Longmactoppedup
@Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone
- Comment on National study finds where you live influences your body weight | News at Curtin 20 hours ago:
It’ll be down to the golden triangle being north of the river. And maybe midland and armadale being south.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 day ago:
It’s funny how the mainstream media has focused only on listing the big social media giants as being the targets.
I’ve also had a message from another not so mainstream hookup app that the proof of age is coming and to prepared to comply. How remains to be seen.
I must say I really like the idea of ordering a drink at a bar with the user name.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 3 days ago:
Are you aware of Labor’s 2009 plan to censor the entire Australian internet? It didn’t succeed back then thankfully.
There is no way that they will stop at just the big social media platforms.
This is about control and further removal of being anonymous.
It’s not even a liberal vs labor thing. They both have a history of bipartisan support for this type of bullshit. See: metadata retention, assistance and access, identify and disrupt laws.
- Comment on These charts show the effect of migration on Australia's housing story 6 days ago:
If anyone thinks that conservatives are going to lower migration in the slightest, let alone slash it then you might be interested in a bridge for sale.
Conservatives answer to the business council and real estate lobbyists. Both of which love high immigration. Only need to see the liberal party’s record on immigration since John Howard.
Conservatives also love our housing market just the way it is.
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- Comment on Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout 5 weeks ago:
Guessing I won’t be able to partake having never used my real name on Facebook.
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 2 months ago:
Thanks everyone for voting for the e-karen.
- Comment on Don't blame migrants for the housing crisis, blame the millionaires 2 months ago:
I think that the owner class of 1%ers deliberately stir up these racist dickheads with the express purpose of stifling all reasonable discourse about population growth / migration levels.
- Comment on Productivity summit ends with treasurer signalling tax reforms 3 months ago:
It works even better when truncated.
The productivity commission has broadly agreed to increase the tax
- Comment on Road safety data shows pedestrian deaths have increased by almost 50 per cent since 2021 3 months ago:
I’m sure someone will be along to argue that correlation is not causation on this, but I’ll be surprised if it’s not mostly due to the average vehicle’s front height now being above the average persons chest.
The other day on my bike ride in to the Perth CBD I encountered 3 separate pairs of motorcycle police with radar guns on the PSP (PSP= principal shared path, a completely separated bike / pedestrian path with no car traffic for those abroad). Presumably they were on the lookout for people on e-scooters exceeding 25km/h, which if caught get fine and their scooter confiscated permanently with no recourse.
Meanwhile in the middle of the CBD where there are lots of pedestrians we have vehicles running red lights, failing to give way to pedestrians when turning at intersections, ballbags in a jacked up 4WDs complete with 5 post bullbars and all of the emissions controls removed running around with complete impunity.
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 3 months ago:
Oh fuck off Kate.
Any time the “blue ribbon” teals talk about what is good for the economy we must remember that to them “the economy” = rich arseholes yachts. Their constituents are wealthy and economically conservative, and in no way want things to become fair.
So raising the GST will be worse for everyone who works for a living and have negligible effect on those who have accumulated wealth.
- Comment on I wish there was an uninhabited, autonomous zone for folks who want "freedom" to play out their dangerous ideas away from the rest of society 3 months ago:
MDMA legalised there?
- Comment on I wish there was an uninhabited, autonomous zone for folks who want "freedom" to play out their dangerous ideas away from the rest of society 3 months ago:
I imagine it becoming a haven for profitable vices like drugs, gambling and prostitutes to make money off tourists.
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 4 months ago:
When it comes to digital rights we have slowly been heading towards fascist dystopia.
I first stated paying attention when Rudd / Conroy tried to filter the internet. Although IIRC mobile phone Know Your Customer came in post sept 2001.
Since then it’s just been a frog in a pot. Meta data retention, assistance and access, identify and disrupt now the hand your ID to every fucking site/app bullshit posing as a kids social media ban.
It’s always been about the ability to silence dissent.
Fuck our politicians. Enjoying saying that while I can. Probably won’t be long before saying that will get your internet cut off.
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 4 months ago:
Yes have noticed more rage bait. Also more and more culture wars in comments. Still not anywhere near as bad as reddit.
- Comment on Has high immigration fallen out of favour in Australia? 4 months ago:
Headline question, answer no…
But seriously look at the election results. Fair to say the vast majority are either in favour of mass immigration, or their views on it are not strong enough to make them vote against it.
Mass immigration has had bipartisan support since Howard used it to ass fuck the unions and housing for anyone under 40.
I think a lot of it comes down to housing. 2/3 own real estate and know that the flood of people equals demand equals increasing prices.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 4 months ago:
They should be completely banned nationwide unless you live on at least a 4 hectare property.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 4 months ago:
What if they fucked right off and left parenting what kids do on their devices to their parents?
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 4 months ago:
Maybe I’m just getting old, but the idea of “verifying” my real identity to a faceless website or mobile app is abhorrent.
I guess it doesn’t help that governments in some countries (UK, Australia that I know of) are encouraging this bullshit with Trojan horse laws claiming to protect children from adult websites / social media.
Can’t help but think there is also an element of pot meet kettle here, when users of an app designed to dox and slander people without their knowledge are now the ones getting doxxed themselves.
- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 4 months ago:
Why the fuck is the media still calling this a kids social media ban instead of what it really is? A fucking Trojan horse for govt and big tech to further erode digital rights and harvest more personal data.
- Comment on Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before 4 months ago:
I read a lot of fiction books in my own time when I was in primary school for the enjoyment of it.
When I got to highschool I hated English so much. Analyse what the author’s theme was in this bla bla fuck off! Sucked the joy out of reading. Didn’t give me any useful skills for the career path I was heading in to either.
There needs to be an academic English subject for people who just need it to get in to STEM courses.
Took some years after high school to get back in to it, but I do occasionally read fiction when I have time these days.
- Comment on Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors 4 months ago:
I’ve read they are drinking less and taking less recreational drugs and having less sex than previous generations.
- Comment on Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors 4 months ago:
I’m so glad that capturing everything with photos / videos and uploading to socials wasn’t a thing in the early 2000s when I was going to clubs and electronic music festivals.
- Comment on Australians losing billions in savings due to poor management of appliance efficiency scheme, audit finds 5 months ago:
Pears said the energy rating stickers “have a lot of credibility with people” and is “relied upon” by consumers.
Really?
I’ve never really bothered much with appliance ratings.
Any time I see star ratings on anything that the govt has been involved with I automatically assume it’s a load of bullshit that was guided by industry with their wants put well ahead of consumer needs. At best star ratings just dumb down actual metrics.
See: The absolute joke that is food rating stars.
Home energy star ratings. Why not just state use the passivhouse standard? Or just state energy used and air tightness in changes per hour etc.
Vehicle star ratings where fucking human crusher 4wds still somehow gets 5 stars for vulnerable road user protection because it has some sensors in it.
- Comment on Albanese opens search for ideas to shape second-term agenda 5 months ago:
Pipe dream:
Tax income generated from accumulated wealth the same as income generated from actual work. I.e. a rate somewhere in between the two. No more CGT discounts.
End negative gearing for existing structures.
No more tax breaks for commercial vehicles
Curtail corporations from off shoring profits to tax havens.
Tax on exported gas
UBI
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Good to see us considering something that’s in favour of digital rights for once.
Also as an android (Graphene) user it is good to get this precedent in place because Google is steadily turning android in to an awful walled garden too.
- Comment on My petty gripe: Australians just don’t know how to act right on public transport 5 months ago:
If those are the biggest behavioural issues the author is worried about then I would question if she has ever even caught public transport.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 5 months ago:
Mass consumption of “low fat” (high sugar) processed food like products?
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 6 months ago:
As a fan of wagons, yes it sucks that there are so few left to buy.
The European manufactures still sell wagons here. But $$$
There is also still the WRX wagon.