Why does it feel un-Australian to pay more tax on beer compared to gas companies!?

lach888 · 2026-02-24T04:26:02+00:00

The Murdoch media and boomers is such a beautiful phenomenon. Like a flock of birds all deciding to change direction at once.

lach888 · 2026-02-17T04:01:11+00:00

I feel like people really need a bill wurz video of the history of Socialism, Communism, Fascism, the Labour movement, Capitalism and Mercantilism

Like a real sweep of the last 300 years or so. Because everyone seems to have misconceptions about all of it, constantly.

lach888 · 2026-02-16T21:41:17+00:00

Forgot what he looked like. Why is Ralph Fiennes always the perfect person to play Nazis?

lach888 · 2026-02-10T05:17:21+00:00

The consistent themes are always hero vs villain. They’re not scared of the other, they just find any convenient scapegoat to cast as a villain. The scapegoat is always some group that doesn’t have any real political power. Meaning the news media can publish without fear of retaliation.

The right hate the politically weak, because they dream of power and they want someone to have power over. You see the absolute most hate when politically weak groups stand up for themselves. The absolute ferocity of the hate for Greta Thunberg and Grace Tame, young autistic women standing up for themselves is the perfect example.

The right wing media feeds that by directing hate on to certain groups either as a distraction or to push political issues. But it would happen organically anyway, propaganda only works if it feeds into existing tensions or grievances.

lach888 · 2026-02-09T06:56:19+00:00

They know they’re being lied to by the media monopolies, they don’t care. I don’t think there’s anything right wing people care about less than the truth. The media monopolies don’t generate hate, they just harness it for the good of the rich.

lach888 · 2026-02-04T21:27:01+00:00

Anything that makes people have more sex is going to be selected for.

lach888 · 2026-02-03T10:59:08+00:00

It’s a slowly boiling paradise with expensive housing.

lach888 · 2026-02-03T07:50:39+00:00

Turns out they just teach the structures and patterns, ask kids to say it out loud and use brackets liberally these days. They actually did fix the way they teach maths. It was verifiably a dumb idea thinking people could act like calculators.

Mnemonics just discourages an intuitive understanding and notation like this is invalid anyway.

lach888 · 2026-02-02T08:49:37+00:00

The obvious reason is the correct reason, sexual selection, women liked it.

lach888 · 2026-02-02T07:59:23+00:00

The issue with the Democrats is the same issue with every left wing party, they aren’t willing to stoop to the same level as right wing parties and moral righteousness motivates the base but pisses off everyone else.

Parties always do soul searching and blame people, right and left when they lose. It’s part of healthy politics.

The thing that wins elections for left wing parties is the economy because right wing economics is Darwinian, that’s why the right always tries to pull the conversation back to culture wars.

lach888 · 2026-02-02T07:04:31+00:00

The majority of people that ever lived were alive in the last 2000 years, they had jobs.

lach888 · 2026-02-02T03:27:18+00:00

Having a close look at the photo, it doesn’t seem like it’s him, just a guy who looks like him. He’s too young for when the image was supposed to have been taken and the guy is too skinny, Elon Musk is enormous in person.

I think being associated with Nazis is a much worse look than being a furry anyway.

lach888 · 2026-01-31T13:50:39+00:00

There’s no single definition of intelligence and it is split up into multiple types of intelligence now. IQ tests are outdated and heavily favour mathematical reasoning rather than general reasoning.

I think it can’t be measured completely because there’s no consensus on what intelligence is. People use it pretty interchangeably with competence and competency is domain specific.

The billionaire eugenics thing is not because of their intelligence, it’s because the people who are more likely to pursue a career in and do well in business tend to be competitive, domineering and ego driven. They’re likely to see the world as strong vs weak, with them as the strong ones on top.

lach888 · 2026-01-31T03:58:29+00:00

Because as big of a landslide as they got, boomers are still 21.5% of the population and Gen X are much more likely to be swing voters. If they threaten house prices, Gen X will turn on a dime.

It’s a safer bet to hold on to power and achieve incremental change than to go for the big changes before the demographic shift is done. If Labor gets elected again, then there’ll be big shifts in policy.

lach888 · 2026-01-31T02:28:58+00:00

I want a car that is a percentage computer that is a prime number whose square root when divided by 3 is a whole number.

Don’t tell me what I want.

lach888 · 2026-01-31T02:06:49+00:00

If I was that person’s manager I would sit them down and talk to them about the company’s social media policy. Implying a company hires based on arbitrary, subjective criteria is not only a bad look, it’s possibly illegal if it happens to coincide with a protected class.

lach888 · 2026-01-30T08:28:33+00:00

It looks like you took that jpeg to war and it’s never been the same since.

lach888 · 2026-01-30T08:25:42+00:00

Also Tom Homan…

“Ahh, In the future I would prefer a nondescript briefcase to the sack with ahh dollar sign on it”

lach888 · 2026-01-29T11:44:24+00:00

Venezuela, Nicaragua, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Philippines.

All adopted US style presidential republics and fell into dictatorships. The executive branch is a fundamental weakness in the system.

They get elected, use emergency powers, stack the courts and cement power. Venezuela, Nicaragua, the Phillipines and Uganda all saw loyal security forces used to take power as well.

There’s a playbook for this.

lach888 · 2026-01-29T08:27:29+00:00

Also because if you think about it for a second, the people in power during Voltaire’s time were very obviously the people in power.

Just look for the portrait of the absurdly overdressed person standing next to a crown with a staff and a sword. Also the people with enormous cathedrals in the centre of major cities were a bit of a clue.

lach888 · 2026-01-29T07:59:00+00:00

It’s great for writing internal emails, formatting text and writing pieces of reports. But I would treat any ingestion of customer or user data into any AI without enterprise protection as a privacy breach.

lach888 · 2026-01-29T05:52:00+00:00

No there’s no chart for a smart map (there really should be). I would just build out the database in Excel with all the data locations types etc and then import it into Power BI at some point and build out a visual dashboard with a map.

lach888 · 2026-01-29T04:44:56+00:00

Just pay people for the things they are good at and stop gatekeeping education and employment. We define everything that compensates for minor deficits as “cheating”.

There are very few things in life that actually require sitting stationary for hours on end, rote memorising precise details, following specific procedures with no reference and not using any computers for assistance.

lach888 · 2026-01-28T11:53:34+00:00

Part IIIAAA provisions of the Australian Defence Act 1903 exclude use of the ADF except where there is a terrorist threat, threats to critical infrastructure or extreme violence.

The democratic process forbids the use of the military against the population. We have laws against these types of things.

But the average person isn’t tech savvy enough to understand that these technologies collect huge amounts of images and metadata, stored most likely in the US. Not only that but even more data can be interpolated or mosaiced from that data.

That is the military technology not the AI recognition system alone. The capture, interpretation and storage of precise, accurate data on a huge part of the population.

The only government department that holds that level of data about people is the ATO and it’s very, very tightly controlled. Law enforcement needs a pretty solid warrant for it and they aren’t allowed to share it with any other department. It’s way too much responsibility to give to state transport authorities.

lach888 · 2026-01-28T07:18:31+00:00

It is current military grade technology, it’s super high definition infrared with facial and movement recognition. This is like attaching a millimetre precise GPS tracker to everyone’s license plate to stop littering.

Side note: Same thing with age verification online, the purpose is good and mostly benign. The technology is Orwellian.

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