ziltoid101 6d ago • 100%
Referendums generally fail, people don't like changing the constitution full stop. I know quite a few left-leaning people that voted no because they wanted the voice to he legislated but not constitutionally enshrined.
ziltoid101 3w ago • 100%
I thought a labor supermajority would be able to actually be slightly progressive without the fear of being voted out. Just goes to show how far they've drifted from their roots.
ziltoid101 3w ago • 100%
I've visited Carnac, it's true that these snakes are surprisingly placid! Such an interesting population - iirc David Attenborough filmed a segment about them about 20 years ago.
ziltoid101 3w ago • 100%
Amazing effort from Brisbane, well deserved!! First quarter was great as a neutral too.
ziltoid101 1mo ago • 100%
Anyone but Geelong (dear god please)
ziltoid101 1mo ago • 100%
He/she came right up to me! I was having lunch by the river and the little fella just ran up to me and started singing. They eat bugs and don't really scavenge off people so I don't think he was even after my food. He even hopped on my foot briefly!
ziltoid101 1mo ago • 100%
Trees. Please, please, please... trees.
ziltoid101 1mo ago • 100%
Right?? It's so tone deaf. The only people I've seen in support of live exports are farmers... the one group with a vested financial interest in maintaining these exports.
ziltoid101 1mo ago • 100%
So, the government's picking up the funding slack... right?
... right?
ziltoid101 1mo ago • 100%
Nothing escapes, not even light... awesome song, everything Arjen touches is gold.
ziltoid101 1mo ago • 100%
I don't know what to think about housing anymore, I'm just so tired. The new builds around my parents house look shoddy and just plain ugly, not to mention first thing developers do is remove any and all trees and put concrete over the entire block. "Nimby" has become such a buzzword and a scapegoat but like, it's hard not to have a bit of empathy, and anecdotally lots of people would be supportive of these new developments if they weren't all shit. These concrete jungle suburbs will be around for decades at least. But also, the housing crisis is real and developers are saying that red tape around building quality is slowing them down. I desperately want a place to live, nothing fancy but at least safe and liveable. Is it genuinely impossible to have density and build quality?
Aka Bleating Froglets
ziltoid101 2mo ago • 100%
Been meaning to get into these guys. Album artwork is sick, awesome growls, and cool mastodon vibes in the music too. Will definitely listen to some more!
Now that we've had some time to digest Flight b741, curious to see how it ranks for everyone! Of course it varies a bit day to day, but I'll have a go... honestly I really like them all, bar the bottom two! - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz - Polygondwanaland - Nonagon Infinity - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava - Butterfly 3000 - Omnium Gatherum - Petrodragonic Apocalypse - Changes - Fishing For Fishies - Murder of the Universe - Flying Microtonal Banana - Quarters! - Float Along ~ Fill Your Lungs - Infest The Rats' Nest - K.G. - Flight b741 - L.W. - Gumboot Soup - Sketches of Brunswick East - Laminated Denim - The Silver Cord - Paper Mache Dream Balloon - Oddments - Made In Timeland - 12 Bar Bruise - Eyes Like The Sky
This album came out yesterday! All the music is written by Arjen Lucassen so it should be of interest to Ayreon fans.
ziltoid101 2mo ago • 100%
I think we agree here in the sense that MSO are within their rights to dismiss him. But I think that the public backlash is very predictable outcome, and the public are right to feel outraged at the MSO for this. I can understand they're in a tough position but cancelling the soloist's performance was really the nuclear option. The cancellation is a much bigger political statement than the soloists comments (which were ultimately about the composition anyway), and if that's the statement the MSO wants to make they're free to do so but they need to accept they're being perceived as not only silencing their own artists, but also defending war crimes (whether that was their intention or not). Just terrible management of the situation.
ziltoid101 2mo ago • 100%
Concert security is getting really stringent atm. With the government raising the terrorism threat to probable, large events are increasing security measures. Given how much publicity this has gotten, how controversial it is, plus how intensely passionate people are about the palestine/israel conflict, I can see why they wouldn't want to go ahead with this. Someone was stabbed at a world music concert at the Perth concert hall last sunday too!
ziltoid101 2mo ago • 100%
Eh, they played the ukranian national anthem before concerts in 2022. I could see where you're coming from if the soloist actually said something controversial but his statement was literally along the lines of "war crimes are bad" - cancelling his performance for that is a much more inflammatory political statement (hence the huge backlash) than what he said in the first place imo.
ziltoid101 3mo ago • 100%
(Nerd warning) So awesome to see strigolactones on lemmy. Any other strigolactone researchers out there? I mostly work on the receptor protein D14.
I often go for date night around Freo and we're getting sick of going to the same places over and over (Frida Mexicana, Gage Roads, Mexican Kitchen, and Spice Market). If you have any favourite places around Freo to dine, I'd love to hear them! (Especially if you can walk away from them feeling like you didn't just get ripped off - a very difficult task in 2024!)
ziltoid101 3mo ago • 100%
It does seem like whatever integrity there was in politics is quickly vanishing. I'm relieved we don't have quite the same attitude towards religion compared to the US at least. I think Australia is a long way off being a theocracy, whereas the US could be one as soon as next year.
ziltoid101 3mo ago • 96%
Can't mentally decline if you were never sound of mind in the first place!
ziltoid101 3mo ago • 100%
That's a shame, thanks for letting me know. I really want the fediverse to thrive but that's a pretty huge caveat!
(Sorry Sydney fans) What an amazing finish by Freo. I was so sure it was going to be a draw.
The Haken thread I posted a while ago generated a bit of activity so I might try it again from time to time. Let's rank Leprous' albums in anticipation for Melodies of Atonement. Feel free to include their two demos if you know them (I do not)! 1. Coal 2. The Congregation 3. Bilateral 4. Pitfalls 5. Malina 6. Aphelion 7. Tall Poppy Syndrome
Holocene is a slow burn but it's really been clicking for me after seeing these guys live. This was perhaps the highlight of the whole show.
About 2cm long! Cute as hell.
These guys are so pretty, they love hanging out around toilets in the outback.
In honour of their upcoming Australian tour (and to get some activity here lol), how would everyone rank Haken's discography? I love all their stuff, but for me... 1. Affinity 2. The Mountain 3. Aquarius 4. Vector 5. Fauna 6. Visions 7. Enter the 5th Dimension 8. Restoration 9. Virus (still a fan, just not as much as the rest)