princessnorah
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
👽Dropped at birth from space to earth👽
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- Comment on Missing German backpacker found alive after 12 days missing in remote Australian bushland 1 day ago:
I’m so glad to hear it. I was reading about the vehicle being found earlier today on ABC and was quite worried when I heard she’d abandoned it.
- Comment on I can fix her 1 day ago:
Yeah, I just had my phone the whole time. It turns out that completely cutting people off from their support network doesn’t promote mental wellbeing.
- Comment on Powerful US lobby groups urge tariff retaliation against Australia’s ‘socialised medicine’ 3 days ago:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Powerful US lobby groups urge tariff retaliation against Australia’s ‘socialised medicine’ 3 days ago:
The National Taxpayers Union, a conservative lobby group, called consumer drug price controls in countries such as Australia “socialised medicine”
That’s riiiiight! Who’s a clever little conservative? Is it you??
- Comment on Powerful US lobby groups urge tariff retaliation against Australia’s ‘socialised medicine’ 3 days ago:
Importantly, what we here as consumers pay for medications is NOT what the drug companies are paid for them by the government. Every single scrap of reporting I’ve seen on this has neglected that fact. My ADHD meds cost the government over $100 per month.
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, turning away Trump would have far greater diplomatic repercussions that I just don’t see Albanese risking. Trump could pull America’s embassy stuff, or enact further tariffs or sanctions. If Albanese wasn’t ready to condemn (or at least not congratulate) the Iran strikes then he’s not going to be ready to deny Trump entry while he’s head of state.
Musk, on the other hand, well if we denied Kanye entry then we better fluffing deny him too. It’s not like it wouldn’t clearly be a well supported move considering we’ve had one of the greatest drops in Tesla sales YoY globally.
- Comment on Why are hotels in Australia so inexpensive compared to hotels in the USA and Canada? 1 week ago:
True, but I feel like November is a lot cooler than Jan-Feb.
- Comment on NSW to ban people from appealing if working with children check denied 1 week ago:
Premier Chris Minns said he was “very distressed” at the reports.
But he’s very distressed at the reports! Won’t somebody please think of the children!
- Comment on Why are hotels in Australia so inexpensive compared to hotels in the USA and Canada? 1 week ago:
People travel domestically to the Gold Coast in winter domestically, same as people traditionally go to Florida in the US, to escape the cold weather. No one goes to Queensland in Summer when it’s bloody hot 😂
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 week ago:
It would be a lot more difficult to hide a backdoor on a bare ESP device, than a proprietary Tuya one, just putting that out there. Regardless, I still block internet access from my ESPHome devices, because I don’t want to feel like I need to constantly be on top of updates, that can cause things to break at times. I do them every couple months when I have the time to sit down and make sure everything’s still working, or roll it back where it’s not.
- Comment on Paul Keating claims young Australians are guaranteed to have $3m in super by retirement – but not everyone agrees 1 week ago:
This is a really weak take? Some quick research shows that typical average super fund performance over the last 32 years is 5.4% greater than CPI. Compulsory contributions are also only compulsory on the part of employers, and employees have still benefited from comparatively high wage growth amongst our peers.
Like, could the system and wage growth have been and continue to be better? Sure. But did he do a good job of preemptively managing the aging population that so many countries struggle with now; of forcing employers to be accountable to paying their employees well into retirement? Definitely. And is he talking out of his arse now? Absolutely.
^It’s not like I should’ve expected a good take from a .ml user though…^
- Comment on Australia’s had two more years of gambling ad harm since the Murphy report. It’s time for Labor to show some courage 1 week ago:
Where did the user you’re replying to say otherwise? Because it feels like you’re just trying to shoehorn this topic into a different conversation. This is coming from someone that’s staunchly pro-Palestine by the way, before you try to claim otherwise. If you want to make a difference here, log off and go join a protest.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re seeing the wrong causation when it comes to enshittification. FOSS licenses prevent that sort of thing from happening. Linux is already, by far and away, the most popular server OS so consumers moving to it isn’t going to make it worse.
I dunno, maybe be less of a hipster bestie?
- Comment on I'll get a bag of those carrots that they reckon are mistaken. WCGW. 2 weeks ago:
Oh…OH!
- Comment on How My Reporting on the Columbia University Protests Led to My Deportation 2 weeks ago:
Kind of irrelevant to the comparison I was talking about, but yeah alright mate. 👍
- Comment on How My Reporting on the Columbia University Protests Led to My Deportation 2 weeks ago:
What do you suppose the figures are on the number of people that didn’t vote due to voter suppression efforts, versus the number who chose not to vote? I’d be really interested to see the comparison.
- Comment on I'll get a bag of those carrots that they reckon are mistaken. WCGW. 2 weeks ago:
Is there something “wrong” here? I bet these taste the same once they’re chopped and cooked…
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 3 weeks ago:
If you think QC is happening locally, then I have a bridge across the Yangtze to sell you bestie.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 3 weeks ago:
That’s just a product of them making a LOT of goods for the world. If you have a flagship smartphone, it was probably made in China.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, it just came across as the whole “China makes low-quality goods” racism that’s been around for decades at this point.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 3 weeks ago:
You say this like a lot of the stuff you buy from Aussie shelves isn’t bought in bulk from the exact same suppliers as Aliexpress. You just need to do the work to find reputable stores. If it’s the cheapest price available, and the store has a bunch of random numbers in its name, pawbably give it a miss.
- Comment on Australia’s environment minister Murray Watt, has lobbied Unesco in a bid to overturn a recommendation that ancient rock art should not receive world heritage listing 3 weeks ago:
Where did you get the title of this post? The article has a different title and yours, with it’s double-negative, initially made me think the opposite of reality.
- Comment on Australian Red Cross Lifeblood loosens rules around LGBTQIA+ donating blood and plasma 3 weeks ago:
Transgender women who have sex with transgender women as well, thanks ABC for forgetting us.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 3 weeks ago:
blahaj has one!
- Comment on Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own 3 weeks ago:
I mean yeah, that’s what I was getting at. He can’t even live here, he’s not our problem anymore.
- Comment on Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own 3 weeks ago:
He doesn’t even have Australian citizenship, does he?
- Comment on Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own 3 weeks ago:
Riiiight, Australia is the one that’s outright owned by lobbyists, and America is a bastion of free speech. Yeah, alright mate.
- Comment on Radio transmissions 3 weeks ago:
You’re forgetting the three other Xindi species, that are much less humanoid. The Avians, who look much like a pterodactyl. The Insectoids, who look like praying mantis. And the coolest of them, the Aquatics, who have amazing spaceships full of water rather than air, which made for some awesome scenes!
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 4 weeks ago:
All of your points are quite valid. Personally, I would go for a whitelist over a blacklist.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 4 weeks ago:
like you inciting violence upon British people for example, and feeling like that’s an okay stance to take
😂😂