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Your maths is out by a factor of about 9. i.e. There’s 305mm in a foot, so at 3.4mm per year it would take about 90 years for one foot of sea level rise. That said, the rate of sea level rise is expected to increase and it could rise by a foot by mid-century...

Can’t say I have any existential concerns, but I do have concerns for what AI will mean in the workforce in future decades, particularly for young people entering the work force and in process driven fields. A lot of the tasks that people now do in the early part of their career will be done by...

Geez I wish the ABC would stay away from these clickbaity headlines. Seems to be creeping in more and more. Leave that nonsense to the Murdoch's of the world.

Holy sh!t there's actually a column called "The Week in Patriarchy". :D (Which oddly had a main story which discussed what a group of women are doing.)

I find that a bit odd that there wasn't just a boys competition. Was in Victoria rather than Queensland, but when I was in Year 9 back in 1994 our school's boys team made it through to the State final. We had to go through regionals first and then the finals at Royal Park. So there were heaps of...

Interesting. What you have observed is what I thought would be the case before I had kids, but since having kids I've seen the opposite - the kids having the tantrums are the child care kids and the stay at home kids seem to lower anxiety and higher self esteem. But we chose to have a parent...

Child care is better for the kids? How did you come to this conclusion?

Yeah that is a perfect fit: Debating erasure as violence.

Watched “First Day” on ABC (iView) today with our daughters, who are in Years 1 & 3. It’s a 4-part drama about a transgender girl starting high school. Was very well done I thought. Great conversation starter. Would highly recommend it to any other parents who would like to discuss transgender...

Hoping some of you maybe able to help out. Have a co-worker who returned from holiday in Singapore and Malaysia last week. Was meant to return to work today, but agreed to work from home until 14 days after she returned. Just overheard the boss on the phone, saying to her that if the remote...

I think you’ll find the term “climate change” was coined by the “right”. It was created to make it seem like warming was part of a normal change in the climate.

The thing about that look I find most odd is the glasses. Do all of them have vision problems? Or do some have perfect vision but wear glasses anyway just so they can obtain the right look?

I see.

Soooo, um, WTF is this thread actually about?

There is a lady at my work with three: Valsecchi-Lopez-Gibson Would be interesting to see what happens if she has kids who marry another hyphen.

Watched Q&A for the first time in years to see what Peterson was like and I have to say I don’t see what all the fuss is about - either way. Views were fairly straightforward, nothing to get too excited about. Nothing worth railing against either. Did have to lol frequently at the supposed...

The thing about that Qantas type of nonsense is that it actually achieves the opposite of its intent - it is teaching people to accommodate intolerance. And there’s two issues with that. One is obviously that we should be trying to create a more tolerant society. So if someone wants to call...

Really don’t want to be defending Paul Murray, but I’m pretty sure his point was that he openly states that his show is an opinion piece, whereas other shows/news try to present themselves as being objective when they are not, and we should be aware of that. And on that point I think he’s...

I was surprised that Fairfax gave such a bigoted person the platform they did for so long. For the ABC to now give that bigot a new platform... well, guess I’m actually somewhat less surprised...

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but the thing I find interesting about the Gillette ad was that I reckon if it was made just 5-10 years ago it would’ve been shouted down for portraying women as helpless people who need men to protect them. From what I’ve seen (which probably isn’t...