melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on Victoria to ban state school logos on shorts, pants, skirts and socks from next year 1 week ago:
They should do it for the top half too. Just have set styles and colours so parents can buy whatever is affordable
- Comment on 'Not sustainable': The heavy price your 6c tea bag is exacting on others 5 weeks ago:
That’s messed up. Certifications should be inspected and enforced.
Any idea which brands are ok? I see Dilmah doing a lot
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 2 months ago:
I’m not saying the organisation is good. I’m saying the thing is happening.
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 2 months ago:
We ate them /j
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 2 months ago:
In America there’s a few programs that donate hunted meat to the disadvantaged. Usually called Hunt for the Hungry or Hunters for the Hungry etc.
Seems Australia is thinking along those lines too theguardian.com/…/deer-meat-for-homeless-shooters…
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 2 months ago:
In Alaska there’s a lottery where you get permission to take a hit moose home for the freezer. I’m not kidding. It’s called the Roadkill Lottery and it’s government official.
And since one can feed a family for months people will be excited for you if you get that call.
Seems weird and I’d worry about hygiene/disease but in a place with such food shortages it would be a shame if some idiot just took the horns and left the rest to rot.
- Comment on Woolworths says it will 'do more' to celebrate Australia Day 3 months 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 3 months 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 months 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 months ago:
👆This
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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? 4 months 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 4 months ago:
Thanks, that’s good info
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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. 5 months ago:
Go all in at all times. We’re not here to fuck spiders.
- Comment on Pictures are broken 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago:
Here we fucking go :(