Fair call. I only just got the community update so I hadn’t seen it.

Well it’s not really an either/or situation. The current Labor government’s plan is a combination of majority renewables with gas and hydrogen. They are also running coal at the moment but have no plans to renew those plants during the transition. They’ve signed on to emissions reductions of 75% by 2035.

So you’ve got one plan which has some reduction targets (probably not steep enough) planned transition, costed and budgeted that doesn’t require more coal, and one plan which will pull funding from renewables, and requires more coal until some time as which they can get nuclear approved, built and commercialised.

Context is important here. The conversation here was about Australia’s nuclear capacity. A country where nuclear power is banned at both state and federal levels. Where the plan for it’s use is currently uncosted, the planned sites have been selected without environmental protection studies and several of which are supposed to be SMRs.

Would you build a bleeding edge nuclear reactor without a legal framework to govern its construction or operation? Without a workforce trained in its functions? Without considering the environmental factors of its geography? Without considering the cost?

Probably not. But that’s the current plan put forward by the reactionary right in Australia and this from a party who doesn’t believe in climate change, have no emissions targets, and whose whole plan is to continue to run and build coal power until whatever time they work out the details on nuclear.

Yeah they’re kind of the ultimate monopolization machine

Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance… Is there anything they’ve ever bought they haven’t slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?

I will never not post this. This is what anyone who gets one of these is destined for :

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

People don’t make that argument. But the ultimate goal of any capitalist organisation is to form a monopoly.

To be fair he said it was an ‘industry’ problem. And the music ‘industry’ absolutely has the same problem.

Too Many Songs, Not Enough Hits: Pop Music Is Struggling to Create New Stars - https://www.billboard.com/pro/new-music-tiktok-artist-development-suffering/

I know this might not apply elsewhere as I’m in Australia, but I always bring up that your union fees are totally tax deductible so you get it all back at tax time.

Of course. It’s a Murdoch newspaper they’re the shittiest of shit tier capitalists.

Australia is moving to a pay management system like this soon but as of right now this shit is still valid.

National boundaries just divide workers to obscure the fact that they have more in common with each other than with the ruling classes.

Musk’s purchase of Twitter was secured with funding from a number of investors, including Larry Ellison, the co-founder of software company Oracle, and Qatar Holding, which is controlled by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake

To be fair, you could see the push for WFH as a part of the same paradigm.

Check out The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.

It’s all about how those in power, like big governments and corporations, take advantage of chaotic situations like natural disasters or political turmoil – to push their agendas. They use these shocks and their subsequent ‘recoveries’ to bulldoze through policies that consolidate wealth while forcing systems to reform in their image.

The most obvious sign of a deeply embedded dogma is to think that picking the status quo is not an ideological act.

Also when you genocided the indigenous people so hard you never needed to adopt any loan words from the native language.

Fascism isn’t an ideology that gets defeated in the marketplace of ideas. It’s core belief is enabling a small minority to violently destroy other lives. It’s not worth your consideration.

Personally I have no issue with wanting to break free from landlords but the fraud theft and staff endangerment aren’t great.

Unbelievable really. These quotes from one of his many other lawsuits shows just how entitled he is.

Elon doesn’t pay rent, one member of the transition team told Hawkins. Another member of the transition team put it more bluntly to Killian: Elon told me he would only pay rent over his dead body. 7. Both Killian and Hawkins were told that for Musk, the fact that Twitter was legally or contractually obligated to pay a particular sum would be irrelevant to the decision of whether to actually pay it when that amount came due that Musk operated on a zero cost basis"

And

269. Between the demands that he effectively participate in theft and fraud and instructions to take actions inviolation of California law and that could put his colleagues lives at risk in the event of a fire a possibility only increased by the unlicensed use of space heaters Killian had no choice but to walk away from the job he had dedicated over a decade of his life to .