peterkmurphy.bsky.social
Programming, teaching, programming again; unsuccessful Greens state election candidate. Likes to play bass guitar. View on AI is "Butlerian Jihad".
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"Butlerian Jihad" - you're hearing it more and more.
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Bluesky is also consistently anti-paedophilia, far more than X. Is that a topic you really want "diversity of opinions" on, Megan? You shouldn't.
We don't need the opposition views of "paedophilia is good", or "Trump/Musk is good". In sane countries, there are oxymoronic statements.
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unpopular overreaching governments not properly paying the soldiers they expect to conduct a brutal and difficult crackdown? what could go wrong? I have never read a history book
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This is the moral void who put his own watermark on child sexual abuse material, Stuart, and put in on social media. Perhaps you should have spent your time instead asking why he wasn't charged for possession of CSAM. In many countries, this would be an open-and-shut case. Why not the US of A?
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Or to be more specific: “Why is this bigotry acutely localised to UK politics and UK journalism?”
That article appears to be from the UK Guardian, but TERFs aren't welcome in the Australian edition of the same paper. (And transphobia isn't a vote winner here either, going by our election results.)
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Sounds like you haven't been paying that much attention, honestly.
greens.org.au/news/media-r...
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We definitely don't count on the support of people who think LGBT issues are mutually exclusive to environmental issues.
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Speeding also seems to be normalised in Canada. These were the signs along the 401 (the main freeway from Toronto to Montreal). The posted limit is 100, but one can drive up to 119 without being stopped by the cops. Then:
120-149: Fines
150+: Impoundment
They really should put the limit to 110.
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We are at war with Mortein. We have always been at war with Mortein.
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I wish the publication well. The Bulwark's Never-Trump Republicanism is far superior to the current MAGA Republicanism running the place. But its deference to American institutions (or Biden): I think we can do without them. (And I never really had time for the G.O.P in the first place.)
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I just can't get the mindset behind this sort of writing. "Joe Biden's biggest stuff up was to govern as a moderate in immoderate times." What about the 50,000 odd Palestinians he helped kill?
Methinks anyone who gives bombs no-strings attached to Netanyahu can't be called a moderate.
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But it was this article which told me that subscribing was a dumb idea.
"Third: Biden’s biggest failure was that his theory of America was wrong."
No, @jvl.bsky.social. Biden's biggest failure was giving material support to a genocide in Gaza.
www.thebulwark.com/p/joe-biden-...
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Plus: if Trump does so many bad things, I really don't want to be deluged in hearing about the bad things if I can help it. Sucks to be there, but as a great American philosopher once said:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Kz...
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That's not the Bulwark's fault - Trump does a lot of bad things, and Bulwark should do what it feels right (i.e., talk about the bad things). But I'm already subscribed to too many Substacks/equivalents already. I should be detaching from the ones I have, rather than add more, and pay for more.
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"Yeah, we're with the Outlaws!"
"Which one? The Lexington Avenue one? Or the Fulton Street one?"
The feeling when you get when you join a gang, and discover it's known for sharing the name of another gang.
Fights between the two must have been really *vicious*.
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The best (worst) for last:
"[T]he issue is that Russian civil aviation is afflicted by an attitude problem — a lack of curiosity, a lack of willpower, and a lack of interest in the goal of safety itself... Most people were just going through the motions."
Yet another country to avoid flying in.
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"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" sounds like one of the eternal questions of Australian politics.
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I couldn't read the article, but even the "the" in "the Chinese ethnic vote" sounds problematic.
It's not one big hivemind, Greg!
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So, one Queensland wide seat with 93 MPs representing it? Or like the Tas. lower house: take federal districts (30), give each a set number of MPs (e.g., 3), all elected by Hare-Clarke or some other proportional system. More proportional than current system, but with geographic places for MPs.
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Bowe had the superior take, but it also made me think: if Australia has a great mix of preferential and proportionally elected houses - why not do the same in Queensland?
I guess no one wants to bring our upper house back.
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I'd just add that waving enough stuff through would kill the party, and they've got the example of the Democrats to remind them of the dangers of the habit.
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New Dawn Fades by Joy Division.
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Would a recount be issued if the margin between 2nd and 3rd of a 3CP fall under the 100 threshold? Like #Ryan if the ALP and Greens were a lot closer than they are? (Not for cases where the 1st is over 50%, I mean.)
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If we are going for provinces or other types of subnational divisions: Alberta.
Calgary has the zoo and the late-night phở restaurants and the proximity to Banff and Drummheiler. The actual capital - Edmonton - isn't much smaller but felt a lot grimmer.
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"Obi-Wan, ay? Haven't heard that name for yonks."
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(It would be a different story for Bill Haydon, a man driven by ego and libido. One could imagine him finally 'turned' by Karla after an offer of East German anabolics.)
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Diego's playing a man that spends years living in safe houses, and wants to avoid detection by the empire. Going supercut would be playing against character.
(It would be like a version of Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy where George Smiley is bulked out like Schwarzenegger. It feels off.)
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The Mos Eisley cantina band was known over the galaxy for their version of "Am I Ever Going To See Your Face Again".
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It's a big, big "if". (Family of my wife, really. But fortunately we are meeting them in VN instead.)
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If for some reason I had to fly to the United States, I'd fly to Canada instead and drive across the border.