Well damn, thats a good point about the irony.

But i don't know, i'll have to whack it up on my servers c/meta for a final admin decision. Just thought i'd float the idea alongside this post today.

Its such an issue. And the self centered voting patterns of the country has killed so many meaningful reforms that could have built up to really tackle the problems by now.

Hmm, definitely not married to the name 'safe as houses', but 'housing crisis' i dislike to describe the current problems.

'Housing Crisis' suggests the problem is new, or relatively short term. That it wasn't predicted by every bumbling goofball and their dog as countries announced tax incentives, or bank deregs, or whatever housing policies have led to the market in its current state where-ever you live.

But also, i's thinking of having a broader mix, rather than the shitshow of housing in western markets, but articles about Indonesian housing, or Fijian, Mexican, anywhere really.

So no Jewish peoples lived there before the State of Israel you reckon?... hmm

Leaving the above aside, because its a dead end for both of us. The removal of any peoples, just like Israel is trying to do to the Palestinians now, won't lead to a peaceful future.

Take it from a person whose a product of colonisations, invasions, and genocides. The marks aren't erased by moving the opposing people on. History is always remembered, something Israel is going to learn the hard way.

The only options for the future are a form of historical pragmatism, or a continuing series of violent crimes against each other, with the turns of history favouring one population with more strength over the other at different times.

Belltower Times Post. I suppose i only obliquely referenced it at the time. Thought it was a big enough event that a link on here wasn't very useful.

Colour me shocked, public transport? A thing? Gadzooks! /j

There is a weird internet cult about him, true. But the things he said were important, adding greatly to the body of thought that makes the world we live in today.

Its pretty flippant to disregard his words on the control of resources, just because he never sat behind the wheel of the 20th Century cart.

Not really a fan of allowing corporations 'control over the means of transportation'.

I bet Marx could come up with a great explanation of why its a bad idea.

But i'm not him so i'm just gona go with Dennis Denuto's, "its the vibe".

The Castle, The Vibe - Youtube

it should have never been made our problem

The cleaves between the faiths have exsisted there for thousands of years. Israel is a new power, but the participatory Abrahamic religions are not. Nor are most of the peoples there. Its best to remember European Jewish weren't the only peoples to build up Israel.

I think you've gone too far with your comment.

This sounds like a really innovative project for sustainable large project construction.

They're doing everything, solar panels, concrete recycling, re-use of old furniture, replacing diesel with a hydrogen based solution, replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).

Alright Perth! You heard them, we need to fuel for the trucks! Eat more chips!

Oh man!! I hope you're alright, i feel bad for laughing, but thats some serious bad luck on the timing.

Looks like the Easter egg hunts going to be pretty tame for you this year.

Casts can be such a pain in the arse. Makes everything slow and hard to do.

Completely altered my partner and i's holiday in North America a few years back. Still had a great time, but we had to content ourselves with the West Coast, or go theough a whole rigmarole of cast breaking ,then new casts twice over to carry on the original itinerary.

Hmm, it seems a bit problematic that it was going to be a political party fundraiser.

If it was a fundraiser for Veterans, or maybe a thankyou party for campaign staff, would the reactions have been different?

I'm wondering how much of this is Greens bashing, and how much of this is genuine.

They definitely threw around a lot of money, i believe the way the media counted the funding also probably underestimated the amounts they really had for that campaign.

But the referendum was a complicated beast, misinformation certainly played a part, but there was also simple confusion, lack of goodwill, Australian's natural propensity to be conservative with our actions. It was always a moon shot.

I know the actual result ended up just about the opposite to the pre/early referendum polls, but i think too much weight is put on those polls as evidence for the undue influence No campaigner's misinformation had.

I'll try to explain my reasoning below,

A referendum is nothing like an opinion poll which is a cheap indication at best of a snapshot of sentiment on a subject.

• The question asked by a market research company will be treated by a respondent with far less seriousness than that same question in a referendum. So thats one thing.

Same thing seems to be happening to Dutton and the Liberals now the Federal election has been called.

• The bar for a referendum is very high, that in itself likely has a tonal effect on the citizenry during the campaign, as the citizenry learn the double majority rules, and the practical finality of constitutional changes.
• There is widespread misunderstanding, and distrust of the interpretive nature of Australian law as opposed a more codified system. The populous, i believe, thinks our laws are far more codified than they actually are. A fundamental, but often overlooked strength of Australia is our judiciaries, for now, ability to interpret the statutes/Constitution for the uniqueness of the case before them, the more codified a system is the less this nuance can be utilised by the judiciary. No where is this more the case than in Constitutional law.

My point about interpretation of law is fundamental to the wording of the Voice proposal. It was intentionally vague for the protection of the courts ability to apply the real world cases that would inevitably rise.

But by serving the interests of making good law, it made it a confusing proposition to the citizenry, and due to its vague wording allowed a No campaign ample room to attach all kinds of possibilities that the wording couldn't reject without judicial intervention, ie a High Court case determining the limits.

So the vagueness allowed a wide berth for misinformation to seem plausible, whilst being hard to deny or counter.

• Lack of community goodwill, i also think, was a key under-rated problem with the Voice Referendum, especially when compared to the Same sex Marriage Plebiscite. A difference between the two is the relative dispersals of the two minority populations within the wider Australian community. LGBT+ persons are distributed relatively more evenly throughout class, race, ethnicity, geography, etc, whereas Indigenous Australians are for more centralised along those demographics. So there was a closeness, and therefore higher rates of familiarity, with LGBT+ Australians, than with Indigenous Australians. I think this played a big role.

Then theres other factors like lack of bipartisanship, which decreased likelihood of rusted on Party line voters to vote in favour, against their general election behaviour.

I don't that was a big moment for Australia. I don't think most people have reslly reckoned with the complicated reasons why that fell the way it did.

Its why i'm so excited by the idea of Activitypub. It offers the world another chance at a genuine 'Market of Ideas'. And thats what i'm all about, sharing the idea's not necessarily from a specific political hue, but they have to be based in the facts for me.

But, i don't think its a coincidence that theres a large crossover with progressive publications, and 'factual' outlets. Progressives afterall have to take the world as they find it otherwise they'd progress from nonsense to chaos. Thats something not all across other parts of the political spectrum feel a strong demand on.

I've no clue.

Was it some dare you and you're siblings had to eat Minties and oxo cubes at the same time?

So, i was speaking in the context of Australia. So thats important when considering how its working out so far. Each Nation's media is distinct to a greater or lesser degree. And, i think its going pretty well here, not perfect though.

You're dead right about the media and social media skews. But Australia is, luckily/smartly, dealing with these issues better than most. We actually have a Government whonis willing to put up legislation afainst social media platforms, however flawed that legislation may be, that places known limits in the minds of those platforms owners' power.

The concentration of traditional media has been diluted from its zenith of power by the ABC, and the introduction of Guardian. One of which will never leave, and the other of which has a great deal of support. And of course those Social media companies whose interests don't always align.

Basically, i think its going better for us here, which the Greens success as a mainstay Party proves. Along with other minor parties, Nationals not included in that, they have a unique historical context which seems to have frozen them as a share of the electorate and nation.

Chainsaw been on holiday in Texas or something ;) /j

Better to do it in stages. My partner and i moved into a place that'd been a rental for 5 or so years. The amount of overgrowth was large. And, i'm not a big gardener, so its still pretty bad.

I've slowly reduced the size of some Geraldton Waxes which has gone okay, like they survived, they're still pretty sparse and woody though.

This captures the essence of the problem.

I guess this is what i meant last night, when i's banging on about Public this and that, etc.

Yeah, na, good point.

I suppose i's thinking of the longer term argument, where hopefully enough people learn the spurious claim that are made.

Its a nice theory, but the people who stand in line saying, "the majors are as bad as each other, i'm gona send them both a message", kind of undermines the idea.

I'd say it'd be a more uniform shift down in lower turnout than you've suggested across the political spectrum. But interestingly it'll be of the more moderate sections of each political side. Thereby over time reducing the points of commonality between the Party's resulting in increasingky hateful political partisan rhetoric and policies. So what has happened in the USA.