[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Because his contexless stats is just 13/50 for indigenous Australians. I know it's popular with American conservatives to say that black people deserve it, but we can do better.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 34 points 1 month ago

This corrosive billionaire puts a lot of money into Australian politics, I think it's important to know what you're enemy is thinking.

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Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is urging politicians to shift further to the right and adopt US President Donald Trump’s polices as she blames voters and the “left media” for the Coalition’s disastrous election result.

I honestly wonder if she just wants to ruin everything for her own benefit, or she is actually lost in the sauce.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 18 points 2 months ago

Adobe Haven't these dickheads been charging Australians more for their products than anyone else for decades?

If you're going to urge the US to target Australia it should be within the rights of every Australian to just torrent your shit if they want.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 16 points 4 months ago

I remember reading that the government was hoping that because we run a trade deficit with the yanks they wouldn't do this. Look forward to that just being the assumption and the government having done 0 planning.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 35 points 5 months ago

"deliberate" seems like a pretty high bar. Of course it doesn't stop employer groups crying that literally stealing is being made illegal.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 19 points 6 months ago

Honestly, reducing the teaching + publish-or-perish + the constant need to apply for grants would go a long way towards fixing the review process. Academics have to spend a lot of time doing a lot of non-academic work that peer reviewing properly sometimes gets pushed down the list of priorities.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 16 points 7 months ago

Definitely not something a corrupt person would say.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 18 points 8 months ago

You're assuming that they scouted this and carefully planned it to ensure they wouldn't cause damage. I doubt that.

Seems like they did:

The canvas of the painting is protected with a glass screen, a factor Just Stop Oil said they had taken into account.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 14 points 8 months ago

The headline reads like an onion article.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 38 points 2 years ago

While its true that there are open-access journals and conferences without such costs

To publish open access normally costs upwards of $3k USD as well. There's practically no point in the publishing chain where academics aren't getting screwed.

Let's also not forget that you have to review other people's papers for the journal for free.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 14 points 2 years ago

They could have avoided a chunk of this by passing Zali stegalls bill on truth in advertising, but I guess abandoning your cornerstone policy on reconciliation is a small price to pay for being able to lie at the next election.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 25 points 2 years ago

There's a lot of "it's probably concealed for a reason" type posts that I don't think I'd be seeing if this was the LNP.

Also how can Australians trust the government to make national security laws if they aren't informed on national security issues?

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