The important point in this situation is that the ruling class is the owning class; the bourgeoisie. The racial and sexual composition of that class may change (and is already different in many countries), but we should not mistake that for a solution because until there is economic overhaul, the owning class is the class which determines and benefits from laws.

While you are correct that the most influential in Australia are rich and often also ‘white’ men, we must remember that these laws are ultimately written by politicians subject to capital owners, and written to benefit capital owners. That’s why wage theft was only a civil matter - because business owners of all stripes benefit from wage theft.

For what it’s worth, there are plenty of active forums out there, they just tend to be topic specific and take either effort or familiarity to discover. There are a lot of good things about their design, especially anti-abuse features on some of them.

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The signs pointing to Batman Street have been moved higher up the poles to help deter theft.

And one thoroughfare that cannot be overlooked is James Kirk Street in Gungahlin, where a Star Trek fan added a T as the middle initial, in a nod to Captain Kirk from the science fiction franchise.

Holden Crescent and Holden Place have been the target of repeated thefts in recent years, prompting City Services to stencil the names onto the kerb.

Bogan Place currently has no street sign directing the way, while one of the Bon Scott Crescent signs is missing.

An ACT government spokesperson said 42 signage requests were submitted through Fix My Street this year that used the words “stolen” or “theft” to describe a missing sign.

While I’m pleasantly not-surprised to see the committee choosing street names takes into account avoiding similar names and avoids difficult to pronounce names, it’s interesting that Firth claims double meanings “didn’t really come into it”.

This part is a cool idea:

“Some streets will be short, and some streets will be long. If it’s a long name, it will go on the long street, because when you’re mapping, if you’ve got a short street with a long name it’s very hard to fit it all on the map,” she said.

I think this article starts off very strong, but from my perspective, loses focus on its original themes and focuses on a legislative change. Now, that makes perfect sense given the 2022 US context of the article and the purpose of the article, it’s clearly part of a campaign to build support for legislation which would ideally reduce the anti-competitive actions described. Nothing wrong with that, but disappointing to read here and now.

Consider the examples of collective direct action given, like the Friendster users abusing the friends feature to create interest groups. They achieved the changes they wanted without relying on a slow and tenuous legal process. Legislative change should not be considered the primary way forward, merely one of many options, because ultimately legislation is not beholden to us.

Looking at the links in that part, ACCESS is the “Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching Act”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACCESS_Act_of_2021

IIRC July was also at the start of the CFMEU allegations, before the corrupt government administration came into effect.

The CFMEU had around 125,000 members as of a year ago, and obviously we can’t assume they’ll all follow their leaders’ advice and swing lefter-than-Labor but having seen the huge presence of other union members marching along side them and having seen the former Labor supporters in my union express their shock and betrayal, there’s a real chance of that big chunk of the labour movement abandoning Labor.

No one else has even the slightest chance of gaining any influence in Australian politics.

Our ranked choice system and the existence of a crossbench means that independents and minor parties actually do have some collective influence, and furthermore, that’s how we help shift the playing field for next time - look at how insignificant Greens were 20 years ago. If we want to fuck over the big three, we have to vote for someone better.

donkey vote

Don’t do a donkey vote, just do an invalid or empty ballot. Preferably just put a huge line through the form. Makes it easy for election workers to know which pile to sort it in. A donkey vote is counted as a valid vote.

Quit being seppocentrist, mate.

Yes, thank you.

but we definitely still require Ethics as a gen-ed at a lot of schools. In fact, I teach it.

Are you talking about US high schools? This is an Australian community so it would be nice to have some context (or if possible, comparison) so we can better understand your perspective. My high school never touched philosophy or ethics in a formal manner, beyond a couple of mentions of academic concepts like plagiarism.

You can break the law and not do anything wrong.

In fact, there are laws which most people would agree are wrong not to break. Legality and morality/ethics are not the same, not defined by the same peoples and if anything are growing more and more separate. You and I don’t play any real part in designing the laws, they are not some liberal-democratic ‘will of the people’ as I’ve seen lots of people elsewhere saying. They are the dictatorship of the politicians, and more so, of the mega-wealthy class that own them.

This is what happens when universities stop offering ethics in their courses

If you want professionals to not give a shit about ethics, call one of the courses “Ethics in [career]”. It has to be ingrained throughout education (let alone society). Universities are not the cause of this delusion, they’re a small part at best of a greater problem. Mass media, for example, has more educational influence.

Only 5 years old and already competing with the big bullies.

I always enjoy seeing RTBU shirts when I’m near the stations. There’s quite a few of them too.

That passive headline is annoying. The guards neglected, sadistically tortured and killed Simon. Strong, active language is fine in this case.

I am an operative from New Holland here to besmirch our eternal enemy D e n m a r k.

I was thinking the same thing too, so I’ll see how this modified version goes.

I knew the song but haven’t known anyone trying to make a day out of it. (The gravy is for Christmas Day! and all the following hamdays)

Good thinking. The relevance rule is currently up to my interpretation, which isn’t ideal.

Those are useful suggestions for ways to make it clearer what is relevant. I think relevance is too complex to put into any hard rules without there being exceptions (e.g. Australian outlets also report on global news such as SBS on Californian earthquakes at least three times[1][2][3], USA is one of our major trading partners, some people may believe the Pacific or all of Asia is our region) and so I suspect the best approach is to use those factors as soft guidelines (e.g. “If your article is not from an Australian or Oceanian news outlet, and the article doesn’t mention Australia in it, it’s probably not relevant to this community.”)

Moderator of the World, mmm I like the sounda that!

Definitely a future problem – there’s no rush and we’d want to find a good one before trying a db change. Federation could be an issue so can’t hurt to ask devs before tinkering. Honestly, I think just a title change should be enough. Seems like it works for /c/news

I want to mention that this is not the only case of critical F-35 components being produced here. The fuselage is produced by Quickstep near Blacktown, NSW. Our country is not just a part of the war machine, but an essential part.