DavidDoesLemmy
@DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 4 days ago:
Sounds like a pain in the ass
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 5 days ago:
Drop-bears are probably the biggest risk he’ll have to deal with. Tell him to be careful walking under any tree as you never know when they’ll attack.
- Comment on The super tax debate is divorced from reality – and more proof that Australia’s tax system is built for the rich 1 week ago:
“Queensland LNG projects delivered $310.1bn total income for gas companies but they paid just $966m in company tax – or just 0.3% of total income (and all of that was paid by just one company).” You can’t compare revenue to tax paid. Tax is paid on profits, not revenue. For many businesses COGS is a very large percent of revenue.
- Comment on Opinion: Labor’s tweak to superannuation affects only the wealthiest Australians. To argue against it is misguided 1 week ago:
It also smells a bit that politicians are exempt.
- Comment on Opinion: Labor’s tweak to superannuation affects only the wealthiest Australians. To argue against it is misguided 1 week ago:
They should index it to inflation. Otherwise it is an underhanded way to start taxing most people in the future.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 3 weeks ago:
We need to get these death traps off our roads! If anything else was killing people at these levels, they would be stopped. Somehow cars are exempt.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 3 weeks ago:
You’re conflating vehicle form factor with age and features.
- Comment on Labor's home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here's how | Adam Morton 1 month ago:
Do you have any links to an Australian government storing excess energy in hydro during the day? I don’t think that’s something available in any part of Australia currently.
- Comment on Labor's home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here's how | Adam Morton 1 month ago:
New solar, by itself, is not very valuable because the grid has a surplus of power when the sun is shining. The feed in tariff is near zero. It can offset some of your own usage but most people are out in the middle of the day.
- Comment on Labor's home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here's how | Adam Morton 1 month ago:
If I want cheap rent, the solution is to buy?? Ok boomer
- Comment on Labor's home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here's how | Adam Morton 1 month ago:
Why do you assume renters want to stop renting? Mostly renters just want better renting conditions. I support many changes to rental laws. But I don’t think skipping all the low hanging fruit and enforcing solar and batteries is realistic.
Insulation should be a must. Repairs should be done in a timely fashion.
- Comment on Labor's home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here's how | Adam Morton 1 month ago:
No way in hell they would ever make it mandatory for rentals. They’ve barely made smoke detectors mandatory for rentals. Removing negative gearing won’t help. It will make rentals more expensive.
- Comment on Labor's home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here's how | Adam Morton 1 month ago:
Fuck all these policies and incentives that exclude renters
- Comment on Choking during sex: many young people mistakenly believe it can be done safely, our study shows 1 month ago:
They used to warn us about the dangers of choking the chicken.
- Comment on ‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buff 3 months ago:
Good on them. I’ve done this a couple of times. They spend a lot of time stopping to pose for group photos, which isn’t really my thing.
But it’s raising awareness for a good cause
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann faces Hobart court accused of stealing Toyota 4WD 3 months ago:
This guy! Pull your head in
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 3 months ago:
Violence begets more violence. We need conversations to bring people out of this mindset.
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 3 months ago:
This is the service that is banned, not the model itself, right?
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 3 months ago:
You’re right. About 1% of our transport infra spend goes to active transport. And it’s mostly from state and local governments. It’s still very low, but not as disproportionate as the article suggests.
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 3 months ago:
What are these miles and ft you speak of ?
- Comment on Panama's president says there will be no negotiation about ownership of canal 4 months ago:
Treaty yeah!
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 4 months ago:
How far back in time can you go to right wrongs? Everybody has ancestors who have done wrong. Indigenous Australians had wars before white people arrived.
At some point you have to leave the past in the past and build a more equitable world for all, today.
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 4 months ago:
Lots of people eat meat today. I can imagine a future where this is seen as immoral and not following the golden rule. But for some reason, humans currently choose not to apply the golden rule to animals.
Similarly in the past, they didn’t apply it to indigenous people.
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 4 months ago:
Criminality is a tricky one. What was legal in the past may not be legal nor ethically sound today.
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 4 months ago:
I’m all for that. But I think many people feel more responsible for righting the wrongs of their ancestors than of other wrongs. I think we should help all those struggling, independent of who caused it.
- Comment on Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley 4 months ago:
It’s not my guilt to carry. I wasn’t born or wasn’t involved in these racist acts. Blame the people who were
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 4 months ago:
Your book looks like an American thing. I try not to consume too much yank media. I read “See what you made me do” by Jess Hill a few years ago. Is it significantly different to that?
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 4 months ago:
What are you doing to prevent DV? (Not a challenge, I’m genuinely curious if you’re part of any efforts)
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 4 months ago:
There’s a difference between prevention and punishment. I believe people who kill their spouse (or attempt to on multiple occasions) should be imprisoned for life.
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 4 months ago:
Men don’t have to have male friends to not be lonely. Any friends will do. I have lots of great female friends.
As far as solving domestic violence, I don’t know how to do that. But I think we can all agree that we want it to end. Probably even the perpetrators of DV want it to end.
Maybe a big part of it is finding those who are most likely to be perpetrators and try to understand them better. And help them better understand themselves.