“If fanatical evil can cause so much pain, what can fanatical goodness do?”

In the wake of the attacks, Rabbi Lewis said his cousin would have urged people to respond with kindness.

“Eli would be saying, ‘Go and do another good deed. Go and help another person. Go and care for another,’” he said.

Looks like you’ve got a good community going there. Not sure i have much to contribute, but we do have some crossover with the associated communities.

I’m not a big fan of those absolute firehoses though. It would be impossible to read as much as they post, and therefore they can’t have much invested or interest in the subjects which is bad for discussion and reminds me of the reasons for disliking AI slop.

I started posting by picking the communuty for the place i live and trying to post local and independent media and special interest groups articles about/in the context of that place.

Its benefits are,

• It creates activity on the fediverse that is unique, and the more interesting for it.
• You’ll be promoting the voices of those less often heard.
• You can also help local and independent media with readers and exposure. Its seen as more of an offline problem of media concentration, but i think theres online solutions for the surviving publications.

If you look through my history you’ll see my posts to c/Perth/WesternAustralia there are ebbs and flows in interest but the key point is when something happens, say a protest, or a pub banning some nazis the community is there ready for the users, active and established.

If you go to the sidebar of that community, and all the communities i moderate i have gathered in each a host of resources for people to refer to for articles and information in regards each of those communities. It also helps me to have easy access to those publishers as i look for something i find interesting.

So i don’t know what city or State you live in, but if theres a place based server, or a generalist server that hosts a community for it, i’d start posting there. If it looks abandoned maybe jump onto that servers c/meta and request to become the moderator. That’ll give you the ability to change things like the sidebar and participate in managing misbehaviour if/when users post things off topic/against the rules for the community.

See you in fediverse ;)

Edit: oh, also posting is a piece of active fun, instead of waiting passivley for something to entertain you. So its fun in a different way to scrolling feeds, or commenting.

Everybodies building rockets to get to the asteroids to mine them, but it’ll be Australian mining companies that do the mining.

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leukaemia or melanoma

I don’t know enough about cancer, is melanoma a blood disorder? I thought it was skin cancer?

You know how theres those questions in life you’ve never considered, yep, this is one for me! Holy shit, cancer can be passed from mother to baby! Insane!

Q.

If a pregnant women is diagnosed with cancer, is it likely the baby will also develop cancer?"

A.

Although it is possible, it is extremely rare for a mother to pass cancer on to her baby during pregnancy. To date, there have only been around 17 suspected incidences reported, most commonly in patients with leukaemia or melanoma.

A case in Japan in 2009 was the first to be hailed as proof that it can happen. In that case, a mother was diagnosed with leukaemia soon after she gave birth, and her baby daughter was diagnosed with lymphoma when she was 11 months old. Although two different types of cancer, the cancer cells of the mother and baby carried the identical mutated cancer gene. The baby hadn’t inherited the gene, meaning the cells must have come from the mother. The baby’s cancer cells had an additional mutation making them invisible to her immune system, allowing them to cross the placental barrier and survive without being attacked.

But in the vast majority of cases where cancer is diagnosed during pregnancy, which are uncommon to begin with, cancer cells can’t pass from mother to baby. Nor can cancer cells pass from a mother to baby through breast milk. Women who have been diagnosed with cancer are advised not to become pregnant, however, because chemotherapy and radiotherapy can harm the unborn baby.

Shit! Well, sorry!? I didn’t mean that as a personal attack to anyone in particular, especially not on AZ/Lemmy. I was mildly praising the Law Council, a fairly staid and conservative grouping of the ‘powers that be’, likely made up of an ‘in group’ of Australian power players. So I see them as a group that wouldn’t always understand or accept the problems with an overly securitised state.

Sometimes there is genuine and thoughtful pushback against the security services in this country.

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Yeah, thats true. I know they made assessments by postcode, so that data is probably in the report somewhere, the full report is open and available at that link.

Also considering Midland is SOR, which i definitely don’t always consider, maybe the vast majority of the population would be SOR, so comparing uneven population sizes might be leading to a quirk.

I can’t believe there is a North or the River South of the river divide in BMI for Perth! Is there more fast food SOR?

Edit: I think less nice parks/waking areas might be a factor.

Lets be honest verybody just wants to know who is the fattest State!

Images credit to, Alan Duncan, Astghik Mavisakalyan, Loan Vu, Michael Windsor.

The organised crime squad commander, Det Supt Peter Faux, said police and the casino worked together to detect and prevent criminal activity.

“Our detectives collaborate closely with casino security to identify and disrupt unlawful behaviour,” Faux said. “This strong cooperation is vital to maintaining the integrity of gaming operations and is reflected in outcomes like this.

You’re workin for the criminals ya bums! Let the casinos come to you with all the evidence, put your stretched resources into something more important.

I mean, i actually can’t see why this isn’t a more serious option.

Whats the story behind the leaked IDs?

have parents who don’t understand the issue, or are too busy and/or stressed out to monitor the issue, or if you have friends who provide you with access…

The other commenter isn’t making strawman arguments, they made quite clear the complex situations in which a parent may not be in a position to monitor or control their childs use.

Parents who neglect their children have their children removed

This is a strawman. It fails to imagine neglect of varied levels. It fails to acknowledge that child removal is the last resort after sustained and/or heavy neglect.

The alternative, you presented one that i see, is a government solution imposed from on high that is liable to the same ‘police state’ attacks you make about this legislation, or, will go unenforced and thus be a giant waste of time and energy because all parents, especially those time poor or ‘not in the know’, ignore the tool.

Dementia donny! 😂

Is it effectively a competitor to Lemmy or Mastodon at it’s heart?

I think it is, to an extent, but seems more flexible in its range of potential uses. So Bonfire social definitely is, but the Bonfire Science, and Bonfire Communities add a bit more flexibility in ways to structure the communities and groups within those communities. I like the ideas driving it, one of the problems i find with Lemmy, is the inability to organise on platform beyond a reasonably casual exchange. It makes things slow, and hard to communicate through.

The boundaries thing is cool, i’d forgotten that was part of it, the circles i think makes more sense when you look at the different use cases like the science, or community projects. But yeah its just a grouping mechanism.

~topic based

This is the best use for social media. I can’t see the use case for non-public figures on a platform like say twitter.

~scale

Yeah, its a good question. The more complicated a structure, how well can something like a bonfire communities scale before groups become meaningless. Maybe its a better as literal town size, but hard to see tens of thousands in circles being an effective use case. I’ve watched this project for a few years now, and i’ve not seen much in the way of growth, so i’m not sure they would’ve come across the challenge yet.

I suppose for security in scaling the boundaries function could really come into its own, it seems more fine tuned than the heirarchy of admin/mod/user.