Ilandar
@Ilandar@aussie.zone
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 3 weeks ago:
Social media pushes people towards fringe beliefs and breeds anti-establishment sentiment. It is definitely in the best interests of the established, centrist (relatively speaking) major parties to attempt to curb any radicalisation occurring in the populace. And I don’t mean that in a cynical sense - I am sure politicians in Canberra have been thinking a lot about where society is headed at the moment.
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 3 weeks ago:
Same, I hope they like it too. This year we have tried doing a bunch of these smaller impulse buys throughout the year instead of buying things later that are more expensive, more serious or have been specifically requested. Trying to bring back a bit of that childlike magic and fun to Christmas gift giving for the older relatives, plus it makes shopping less stressful since we don’t have to do do as much in December or manage our money.
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 3 weeks ago:
Paintable garden gnomes (there is a cheap pair at Bunnings).
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 3 weeks ago:
Olive oil is a good shout, the prices are pretty rough at some supermarkets now that the specials have dried up.
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank to charge customers $3 'withdrawal fee' to access their own cash 3 weeks ago:
I hope this inspires a massive migration off CBA and a rollback of the policy.
It won’t. Firstly because very few people use cash so this doesn’t affect them, but secondly because no one seems to have left following the consistent and widely reported scandals of the last decade. If you don’t wake the fuck up after that then a $3 withdrawal fee is not going to be a come to Jesus moment either.
- Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal' 4 weeks ago:
Everyone else who pays taxes towards a program like the NDIS is giving up a little of their own quality of life.
This is such a myth. Look at how much you are taxed each year and then take out the percentage that is funding the NDIS. It will be fuck all, nowhere near enough to affect your quality of life.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 4 weeks ago:
Everything the Center for Humane Technology has ever done should be mandatory reading, viewing and listening for anyone who attempts to insert themselves into the debate over this. It’s so tiring hearing completely uneducated morons from all sides making the same basic bitch arguments over and over again Hopefully now they can all shut the fuck up for five seconds and stop shitting up the discourse on what is a very important issue.
- Comment on Woolworths and Coles are emphasising the threat of Aldi — is it really a competitive force to be reckoned with? 5 weeks ago:
I guess it depends where you live and how you shop. Every ALDI I’ve been to in metropolitan SA has had terrible.range and since I already buy home brand products there is very little price difference. ALDI also tend to get inferior locations here so you have to go out of your way to shop at one, whereas a Coles, Woolworths, Foodland or Drakes will often be in a group of shops that includes one or two competitors, an independent fruit & veg grocer and maybe an independent butcher, fishmonger and liquor store. I have a local ALDI that I will occasionally walk to and buy a couple of things from, but I would never rely on it as part of my regular shops.
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 5 weeks ago:
The real question is…does this apply to my dog too?
- Comment on Major Centrelink payment update for millions following ‘landmark investment’ 1 month ago:
Services Australia will continue to publish quarterly data and said this will help ensure “transparency and accountability” for Aussies.
This is the first time in the department’s history it has released the quarterly data.
Hope it continues!
- Comment on Australians who think inequality is high have less faith in democratic institutions, study finds 1 month ago:
I suppose a lot of people who might be roughly characterised as ‘right-wing populists’ and against status-quo neoliberalism would find the Greens unpalatable, though.
The unpalatable bit for many, particularly young men, is the social progressivism of these parties. I see it time and time again: guys who would be easy Greens voters based on their economic policies don’t take them seriously because their perception is that left-wing politics is primarily focused on issues of gender and sexuality. They don’t consider these issues comparatively relevant and get attacked quite viciously online for this position which feeds into this broader alienation problem they are going through due to the shift away from traditional gender roles that would have given their lives meaning. Feeling alienated by the left, these guys drift right towards groups that validate their feelings and welcome them.
I don’t necessarily think this is a completely fair perception of The Greens, but the reality is that we live in an age where young people’s views are heavily influenced by their social media algorithms. And if those algorithms are constantly feeding them culture war shit , particularly from the US, then it is understandable that they feel this way. Currently, I don’t see an organised attempt by left to combat this problem, nor even an admission that we have agency over it. The focus still just seems to be on blaming the right for manipulating these young men.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 month ago:
How do you know it drives people away from joining if they didn’t join?
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 month ago:
Don’t go to .ml communities if you dont like their moderation. Their users don’t brigade us so I’m not sure why we would need to defederate from one of the largest instances, especially given the issues with lemmy.world.
- Comment on Customers suddenly find their new phones can't make calls or send texts 1 month ago:
They’ve been warning everyone for over a year. They’ve been individually messaging affected phones for months. Nobody can really say they didn’t get warning.
This is quite a misleading way of framing the communication. The telcos were clear about 3G phones no longer working many months ago, but it has not been clear at all which 4G phones would be blocked. Communication about this second problem only started recently and even then it was very unclear. Blaming consumers for not throwing out their new phones when they are receiving mixed messages over whether they will continue work is hardly a rational position.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 2 months ago:
I don’t think that’s accurate. Wikipedia’s page on ethnic succession theory describes something quite different.
- Comment on A thousand Australian university jobs are at risk. Who’s to blame for the dire financial state? 2 months ago:
So are any of these VCs taking pay cuts themselves? Some are on exorbitant salaries.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 2 months ago:
There’s a name for this kind of phenomenon that I’ve forgotten, but essentially it repeats with every wave of new migrants. They move here, get racially vilified by the existing Australian community for being different, then slowly pick up the same whiteness mentality over the next few decades so that when the next wave of migrants occur the previous wave is often among the most aggressively racist towards them.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 2 months ago:
- Comment on Grill’d faces Australia's ‘first-ever' fast food strike over low-pay, 'unfair' conditions claims 2 months ago:
Yes, that was my experience at OTR. I worked there for like 7 or 8 months before quitting and they’d only just started the “training” around the time I left and even then it was super slow, like one session a fortnight or something. The HappyWash employee at my place was immediately moved into the store when he completed his traineeship (they had a different one to us) so the company put him on the retail traineeship and lower his wage back to $16 or whatever it was. Then they hired a teenager to fill the HappyWash role.
- Grill’d faces Australia's ‘first-ever' fast food strike over low-pay, 'unfair' conditions claimswww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 2 months ago:
Sounds like the SA Liberals are providing free campaign material for Labor to destroy them with in the next election. As if they even needed it, the Libs are a complete mess.
- Comment on George Negus, veteran Australian journalist and TV presenter, dies aged 82 2 months ago:
Last month one of his sons, Ned, said his father was in an aged care facility and was mostly “non-verbal”.
“For those of you who don’t know, my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s around five years ago,” Ned wrote. “He’s now non verbal most of the time (mind-blowing for me but also any of you that know him).”
Very sad way to go out for both himself and his family and friends. I’ll always remember the days watching George Negus Tonight as a youngster, not really understanding what any of it was about. It used to come on after the kids shows finished so I usually watched a bit of it before dinner.
- Comment on 'How are we going to escape?': Indonesian working holiday-makers say they were 'scammed' 2 months ago:
These stories always make me so sad because the mistreatment of people on working holiday visas has been a widespread problem for such a long time and yet there is seemingly little desire for a solution.
- Comment on Australian families switching to cycling as car-running costs rise - ABC News 2 months ago:
I don’t know about the rest of Australia, but that’s not really the case in Adelaide. There is a pretty strong cycling culture here and a lot of proper bike stores for commuters, road cyclists and mountain bikers. Hosting the Tour Down Under for 25 years has really helped with that. But for whatever reason the government has never really invested in infrastructure that would help.daily commuters.
- Comment on Australian families switching to cycling as car-running costs rise - ABC News 2 months ago:
Cycling infrastructure development in Adelaide and SA always seems to be based around tourism and leisure. Like if you want to do a family day trip, or you’re here on a cycling holiday or just want to spend your day somewhere there are quite a few good cycling paths that all connect up with minimal need to cross or ride on roads. But the daily cycling infrastructure is absolutely terrible. Most “bike lanes” on suburban roads are narrow, damaged and filled with rubbish and many motorists do not respect them at all. Thankfully we are allowed to ride on the footpaths so that reduces the danger somewhat but it’s also pretty inconvenient since footpaths are even less consistent in terms of terrain.
- Comment on New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise 2 months ago:
This is a pretty clickbaity counter-article that doesn’t review the original in good faith. The New Yorker article is not titled ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ but rather ‘Has Social Media Fuelled A Teen-Suicide Crisis?’ with a lead of:
Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
So the implication that the premise of the article is to demonise social media is completely wrong, since it’s actually an investigation into the issue. That’s also the reason it’s long (another strange complaint from a guy whose 3000+ word response is only ever his opinions).
The “moral panic tropes” are testimony from real parents whose real children killed themselves. And these real parents think social media was responsible. It strikes me as pretty low to hand wave away the grief of these real people because it inconveniently feeds into a narrative you have some instinctual problem with.
The author tries to frame the balance of the New Yorker article as some kind of gotcha. Like it’s somehow a bad thing that this other writer took the time to consult with and quote experts who provide a different opinion. Personally I would much rather read that then something like this which was basically the equivalent of a reddit eXpOsEd thread.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 2 months ago:
I just gave up and bought a new (secondhand) phone at the beginning of this year. I returned one of my older phones (Galaxy Note 9) to stock as a backup but I’m not even sure if that will work now because it’s a grey import (even though it has working VoLTE currently and supports all Australian network bands). It’s a bit sad that I have this little collection of otherwise great older phones that still receive updates to their custom ROMs but will now be useless as phones.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 2 months ago:
In fairness it is a poorly written and confusing article (the guy is not a writer by profession, just a communications expert trying to draw attention to the 3G shutdown). I shared the video just in case people had a hard time understanding the main takeaways, since Hugh Jeffreys did a good job summarising them.
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 2 months ago:
It sounds like they are over-complying in response to recent legislation:
This is due to an update to the ‘Emergency Call Service Determination’ (ECSD), in the explanatory statement it says:
“Subsection 6(2) directs ACMA to include requirements for providers to identify mobile phones unable to access Triple Zero, notify the user, provide assistance if necessary to access an alternative mobile phone, and cease providing service to the affected device. Providers will also be required to not provide service to a prospective customer seeking service with an affected mobile phone. This requirement makes clear the responsibility providers have to ensure mobile networks provide access to the emergency call service.” […] “The amendments to the Determination to be made under section 6(2) are to be determined and commence in full by 1 November 2024.”
- Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 2 months ago:
The author of the article claims AMTA is not a reliable indicator of VoLTE compatibility:
Additionally Tools like the ‘AMTA 3G Lookup Service’ are not accurate or reliable. AMTA knows this, hence why you need to agree to a long list of terms & conditions before using it.
This new ACMA policy is deeply disturbing because many consumers, including myself, own fully functional devices that can make VoLTE calls and emergency calls, yet are deemed “incompatible” by the telcos.
These are devices with the exact same hardware and software as ‘officially supported’ devices, the only difference is the telcos didn’t sell them.