melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on Summer is coming. How long do you shower for? 2 days ago:
I wish I had a bathtub.
My showers are too long for reasons of pain management, but if I had a bath I could draw a limited amount of very hot water and soak.
- Comment on No Australians immune: What 2050 and beyond will look like for your city 5 days ago:
🕳️ we take refuge
- Comment on No Australians immune: What 2050 and beyond will look like for your city 1 week ago:
dreads in heat intolerance and nowhere to evacuate
- Comment on Social media platforms will not be required to prove accuracy of under-16 bans 1 week ago:
I saw this browser plugin and it looks like a far better alternative. Sorry couldn’t find a good non-X link
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 1 week ago:
I’m trying to work out since it affects search engine signins would it affect Gmail.
Also
Relevant electronic services: covers email, messaging, online chatrooms and dating services, as well as services for playing online games together.
I really hope you’re right because fuck that.
As for messaging (assuming that’s texts) the phone company should already have my age.
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 1 week ago:
Agreed, since parental controls already exist. Kids are just a partial smokescreen I think.
Government wants to grandstand about preventing a very visible issue with kids online, but it’s a pretty sweet deal for gaining more surveillance powers. Social media platforms and search engine companies want to slurp up even more sensitive data.
This bullshit makes me so angry. I can dispense with everything else but I can’t do without an email address.
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 1 week ago:
I’m going through deciding what I can do without… but now you have to hand over ID to use fucking email?
- Comment on Thousands of Australians call for neo-Nazi leader to be deported to New Zealand 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it would do much. He’d just continue agitating and assaulting people there.
Perhaps it would be more useful to ban him from the platforms he’s using (or from using the internet) and from attending “public gatherings” (or house arrest).
Or you know. Actual jail. Like he should be in.
- Comment on What's everyone doing tonight? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
He’s having a tantrum
- Comment on Age verification fun 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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 1 month ago:
I’ve seen a thing called property guardianship
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 1 month ago:
These are great suggestions thanks
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 1 month ago:
Cool thanks. I’ll check it out
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I’m not
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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