NaevaTheRat

Just regulate it.

you wanna be a bank over a certain size? cover 99% of the pop with atms within 15 minutes or w/e

You mistake conflict for confusion.

If someone's terminal values are opposed to yours you cannot convince them. Sometimes people change core opinions slowly, but almost always by interaction with people close to them (i.e. where they have conflicting drives to uphold or reject an opinion). Internet debate me bro shit is pointless and just poisons spaces.

It's worth keeping in mind though, if you want to feed people: we can just do that, we have the food and we have the infrastructure. Every person going hungry in a city with edible food in bins, produce discarded for not looking right and so on is going hungry because of policy decisions.

It is cheaper, healthier, and more successful to just distribute the food we already grow, make and transport than trying to turn everything into an orchid.

Let us return to the proud tradition of walled cities.

Aside from the obvious don't zone floodplains I don't really know what we're supposed to do about this. Australians significantly resist densification of cities and don't plan cities well at all which reenforces that resistance. We're absurdly highly urbanised but in a sprawling manner.

We can't really reduce bushfire danger much without massive deforestation so let's not do that. It's not really plausible to like build underground and stuff in the regions/rural areas.

There's stuff we can procedurally get better at but floods and fires aren't like earthquakes where you can build structures that are basically untouched.

Are we just fucked?

I think people are thinking more that if you want to feed people just give them food you buy is more cost effective.

I don't understand sorry

Lol lmao. The right to the fruit of something is literally one of the kinds of Roman property law that informs European ideas of property rights.

Fruit trees are mostly just expensive to grow vs other kinds and can be unappealing if fruit spoils or attracts other animals. E.g. you probably wouldn't want to play on the grass underneath an orange tree on all the little bits of orange after possums have at it.

I think his portraits are legit amazing. Seeing powerful people portrayed in a very folky and crude but accurate way is quite thought provoking, a far cry from the usual imperious and dignified portraits.

It's a bit ridiculous to throw such a tantrum over something that is basically just an unflattering image. Bog standard for photos used in articles in the news etc when the editor has a slant. It really highlights just how fragile her self concept is, how much she needs power over others. It's also been fascinating to see people siding with her outside of the owner class.

Before doing anything, it's important to establish the minimum amount of effort we're allowed to get away with.

This whole thing is a bureaucratic farce but I'll take what I can get. It is absolutely disgusting that the body didn't investigate the referrals. People died over a scheme which was at least strongly suspected to be illegal by it's architects.

But I guess people down on their luck don't get human rights or something. Digusting episode in auspol.

I read a chunk of his work like 15 years ago because one of my stoner friends was into it. I recall seeing shit like "women are weaker than men" or "women are trying desperately to prove they're not weaker than men, makes ya think dun it?" typical reactionary man shit, I recall various shit about queer people being vaguely disgusting to him, including some episode of visiting a gender clinic but 'coming to his senses' or similar disgusting crap.

I'm gonna guess you're not a woman, and probably hetero white? people say things in certain ways and it indicates how they think about you. If you're in a majority the remark "Oh I didn't think someone like you would enjoy that" is almost certainly just innocent expression based on how someone has modelled you as an individual, if you're not it's very likely to be be someone excluding you as a class of person. you get sensitised to spotting shit like that in how people talk/how they behave and seeing the broader picture.

Keep in mind we're talking about someone who bombed broadly random individuals. He was a sadistic, broken, piece of shit.