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@eureka@aussie.zone
- Comment on Woolworths says it will 'do more' to celebrate Australia Day 2 days ago:
I’ve managed to find ones which are a step below supermarkets, so selling flags and nationalist paraphernalia is probably beyond their scope.
Fun reminder: IGA is a US brand.
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 6 days ago:
The important point in this situation is that the ruling class is the owning class; the bourgeoisie. The racial and sexual composition of that class may change (and is already different in many countries), but we should not mistake that for a solution because until there is economic overhaul, the owning class is the class which determines and benefits from laws.
While you are correct that the most influential in Australia are rich and often also ‘white’ men, we must remember that these laws are ultimately written by politicians subject to capital owners, and written to benefit capital owners. That’s why wage theft was only a civil matter - because business owners of all stripes benefit from wage theft.
- Comment on Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for them 1 week ago:
Only 5 years old and already competing with the big bullies.
- Comment on Happy Gravy Day! 2 weeks ago:
I knew the song but haven’t known anyone trying to make a day out of it. (The gravy is for Christmas Day! and all the following hamdays)
- Comment on It's the 170th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade 4 weeks ago:
It’s unfortunate that the article didn’t add some more detail about the long-standing use of the Eureka flag by the labour movement as a symbol of worker’s rights. I’ve seen it a few times among the pro-Palestinian/Lebanese protests and in the CFMEU anti-administration protests.
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 4 weeks ago:
Lmao the hezbollah and iran are the one fighting ISIS.
Many, many groups and states are fighting ISIS, even the Western alliances. There are thousands of reasons to criticize the zionist regime, so please avoid coming over here and posting weird claims like suggesting only Hezbollah and Iran are combating ISIS - there’s no point in playing out the liberalist ‘good guy’/‘bad guy’ fantasy and ending up with american-level exceptionalism like this. Genocide is genocide, and Hezbollah and Iran are defending themselves against the expanding genocidal zionist regime.
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 4 weeks ago:
Small difference, ISIS are the most disgusting
animals/people on the planetThat’s a similarity, not a difference. The main difference is that the zionist regime does comparable acts of torture and genocide at a systematic state level, enabled by its allies.
Whether one group is muslim or not makes no difference in this context. Australian citizens are being recruited to engage in a genocidal conquest, no point in saying one is better than the other.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 5 weeks ago:
Ah great, the word ‘enshittification’ is already going to shit.
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 1 month ago:
fwiw, personal privacy isn’t the reason I close the door, it’s consideration of others.
- Comment on Australia versus the world: How we rank on air quality — and the city lagging behind 1 month ago:
Ah, making a clickbait article about a ranking and quoting the experts telling people not to just look at the ranking!
Thanks, Antibait Aktion!
- Comment on The country is done for 1 month ago:
Zedda is a new one to me, but I reckon it will stick.
- Comment on Harry Houdini Flew a Flimsy Aircraft in Diggers Rest. But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia? 1 month ago:
But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia?
Obviously such a question depends on the definition of flight, but it would have been nice for the article to give an honourable mention to Lawrence Hargrave, who lived in Australia since age 15.
Of great significance to those pioneers working toward powered flight, Hargrave successfully lifted himself off the ground under a train of four of his box kites at Stanwell Park Beach on 12 November 1894.
Obviously very different to a piloted and controlled flight like the Wright Brothers and these examples, but certainly notable.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 month ago:
by not using the countries name
“America” is not their country’s name either (“USA” is actually closer, now that you mention it)
- Comment on The country is done for 1 month ago:
no one says Gen Zed
Odd choice of example, I hear it often.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 1 month ago:
Who was our best Prime Minister and why?
- Comment on University of Sydney, NSW Liberal Party to investigate after students tear up sexual assault report 1 month ago:
Yeah, dismal job from the ABC this time. If you want a better account with quotes, there was one shared here.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 month ago:
it seems to just be a constant drama among everyone, is it not?
Correct, it is not. That isn’t close to constant nor everyone.
i want to block the whole instance
See instructions from our admin here: aussie.zone/comment/13007067
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 month ago:
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I can’t find any comments in that linked post ‘talking about blocking that instance’ or ‘moving to different software’. Nor do I think a designated drama community on another instance is a good litmus test for opinions.
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The only post I’ve found talking about blocking that instance, apart from OP, is a troll post you made (on a post about the UN voting on the blockade of Cuba which almost the entire UN has consistently voted against every year for over 30 years [wikipedia])
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- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 month ago:
Lemmy is a Fediverse software which is able to federate content with other instances and even other Fediverse softwares (e.g kbin). Federation is what allows an instance (e.g. aussie.zone, the one I’m on) to interact with others (e.g. reddthat.com, lemmy.ml, mander.xyz, etc.), so we can visit their communities, subscribe, post, vote on their posts, comment, and more.
Defederation is removing federation, which in this case would mean aussie.zone can’t interact with lemmy.ml, view their communities and posts, etc… It would occur if the aussie.zone admin sets the site to stop federating with lemmy.ml.
Defederation can be useful if an instance is abusive and systematically federates unwanted content, for example in early days before the reddit API exodus, there was a particular ‘free speech’ instance with a lot of neo-nazis which was defederated by most other instances before it shut down. In another case back then, some troll was registering new accounts every day on any instances without signup questions, so they could evade bans and post shock pornography on lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml ended up defederating from every open instance until they secured their registration form to avoid the abuse. You can see a list of federated and blocked instances by going to an instance and clicking on the Instances button at the bottom of the page. You can see aussie.zone blocks a few dedicated pornography instances, and a few explicitly political instances.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 month ago:
The admins of that instance are pretty blatantly disregarding their own rules in order to push their agenda. If that shouldn’t be grounds for defederation, I don’t know what should.
I personally don’t think staff of a community or instance choosing how they administrate posts there is a solid grounds for defederation, nor do I think defederation is a useful response.
If you find their moderation and staff intolerable (and fwiw I also think some of those bans are poorly justified), I recommend you block those communities or their instance from your account. But I don’t think blocking their users from contributing here and blocking us from contributing there is appropriate.
- Comment on University of Sydney, NSW Liberal Party to investigate after students tear up sexual assault report 1 month ago:
Further details: the USyd student magazine’s article on this.
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 2 months ago:
It’s nice to have access to a compact layout. The in-built Lemmy compact themes are ineffective, as far as I can tell.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 2 months ago:
Did you verify that, or did you just copy paste a machine-generated comment?
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 2 months ago:
afaik, ‘cooker’ has risen as a slang term for the wackier conspiracy theorists:
From Wiktionary:
- (slang, Australia) A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
- (slang, derogatory, Australia) A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
- (slang, derogatory, Australia) A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.
- Comment on Reminder that NSW local gov elections are on again tomorrow 3 months ago:
Reminder: no out-of-area (‘absent’) votes in this election.
Council elections may not the be most exciting I find them much more interesting, because while my vote is still statistically negligible, it’s much more powerful than in a state or federal election. So less popular choices have a higher chance of competing.
Unfortunately* it feels like most of my local candidates have almost identical policies, so my second and third preferences might as well be a coin flip. At least I know who’s going last.
- Comment on PM warns of 'consequences' as thousands of CFMEU workers march across Australia 4 months ago:
Seriously, watching that interview is a little painful with all the interrupting to try and railroad the conversation. I haven’t seen it so bad outside of Faux News in the US.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges government to ‘drill, baby drill’ and build Israeli-style ‘iron dome’ in northern Australia 4 months ago:
Seriously, shame on the opportunistic people who bothered giving her a platform.
- Comment on The Cat Empire postpones shows as musicians vote no confidence in MSO 4 months ago:
It’s a sharp reminder of the industrialisation of art as entertainment, more than as expression.
- Comment on 'Brutal culture' at Channel 7 leaves staff suicidal, distressed, and despairing 4 months ago:
Crosslinking: aussie.zone/post/12573641
- Comment on AFP counter-terrorism operation that targeted 13-year-old with autism cost more than $500,000 4 months ago:
Are the AFP employees (coppers) aware they are the wrong people to be handling this? They had an opportunity to help this kid, and instead just accelerated a terrorist operation until they could punish the victim.
