melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on What's everyone doing tonight? 1 week ago:
The same thing we always do Pinky. Try to take over the world!
- Comment on Netanyahu doubles down on Albanese attack despite Australian Jewish group urging calm 1 week ago:
He’s having a tantrum
- Comment on Age verification fun 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 2 weeks ago:
Where are we abandoning Australia’s Jews? A lot of them just want to live in peace and don’t endorse this crap.
He’s just angry at not being obeyed
- Comment on What is Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door, the Australian religious organisation allegedly being spied on by China? 2 weeks ago:
Cult?
He also claimed to be the manifestation of the bodhisattva Guan Yin.
“He claimed to have knowledge of the past and the present and the future, to be able to heal diseases — or at least to provide ritual methods by which diseases can be healed,” Professor Penny said.
The organisation’s website has testimonials from followers saying that Mr Lu’s methods helped with everything from curing their cancer, moving to Australia and clearing personal debts.
One of the group’s videos, filmed at a large event, shows an older man who uses a wheelchair being able to walk again.
Cult.
- Comment on Films and video games have age classifications. Should books? 2 weeks ago:
Fyi this might be a useful resource to quickly review a movie. Despite the name it contains a wide range of content warnings www.doesthedogdie.com
But yeah… classification isn’t censorship yet. Your point about LGBT content is a very good one.
Considering recent attempts to remove a kids book from shelves because it contained two dads, it’s kind of looking like religious groups are looking for any angle they have to control content they don’t like. And once they’ve had one win, the scope will creep.
- Comment on Films and video games have age classifications. Should books? 2 weeks ago:
There are already children’s and YA sections in physical libraries.
As for online the Booktok stuff is trash but censoring fictional things that make people uncomfortable isn’t going to address the occurrence of domestic violence in society.
I feel like it would be more effective to supervise and have age appropriate discussions with kids, because a nebulous age rating system isn’t going to catch everything or prepare them for challenging content or situations when they get older.
And if they’re so concerned with family violence they should address the actual causes and consequences.
- Comment on Can you house-sit instead of renting? Australians turn to pet-minding to escape the housing crisis 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a thing called property guardianship
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 3 weeks ago:
These are great suggestions thanks
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 3 weeks ago:
Cool thanks. I’ll check it out
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I’m not
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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.
