The mocking attitude is a thing here in Australia. And people boast about themselves getting wasted. Seemed the opposite in the EU when I visited.

Fair enough but it is not the responsibility of the joker to satisfy your tangential curiosity.

I do appreciate that you are not saying it is. You are merely making whimsical conversation, but the number of upvotes you are getting look like desperately eager anti-AI cultists jumping on board.

How do we know this one word comment is not itself “AI drivel”?

As soon as I saw it on Facebook I didn’t even look closely before deciding it wasn’t a sheet folding machine.

Regardless of the crazy dimensions for such a task, I doubt the start of the industrial revolution would be automating this of all things.

Also: “3 sheets per hour”.

Also: Posted in “Jokes & Humour”.

Will spotted, however, as soon as I saw it on Facebook I didn’t even look closely before deciding it wasn’t a sheet folding machine.

Regardless of the crazy dimensions for such a task, I doubt the start of the industrial revolution would be automating this of all things.

Also: “3 sheets per hour”.

Also: Posted in “Jokes & Humour”.

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I wasn’t complaining about the Lerhrman-Higgins outcome, only Larissa Waters’ asinine comment.

There aren’t any actual cases where a false rape claim has been manufactured to exploit lack of evidence about the alleged perp’s alibi

Any? You are very confidently wrong. Just Google it. eg here and here and here and here.

My friend wasn’t even allowed to publicly defend himself against defamatory allegations of sexual misconduct which continued to be made with impunity. When he tried to raise her behavior at the IVO hearing he was told to shut up by the (female) magistrate because the hearing was about him not her.

I should have mentioned that this was in Victoria which has recently changed to new laws which allow such abuse of process.

I interpret Larissa Waters’ tweet as you did and am shocked by it. That you seem to consider it reasonable is disturbing.

While it is unfortunate that women without rape evidence cannot get justice, there are just as many evil women in the world as there are evil men. If they automatically get believed without evidence in rape allegations (or predator/stalker allegations like my friend’s case) then of course the evil ones will exploit that to put in jail the men they simply don’t like.

I have it on good authority that she has me next in her sights because I am co-admin of what she sees as a rival activist group. This is the right-wing hijacking well intentioned but naive left-wing sentiment.

The AVO matters because the court tacked on a new condition a few months later in a hearing he wasn’t even invited to: He was not to mention her publicly even indirectly (eg “one of the people running group X”).

Identifying her in the video isn’t resulting just in her seeking civil defamation against him but also pushing for criminal contempt of court (despite due process being ignored by the court).

Meanwhile she was allowed to continue defaming him. In fact him suing her for defamation is how it all started: she posted publicly that he is a sexual predator and stalker. So there are two opposing defamation cases in the pipeline and the one criminal case against my friend.

The successful AVO was intended by her to demonstrate to her thousands of followers that her accusations were valid, even though she had no relevant evidence for the rubber stamp AVO. The add-on was to gag him so that he could not deny the allegations she was publicly making against him.

I meant $100k (not $100). I doubt he will get costs even if he wins. She also got an AVO out against him based on this. Claims it has ruined her business (she wants $100k for lost revenue despite not showing tax returns) and that she fears for her life complete with waterworks in the hearing (despite him living interstate).

The current political climate is biased in her favour. After the Higgins trial win Larissa Waters tweeted “I believe women”.

He subpoenaed mug shots of the women arrested at the rally but none are of her. Seems the police are in on it, using her as a honeypot to attract the extremists. Courts protect police.

#Robodebt will have at least created a generation of citizens who understand the level of government corruption. It was an actual conspiracy.

My favorite Chaser is from their TV show when they dressed as Bin Laden and bypassed security to get near George Bush.

Point taken. I did look it up because I expected half of it to be true.

In Australia we have two satire sites called Betoota Advocate and The Chaser which sometimes are about 80% factual (about conservatives).

This is just an Onion type satire site. He didn’t mention any house-maid. Citing missing out on Sky TV as “hardship” though is still bizarre.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/12/rishi-sunak-went-without-lots-of-things-including-sky-tv-as-a-child

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They sing in a higher pitch (more annoying to humans?) to compensate for urban noise.

Selfish people don’t care about those factors. The existing graph has a better chance of swaying them.

She could have just denied it was her in the video. It is impossible to prove if someone denies it.

In Australia my friend identified a woman appearing clearly in a TV news bulletin being arrested at an anti-lockdown rally and complaining loudly. In fact it was official supplementary extended footage from the TV station uploaded to youtube: about 20 seconds of just her.

She is denying it was her though and is suing him for defamation. It has cost him over US$100 US$100k so far and the hearing day has not even arrived.

Misleading title. He did not win the appeal.

He won the opportunity to have an appeal hearing.

It is last week’s news anyhow.

Am surprised to see Australia rates highly. 40% of students don’t know it takes about a year for Earth to orbit the Sun.

I would guess that half the population doesn’t understand compound interest.

I would also guess only 5% could describe the scientific method, 1% could describe the use of normal distributions.

I would guess that 20% of locally born Australians would not know how to use punctuation or grammar for clear expression.

Is this a worldwide trend? The rise of flerfers suggests it is.

Because it depicts teenagers, yeah. It would have been fairer if it showed a dozen people with a more representative spread of ages. It would still skew young though.

I am Gen X, a computer scientist and often use my phone while walking.

Have often jumped on the wrong train because of my lack of attention. Not life threatening but results in extending my one hour journey by 30 minutes. But that kind of error did also happen occasionally pre-phone so at least now I have entertainment for that extra half hour :)