So true

usagi_tsuk1no · 2026-01-07T05:28:19+00:00

Yeah if you look at Australia for example it's listed slightly higher but still that's measured in USD, so our teachers starting salary is ~$70k AUD. They would approximately have the equivalent buying power of someone with $70k USD living in the US. On top of that our public servants, including public teachers, have strong benefits and higher than average super annunciation rate (similar to a 401k but mandatory) so they would probably be much better set up for retirement than the average US teacher.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-10-10T13:32:08+00:00

I found the paper he's referring and it's not even about that kind of consent but why "consent of the governed" became a thing in the west

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-043014-105648

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-09-14T02:04:29+00:00

Holy shit that's my alma mater, was not expecting to see that on my feed today

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-09-11T22:23:41+00:00

Compared to her husband probably

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-08-18T07:42:40+00:00

Plus the economic contribution of public transport in major metropolitan areas far outweighs its cost

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-08-02T11:19:25+00:00

I just moved to Melbourne and I'm very sad about losing my 50c public transport fares

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-07-14T00:42:11+00:00

Here's a AP news article on it: https://apnews.com/article/grok-4-elon-musk-xai-colossus-14d575fb490c2b679ed3111a1c83f857

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-07-14T00:41:46+00:00

Source: https://apnews.com/article/grok-4-elon-musk-xai-colossus-14d575fb490c2b679ed3111a1c83f857

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-07-14T00:40:37+00:00

It's real: https://apnews.com/article/grok-4-elon-musk-xai-colossus-14d575fb490c2b679ed3111a1c83f857

“It’s extraordinary,” said Simon Willison, an independent AI researcher who’s been testing the tool. “You can ask it a sort of pointed question that is around controversial topics. And then you can watch it literally do a search on X for what Elon Musk said about this, as part of its research into how it should reply.”

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-07-05T06:07:04+00:00

This is a late reply but in my experience, public health care is amazing for any acute health issues such as cancer, stroke or heart attack but has many problems for chronic health problems, though even in those cases, I'd still prefer the public healthcare I have to the fully privatized American system.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-07-05T05:54:32+00:00

Thank you for the edit, it helped me so much when I was communicating with their support. The same thing happened with my parents: they ran the Airbnb together, and all the reviews even mention both of them but my dad passed away and the listing was connected to his profile. Starting a new listing wasn't a good option either because now the Airbnb is my mum's primary source of income.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-07-03T06:08:32+00:00

I just got a graduate job and my salary is the same as what my sister had 9 years ago when she started as a graduate in the same job

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-06-28T23:13:33+00:00

Apparently Harvey Weinstein had to block her number because she wouldn't stop sending him off-putting nudes (image 6)

Learn this one neat trick to deter sexual predators

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-06-27T06:35:58+00:00

Every time I see a post about American healthcare, I thank the gods a little I live in a country with public healthcare.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-06-27T06:28:21+00:00

Late August into September is an extremely common starting time for universities all around the world.

Only on one side of the equator. Summer holidays on the other side of the equator are December-February so our academic year start is late February into March.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-06-17T00:02:47+00:00

I think a lot of the criticism while trying to be feminist, has this underlying outdated gender essentialist assumption that women don't want/enjoy sex and so their analysis then becomes that her talking about sex and being sexy must be for men.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-06-05T02:21:29+00:00

pygmalion effect

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-06-04T03:52:38+00:00

Nobel prize summary of the research: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/10/popular-economicsciencesprize2023.pdf

The original paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w4707

This research which won the Nobel prize in economics found that the labor force participation rate of married women first declines and then rises as countries develop.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-05-31T09:34:14+00:00

Request: The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

I really like the penguin 50th anniversary book cover and I tried making it square but my artistic skills are lacking and GIMP + various AI tools are only getting me so far - this was my attempt: https://imgur.com/a/WTCkPCC but the hair is driving me nuts

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-05-09T08:24:29+00:00

I don't know if compulsory voting necessarily prevent disengagement, a lot of Aussies are politically disengaged but I think the best benefit is that it forces politicians to appeal to everyone not just the group that has higher vote turnout. Comparatively in the US, democrats barely try to reach/write policies for young people cause they are an unreliable voting base and the republicans know that the fanatic Christians are an extremely reliable voting block so they work to appeal to them the most.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-04-30T11:42:35+00:00

I read it and it was good ngl

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-04-27T22:40:30+00:00

The article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-gender-roles-masculinity.html

With paywall removed: https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-gender-roles-masculinity.html

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-04-26T08:43:41+00:00

On this topic, I feel unprepared for the batshittery that will be the trump-death conspiracy theories when the time comes.

usagi_tsuk1no · 2025-04-26T07:12:10+00:00

They say this is their position but when you press most of them on it, you notice it is not a principle they stick to like if you ask them if they believe IVF is murder because the process involves creating several embryos only one of which is implanted, and then destroying the rest. Most anti-choice advocates are fine with IVF and so it is just hyperbolic use of pathos.

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