melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on Woolworths says it will 'do more' to celebrate Australia Day 2 days ago:
I really don’t care if they don’t stock it… I don’t buy any of that tat and don’t celebrate Australia Day beyond just appreciating a day off.
If they want to do more they could make food and basics more affordable but they won’t
- Comment on Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for them 1 week ago:
But can my disabled arse get to them? Can someone with a car and a job afford to drive around for ages getting every little thing? Do they all have what you need?
Pull the other one Colesworth
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 4 weeks ago:
There’s also the possibility that faced with such steep fines and limited ability to enforce it these platforms could just block access for all Australian users.
Pornhub blocked access to users in multiple US states rather than deal with the whole age verification that came in for that.
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 4 weeks ago:
👆This
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 5 weeks ago:
It’s a mystery for sure. They won’t even tell us what does or doesn’t count to plan accordingly
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 5 weeks ago:
If I had better earning potential I probably would have absconded to Europe
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 5 weeks ago:
For real? I hope you still do
- One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study findswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 5 weeks ago:
Last I saw the suggestions were drivers license, face scan, or digital id. They’ve probably walked that back though or will do so because hell nah
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 5 weeks ago:
The info is still really vague but seemed to so far apply to big platforms like reddit and facebook and X - however my info might be outdated by now.
Then again it could be that the fines for non compliance might also apply to smaller platforms with less available funding than the big companies, and push them under.
The info I’ve been reading seems to be inconsistent and sometimes even conflict
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 5 weeks ago:
This comment right here. Not a fan of this bill at all and may potentially leave any platform that demands this information and/or ‘digital id’.
- Comment on Woolworths and Coles are emphasising the threat of Aldi — is it really a competitive force to be reckoned with? 1 month ago:
Aldi is less accessible for me but I’d happily shop there as exclusively as I could. Fuck Colesworth
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 1 month ago:
Thanks, that’s good info
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 1 month ago:
Ah that’s right! Are the major vaccines the RNA ones where it’s just the protein? I’ve forgotten.
I had a brain fart and for some reason was thinking of traditional vaccines
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 1 month ago:
The sad part is that reactions to vaccines are vanishingly rare but real. I’m wondering if this lady’s immune system had an unusual strong response and left her with some kind of autoimmune disease. Fibromyalgia can be triggered following a virus and has been confirmed to be autoimmune.
But it is much better for vaccines to be mandatory to keep herd immunity for those that can’t have them and keep smallpox or polio from coming back.
Ironically the symptoms she’s describing sound like long covid which also gets ignored and denied support. It makes me wonder if her body did massively overreact to even the attenuated virus
- Comment on Surgical abortions at Queanbeyan Hospital to be reinstated and region's service expanded 1 month ago:
This is seriously concerning. What would have happened if it hadn’t made the news? Also squinting at the conscientious objection
- Comment on Acting more Australian to foreigners for a laugh only to realise I'm being less Australian than I would be with other Australians. 1 month ago:
Go all in at all times. We’re not here to fuck spiders.
- Comment on Pictures are broken 2 months ago:
That’s cool, take your time. Thanks for doing this
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 2 months ago:
Sorry I don’t explain it well. It’s usually been the fringe parties that were most obvious but you do have a point
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 2 months ago:
So yeah. There can be independent parties with uh… fringe beliefs that you may not align with. So it’s good to do research on each party or candidate
- Comment on Australia environmental groups just won a huge legal victory 2 months ago:
Looks like a good crosspost for Aussie Enviro aussie.zone/c/environment
- Comment on Woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone in regional NSW 2 months ago:
Oh she was so lucky. Look up ‘suspension trauma’ and then look up some cute kittens.
Never go after a phone and don’t wait an hour to call for help
- Comment on ‘Trust me’: ‘pro-life’ Queensland LNP candidate hints at post-election push to change abortion laws 2 months ago:
These are the people trying to legislate healthcare…
Stupid. The link to breast cancer is spurious but the risks involved in covert self induced terminations are known.
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 2 months ago:
Here we fucking go :(
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Yeah. So not a good idea
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Fuck Colesworth. Having a disability and requiring both generic brands and delivery makes it hard to have other options… but don’t think I haven’t noticed the gouging, or how toothless the recent trust busting measures were.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I don’t know anything from experience but be careful. I heard that in America places like Target will literally wait and let you ‘get away with it’ until it reaches some cumulative amount where they can charge you with a felony.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges government to ‘drill, baby drill’ and build Israeli-style ‘iron dome’ in northern Australia 4 months ago:
What an odious woman.
If she’s so concerned about people in poverty I have a few ideas… but that’s just a smokescreen for wanting things that will bolster her own wealth and further her agenda.
- Comment on Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta 5 months ago:
My back door has a weirdly elevated door frame so I can’t even chuck a door snake on it. It has to be a giant rolled up beach towel and still doesn’t work
- Comment on Life expectancy in Australia has fallen for the first time in about 30 years 5 months ago:
Deaths of despair and/or social murder! ☝️ (Due to Shit Life Syndrome)