Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on ‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique 4 days ago:
Holt was killed by his own toxic masculinity.
He went swimming on an extremely dangerous closed beach while his mistress, her son and his girlfriend stood on the shore.
Nothing more than that.
- Comment on Two robodebt officials engaged in serious corrupt conduct, Nacc finds, but Scott Morrison cleared 5 days ago:
So instead of being corrupt, he is just incredibly incompetent.
Personal opinion is that he is/was both, and also corruptly incompetent and incompetently corrupt.
- Comment on Australia to temporarily ease fuel quality standards 5 days ago:
The answer is not for everyone to replace their Gas Guzzlers with Spark Guzzlers. The answer is better Public Infrastructure so humanity can be less dependant on any for if inefficient private transport.
The most efficient Hybrid is still a Diesel Locomotive and the most efficient EV is still an Electric suburban train.
- Comment on What's causing the Greek yoghurt shortage in Australian supermarkets? 1 week ago:
I prefer unflavoured natural yoghurt. Greek yoghurt is a bit too acidic-tasting for first thing in the morning.
Unfortunately, the only non-Greek yoghurt on shop shelves is over-processed flavoured “fat-free” yoghurt-type deserts. Milk is basically Fat and Water, with some solids in suspension. Fat-free milk is just water and some solids. Fat free yoghurt is just water and metabolised solids and tastes terrible. So they add sugar to make it taste and suddenly Fat-free dairy has a higher GI than normal dairy.
- Comment on Private buildings, public land: how Australia’s national parks became a battleground between conservation and commerce 1 week ago:
National and State parks need funding from somewhere. I agree that Private operators should not act as middlemen in building “Resorts” or “Glamp Sites”, where they can funnel off the bulk of the profits and only leave a pittance for Park maintenance.
Any “improvements” need to be designed, developed, deployed and managed by the Public Sector for the public benefit.
Natural environments do need to be maintained. Whether it is by Traditional Owners, Western-style Park Rangers, Primary Industry producers or just local concerned citizens; they need to be audited and managed for the benefit of the whole community, national interest and future wellbeing and prosperity.
- Comment on Pornhub’s owner to block Australians over age check laws 1 week ago:
This is just more Corporate Welfare for foreign VPN companies.
Sex workers and performers should be getting all the Johns money, rather than a portion going to ExpressVPN, SurfShark, NordVPN, etc.
- Comment on Chris Bowen urges motorists not to panic-buy petrol 1 week ago:
Solar and batteries will take up a lot of the strain and provide the population and nation more independence and sovereignty over their energy usage and consumption;
Except for the major percentage of the population who can’t have rooftop solar, don’t have space for a battery and can’t afford a new car, but also don’t have access to public transport infrastructure.
- Comment on ‘People have lost all sense of shame’: three threats against federal politicians reported to police every day 2 weeks ago:
The price of freedom I eternal vigilance.
There are lots of Australian cases where politicians are downright criminal.
We need to have protections in place to stop our Polies emulating the like of Indian Russia, Brazil and Lebanon. Those protections need to be enforced, so the don’t emulate the US.
- Comment on Three-quarters of Australia’s new cars use more fuel than advertised lab rating, testing shows 2 weeks ago:
Part of this is Speedometer calibration.
Fuel consumption is calculated in lab conditions, using an externally arbitrated distance and the fuel consumed is also measured under lab conditions.
Speedos will never be 100% accurate so manufacturers make sure that the error is conservative. Someone being charged with speeding when their speedo was exactly on the speed limit would be bad press. Most new cars are travelling at about 90-95km/h in 100km/h zones.
Petrol expands and contracts as it changes temperature. This is a good reason to only fill your tank on cold days, in the morning. (Although the cost difference is not worth considering, the difference in volume of fuel is measurable.
Finally, the fuel pump flow that is measured in your EFI system and the diameter of your tyres are also affected by temperature.
These three factors affect what your fuel gauge tells you. You may be travelling 100km and using 5.6l, but your ECU may be calculating and displaying a higher result.
- Comment on Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills? 2 weeks ago:
We don’t even need to pay tax for it. If you take the capitalism out of it and create a government monopoly; we still pay for the service, and it gets put towards funding the service.
Take out the Executive Salaries and other unnecessary overheads and it is much more cost effective.
- Comment on Blaring sirens on smartphones to warn Australians of major disasters under emergency alerts overhaul 2 weeks ago:
- except Optus Cuatomers. Their warning that a natural disaster is happening is that they will loose reception. /s
- Comment on Three-quarters of Australia’s new cars use more fuel than advertised lab rating, testing shows 3 weeks ago:
Regulators are creating a Rat Race of fraudulent testing and claims of compliance.
This is going to be DieselGate all over again.
- Comment on ‘Stuff of nightmares’: calls for help surge by 50% after Australia launches aged-assistance tool 3 weeks ago:
Of course it is uses GenerativeBS.
General Purpose LLMs need to be banned.
- Comment on Australian health insurance premiums just had their biggest hike in a decade. Is it time to scrap private health cover? 3 weeks ago:
The only redeeming aspect of Private Health insurance is that it is a big employer.
Australia does not have any more primary or secondary industry any more. Closing down the Private Health Insurance Companies will make a helluva lot of people unemployed.
That said; these roles are just a leech on the community, without actually generating anything that benefits our society.
- Comment on Australia faces drenching as storm system set to bring heavy rain and flash floods 3 weeks ago:
The retarding basin near work is getting a bit manky; same as the wetlands near our housing estate.
They could do with a flush.
The low-socio-economic housing estates down the hill from us in the reclaimed swampland are getting a bit manky too.
- Comment on The star rating on food is now mandatory – but some experts think we should scrap it altogether 4 weeks ago:
Star references are always gross oversimplifications of a review.
Is that car really unsafe to drive or use too much fuel?
Does that washing machine really use too much energy or water?
Did that retail store really provide Karen with the “Worse Experience Ever!”
Is that food really bad for you personally?
Some manufacturers are part of the industry compliance bodies and will game the system so that that their product gets 5 stars even if it is objectively terrible. Look at Diesel-gate. Look at the amount of Permeate in “milk”. Look at the amount of sugar in “fat-free” products. Look at the mind-altering chemicals in artificial sweeteners.
Different people and different applications have different needs, expectations and dietary requirements. When making a decision about a purchase, consumers need to make their own informed choices.
- Comment on Not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia explored as option in US congressional report 5 weeks ago:
Not kowtowing to Trump is not the same as ending our relationship with the US.
Albo can tell the walking dumpster fire to bugger off and trump would come out of worse than Australia.
- Comment on Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless' 5 weeks ago:
Existing institutions are still controlling the narrative, just that people aren’t believing it.
One good think about the GenBS bubble is that those people that aren’t complete drones improve their BS detectors.
The problem are that there are still plenty of complete drones who still believe everything that is fed to them.
- Comment on Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless' 5 weeks ago:
It was never about protecting children. It was always about spying on citizens.
And now the Albo is giving all our personal data to the Seppos, we are pretty much screwed.
- Comment on Telstra warns older iPhones may be unable to connect to Triple Zero [or any number, after recent update from Apple] 1 month ago:
iOS26 is just a shitshow in a dumpster fire.
Apple needs to rollback all devices running iOS26 to iOS18 and admit that they screwed up.
It (and MacOS Tahoe) are almost as bad as Windows 11, and that is a big statement.
- Comment on Why most Australians won't get a weekday off for Anzac Day in 2026 [but Western Australia and ACT do] 1 month ago:
20 business day month. (For the sake of the Accountants)
If we had 25th of 28th off, in addition to Good Friday and Easter Monday, April would only have 19 workdays which would confuse the Bean Counters.
Meanwhile, March is going to have 21 workdays. (Same with May and June)
- Comment on Queensland PhD candidate accused of plotting to firebomb Australia Day 1 month ago:
So is everyone’s fascination with LLMs.
If I want someone to tell me bullshit, I would prefer real creative, human generated bullshit.
- Comment on Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning 2 months ago:
“company merged with two US firms” Bloody Seppos.
- Comment on 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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? 2 months 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.