Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 1 day ago:
The renewable industry needs to start up an alternative campaign.
They need to have something along the lines of “The Fossil Fuel Industry is full of something Brown and Stinky”.
- Comment on Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it | Grogonomics 3 days ago:
Because certain political powers in Australia think that the US model has no problem’s whatsoever.
We need to fight against these profiteers and their mates.
- Comment on The majority of drowning victims in Australia are men. There are strategies to keep everyone safe 4 days ago:
It is “making love on a surfboard” beer.
- Comment on Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it | Grogonomics 4 days ago:
Alternatively, you can make voluntary Superannuation contributions to lower your taxable income.
The problem is that with the Cost of Living crisis, we all need that increase in our wages and salaries to be able to survive!
- Comment on McDonald's Australia and Netflix launch Squid Game Meal 5 days ago:
They don’t advertise a price because it changes from store-to-store, dependant on demand, stock levels and staffing levels.
- Comment on Foxtel sale a Christmas miracle for the Murdochs 1 week ago:
I believe that that is why the bought Foxtel. They can use the platform to lobby to have the Gambling Ad restrictions lifted.
Since the 1.2M Foxtel subscribers include every* politician, they can create the narrative that the populace want Gambling, and our gullible pollies will fall for it.
I think that the inevitability is not is inevitable was we would like.
- Comment on Foxtel sale a Christmas miracle for the Murdochs 1 week ago:
DAZN (the new owners) are renown for their predatory betting. The only reason they would be buying Foxtel is to profit from sports gambling.
- Comment on Double demerits begin now within NSW/ACT/WA (for 11+ days) 1 week ago:
Double Demerits on long weekends are not a deterrent to the demographic of people who do speed when travelling unfamiliar roads.
In Victoria, Potholes are a big enough deterrent for those that do speed, either by encouraging drivers to keep below the speed limit or by disabling the vehicles of people who ignore them.
- Comment on The loyalty tax shoppers willingly pay despite push for supermarket competition 1 week ago:
This is what I do too. I usually only have to go to Coles or Safeway when a recipe calls for something obscure or niche.
The thing is, they are usually dry goods like spices or medical supplements, which can also be bought online.
Safeway and Coles are only there for convenience.
- Comment on Why these doctors started writing medical 'prescriptions' for solar power 3 weeks ago:
A better solution would be to nationalise the power network and charge citizens realistic prices for their utilities.
- Comment on How anger at the rollout of renewables is being hijacked by a new pro-nuclear network 3 weeks ago:
All the “anger at the rollout of renewables” is just Astroturf by the fossil fuel industry.
If you do 30 seconds of research into the “No Windfarms”, “No Pylons” and “No Solar Farms” movements, you will discover that they are all run by a handful of marketing firms associated with the Fracking Industry.
There is no “anger at renewables”.
- Comment on US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year 3 weeks ago:
She should have tried to smuggle it in in the form or a golden cigarette case, golden cigarette lighter, golden pen and golden cufflink.
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 4 weeks ago:
IANAL, do you think it could be stretched to include SMS, MMS or RCS ? That would make Telstra, Optus and Vodafone liable too.
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 4 weeks ago:
It won’t be a 3rd Party application. It won’t be the authentication provided by the device manufacturer either.
This is what myID and myGov is designed for, and is perfectly capable of. Knowing how the Shit Party and Shit Lite Party work, it will probably originally be some half-baked, easily circumvented 3rd party web service, created by a mate of a mate in exchange for “Political Contributions”.
- Comment on It's the 170th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade 4 weeks ago:
Ironically the Rhyming Slang term refers to the Union side of the First US Civil War, but is more often applied to the Secessionists.
I also prefer using the term than “Columbophiles” because Seppos don’t identify as “Columbian” because there is another country called Columbia.
They don’t identify as “Septic Tanks” either but the rest of the world identifies them along that line.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 4 weeks ago:
The GDPR has been completely ineffective.
Instead of preventing immoral businesses from collecting our data, it has forced moral and immoral businesses to make their websites completely useless unless we give them explicit permission to collect our data. We get that stupid, ineffectual modal pop up whenever we visit their site, and no matter how many permissions we give them, they are forced to ask every time.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 4 weeks ago:
The thing is All-The-Countries are just as bad (if not worse).
At least we have preferential voting in Australia so (if we can educate our idiotic fellow voters) we have a (theoretical) chance to vote both major parties out.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 4 weeks ago:
Question; Would you rather incompetent public servants retaining one set of your personal data or multiple commercial interests collecting your personal data?
Except in the case of a data breach, your information is much more secure with The Government as long as they are kept accountable.
Unfortunately the Shit Party and the Shit Lite Party appear to be doing everything they can to prove that government is not accountable, (except for their “Lobbyists”).
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 4 weeks ago:
They have legally banned them but they have not practically blocked them. They will still have the same amount of access they had previously, until Internet adapts to the new laws, and considering how small Australia is on the world stage. Compared with the EU with GDPR and the US with the DMCA, no-one is going to give a shit about the new laws.
What does mean that any local Internet providers will be held accountable, which means that the government has successfully destroyed any remaining chance for Australia to have any local technology industry.
- Comment on It's the 170th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade 4 weeks ago:
The problem with the misappropriation is that Right-Wing Australian Seppophiles think that the Eureka Flag is the Australian Flag is the equivalent of Confederate Flag.
While there was some Racism against Chinese miners, it wasn’t to the extent of the Racism in the Deep South of North America.
- Comment on Authorities must effectively regulate social media instead of banning children and young people 5 weeks ago:
It would probably provide better ROI than giving your $2 to the bank every week.
- Comment on Laws to regulate misinformation online abandoned, gambling advertising ban pushed to next year 5 weeks ago:
It is a shame. Our Preferential Ballot is the envy of democracy’s around the world and the ALP and NLP are doing everything possible to destroy it.
Every person needs to leave them until almost last preference (except the fascists who should always be last preference) in the next election.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 5 weeks ago:
That sounds pretty good. The problem is that getting the Gin to @lodion may be a bit tricky. Also the quality of server administration may not be to the same standard as they dispose of the Gin.
- Comment on An unwritten 'country code' is putting Rob's life at risk on the road, and all he's doing is turning right 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen it a few times when travelling. I think that the best way for a slow vehicle to indicate that it is safe to overtake is to indicate left (near-side, passenger-side, kerb/shoulder-side, whatever) and merge onto the shoulder. This is what the majority of tractors do in my local region.
This provides those following better visibility of the road ahead and allows them to make up their own mind.
Also, those following, just be patient. The only reason why the tractor would be deliberately driving slow to annoy you is because you a being a dickhead. Don’t be a dickhead on the road.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 5 weeks ago:
I think it is justified for any commercial interest to block all LLM data exfiltration technologies from all corporate workplaces. This includes CoPilot, Adobe AI Assistant, Google Whatever-they-want-to-call-it-this-week, ChatGPT and even on-device, but corporate-managed technologies like Apple Intelligence.
They should also block employees from using social media that use Algorithms to analyse and manipulate users.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 5 weeks ago:
I do appreciate the irony of using CoPilot to find adjectives for “enshitification”.
If you want a more accurate and useful definition of “enshitification”, try “Microsoft CoPilot”
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 5 weeks ago:
It would give legal power to the Commercial Social Media platforms to collect more private information about us, which would they can then use for their own commercial purposes.
They will lose the 0-16 y/o demographic, but they aren’t a directly profitable market anyway.
The 16 year old demographic will be much more profitable, because they wouldn’t have been conditioned to deal with the predatory behaviour of commercial Social Media platforms.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 5 weeks ago:
For better or worse, I would trust our incompetent Public Servants with my personal information than a Private US American Business.
They already have my Financial Tax and Medical information and as long as the ATO and Medicare don’t get privatised it is (as) safe (as it can be).
No one wants an Australia Card, but if the alternative is to have the Private sector collate this information (and onsell it to the cheapest bidders), I will reluctantly accept an Australia Card.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 5 weeks ago:
IANAL but I believe the new laws are unenforceable.
I think it is safe for aus.social and aussie.zone to ignore the requirements, but maintain a campaign to get the new laws revoked.
As you said, there are bigger fish needing to fight these laws and will cop the worse of the legal backlash. That said, Minecraft servers are typically independently owned and run. It would be upto the individual server admins to regulate. Roblox would be liable though…
- Comment on The fierce reaction to Australia’s new Future Fund mandate reflects how much has changed since 2006 | John Quiggin 5 weeks ago:
To U.S. Americans, anything to the left of fascism is “Left Leaning”.
Twitter had the appearance of being Left Leaning to the ignorant masses mainly because it was funded by Venture Capital.
When it matured and had to provide ROI, it became much more Right-Wing overnight. The oppression of 3rd Party Apps was the beginning of the end (even though Twitter wouldn’t have been what it was without Twitteriffic).