Nath
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- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 4 days ago:
$500 million purely in sales of software he wrote alone? That would be a feat for sure.
Initially, it was him and his wife, yes. Though they now have a decent sized company with a few hundred employees. I didn’t realise his venture had gotten so big until this thread and I googled him today. Before you get all angry that he’s “profiting off those people’s work”, ask whether those people are better off for working for him or if he should keep all the work and wealth to himself.
The part that’s wrong isn’t doing well and making money, it’s advocating against taxing corporations way more than we are, lobbying for loopholes, and engaging in rent seeking behaviour. Which is extremely, extremely common. Having some kind of cap on how much wealth you can amass seems sensible to me.
I haven’t heard of him doing any of those things. Of course I moved to the other side of the country and no longer move in the same circles as he does. He still has a reputation in IT circles for being a chill bloke, though.
- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 4 days ago:
A former work colleague of mine might. He’s well over half-way there at least and still gaining.
He quit his job and wrote some software that is used all over the world. If you make a thing and enough people buy it, you get rich. In his case, very rich. He didn’t inherit his wealth. He didn’t start out already a millionaire. His wealth is not coming from being a parasite on society. He isn’t taking resources or hoarding land. He’ll be the first to tell you he is monumentally lucky, but I also can’t see anything he’s doing that’s wrong.
- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 4 days ago:
That was called the “Mining tax” and it’s mere proposal killed the Kevin07 movement before Mr Rudd finished his first term. All for the measly cost of a ~$20 Million smear campaign blitz. Bargain!
- Comment on Not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia explored as option in US congressional report 1 week ago:
Frankly, because Australia has things that the USA does not have and really needs. Australia is a stable and reliable political friend in a region of the globe that is close enough to the antipode of mainland USA. Our proximity and unused land affords our US allies with space and privacy to operate with relative comfort. Their bases in Australia also have much shorter logistic chains to operate compared with other remote locales like islands as well.
The USA would be impacted militarily if they lost Australia as an ally. Not irrevocably, they’d get by. But it would cost them a lot more than the simple civility and respect it takes to maintain their relationship with Australia.
Neither nations really needs the other. Our partnership has been convenient for both of us, and it really would be a shame for both nations if that partnership were to lapse.
- Comment on Parents are paying $2500 to falsify vaccine records. It’s endangering babies like Riley 2 weeks ago:
I’m struggling to believe there’s such a thing as an “anti-vax doctor”. That’s a classic oxymoron.
- Comment on I'm trying to identity a dinosaur theme park/attraction on the Gold Coast in the 80s 2 weeks ago:
I grew up on the Gold Coast in the 80s. I have no memory of such a place, sorry.
I’ll grant that we were poor and not exactly visiting the theme parks every week, but I’m fairly certain I got to them all at least once.
- Comment on no pride in genocide 3 weeks ago:
His mission was to observe the transit of Venus. The expedition was scientific in nature first and foremost.
You’re speaking of the secret instructions issued to him by the Admiralty to locate the fabled southern continent and hopefully claim it for England. Tasman by this stage had found NZ and I think Van Diemans Land. Yes he found the east coast of Australia and “claimed” it for England. It was all in vain though, the distances were way too far for anything to come of it. To Cook at the time, it was a side trip.
There were two parliamentary inquiries submitted to the British parliament in 1779 and 1785 recommending colonisation of New Holland, but even then: well after Cook’s death, such an expedition was seen as too expensive.
Then the English learned that the French were preparing to colonise and it was suddenly a British priority to get to Australia.
I don’t see how anything to do with the colonisation had anything to do with Captain Cook. You could swap Cook out for any other ship’s captain who was taking the scientists to see Venus and the rest of the expedition plays out much the same. Cook didn’t colonise Australia. He encountered the Guugu Yimithirr people in Northern Queensland and tried to treat with the peacefully - mostly succeeding. He certainly didn’t set about killing them all.
Arthur Philip should be the person people direct their ire at. But he doesn’t have a statue in Melbourne. King George III would be another candidate that made sense. Only George III also doesn’t have a statue in Melbourne.
- Comment on no pride in genocide 3 weeks ago:
Captain Cook had nothing to do with the colony. He died in 1779 - years before the settlers arrived. While agreeing with the sentiment that the arrival of Europeans is not cause for celebration, Cook had always been a dumb target for protesting Jan 26.
- Comment on Melbourne goes from among the most to least expensive capital cities 4 weeks ago:
Southbank had residential high-rise buildings that were at least 60% empty ten years ago - and that’s being generous. It seemed like they were nearly empty. From the outside at 8 pm, there were barely any lights on to indicate the presence of people in there.
They were owned by people overseas and kept in pristine condition to maintain a higher value. Is that still going on?
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 4 weeks ago:
Insert “That’s bait” meme here.
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 5 weeks ago:
It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this. Whoever sent this has clearly never been to a WOMAD festival, because that crowd is not likely to appreciate someone trying to influence the lineup.
I can’t think of anything the better the writers of this letter could have done to Streisand Effect that crowd into seeking out some DJ that might otherwise have been one act among several.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day 2026 - the first time since 2005 that authors and artists have entered the public domain in Australia 1 month ago:
I somehow missed this and thought that Lord of the Rings was coming out of copyright about now. It seems not.
- Comment on Long Before Bondi Massacre, Australian Jews Lived With a Sense of Peril 1 month ago:
New York has a huge Jewish population. This is totally geared toward selling papers to them.
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 1 month ago:
Hrm, yours is a tricky one because I had read it and moved past it. I recognised you came from a place of hyperbole and didn’t think much of it. I didn’t remove it.
But looking at the comment again after it was removed, it does pretty much break all three of the rules I posted. So I’ll not override the mod and restore it.
It’s not that criticising actions of religious people is the issue, it’s grouping them all members of a religion into your criticism that is the problem.
‘Those two guys are bad’ is fine. ‘115,000 Aussies are terrible people because those two guys are bad’ is not fine.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Noooo!
I used my icq all the time! In 1997. - Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
This is a great idea, but keep in mind I’m likely to test it.
- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 1 month ago:
We see you trying to manipulate the vote.
- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 1 month ago:
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 1 month ago:
Excuse me, that’s a load of horse shit. The modlog is right there at the bottom of the page. From this discussion, it’ll default to filtering mod actions for /c/Australia.
Point me to any comment you think should be restored and I’ll re-evaluate. But don’t sit there and pretend we censor you from behind secret doors like this is Reddit. I see stuff I disagree with on the regular, but I very rarely step in. I let the community votes do that.
The main rules of the site are and have always been:
Golden rule - don’t be a dick. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your grandmother, don’t post it.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.In case this isn’t clear:
Criticism of a government’s actions (Ours, USA, Israel etc) is fine. Start bashing Muslims because of the actions of two jerks or start lumping all Jewish people in with the actions of the Israeli government, and we’ll step in. If/when we do though: it’s visible. You can see what was removed and what justification we used when we did it. Whatever impression left you with the attitude that we censor users is mistaken. - Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 1 month ago:
One sister wants cash towards a new motorcycle helmet. So yeah, she’s sorted. 😀
Another sister is all about the thoughtful gesture. It makes her super hard to buy for. She has loads more time than I do.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Go to your messages and then “All”.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 1 month ago:
Hershey’s kisses would be a perfect accompaniment to this specific mug.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 1 month ago:
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Sorry, that was me. I’m working from the Molly inbox because mine is full of user reports and site-wide stuff. Keeping the user verifications in the Molly account just means we keep them separate from anything else. I’ll have another look tonight (I can’t access Reddit from work) and see if I missed something.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 1 month ago:
There was lots of Numbat talk in last year’s thread. If you need a numbat:
shop.perthzoo.wa.gov.au/products/numbat-soft-toy - Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 1 month ago:
I like that little Greenhouse thing. I am not sure who I’d get it for - possibly my sister, but I can’t see her actually sitting down and assembling it. My wife probably would, but I have her more than sorted. Maybe for her next birthday. 🙂
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 1 month ago:
To start things off this year, I’ll share how this awesome community helped me last year.
After last year’s thread, I bought:
- A Bug-a-salt for my brother-in-law, he loved it! (Thanks @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone )
- Some nice towels for my sister (Thanks @Taleya@aussie.zone )
I got a Bluetooth transmitter (I had requested one) and it is awesome.
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- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 2 months ago:
What does a bunch of Aussies enjoying a holiday at the beach have to do with Israel?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
I have a real 14-year-old in my house. I should see what accounts he can manage to create for himself.
