u/vaguerant — vaguerant

The for-profit childcare system in Australia is profoundly broken. They're chronically understaffed and the pay is awful to boot, so there's tons of burnout and staff turnaround as people move around trying to get hours at different locations, etc. I don't know that 27 different gigs over a decade is actually that unusual in the sector.

If you're interested, ABC News Australia did an article on it:

• In Australia's childcare centres profit comes before safety - ABC News

Fair warning, there are some pretty unpleasant descriptions in the article of things that have been done to kids in the system.

Yeah, he was reportedly conceived in a casual encounter. His parents weren't in an ongoing relationship and the father didn't remain very involved in either of their lives.

*That* is not how a bastard works. To be clear, all of this is archaic, I'm not actually calling anybody a bastard, but the definition of bastard is "a child born to parents who are not married to each other." He matches that definition because his parents were never married.

Affairs don't come into it, it's just some old bullshit cultural and religious ideals about which types of relationships (just the one: heterosexual marriages) children are "supposed" to be born into.

I don't think he's anywhere in the line of succession regardless. He's the son of the Crown Princess (by marriage) but not of the Crown Prince. i.e. His mother had him as a result of a prior relationship, *then* married the Crown Prince, making him the stepson of the man who will one day be king, but not really anything on his own account. Besides a rapist.

Lemmy.World specifically forbids any sort of discrimination against queer groups on this site.

You're in violation of the terms of your instance, I guess we'll see how that goes.

Surely this means Lemmy has finally reached critical mass and we're slashdotting other sites now. /s

Operation Clippy.

Reddit probably closed down their existing community.

In positive news, the title database has expanded their Unicode coverage.