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- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 3 days ago:
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 3 days ago:
On the bright side, hopefully the social media giants cop some big fines.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 3 days ago:
The dot points read like an instruction guide to me. I was musing about a week ago about making a backup Facebook account ahead of time and subscribing to insurance companies and marriage memes pages, or staging a trip to France.
membership in youth-focused groups, forums or communities
My Little Pony fans have been warned.
- Comment on Nerd update 2025 6 days ago:
It’s refreshing to have this kind of regular peak behind the curtains. Thanks for the post, Lodion!
- Cancer Council's iHeard articles - responses to claims people have heard about cancerwww.cancer.org.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, they are not Live-Action Role Players (well, not primarily). They are violent chauvinists with large amounts of funding and increasing connection with the electoral right-wing, intentionally organising to harm whoever they consider to be undesirable (non-Europeans, progressives, etc.). They’re pathetic outcasts, you’re absolutely right, but they cannot be trivialised as just roleplaying.
Many of them are recruited by the NSN targeting vulnerable, alienated young men. They have even been discovered trying to get jobs in the NDIS with the open intention of working only with young men diagnosed with autism.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
I assert that imoldgreeeg… IS ACTUALLY YOUNG GREEEG!
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
- Comment on Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino 1 week ago:
The good news is we only hear about the ones who got greed enough to get caught (/s?)
- Comment on Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino 1 week ago:
Using science to fund science!
Not wholesome but also interesting: I recall a Russian mafia managed to acquire an Australian slot machine, and reverse engineer it to discover the psuedo-random number generator was effectively a huge but finite list of random numbers, in order, that would just loop back around to the start once it reached the end of the list. So they developed a simple phone app to put in operatives’ pockets, and record the spins (e.g. a cherry-cherry-apple spin might be swiping up-up-left). After a few of these, the app would figure out where in the list the machine was currently at, and the app would vibrate whenever the next one was going to be a winning spin, so they could bet higher amounts on them.
- 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:
It’s likely companies will use profiling to estimate users’ age, and many people will simply not need to do anything to keep using it
I wonder if I can preemptively add some activity to my profile to feign this, like add ‘married’ as a status and subscribe to insurance companies.
- 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:
How about I prove I’m old by not taking a selfie.
- Comment on The threat of sabotage from China is growing. That’s not an excuse to erode Australians’ freedoms. 4 weeks ago:
When it comes to the cybersecurity threats presented by our largest traditional adversaries, there are broad differences in their goals. For example, DPRK (North Korea) have heavy sanctions and frequently prefer profit/ransom attacks. The PRC (China) generally seems to prefer long-term access, rather than immediate sabotage, exfiltrating information or profiteering. Which matches up with what Burgess is discussing, I’m just surprised to see this framed in the article as a new strategy.
I definitely agree with the article that the upcoming safety/censoring measures are a dangerous overextension, and have mixed feeling about them being framed as state security measures.
However I disagree with the author over their general concern of state security blurring into private business, especially in a country where much of critical national infrastructure is privatived. When it comes to digital security, rather than social and political aspects like censorship and safety, that interference is generally beneficial, I don’t believe in companies’ freedom to leave a big hole in their fence.
- Comment on Chinese companies are largest shareholders in two Australian mines producing minerals vital for Beijing's hypersonic missiles, helping China to access key resources 5 weeks ago:
In Australia, like most liberalist countries, the ‘right wing’ of government and mass media has consistently been pro-privatisation and anti-nationalisation. Their ruling ideas are often echoed by their support base, the ‘right wingers’.
The centre Labor Party have also privatised major assets, including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Telstra and Qantas, however “the difference between privatization under Hawke-Keating and Howard governments, is argued to be one of ideology”, the right-wing Liberal Party’s economic liberalisation.
- Comment on Chinese companies are largest shareholders in two Australian mines producing minerals vital for Beijing's hypersonic missiles, helping China to access key resources 5 weeks ago:
Which never happens and it doesn’t matter if the mines are owned by Chinese or as is more often the case US/UK.
Or by Australians. Gina isn’t sharing.
The problem isn’t which nationality the shareholders are in, it’s that the mines are run as a business for shareholder profit, shareholders who have enough capital to throw their weight around parliament and avoid having to use Australia’s resources to benefit Australia.
- Comment on Chinese companies are largest shareholders in two Australian mines producing minerals vital for Beijing's hypersonic missiles, helping China to access key resources 5 weeks ago:
Given that we live in Australia, it’s not strange at all that we’re concerned with how profits from these mines are distributed.
- Comment on Confidential letter for takeover of the Betoota Advocate 5 weeks ago:
I have twitter blocked at a DNS level
Nice.
I sometimes use alternate frontends to get to places like that and instagram if necessary, such as xcancel.com (Nitter) to view twitter.
- Comment on Greens and Australian Christian Lobby form ‘unholy alliance’ to shut down late-night pokies in NSW 1 month ago:
It’s important to find shared mutual interest across traditional political lines, and I’m glad these two parties have.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They weren’t attacked because some of them were Jewish. That’s coincidental. We don’t go around saying Normandy D-Day was anti-German sentiment, or that the Allied Kokoda Trail campaign was an anti-Asian project. It’s an attack against settlers occupying territory. If you have a problem with that or how it was done, then that’s valid, but to consider it antisemitic is mischaracterising it completely.
A big part of the Zionist Regime’s propaganda (for many decades) is to try and conflate Jewishness with their ethnostate, and to label critisism of their state policy as antisemitic, even when voiced by Jewish people. Is it antisemitic of my Jewish friends who call for the fall of the Zionist Regime? Are the Jews Against the Occupation '48 group here an antisemitic organisation? Are the orthodox rabbis who’ve burnt Israel flags antisemitic? If you ask the Zionists, “yes!”, they arrogantly claim to be the one true voice of Jewish people.
- Comment on US Republicans warn Australia of ‘punitive measures’ over recognition of Palestinian state 2 months ago:
You can’t be racist towards white people
Why not? Racism isn’t always systemic racism. What else would one call discrimination based on race?
- Comment on US Republicans warn Australia of ‘punitive measures’ over recognition of Palestinian state 2 months ago:
Not them, but it’s important to be aware that white supremacy is not only limited to white people. As tempting as it is, we trick ourselves by oversimplifying, and it’s just plain tactless to use racial insults (regardless of how one means it, what matters is how other people interpret it).
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- Comment on How neo-Nazis captured the March for Australia [mirror of Tom Tanuki's youtube vid GLRoFdeI_5Y] 2 months ago:
Thanks for sharing the re-upload. I wanted to start archiving Tom’s videos after hearing about the Auspill/Klesum video being copyright claimed and TOTAL ARYAN FAILURE being age-gated but I didn’t get around to it yet. Lesson learned.
- Comment on ‘Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet’: The great March for Australia deception 2 months ago:
It will be interesting to see how this con pans out. Even fellow NSN neo-Nazis like JoeI Davis have cried on podcast about how the attack on Camp Sovereignty “made them look like” unhinged violent thugs. There were various degrees of rejection like booing and leaving when open Nazis took the microphone at various March for Australia rallies and spouted their junk (among others supporting them). The (former) Adelaide March for Australia organiser is openly calling out the NSN. The Freedom cookers’ “Australia Unites” rallies last weekend explicitly stated on their website: “NEO NAZIS ARE NOT WELCOME -NO RACISM OR ANY ACTS OF HATE OR VIOLENCE WILL BE TOLERATED IN ANY CAPACITY.” It’s clear that lots of attendees felt like their movement was “hijacked” by Nazis. Now, the truth is that it was Nazis running it the whole time, but nonetheless they made their target audience feel cheated with their subversive tactics and their shameless tactlessness. They’ve alienated the broader “patriotic” nationalist movement by conning them.
As said in the article, “Jordan McSwiney says the marches drew crowds only because most people hadn’t realised who was really involved,” and it seems like they no longer have that plausible deniability outside of the few groups in certain news filter bubbles.
Also, what the heck is up with this bit:
Later, the NSN railed against the lead Brisbane organiser for allegedly breaking a “deal” that Hersant could speak officially to the crowd. The organiser, who goes by “Bender” online and has previously posted neo-Nazi content, said he and his family were now receiving serious threats to “love the NSN”– or else.
I’ve seen screencaps of the social media account of that “Bender” account where they have an avatar profile picture of a black sun Sonnenrad, a well-known neo-Nazi symbol. So I’m surprised to see them being bullied by the cult. I forgot how much these idiots love infighting.
- Comment on ‘Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet’: The great March for Australia deception 2 months ago:
Michael Rosen - Facsism: (video reading)
I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
- Comment on Politicians hoping AI can fix Australia’s housing crisis are risking another Robodebt 2 months ago:
The idea of “AI solving” some social crisis is a farce. The problem isn’t that we don’t know what policies will improve the situation. An AI program or a simulation doesn’t have the political power necessary to solve any of these problems.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi leader ordered to complete community service for intimidating police officer 2 months ago:
You make a good point that law shouldn’t be applied based off belief.
However, and I’m not saying this in regard to your point but as an independent sidenote, we must remember that Sewer isn’t just someone who believes things, they lead a violent cult. They’ve been repeatedly convicted of affray and violent disorder among other things. Neo-Nazism isn’t some abstract harmless idea, and given their context, these threats are not the same as if you or I performed them.
- Comment on what is up with u/dwazoup 2 months ago:
Whether or not you meant it, your post is quite poetic. A tragedy in two lines, or perhaps a koan, the irony of their inactivity screaming out to them in vain.
- Comment on what is up with u/dwazoup 2 months ago:
Do you know if anyone’s tried to contact the person running all those accounts? Their Lemmy accounts would be flooded with post replies so I doubt the owner even looks at them. I don’t have a microblog account so let’s see if this ping works:
@Dwazoup@mastodon.social, hello! I’d like to hear your point of view on these posts :)
- Comment on Welcome to Australia’s Property Nightmare 3 months ago:
I think the video is a bit mistitled since it’s a single house inspection but it’s a solid glance in to the trends of current properties.
(The real welcome to our property nightmare IMO would be looking through Site Inspection’s videos and seeing million dollar homes with balcony supports made of styrofoam, mold bait windows, exposed screws and floating supports.)
