My friend (HIGHLY REPUTABLE) who has links with the secret alien research wing of CSIRO told me they're voting on whether to eject themselves from the solar system. Most Important Election of their Lives!
This is clearly a conspiracy to distract from the upcoming Mauritian general election. Don't be fooled, sheeple!!1
Perhaps there's a new market for crystal cases then.
afaik, 'cooker' has risen as a slang term for the wackier conspiracy theorists:
From Wiktionary:
- (slang, Australia) A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
- (slang, derogatory, Australia) A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
- (slang, derogatory, Australia) A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.
lol - what abuse? He said these things in an earnings presentation, probably to board and investors.
Attempting to (softly) control other peoples' basic freedom, and their social life while at work, restricting them and alienating them from anything outside the office. The problem isn't their choice of words, nor that they admitted it to investors.
Maybe the way I'm saying this sounds melodramatic, that I'm jumping to the extreme case and assuming the worst. But those worst cases happen regularly, and these are the warning signs - when the owners want increasing control over workers to extract more profit, to "get the best out of them". Those employee pain points are social life: the company wants a childcare centre, a restaurant and a gym because "I don't want them leaving the building.", "I don't want them walking down the road for a cup of coffee. We kind of figured out a few years ago how much that costs." They could have lied and said they did it to improve worker wellbeing and get the best out of them, to reduce the travel-time needed, or any other seemingly innocent reason.
This attitude makes the universal truth clear, a board and investors see their workers as a resource for extracting maximum profit. It has to be that way, that's how they compete and survive. And it alienates workers.
And I don’t see any evidence anywhere that his people are enduring shit jobs.
I didn't say they were. I don't know their conditions. I'm refuting the common attitude that workers are just free to leave when they're being abused.
outrage reporting
You have a point. They said the quiet part aloud because their audience didn't need the propaganda bullshit they would have told other people. And so, they admitted an outrageous truth which, well, is pretty normal among businesses. The journalist is taking a quote and shining the headlights on them. But, they are not inventing a fake problem. There's no ethical justification for saying they don't want people leaving the building to enjoy a walk and a coffee on their break. Employer exploitation of workers is a real issue in society at large, it deserves attention, and this outrage is an opportunity to give it the attention it deserves.
Are the AFP employees (coppers) aware they are the wrong people to be handling this? They had an opportunity to help this kid, and instead just accelerated a terrorist operation until they could punish the victim.
but open to other rabbit holes
If you like satirical comedy or entertaining educational shows, there's a lot on Australian television (particularly shows from the national Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Also, for people who enjoyed The Office (at least, the UK version, I haven't seen the US variant), I recommend Utopia - it's far from a clone but has a lot of similar themes of workplace life mixed with poking fun at bureaucracy and government.
but I don't live in australia, or have a VPN to access ABC iView!
Visit the sidebar resources of !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, or even just YouTube will get you a lot of them.
Are we going down the same path as US politics?
It depends what you mean, that's a vague and broad question. Societies are complex and there are obvious similarities and differences between our two systems, our two cultures and our two main parties.
For similarities, we both have 'liberal democracies', which positions our system as ultimately a popularity contest. So unfortunately, techniques used in other countries will be sold or copied over here. We saw this with different elections (US election, UK Brexit) all being involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. If it works and they aren't going to get caught, we'll copy it.
Another similarity is the heavy integration of capital in politics. You know, 'lobbying', media corporation backing, and all that. The US are further down that track, but it's just an inevitable consequence of capitalism - power tends towards groups with the most money. So politicians who please capitalists get exponentially more resources to dominate the mass media. This famous analysis of US mass media translates very well over to Australian mass media and politics.
As for differences, we overall seem to expect dignity and professionalism from politicians. For one example, we appear far less prone to electing celebrities. An exception that springs to mind is Peter Garrett, but even then they were famous for very political band, it's a different ballpark to Reagan, Schwarzenegger or Trump. While they're not the same, it is worth noting that Clive 'Discount Trump' Palmer didn't go far, even with massive campaign spending on advertisements.
As a final mention, we don't use a FPTP electoral system, so there isn't quite the same dominant federal two-party system of the USA. There are the dominant parties/coalitions, but Greens or Teals have shown themselves as able to seriously threaten Labor and Liberal parties for seats. So we don't get stuck between picking 'the lesser evil' like most of the US are pragmatically forced to. Some people in Australia praise compulsory voting, but I see preferential voting as far more important. Always improvements, but that alone puts our system at the forefront of 'liberal democracy' systems
There are currently no rules at either the state or federal level to stop political parties and candidates from using AI-generated material in election campaigns.
Why should there be? They already use video editing. The issue should be making misleading content, not which tool was used to make it. Mandate labeling it clearly to say it's not real footage.
Also I really hate TikTok.
That's how I feel about almost every social media platform. I even complain about Lemmy occasionally!
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Who was our best Prime Minister and why?