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We just survived the hottest 36 days ever recorded
  • Apparently the average is up in Germany, you just haven’t had any extremes this year.

    https://twitter.com/rarohde/status/1688486834890854401?s=46&t=041FqqqpppFjW7CoNV9wDw

  • Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy
  • If it’s not built to code to code it can pose all sorts of safety hazards to your neighbours or future owners of your property. If you don’t bother getting approval you didn’t bother building it properly either.

    At the slightly more silly end, your shed could lower the value of the neighbours property (because it looks like a meth lab, or just a general hillbilly grotto) and the law holds financial harm higher than physical harm most of the time.

    Edit: also it’s not just you, it’s any meth head who decides to build their own shed. Laws need to cater for the lowest common denominator.

  • Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists”
  • I see a lot of people claim the training model included copyrighted works particularly books because it can provide a summary of it. But it can provide a summary of visual media too, and no one is claiming it’s sitting there watching films.

    If the argument is it has quite a detailed knowledge of the book, that’s not convincing either. All it needs is a summary and it can make up the blanks, and get it close enough we can’t tell the difference. Nothing is original.

  • Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy
  • Why do you think the laws exist in the first place. Because there is some hurt to somebody else. You just can’t see it.

  • How F-16s Will Change the Battlefield in Ukraine
  • Mostly agree with you but some context is required

    Cluster bombs historically have a 30% failure rate. The modern American ones have ~1%.

    Historically they were used indiscriminately against unknown targets in a large area (they’re really good at that), in Ukraine the Ukrainians are using them against known targets and are logging their use so after the war the area can be cleaned of any duds.

    This also isn’t introducing a new weapon to the war; the Ukrainians and Russians have been using their own stocks of cluster bombs from the start, the Ukrainians are just asking for a resupply of the better American ones.

  • Will this also affect lemmy.ml?
  • Just checked all 43 unis in this list and only Monash and carangie melon, which is an international uni, break the trend.

  • Will this also affect lemmy.ml?
  • Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au

    Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either.

    2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)

  • in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on
  • What @hanni said. But they also split out the unemployment payment as the disability support payment. So it’s all the disabled pension too.

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  • Just had a quick read of the dingo wikipedia article because I was under the impression that we didn’t have many pure dingos left. Apparently we do.

    only benefits animal agriculture.

    That is entirely the point. I’m not sure what you thought it was? Dingos aren’t an endangered species and are even a declared pest in some areas.

    In 2018, the IUCN regarded the dingo as a feral dog and discarded it from the Red List

    Even conservationist regard it as a feral species.

  • ‘More than just a supermarket’: Why Woolworths is building apartments
  • I’m pretty sure they plan on selling the apartments. an article I read describes them as premium apartments which make more sense to sell I think.

    But even if they weren’t selling them, woolies (group) is just capitalising on the land they already (or will) own. I.e subsidising the cost of building a Woolworths store. It’ll be run as a business through a real estate agent with all the protections you already have. Probably be better for the tenant as there isn’t an owner with an ego on the other end.

    And there’s nothing stoping you from getting groceries where ever you want. You could even get coles delivery if you wanted.

  • Another fossil protesting the rise of WFH
  • No. We sell our services overseas. Most of our education industry (in dollar value) is international. We provide STEM services, legal services, financial services, etc to other countries etc.

    Taking a step back there is no difference in your question between a national economy and the entire world economy. 64% of the world economy is services.

    So no, services aren’t an inferior category of the economy. Manufacturing is fundamentally a service there are just foods involved. You can fuck up manufacturing by making something you can’t sell for more than it cost to make or even sell for less than it costs to make. This is harder to do with services, or at least feedback is quicker because you don’t hold inventory of services.

    So then how do we grow the economy if all everyone is just doing is Services for everyone else. This is the fundamental problem with capitalism. There are only two ways. Population growth and debt. But that’s a lesson for another day.

  • Another fossil protesting the rise of WFH
  • Hate to shatter your world view but mining is only about 5.8%% of the economy — same size as our manufacturing industry coincidentally. Realestate only makes up 3.1% of the economy.

    Most of the economy is services at 68%. Our health care industry (part of services) is larger than our mining industry. Our education industry(again services) is 4.8% of the economy. We actually have a pretty diversified economy.

    Manufacturing isn’t the be all of an economy and it isn’t where the wage to profit ratio is equitable. We all earn more as a service economy than we would as a manufacturing economy.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Australia

    https://web.archive.org.au/awa/20190308031902mp_/https://publications.industry.gov.au/publications/industryinsightsjune2018/documents/IndustryInsights_1_2018_Chapter2_ONLINE.pdf

  • ChatGPT ban in Australia’s public schools likely to be overturned
  • Not @niknah and I’m gonna guess they think it’s the coming lord and saviour. But it will be a part of technology going forward so kids should be taught what it is and isn’t.

    It’s a cross between Siri and predictive text. It guesses and makes up things in an authoritative voice. So kids / people need to be taught not to trust it.

    It’s basically a blender of the entire internet. It’ll just as likely tell you the pyramids were built by aliens because there are more words on the internet written about that then about the actual construction. Ask about any notable historical figure mainly known by their last name and their accomplishment and it’ll make up a random first name and fictional biography about them. Because all it’s doing is making sentences/paragraphs/stories from their component parts weighted by other words that are likely to go near them.

    It’s not going to cure cancer or even write a Wikipedia article correctly, but it might actually do fictional writers out of a job.

  • What's your coffee making style?
  • Latte maker here. Invested in a Gaggia classic pro over Covid. Paid for itself in a few months. I buy preground beans from colesworth; what ever has the prettiest package. I know I need to hit up a boutique roaster at least but I never find the time.

  • Good coffee for under $5?
  • Brisbane here. I was thinking large lattes. And they were 4.50 when I started my coffee drinking career nearly 20 years ago. Maybe I’m rounding prices from a few years later but I think my point still stands that they haven’t kept up with inflation.

  • Good coffee for under $5?
  • With average inflation, prices should double every 20 years. Coffees were $5 20-years-ago and probably rightly considered expensive and a lucrative business. If they’d kept up with inflation they’d be $10 by now. If they’d kept up with housing they’d be $25+.

  • How does one work with a lobby group on the Real Estate market?
  • For a lot of people, the family home is the only investment they have outside of super. They’re estatic as it goes up.

    Don’t get me wrong, It’s unsustainable that house prices double every ten years when the price of money only doubles every twenty years. But whilst it does nobody wants to rock the boat.

    How do you think so many people afford 80k+ cars? They use the equity in their property and only have to pay mortgage interest rates on it (over the mortgage term too,not a 5 year car loan). Not growing equity will mean they can’t get the 4WD, boat and pool of their dreams.

    There’s a strong incentive for the landed gentry to keep the status quo.

  • How does one work with a lobby group on the Real Estate market?
  • as this will bring down the pricing of housing…

    Most Australians don’t want this. 2/3rds of Australians are in the property market. They all want housing to keep going up. W

  • How do you tag someone.

    As per the title.

    I just tried taging someone for the first time and I didn’t get the magic blue link. I assume they don’t get notified unless it turns blue. I’m on the mobile site if that makes a difference. I’ve noticed a few other peoples comments with the same issue.

    Comment for example. https://aussie.zone/comment/297324

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