maniacalmanicmania
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- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 5 days ago:
Feels more like !nottheonion@lemmy.world.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 5 days ago:
Just burn the world and be done with it.
- Comment on Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientists 6 days ago:
As I visit the city today (bus), I’m not sure how people tolerate the toxic transport pollution stench :(
There must be some desensitising to it from a young age e.g. getting a car, getting used to the smell of petrol every time you fill the tank and so on. Not to mention a lot of folk probably work in similar or more caustic environments so there would be some rationalising going on too.
Where we used to live in Sydney was a busy strip of cafes, restaurants, bars, pubs, most of which had outdoor seating and dining by the main road which was usually two to four lanes of busy traffic at most times of the day. You look at the shopfronts and signs, the footpaths and building facades and it’s all covered in soot. Sure it’s not building up that quickly but you only have to see it once and say to yourself, this is not a healthy environment, maybe all these people oriented places shouldn’t be a highway. But nope, I never heard a word or complaint.
- Comment on “How much can you afford to lose?” Gambling in Norway is tightly controlled. 1 week ago:
I sent your xomment via pm.
- Comment on “How much can you afford to lose?” Gambling in Norway is tightly controlled. 1 week ago:
I’d I copy the link into a comment and mention OP will that work?
- Comment on “How much can you afford to lose?” Gambling in Norway is tightly controlled. 1 week ago:
Why can’t they see it?
- Comment on Australia's Federal Court clarifies: Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic 1 week ago:
Thank you. This is a much better source.
- Comment on Australia's Federal Court clarifies: Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic 1 week ago:
I can’t find any other sources for this news. Admittedly I am out walking so I’m a bit distracted but still… Anyone else find anything about this?
- Comment on Disciples of the Bin Chicken 1 week ago:
Have you seen the crows in Brisbane? They’ll school any bird about trawling through trash.
- Comment on Eight sunscreens that failed their SPF claims tested by same overseas lab 1 week ago:
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which regulates sunscreens in Australia, told the ABC it was recently made aware of Mr Drewitt’s previous business record.
However, the TGA told the ABC it did not directly regulate SPF testing by third-party labs such as PCR.
Instead, it relied on self-certification by sunscreen manufacturers that their products met all regulatory requirements.
“As such, the TGA does not hold information regarding whether PCR is engaged by a majority of sunscreen sponsors,” a spokesperson said.
“The TGA is investigating the Choice findings and will take regulatory action as required,” the spokesperson said.
- Comment on Popular sunscreens accused of greenwashing by Australian Consumer Commission 1 week ago:
Australia’s consumer regulator is taking the owner of the popular Hawaiian Tropic and Banana Boat sunscreens to court over allegations they have misled consumers by claiming their products are “reef-friendly”.
- Campaign for Free Speech About the Rights of Occupied Peoples Calls for Delisting of Hamaswww.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Post-apocalypse Australia is the setting for hotly anticipated video game - Death Stranding 2 1 week ago:
Unfortunately apart from a solitary roo nothing about it really looks like an Australian setting in the trailer.
- Comment on Post-apocalypse Australia is the setting for hotly anticipated video game - Death Stranding 2 1 week ago:
It is very strange. I don’t know anything about these games. Has the geology of the world radically changed? Would that explain the landscapes I see in the trailer?
I like the look of Big Walk. If I ever get a chance to check it out I can tell I’ll feel very much at home.
- Post-apocalypse Australia is the setting for hotly anticipated video game - Death Stranding 2www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Canvas (fedi's r/place) starts in 12 days, here's the Australia flag plans this year! 1 week ago:
I went to check out the status of the Torres Straight Island flag and ended in going down a bit of a rabbit hole in regards to the Australian Aboriginal flag:
The flag’s current legal status was debated in an Australian Senate estimates committee in mid‑February 2022, when it was also revealed that the Morrison government had paid $13.75m to Thomas to assume copyright, and also paid $6.3m to two non-Indigenous businesses which held licences to use the flag. These companies are WAM Clothing, which received $5.2m, and Wooster Holdings, which was paid $1.1m. Interests in both companies are held by Gold Coast businessman Ben Wooster, former director of Birubi Art (which was fined $2.3m in 2018 for selling fake Aboriginal art).
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 1 week ago:
Death, death to the IDF!
- Comment on Calls for Australia-wide crackdown on real estate ads that use AI to hide faults and lure in renters 1 week ago:
I don’t know. An earlier article linked in this article includes this:
An LJ Hooker branch this week admitted to using ChatGPT to write a listing for a rental in regional New South Wales, which erroneously advertised the house as being near two schools that didn’t exist.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said businesses that used AI models to generate advertising material should ensure it is checked for any false, misleading or inaccurate information.
“Under the Australian consumer law businesses should not engage in false or misleading conduct in the supply of goods or services, this includes in advertising properties for sale or rent,” a spokesperson for the watchdog said.
So it may already be illegal but technically not fraud.
- Calls for Australia-wide crackdown on real estate ads that use AI to hide faults and lure in renterswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
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- Comment on Plutonium levels at nuclear test site in WA up to 4,500 times higher than rest of coast, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Hello mio 👋
- Comment on Oh to go back... 2 weeks ago:
By ‘city street map’ do you mean someone that folds out a single sheet of paper or something more detailed?
We used to do pretty alright in Australia with these thick road map books you could pick up from any petrol station or newsagency shop. Imagine you had google maps in book form where each page was a section of a bigger map (basically a whole city) with a grid reference system, adjoining page references on each side and a vast index.
- Comment on Tranquillity 2 weeks ago:
Casuarinas as far as the eye can see. I love the smell of Casuarina forests and the thick matted forest floor around them.
- Comment on Australia has ‘no alternative’ but to embrace AI and seek to be a world leader in the field, industry and science minister says 3 weeks ago:
Looks like coal"s back on the menu boys.
- Comment on Plastics campaigners warn Australia’s pledge at UN needs to be matched with ‘high ambition at home’ 3 weeks ago:
Modlog, apparently they haven’t replied to DMs so got a 30 day ban.
- Comment on Aussie flag on canvas will have pixel art on it this year, help wanted! 4 weeks ago:
Why is the Australian flag so big when I can see lots of flags that are recognisable at quarter of the size?
- Comment on Aussie flag on canvas will have pixel art on it this year, help wanted! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Aussie flag on canvas will have pixel art on it this year, help wanted! 4 weeks ago:
You have to disable template on the canvas to see what the actually flag looked like at the end.
- Comment on Aussie flag on canvas will have pixel art on it this year, help wanted! 4 weeks ago:
Is that bigger, smaller or same size as last year?