Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on The year of the bailout: Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter next in line for taxpayers’ cash 12 hours ago:
Clearly, high energy costs lie at the heart of the challenges facing Australia’s power-intensive heavy industries, which also face intense international competition.
The industry minister, Tim Ayres, on Tuesday pointed to “a very tough and volatile global trading environment in aluminium”, including “over-subsidisation in some markets, tariff responses in others”.
The west still doesn’t know how to counter China
Reeve said the lesson was that governments should be thinking harder about how to support the long-term viability of industries considered strategically important, beyond simply showering them in cash.
Agreed
- Comment on Outage Sunday Oct 26 3 days ago:
if mastodon had a shared block list where i could block all american politics
- Comment on ‘Glamping’ proposal for NSW national parks slammed as privatising public assets 3 days ago:
so long as it’s a separate area and the funds go towards maintaining the national parks and expanding them then I don’t see an issue.
- Comment on 'Nothing' done to address gaps created by teen social media ban, says children's commissioner 4 days ago:
Hollonds said she’s worried the ban will adversely affect children who already struggle to find connection and belonging at school, citing LGBTQIA+ children, those with mental health problems, neurodiverse children, children with disabilities and complex needs, and children who live in regional and rural areas.
Is Hollonds aware that the internet existed before social media become a blight on society and that many people from those groups were among the first on it?
- Comment on Bendigo Mosque set to open 10 years on from hostile protests 2 weeks ago:
ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on Bendigo Mosque set to open 10 years on from hostile protests 2 weeks ago:
Hello sir!
I don’t quite understand why you’re referring to me in 3rd person but anyway!
If you’ve seen my other posts you’d know I’ve been a professional hater of the Greens ever since they went full identity politics and I’ve argued that the average Australian isn’t as chronically online and obsessed with Gaza as people here are
To quote myself:
They can go fuck themselves to be honest
This is after voting for them either #1 or #2 since my first election back in 2007 (Kevin07)
I expect the Greens will gain votes and maybe even a seat or two
😛
One Nation’s rise in popularity has nothing to do with greeny lefties
You’re right, I didn’t say that though :P since the election I’ve been saying that the Greens are not growing in size, when the electorate moved left they have stagnated, a party that has 9% of the vote and isn’t growing in this political environment means they have hedged their bets on Gaza instead of things that matter.
Be better… argue a point with regard to reality, and change your mind when the facts change.
Well you certainly burnt that straw man :P
- Comment on Bendigo Mosque set to open 10 years on from hostile protests 3 weeks ago:
hey mate
just so you know why you won’t see me anymore im blocking you
not because of your opinion but because you add nothing, just yelling racist does nothing for me
btw the lefts embrace of islam is one of the most confusing and regressive moves ive ever seen, which probably explains how insane it is to read one nation is now polling ahead of the greens:
The latest Essential poll in September put One Nation’s primary vote at 13%, ahead of the Greens on 11%
theguardian.com/…/the-ground-is-shifting-whats-dr…
anyway thanks for nothing
- Comment on Bendigo Mosque set to open 10 years on from hostile protests 3 weeks ago:
😔
- Comment on Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report 3 weeks ago:
That’d be a great use of AI, just use it and don’t bother paying Deloitte
Tax payer saved billions
- Comment on Governments keep making our housing crisis worse – and they’ve just done it again 3 weeks ago:
Apart from a small blip of courage in 2016 and 2019, when the Labor opposition floated it as a policy (and the resulting scare campaign having since zapped any backbone from Labor for any necessary reforms), every government and would-be government has followed suit.
YES, it wasn’t just a scare campaign, they lost both elections and in 2019 lost an “unlosable election”, you can’t say it zapped any backbone when they showed backbone and then LOST because of it. This is a clear indication that Australians don’t want to lose the very things you are saying are the problem! Welcome to politics! it sucks!
I don’t understand why it mentions only the first home owners and LMI change but not the HAFF which is slowly working its way through the system?
- Comment on Two Australian women and four children escape Syrian detention camp and flee to Victoria 3 weeks ago:
the lack of laws to convict them?
- Comment on Albanese invites Arab 'hypermarket' to compete with Coles and Woolworths 4 weeks ago:
ThatKamGuy mentioned the price cycle, here’s an article on it:
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-26/…/104470674
But yeah I switched to Aldi’s “regal cola” instead of buying coke, Aldi has it nice and low cost all the time
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 5 weeks ago:
yeah I was looking to setup a piefed instance just to keep touch on how much admin is involved but I can barely commit myself to mod, let alone run a server in my spare time
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 5 weeks ago:
afaik we’re still around 150~ visits per day, it’s just us in here 😄 i suspect until the admins agree to list the site on google/bing growth will be negative/sideways
- Comment on Three people died after Optus network failure impacted triple-0 calls 5 weeks ago:
Forget tech, compare them to Macca’s. Imagine a service outage that meant Macca’s couldn’t sell you burgers today. You’d shrug and take your business elsewhere.
Kinda yeah but nah, I see this with apps like Duolingo where people bitch endlessly about it, I’m like if you hate it so much just go use another app :| why are you rewarding them with your subscription money if you hate it so much?
But Telcos are regulated by these guys:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Australian_Communications_and_…
We recently had this requirement (thanks to Optus 🫥) handed to us all:
acma.gov.au/rules-significant-and-major-outages
If we want to make sure we don’t get fined we all agree to implement this rule (despite being a pain in the ass) and all the other rules they set for us
the equivalent would be regulations that Maccas have to agree to in order to sell burgers, so I assume it would be something like food safety standards? www.health.gov.au/…/food-standards-and-safety
So if Maccas screw up and violate one of these standards then they fined and if it was a big enough issue where multiple people died I assume they’d be dragged before the government for a please explain and maybe even shut down until the issue was fixed
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 5 weeks ago:
ah good point
had a look in the mod logs but looks like he’s deleting his account? or if you get banned and then delete your account does that remove it from the mod logs?
I can see one of his other accounts but ChocolatChaud doesn’t seem to show up anywhere
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 5 weeks ago:
Oh I thought you or one of the admins was the one banning him? or is he deleting his account?
His latest one looks gone to me:
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- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 5 weeks ago:
there’s someone who keeps making bots that just flood everywhere with articles
previously known as
Chocolat_Chaud@lemmy.ca
fraiserouge@lemmy.world
TheDwZ@lemmy.world
Davriellelouna@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 5 weeks ago:
Why are you doing this?
- Comment on Australia to spend $1.1 billion on Anduril undersea drone fleet 1 month ago:
good! take the money out of aukus and put it towards this
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 1 month ago:
Obviously I think more needs to be done on housing - end capt. gains discount for property, neg. gearing. But agreed.
yes please!
What do you is going to happen when the Americans wake up? I think both of us are going to get some replies.
lol i see you have the same problem as well
will see how it goes
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 1 month ago:
not saying we should elect a dictator
You’ve just found the problem with communism ;) when you centralise all resources under one man, it turns out people can be real power hungry dicks
So your argument is we let things get worse, and be thankful of what we have.
I don’t really see things getting worse, with immigration rates going down and labor spending a ton of money on building houses and streamlining approvals I expect over the next 5 years house prices to cool
Cool, chill, you do that buddy.
tbh i can’t ask for much more? I have pretty much everything anyone could want and I’m just a regular joe :S
Is there something I should want? 2 overseas holidays a year?
Australians travelling overseas again in record numbers despite the cost-of-living crisis
- Comment on Lynas flags uncertainty over Texas rare earths plant, posts profit slump 1 month ago:
but processing critical minerals is dirty so the greens won’t like it
- Comment on Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve 2 months ago:
The largest source was due to product packaging, responsible for about 1m tonnes of new plastic each year. Other large plastic users included the built environment (18%), electrical (9%) and clothing (8%).
True for me, duno what else you can do, chips, biscuits, cheese etc all come wrapped in plastic
- Comment on Could living in smaller houses redefine the Australian Dream and help fix the housing crisis? 2 months ago:
Yes please, I currently live in a 3 bedroom apartment but would be far more suited to a cottage
- Sydney cleric, Islamic State child groomer targeting pro-Palestinian cause for recruitswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 2 months ago:
Yet our GST is among the narrowest and lowest in the OECD. It applies to just 7.5% of the economy, compared with an OECD average of over 11%, and its rate is half the OECD average.
I don’t think anyone on the ground level of the OECD is arguing in favour of their higher rates
- Comment on Europe’s power grids under pressure amid record-breaking heatwaves 2 months ago:
N’oubliez pas le meduse
- Chinese carbon dioxide emissions fell 2.7 percent during the first six months of 2025, while U.S. CO2 emissions were up 4.2 percentwww.politico.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
