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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I like unions. But the CFMEU, as I understand it (which is 30% at best), is a corrupt and criminally associated union.

Anecdotally, members of the CFMEU have always been the worst kind of people to be in a public space with. The few acquaintances I have in the union are racist, sexist, and generally unpleasant.

So ultimately while I think the government should keep off, the CFMEU is not an organisation I'd personally rally around - owing to internal culture and criminal/gang associations.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

For Kitchen Nightmares that's true, but Hell's Kitchen is another story altogether for his persona.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I like it when I have plans - camping, long motorcycle trips, board games with friends. Totally with you otherwise during work periods. Seeing the possibility and being unable to do anything with it is the worst.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
 

A long trip to a regional tavern covering (some of) the best roads in the area.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Stole $1000 (likely from someone who wouldn't realise it's even gone) to prevent untold trauma. I understand it's a grey situation but knowing how damaging conversion therapy can be to a person, I'd say theft is certainly the lesser of two evils.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

You're bang on. It's called MaxDiff. I use it frequently in my line of work to prioritise product or service messaging with panel data. It's better in some cases to use Inferred preference rather than stated, but generally good to keep the options comparable in "size" of offer.

I would never interpret a MaxDiff model low end result as "wow, 5% of people want slower browsers." Instead I'm focusing on the top cluster. As with any model, they're only ever so accurate. Don't read into the questions too much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's an Inferred importance method, as other users have commented it is likely that there are some calibration metrics in there. MaxDiff is the name of the approach if you want to check out more.

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

You may not have realised but I wager the dominant majority of Lemmy's userbase is American. So the dominant discussion will be focused on America.

I agree with you, it is not limited to America. But all any of us can really offer here is an anecdote.

Anecdotally I watched my partner go through this is in Australia for PCOS. Many doctors seem to be unable to reconcile that they don't know literally everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was a day trip around Port Phillip bay in Melbourne, Victoria. This particular photo was near the Brisbane Ranges.

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

This was a morning ride I'll never forget. For about ten minutes on this road I was riding towards a rainbow which seemed just around the corner. At one stage a hawk or eagle of some kind was scared out of the tree I was riding past and flew parallel to me for about 5 seconds.

Most importantly, after a 500km round trip mostly in the rain, I successfully returned home with a 1kg bag of heavily discounted coffee beans.

 
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Cocaine at bedtime

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