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The latest COVID booster will soon be available. Should I get one? Am I eligible?
theconversation.com The latest COVID booster will soon be available. Should I get one? Am I eligible?

Yet another new COVID booster has recently been approved by the TGA. Here’s what to know about the JN.1 shot.

The latest COVID booster will soon be available. Should I get one? Am I eligible?

>Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has recently approved a new COVID booster. The shot was developed by Pfizer and targets the JN.1 sub-variant of Omicron. > >This is now the fifth iteration of the COVID vaccines, which have been updated regularly to keep up with the rapidly evolving virus, SARS-CoV-2.

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>For adults aged 65 to 74, a booster is recommended every 12 months, but they’re eligible every six months. For adults over 75, a shot is recommended every six months. > >Adults aged 18 to 64 are eligible every 12 months, unless they have a severe immune deficiency. Many conditions can cause immunodeficiency, including genetic disorders, infections, cancer, autoimmune diseases, diabetes and lung disease, as well as having received an organ transplant. For this group, it’s recommended they receive a shot every 12 months, but they’re eligible every six.

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Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update
  • New commentary for HL2 if anyone's looking for an excuse to play it again.

  • Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update
  • New commentary for HL2. Gonna have to play it again.

  • Wind power: CSIRO asks Australians to chart their farts for research
  • The app didn't have rego, just a login.

  • Wind power: CSIRO asks Australians to chart their farts for research
  • How do you register an account to use the app?

  • Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure
  • Hard to know. Maybe it's a tactical move in preparation for the next federal election. Seeing the Dems get obliterated after supporting Israel's slaughter for the past year might have given them food for thought.

  • Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google
  • The for-profit joint venture ...

    Oh well.

  • Dutton is already testing Trump's campaign slogans
  • And Howard, multiple times.

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    I (31M) was kidnapped and held captive from 2006-2013, AMA
  • What happened to them?

  • Unreliable samba transfers - common issue?
  • Apart from copying the files again after comparing the checksums what else have you done to troubleshoot the issue? Have you looked at logs, run fsck or anything?

  • Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election
  • It would be hilarious if it became the biggest instance of its kind within a very short amount of time.

    Tempting.

  • municipal capitulation to desire
  • Kinda looks like the curb is part of the path originally but is mostly overgrown except for this bit because of the foot/cycle traffic.

  • How do you do to install Drupal 11 on debian?
  • Do you have all the required php8.3 extensions installed?

  • How do you do to install Drupal 11 on debian?
  • So just to be clear, you're trying to install Drupal 11 on your system OS which is Debian?

  • How do you do to install Drupal 11 on debian?
  • Is there a reason for creating a new thread? For example have you stopped trying to use proxmox or other virtual environments to get it working?

  • Harry Houdini Flew a Flimsy Aircraft in Diggers Rest. But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia?
    thelocalrag.com.au Harry Houdini Flew a Flimsy Aircraft in Diggers Rest. But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia?

    Six years after the Wright Brothers made the world’s first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered aircraft in the US, Harry Houdini—yes, that Houdini, the famous Hungarian-American escape artist and stunt performer—set a similarly impressive record in the small town of Diggers Rest, Victo...

    Harry Houdini Flew a Flimsy Aircraft in Diggers Rest. But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia?

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    Have you read Babel by R.F. Kuang? Did you like it?
  • Thanks for taking the time.

  • Have you read Babel by R.F. Kuang? Did you like it?
  • Can you elaborate on the aspects you found awful?

  • Have you read Babel by R.F. Kuang? Did you like it?
  • I've been listening to the audiobook and have enjoyed it so far. About half way through.

  • The Post Open project asks Open Source developers: would you please fill in a short survey on the current issues of Open Source?

    >This survey is from the Post Open project ( postopen.org \[will open in separate tab or window]). Please help us by filling this out, even if it's to say you don't approve of our project. You will have a chance to tell us anything you like at the end of the survey.

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    Own Goal: Middle East war to hit oil price, so gas price, so electricity price
    michaelwest.com.au Own Goal: Middle East war to hit oil price, so gas price, so electricity price - Michael West

    Years of political and bureaucratic failure on fuel security is about to hit the cost of living for all Australians if Israel attacks Iran

    Own Goal: Middle East war to hit oil price, so gas price, so electricity price - Michael West

    >In 2019, the Middle East supplied around 17% of Australia’s crude oil imports around 1% in refined products. However, the three largest suppliers to Australia of refined products, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, sourced 20, 35 and 44%, respectively, of their crude oil from Saudi Arabia and Iran.

    ...

    >Australia is supposed to, by international agreement, have 90 days of petroleum reserves. Even using dodgy calculations by the Australian Government (the IEA does not accept them as proper), which includes in its reserves the fuel at sea on its way to Australia, our current reserves are 51 days. > >Our real current reserve figures are at 31 days for petrol, 24 days for diesel (which keeps the country supplied with food and medicines) and 21 days for aviation fuel.

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    Liz Truss urges conservatives to ‘defund state media’ as she rails against left at Australian CPAC event
    www.theguardian.com Liz Truss urges conservatives to ‘defund state media’ as she rails against left at Australian CPAC event

    Former British prime minister also criticises the Bank of England and bureaucrats in speech at rightwing conference in Brisbane

    Liz Truss urges conservatives to ‘defund state media’ as she rails against left at Australian CPAC event

    > Truss told the rightwing event that the left was “winning the argument” by rebranding “socialism” as “the environment”, “human rights” or “equality” – “but what they mean is they mean divisive identity politics”.

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    Does the post linked in this post's Text field crash Voyager for you?

    https://lemmy.zip/post/23962195

    FYI I'm on an instance that is slow to federate stuff from lemmy.world accounts, I may not see your reply for some time.

    Seems to be working for me now. Perhaps others can let us know if it happens again and remember to grab a crash report just in case.

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    The National Council of Australia's National Tertiary Education Union has overwhelmingly endorsed the institutional academic boycott of Israel - BDS is now union policy

    cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/14251472

    > ! > > https://x.com/nickriemer1/status/1842367573654192131?t=ehgCvVt3KMTzzr-HF8V2-w

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    Rinehart asked National Gallery to ‘permanently dispose’ of portraits
    web.archive.org Rinehart asked National Gallery to ‘permanently dispose’ of portraits

    Documents released under freedom-of-information laws reveal Australia’s richest person appealed directly to the National Gallery’s chair Ryan Stokes.

    Rinehart asked National Gallery to ‘permanently dispose’ of portraits

    Paywalled source.

    >The emails from her supporters described Rinehart as “One of Australia’s most prestigious people” and “our most powerful and successful woman” as they called for the portraits be removed for their “disrespectful” and “extremely upsetting” depictions of the miner. > >One suggested the “insult” be met with a formal written apology from the NGA expressing regret for the “disrespectful portrayal”. Another described the works as “tawdry commercialism at best, cheap shots, resonating from a platform of ignorance”. > >“In my opinion, this artwork should be removed and replaced with a portrait celebrating her and all she has done and continues to do for Australia,” one supporter said.

    LOL

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    Pianist sues Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for cancelling his concert allegedly over Gaza stance
    www.theguardian.com Pianist sues Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for cancelling his concert allegedly over Gaza stance

    Jayson Gillham claims he was ‘silenced for speaking the truth’ and says situation ‘strikes at the heart of our right to free speech’

    Pianist sues Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for cancelling his concert allegedly over Gaza stance

    Witness by Connor D'Netto is available for purchase through Bandcamp.

    All proceeds from the Bandcamp release will be donated to Palestine Australia Relief and Action (PARA) para.org.au

    As noted by @tombruzzo@aussie.zone in the comments Bandcamp Fridays (where Bandcamp waives their revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels) starts at 5pm AEST Friday Oct 4 and goes for 24 hours is on. If someone knows exactly when it ends I can update this post.

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    'Gaza is gone' - Norman Finkelstein on Israel's Destruction

    A rough transcript of Norman's contribution below:

    Well there is a, as historians like to say, there's continuity and there's change with what preceded it. I think if one uses the metaphors of, that Israel has invoked, if you use their metaphors, what you can say is up until October 7th Israel periodically launched these high-tech killing sprees, what they call operations. And the main purpose of these killing sprees, as they they said it not me, their metaphor was to mow the lawn in Gaza. And that basically meant, well it had several different features to it, but it didn't mean total annihilation.

    Come October 7th, there was a new goal set by Israel, namely this time we're not going to mow the lawn in Gaza we're going to extirpate, pull out by the roots, every blade of grass in Gaza and that took basically three forms.

    Originally, and I should point out these are overlapping forms they're not discreet, entirely discreet, the first form was an attempted mass ethnic cleansing of Gaza, namely forcing all the people to the south and then hopefully the gates of Rafa would be opened and they would flood into the Sinai desert. That didn't happen because the president of Egypt said no and it seems that the US deferred to president Sisi's decision and the ethnic cleansing didn't in total occur, but I think it's not widely known it has in large regards, it has succeeded.

    The estimates are somewhere between 300 and 500,000 Gazans are no longer in Gaza, they by hook or by crook they were in Egypt. It seems Egypt doesn't allow more than 60,000 Gazans to stay at any one given time. So you could say 300, we'll take the low estimate, 300,000 have been expelled, they will certainly never return and they are finding a way, finding a way to get past Egypt, that is Egypt is a transit point to some other corner of the world.

    So if you take the low estimate that would mean one seventh of Gaza's population has been successfully, and one might add surreptitiously expelled, if you take the higher estimate of 500,000 that would be about one quarter of the population. So even though the kind of ethnic cleansing that was conceived in the early days has not succeeded it must be said that in part it has succeeded.

    The second possibility, leaving aside the ethnic cleansing, the second possibility was to make Gaza unlivable, and that goal has succeeded. There's a lot of nonsense in my opinion and I have to emphasize in my opinion because I don't make any claims to infallibility, there's a lot of nonsense being said about what has happened and continues to happen in Gaza.

    Number one as you know every headline has to have as its subhead the Israel-Hamas War. There has not been any meaningful substantive Israel-Hamas war, there has been an Israel-Gaza war and the aim of the Israel-Gaza war is to make Gaza unlivable, uninhabitable. I'm using the language of the Israelis, this is not my embroidery or embellishment, that's what they say. As the former head of the National Security Council Giora Eiland, and he's not the only one, he's one of the defense ministries advisors, defense minister Gallant's advisors, he has said we're going to leave the people of Gaza with two choices, one to stay and starve or two to leave. And that goal which in my opinion was the main goal, that goal has been achieved.

    I don't like to be a bearer of bad news on the other hand if we're speaking to adults, we should treat them respectfully as adults, Gaza is no more, Gaza is gone.

    About the estimates are, if you take the whole of Gaza, one half of the infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed. That means for somebody who doesn't quite grasp that, if you're saying a major thoroughfare, let's say in New York City where I happen to reside, and you're walking down 6th Avenue, just imagine every second building is gone. Or just imagine your walking down 6th Avenue, one side of the street is there the other side of the street is no longer there, that's Gaza. There are no universities left in Gaza, there are no schools or university hospitals, there are barely any hospitals left in Gaza at this point.

    And so you might say well what about rebuilding. There can't be any rebuilding of Gaza that's just not true. First of all the estimates are by now they about 45 million tons of rubble in Gaza. It's estimated it'll take 10 to 15 years to just remove the rubble, the rubbles mixed with a lot of unexploded ordinance, toxic substances and also a lot of dead bodies.

    And even if you manage to remove the rubble there's no question in my mind what's going to happen. Israel is going to say we're not letting cement into Gaza. It already did that after Cast Lead, it said that Hamas will use the cement to build tunnels, we're not going to let cement in. And nobody in the International Community is going to quarrel with that. Hamas they say build 430 miles of, 450 miles of tunnels which I consider completely nonsense complete nonsense.

    All these numbers that everybody repeats moronically from the state of Israel. If they had built 450 miles of tunnels that would be more, since Glenn I know you lived for a while in New York City, that would be larger than the tunnel system of the New York Subway system. New York Subway system has 430 miles of tunnels. Are you're going to tell me that Hamas built 450 miles in Gaza, 26 miles long and three and five miles wide, no. But that's the excuse that Israel is going to use and everybody will accept it.

    So between the 45 million tons of rubble and the fact that Israel won't let cement in there is no Gaza anymore.

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    Black Cops Won't Save Us

    Black Cops Won't Save Us

    By F.D Signifier

    Edited by ‪@NeedlessNick‬ Intro by ‪@OverthrowMedia‬

    Special thanks to : ‪@SkipIntroYT‬ ‪@olurinatti‬ ‪@BABILA

    Skip Intro on Copaganda playlist - Copaganda

    Olay on Eric Adams - Eric Adams: The Worst Mayor in America

    Pevious video on the justice system - Why the Justice System is Broken

    Other info on cop city - Help Stop Atlanta's "Cop City" Community Movement Builders - https://communitymovementbuilders.org.

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    00:00 The Boys in Blue 08:30 Black Cops 39:31 Dem Dirty Red Dogs 52:29 All Skin Folk Aint Kin Folk

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    Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU
    overland.org.au Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal

    “Defend the unions, defend the CFMEU. Demand your union stand in solidarity with the CFMEU. Join the workers’ campaign to defend their union.” Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU — with words by Sarah Missen and illustrations by Sam Wallman.

    Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal

    cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/13718685

    > Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal

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    Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU
    overland.org.au Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal

    “Defend the unions, defend the CFMEU. Demand your union stand in solidarity with the CFMEU. Join the workers’ campaign to defend their union.” Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU — with words by Sarah Missen and illustrations by Sam Wallman.

    Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal

    cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/13718685

    > Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal

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    maniacalmanicmania maniacalmanicmania @aussie.zone
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