Yeah even if the coast is relatively dense by Australian standards there's still huge chunks of the Eastern coastline that's essentially undeveloped. Latrobe-Gippsland has a large coal mining presence already and about 6.5 people per square KM (which is concentrated into a few urban areas)
Mottizen
10mo ago
Labor's managing to burn down what looked like a fairly insurmountable lead after the last election, especially crazy considering Dutton's generally been lambasted for being Voldemort-adjacent aesthetically (and as a Liberal voter I honestly think that's very fair) and they haven't even had to swap him out.
Mottizen
10mo ago
Like if anyone could be made into a 7ft giant, would the current crop of NBA players remain? I doubt it. Almost all of them would be out-competed by harder working more conscientious guys
Agreed. I got a lot further in pro sports than I should have due to being a 99th outlier in certain physical attributes, but it was always funny seeing my position being 3 or 4 guys of a potential pool of about 10, maybe 20 candidates versus the normal-sized positions where it was 3 or 4 guys of hundreds of aspirants. The normal-sized guys were a lot more skilled/generally able as a result of that filtering.
Mottizen
10mo ago
A year's earnings? Equivalent to whatever he made off the media attention?
I can't come up with an exact figure but complete financial annihilation feels a thousandfold what'd be logical, especially when the tribe advocating for this would generally lean towards leniency in the vast majority of criminal cases.
Mottizen
10mo ago
Yeah the Aboriginal statistics are pretty inherently tainted by the amount of 1/16th suburban Sydneysiders who get meshed in with the residents of Meekatharra. I did a year in Darwin and until you've been out there it's hard to really understand what the situation on the ground is like with the remote populations.
Mottizen
10mo ago
would they have been treated as full community members had they stayed, or would they have been discriminated against?
IIRC this was part of the justification for removing them from the communities after some bad headlines around treatment of half-caste children
Mottizen
10mo ago
I've always wanted to see a detailed side-by-side analysis of life outcomes for the 'stolen generation' versus those who remained in remote communities. I've got a sneaking suspicion that the stolen generations actually benefited from the transaction
Mottizen
10mo ago
I work in a fairly disreputable field since it pays well. My retired father has been doing a genealogical deep dive, and it appears that my family has done this for generations. Whaling, slave trading, mild piracy etc etc etc.
I might be anti-slavery, but I personally feel that if I had been born into the world that my ancestors had been born into that I likely would have gone to sea in pursuit of a better life, and that likely would have come with a certain form of cargo. So I don't feel I can really cast judgement on my forebears.
Mottizen
11mo ago
slap him with the largest civil judgement in history
This is the crux to me of this just being almost entirely motivated by spite. I think that what he did was reprehensible, but plenty of other civil judgements for worse cases have not been 'let us completely financially annihilate this man teehee'
Mottizen
11mo ago
I agree that what he did is harassment but at a certain point a kind of vague gesturing to emotional damages for uncapped punishment has to look contrary to how the people who'd be comfortable with that level of punishment treat actual violent criminals.
Mottizen
11mo ago
Do most serial killers spread social contagions, though? Obviously guys like the Unabomber who've actually communicated with the media are one thing, but it feels like a lot of serial killers targeting the margins of society will never get any meaningful engagement whilst conducting their business. It's only after their investigation, capture and public trials that the real visibility becomes a thing.
Mottizen
11mo ago
Consumers of true crime content focus on fascinating cases which happened to relatable victims: in other words, bizarre unsolved murders in which the victim was an (A)WF(L)*
The entire industry seems to focus on like the same 50-odd cases, though, since those are the ones that fit the heuristics of interest
Mottizen
11mo ago
A decentralized exchange is relatively low-trust since you just use it to convert and don't deposit. Uniswap the most popular example.
How would physical cash not assist? Likely easier to slowly convert that into your preferred currency than raw BTC
Mottizen
11mo ago
I've seen Tamil Sri Lankan restaurants with beef on the menu, is this typical or just random emigrant change?
Mottizen
11mo ago
Could probably use a decentralized exchange of some sort to swap it into stables and then various ways of getting it into physical USD.
Mottizen
11mo ago
I think it suits well as a modern sport since it's largely self-directed, supports a wide range of time slots, Instagram friendly and you can take a friend group of differing ability to participate without direct competition.
Mottizen
11mo ago
I'd argue there's a third category of some people who just have absurd physical gifts and don't need to be particularly switched on or with it. NBA Centers tend to have more diverse personalities/interests than other positions since they have to be 7-footers to even qualify so the effective pool of potential NBA Centers is small.
I'm a very large person and got to fringe professional academy levels in Rugby. There were only like 10 people in my region who were effectively credible competition for what ended up being 4 low-paid slots on the development pathway. Meanwhile a normal-sized human position was hundreds of people competing for like 5 spots.
It's not like the average LatAm general has just spent years leading his quasi-personal army through a plunderfest throughout Northern Europe and decided to return with said troops.
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