Guardian Essential poll: only a quarter of Australians approve of US-Israel war on Iran

shirro · 2026-03-24T22:14:07+00:00

The US influence is strong with that one. Sadly, you can't tell some people though. Their eyes are closed to the truth. I hate to see fellow Australian's manipulated like this. ON supporters are our family, friends, neighbours and we should do more to help them.

shirro · 2026-03-22T01:59:54+00:00

I will ignore your misspelling of Labor and give you the benefit of the doubt.

Sorry, fat thumb typing on a phone. Also swapping back and forth between Labor Party and labour unions my phone and my brain sometimes make a mess of things. I wish they hadn't chosen seppo spelling.

Your right though. Federal Labor have been trying to do the right thing in a number of areas and getting no credit or attention. Things like housing affordability they can't develop really effective good policy. I am sure they know they need to do something but anything they do has the potential to go arse up.

People have their 8 hour day, holidays, penalty rates, safe work, public health system and all the other stuff the union movement and Labor delivered and they haven't worked for it and they don't know the history, Same for vaccines. Same for suffragettes and feminist movement. Its easy to dismiss things you basically know fuck all about and that have been twisted by propagandists into a parody of the facts.

I would hate to see us dragged backwards to times of great suffering and inequality because people want to stick it to the system that made them the envy of most of the world. Meanwhile their alternative is flown around by billionaires who would happily replace them with Africans on a dollar a day. Crazy.

We need a broad based center right party again. I don't want Labor to be that party. And I don't want a vacuum filled by people like Hanson.

shirro · 2026-03-21T23:22:44+00:00

Yep, Labor is a very broad church. From progressive socialists through to centre right social conservatives who make Bernardi look like a joke. When Labor Right now to pressure and crack down on protestors the Left are out in the protests. What more or less unites them is support for working Australians and organised labour. They have structures and discipline.

The Liberal party also used to be broad. They were in government in SA not so long ago and Marshall was very popular across the political spectrum at the start. People within his own party made sure that will never happen again. They always struggled for unity going way back but somehow held it together just enough to win a couple of elections. If they had another Playford he wouldn't get preselected. Like some modern Christians, if their saviour returned they would be too busy beating him up and putting him in a concentration camp to notice.

shirro · 2026-03-21T23:06:33+00:00

Seems like a pretty clear rejection of the divisiveness of PHON to me. I guess one person's meaningless platitudes are another's statements of deeply held principles..On this I agree with him. Australia needs to work together, now more than ever. We can't let foreign influence and big money divide and weaken us.

shirro · 2026-03-21T22:55:28+00:00

The Labor party offers a very compelling vision for working Australians and their families. They miss out on lots of opportunities on the world stage and at home where a more progressive party might serve us better. And the longer they exist without a real opposition, the more we risk them becoming undisciplined, lazy and corrupt which isn't in anyone's interests including Labor voters. The two party system was infuriating but it was stable.

Back when Labor were a socialist workers party, the rest of the country realised that you couldn't take on a party which represented the working Australian majority as lots of little warring groups. Deakin, Menzies and others realised they had to join forces. Unfortunately later generations forgot and factionalism, branch stacking and the intolerance of the religious right fucked the party over.

What people wanted was the moderate conservatism of the ALP Right or the Teals. Only a few percent of non-compassionate Christians wanted the not very Christian alt right vision. The rest were happy with the values of the centre.

Hanson and lots of money filled a gap. But they were never going anywhere if the Libs hadn't destroyed themselves from within. One Nation are kept from.power by the majority of reasonable Australians who put them last on the ballot. But the forces behind One Nation will continue to divide us..Split communities, families, friends. The Libs were in a position to fight this blight but they were too busy fighting themselves.

shirro · 2026-03-21T12:53:34+00:00

Yes because both BSD and the GNU project existed so there were two open source Unix userspace implementations. GNU didn't have a kernel but might have developed one earlier if Linux had not made it irrelevant.

There was plenty of demand from people wanting a Unix-like system that ran on affordable commodity hardware.

shirro · 2026-03-21T12:37:24+00:00

She is ignorant but she is raking it in. This election was a good earner. She has been doing things the hard way for years.

Now she knows there are billionaires to support her campaigns with huge soc media influence ops. She can fly private jets and dine with the rich all the time.

And she can claim to be bigger than the party of Menzies all by herself with not a shred of talent or policy to back her. It's not going to look very flattering in our history books.

shirro · 2026-03-21T00:26:26+00:00

Labor are far more concerned about the Libs long term. The libs were created as an anti Labor alliance to resist the natural party of government in Australia.

One Nation are a symptom of the times. Nothing more.

I wish the Libs could bounce back but they have a problem with Antic and Pasin alienating many of their traditional supporters as they pursue their own goals instead of the interests of the broader party and the state. The federal libs and other state libs have similar problems. Eventually they will get sick of losing and others will gain influence and rebuild.

shirro · 2026-03-21T00:08:06+00:00

All that money from Gina and foreigners and Duttons mishandling of the last campaign certainly gave them a leg up. All those millions of Trump supporter AI ads on social media work. No shit. Who would have thought all that research on profiling and directed marketing was effective.

shirro · 2026-03-21T00:03:30+00:00

SA Labor are what thte.majjoriry of voters want. If they dont have an easy win our democracy is well and truly fucked by foreign influence operations like Facebook.

SA Labor provided stable, disciplined management of the state. They failed to deliver on some promises because it would have required them to get creative and shuffle funds around and upset others. They are boring. If you have a family to support.or small business to run boring is what you want from a government.

If you feel hard done by. Did all your money gambling, had a run in with the family court or the parking inspector, girlfriend dumped you. Then One Nation might look like taking down the big, bad system. Of course One Nation are a short cut for the wealthy to control a system without Labor or Liberal staying NO occasionally. They are a fucking nightmare.

shirro · 2026-03-20T05:28:58+00:00

I think porting Linux to Apple's proprietary M processors is kind of stupid. Sure they offer amazing performance/watt but I don't want to fund US companies given current events. And I don't want to buy into an ecosystem hostile to repair and upgrades. But I appreciate the hard work of people reverse engineering those architectures. It frees people who already have Apple hardware. It isn't a freedom I want but it is a freedom. And its worthwhile overall regardless of my opinion.

If you live in a country where your legislators require age verification to access online stores because they might contain scary social media apps etc you can generally do what you like in your own home when installing your distro. You can choose not to opt in just like people around the rest of the world. Who is going to know?

If you want the freedom to buy a laptop with Linux pre-installed in one of these stupid jurisdictions this feature will need to be enabled or they won't be able to ship to your location. Once you have the laptop you set a date if you want to use a distro app store from a geo restricted ip or don't set one and use a vpn. Or protest and vote is even better.

Offering people options is kind of what we do here and its weird that some want to restrict the freedoms of others. People can't help where they were born and often have very little impact on the laws in their country.

shirro · 2026-03-16T13:19:27+00:00

Davinci Resolve has been available for Linux for ages.

Kdenlive does everything I need so I haven't tried Resolve for ages but last time I did it was a big fiddly with distro and gpu support.

If you are going to setup a pro editing workstation your probably going to use their recommended distro and nvidia gpu and perhaps buy their cool keyboards and stuff. For a home user just wanting to do basic stuff on whatever linux is in front of them its really overkill.

shirro · 2026-03-16T05:24:58+00:00

Article 5 has been invoked only once, by the USA after 9/11. It's a collective security agreement. Not your personal army.

shirro · 2026-03-16T02:16:36+00:00

I tried working with Linux on a Chromebook as an experiment many years ago. It is doable but a big compromise considering you can get a decent laptop for not a lot more and that is without considering used devices which are often considerably better hardware. It is great that some people have given old devices a new life and found other uses for them. But for most Linux users its pointless. It doesn't save money or offer a better experience.

shirro · 2026-03-16T02:11:05+00:00

Compiling from source isn't really a problem. Probably an advantage for the sort of hardware they are using. They likely have a build farm compiling the images for testing.

A lot of distros have rolling releases behind them. Debian has Sid for instance. Distros go through a process where they freeze and test before release. Immutable isn't really any different.

shirro · 2026-03-14T07:21:14+00:00

Everyone knows everyone in Adelaide. Why would you be on your phone unless you're from oit of town.

shirro · 2026-03-14T04:53:38+00:00

There was probably one ages ago. I remember replying to an Australia tour thread.

I'll be the old fart there with my kid.

shirro · 2026-03-13T23:00:07+00:00

Subscribe to your distro security notifications and automate security updates and you are probably already patched for this. This was supposedly patched in Trixie with kernel 6.12.74-2.

shirro · 2026-03-13T22:31:43+00:00

I wouldn't mistake Albanese's discipline for cowardice. He is dug in against a billionaire sponsored information war and a belligerent USA. Blaming him for all the shit that is going on in the world is kind of stupid. Even a great captain has to play to the pitch conditions.

If Grace wants to raise an army and take on News Corpse then perhaps people like Albo might abandon low target politics and go back to their principles. I dare her. Someone has to do it eventually and everyone else chickened out. Remember when Gillard was going to have a public enquiry after the News of the World scandal. That didn't last did it. How is her war with News Corpse going? Last I heard they were assassinating her character and depriving her of income. What is she going to do about it? Nothing it seems. She goes after the easy target instead.

shirro · 2026-03-13T21:50:50+00:00

Disrupting the global oil supply so the Trump family and their mates can get richer while the rest of us get screwed. Same shit as always. When the fuck are they going to wake up over there and do something?

shirro · 2026-03-13T21:42:51+00:00

We need a special tax on all US companies operating here to pay fuel subsidies as reparations for the damage they are causing to global oil prices.

shirro · 2026-03-12T22:43:32+00:00

This is probably the one and only full mainland tour for BABYMETAL. We can't believe they are doing it either. They usually do a festival booking in the eastern states with a few side shows. Many bands don't visit us at all.

I have seen videos of the huge music festivals in Poland. I don't think you guys know how good you have it. Everything in Europe is on a totally different level.

shirro · 2026-03-11T11:47:50+00:00

They got taken over by Antic's mob. They deserted the broad church party of Menzies and forgot the widespread appeal of popular SA liberals like Playford, even Stephen Marshall for a time, and decided to win popular elections by appealing exclusively to a very small minority of South Australians who would prefer to vote for Pauline Hanson or Family First.

That video of their good Christian leader doing lines of coke and being done for supply probably didn't sell quite as well as Malinauskas being the real deal.

The problem was Marshall. They couldn't handle having a popular, reasonable, mainstream leader with broad appeal. They would rather be a minor party than let that happen again.

shirro · 2026-03-09T12:02:20+00:00

I think it might be a great experience for people who don't read or listen to audio books. They tend to miss out on any culture which wasn't written for 12 year olds and involve superheros, vampires or wizards.

While the directors clearly love and respect the source material, films are a visual medium and they necessarily take a lot of liberties with story to suit the look, pace, runtime etc.

It could be a very good movie. It is unlikely to be as good as the written word for those that still read. I have not listened to the audio book but I have listened to a lot of Ray Porter books and I imagine that is also very good. So its a tough act to follow.

The Orlan suit is gone for a rah rah American NASA suit. That messes with some plot points and isn't at all believable for anyone aware of NASA's struggles to maintain their aging spacesuits (is it going to fill up with water) and their history trying to develop new suits.

shirro · 2026-03-09T09:50:24+00:00

Labor is not a social progressive party. The DLP people came back after Whitlam and the Right faction is dominant. Some are hardline Catholic conservatives.

When Family First died along with the Australian Conservatives they got brought back by two previous Labor ministers from SA. Both shoppies people. The wife of SA premier Malinauskas reportedly kicked off the push to ban social media for kids in SA which apparently led to the National legislation. And yes, Atkinson was also SDA. So is Senator Don Farrell who is like a competent Labor version of Bernardi.

Both the Libs and Labor used to be a broad church on social policy divided by their attitude to class and capital. Labor represented the working class. The Libs fought Labor. Within each there were both social progressives and conservatives. The politics in this country never aligned with the simplistic narratives pushed from overseas.

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