Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning 4 days ago:
“company merged with two US firms” Bloody Seppos.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
The old adage “Take only Photos, Leave only footprints” has not been drummed into kids these days.
If the tent came back missing a single peg, we would get a hiding.
If our campsite has anything but leaves and twigs after we left, we would be sent back the next weekend to do an Emu bob.
We also cleaned up after each other because of the story about Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody.
I feel really old!
- Comment on 5 days ago:
The equivalent tent nowadays would be $600-$1200
The bottom end is taken over by crap that I wouldn’t let my dog sleep in and the top end are for prosumer/competitive cross country hikers.
Mid range pricing is either cheap crap (rebranded by scammers) or last years model or expensive product.
This relates to camping equipment and also hardware and electronics.
- Comment on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year 2 weeks ago:
The worse thing* is that now they will all be known as “Australian-style”.
We used to be known for our electoral system and a variation of the butterfly swimming stroke. Now we will be known for a lame-arse attempt to restrict people’s access to content “for the children”*
*this is not actually the worse thing about this legislation; it actually puts at-risk children at more risk.
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 2 weeks ago:
Sorry mate, your Astroturf is not going to grow, no matter how much bullshit you fertilise it with.
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 2 weeks ago:
Who knows the second verse of the national anthem?
(I do) “with boundless plains to share”.
- Comment on Six charged after police allegedly find man and teen travelling with loaded guns in Sydney taxi 2 weeks ago:
What is a “Encrypted Communication Device”?
It’s great to see these people caught, but are normal plebs going to be arrested for having Signal on their phone or with a Meshtastic/Meshiliscious device?
What about a Cyberdeck running Linux?
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Great idea. Adding Lemmy and Mastodon to my 4-digit Slashdot.org profile now.