JimTheMan

I highly highly doubt that by consenting to be an organ donor you are consenting to this.

Unless you live in some incredibly lawless country?

Organ donation is so very sensitive, and those who use the service are so aware of the sensitivities I think that you'd be insane to have such a reaction to this media piece.

In fact, I'll go one further. I have serious doubts you were ever an organ donor at all.

Not everyone has, or needs a hairdryer!

The appeals court should make a ruling on this.

Junkie by William S Burrough, while not of the beatnik genre is an excellent read.

It's set in the exact same time and place, and I think parallels the destructive nature of the Road in a more a direct way.

I think the Road is actually best read once as a teenager, once at midlife. The perspective change is enormous.

Refer to the post office scandal in Britain and the robodebt debacle in Australia.

The authorities are just itching to have their brains replaced with by dumb computer logic, without regard for community safety and wellbeing.

Motivation is the root of all learning in my opinion.

Every class should start with a why~!

I'm interested in the why for each, if you've got the time to write it out.

New york comes to mind.

They have access to the whole European union?

People value not having to step over the homeless to get to work, lower crime, free healthcare, no risk of deportation for having a view on Palestine etc etc

The US isn't that pleasant of a place to live.

Completely agree. More trying to highlight where you can find them, as many people are just stumped as there's nothing outside.

I found they did have bins, but they were either at the vending machine or in the entrance of any store. And there are a lot of convenience stores!

We see ourselves as underpaid, and tech workers as overpaid. (For right or wrong)

But you're completely right, Capital has done amazing job of pulling the wool over our eyes hasn't it.

Virtue signalling, not at all.

I work as an regular engineer in construction and I have a very cushy job compared to the boots on the ground working in the mud. I am conveying what I and everyone else thinks about tech working conditions.

Also not against unions, I have to work with unions in my day to day.

Yeah, when people choose to write an article about 'how bad they have it', don't expect sympathy from anyone else if you 'don't have it that bad'. Christ, you all get paid 3 x plus the median salary... Go work a job with better conditions that pays less! Or use your incredible market power to move to a place that does have better conditions (which you all have seem to done anyway!)

Unionise for gods sake, but jeez it would help if some of you had to scrape a little in your past prior.

These articles about work conditions in tech feel profoundly out of touch with the rest of the world. It's like reading a gazette from Mary Antoinette talking about how tough her life was (pre-revolution..)

The rest of the world outside of tech, looks at tech and sees a bunch of very overpaid developers with quite cushy perks...

Like sure, it would be great to unionise... But if tech workers don't acknowledge their privelege, they shouldn't be shocked when no-one else turnsout to support them.

Historically bombing civilians has always galvanised the public against the enemy more than it 'demoralises' them.

For instance the bombing of England during WW2 didn't break their will to fight. The fire bombing of 95% of Japan's cities didn't diminish their will to fight either.

And let's not forget the vietnam war... didn't seem to be effective for the US...

Bombing civilians rarely achieves any war goals and may actually have the opposite affect.

This platitude doesn't make the back seats of a greyhound bus any more palatable.

God they were cheap tickets though..

As always, I am super proud of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and their consistent balanced (for the most part) good work.

The word mate can be used both positively and negatively, but is predominately used positively. One of Australia's core values is 'mateship'.

You will be surprised to find that Champ is the word Aussies will use when unimpressed. For instance, "You alright there Champ?" means " You absolute idiot, what in the hell are you thinking?"

There's an amusing short story from Douglas Adams, who visited Australia back in the day where 'No worries' featured prominently.

https://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-08-a.html

"and get this, this is a very important and significant part of what happens to you on Hayman Island - staff who don't just say "No worries" when you thank them for topping up your champagne glass, they actually say "No worries at all". They truly and sincerely want you, specifically you, not just any old fat git lying around in a sun hat, but you personally, to feel that there is nothing in this best of all possible worlds that you have come to for you to concern yourself about in any way at all. Really. Really. We don't even despise you. Really. No worries at all."

If you want to take your 'fair dinkum'-ness to the next level, I offer you the equivalent phrase 'No Wokkas'

I don't know if that gels with my personal experience visiting China about 5 years ago. I didn't find the Chinese public to be particularly athletic as a general rule and they didn't seem particularly sport oriented.

Walking up a mountain, the public seemed generally unfit in comparison to Australia?

A question I don't know the answer to.

Is the scale of the conflict simply significantly less, or is artillery more accurate(and has a greater range?) and therefore less shells tend to get used in a modern day context?

These runners run fast enough that much like cyclists, they get a benefit from following in the aerodynamic drag of another competitor.

Unless there is a pacer none of the runners really want to be in front and eating all the aerodynamic drag. So the race slows down. This greatly favours runners with a faster sprint at the end.

You guys is a gendered term and a perfectly reasonable axiom.

And because it's used by everyone, I submit this is true in the court of public opinion.

I was thinking about this the other day.

You can approach a group of women and say " hey guys", that is fine.

To a group of men," hey gals", and that is not fine.

"Hey guys" to a mixed group, why... You've now 'elevated' the women to men so everyone is ok with it.

It all implies that being a woman is somehow lesser. And so that is why I'm going to stick to everyone or folks.

Although I don't begrudge or ask anyone to change.

Ageist!

Take us back to the year 2001 and this would have been regarded as witchcraft. Hell I think it's witchcraft now.

It's incredible how dismissive people are. I mean it's like looking at the wright brothers plane and saying, "I think this is a bad application of propellers."

There's a full wall of phone cases at the official Apple Stores... If they were serious, they wouldn't have them.

America's allies would probably not support a side unless there was going to be a clear winner OR it was in that nation's interest to do so.

America's enemies maybe would pick a side in an attempt to destabilize the country more... But I think a splintered America would be extremely reluctant to accept help from Russia/China.

At some point, we will have enough solar/hydro/wind etc that they won't be built using coal power... Right now it's a necessary yes, in the future no.

In a way, that last (...) is also a very black and white way of viewing things.