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Let's talk about Artificial Intelligence
Marty_d replied to old man emu's topic in Science and Technology
Apparently Claude is good enough to convince Richard Dawkins, possibly the world's most recognisable atheist, that it's conscious. Utter BS, of course. -
It's not just housing. The ratio of working age people to retirees continues to drop. It's only fair that income from assets is taxed at the same rate as income from labour.
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So when circumstances change, you would rather the government of the day either stuck to their election promises or call an election every time they needed to pivot? What the hell do we elect them for then? When Howard and Costello brought in the CGT discount in 1999 (from which the wealthiest 10% get 80% of the benefit), did they take it to an election?
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Good article by Saul Eslake correcting some misinformation that's doing the rounds about Jim Chalmers' budget. I think it's a step in the right direction, and good on them for having the courage. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/may/19/death-tax-startups-and-a-rent-spike-its-time-to-correct-misleading-claims-about-labors-budget
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What a lovely thought! Let's just hope the next White house resident is more like Obama, and not a Trump-like replacement.
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It's far easier to count the number of times he's told the truth. You don't even need to take your shoes off.
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Wealth accumulates wealth. You can't tell me Gina "earned" 40 bill. With that saying of yours, I'd be asking where the "someone else" got their money, because it was most likely them or their ancestor being a robber baron.
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Oh, how's that? I'd really love to know how the government works out who voted for them and distributes what it's "taken from everyone" to those people only. You've obviously lived through more governments than me, but I've lived through 3 worse governments than this - Howard, Abbott and Morrison.
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This is an interesting read. Stick with it, it's long but puts it all in perspective. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/17/america-china-energy-oil-renewables
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It would have been interesting to be a (Chinese speaking) fly on the wall in the Chinese planning sessions leading to Trump's visit. I reckon he'd have some unflattering nicknames.
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Everything except 3 and 5. He has no knowledge nor science, but still lacks character and humanity.
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Well, you've just put yourself on an ASIO watchlist OT!
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What sort of scrap bins do you hang around?? That's high quality scrap!
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He's a petty little man. Reckon he must have been a bully at school. This article sums up his (and his family's) profiting from his position. The extent of corruption and fraud is breathtaking. Any one thing he's done, if it had been any previous president doing it, would have led to impeachment and possibly jail. But he just does it so constantly that it's the new normal. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/14/trump-drain-the-swap-billionaires
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Yep - banks don't lose value for long.
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And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon
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Good. Most Australians wouldn't want anything marked "Trump" over here.
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Surely they wait until they're in the locker room.
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OT, be careful with buying a phone from overseas. I got caught out with that a couple of years ago, bought a new Samsung for my son from an ebay seller. 2 months later it had permanent lines on the screen. Seller didn't want to know about it. Samsung Australia wouldn't touch it under warranty because it wasn't an Australian phone. Samsung US didn't want to know about it because I wasn't the original purchaser in the US. So my son had to put up with the lines until he got a job and saved up for a new phone.
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I haven't watched free to air TV in years. Everything is available on demand anyway.
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If he had his own ejection seat the choice would be easier. Wouldn't even need the missile.
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If it came down to a choice between those 2 shows, I'd read a book.
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She draws Barnaby so well. That shade of purple is reserved for him.
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Prime minister Pauline Hanson?! Is this the inevitable conclusion of our beleaguered democracy? | First Dog on the Moon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/11/prime-minister-pauline-hanson-is-this-the-inevitable-conclusion-of-our-beleaguered-democracy?CMP=share_btn_url
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I went to visit my mum on Saturday and she had a YouTube video paused on her computer - something about a sniper taking a 600m shot. When I asked her about it she was telling me how interesting it was, this female sniper doing a 600m shot against the Taliban in Afghanistan recently. However, the woman on the screen and her male spotter looked like models, their olive drab clothes were WW2, their pistols looked like Glock butts with weird circular end on the slide, and the rifle had iron sights! Pure AI slop. God knows what it was telling her.
