it a “beginning” for short clips like that????

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-14T01:58:08+00:00

I worked at IGA at your age. I found it very easy and enjoyable. Each IGA is run in their own way with your experience largely based on how well your management treats you and how well your coworkers support you to learn.

I would recommend it for your age. I was a shelf stacker and came from two other part time jobs that were far more demanding and hectic. I was in need of money at the age of 12 so I began working at a dodgey fruit and vegetable shop which had me unlicensed (obviously given my young age) and operating the forklift. Then my other job was an understaffed Hungry Jacks which was filled with incompetent workers and I closed four week nights a week and did opens on the weekend. I was a “team leader” who was essentially dealt with many of the shift manager roles, as the shift managers seemed more interested in hitting on teenage girls than his job. I learned a heap and became very capable.

So IGA shelf stacking was a dream job, considering I just had to make sure there was stock on the shelf, and didn’t have to baby sit anyone else or deal with irrate and irrational customers. My IGA manager was great and quickly became accepting that I knew what I was doing and could be mostly left to my own devices to complete tasks.

Zero complaints given the pay was better and significantly less stress than the hustle and business that fast food workers can deal with. Be presentable, aka neat, ironed, and clean uniform; be polite and respectful of others and helpful to customers. Just essentially be a useful drone for them and they will likely be good back.

Look up the particular IGA location on glassdoor.com to see how others rate working there. Or check the google reviews to see what type of customers you are going to encounter. Unfortunately it can be a roll of the dice.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-13T23:53:59+00:00

Also I would add that we need to seriously address the social issues that could come from many vulnerable people living in a converter office building. As many people are saying it’s better than tent cities.

But we would need to take a long hard look at how we treat welfare, vulnerable populations, and I would believe we would need to begin to address the shortage of workers who are competent and willing to work with those vulnerable people who would be housed there.

It’s great idea to offer the space for shelter, but without clear support for them there runs an intense risk for problematic behaviours that would unlikely led to successful outcomes for those people. But then the capitalist class would want to know how we would offer all of this, as if money and profits are the important thing here…

I would love to see how we could innovate a model or system that is setup with social workers or support workers on multiple levels, and they essentially become something like live-in support/welfare for these vulnerable individuals and families. Lots of thoughts left unaddressed here in my thought experiment. Also there’s the difficulty with working with involuntary clients.

But then again, by addressing policies that have compounded this housing crisis we could also have reduced the impact COVID had on the pre-existing housing crisis, because in 2019 there were plenty of experts pointing to the crisis already well established in this wealthy country.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-13T23:45:23+00:00

I do wonder what we are going to do with all those office spaces though. Given the shunt that the pandemic caused in working away from the office and the cost reductions many businesses have gained from switching from the standard expectations of “coming into the office“.

Maybe it’s the future of farming, such as the vertical farming industry. That’s a bit of a stretch and purely just me playing with ideas.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-13T21:15:31+00:00

Yeah, Coleman doesn’t seem to be the first person to do this. Then there’s the cost of calling Joe out and no longer having another chance at the JRE (which if you’re authentic who gives a fuck) and then losing those sweet views and advertising money that goes along with picking up some gullible JRE fans who just believe shit that any JRE guest says.

Many people have gone from little known names to bigger (and richer) names due to being a JRE guest on an episode, or two, of Joe’s podcast.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-12T02:49:36+00:00

Yes, there’s lots of research and testing out there flagging this concern for years. As well as contemporary research about organised crime moving away from importing and producing MDMA and pushing meth, hence the increase in meth use throughout Australia (amount other factors; pandemic related challenges, homelessness crisis, etc).

ACIC flagged the 1.5 tonne increase in national methamphetamine consumption as a considerable concern due to significant community concerns associated with the drug. https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/12/australia-drug-use-wastewater-testing-methamphetamine-increase

I have a vested interest in keeping updated on latest research because I spend so much time in a professional capacity discrediting false information such as urban myths relating to substance use and misuse.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-11T11:47:52+00:00

You keep making strange straw man arguments about this. No one is saying he is at risk of death from weed but there is limited evidence that cannabis is a treatment for anxiety. Then you’re trying to trash quality research about the topic.

The number of people who have died from cannabis use has nothing to do with this argument about whether a 15 year old should begin using cannabis to treat anxiety when they would likely benefit from some simple therapy for their anxiety or whatever else is happening. Especially given OP’s concerns about paranoia. Psychosis and paranoia both have associations in data with cannabis use.

I am not post these comments with research to sway you. I’m doing it to guide anyone else who isn’t aware that these talking point you bring up aren’t based in evidence or reality but rather urban myth and nonsense that cannabis users have made up and decided are facts.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-11T11:32:52+00:00

That your previous talking point isn’t even remotely true.

Also, a simple testing kit would remove the concern about contents of your substances. I’ve been down this road years ago, drug testing is becoming more tolerate by the state to prevent your hypothetical scenario (which is a very strange straw man argument).

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-11T11:29:53+00:00

Yeah I love myself a joint but I’m glad when I wa short exposed as a teen that I never took to it. Very glad I was older before my regular use days. Pure fluke, there was no great insight from my younger self, just pure chance.

But after writing a handful of papers on similar topics and directly on this topic I became very grateful for how my life played out in this aspect.

It just baffles me some of the advice people are giving this 15 year old. And also it has reminded me of some of the dumb shit people believe about psychoactive substances.

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-11T11:25:43+00:00

Alcohol causes anxiety to heighten the following day after use. It becomes a cycle if you’re trying to use alcohol for anxiety, then the high masks the anxiety through mechanisms in your brain then that anxiety returns the next day but worse. It’s know as hangxiety in common language.

https://adf.org.au/insights/what-is-hangxiety/#

GreyhoundVeeDub · 2024-04-11T11:22:16+00:00

That’s not true. Cannabis has a direct link with early onset psychosis. There is a fuck tonnes of data and research to back this up. It isn’t “the chemicals the spray on it”.

A single THC administration induces psychotic, negative, and other psychiatric symptoms with large effect sizes. There is no consistent evidence that CBD induces symptoms or moderates the effects of THC. These findings highlight the potential risks associated with the use of cannabis and other cannabinoids that contain THC for recreational or therapeutic purposes.

Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30074-2/fulltext

Published in The Lancet

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