As others have stated, we explicitly don’t have free speech in Australia.

We also don’t have any laws requiring political campaigns to be truthful. And as we saw, the day after the vote was done. All the leaders of the “No” campaign flat out abandoned indigenous people and explicitly said they wouldn’t be fronting a new referendum for recognition in the constitution without the voice. A promise they made repeatedly.

The leader of the opposition who spearheaded the no campaign has been called a fascist by his peers. And once commented that if elected he would do away with parliament and elections if he could.

It doesn’t matter. 63% support among indigenous folks is still a landslide.

You’re not arguing in good faith though. Accusing someone of racism like that. So you can go fuck yourself for all I care.

80% indigenous support polled prior to the campaigns starting. After a relentless campaign of misinformation courtesy of Murdoch. The actual number that voted yes was 63%.

In regional Aus, there is a popular, free-to-air, 24/7 Murdoch-run news outlet, Sky News Australia, not to be confused with Sky News. It is right of Fox News, closer to OAN.

Yeah, usually if I get stuck in my head I’ll just go work in the garden. Bit of sunshine and toil usually gets me unstuck.

Over 63% of indigenous people voted in favour of the voice.

You are repeating propoganda.

Australia is way more racist than the US. And more right-wing.

The US just doesn’t have compulsory voting, which means a minority of nutjobs can dictate politics. And even then, Trump lost.

Australia has compulsory voting and voted this way lol.

US is going through a labour organising revolution right now. While unions are left in the cold and experience dwindling power in Aus, even with the Labor party in power.

It’s a very dystopian realisation.

Something was done without the consent of your parents or yourself that has a lasting impact on the rest of your life.

I just hope we hold those responsible to account. This was researched in the 90’s and the scientista that worked on it were muzzled.

You can read about that here:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/a_warning_by_key_researcher_on_risks_of_bpa_in_our_lives

How do you explain vastly decreased rates of child abuse vs vastly increased rates of various disorders? This isn’t my area of expertise but it is my wife’s.

It’s kind of an a known at this point that there is something environmental affecting us. Given the number of recent studies, (check my post below) and the ramping interest in BPA/BPS and ~100 similar compounds, I advise watching this space.

One of the OG studies that raised the alarm.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6946218/

Recent study into specific harms.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289841

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2023/10/new-study-suggests-a-link-between-a-plastic-additive-and-autism-adhd.html

As more research is done, it’s going to end up being the lead exposure of our generation. (If I was to make a judgement call now)

Weird downvotes, I guess we love.3M and chemical coorporations now lol?

I’d go ahead and say the cause is likely related to BPA/BPS compounds in plastics. And the exposure of pregnant women to those compounds.

But ya know, that’s just me.

Edit: lol at downvotes, this is newish research. A lot of new information has landed literally in the last week. I sincerely advise keeping an eye on it as research ramps up.

I’ve posted a couple of papers below, one old, one new. As well as a link to an article that does a good job of summarising where our understanding is currently at.

Yeah I just wish NVIDIA would roll out updated drivers more frequently. Would be nice to have ray reconstruction working in Cyberpunk for instance. There are also some issues with the DLSS implementation in Cyberpunk and the current drivers.

For work though I have no complaints. And if you’re a patient gamer who is happy to work through old titles or whatever between driver updates then you’re probably not going to be too distraught.

And of course if more people use Linux, driver support should improve.

Indie Devs haven’t even begun to fully leverage all the new tools offered by recent Blender / Unreal / Godot.

And AAA studios are too big to leverage them effectively.

I think we’re going to see continuing leaps forward in workflow and tools, allowing smaller teams to make whatever they want at any scale. We’re kind of already there honestly, it just about applying it all meaningfully.

Is there a joke in the comic anywhere? This is just an average morning in consulting.

Hahaha I’m an Aussie in my thirties and leaving the office behind to start an Elec apprenticeship. Honestly I was good at what I did, but I hated it, and “knowledge workers” don’t have a union.

I like the dopamine rush afforded by projects having a definitive end.

Yeah.

I’m personally lucky that my fav titles are CPU hogs, like ARMA 3 and X4: Foundations. Both run better under Linux.

Cyberpunk runs great too, I’m sure once we eventually get the updated drivers for NVIDIA we’ll get Ray Recon too.

I dropped everything in my twenties to look after a dying family member.

Thought my family would support me when all was said and done. I left a very promising career to do this.

Everyone just kind of went their seperate ways and I almost ended up homeless. While my dad immediately found another woman, took all his money and fucked off.

I’m just starting to recover almost a decade later.

I’m kind these days, I think. But I’m not nice.

I just made the jump again and I don’t think I’ll be going back to Windows. I’m getting improved performance in many of my favourite titles.

Very happy to be free of windows finally.