Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 1 day ago:
More coverage;
Not surprised, ALKO products are so flaming cheap it is indecent.
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 2 days ago:
Let’s hope that either they come to the correct conclusion and do have some enforceable legislation; or the bubble bursts and the whole AI Bullshit Scam looses its funding.
Telstra can’t sell everyone’s SMSs if there is no one buying.
- Comment on Aussie funk music recommendations? 3 days ago:
Vaudeville Smash do Yacht Rock and Pork Groove funk.
They used to be called PornLand and did only Porn Groove.
- Comment on Why are some Australian farmers losing faith in peak agricultural bodies to represent their interests? 5 days ago:
Because the peak agricultural bodies represent the agricultural industry; they don’t represent farmers.
The agricultural industry consists of Petrochemical companies providing fertilisers and herbicide, machinery manufacturers and biological media providers.
The farmers, who are the ones who are doing the work, are only the consumers of the agricultural industry.
It is like expecting a Chamber of Commerce to respect the needs of the workers.
- Comment on Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard 5 days ago:
Soft plastics can be recycled, but the (trained) labour to sort is prohibitively expensive.
Tyres can also be recycled, but the labour liability makes them prohibitively expensive in first-world-countries.
They can also both also be processed as Biochar, but the environmental cost is also prohibitively expensive: tyres result in Sulfur-contaminated charcoal and soft plastics are not the most efficient material to convert into charcoal.
- Comment on Woman says faecal transplant saved her and could help many more like her 6 days ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on Cars sold in Australia still use more petrol and emit more toxic fumes than advertised, new real-world testing shows 1 week ago:
This is why self-regulation is a lie.
There needs to be standardised government testing, not industry-funded testing.
Same goes for Crash testing. You can guarantee that we wouldn’t allow ‘Murican trucks in the country if they were tested objectively.
And builders paying for their own Building Inspectors is a major conflict of interest.
Federally funding consumer testing of consumer goods and Local-Government funded inspection of construction should improve the quality of everything.
- Comment on Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent 1 week ago:
“Did you think we were going to pay $22billion in tax?”
“We paid $22billion to a lobbying firm who bribed the previous government MP with a pittance to pass legislation that is beneficial to us but detrimental to the Australian People and also the Environment.”
“Also, the lobbying firm is a subsidiary of ours so we can keep the money in the company”
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 1 week ago:
Leslie Bibb
- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 1 week ago:
Because it is also a fucking Trojan horse for The Media to further erode digital rights and harvest more personal data.
- Comment on Scott Morrison tells US Australia risks going to sleep on China threat after diplomatic ‘charm and flattery’ 2 weeks ago:
“Representative of Defence Contractor claims that Australia isn’t spending enough on Defence”.
- Comment on [Satire] Australia agrees to accept US beef if US agrees to accept Australian beef Wellington 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully they give her a job at Mar-A-Lago.
- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I would seriously consider getting the kiddies version of the App if it was “without features like algorithmic recommendations, engagement prompts like push notifications, and AI chatbots”.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 weeks ago:
I have seen title cards change on unwatched videos from something that is innocuous and directly related to the content to something with a scantily clad female, tangentially related to the video who is much younger than me.
While not technically Jailbait, the title cards are sexualised.
I mainly watch renovation, restoration, cinema, off-roading, engineering and fabrication.
The majority of this content is male-dominated and I do appreciate when videos aren’t bursting with aggressive machismo. I think the algorithm has determined that when I watch a video with a female host it is because it thinks I am being pervy.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 weeks ago:
Loops is a Fediverse equivalent.
It is not a medium that interests me, I have found the content on Loops to be mediocre.
That said, I have found the content on TikTok to also be mediocre and YouTube clips are just jailbait clickbait.
Yes, I know it is algorithm generated, but I am pretty sure everyone is just getting jailbait clickbait.
- Comment on Australian taxpayers on the hook to pay Chevron more than $500 million to clean up oil wells 2 weeks ago:
Now just imaging what would happen if Fracking is ever legalised.
The whole Fossil Fuel Industry is pumping all its advertising and lobbying budget into forcing this to go ahead.
That is why Victoria has a useless desalination plant.
That is why there is so much Astroturf against Windfarms and Solar Batteries.
That is why certain Australian billionaires are funding so much Politics.
- Comment on Here’s why there are so few new cars for under $30,000 2 weeks ago:
I deliberately purchased a Suzuki Jimny because I can fix anything that is on it without specialised training or equipment.
The only special tool i would need would be a wrench for the front hubs.
The only specialised equipment is a scantool for configuring the VVT.
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 2 weeks ago:
One of my neighbours has a Kia K200 for his landscaping business. Another has a Ram 2500 for his ego.
Only one of them can drive through the estate when there are other cars parked on both sides of the road.
- Comment on Here’s why there are so few new cars for under $30,000 2 weeks ago:
In a classic case of “they don’t make them like they used to”, new ICE vehicles are less reliable than new EVs, and have similar (lack of) life cycle.
Older ICE vehicles may not be as efficient, but because they will still be on the road 10-15 years longer than their new equivalents means that they will have less environmental impact.
Our only hope is that recycling of depleted EV batteries becomes a thing in the near future and that recycling of modern composite materials improves to a point where we can use damaged body panels for make new body panels.
- Comment on Here’s why there are so few new cars for under $30,000 2 weeks ago:
Everyone (who doesn’t have waist-down body issues) does too, but car manufacturers can’t charge as much for them.
They therefore lobby governments for tax breaks for the oversized road boats and destroy the market for Japanese kei-cars with tariffs and “safety regulations”.
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 2 weeks ago:
I do agree with you, but as long as these loopholes exist, there must be an alternative.
That said, it is amusing driving through certain housing estates where there is one normal-sized car in the driveway; which is being blocked in by the Dodge Ram that is too big to fit in the driveway.
- Comment on How influencers, big tobacco and the black market fight back against vape reforms 2 weeks ago:
The nicotine suppository solution.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 2 weeks ago:
While I don’t agree with you, it would be a shame if these vehicles constantly had issues with tyre punctures.
I’m not condoning anyone putting caltrops in front of and behind the rear wheels of any Rams, Silverados or F150s parked in suburban shopping centres.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 2 weeks ago:
I reckon that half the people who buy them are for a Tax Dodge (pun not intended) and the other half are people who are missing something in their lives and are trying to compensate for their own inadequacies.
The latter group includes those people who purchase them to tow their obnoxiously oversized Caravan.
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 2 weeks ago:
The best punishment for this guy is to not let him have a mobile phone, car or licence.
If they do ever let him have his license back, he must also only be permitted to drive a 2006 poverty-pack Ford Focus that can only travel at a maximum speed of 80km/h and takes 5 minutes to get to speed.
But never,ever let him have a mobile phone or Social Media account.
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 2 weeks ago:
Laws do not exist to punish the guilty, or provide retribution for victims. They are there to create a baseline of acceptable behaviour.
The old adage “the punishment should fit the crime” applies here. The object is to make the criminal remorseful and to understand that violating the law has consequences.
The death penalty does act as a deterrent, (for other people as well), as does Exile (transportation for stealing a load of bread). A sentence of life in prison does not act as a deterrent, nor does a pittance of a fine.
Having to pay restitution to the victim (lost income due to disability or loss of a breadwinner; pain and suffering) will have an effect for those who can afford it.
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 2 weeks ago:
They should have dedicated truck parking. Have all these fuckers with body image issues all park together away from the normal people.
Let them have their 3495kg vehicles, but have them park with all the other legitimate trucks and make them walk the extra distance to the shops.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 3 weeks ago:
Our country must be an international laughing stock by how many of our drivers are incompetent.
If you watch a few episodes of DashCams Australia, you will see some of the worse road-users in Australia, and they are all either oblivious or entitled and don’t give a shit about anyone else.
Considering how few people don’t have DashCams and how DCAU don’t show snuff films, there must be hundreds of other incidents where they either weren’t caught on camera or were unable to be published due to fatality or serious injury.
Also, international manufacturers struggle to keep up with demand for replacement car parts; I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some production schedulers asking themselves “why are we shipping so many parts to Australia for major collision repairs?”.
- Comment on The premier state has been renamed slightly. 3 weeks ago:
They are probably paying an LLM to act as a proof reader.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 3 weeks ago:
My other complaint is that ADAS systems weigh heavily in their ratings, but most factory ADAS systems are barely functional, with false positives and false negatives.
Many drivers use Advanced Driver Assistance Systems as a substitute for driving skill and paying attention to traffic conditions.