Did you know that in Australia 44% of adults (roughly 7.3 to 9 million people aged 15-74) do not possess the literacy skills necessary for everyday life and work.

Since the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) began in 2000, Australian 15-year-olds have shown a steady, significant decline in reading literacy.

Why is this? Do we blame larger class sizes, changes to the curriculum, teacher burnout or something else?

Because that many people not being able to read and write properly is an absolute fucking disgrace and makes me wonder what the point of school is these days. Was it shitified intentionally because the public were asking too many questions about the way this world operates?

Anyway if people can’t read you can hardly expect them to educate themselves about climate science. Instead they will just trust the opinions aired on the main-stream media. It’s easier.

“Under South Korea’s laws, companies must ensure there is human oversight in so-called “high-impact” AI which includes fields like nuclear safety, the production of drinking water, transport, healthcare and financial uses such as credit evaluation and loan screening.”

It’s crazy that everyone else hasn’t introduced similar laws already.

I guess we will wait for something to go wrong first…

Saryazdi has a master of mathematical sciences from the University of Sydney, according to his online profiles.

Math - not even once!

I wonder if there will be a riot/strike anyway?

I mean how long before people refuse to work just to pay someone else’s mortgage?

So increased land taxes and unoccupied home taxes do work to stop prices rising quickly. Now take away negative gearing and CGT discounts and do all of this across the country!

Weird, it’s working for me still.

Listening to MEC now. I like it a lot !

LOL thanks for the tip.

I created an account manually. Now I can’t create a community.

Digg doesn’t allow nsfw anyway so now I am back here

Sign in with Google not working for me

I am glad someone finally had the courage to stand up and say this.

🍷

Work should give alcohol rations like sailors used to get!

Meditation is not trying to stop thinking because that is not possible. It is more like noticing the thoughts but not jumping on board the train.

Have you tried meditation?

Do you have a lot of caffeine? Try stopping.

If you use THC try switching to CBD

Otherwise just stay busy so there is no time to think

Maybe it murdered its sibling.

So it could eat more KFC from the local bins itself !

“I’m 100% convinced that most of those denials were being made because the staff that was there were overburdened to the point of just blanket denying shit to make their KPIs”

And I am 100% convinced this type of thing is not an accident. Because why would an insurance company WANT to pay out more than they have to? Instead they slash staff which saves money on pay AND claims and the company can blame any drop in quality on the reduced staff!

It’s genius except for the part where they are killing paying customers!

For those wondering how a parking fine can be 100K, it’s actually many smaller fines:

“However, one of the cars has to be parked slightly over the grass in Martinez’s yard, in violation of a local property-maintenance ordinance, which has led to a $250 fine every day since 2021”

Once Were Warriors

Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff’s harrowing vision of his country’s indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism, irresistible energy, and great sorrow.

Dysfunction, alcoholism, domestic violence.

But it’s not funny, sorry OP.

Pulp Fiction

Terminator 1 & 2

Alien and Aliens

Yep. Came here after they banned my BDSM community.

Reddit sucks.

LOL sounds like Delivery Unlimited certainly has its limits!

Reddit is a really good site - have you tried it Grimreaper? I think they would like you