Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 23 hours ago:
Our country must be an international laughing stock by how many of our drivers are incompetent.
If you watch a few episodes of DashCams Australia, you will see some of the worse road-users in Australia, and they are all either oblivious or entitled and don’t give a shit about anyone else.
Considering how few people don’t have DashCams and how DCAU don’t show snuff films, there must be hundreds of other incidents where they either weren’t caught on camera or were unable to be published due to fatality or serious injury.
Also, international manufacturers struggle to keep up with demand for replacement car parts; I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some production schedulers asking themselves “why are we shipping so many parts to Australia for major collision repairs?”.
- Comment on The premier state has been renamed slightly. 1 day ago:
They are probably paying an LLM to act as a proof reader.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 1 day ago:
My other complaint is that ADAS systems weigh heavily in their ratings, but most factory ADAS systems are barely functional, with false positives and false negatives.
Many drivers use Advanced Driver Assistance Systems as a substitute for driving skill and paying attention to traffic conditions.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 1 day ago:
ANCAP don’t even do their own testing. They literally just copy ENCAP ratings.
That is why so many vehicles in the Australian market are unrated.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 2 days ago:
My biggest complaint is the ANCAP rating system.
Since these vehicles are classed as Light Commercial Vehicles, they don’t need to be rated.
Meanwhile other vehicles are getting lower and lower ratings because they wouldn’t survive being hit by one at full speed.
The ANCAP system needs to be recalibrated for real world use. If a pedestrian gets hit by a 1200kg vehicle, they are in for a bad day. If a pedestrian gets hit by a 3495kg vehicle in the same circumstances; no more pedestrian, and the oblivious driver of the Ram wouldn’t even notice that they hit something.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 1 week ago:
When we moved in, we had a two car garage and three cars. (Actually a few project cars in the back yard, but they don’t count). The land developer did not permit three car garages
Now I have two adult nieces and one nieces boyfriend and their extra three cars. We also have one camper trailer that used to fit in the back yard, but someone installed a roof-top-tent on it and now doesn’t even fit in the garage.
Fortunately, I have two very accomodating neighbours.
We also have one neighbour who did drive a RAM 2500, but decided to downsize to a normal sized vehicle because they couldn’t get their vehicle out of the street because of all the P-Plater cars that were inconsiderately parked in the street.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 1 week ago:
My neighbour who is a painter has a Renault Kangoo.
An old Falcon Ute is overkill.
- Comment on Australians could cut power bills by 90% if they made their homes more energy efficient, report finds 1 week ago:
Even home owners need to fight to get Zero Energy homes built.
8 years ago, we had a builder (who was offering free Powerwalls with every build) who refused to follow basic guidelines.
We ended up having to escalate our complaint to the CEO of the company for fired the two Site Supervisors who were not being helpful.
- tried bait-and-switching a Electric Assist hot water service in lieu of a fully electric heat-pump hot water service
- installed a dark (woodland grey) colorbond roof instead of a light (surfmist) colorbond roof.
- short-supplied insulation.
- tried to install Reverse-cycle evaporators on the North side of the house.
- etc.
- Comment on Australian influencers warned after several accounts inadvertently promote illegal offshore bookmakers 2 weeks ago:
The government gets kickbacks.
Aussies can avoid illegal gambling by saving their money and not gambling at all.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 2 weeks ago:
Brainwashing can only go so far. At some point, (such as targeting civilian children) any sane soldier will crack and say “No”.
- Comment on NSW biosecurity camera set up in Brisbane? - Bytes Europe 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see a bio security camera.
All I see is someone’s new camping trailer. It probably already has a dual battery system preinstalled!
- Comment on Guardian Australia investigation reveals how an obscure firm is helping fracking companies influence traditional owners 3 weeks ago:
They need to do an investigation into the Astroturfing Marketing company’s who fund the “No Pylon” and “No Windfarm” groups.
(Hint; it is also the Fracking Companies)
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 3 weeks ago:
Only one? I want to buy in bulk.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 3 weeks ago:
The difference is testing and warranty.
If you buy it local, it has to adhere to ACCC guidelines.
They will import 50, do local quality control, send back the defective ones and sell what is left at a markup.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t have a problem with Apples message if they had actually unilaterally enforced the restrictions on App Store Apps.
The Facebook app should have been banned dozens of times and still flagrantly violates lots of App Store rules.
If I were in charge of Apple App Store policy right now, I would provide access to a third party apps but also Secure their own App Store. Purge the bad actors and develop a legitimate reputation as the only way to have a secure iPhone.
A few high media profile incidents in the 3rd Party App Stores will vindicate them.
- Comment on Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered 4 weeks ago:
Commissions/Kickbacks from their appliance suppliers.
- Comment on Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered 4 weeks ago:
When we built out house, we didn’t want gas; we didn’t want mains power either but the only way you can go legally off-grid is if you have a petrol-powered backup power supply (IE Generator).
Due to noise restrictions, you are not allowed to have a generator within a distance of permanent dwelling, which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia, even though modern petrol generators are almost silent.
We planned with the builder for No Gas; that was a shmozzle too! The site supervisors claimed it was “Impossible” and installed a gas line anyway. When all the plumbing and wires were stolen by copper thieves, they reinstalled it! They even claimed that Electric hot water was a stupid idea (until their CEO pointed out that he had Electric Hot Water and didn’t have any problem)
This was only 7 years ago.
Nowadays, heat pumps are ubiquitous in new houses and gasless builds are encouraged.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 4 weeks ago:
China has already successfully destroyed manufacturing in most Pacific “first world” countries by undercutting us.
The fact that US, Australian, Japanese, Korean and New Zealand manufacturers were so ready to outsource to China in the first place, just to save a few cents in the dollar is how they got us.
- Comment on Australia overtakes China in the Pacific as the U.S vacates the lane: Public perceptions of influence see Australia surge ahead as the “permanent contest” unfolds | Lowy Institute poll 4 weeks ago:
I was just quoting Jim Green, as per the Wikipedia entry for the Lowy Institute.
Some of their “polls” have been very biased, especially the recent one saying that Australians trust the NZ PM, even though no Australian has ever heard of him.
- Comment on Australia overtakes China in the Pacific as the U.S vacates the lane: Public perceptions of influence see Australia surge ahead as the “permanent contest” unfolds | Lowy Institute poll 4 weeks ago:
Especially when it is published by the this “disgraceful propaganda campaign”.
- Comment on Australia’s environment minister Murray Watt, has lobbied Unesco in a bid to overturn a recommendation that ancient rock art should not receive world heritage listing 4 weeks ago:
The Shit Lite Party proving that they can be just as evil as (what is left of) the Shit Party.
- Comment on Christopher Luxon ranked Australia's most trusted world leader in new poll 4 weeks ago:
“The Lowy Institute - an Australian geopolitics think tank”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowy_Institute
“a disgraceful propaganda campaign”
That explains everything.
- Comment on Albanese opens search for ideas to shape second-term agenda 5 weeks ago:
Fabricate and nurture a Green economy.
Local manufacturing of Solar/Wind/ Inverters/ Batteries.
Local Recycling of Batteries / Plastics /Tyres.
Local energy/ fertiliser generation by Biochar.
- Comment on The movie cars is crazy 1 month ago:
- Comment on Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on? 1 month ago:
Everyone I know wants to get vaccinated, has been vaccinated.
There is a lot of disinformation about COVID and Flu vaccines at the moment and it is surprising how many people are in denial.
But then I look at Seppo-land and the LNP and think “not that surprising after all”.
- Comment on European countries and Australia top the world for per capita solar and wind generation capacity 2 months ago:
Probably the same reason why the Ammonia Plant in Brisbane closed down (and had to reopen to prevent transport industry from crashing due to the AdBlue shortage).
- Comment on European countries and Australia top the world for per capita solar and wind generation capacity 2 months ago:
We need to have local manufacturing of Solar Panels and Home Batteries.
Not do economic or political reasons; purely for environmental reasons.
The problem is that environmentalism is disrupting manufacturing.
- Comment on USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit 2 months ago:
Time to watch Glass Onion again.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 2 months ago:
The majority of them have a GVM of 3495kg, which is just below the threshold of requiring an upgraded licence.
I am pretty sure they do get kitted out above the GVM without a legal GVM upgrade.
I would love to see a VicRoads blitz on GVMs of large vehicles and Caravans.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 2 months ago:
The petrol V8 is comparatively economical when you drive sedately. The problem is that the majority of people who buy vehicles with big Petrol V8’s appreciate the sound (much to the chagrin of their neighbours). It doesn’t have to work hard to work hard.
The Toyotas (and Suzukis) are reliable, the problem is that the L4 in the Prado (and the much smaller one in the Jimny) need to be driven hard to work hard.
The pained screams of an underpowered 4 cylinder engine is much less pleasant than the rumble of a V8 (or even the roar of a V8 or the symphony of a perfectly tuned V6).