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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hulk Hogan is almost the single reason why wrestlers don't have a union and aren't offered the same protections as other entertainers. He's truly human garbage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Turns out of you do this with a basic block of cheddar and cheap shaved ham, everyone still thinks you're being fancy and compliments you on the cheese choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

There was a Duck tales movie? I had no idea.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

Thank god for the Furries.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Check out the 5-4 podcast. They know what's up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, good for you. I think you're entirely deluded but maybe I'm just jaded from seeing centrist parties worldwide fail for the last two decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Starmer's left wing is centre right.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You know it didn't use to be this way? There was a time when you could be 'A GE man'. You could work at a company for your whole life. You would not get laid off and rehired whenever it was convenient for the company, rather they'd show you some loyalty and you'd show them the same, this would be backed by employee profit sharing schemes, incentivising higher performance.

The heart of this deal between workers and management was ripped out when management chased higher share valuations, with stock bonuses for themselves instead of workers. It became cheaper to fire 1/80th of the workforce because you could break up unions that way, management could write off all those salaries to bump up the quarterly earnings, increasing the stock price and earning themselves bonuses at the expense of workers who as you said, just learn to get by.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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