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- Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive 1 week ago:
how did we get to a point where every creator is limited to one box?
US Antitrust has been asleep for decades, and as soon as it opened one bleary eye the oligarchs took over the government.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 1 week ago:
People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it’s huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it’s not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).
One the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn’t know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to “higher priority” stores.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious if it’s actually preference or if it’s supply side. From casual browsing Toyota looks to have completely eliminated their small cars (e.g. Echo) and their smaller cars (e.g. Yaris) are getting bigger and more SUV-like. Volvo stopped selling their station wagons in favour of SUVs and I can’t think of any station wagons left on the market. Most of the EVs in the Australian market seem to be SUV-like, especially the MGs which have dominated the “remotely affordable” category for a while.
It’s possible the manufacturers are just responding to consumer demands, but I’d like to see some evidence of who’s driving the change.
- Comment on Peertube number of Active Users are going up last couple of months 5 weeks ago:
You can also do that in Tubular, if you prefer a FOSS option
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 1 month ago:
We import all sorts of fringe political positions from the US. There’s even a cohort of “second amendment” gun advocates, despite having no bill of rights. The actual second amendment lets the federal government take over state debts.
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- Comment on “I Want Every Young Mum Back In The Office Permanently” Says Multimillionaire Childcare Profiteer 2 months ago:
What a grotesque human being.
Thanks!
- Comment on “I Want Every Young Mum Back In The Office Permanently” Says Multimillionaire Childcare Profiteer 2 months ago:
I can’t find any articles relating to this, let me know if you find one!
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 3 months ago:
Bill Gates doesn’t have anything to do with Microsoft anymore
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 3 months ago:
With USA’s secret subpoenas we literally can’t know that
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 4 months ago:
Lots of little things that don’t like being stepped on, but no really big predators. No wolves, coyotes, bears etc. Dingos, cats and tassie devils only really hunt small stuff.
- Comment on New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany 4 months ago:
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- ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the yearwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Authorities must effectively regulate social media instead of banning children and young people 6 months ago:
Removing the benefits that social media brings will not achieve the government’s objective of improving young people’s lives, and ignores the fact that the harms extend beyond children and young people to marginalized people and groups. The best way to protect children and young people online is by protecting all users with stronger data protection laws and not personalizing feeds based on profiling.
Yes, 100%. I’m glad to see somebody with clout saying this. It’s been bizarre to see the government acknowledge something as harmful and malicious, and then only keep kids away from it instead of trying to stop it from being harmful and malicious.
No profiling by default sounds pretty good. I’d also throw in “feed algorithms must be public”
- Comment on I made a spreadsheet on info and pricing for every mobile plan in Australia (that I could find) 6 months ago:
The post itself on lemmy is this link:
codeberg.org/libre-net-au/isps
Assuming you’re coming from Mastodon, I would be curious to hear how it federates?
- Australia took its interest rate medicine – and it has poisoned our living standards | Greg Jerichowww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles 6 months ago:
Now do the crappy mobile games
The removals also follow former Netflix gaming boss Mike Verdu — who just announced that he’s a VP of “GenAI for Games” at Netflix — telling *Game File’s *Stephen Totilo that the company wasn’t building interactive titles anymore.
Oh. Oh no.
- Comment on A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor. 6 months ago:
5 millimeters
Okay
(2 inches)
…what?
the size of a tiny granola bit
…what??
- Comment on Government to put pressure on opposition with legislation to ensure NBN stays in public hands 7 months ago:
The NBN can never live up to its potential while it’s required to turn a profit.