[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Even with a 10% pay cut the VC will be remunerated over $1,000,000 per year, even despite the university's poor financial performance.

Afaik the ANU VC earns about $650k (here). Not that this isn't probably 6-8x what most others in the university earn.

Pretty much agree with everything you say though. I'm about to graduate from ANU and I'm glad to be leaving tbh.

I would just add that, while the unis are managed poorly, the cuts to the sector by successive governments can't be excused.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.

That's not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

I haven't quite finished it yet, my feeling is that it slightly overstays it's welcome.

I've also noticed that most of the time I do a thing or two in the game then realise there's not quite enough time in the loop to do another thing, but just enough time to make me want to not waste the loop, since I find starting a new loop a bit tedious.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

From memory it respawns the low level enemies constantly, since they're just ammo/health/armour pinatas. You needed to kill the big enemies to complete an arena.

Not really a fan of the design choice, but I had a decent amount of fun when I clicked with how the Devs wanted you to play.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

What happens to people who have been raped and weren't believed or were falsely accused of faking it? Just wondering if they have similar experiences with mental health?

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

The conservatives have been getting worse over the past say, 10 years, Trump kind of accelerated things and that style of "who cares what the truth is" was exported from the US.

The right wing in general was always going to end up being like this though.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Cost is often factored in when it comes to optimising fusion power plant design so potentially, plus other benefits of fusion. Either way, barring a breakthrough the closest power barring breakthroughs is probably at best 2040 imo. Even with all the new startups.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Polls are only so accurate and can be subject to a range of issues as well sure. The difference is the sample size is much larger, and you can generally find a polling organisations methodology so you can probably see how they collected results broadly, if you have an issue with the methodology you should argue with that.

Cool, so why should anyone listen to anything you say?

You shouldn't if I make claims that I know people and they say X.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's worth basically ignoring anyone who says "I've spoken to indigenous people." In fact I would suggest anyone (for or against) who speaks to people around them and makes that judgment should consider consulting surveys/polls, rather than relying on their small circles as a sample size.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Some journals now also encourage a "plain language abstract" as well, along side the normal abstract.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Whichever horde is in fashion

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