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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My MP started off giving this topic a simple once over and agreed with it. Then listened to a bunch of constituents, experts and just the rhetoric from other politicians. He has since changed his stance on it. Also he happens to be an Independent.

  Strange how much of the inequity in our current system is related to people who are motivated to vote along party lines instead of listening to the people who put them in their position isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lesson of the Cronulla riots was that the beach was not for people like me. But it’s a myth I am increasingly resisting | Sarah Malik⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a Sydney-sider or from NSW, was the racial tension that was stoked up to the riots really caused or significantly contributed to by that horrible series of rapes?

  For the outside I get the feeling it’s a brick in the wall kind of thing. Along with lots of racism, culture clash, opportunistic politicians and grifter shock jocks.

  But I understand it’s hard to gauge the vibe of a culture from a half a continent away. Even more so doing it 20 years later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so frustrating seeing the government fiddling in the margins to grab headlines rather than, doing something constructive. This is going to devolve into a game of whack-a-mole trying to make it look like it is achieving something other than what it is (normalising the idea of having to dox yourself to access the internet). Meanwhile I have just lost all the passive ability to monitor what my teens watch on YouTube, and the easy ability to check in on their conversations on Snapchat. They have thrown my kids out into the wild west of barely moderated YouTube and dubious chat apps.

  If they had implemented strong laws around algorithmic outputs, human moderation, and online harassment then we would have been applauding them for holding the social media companies to account. Instead what they have done is laid another part of the foundation of a surveillance state.

  In essence the governments desire to be seen to be doing something is dovetailing neatly with the shit heads that want everything we do online to be monitored, recorded and as a byproduct more heavily monetised.

  Also since they are doing this to protect the children, is there a number of children they are willing to sacrifice to achieve their goals. How many marginalised kids have to self harm before they start to ask the question “Are we the baddies?” We already know that social media has had Perverse Incentives at play that have shaped it, so while it sounds hyperbolic I don’t imagine it’s beyond the pale that the LGBTQI+ kid who lives in a rural area with 0 local support is going to be affected by their online support networks disappearing. The kid suffering from domestic violence suddenly becomes voiceless and can’t work out who they trust enough to reach out to. The bullying goes to the all new special app all the kids on the playground are using that is hosted out of another country that doesn’t give a shit about Australian laws and becomes impossible to take down as we have just taught our kids to work around the tissue paper blocks the government keeps relying on.

  On top of all this, we don’t have comprehensive data privacy laws, and while the government says it will levy massive fines against companies that don’t take reasonable steps to secure our data, the reality is that they will not, and if they tried to what’s to stop the companies deciding that Australia is not an economically sound country to operate in and just up stumps and leave rather than paying the $85,000,000 fine?

  This is all just the surface level thoughts I have of this debacle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard disagree, at some point investors are going to start asking these AI companies when they will be done burning cash and when the profits will start rolling in. Arguably OpenAI is already starting to see these concerns. If the US gets a new government at some stage there might be enough political will to draw a line in the sand with NVidia and tell them to stop manipulating markets. Finally there may be some pushback against datacenters literally killing the areas they are built in. What we are seeing is a fraud against the world originating from a group of hyper rich arseholes that may last a surprisingly long time, but eventually they will need to pay the piper.

  I did have someone tell me this has all the hallmarks of the space race. We are going to see enormous amounts of efforts and resources thrown into AI only for these pioneers to realise there is no clear way to monetise at which point all that energy will be redirected, until then China keeps on egging the US on to make them increasingly commit more and more of their economy to a concept that is going to be a lead anchor on the country left holding the bag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I don’t mean to diminish the harms of the movement. We have a disappointingly long history to show what happens when this sort of group is weaponised by the wrong type (I was going to write right type, but that feels wrong) of leader/funder. But on an individual level, can you imagine one of these stains trying to explain their viewpoints to an honest questioner on a one on one basis?

  I used to know a powerlifter who looked like what these guys fetishise, but he is their polar opposite ideologically. I would love for him to sit down and in his oh so calm voice ask one of these goons why they think the way they do. Trust me when I say it would never leave their mind that this guy could tear their arms off and beat them with the bloody ends, so if they were stuck next to him on a flight or train ride I think they would be sitting in a couple of different puddles by the end without having made a single valid point, meanwhile my old mate would likely continue his trend of intimidating people before they realise he wouldn’t hurt a fly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So they are LARPers? I mean what a bunch of shitheads, but what a shit society to join why would any of them individually want to associate with any of the others? Surely they look around and think “What a pathetic bunch of losers!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A vote to approve an AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront will now pass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I especially like how we are bending over and taking it from a Non-Profit so they can make more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A vote to approve an AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront will now pass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did what I could between Peter George and Rosalie Woodruff, but Dean Winter still got back in as did vice chairman Abetz.

  As a state though we did the Australian Signature move of voting against our best interests. We aren’t quite as polarised as the US yet but I see people whinging about Leftists with disturbing regularity.

  Plus the whole way through this stadium crap they have been calling anyone with even basic questions about the process an “Anti”. I always wanted to reply with Anti-Corruption, Anti-Crime, Anti-Bankruptcy. But most of those mouth breathers wouldn’t appreciate that sort of nuanced position.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, just look at Discord. Not only harvesting data, by sharing it with “trusted partners” I was told the Esafety commissioner can bring legal action to find companies up to $850k per offence for improperly storing Australian citizens data, but I haven’t heard anything about hundreds of millions in fines against Discord yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So sick of people treating “white” as a racial group. I’m presumably about as white as you get (my father was adopted so no idea about his ancestry, but his bio mother appeared pretty damned white). I don’t identify with any of these little, insignificant man-children who are desperate for their hatefulness to make their lives just a little more important.

  Plus if they could pull their heads out of their arses for a couple of minutes they would clearly see their grievances would be better directed along class lines, would make a far bigger difference in their lives than trying to pretend anyone with skin darker than weak custard is somehow oppressing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I especially liked this section from the ABC news story ( www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/…/106018130 ) about this dickhead:

  When ABC NEWS Verify asked Mr Gruter about the bracelet, and other matters, he responded: “Since when is it a crime to love and advocate for your own people?”

  If he is so passionate about his own people, maybe he will get a warmer reception when he fucks off back to South Africa to rejoin them. Somehow I doubt it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Think, if they started from the top they could retain talent and remove the easily replaceable dead wood. Based on the chairman apparently having a $1.1 billion net worth, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t need any further income for instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crappy filament?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how my experience stacks up but I have been getting performance equivalent to the Bambu PETG out of the Elegoo I have been buying recently on my P1S. A little bit of stringing but that seems to have a lot to do with recent humidity as a pass through the filament dryer has been rectifying it. Just ran 2 rolls of the Red PETG Rapid through for my mates packout accessories, and before that I did a bunch of cleats for his tool wall in some Black PETG.

  Did a good enough job that he rather kindly bought his wife a P1S for her birthday when the Black Friday sales hit. She has turned that around and run the printer non-stop since it arrived and only about 40% of that has been prints for him. 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So to maintain AI supremacy the US will now phase out all climate targets and begin the great AI vs Climate Collapse race.

  People around the world will be on tenterhooks as they see AI get out to an early lead as politicians fire anyone who can call out the ever so subtle “Unprecedented Events”.

  Gaze in wonder as climate strikes back by disrupting society with apocalyptic weather events to attempt supply chain disruption.

  Watch in rapt disgust as the AI instructs the puppet like mouth pieces to pay lip service to citizens while doubling down on supply and logistic support while restricting the publics access to the same.

  AI vs Climate Collapse: No matter who wins we lose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Calls Anti-Tariff People 'Fools,' Promises $2K Dividends⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I ask out of serious curiosity, when you say over regulation, are we talking safety, environmental, financial?

  I ask because the willingness of companies to pay workers in another country to engage in practices that are prohibited in the first country seems like corporate exploitation.

  If it’s due to environmental regulation that seems to be a case where often an environmentally friendlier way of performing a lot of processes exists, but it costs more money, so companies choose to exploit weaker regulation somewhere that hasn’t caught up to not poisoning the planet to benefit companies. Plus a lot of companies hate being told to clean up after themselves and would prefer to simply leave an area once they have extracted maximum value from it.

  As for financial, look, I am Australian, here we have historically benefitted from a strong labour movement that has granted us livable wages, paid sick leave etc, however our rich people are doing everything in their power to roll back and undermine that.

  In each case the problem seems in my opinion to revolve around a class of extremely wealthy shitheels who want to make all the money and they will take the path of least resistance to make that happen. Perhaps, Internationally we need to view the existence of billionaires as a critical failure of our systems and either legislate to prevent them from occurring, or find some way to drastically increase the hazard levels associated with trying to gather that much wealth in the first place.

  I personally doubt that Tariffs will meaningfully change the manufacturing landscape internationally, I think Trump tanking the US economy will however increase desperation and lead US citizens to compromise on the conditions they will work under, in effect lowering the expectations of US workers to the point they will be willing to compete with off shore workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake claims about Australian road rules on headlights generated by AI and spread on Google⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been seeing these things on the Google News feed on my phone I keep disabling that keeps getting re-enabled for some mysterious reason. It’s literally gotten to the point lately that if something is presented as a fact by google I automatically disbelieve it. What really concerns me is the people who don’t take that stance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gitea 1.25.0 | 3D file previews, improved archive downloads, enhanced authentication, and more security, API and workflow upgrades like automatic repo forking and email notifications for actions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone using a Version Control system to do 3d design work, if I was smart I would be using this for the stuff I design to 3d print. But I’m not so I just have directories full of STL and 3MF files with occasionally somewhat descriptive names. Oh or 3d artists working on games, videos etc. People who are doing architectural design? Just people with other random interests? I suck at staying organised but I gave Forgejo a go and as long as you follow the getting started guide and keep it on an internal network its pretty straightforward to get started, complexity goes up if you are wanting to use it externally or in more co.plicated scenarios I believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Websittes To Purchase Verified Ebay Account (Aged orNew)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow thanks for your contribution scammer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lgbtq are the victims though 🤪⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So I have a genuine question if you don’t mind indulging me. Are you into trolling people or are the beliefs you espouse your sincerely held beliefs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Free IPTV Trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow does your offer include Premium Netflix and Amazon Prime? Because the other scammers who are offering me IPTV are bundling Netflix and prime thanks to their exclusive relationships and I wouldn’t want to blindly hand my credit card details over to someone who can’t build exclusive (and implausible) relationships!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Nothing' done to address gaps created by teen social media ban, says children's commissioner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having worked with confidential data for a cohort that included people with Protection orders we had it drilled into us that any mistakes could (and had) cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars to remediate and that was with super specific tailored contracts to cover every contingency that the company had encountered in the past. That was 20 years ago. I can’t imagine those costs have diminished since then… The companies willingness to do everything to stay out of court and out of the headlines may have though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Nothing' done to address gaps created by teen social media ban, says children's commissioner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As if any of this is about protecting children. At best that will be a side effect of the ban. It’s mainly about linking an ID to as much online activity as possible.

  Discussions with the office of my representative showed that they are treating all the issues that will arise from this as secondary. When I asked if tax payer money would be used to redress the absolutely inevitable data breaches when they happen I was told the eSafety Commissioner has the power to bring legal action against companies that don’t implement best practise with regards to data security.

  I asked where best practise was codified in legal terms and was then told that the government has published guidelines that state data gathered should be limited in scope and secured in a safe manner. In other words we are putting the horse so far in front of the cart it’s as though the horse is still in the stable.

  When I asked about penalties I was told that companies could be fined up to 850k per offense. However when I asked what was to stop a company that had just accidentally leaked say a million drivers licenses from simply closing shop and abandoning Australia to deal with the fallout rather than accept an multi trillion dollar fine I just got some limp hand-wavey statements about how companies would be compelled by the rules and regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the biggest problem facing the welfare system is decades of the Australian public having the recipients demonized as dole bludgers by populist shitbags. Every time I point out to my father that we give far more money in corporate welfare than we invest into people who are down on their luck I get the same tired bootstraps rhetoric. Taking support for aged pensions and family tax supplements out of the equation the actual amount we offer as support to people who can’t get a job through disability or lack of opportunity is an insult. If we taxed corporate entities and people squatting on virtual dragon hordes of property correctly the landscape would change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White elephant? Hardly – Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amateurs… here in Tassie we would just build between 3 and 6 stadiums with that sort of money. The hardest part would be finding enough hideously inconvenient spots that have insufficient infrastructure and potentially contaminated soil to site them. We know how to piss money we don’t have away on White Elephants down here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw away email! Are you going something illegal online that you would want to bypass the government and big techs absolute right to spy on everything you do! That’s it people will henceforth only get one single email address assigned at birth that they will be forced to use for all online interactions henceforth. I hope you feel ashamed of yourself with all the children you put at risk with your thoughtless selfish behaviour. Now upload an image of your face certified by a government official and a copy of your birth certificate just to be sure that terrorists, uh criminals, uh child abusers don’t win.

  *Please tell me this is the most superfluous /s of all time. *

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blaine is a pain and that is the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The majority of Queensland councils are washing their hands of fluoridation under the watch of both sides of politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, my brother started spouting this nonsense at the same time he went vegan (which I don’t have a problem with) and anti-vax (which I REALLY do). He was also really eager to tell me all about how iodised salt was a conspiracy by the government to lower the IQ of the population. Oh and don’t get me started on his take on 9/11.

  I wound up telling him I wouldn’t discuss anything further with him unless he could bring receipts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’ll be fine, our premier is going to push past commonsense and planning advice to get Hobart an eye sore white elephant stadium. That’ll be a valuable asset to house all the displaced people moving down here.

  Honestly if we can’t build houses to match the current trickle of people moving here how do they think we will go when it becomes a flood, plus the government takes decades to do any infrastructure work so even if we throw up some housing you better not want a road capable of handling the traffic flowing to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep