It’s reportedly ‘dead’ now, which is to say that it’s started to break up. So this is the final time anybody will ever see it, which is weird to think about since the last time anyone saw it was about 180,000 years ago.

See: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-23/atlas-comet-how-to-see-c2024g3-swan-song/104849708

Good riddance!

I agree with your comment entirely, so you may be misunderstanding the point I was making.

I agree it’s not surprising there’s been a rise in anti-jewish racism, especially since the Israeli state consistently tries to muddy the waters and conflate itself with jewish people in general (which is fucked).

The comment I was replying to (“Maybe if they stopped genociding people?”) appears to uncritically accept this conflation and the racist falsehood that the whole ethnic communities being targeted in these incidents are inherently connected or responsible for Israel’s genocide, and that needs to be called out.

Done: https://aussie.zone/post/17098473

Would probably usually post this sort thing to c/news, but posted in c/Australia seeing as two other articles on the matter were posted there.

Conflating all Jewish people with Israel is fucked and is also a key propaganda tactic of Israel.

What is going on in Sydney??

Police say they’re investigating whether some of these crimes were commissioned by “overseas actors”: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo

So that’s interesting. It might go some way to explaining what seems like a sudden onset, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also been driven by a copy-cat phenomenon.

Not a Sydneysider, but I wouldn’t say there’s a ‘strong anti-semitic feeling’ anywhere in Australia - at least not in comparison to the levels of villification faced by any non-‘white’ ethnic group.

I thought this was interesting:

“We are looking into whether overseas actors or individuals have paid local criminals in Australia to carry out some of these crimes in our suburbs,” Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Reece Kershaw said, adding that it was possible that cryptocurrency was involved.

from: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo

If these attacks are commissioned, it’d make some sense of the graffiti that misspelled “Israiel”.

I don’t think there’s any actual rule or guideline, but I personally tend to post more casual, less serious things in [email protected], and more serious stuff in [email protected]

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Very obviously, how are people taking this seriously?

That’s ‘Loops by Pixelfed’ for anyone else wondering: https://loops.video/

The NSW Health staff psychiatrist resignations are one example where what is effectively unprotected industrial action is already happening.

More rank and file union members should be forming informal networks where actions can be coordinated independent of the formal union structure and officials who are vulnerable to legal repercussions.

sounds like they might start with more than 10 jurors then, just in case.

Standard number in criminal trials is 12, and the judge can choose to have up to an additional 3 as spares if they think it’s necessary. See here: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ja197791/s19.html

Do they let a juror back in if they’re off sick for a day?

I believe they’d just postpone precedings until the juror is well (as maniacalmanicmania said was their experience). I’m pretty confident all jurors would have to hear all evidence.

I’m not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt, but it looks to me like they just continue with the remaining jurors:

JURY ACT 1977 - SECT 22 Continuation of trial or inquest on death or discharge of juror

Where in the course of any trial or coronial inquest any member of the jury dies or is discharged by the court or coroner under Part 7A, the jury shall be considered as remaining for all the purposes of that trial or inquest properly constituted if–

(a) in the case of criminal proceedings, the number of its members–

(i) is not reduced below 10,

(ii) is reduced below 10 but approval in writing is given to the reduced number of jurors by or on behalf of both the person prosecuting for the Crown and the accused or each of the accused, or

(iii) is reduced below 10 but not below 8 and the trial has been in progress for at least 2 months,

(b) in the case of civil proceedings, the number of its members is not reduced, in the case of a jury of 4, below 3 or, in the case of a jury of 12, below 8, or

(c) in the case of a coronial inquest, the number of its members is not reduced below 4,

and if the court or the coroner, as the case may be, orders that the trial or coronial inquest continue with a reduced number of jurors under Part 7A

Source: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ja197791/s22.html

Seems like many of the ‘big boys’ in recent years are likely to have been the Newcastle species, yeah.

Archive link in case anyone gets paywalled on this: https://archive.is/koWUP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUxzaQrOAOA

Oh, I’m aware, it’s just bizarre even with that context. But yes, important to note for anyone not aware.

Haha, I saw it around when it was originally posted. It’s just so bizarre I didn’t know what to make of it. I couldn’t find an extended version or anything describing the context around it.