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- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 1 week ago:
Stop and think about what you could be buying instead
- Comment on High-speed rail plans may finally end Australia’s 40-year wait to get on board 1 week ago:
Will we get high-speed rail before AUKUS subs?
- Comment on Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do? 2 weeks ago:
I wish it were as simple as deleting my accounts with meta, Google and Microsoft. University requires I have MS, Android effectively requires I have Google and if get rid of Facebook I’ll lose access to marketplace, my local community and people will probably just not talk me
- Comment on Australian Parliament Tables Motion Condemning China’s Assimilation of Tibetans 2 weeks ago:
Do Palestine next
- Comment on 'Big, massive deterrent': Social media companies could face fines for allowing kids under 14 on their platforms 2 weeks ago:
100%. I’m not a child but I’ve learned so much about people through lemmy, getting to be a part of society without sharing any personal information
- Comment on What's the deal with lemmy.world today? 2 weeks ago:
I guess we’ll find out their perspective next week :)
- Comment on Australia's internet watchdog says she received "death threats" and that her children were doxxed after she was targeted by Elon Musk for attempting to regulate Xitter 3 weeks ago:
Such regulation would significantly harm small sites which get dragged into this making fediverse instances in Australia untenable, meaning only the large platforms have the resources to comply. The internet is dangerous, yes. But the internet is also good. The internet provides information, and in a democracy nothing should be done to limit the flow of information.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart’s personal message to NGA about her portrait revealed in FOI documents 4 weeks ago:
I am proposing we make this the new banner for !environment@aussie.zone
- Comment on Weekly news quiz: Hamish Blake's life-changing advice, Paralympics begin, and rumours at the DNC 4 weeks ago:
You beat me by one
- Comment on Australia's Senate passes a motion criticising China's attempts to use a UN resolution to claim Taiwan as part of its territory 5 weeks ago:
Cool, do Gaza next
- Comment on Queensland’s premier wants publicly owned petrol stations – is that a good idea? 1 month ago:
Commonwealth Bank:
- Shitty interest rates
- account fees
Telstra:
- Patchy coverage
- Poor uptime after natural disasters
Wait nevermind
- Comment on Spy chief warns friendly nations among the countries interfering in Australian communities 1 month ago:
The USA?
- Comment on Jack Karlson, who shot to fame after ‘succulent Chinese meal’ arrest, dies aged 82 1 month ago:
I almost wonder whether zealous Wikipedia editors have people die so they can get the edit in on time
- Comment on Jack Karlson, who shot to fame after ‘succulent Chinese meal’ arrest, dies aged 82 1 month ago:
- Comment on Jack Karlson, who shot to fame after ‘succulent Chinese meal’ arrest, dies aged 82 1 month ago:
Holy shit Wikipedia got updated fast
- Comment on The RBA says don’t expect interest rate cuts for 6 months. Here’s why it could be sooner. 1 month ago:
The RBA keeps hinting that the Government should do something and the government continues to blame it on RBA. Maybe the RBA should just spell it out for them
- Comment on The government is under pressure to ban gambling ads. History shows half-measures don’t work. 1 month ago:
Wait, people aren’t thinking about what they could be buying instead?
- Comment on Young Australians falling down a 'rabbit hole of hate', ASIO boss warns 1 month ago:
There seems to be very little effort on the part of at least one major party to address social cohesion issues while the other major party is being torn apart over it. Angry people vote based on culture wars, angry people don’t look at policy or ideology
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- Comment on Join fediverser.network, make it easy to bring Australian redditors to the Fediverse? 1 month ago:
This has probably been asked before but is there any reason why this couldn’t be implemented as a basic lemmy client (with signup facilities only)? Meaning instances don’t need to host anything or are you concerned that centralisation might drive up Reddit API costs or will the OAuth stuff require a server?
Thanks for trying to make the fediverse more accessible!
- Comment on Nine Publishing on strike. Request the public avoid Nine mastheads including Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Financial Review, and Brisbane Times. 2 months ago:
Maybe I’ll start reading them now. I support journalism, but that’s not what they do
- Comment on Are we going down the same path as US politics? 2 months ago:
Riiiiiight I thought you meant in terms of politics and my response about the Greens was being sarcastic. Though the Greens and LNP get dragged into culture wars alot easier than Labor
- Comment on Are we going down the same path as US politics? 2 months ago:
But uhh…I’m not really sure how this is relevant to this thread.
Idk I was interpreting their comment as saying that Labor aren’t very popular which is true at least in terms of first preferences
- Comment on Nine Publishing on strike. Request the public avoid Nine mastheads including Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Financial Review, and Brisbane Times. 2 months ago:
Yeah I don’t think people will want to skip the Olympics—I’ll probably just watch highlights and the Equestrian Eventing (No Andrew Hoy this year unfortunately), it will all be on at a really early time anyway
- Comment on Nine Publishing on strike. Request the public avoid Nine mastheads including Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Financial Review, and Brisbane Times. 2 months ago:
Guess I won’t change what I’m doing then. Do they deserve more money for writing absolute drivel and propaganda? Given how much their company makes from it maybe
- Comment on Are we going down the same path as US politics? 2 months ago:
Yeah I meant to include a “/s” because I’d probably associate Greens, Labor and around the “Malcolm Turbull” part of the Liberals with the Democrats, and the Nationals, One Nation, UAP and the rest of the Liberals with the Republicans
- Comment on Long Centrelink wait times as 11 million calls go unanswered 2 months ago:
- Comment on Are we going down the same path as US politics? 2 months ago:
No, @Zagorath@aussie.zone did some analysis a while ago and found that Labor were overrepresented in parliament based on first preferences nationally, ignoring the electoral boundaries. The Greens, One Nation and various independents would have more representation in parliament if we didn’t use localities to determine the makeup of parliament
- Comment on Katy Perry to headline 2024 AFL Grand Final 2 months ago:
Holy shit, this is our Taylor Swift/Superbowl thing. Something will happen and she will endorse Anthony Albanese for another term in government
- Comment on Low Levels of Aussie Zone association with Lemmy in Search. 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s good for working out why pages aren’t being indexed. I’m not aware of anything similar for bing search