Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Channel 7's Spotlight on EVs, fails to identify any EV maker that actually uses 'dirty nickel' from Indonesia - techAU 1 day ago:
But it can’t be sensationalist and support the fossil fuel agenda unless it is about EVs!
No one gives a rats arse about below-the-poverty-line foreign miners in a foreign country unless it can be used for a media magnates political agenda.
- Comment on 'Won't back down': Inside the anti-wind farm crusade threatening Australian Labor seats 1 week ago:
Not all of them. Most of them have just been suckered into a Astroturfing campaign by a Marketting campaign by the fossil fuel industry.
- Comment on 'Limited incentive' for Coles and Woolworths to compete vigorously on price, and margins have risen, ACCC finds 2 weeks ago:
Those sort of exclusivity deals should be made illegal.
Unfortunately, a Duopsony is just as destructive to the market as a Duopoly.
- Comment on Dutton slammed over threat to cut 36,000 public service jobs 4 weeks ago:
These People consider Government getting in their way. They want a Feudal Anarchy where the rich and powerful can dominate and dictate over the poor.
The problem is that Government regulation of Polluters and Environmental protection and oversight is getting mixed up with restricting public citizens.
For instance, not being able to go 4WDing in State Forests causes people to become radicalised and susceptible to Corporate manipulation. The next thing you know, you have Outdoors enthusiasts voting for clear-felling of National Parks.
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 4 weeks ago:
They were manufactured in China.
The best things to boycott are Services. If everyone cancels their Netflix, Amazon Prime, AppleTV/Music and YouTube Premium for an extended period it would definitely send a message.
I’m currently looking at an alternative to iCloud Drive for my family’s backups. The Apple One Family subscription is still the most cost-effective solution for backing up everyone’s Phones and iPads, but a Roll-Your-Own solution is on my project sheet, especially after what happens in the UK!
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 4 weeks ago:
Frollows fired Tony Biggs after he played NWA on air.
He is immortalised in the song “Arnold Frollows is a Genius” by Front End Loader, which was a sarcastic criticism of him.
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 4 weeks ago:
Because the ABC and BOM have experts who are also enthusiasts.
As much fun it is to criticise the BOM when it is 34 degrees and rainy when they said it would be 33 and sunny, they are still the most accurate source of weather information.
The ABC (and independent public radio/TV) only interest is (should be) serving their communities. The ABC does have to satisfy their political and corporate overlords (look at what Arnold Frollows did to JJJ) but is a more reliable source of reality-based news and information.
When the ABC (and RRR/PBS/MBS/etc) stuff up and get to “corporate”, they loose supporters. Think of what happened when Sportsgirl tried to become a RRR sponsor…
- Comment on Dutton slammed over threat to cut 36,000 public service jobs 4 weeks ago:
A lot of people thought that the actions of other Right-Wing governments performed were electoral suicide.
Next thing you know, they are in power.
UKIP/Tories, Trump 1.0, Trump 2.0.
The pundits said that none of them would get in. Next minute, Brexit happens, Trump 1.0 happens and then against all logic, Trump gets voted in a second time.
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 4 weeks ago:
I love to bash Meta, but this is purely a problem for two reasons;
A) /a certain demographic/ only get their News from one source. This is the same problem regardless of where you get your News from.
B) News feeds and filtering is automated. There are no human editors; it is all algorithmic. Simple user-defined algorithms are OK, but the more they get modified by Fake Understanding, the less useful they become.
- Comment on ‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buff 5 weeks ago:
Did it derail the chain?
- Comment on New report skewers Coalition’s contentious nuclear plan – and reignites Australia’s energy debate 5 weeks ago:
Mainly due to the density of the population.
The Australian population is quite sparse, mainly because we never got our Multifunction Polis.
- Comment on New report skewers Coalition’s contentious nuclear plan – and reignites Australia’s energy debate 5 weeks ago:
From the article; “It found nuclear power would be far more expensive than the projected path of shifting to mostly renewable energy. “
- Comment on New report skewers Coalition’s contentious nuclear plan – and reignites Australia’s energy debate 5 weeks ago:
Anyone who believes the LNP that Nuclear is an economic option must be brain dead.
Anyone who believes the LNP at all must be brain dead.
- Comment on Australia's spy chief: Antisemitism now agency's 'top priority' 5 weeks ago:
It is interesting to compare JPosts Zionist propaganda interpretation of this to The Conversation and ABCs rational and balanced reporting on the issue.
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 1 month ago:
They need to ban CoPilot, OpenAI, Apple Intelligence and all the other remora swimming around trying to get some tidbits of data.
- Comment on Australian Federal election 2025: Taiwan offers to help counter online disinformation in lead-up to poll 1 month ago:
The major parties won’t be happy about that!
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 2 months ago:
We must be going to different stores on different days.
All the Local IGAs in my area employ single mums and more mature staff members. The only young employees I see are family members of the owners.
The big IGA in a nearby town employs the same demographics of staff members; they even have a professional Butcher on staff (and they have excellent value cuts of meat) (I used to deliver for a butcher when I was younger and have seen some dodgy butchers and some overpriced dodgy butchers and some excellent butchers.)
- Comment on aussie pride worlwide 2 months ago:
There are other ways to source your hardware and tools. Discount Stores and Home/Mitre 10/Total Tools/Sydney Tools/etc are still around.
Wholesale material suppliers are often willing to sell Retail as long as you don’t waste their staffs time. The One True Monopsony (Amazon) also sell most of the stuff from Bunnings, cheaper.
Also AliExpress and Temu have most of the small consumables at a much competitive price. Just remember that some of it will be eWaste in a few months, but that goes for any electronics purchased from anywhere.
The main benefit of Bunnings is that they are open long hours and have lowest-common-denominator products that aren’t too overpriced Also, you buy a sausage made of sawdust and beef fat on the way out (very tasty, although not very healthy.)
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 2 months ago:
Sorry. I am old and they will always be “Safeway” to me. I know that they are called Woolworths, but I can’t get that name into my head.
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 2 months ago:
Yes they are; Because they small businesses, which actually pay their employees a living wage and don’t have the buying power of the big supermarkets.
Even then, all the IGA locals around me and larger IGAs on surrounding towns are still cheaper than Safeway and Coles.
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 2 months ago:
It is very Not-The-Onion, though. It is very believable from a company from the state that bought us Joh Bielke-Peterson and Spud
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 2 months ago:
None of the above (unless absolutely necessary)
I can get almost everything I need from Aldi and IGA.
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 2 months ago:
As a customer that has their own UniFi Security Gateway and also ran services from home during the old BigPond Cable days, everything that Nath has said is correct.
Back in the 90’s BigPond used to do everything possible to prevent us from running our own unmetered file sharing network. We had a set of relays and proxies which meant that we were able to share files with other BigPond users, bypassing the billing system. I am sure that the Management at BigPond Cable hated this while the Technicians (who also had BigPond Cable) enabled it.
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 2 months ago:
‘“XXXX”, its Australian of “PISS”.’
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 2 months ago:
You may want to check your telcos agreement on that.
As far as the Telcos are concerned, we all need to happy little consumers of media.
We aren’t allowed to generate and publish any media of our own.
The Governments agree with them.
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 2 months ago:
The fact that it improves routing efficiently and that Optus does not support it explains all you need to know about Optus.
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 2 months ago:
Processed sweeteners are always much worse than their raw states. Cane, molasses, golden syrup and raw crystallised sugar are much better (and tastier) than white sugar, which is actually quite bland.
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 2 months ago:
I’m waiting for someone to do the same for the “All-Natural” stevia; in almost all “Sugar Free” and “No Sugar” products that aren’t still using Aspartame or Sucralose.
As bad as Sugar is for us, (and as terrible as Fructose is for us), I am confident that Stevia is worse.
- Comment on Insurance cost of Los Angeles wildfires may be felt in Australia 2 months ago:
If there is already a nationalised system than works, that is fantastic, it shouldn’t be privatised.
Private businesses aren’t charities, but there are benefits that a legitimately free market (not a monopoly, duopoly or cartel) can provide customers. Competition can result in dynamic improvements in value and also in service quality. A nationalised company with no competition can stagnate and be just as destructive as a commercial monopoly.
- Comment on Household waste spikes during the festive season. Where does it end up? 2 months ago:
I do one better and just don’t bother wrapping.
The only way I could be lazier than that is to not bother with gifts at all.
Considering my family members fascination with shopping centres, I may just get them some pre-paid Debit Cards next year…