Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 2 days ago:
It was a meme that the majority of incidents in DCAU were Rangers; to the point that when the Range Danger special was released, I know a few people who through it was just another episode.
DCAU is a great resource for learner drivers, to discuss and debate who is primarily at fault and who else contributed to the incident be being an arsehole.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 3 days ago:
Yeah, I find it hilarious when I see a RAM that is actually being used by a tradie, with two Rhino Boxes and a short stack of Milwaukee PACK-OUTs taking up all the space in the tray, while a Triton parked next to it has an entire workshop of tools.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 3 days ago:
I would rather see more trains on railway tracks and buses with rational routes that service everyone than a single Tesla.
- Comment on Australians Overwhelmingly In Support Of Gun Law Reform 3 days ago:
This is the most rational path forward.
Unfortunately, the LNP will use the excuse to crack down on immigration, the ALP will use the excuse to crack down on protesters and the Greens will use the excuse to crack down on legitimate gun owners.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 3 days ago:
Time for an anecdote. When Holden were designing the HQ, there was a design paradigm called “Passive Safety”.
The reasoning was that if the driver did not feel safe driving at speed, they would drive more slowly, and therefore be safer.
That is why the HQ had narrow A-Pillars that were unfortunately in the wrong position to observe cross traffic and a suspension geometry that caused terminal understeer.
As terrible as this paradigm was (they reworked the geometry for the HZ) it was vindicated in the 1990s when inexperienced and unskilled Subaru WRX drivers felt so confident in their handling that they would push beyond the capabilities of their vehicles.
I still believe that deliberately engineered flaws are a terrible idea, but I can tell you that I am ultra careful and ultra aware of the traffic in my tiny little Jimny with bad driver crash ratings and live axles front and rear.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 4 days ago:
Odometer reading is a relatively unobtrusive metadatum.
It is recorded when the vehicle is serviced so it is already in someone’s database.
If kms travelled had to be reported annually at the time of registration, no-one will complain (except sov-shit cookers, and they don’t pay rego anyway).
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 4 days ago:
ANCAP guidelines are pushing for larger and larger vehicles.
Crumple Zones, and pedestrian protection add significantly to the size and weight of a vehicles, and negatively impact driver awareness.
Driver Assistance is OK to provide an extra level of protection, but result in complacency.
A compact vehicle with good visibility and visceral road awareness will be less destructive on the roads than an oversized SUV with a driver ignoring all the ADAS technology blithely unaware of their surroundings.
That said, a compact vehicle with unobtrusive ADAS would be even safer.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 4 days ago:
They need to break it down to a Road Levy and a Fuel Levy.
A 2.5T Tesla Model X should pay more for road maintenance than a 900kg Suzuki Swift.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 4 days ago:
The reason is that there is profit to be made by inefficiency.
When rail is used, the people who profit are;
- the sender
- the recipient
- the railway company
- the train drivers
- the community.
When Trucks are used, the people who profit are;
- the petrochemical companies
- politicians who receive contributions from Petrochemical companies
- vehicle manufacturers
- vehicle maintenance providers
- vehicle parts providers
- the trucking company
- politicians who receive contributions from trucking magnates.
- road maintenance and construction companies.
- politicians who receive contributions from the construction industry.
These are all at the expense of;
- the sender
- the recipient
- the community
- other road users
- emergency services
- the poor truck driver who is high-as-kite on amphetamine in order to meet his outrageous deadline.
- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 4 days ago:
This is excellent news.
The bubble will burst within the next 3 years and our creative heritage would not have been subsumed and given away.
- Comment on Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco 5 days ago:
The government needs to exercise Eminent Domain over all critical infrastructure.
- Telecommunication
- Water
- Energy.
The damage of Jeff Kennett and John Howard can be reversed.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 week ago:
Ban F-trucks, Silverados and RAMs.
I saw an F350 Super Duty parked in a suburban mains street the other day.
It is so big, it needed Interstate Heavy Vehicle plates. It was not a tradies Utes; It was not a Tow Vehicle, It wasn’t even an Oversized Load pilot. It was just compensating someone’s inadequacy.
It had a sticker on the window “Patriotism is not Racism” and it looked like a MAGA sticker but with an Australian Flag instead of the Stars and Stripes.
With all my heart, I wanted to get a paint marker and write “GAGYGF Seppo Cunt”, but I was on work uniform and did not have a paint pen. Also, I am not a complete arsehole.
- Comment on Rumors of the demise of the Home Battery Program much exaggerated. 1 week ago:
In related news, expect more spam phone calls.
- Comment on Thousands Sign Petition Calling For Man Who Tackled Bondi Shooting Gunman To Be Australian Of The Year 1 week ago:
Is that you would have advised all the people on AA Flight 11, 77 and UA Flight 175 ?
Obviously the people on US Flight 94 would have not taken your advice.
- Comment on Thousands Sign Petition Calling For Man Who Tackled Bondi Shooting Gunman To Be Australian Of The Year 1 week ago:
Discussions of Affirmative Action and “Positive Discrimination” aside, Ahmad did what any Australian should do.
I’m sure that when he stands on the lawn of Parliament House in 6 weeks time, this is what he is going to say.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 1 week ago:
But everyone with half a brain will acknowledge that it was very poorly implemented.
I reckon the Gambling Ads should still be banned.
Children are still hurt when mummy and daddy donate their entire paycheck to the Lloyd Williams retirement fund.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 week ago:
Are you paid by the NRA or are you just being a dumbarse cockhead NRA schill for free?
- Comment on Spiralling costs spark 'urgent' overhaul of $2.3b battery subsidy scheme 2 weeks ago:
At least the Spam phone calls will stop…
The overhaul needs to include an audit of the companies making claims.
If they engaged in unsolicited phone calls to people on the Do Not Call list, they should have the subsidies repatriated back into the program.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like Aussie.zone is the largest platform that has any sort of verification. Thankyou Molly@Aussie.zone
- Comment on Kia and Dettol ads top complaints list for 2025 2 weeks ago:
“Lower entry costs” …“without the appropriate understanding”.
They need to be fined for inappropriate content to increase entry costs.
This will make advertising firms valuable again for accountablilty.
- Comment on Time to stop tiptoeing around and step on the gas to ease inflation 2 weeks ago:
The same advertising agencies funding the anti-Pylon and anti-Wind farm Astroturf Campaigns run pro-fracking campaigns.
- Comment on Demand for water cannot be an 'afterthought' in AI push 2 weeks ago:
Without water for cooling, these data centres will overheat and be forced to shutdown.
While I don’t condone EcoTerrorism, it would be advantageous to society as a whole if this happened.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
Great idea. Adding Lemmy and Mastodon to my 4-digit Slashdot.org profile now.
- Comment on Australia is bringing in ‘world first’ minimum pay for food delivery drivers – here’s how it will work 4 weeks ago:
So that explains why MenuLog closed down. “If we are expected to actually pay people to work, our business model is not sustainable”.
- Comment on Ultra cheap e-commerce platforms Temu, Shein selling products made from Chinese cotton despite the high risk of links to slavery, Australian Human Rights Institute says 5 weeks ago:
To combat this, we need manufacturing infrastructure to seriously compete with Chinese manufacturing, and the longer we leave it, the more efficient Chinese manufacturing will get.
Currently, we are handicapped by high quality controls, high labour rates and aging infrastructure. We have the advantage of local raw materials.
China has the advantage of ridiculously cheap low cost and slave labour and modern infrastructure. They are handicapped by low quality yields and transport of finished goods.
The logistic networks out of China are improving constantly and quality control is improving.
When you can buy 10 units from China and see them within a week, or have one unit manufactured locally and see it in 2 weeks, it is more “economically rational” to roll the dice on having 1 good unit and 9 items of eWaste (in the short term).
To compete, we need local manufacturers to embrace more efficient manufacturing and have government financial support for employment costs. We also can’t just throw money at the problem without proper auditing. (We don’t want repeating of GMH/Ford Australia, or the countless Insulation/LED Lighting/Solar Panels/Solar Battery/NDIS scams currently in play)
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 5 weeks ago:
The F1 (and all Motorsport) was traditionally supported by the Automotive Industry.
What better way to reciprocate than to replace public transport with parking facilities for private vehicles?
- Comment on 100 years ago today 5 weeks ago:
The best thing about Compulsory Voting was that a Right-Wing politician was scared he would loose the election if The Workers voted and his advisors told him that the majority of his supporters didn’t vote.
He reasoned that if it was compulsory, The Silent Majority would come out and vote for him in a landslide.
It was a landslide; it turns out that his advisors overestimated how many supporters he had and he was voted out.
Also see last election, the Right-Wing media echo chamber and the coalition.
- Comment on CSL and Optus pay millions to executives despite paying no company tax in Australia 2 months ago:
Privatize the Telcos!
- Comment on Companies could have profits from breaking environment laws stripped under Australian reforms 2 months ago:
Yay!
Now do “profits from human rights violations”!
- Comment on ‘Australia is not the USA’: Labor accuses Coalition of importing Trump-style culture war on immigration 2 months ago:
Fortunately, the Dumpster Fire that is the USA has reminded everyone how unstable isolationism is for a developed nation.