Instead of ignorant (as in, we don’t have the relevant information) speculation, please leave time and space for those charged with investigating the matter, to do their job and report what they find.
Wild speculation only fuels exactly the kind of madness that leads to this violence. Please stop.
“This wind farm alone will provide enough renewable energy to power 1.2 million homes – it’s a great example of why we need to press ahead with transmission infrastructure to distribute renewable energy across the state,” said Kat Lucas-Healey, Environment Victoria’s senior climate and energy advisor.
“The two battery energy storage systems included as part of the project will ensure power keeps flowing even when winds are light – keeping the lights on in Western Victoria and across the state.”
This is one reason why the LibNat coalition is deperate to block projects like this: They demonstrate the lies about reliability. It’s renewables plus battery that is far more reliable than coal-fired power, and the more of these come online the more obvious that will be.
IDK why anyone would need a VPN for porn.
Yes you do: Because what sites you visit is no one’s business, not the ISP, not your local country’s government.
Your “Just don’t visit that site” response is not a solution.
Betteridge’s law of headlines applies here also: The answer is “no”.
The LLMs and diffusion models (that are what that author clearly means by the vague “AI” marketing term) have no mind, have no intention, have no understanding of any part of reality, have no experience, have no sensations or suffering, and have no way of ever gaining any of those things.
They are (unreliable) guessing machines, that never know anything or experience anything or intend anything or want anything.
They are not moral agents, they have no capacity to ever become moral agents or any kind of life. Please, everyone in the media, learn to tell the difference between a marketing lie versus the reality of what these things are.
Whatever the future holds for artificial minds or artificial life, these things are fundamentally not that, by design.
If anyone needs another sign that today’s ABC has no regard for ordinary people: a reduction in housing prices is framed uncritically as “worse”.
Stop the nonsense about “shrinking tax base”. Australia’s government spends as much as it wants any time it wants; Australian government spending does not come from taxation.
People aren’t going to be moved to commit to the huge life change of raising a child, by a measly one-time “bonus”. They need a robust system of social support, good wages for reasonable working hours in fair conditions, an end to private monopolies on essentials, housing security. And, as NigelFrobisher points out, meaningful and demonstrated progress to a livable future in the world.
All things that are needed prior to the commitment to raising children. All things our federal government is empowered to do, that it doesn’t need to wait for any “tax base” to fund, that will work much better than a “baby bonus”.
Does Australia need our government to use its unilateral power to spend, to meaningfully fight the causes of climate change, to fund universal social services and stop being scared of a fiscal deficit?
I’m glad Assange is back. His voice and ideas remain relevant.
I’m not glad he’s on Xitter. The sooner everyone everywhere stops doing anything there, stops posting or paying any undue attention to it, the better.
So, live your life with joy and principle
Sure thing, just need to remove a primary barrier to that which is a massive wealth disparity which screws the policies ruling our lives and which keeps a decent life financially out of reach.
We must end billionaires so that we can all have a chance at a life of joy and principle.
A big advantage is cash works when it’s offline.
Buy with what money?
Show me the reputable bank that will loan the entire cost of a house, to someone who obviously can never pay off that loan on their current income. And I’ll show you a bank that’s going to collapse from unserviced debts.
It’s weird how that happens, huh?
Housing prices inflate, the rent goes up. Housing price growth slows, the rent goes up. Housing prices come down, the rent goes up.
I’ve yet to hear anyone involved in real estate tell me coherently what could ever cause the rent to come down.
You can utilize AI without a data center
This is a symptom of using the over-broad, deliberately vague marketing term “AI”.
If you can create (train) it without huge-scale violation of consent, without huge scale copyright infringement, without huge scale badly-treated human labour for labelling and refining, without huge-scale electricity and water consumption?
Then it isn’t the “AI” being discussed in the article and therefore irrelevant to the point.
What the hell is this value judgement? Why are lower housing prices unilaterally “worse”? I’d think that, for people who need homes, lower prices are better than higher prices. ABC representing only the wealthy land holders in this headline.
Also worth noting: (some of) those outside Australia seem largely to be responsible for the rise in One Nation popularity, by automated bot farms spreading racist lies on social media.
They are polling uncomfortably high, which puts them way too close to power. Worth taking seriously in order to effectively combat them.
Stop penalising teens for wanting to socialise.
Stop demanding we identify ourselves to unaccountable private actors, merely to socialise.
Instead: Penalise the platform corporations that make an environment friendly to predators, abusers, scammers, and extractionists.
Keep penalising those corporations, until they learn to stop. Or go out of business because their business model is incompatible with our wellbeing.
For one thing, I want our society to welcome children, not dehumanise them as “semen demon”.
We don’t have enough people now that want to help. Go to any nursing home and see that we need to import the help.
Don’t want to help? At the pay rates and job conditions on offer, that’s right.
An obvious solution is to raise the offered pay (by whatever means; the government can certainly afford to subsidise this) and improve the job conditions (by regulation enforcing proper treatment of workers).
There are plenty of people willing to work, if the work is properly remunerated and stable and dignified. If the job is worth doing – as we both agree it is – then let’s show that, by making it feasible for plenty of people to have a dignified life doing that work.
Because we all need help as we get older.
Yes, we do. Why do we need more births for that?
There are still plenty of people being born, and growing up and entering the work force as adults. We (i.e. society, i.e. whoever holds the purse strings) can offer better pay and better job conditions for those workers, so that it’s a more appealing career for the people who will already be looking for jobs.
Better help for the people who will be born anyway. Not pushing for more births.
The trouble is that, currently, the main link of this post (“URL”) is not to the article, but to the graphic image.
(The image for the post should be entered at the “Thumbnail URL”; or you can leave that blank and Lemmy will fetch the image served from the article).
What’s important is to put the URL that you want us to visit in the “URL” field of your post. Could you edit now to do that?