He’ll probably get the cross of valour and Australian of the year. Maybe be made a member of the order of Australia. The titles are silly, but this guy deserves some recognition.

Ahmed al-Ahmed, CV, AC, FS(Fruit shop)

I don’t like most beers, but taste is purely subjective.

Also Guinness slaps

"I thought, ‘If I’m going to do anything, now is probably the time to do it’. I sprinted past everyone and hit [him] with [a] chair.

I forgot about this line.

What a guy

That’s the core of my issue yeah

I’m not seeing any confirmation he did it except for the implication that his addiction and homelessness means he did?

I don’t see any scenario where someone would be charged for tackling a gunman in Australia, and if that were to happen it absolutely wouldn’t be worse for a woman. If anything the exact opposite

Editing to add: executing the shooter would not be the sound option by any metric unless they were actively reaching for another gun.

It depends on if anyone gets caught in the crossfire.

If someone dies because he started shooting he’d be arrested and would likely see court, but I’m unsure on if a jury would convict.

If he’d just shot the guy I don’t think he’d see jail but he would probably be arrested and processed.

Why does this article focus so heavily on the american responses? I dont care what NYPD says about a shooting on the other side of the world.

Heartbreaking etc

Court awards $54,000 to protester for Victoria Police’s use of capsicum spray

A Supreme Court judge has awarded $54,000 in damages to a protester who sued police over their use of OC (capsicum) spray at a protest in 2019.

The lawsuit came after a protest at a mining conference at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre where police deployed the spray.

The judge found the use “constituted cruel and degrading treatment” and limited the plaintiff’s rights to freedom of movement and peaceful assembly.

From the hit mod for hearts of iron 4?

Theres the CPA, CPA(ML), ACP, and I think I saw a CPA(MLM) once. So it’s pretty easy to mix them up.

The CPA and CPC have a good fraternal relationship and have for some time. You might be thinking of something else

Global Times interviews Communist Party of Australia national president Vinnie Molina

“Workers of the world, unite” is a phrase that rings true throughout history. To isolate ourselves from the world can lead to the withering of our movement - as seen in parts of the Western left, which have at times fallen prey to the imperialist propaganda.

Alright but you’d better put them back

I’m arguably an open source project

I really hate how wikipedia is

It’s such a good idea. It’s so so fucking useful. But like everything else, it must be controlled by the great satan

The whole world is just energy and reality isn’t real (she said this verbatim).

She’s probably currently down the rabbit hole of woo based misunderstandings/misrepresentations of real science. Non locality is experimentally verified, but doesn’t mean what basically everyone on the internet acts like it means. I’m not actually smart enough to explain what it means, or even understand it all that well honestly. But it doesn’t mean what the woo people say. It doesn’t mean that you can think your way to Mars for example. (Probably)

The energy universe stuff I’m less sure on the origin of tbh, but I’ve seen it before during my self inflicted bullshit swirlies as a common element of the recently emerging unified conspiracy theories. You don’t see as much disagreement as you used to.

when she has unironically declared herself to be detached from reality and immediately jumps into a defensive posture at the first hint of a disagreement or feeling inadequate.

Yeah. I’m noticing this element in a lot of online spaces. The AI users are so used to constant praise from their AI that if you don’t begin every reply with

"Great question! 🥰🤩 That really gets to the core of the problem at hand. Let’s break it down! 👇

1️⃣ Dora the Explorer and the Quest for the Purple Planet could ABSOLUTELY function as soft disclosure alongside Stargate SG-1"

they assume you hate them and everything they said or have ever done and you think they smell bad because you didn’t compliment their smell.

It is odd to see “reality is fake” and “we can’t improve things” in the same person though. Typically if they bring up the first thing, they’ll move onto misunderstanding theoretical physics about holograms and tend to believe in the collective hallucination sort of model but idk

Sorry for the wall. I dont even know how much sense any of this makes. I really need a hobby.

Victorian government to make historic apology to Aboriginal Victorians following signing of treaty

The Victorian government is set to make a historic apology to Aboriginal Victorians in one of the first public acts to follow the signing of the state’s treaty agreement.

The official apology — to take place during a special sitting in parliament today — was negotiated as part of Victoria’s nation-leading treaty agreement, which was signed and became law last month.

The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria said the apology would acknowledge “the profound harms inflicted on our peoples by the state and colony — both historic and ongoing”.

“This moment is important,” it said.

“[Treaty] is not about dwelling in the past, nor laying blame. It is about acknowledging that the past still shapes the present and choosing to do better from here,” the statewide treaty agreement reads.

The Victorian opposition will not support the apology as it takes issue with references to Victoria’s historic treaty in the wording of the statement.

The opposition has pledged to repeal the treaty legislation if it wins government.

A government spokesperson said it was undeterred by the Coalition’s position.

“After 10 years and multiple pieces of legislation, the leader of the opposition is now trying to say no after voting yes to the Voice,” they said.

"The current approach to closing the gap is not working and we must do more.

“We won’t be stopped from doing what’s right because Jess Wilson is held hostage by the extreme right in the Liberal Party.”

The apology is to be live-streamed from parliament from 11am, with screenings set to take place at some schools and Aboriginal organisations in Victoria.

11am is an hour and thirty two minutes from now.

I don’t have any questions related to the project, but I hope you’re having a good day