Would you believe an idiot though?

When it becomes really advanced (we could even do it now, actually), we replace all upper management jobs and leaving human work to human workers, e.g. customer service, healthcare, arts and culture etc.

Welcome to the new era of enshittification where you’ll eventually have to subscribe to access or make posts, and none of it will be searchable on any search engines.

I’m not American, and just wondering if it’s a requirement to have the $600/m taken from your pay, which I’m assuming is for health insurance? That’s a crazy amount to throw away every year, especially if you still have to pay extra for treatments that you need for functioning.

Any Sydneysiders care to comment on this? My understanding is that the northern suburbs are much more wealthy than the others, so this project appears to be placating to the upper classes rather than servicing areas like the west which is poorer. Happy to be corrected.

Probably doesn’t like WFH because people can clock off when their task is done and he can’t ask them to work unpaid overtime.

So, how do we engineer a situation in which the richest suffer most? End of capitalism?

Dragon Age origins.

Exceptional writing and I walked right into it just expecting a cool fantasy game. I got hit with my first experience of in game romances, the shock of betrayal, the sacrifices… It was such a brilliant experience. Makes me really, really want to play it again now.

I thought it was more like 80%?

This is where the US is waves ahead of Australia. The indigenous population is small now (2%) but hasn’t always been, and we put them (and still do) through many, many atrocities… If you’re at all interested, check out indigenous deaths in custody. There’s also the constant destruction of their traditional heritage (birthing trees, rock art etc.). The stereotype here for an Aboriginal is that they’re drunkards and drug users. This is not reality but a huge majority think this.

As a country, we have deep seated institutionalised racism that has taken root and flourished over the last few decades. We have this national way of thinking where the indigenous population needs to comply to our laws, our way of life. If an indigenous family wants traditional education, nah - go to one of the ‘normal’ schools. Want to learn an indigenous language? Nah, learn German or French or Japanese.

We also have severe tall poppy syndrome where we can’t let anyone have it better than anyone else. Our Australia Day is also a huge issue since it’s on the day of the first colonists landing.

All in all, we don’t have an equivalent because we have a rotten attitude to our first nations.

Wow. I just looked at the front page and that’s actually amazing.

Short answer - no. Australia does not have such a thing, especially with that much support. We have some indigenous people in government but they represent their seat, not specifically indigenous affairs. There is currently no body that represents indigenous affairs as a whole.

It can be established by the government of the day, which it was back when Kevin Rudd was our PM (Labor Party). However, this body was then abolished by the next government, run by Tony Abbott and others since (Coalition).

Now, we have Labor in power again and this referendum was called to have a voice enshrined in our constitution so that it couldn’t be abolished by future governments. Since we nationally voted no, our current Labor government can establish something like the BIA, however there is a high risk that this will be yet again abolished like last time.

I remain hopeful. Even though a vast majority voted no to establish a body, I certainly hope that we have a government that can put something into action and that the Libs stay stuck in the weeds until they find what they stand for again.

I’ll have two of what this one is smoking, please.

The referendum isn’t about recognition of the indigenous population. That was 1967, which overwhelmingly passed.

This referendum was to add into the constitution that a body (a group of people) that represents the voice of indigenous and Torres strait Islander people must exist.

That’s it.

The obfuscation occurred when people expected more from it, which a constitution does not do. That’s a legislative power, which the current government of the time will then determine how the body is made up, how people will be chosen for the Voice etc. Additionally, there was a huge misinformation campaign and we have a media monopoly with an agenda here, so many, many people voted No as a result of the confusion.

The No vote was very, very largely done in good conscience. I firmly believe that these voters want what’s best for Australia and I’m glad for that. I wish it was a Yes, but hopefully this will spur more conversation on what we can do to bridge the gap.

So what if employees take advantage of the system if they still get their work done? If they don’t get their work done, that’s when a manager can step in.

Also 5 sick days a year is abysmal. I’d expect the sick days to get carried over where your sick leave is that low.

Pretty sure that’s just a nickname.

Uploading all of your collected data to the cloud

OpenRA

Lol. I actually read the article and it’s Tim fucking Gurner.

I’ve got friends who work as consultants for his projects and it’s more of a “do as I say” relationship. He buys up properties and then turns them into “luxury” apartments or hotels for his rich mates.

He’s part of our affordable housing crisis.

And he goes on to make this statement. Good grief.

Like, why would you ever build a city differently in the first place?

Exactly. Unfortunately, in Australia, we tend to borrow stupid ideas from the US to make money and have sprawling suburbs with zero amenity.

For instance, we had a new suburbian development within 20km from the CBD with the promise of schools, community centres etc. in the early 2000s. When all the houses were bought and built, suddenly there’s no money for amenities so they just sold the land to developers who then put more houses in. Now the only way to get anything you need is by car because there’s no train or buses because it was supposed to be accessible by bike/walking but now isn’t. And not to mention gridlock of vehicles looking to get out of the suburbs for food etc. out of the one intersection provided.

I would love 15min cities without cars for my country but the attitude to cars here is similar to the attitude about guns in the US.