Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve 12 hours 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 days 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 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australian Government funnelled $2.5B to Israeli arms manufacturers 3 days ago:
What the hell joke of an article is this?
Lara Khider, Senior Lawyer at the Australian Centre for International Justice
This will be about Gaza won’t it 🙄
committing internationally wrongful acts in relation to its military and other operations in Gaza
My gosh they won’t stop reaching will they 🙄
- Submitted 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on Why Western hegemony is over 1 week ago:
tough question, most of the time I just leave it alone, this is a waste of time overall, I have spent like 30 years, over 50,000+ posts on various forums over the years so reading nonsense isn’t particularly an issue
Outside of that I don’t mind reading just about anything, if anything I want to read articles that argue against what I believe so I can develop a better understanding of their position, if only to critique my own or better understand it so I can argue against it better
just part and parcel of internet forums I think, that said if they’re just constantly posting non-sense that doesn’t add value to what I’m interested in then block is just a click away :)
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- Comment on AZ issues 16/8/25 1 week ago:
Good stuff :)
I was wondering whether it was a backend issue which can be fixed but if it’s malicious traffic :(
- Comment on Why Western hegemony is over 1 week ago:
Trump is a retard, everyone knows this, don’t need an article written by a traitor to realise this
- Comment on Why Western hegemony is over 1 week ago:
USA is not our friend
I think this is a fake belief, something we tell ourselves to feel like we’re different but if you talk to the average non-politics engaged Aussie they love America
The three shows from megastar Taylor Swift – across February 16, 17 and 18 - will live on in MCG folklore as the stadium’s highest-selling concert series and highest-selling artist of all time.
American Food Dominates:
🇺🇸 1. Subway - 1,227 locations (AU) (Sept 22) 🇺🇸 2. McDonald’s - 970+ locations (AU) (Sept 22) 🇺🇸 3. Dominos - 716 locations (AU) (Sept 22) 🇺🇸 4. KFC - 712 locations (Sept 22) 🇺🇸 5. Hungry Jacks - 445 locations 🇨🇳 6. Red Rooster - 335 locations (Au) 🇺🇸 7. Pizza Hut - 270+ locations (as at Sept 22) 🇦🇺 8. Guzman Y Gomez Mexican Taqueria - 208 locations (as at Sept 22) 🇦🇺 9. Zambrero - 206 (AU) locations (as at Sept 22) 🇨🇳 10. Oporto - 176 locations (as at Sept 22)
…com.au/…/the-10-biggest-fast-food-franchises-in-…
Hell yeah Red Rooster, had no idea they were so popular but it looks like they’re not owned by Australia? They’re owned by
The Hong Kong-based money manager oversees about US$50 billion of assets across credit and markets
scmp.com/…/private-equity-firm-pag-seeks-us2-bill…
So updated the flags on those to Chinese :(
This sucks :(
- Comment on Why Western hegemony is over 1 week ago:
I’m so confused, I’m reading this post and I’m like, whose side is this guy on here???
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs#Views_and_com…
This guy is a massive fuckhead, stick to working with the UN and other useless money holes you twat
- Comment on Researchers asked AI to show a typical Australian dad: he was white and had an iguana 1 week ago:
chat.mistral.ai of course nailed it
- Comment on Researchers asked AI to show a typical Australian dad: he was white and had an iguana 1 week ago:
What the author was looking for instead Image
- Comment on Companies be like 1 week ago:
- Comment on Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas 1 week ago:
that’s shocking:/
- Comment on Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas 1 week ago:
You voted for this… don’t cry now!!!
What would I be crying about? Besides the massive NDIS rorting that went on unchecked for a decade, things are pretty alright from my pov
I just wish they’d stfu up about gaza when the Battle for Pokrovsk is getting incredibly close :(
- Comment on Tracey Spicer: Watering down Australia’s AI copyright laws would sacrifice writers’ livelihoods to ‘brogrammers’ 1 week ago:
I get the feeling you guys link me to too many articles at the guardian
US companies are pinching Australian content, using it to train their models, then selling it back to us. It’s an extractive industry: neocolonialism, writ large.
Not necessarily US companies, Chinese and European as well, in fact anyone who doesn’t want to end up once again enslaved to a US tech monopoly (computer hardware, smartphones, operating systems, programs/office suites, clouds, data centres etc) is really not wanting to be left behind yet again.
They’re also not really selling you back your own words are they? It’s like putting everything into a blender and what comes out works well, that’s the magic of AI
- Comment on Still throwing shrimp on the barbie: why is Tourism Australia’s advertising stuck in 1984? 2 weeks ago:
The headline for the commercial, which features Australians drinking and frolicking on the beach, is “So where the bloody hell are you?”.
As a result, the word “bloody” will be cut for the advert when shown on UK TV, according to Tourism Australia.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4789650.stm
i knew the brits were censor heavy but wow
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 2 weeks ago:
🤣
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 2 weeks ago:
do you want to chat with an ai to clear this up lol
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 2 weeks ago:
yes but the housing crisis is a whole problem in and of itself not related to ai
houses were unaffordable and increasingly unaffordable as you said years before chatgpt3.5 was even released
somehow we have a larger population than ever, more immigrants than ever but still
Mr Crost said Australia needed many more skilled tradespeople — including carpenters, electricians and plumbers — if it was to have any realistic hope of meeting the 1.2 million new homes goal.
“We are currently 83,000 tradies short,” he said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-06/…/105614902
if we can get house prices back down i think we’d in far better nick than we were previously
Post-war Australia posed its own set of challenges such as housing shortages, continued rationing, economic instability and general unrest.
…com.au/…/1940s-houses-australia-21692/
lol seems like some things never change
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 2 weeks ago:
well when people are less sick, they can work longer, which means they can be more productive, which means they can make more money
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 2 weeks ago:
like this, it allows gps to spend more time on the patient than writing up documentation
less time writing up documentation, more time spent helping patients and improving their lives, that’s a productivity boost
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
damn that sucks :/
i wouldn’t bother to much asking about manliness around these parts, if it was all just made up as they say they wouldn’t care when i call them the wrong pronouns since that’s just made up as well
turns out things that are “just made up” still matter
but you’ve got a whole real life wife so that counts for a bundle👍
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 2 weeks ago:
Whenever a technology has increased productivity, the extra profit made hasn’t been passed on to increase the workers’ real wages. Why would it?
Where did you read this? It certainly did in the past:
It stopped when the mining boom took off, we’re not a manufacturing hub anymore and it’s difficult to measure how many widgets we make when the widgets are hard to measure
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 2 weeks ago:
Automation to this level is not the same as industrialisation or the motormobile, we’re not creating nearly enough jobs to offset those that would be lost in the process.
I thought employment rate has been at record lows these last couple years?
All at a time at which 2 incomes barely covers living expenses for many people, where 1 used to cover a house, a wife and 3 kids.
If you take out housing payments/rents as they’re due to the housing crisis that’s definitely not true
If you’re on 2 incomes and struggling with a paid off house you’re doing something wrong
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 2 weeks ago:
why do you talk in a weird wikipedia style :/
from your earlier post
and they would certainly not have been left in the streets if they stopped being able to.
as worked out above in my other post they are not living on the street, they’re living an extremely nice first world life that they need to pay for, they could easily cut their expenses down by 1/3rd and still have a better life than most of the planet and in history without the need for any of their children or others having to live with them
In an industrial capitalistic society though, automation just means that the owner class can extract more value without bettering the material conditions of the workforce.
this sounds like you read a wikipedia article on communism and are just pasting it here
they live, clearly, materially better conditions not just in nearly every aspect of the workplace, from safety to tools, to a clearly materially better life in a nice happy retirement village with a nice new car and all the first world modern medicine they need, not the least after they have recently had multiple modern surgeries which have kept them alive to begin with
they blame their situation on a lack of access to personal finance advice:
They grew up against the economic backdrop of the Great Depression and World War II, and learned to be financially cautious after seeing what their parents endured. However, they didn’t have access to the same kind of personal finance advice and tools that are prevalent today.
and i’m pretty sure they’re not planning on moving to cuba anytime soon
A lengthy discussion was had
