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ricphillips.bsky.social
Widower - trying to find my way.
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I wonder how it would change things if that wealth was simply confiscated from those fifty families and use to double the wealth of the bottom 50% ? I know it’s not that simple ~ eg., wealth is not income, etc… but it’s an interesting thought. And a reminder that power is exercised as choice.
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If you know how LLM inference works, learn the correct way to specify requirements and work out your algorithms first, AI is pretty useful for coding support I can get 800-line modules out of it in minutes - no sweat It’s code - if it works it’s correct It is shit at data definition. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The stories benches could tell…
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Fair play. But you did all decide that effect and affect were too hard to figure out and now we’re stuck with impactfulness. 😀
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Well in my time old people were saying well in my time old people were saying well in my time….
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I could say something similar. I have at times reflected that my life was basically funded by the chaos I was always cleaning up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Oh, I think I will happily bash them until they raise benefits above simply-cruel levels, come up with a genuine housing policy that can restore affordability, fix the dog’s breakfast that is healthcare funding, and you know, generally start acting like they are a progressive government. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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That would be welcome. I won’t be holding my breath.
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Policy is one thing. But we will only ever reach a small minority with policy. We need to tell stories more people can see themselves in. Outsider and enemy narratives are a dead end. I think the country wants a better story.
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Agreed. And real public housing not just ‘welfare’ housing to tide people over.
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It’s pretty telling that you didn’t even mention the poverty millions of Australians are living in. We have become so inured even progressives barely mention it. But inequality is the festering wound that fuels right wing populism and corrosive cynicism. #auspol
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Selbstermächtigungsnarr Someone who has empowered themselves into idiocy.
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I have demand for friends??? 😄
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I don’t know - the Bunnings car park smells a bit like that… 😀
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Love the title 😀
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Demand boosting policies have been poisoning the economic future of a whole generation for decades. And you and the LNP keep ladling out more from the same fetid bucket. Build good quality public (not welfare) housing! #auspol
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I think all this is a red herring. The most most pressing policy need is to radically disincentivise bigger and bigger cars whether they are EV or not - the absurd growth in average car sizes is doing real harm to our roads, our neighbourhoods and the environment. #auspol
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I seem to remember the UK had it’s chance to change to preferential voting. But they chose to poke fun at the idea instead. Without first past the post there would have been no Brexit, no austerity, no fat Andy Warhol - and a much weaker far right. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I’m (literally) an ocean away - but I would not be at all surprised if it wasn’t mostly about not wanting to avoid the on-the-record scrutiny that comes with high office.
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But what about that year in my twenties when I studied German? AllI can say now is, “Das ist eine große Kartoffel.”
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And, it would seem, loneliness and disenfranchisement
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I’m sorry, but shouldn’t that be, “I don’t fucking trust….”? 😏😮
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#paywall Thanks for wasting 30 seconds of life :(
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Like home that support a healthy human relationship to food instead of making do with a two meter nook in a corner of you lounge room?