You see when the American colonies declared independence in 1776, Britain’s source of agricultural goods started to dry up. They needed a replacement colony because they were losing the American Revolutionary War hence the invasion of Australia started in 1788. Since slavery was abolished, they had to use prisoners as their cheap labour force.
Fellow Australian here. Australian politics is a shitshow. AUKUS is just the most visible (and expensive) cringe element at the moment.
People living with disabilities use their phone to help them find and access services which they need. Paying bills, getting cash at the bank, etc all previously required physically queuing up.
Yes - not all modernization and tech “advancement” has improved people’s lives. Postmodernism is a side effect of a capitalist system. Communication has become a commodity to be consumed.
Unfortunately we haven’t yet created a Linux-like philosophy that applies to mobile phones. With Unix, you use files or file handles to interface between command line tools. You incorporate the tools together in scripts to create more complex applications. How that philosophy can be transformed into a mobile device? I’m not sure.
Tech needs creative people to build things that help others live better rather than screw their life up.
Agree. This is why I dropped this show but stuck it out with Picard and SNW. There’s too much hacky writing in Discovery that doesn’t fix the logic issues I had and adds more issues.
In this case why make that change from Saru in the first place?
I struggled through 2 seasons thinking the 2nd season would address the problems of the first one. It didn’t so I gave up soon after that.
This evident in the way European immigrant to the US have historically not been considered “white” until their original culture is entirely lost
As seen in a lot of settler colonialism, a manufactured “new” identity is created to promote a form of nationalism and shared ideology. This grew and evolved into a white identity that spread BACK to Europe creating the racial hierarchy that Western countries embrace so much.
e.g. “Europe is a garden” and the dirty jungle is trying to encroach. There’s similar sentiments in America, Canada, Australia etc towards their neighbors who aren’t considered “white”. It’s what Sakai refers to as a “Garrison Community” in Settlers (https://readsettlers.org/ch13.html#2). It’s the basis of the Great Replacement Theory that the far right love.
First they promote the racial categories of white and non-white, then they claim they (whites) are being genocided: no stats necessary - no evidence they’ve lost anything etc.
I am a crocheting and knitting guy also. Great de-stress activity that produces something tangible when you’re finished.
I enjoy most genres but I am in a bluegrass phase : Chinese bluegrass