melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on Can you house-sit instead of renting? Australians turn to pet-minding to escape the housing crisis 4 days ago:
I’ve seen a thing called property guardianship
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 4 days ago:
These are great suggestions thanks
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 5 days ago:
Cool thanks. I’ll check it out
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 5 days ago:
I’m going to lose access to my playlists and have a hard time finding rare versions again or song titles that are hard to search.
Random things also can get flagged as mature
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 5 days ago:
I’m not
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 5 days ago:
It’s going to apply to search engine sign ins and Spotify too
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 5 days ago:
😵💫
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 6 days ago:
Oh man why would you cut up good clothes? Especially every day?
Even if something cost me a few dollars I wear it til it falls apart
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 6 days ago:
Some Anko items were more expensive like tracksuit pants at $15 and iirc boots could be like $30-40. Still looking back it should have been a bad sign.
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 6 days ago:
That’s fun :(
- 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 week ago:
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- 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 week ago:
tries to search for ethical consumption under capitalism
walks around pantsless
The irony is I can sew but the materials are low quality and quite expensive
- Comment on The massacre of sleeping settlers that unleashed a savage war in central Queensland 1 week ago:
That’s messed up. It doesn’t count for much but I wish none of that had happened. That none of it had been done.
- 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 week ago:
I know :(
I prefer to buy items like socks and underwear new as well. I wonder if Cotton On is better for budget basics. The prices aren’t as low but that means nothing these days
- 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 week ago:
Oh shit. I didn’t think Kmart used sweatshops (and thought price rises were in part due to more ethical practices) but guess I’m naive.
Guess I’m going back to op shops
- Comment on ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse 1 week ago:
Agreed. It’s the people with dickish traits that seem to be able to crawl to the top and subjugate the rest of us, is what I meant
- Comment on ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse 1 week ago:
I agree. Unfortunately the people who benefit from the current power structure have the most power in order to maintain it. I don’t see these people accepting juries or caps on their assets.
There are also often violent repercussions to protesting, and coups tend to just destabilise a region and set up the next dictatorship.
Humans just can’t seem to stop being dicks
- Comment on First Australian-made orbital rocket crashes shortly after takeoff 1 week ago:
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
Ah that’s a shame. I guess it could still be used as an adblocker. Time to go research VPNs
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
If their filter catches anything ‘inappropriate’
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
Google docs getting censored as well for some reason
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
I’ve just seen a comment about the UK floating vpn bans and am considering the possibility in Australia so I’m probably commenting in the wrong thread.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
I’ve just seen a comment about the UK floating vpn bans and am considering the possibility in Australia so I’m probably commenting in the wrong thread.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
I’m not au fait with this but can you use a raspberry pi for a makeshift vpn or something?
Seems like a thing the tech savvy people do
- Comment on Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat are running ads and events saying their services are safe for children 2 weeks ago:
Time to try and learn about this technomology then… even if just for basic online safety
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
Has Australia just completely decided to go for broke
- Comment on YouTube makes last-ditch attempt to lobby government against inclusion in under-16s social media ban 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want to give id so there go my playlists
- Comment on Great job, good education, no home: is Australia’s bloated property market destroying the middle class? 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely
- Comment on Great job, good education, no home: is Australia’s bloated property market destroying the middle class? 4 weeks ago:
It’s destroying everyone but the ones who benefit.
It seems like it’s taken such a long time for news outlets to become outwardly critical but even then it isn’t likely there’ll be any change because there’s a vested interest.
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 5 weeks ago:
dOn’T bE eViL
