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- Comment on Channel 7's Spotlight on EVs, fails to identify any EV maker that actually uses 'dirty nickel' from Indonesia - techAU 4 hours ago:
Appears that the real ‘dirty’ was actually the Spotlight dirty reporting
- Comment on Go Private? 4 hours ago:
I’d lean to leaving it open access.
Too many places become effectively ‘walled gardens’ and become difficult or impossible to just stumble across.
Of course, there are the cost and performance considerations. idk if there’s a way to monitor logged in vs others. Or is there some way to prioritize serving responses to logged in users? I guess lemmy may not have that capability, and I don’t know how the server/instances are setup, but maybe split to have one server serving logged in users, and another to cater for the rest?
Meh, it may be adding to complexity for little benefit.
- Comment on Choking during sex: many young people mistakenly believe it can be done safely, our study shows 8 hours ago:
Listen all you freaks, I do not consent!
- Comment on Can you afford to live in your postcode? Here's what the data says 2 days ago:
The main reason I have a car is not for travel.
It’s to sleep in if things go pear shaped. Maybe I should say more pear shaped.
- Comment on [Satire] Local shoplifter claims he was just trying to balance his trade deficit with Coles 3 days ago:
You can alternatively put a tariff of 20% on Coles and Woolworths.
So, every 5th item is free and you don’t need to scan that.
- Comment on Australia seeking to buy back Port of Darwin from Chinese firm, says PM 3 days ago:
There’s one-off, cash grabbing sales of public assets.
Then there is the sale of the Darwin port, which added a whole other level of stupid on top.
- Comment on Why are WA Police driving around in a Maserati? 6 days ago:
The rule of thumb for exotics/classics is that you should budget the same amount as the purchase price for maintenance.
That excludes insurance, which is usually at least 10% of the purchase price.
- Comment on Menthol cigarettes banned and every stick to hold a warning 1 week ago:
BTW, if anyone wants to give up smoking, I highly recommend Allen Carr’s book ‘Easy way to stop smoking’
You can find PDF’s available for free to download or borrow, eg at the Internet Archive.
I’d avoid the Allen Carr site as content appears quite recent, is expensive, and Allen Carr died in the early 2000s.
- Comment on Menthol cigarettes banned and every stick to hold a warning 1 week ago:
Sometimes I wonder if the real.addiction isn’t the government addiction to the tax revenue on smoking products.
Has the price for a pack risen because they are trying to disincentivise smokers, or because there are less smokers,so they raise the tax to keep the revenue flowing.
See also:alcohol.
- Comment on Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles - ABC News 1 week ago:
Jesus Christ, I thought this was a betoota article…
- Comment on Federal budget winners and losers (aka accidental Federal Budget Megathread) 2 weeks ago:
Well, I guess I’m technically a winner. From what I can tell, nothing substantial.
The most significant may actually be the Doctors & PBS increased funding, though I’ve been lucky on the health side of things so far.
Things are tough for a lot of people, and I hope those who really need it find something in the budget that helps them.
- Comment on Time for Australia to abolish tariffs. 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, in the USA…
- Comment on Liberals Plan To Blow Current Educator-to-Child Ratios To 1:50 4 weeks ago:
Aren’t there like a billion studies that show that lower teacher:student ratios improve outcomes for both educators and students?
What are they proposing? You have one qualified educator and a couple of rando’s for 50 kids?
- Comment on Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekend 4 weeks ago:
The NSW Libs even shutdown Sydney nightlife to funnel everyone to the Star Casino. That didn’t save them in Sydney.
Packer’s Pecker took the high rollers, and it’s barely different from any club, pub, or rsl.
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- Comment on If you are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly 5 weeks ago:
Is this actually a surprise?
I mean actually saying it out loud would be tactless and serves no purpose, but there’s no way you’d sell a sophisticated weapon without there being some way to ensure it can’t be used against you. Planes, missiles,subs…
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann faces Hobart court accused of stealing Toyota 4WD 1 month ago:
To go for a LandCruiser across the Tundra?
Yeah, I know, it’s a bit of a Kluger.
- Comment on Kyrie wants to play for Australia at LA Olympics 1 month ago:
Flat-earther, Anti-vaxxer fruitloop who has also expressed racist views.
Hell no.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 1 month ago:
Saw this was the topic for 4 corners tonight…
- Comment on LW delay is growing again 1 month ago:
I’m sure this explains the lack of upvotes on all my posts!
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
Sorry, no, he meant there are no checks -as in bank checks- because all the balances -as in account balances- are now zero after all the money has now disappeared.
- Comment on Australian Federal election 2025: Taiwan offers to help counter online disinformation in lead-up to poll 1 month ago:
“When contacted for comment, surprisingly, both Labor and Liberal were in exact agreement, stating that there was no fake news in Australia, and that if there was, it only came from another party and definitely not from their party.”
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 2 months ago:
Exactly!
All these devices should be locked down, and any apps reviewed and if OK, put on a whitelist.
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 2 months ago:
Hmmmm. RDA is 1.8mg.
Mg supplement has 60mg B6 and Zn has 10mg B6.
Holy crap.
- Comment on NSW Police sergeant accused of filming and distributing vision of colleague's genitals given warning 2 months ago:
- the circumstances where I would not stop a car to allow another passenger to pee would be extreme. Like ‘we have to save the world’ type of situation
- the number of times I would think ‘I should record this guy’s junk’ is zero
- the number of times I’ve ever thought ‘I should share a post of this guy’s junk’ is zero
I’m just not cut out to be a cop
- Comment on We need faster speed limits in Australia - and I'm not saying that because I'm a hoon | Opinion - Car News 2 months ago:
Except if you fit the unknown retreads that happened to be on special when you needed tyres, and have manufacturing dates from some years ago.
Worse than driving on black ice.
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 2 months ago:
Linking to an 11 hour video is a bold move
- Comment on Where Does [the] Australia[n continent] End? 2 months ago:
Wait until you research Drop Bears…
- Comment on Gina Rinehart screwing with our allies politics. 2 months ago:
Art is great.
- Comment on A baby boomer tried to show me a positive side to the cost of living crisis. It didn't help 2 months ago:
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