Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on The movie cars is crazy 4 days ago:
- Comment on Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on? 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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).
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 3 weeks ago:
Different vehicles for different purposes.
My brother had a V8 VB commodore and his mate had a L6 VC commodore. The big V8 was much more economical on the highways, while the inline 6 was much better when stuck in traffic.
I used to have an L4 Grand Vitara and an A V6 Alfa Romeo. They had the same economy.
My mate recently purchased a V8 petrol Y62 Patrol for towing his camper instead of a L4 diesel LC250 Prado to tow his camper. He reasoned that the cheaper upfront cost would offset the increased fuel bill.
What he found was it was more economical when touring, but it was also cheaper around town as well, as long as he used his right foot and his brain to control the accelerator and didn’t use his testicles to control the accelerator.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 3 weeks ago:
As a Jimny owner and driver, you don’t need a giant 4WD, even if you do go OffRoad.
I do struggle occasionally when arseholes in giant light-trucks have chewed up the track before me and left huge, impassable ruts.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 3 weeks ago:
ICE Cars are getting bigger (and heavier). EVs are significantly heavier again.
The combination of passive safety systems (like impact bars, SRS and crumple-zones) improve your chances of survivability when interacting with a larger vehicle at the expense of weight.
The problem as that this has resulted in a rat-race of bigger and bigger (and less manageable) vehicles.
To deal with such large vehicles, Driver Assistance Systems need to be integrated, which adds more weight and increases driver complacency.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 3 weeks ago:
Impreza wagons are technically wagons, but more closely resemble a Hot Hatch.
Pretty much every subcompact wagon is really a hatch.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 4 weeks ago:
Not to mention heavy!
My little Jimny has a (comparatively) high grille and it will do some nasty damage to anyone who I neglect to see, but it only has 1200kg of mass. Still enough make people have a bad day and not the most ergonomic thing to lean against when it is moving. The Driver Assistance Systems are not great, but enough to stop me from making too many stupid mistakes.
These huge American behemoths weigh 3-4 times as much, have even worse visibility and the nose is shaped like a giant tenderising mallet. The driver assistance systems are just as bad, but meet a checklist of features that give the drivers as false sense of complacency and ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from AMCAP.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how much of her denial was Denial and how much was avoiding guilt.
Driver Assistance Systems are there to assist a competent driver, not to empower an incompetent driver. If the second party is using these features as a crutch to compensate, or excuse their shitty driving, they need to be charged with reckless driving and needs to have the book thrown at them.
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that all the other parties would welcome the Liberals leaning into the mythical Culture Wars.
It would make it so much easier to eradicate them from our political landscape.
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 4 weeks ago:
She is right, it is the Voters that they saw through the lies and bullshit that her extreme Right-Wing media was spouting.
- Comment on How many times will i hear about the evil left if the greens loose their leader 5 weeks ago:
Their new leader needs to be able to solve environmental problems with holistic solutions.
We need renewable energy, but in order to get there we need a Secondary and Tertiary manufacturing industry.
Someone needs to (responsibly) build the consumer solar panels and batteries for us to install in our Garages and Roofs.
Someone needs to build the equipment for the solar farms, solar ovens, wind farms and hydro batteries (responsibly).
Meanwhile, it is not enough to just ban outdoor industry, the land maintenance that High Country Grazing, Logging and Mining were (or should have been doing) previously needs to continue being performed and funded by someone. Otherwise there will continue to be unfettered Bushfires and Poisoned mining ghost towns.
- Comment on Should police have the power to arrest demosnag dealers who don't accept EFTPOS? 5 weeks ago:
Well he had been watching months of lying politicians leading up to election day.
Some of their dishonestly must of rubbed off on him.
- Comment on Here's where things went right for Labor, and very wrong for the Coalition 5 weeks ago:
The focus should also be on “New Media”.
I’m a bit extremist that I would love to see Australia follow Papua-New Guinea and ban Facebook, but the legislators need to be a helluva lot more intelligent and dynamic than their predecessors. They had Zuck hand their arse to them with their last attempt. It isn’t surprising that Rupe and Kerry lost out in that altercation.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 5 weeks ago:
We have Useless Cunts, Hippie Cunts, Fascist Cunts, and a whole lot of Cunts with Clive Palmers and Gina Rhineharts hands up their arses making their lips move. There are also a few Good Cunts who actually care about their constituents and the future of the Country.
We also had one Potato-shaped Dickhead but he’s gone now.
- Comment on Should police have the power to arrest demosnag dealers who don't accept EFTPOS? 5 weeks ago:
I was quite happy when the little Primary School kid tried to short-change me when I gave him a $10 note for a $3.50 sausage and a $2 warm Sunkist and he gave me 50c change.
I unsuccessfully tried to give him an impromptu maths lesson, but after a small amount of dickering, I settled on only being stiffed by $1.
He really loved playing with his EFT terminal though!
- Comment on Permanent residents who had overseas drivers licenses transferred - your license may no longer be valid 5 weeks ago:
Australian Road Rules are a lot different to road rules in other countries.
Reiterating them with people who know how to drive, but don’t know how to drive in Australia will certainly make DashCams Australia less interesting.
That said, for every one person using an Overseas licence who drives in a reckless manner (by Australian legal standards), there are dozens of people with Australian Licences who drive recklessly due to arrogance, stubbornness or just pure selfishness.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I live in a safe Australian LNP seat, the odds are that on Saturday night, our neighbours and I are (very likely) going to continue having a Right-Wing member of Parliament.
That does still mean that even though they are voting for our local MP, they are also voting for a former 1980s Queensland Cop with a suspiciously large amount of money as PM.
I would be happy if every (Australian) Coalition candidate and all the Right-Wing independent candidates received Zero votes this election, otherwise there are too many Australian Fuckwits.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’ve edited my original post.
Now we both look like Goofs!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
No worries. I’m the silly bugger that mistyped. I’m trying to think of a way to blame AutoCorrect…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Sorry I meant 5 million individuals, not $5m
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I disagree. It should have been a complete landslide.
The fact that Pierre Poilievre received any votes at all suggests that almost $5m Canadians are still fuckheads.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Peter Dutton for Dickson 1 month ago:
I am sure the AEC will do everything in their power to make sure that is an honest and legal election.
I really fucking hope that the people of Dickson vote in their own interest.
- Comment on NSW National Parks seeking feedback on proposed changes re. camping fees and bookings 1 month ago:
I think that the key would to not have the bookings managed by an outside contractor, but monitored by an outside auditor.
I reckon that half of the Ghost Camping issue in Victoria is either ParksVic don’t want too many people at a campsite or the Bookings contractor gets paid a commission on bookings, so add fake bookings to boost KPIs.
The other half are arseholes who think that they would enjoy an empty campsite more than a campsite with other friendly people.
- Comment on Queensland council races to reverse mayor's EV charger halt, with funding on the line 1 month ago:
Which isn’t even a slap on the wrist. For modern commercial journalism, being called out on MediaWatch is a promotional opportunity! “Look how much we can corrupt reality, advertise with us”.
- Comment on Queensland council races to reverse mayor's EV charger halt, with funding on the line 1 month ago:
Commercial “Journalist” needs to be held to a higher standard.
They should voluntarily do a retraction article of the same duration in the same time slot explaining exactly how they screwed up and how they will restore their integrity in the future.
If they don’t, the industry regulator needs to call them out on it.