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- ‘A deeply colonial backward step’: why are donors, staff and politicians up in arms about the South Australian Museum?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 4 days ago:
It’s useful to minimize data leaks too, since (especially when combined with simple login etc) you can avoid giving out your real address ever.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 5 days ago:
Probably realised that “full” self-driving the way people think of it is not likely to happen in our lifetimes. And Tesla’s existing system is an out and out scam.
But I expect he’ll try and combine it with his stupid tunnel idea, instead of, I don’t know, a train?
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 5 days ago:
It’s the Model 2, which he has being talking about for years but it’s not clear if it will ever happen.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 5 days ago:
The execution is very poor, and I’d rather these dangerous monstrosities go away and be replaced by smaller, less dangerous, and more practical vehicles. And ideally, car ownership will decline over the long term with viable alternatives to driving hopefully being developed across the world.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 5 days ago:
They might finally develop the affordable, mass market car that Musk has been claiming is in the works for years, instead of idiotic and expensive passion projects like the cybertruck.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 week ago:
It’s been long enough since I played the original and I didn’t actually finish it so strikers may spoil it a little. To be honest, I think I’m just not that in the mood for games in general at the moment, which is fine. The desire will come when it comes.
- Comment on Games that still need more patience: what games released a year ago (or older) are you waiting for a sale on? Or that need another patch? 1 week ago:
Music can be added back to vanilla mostly as well with a mod.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 week ago:
P5 Royal. Hasn’t quite grabbed me yet maybe because I played most of vanilla a few years ago and it’s pretty slow going at times.
- Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilitieswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 34 comments
- Comment on China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants 2 weeks ago:
I’m waiting for the day an ebike is only slightly more expensive than a normal bike with the same quality of parts (or cheaper even due to economies of scale). I don’t think that day is too far off.
- Comment on Proposed new Australian broadcast rules: how much sport will you be able to watch for free? 2 weeks ago:
This law is essentially saying “people like me are not entitled to watch the sports that our society has deemed culturally significant enough to pass special laws entitling everyone to be able to watch”.
The issue already exists too. The previous cricket deal had online streaming locked by a paywall, and although the current one fixes that, it’s a shame a future deal could legally pull that shit again in the future.
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Chris Uhlmann joins Sky News as analyst and contributor 2 weeks ago:
This guy is such a weaselly ladder climber. Certainly doesn’t give the slightest shit about journalism if he is joining Sky of all places.
- Proposed new Australian broadcast rules: how much sport will you be able to watch for free?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on (NSW) LGBT Equality Bill Is Now Open For Consultation: Here's Why You Should Fill The Online Survey - Star Observer 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think there is anything stopping you, but it’s meant for NSW residents presumably.
- (NSW) LGBT Equality Bill Is Now Open For Consultation: Here's Why You Should Fill The Online Survey - Star Observerwww.starobserver.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Brock got the news the day he asked for repairs – one of 30,000 NSW renters evicted without a reason each yearwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Federal Court publishes affidavit detailing Seven Network payments to Bruce Lehrmann, including for sex, drugswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Why crypto could be green power's unlikely new best friend 4 weeks ago:
Especially because in practice the massive cost of compute means that while low cost power is nice, it is always more economically sound from the miners prospective to run 24/7 to get the best return on investment.
If you wanted a market solution, you could push wholesale power pricing onto miners so the cost potentially becomes too expensive to mine at times there isn’t renewable energy. Not that I think power should be wasted on crypto mining in any case.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 2 comments
- ‘We know the community is over it’: how self-regulation of gambling ads came unstuck minutes into an AFL gamewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
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- Comment on The push against wage rises has begun again – it’s an argument for Australia’s poorest workers to become poorer | Greg Jericho 4 weeks ago:
The chamber of commerce and other employer groups never want minimum or award wages to rise by more than inflation. It is about time they were honest and admit they are arguing for the poorest workers in Australia to not just stay poor but become poorer.
Well that about sums it up the mentality of business groups.
- The push against wage rises has begun again – it’s an argument for Australia’s poorest workers to become poorer | Greg Jerichowww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Energy giant wrongly received thousands from welfare payments of former customers under Centrelink schemewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 6 comments
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 1 month ago:
I’m considering Bomb Rush Cyberfunk but I reckon it has a decent chance of ending up in Humble Choice so I may wait for that. Definitely a game I will enjoy, but I have a big backlog so eh.
- Comment on NSW planning changes to boost housing take effect next month but communities are divided 1 month ago:
I mean I get you, the developers themselves don’t really care about solving the crisis, they just want to make money. But increased housing supply is the only real politically viable solution, and unless we want even more sprawling, car dependent cities, then that requires higher density. So in this case, people who want affordable housing and developers that want to make a profit, have a shared goal.
Now if you were to argue that the government should instead build a massive amount of publicly owned high density apartments, terrace houses, duplexes, etc rather than handing it over to the private sector, than I’m all for it. But I really don’t see that happening any time soon.