vividspecter
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- A thousand Australian university jobs are at risk. Who’s to blame for the dire financial state?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 5 days ago:
eureka explained it well, but my slighter broader definition is:
- Anti-vaxxer and other single-issue conspiracy parties
- Religious right parties
- Nazis
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 6 days ago:
Just make sure you put Labor ahead of the LNP and cooker parties since they will be objectively worse. But otherwise, agreed.
- ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdownwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 37 comments
- Unearthed: the interview that reveals answer to abortion question David Crisafulli has dodged more than 132 timeswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Origin snaps up pioneering Solar Quotes business, exits rooftop PV installation 1 week ago:
do people really use it in every day speech?
Probably not, but it’s a common term in the industry, at least in Australia.
- ‘Trust me’: ‘pro-life’ Queensland LNP candidate hints at post-election push to change abortion lawswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 1 week ago:
The Liberal frontbencher Ben Hood, who introduced the bill, says the woman’s right to end a pregnancy is kept because the pregnancy ends when the baby is born. “The innovation of this bill is that it allows a mother to end her pregnancy throughout all nine months and indeed, right up to birth,” he says.
That’s some mental gymnastics to come up with that logic. And unsurprisingly, from the supposed “moderate” branch of the Coalition.
- Comment on David Crisafulli vows to repeal ban on developer donations and ditch ‘corrupt’ full preferential voting system 1 week ago:
Also, does he mean moving to optional preferential or going to a FPTP system? Frankly, fuck both ideas but FPTP would be the worst.
- South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion carewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 20 comments
- David Crisafulli vows to repeal ban on developer donations and ditch ‘corrupt’ full preferential voting systemwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
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- QLD Premier Comes Up With OUTLANDISH Plan To Stop Troubled Kids From Stealing Things: Feeding Them — The Betoota Advocatewww.betootaadvocate.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australia's youth crime rates have plummeted despite what politicians would have you believe 2 weeks ago:
It’s quite unlikely that Labor win, but the Katter party bringing abortion to the fore may cause damage to their margin.
- Australia's youth crime rates have plummeted despite what politicians would have you believewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 15 comments
- ‘Mob are still grieving’: advocates reflect on failed Indigenous voice referendum a year onwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
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- Government to put pressure on opposition with legislation to ensure NBN stays in public handstheconversation.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Own Goal: Middle East war to hit oil price, so gas price, so electricity price 3 weeks ago:
Silver linings, but hopefully this pushes us further away from fossil fuel dependence and toward renewable energy, EVs, and public transport. The previous oil crises had people downsize from their absurdly large cars too.
- ‘I’m pretty smoked, mate’: Lachlan Morton completes epic 14,200km ride around Australia in record timewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Windows MR Headsets No Longer Work In Windows 11 24H2 3 weeks ago:
Looks like Monado is our only hope. Pathetic support from Microsoft but hopefully it will be fully supported in Linux in the next few years.
- Comment on Aurora forecast in the southern parts of Australia for the next three nights 3 weeks ago:
At this time of year?
- Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 20 comments
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 weeks ago:
I think in an ideal world, I’d set speed limits to be higher than they are now - say, (spitballing) 100mph for interstates.
I suspect many cars on the road can’t even be driven safely at that speed, and then you have to account for the driving ability of the average person.
You’d have more cases where there are high speed differentials too with some only going 60mph, and others going 100mph, increasing the amount of passing.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 weeks ago:
My gut tells me that, just due to the relatively sparse density of cars, rural driving is already significantly safer, and if you DO drive like shit, you’re likely to only injure yourself.
Fatalities are typically more common in rural areas (proportional to population). Likely because of higher speed roads and higher drink driving rates in rural areas. And maybe due to truck drivers and people driving long distances driving sleep deprived.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 weeks ago:
You’re right that streets should be designed such that low speeds feel inevitable and not something you have to think about, and that they should serve one purpose and not two (no stroads). And highways should completely bypass cities, because the idea that they should cut through them is just absurd.
Where are the cameras catching tailgaters, people who don’t signal, people cutting others off, people cruising in the left and not passing, people blatantly running stop signs, people texting or doing makeup?
The technology to do this is more challenging then detecting speeding. Red-light cameras are also very common, because they are relatively easy to implement. I believe there is some tech for texting while driving at least, but I’m not sure how automated it is.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 4 weeks ago:
I was thinking more about the apparent changes in legislation, so the issue could reappear. It’s hard to tell if the author is overreacting or how it will actually pan out, since it’s all a bit incoherent to me.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 4 weeks ago:
Will be interesting to see if this applies to Vodafone, as I haven’t seen any messages despite using an imported phone. And the messages I received from Telstra were somewhat justified as the phone is missing B28, but that’s more of a coverage issue.
A shitshow in any case. VoLTE should really have been a core part of 4G and not this tacked on proprietary upgrade.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen it go down in some cases on VPNs, so it could be a matter of time (or they’ll find a solution again and the back and forth will just continue).
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 5 weeks ago:
Youtube isn’t just a thing people use to waste time, but a source of educational content. That actually matters, and there isn’t a good alternative to much of it.
That being said, I agree that people could at least drop it (or reduce their usage) if they are just using it as a time waster.