One of my lecturers had it bookmarked in his browser lol

I was pretty sure he said something to the effect of “privacy doesn’t matter/doesn’t exist” a few years ago but I can’t find the interview I’m thinking of. All I can find is this video on the topic from The Hated One, which isn’t referencing the interview I’m thinking of.

Elon Musk popularised this cope argument a few years ago. It sounds intelligent to people who are incapable of any level of critical thinking or nuance and believe everything in the world is either 100% A or 100% B with no in-between. Sadly, this is a large percentage of the population.

The real question is…does this apply to my dog too?

The game still feels a fair way off to me. The recent experimentation with soul sharing and jungle camps is a pretty clear indication that they’re still trying to settle on an identity, and there is still a lot art finalisation and bug fixing to go through. It’s probably going to get quite rough for some of us in smaller regions - the ranked pool here is only ~1800 players now, a drop of ~500 players from the previous week. I’m still having fun for now, though.

You are likely still playing at a similar skill level as in previous weeks. The lowest ranked player in Australia is now a Seeker III player, so I’d guess that most of Initiate was boosted an entire rank by the redistribution changes.

Initiate rank no longer exists in Australia. Between these changes and the declining population, the lowest ranked player here is now Seeker III.

It continues their recent trend of being a party overwhelmingly focused on securing the votes of young people above all else.

I think most of the voters educated enough to have made that connection would have voted Yes anyway. Regardless, I don’t think the left was anywhere near as organised and loud about the situation in the Middle East as it has been this year. The referendum went down due to homegrown issues.

I don’t think peoole are against progressive ideas necessarily. In times of financial hardship their tolerance is just very low for policies and objectives that aren’t targeted at addressing serious problems like the price of groceries, fuel, housing, etc. Progressive economic policy focused on these areas is popular, but left-wing politics has a bad habit of not reading the room and loudly advancing social minority causes when they should be focusing the public’s attention on everything else they’re doing.

Thoughts on the soul sharing changes? The 100/100 change last week was hotly debated elsewhere.

Services Australia will continue to publish quarterly data and said this will help ensure “transparency and accountability” for Aussies.

This is the first time in the department’s history it has released the quarterly data.

Hope it continues!

I suppose a lot of people who might be roughly characterised as ‘right-wing populists’ and against status-quo neoliberalism would find the Greens unpalatable, though.

The unpalatable bit for many, particularly young men, is the social progressivism of these parties. I see it time and time again: guys who would be easy Greens voters based on their economic and environmental policies don’t take them seriously because their perception is that left-wing politics is primarily focused on issues of gender and sexuality. They don’t consider these issues comparatively relevant and get attacked quite viciously online for this position which feeds into this broader alienation problem they are going through due to the shift away from traditional gender roles that would have given their lives meaning. Feeling alienated by the left, these guys drift right towards groups that validate their feelings and welcome them.

I don’t necessarily think this is a completely fair perception of The Greens, but the reality is that we live in an age where young people’s views are heavily influenced by their social media algorithms. And if those algorithms are constantly feeding them culture war shit , particularly from the US, then it is understandable that they feel this way. Currently, I don’t see an organised attempt by left to combat this problem, nor even an admission that we have agency over it. The focus still just seems to be on blaming the right for manipulating these young men.

How do you know it drives people away from joining if they didn’t join?

I did, as well as Latino voters moving further to the right. But to be fair, it is a 50/50 choice and Harris did better than I expected so I can’t say it was a genius prediction from myself lol

Not a huge surprise so I can’t say I feel particularly bad about it. This is just the reality we have to accept and live in. The best thing is that the result was relatively quick and we didn’t drag it out for weeks to get here.

The word “whiteness” is commonly associated with whiteness theory and whiteness studies. It’s not commonly associated with whatever you were talking about.

Don’t go to .ml communities if you dont like their moderation. Their users don’t brigade us so I’m not sure why we would need to defederate from one of the largest instances, especially given the issues with lemmy.world.

It depends on the skill bracket you’re playing in and how badly you’re losing I think. At higher skill levels there is a lot of strategic play around the urn, whether that’s using it as a comeback mechanic or using it to deny a comeback and bait fights. But in lower brackets I definitely agree that there is rarely any coordinated play around the urn and that steamrolls are more likely to occur due to the lack of ability and game knowledge of the losing team especially.

They’ve been warning everyone for over a year. They’ve been individually messaging affected phones for months. Nobody can really say they didn’t get warning.

This is quite a misleading way of framing the communication. The telcos were clear about 3G phones no longer working many months ago, but it has not been clear at all which 4G phones would be blocked. Communication about this second problem only started recently and even then it was very unclear. Blaming consumers for not throwing out their new phones when they are receiving mixed messages over whether they will continue work is hardly a rational position.