SituationCake
@SituationCake@aussie.zone
- Comment on South Australia is proposing a law to ban kids under 14 from social media. How would it work? 2 months ago:
It’s a legitimate societal issue. The mental health and social damage it’s doing to children should not be an accepted as a social media functionality. I don’t know what the answer is, but surely there is a way to achieve both privacy for adult users and age identification for children.
- Comment on Daylight saving has 80% support in Australia and a majority in every state 7 months ago:
Of course it doesn’t generate extra time, there’s still 24 hours a day. What is does is adjust for the earths orbit and tilt, which means that seasonally we can have daylight during the regular working hours. The nice consequence is that there is more daylight hours in the evening. You must have a very generous employer who lets you change your working hours based on the seasons when you want to do evenings activities!
- Comment on Daylight saving has 80% support in Australia and a majority in every state 7 months ago:
Yeah but I’m in Melbourne so it’s good to have evening daylight. I think because Australia is so huge the effect of DLS is very different across the latitude. It’s good in the southern states.
- Comment on Daylight saving has 80% support in Australia and a majority in every state 7 months ago:
I think you misunderstand daylight savings? Setting the clock back means daylight happens earlier in winter. For example, in Melbourne tomorrow sunrise will be at 6:40am. If we were still on daylight savings time, it would be at 7:40am, so still dark when a lot of people are getting up to go to work and commuting. And due to the way the earths orbit works, sunrise will get progressively later until the winter solstice. I definitely prefer having the winter sunrise earlier, so am happy the clocks go back to regular time. And in Summer, it’s nice to have the extra daylight in the evening instead of crazy early.
- Comment on Daylight saving has 80% support in Australia and a majority in every state 7 months ago:
I enjoy the longer evenings in Summer and having the sun up at and earlier clock in winter. I’m not sure why some people hate it so much. Most people have smart phones and electronic calendars that update automatically and everything just works, no input needed. A genuine question for people who don’t like it, why not? What specifically is bothersome?
- Comment on Lawyers in uproar over order not to discuss Israel-Palestine 8 months ago:
Ridiculous. I can only think of 2 scenarios which would have led to this. One, there was a conflict between some employees and they are want to avoid further conflicts. But there are already laws against discrimination and workplace bullying. Banning the topic outright is lazy. Or two, someone in management has strong opinions and can’t handle hearing an opposing view. Either way, management are being toddlers.
Also I’m no lawyer, but would this even be legally enforceable? Can an employer really ban topics of conversation at work?
- Comment on No evidence of antisemitic chant at pro-Palestinian Sydney protest, police find 9 months ago:
I heard an expert talking about it and they said analysis of the sound showed some kind of audio loop indicating copy-paste (I didn’t understand the technicalities) which indicated the audio was manipulated.
- Comment on No evidence of antisemitic chant at pro-Palestinian Sydney protest, police find 9 months ago:
With all the rapidly developing technology for sound and image manipulation, I imagine it would be difficult if not impossible for media to forensically unpick every video. I don’t know what the solution is, and I’m worried it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Inciting social unrest or political support just got a whole lot more sophisticated.
- Comment on Australian naval divers injured after being subjected to Chinese warship’s sonar pulses 11 months ago:
Was this meant to be a get-off-my-turf micro aggression that could later be denied if needed by saying it was an accident? But also, if the sonar can injure people, what does it to to whales or fish?
- Comment on Optus says changes after a 'routine software upgrade' to blame for nationwide service outage 11 months ago:
If this is how they do their routine updates, they have had an extremely lucky run so far. Inadequate understanding of what the update would/could do, inadequate testing prior to deployment, no rollback capability, no disaster recovery plan. Yeah nah, you can’t get that lucky for that long. Maybe they have cut budget or sacked the people who knew what they were doing? Let’s hope they learn from this.
- Comment on Why did there need to be a vote? 1 year ago:
The constitution has special legal status in Australia. Parliament cannot alter it the way they can normal laws. The constitution can only be changed by a referendum - which is vote by the whole nation. What parliament is allowed to do (not Albo individually, but by majority vote in parliament), is make laws under the constitution. So yes, parliament could pass a law that creates a voice. But the next government could then pass a law that cancels the voice. And so on. The idea of putting in the constitution was so that it would have more staying power. If it was in the constitution it could still be removed, but only by another referendum, because as per point A, constitution can only be changed by a referendum.