I have not read about WMD. I’ll do that now I guess

Sorry for assuming and for my attitude, I guess I’m in a bit of a media bubble and assumed it was still well-known worldwide. It’s a large reason why the Iraq War faced huge counterprotests in my country. Long story short, a main part of the pretense for the Iraq War was the US saying that Iraq was building “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. Before the invasion, the CIA told the US government that the gov’s intel was not reliable, and the UN couldn’t find any evidence of them since the disarmament in the 90s. [wikipedia]

The reason I mention that, is because this isn’t the first time the US has used this pretense of weapons building to justify an invasion, and combined with the fact that Netanyahu has been claiming repeatedly for decades that Iran is close to completing them, the claim doesn’t sound trustworthy.

Well Iran is building nuclear bombs.

And they’ve been very close to finishing for *checks notes* the last 30 years. I’m sure you’re old enough to have heard the “WMDs” and “bringing freedom” excuses before.

Neither of those factors are a rationale for either Israel or the USA, who both possess nuclear weapons, and who have convicted war criminal leaders and anti-democratic leaders respectively, to intervene. Neither have high-ground over any dictatorship. Yes, this war is an adventure of the Zionist Regime in Palestine and the United States of America.

haha, some neo-nazis are pathetically whining at police in Perth for removing them before they could boo, saying they totally weren’t going to interrupt anything. No-one’s buying their bad-faith pleads this time.

There was still some heckling in Perth, but watching the March for Australia fash play the victim like this is just funny. Their own supporters get to watch them cowardly pretend “no mr officer we weren’t going to do anything” instead of moving on with (feigned) dignity.

Video link (warning: white supremacist neo-Nazi account) - https://xcancel.com/BecFreedom/status/2047887963703648571

I do agree, but I also believe that journalists need to be careful in how they do it, because these groups intentionally play to the media as a form of advertisement, legitimisation and image sanitisation, as per their own leaked guides.

Share it where needed: https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles-for-journalists-reporting-on-neo-nazis

I’ve found the mobile website (as opposed to apps) fine, although I generally avoid apps unless they’re necessary. Which app are you using? (and who are its developers)

Linking the Boy Boy video reacting to finfluencers, for a laugh.

I wonder how much it costs to pretend to be rich (without taking out huge loans). Things like renting expensive clothes, cars and locations for a few hours, LARPing and then leaving.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again and again: the word “influencer” is one of the shadiest things I can think of, and it’s amazing how numb people are to it. "Wow, that’s my favourite manipulator! I watch that deceiver all the time <3 "

Luckily I haven’t been exposed to much of that behaviour on my local instance. Which instances/communities are you finding all these jerks at? (I’ve blocked a couple for unrelated reasons so maybe I’m not seeing them.)

There’s also some element that “alternative sites” tend to accumulate the people banned from the primary site. Luckily the strong left-leaning initial crowd kept most of the bigotry at bay during the formative years, but I really dislike that in general-purpose instances, many have failed to create much original culture distinct from reddit. Lemmy isn’t reddit, and that can be a good thing.

Real-space example: a women’s-only art installation/lounge. It was only a matter of time before it went to court. I think at one point they (perhaps jokingly) proposed converting it to a bathroom to allow legal discrimination. (and that still wouldn’t be the smelliest exhibition in Mona)

https://mona.net.au/stuff-to-do/art/the-ladies-lounge

1%

Back of the envelope, even the 1% threshold would strain to afford a short 4-week stay. I see various sources claiming top 1% cuts off at only (!) around $5 million net. Let’s all remember that wealth scales exponentially at the top. https://povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au/income-calculator/ (Includes graphical representation of percentiles based on ABS 2019-20)

This is the ultrawealthy tier. Alienated from the wide world.

Sometimes.

How Palmer’s $60 million campaign failed to net a single seat

The yuckiest thing I read was that women who put on face cream at night would be woken up by the rodents licking it off their faces.

That’s a new one for me. I’m surprised they’d approach a person, even when they’re asleep.

and could have said she supports trump […]

Senator Trump, that is

But I agree, to a degree, that some basic footnotes would strengthen this propaganda. Someone online could simply say “there are no sources!” to inoculate others to it.

I’ll also say that I really like that they’ve used Sky News footage in the ad. Smart choice to use sources that plenty of PHON voters are primed to trust more than others.

the campaign website WhoisHanson.com

It really bugs me that there are zero (0) links to evidence on that page, and I don’t think we can just assume all their potential audience doesn’t care either (as tempting as it is to assume that)

I have no doubt that various groups in various governments would like nothing better than to get rid of cash for surveillance reasons.

Yes, not to mention corporate groups too (banks, online purchasing, loyalty cards, … ).

Perhaps not the best example but one to start joggin’ the noggin: it can be a weak point to start an attack your local network, if someone is adjacent (like standing in range of your WiFi). Obviously not a likely scenario to most people reading, especially since HTTPS became normalised, but a reason to keep security in the discussion for local home networks.

Nearly three in five Australians (59.1 per cent) believe life was better 50 years ago.

Interestingly, a bit less than 40% of Australians were alive 50 years ago. It’s just begging for the historical-revisionist pseudo-nostalgia that conservatives have been churning out for decades - what does a 30 year old really know about how life was 50 years ago?

This is the thing, if I know he’s done a shit job on something I know about, how badly are they writing about topics I don’t know about?

I feel that. There have been a couple of articles by science communicators or journalists I’ve respected, but tempered my awe after they say something negligent on a topic I’m more familiar with.

One trivial but illustrative example was a science communicator you’d all know informing the public about secure data wiping (great! don’t sell unwiped devices online, some people do search for those) but recommending a 35-pass Gutmann wipe, which Gutmann dismisses in their own epilogue to their paper, “In the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35-pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques. As a result, they advocate applying the voodoo to PRML and EPRML drives even though it will have no more effect than a simple scrubbing with random data. In fact performing the full 35-pass overwrite is pointless for any drive [since it covers everything back to 1970s methods]”. It will basically just put unnecessary wear on the disk and waste your time.

But even then, I haven’t had examples like this, where you’ve been able to utterly demolish their opinion piece like that.