[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 9 points 8 months ago

Nowhere in the article does the author pin blame on individual employees. "Tech industry" obviously refers to corporations, not individual contributors. The title isn't clickbait.

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 12 points 8 months ago

What do you mean by separation of power? :)

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 13 points 8 months ago

I get the sentiment. But to me personally, "redundancy" is pretty clear and doesn't mask the pain that comes with being let go. There's also generally a difference between being "fired" and being "made redundant". Redundancy suggests that their job doesn't need to be done anymore b/c of a restructure, bankruptcy, merger, and the company needs to meet certain obligations for that redundancy not to be considered an "unfair dismissal".

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Thoughts?

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 12 points 11 months ago

I'd love to, but none of my friends use it unfortunately

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Racism and lack of bipartisan support were likely huge factors as other commenters said. There was also division between Indigenous people regarding the efficacy of the Voice to Parliament. Some saw it as a great step forward, others saw it as toothless or symbolic, others still believed it would delegitimise their sovereignty over the land. The Opposition latched onto this for their own gains I believe. Together with Fair Australia (conservative lobbying group) they dealed in fear, misinformation and distrust. They absolutely dominated over social media and took control of the narrative very quickly. This became a lot easier for them due to the cost of living crisis. Take a White Australian in the outer suburbs or rural areas, tell them to care about this thing they don't understand instead of their rising mortgage payments and cost of groceries, when the Opposition is feeding into their latent ignorance and distrust of First Nations people that all Australians have, and you've lost them already.

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago

Sorry man, but that's not racism. That's equity. Some kinds of people need certain kinds of privileges, because they've been disenfranchised by a racist system for years and years and years. Giving them a leg up is a reasonable and empathetic thing to do.

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago

The author's arguing that BG3 makes Starfield look like a shallow RPG by comparison. Their broader point is that Starfield is behind the times compared to most RPGs released in the last couple decades, even compared to something like Fallout 3.

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[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by that?

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago

It's a term for a third gender used by some Native Americans :)

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

Curious about this, what makes it computationally expensive?

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

Generally when Indigenous communities go dry, it's to protect members of the community from abusing alcohol. There's a greater risk of alcohol abuse in these communities because of a whole history of disenfranchisement, insecure housing, generational trauma, stuff like that. So personally I wouldn't say an economic argument is right here. There may be demand for alcohol, but if that demand leads to alcohol abuse and all the terrible shit that brings, and many members of the community don't want alcohol around for those reasons, then it's better not to build a Dan Murphy.

[-] phonyphanty@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

I think she's right, it's a fair and practical move. Not sure if I'd say that all No campaigns for the Uluru Statement use Trump-style politics like she says, but the Fair Australia one is certainly weak and uses the "pointing out racism creates division" thing that anti-CRT Americans like to use so much.

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