DavidDoesLemmy
@DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 1 day ago:
6 days ago. Check YouTube media watch.
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 1 day ago:
There was the section on media watch where the government disallowed the media from showing any critical views on it for a time.
- Comment on Psychiatrists fear medicinal cannabis adverse events are 'tip of the iceberg' 5 days ago:
I am prescribed medical cannabis, but I only use it occasionally when needed. I have no doubt it is over prescribed, but I’m not sure how much of a problem that is. I think many people who want it could get it on the black market if they tried. So having medical cannabis might not create more overall cannabis users.
- Comment on Australian film and TV industry calling on content quotas to revitalise struggling local scene 2 weeks ago:
Especially the American one when they ask the winner what they’ll spend the winnings on, and they say “my wife’s cancer treatment”. Like get a functioning healthcare system, then but a Lambo damn it!
- Comment on Australian film and TV industry calling on content quotas to revitalise struggling local scene 2 weeks ago:
Agree, great show!
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 weeks ago:
Surely the fellow streamers are mostly responsible
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I think I missed that. This thing dragged on for so long I couldn’t keep up.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Damn, it’s expensive to get (allegedly) raped these days!
- Comment on Australia was once the gold standard for gun safety. Experts say it’s losing control 2 weeks ago:
How do the animals even hold the guns, let alone aim and fire them? Why do animals need guns at all?
- Comment on Retirees ‘deserve’ super tax breaks, treasurer says, as government considers how to give younger Australians ‘fair go’ 3 weeks ago:
For the most part, super is insurance for the government. Force people to save some of their earnings for retirement so they don’t need government support in retirement. It’s more politically tenable than raising tax rates 10% and saying that money will fund retirees.
They should have always had limits on the tax concessions though.
- Comment on Many primary school kids will never have a male teacher, and experts say that's a problem 3 weeks ago:
It depends what the quota is. It could be a minimum percent. It could be a percent of people interviewed for the job.
- Comment on ‘Punitive’ new guidelines limit what ABC staff can say on social media and in private messages, union says 3 weeks ago:
Social media I can sort of understand, but private messages? F off
- Comment on Productivity summit ends with treasurer signalling tax reforms 3 weeks ago:
Does it say it won’t be applied to ICE vehicles too?
- Comment on Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income 3 weeks ago:
This is unfair for people who have already saved/invested. They paid the higher income tax rates initially and they would pay higher tax rates on their retirement nest eggs.
This government can’t even sell the idea that we should talk to indigenous people about indigenous issues. So I have little faith they’ll get through significant tax changes.
- Comment on Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income 3 weeks ago:
That incentivises people to spend everything they earn.
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 3 weeks ago:
This is bad policy for everyone except the high income earners. You can bet that $3300 per year won’t be adjusted for inflation and we’ll just end up paying more tax.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 3 weeks ago:
If Bibi doesn’t like you, you must be doing something right.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 3 weeks ago:
Thanks
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 4 weeks ago:
I ask this as a non-hoon. I hate reckless driving and have never got a speeding ticket in 25 years of driving.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 4 weeks ago:
Do you have a source for that? I don’t mean dependent like the government would collapse without it, but that they have included it in their budget expectations and would very much like to keep it.
- Comment on If regulated properly, ebikes could one day replace cars for millions of Australians 4 weeks ago:
As a daily bike commuter in Melbourne, these concerns exist, but they’re really not as bad as you make them seem. Most days in the year it’s very enjoyable to ride to work.
- Comment on Can crocodiles and canoeists coexist at Australia’s 2032 Olympic Games? 4 weeks ago:
It might mean a lot of world record times with the extra incentive!
- Comment on Films and video games have age classifications. Should books? 4 weeks ago:
Books need informative ratings that aren’t enforced. You should be able to tell what sort of book you’re about to read to your kid, before you get to the detailed sex scene.
- Comment on From wild to workable, 23 big ideas for boosting Australia's productivity 4 weeks ago:
Good on them for trying, but some of these are awful ideas. It’s like every expert just used it as an excuse to publicise their own issue, even if it wasn’t relevant to productivity.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 4 weeks ago:
It is funny when revenue raising and incentivising behaviour get mixed. Like when governments become dependent on speeding fine revenue.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 4 weeks ago:
This would incentivise cycling and public transport
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 4 weeks ago:
Damn Americans
- Comment on The ultra-wealthy have exploited Australia’s tax system for too long. It’s time to ensure everyone pays their fair share 4 weeks ago:
I’m all for changing the tax system to be more fair, but that figure about people earning over 1 million a year and paying no tax is misleading. Their taxable income would be zero to pay no tax. They would do this by losing all the money in investments or giving it all to charity. So they didn’t net anything, so they don’t pay tax. That is fair. We tax net income and net profits.
- Comment on Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point 4 weeks ago:
It’s similar to how music went from people buying albums to listening on iPods and phones. You can’t fight the tide, and if you’re not in their proposing solutions, you’ll have to live with someone else’s solution. Streaming (in its current form) isn’t great for artists, but the industry dragged it’s heals for so long they were left with no other choice.
- Comment on Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s not controversial to say content creators need to get paid for the content they create. But I think we need to find a way to do that while adapting to this new era of AI.