eureka
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- Submitted 1 day ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Nationwide Protests Against Israel's President (Monday 9 Feb) 2 days ago:
Amazing how big the list of protest locations has gotten. I wonder what impact this will have in the places outside of major cities. I hope this makes it easier for those out in the sticks to network and fight for change.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I reckon you’re right, I didn’t hear any complaining this year about the Triple J Top 100 being on a different date.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s possible to celebrate what a nation has become without celebrating what they’ve done.
A nation’s actions are a direct result of what the nation is. And many of the shameful actions of Australia are ongoing.
I love this land, I love many, many people here, and I love many of the things we’ve created together. But I have no desire to celebrate this nation as it stands. I feel no more kinship with someone on the other side of the country to someone on the other side of the world - we are all fellow humans. I treat visitors and immigrants with the same respect I give local citizens. For the many positive parts of Australian culture, I spot as many negatives.
- Comment on Invasion/Survival Day Events Across Australia 2 weeks ago:
Good to hear the event has been organised. Food Not Bombs have catered up in Sydney so I assume they’ll be here today.
- Comment on ‘I’ve never watered it’: how an Australian groundskeeper achieved the world’s ugliest lawn 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate that the competition is a tongue-in-cheek awareness stunt, but mate, if it doesn’t look like the (metaphorically) plastic monoculture grassscape that lawn enthusiasts make, it’s far from the world’s ugliest. I’ve seen people in the US dyeing their lawns green with a gurney. If it can’t attract butterflies and other bugs, it’s an ugly lawn!
Good video on lawns: youtube.com/watch?v=KLYMjPNppRQ
- Comment on March for Australia admins encouraged people to join White Australia Party 2 weeks ago:
Stop dividing ourselves by race.
Yes. Although unfortunately, such divisions are already deeply ingrained into our society (e.g. casual racism in news and media, lack of historical representation in government, generational loss of land, segregation in many towns within living history), and we can’t mend these systemic divides by simply ignoring race. So it’s tough to mend the divide without giving some preferential treatment to the groups who need to be lifted back up.
I agree that the constitutional referendum wasn’t the best way to help lift up Indigenous people and mend the divide, I agree with your point that it presented some issues of its own, and I also believe it doesn’t make sense to treat it as similar to white-supremacist racism, which serves the dominant side in the divide, splitting it further.
it sends a clear signal to guys like this that it is OK
Ultimately, Nazism just does not care about what society thinks is ok. They claim to themselves that most people are brainwashed by a “Jewish conspiracy”.
To them, liberalist concepts like free speech, democracy, equality before the law are interpreted as weakness, foolish or just tools to be exploited on their path to dictatorship (like how their leadership is currently crying about their democratic rights while they want to strip those same rights from most of the population; they don’t care about these rights, they just want to exploit them when convenient). In their worldview, the constitution is just a list of tools that governments politely gave them.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game 2 weeks ago:
Israel is a cult? A lot of people would agree with you regarding monotheistic religions.
Israel is not a religion; it’s important we differentiate Israel and Zionism from Judaism, because lots of mainstream media here has already tried to conflate them, trying to claim opposition to Israel is antisemitic (even Jewish opposition to Israel), and that actual antisemitic attacks are the fault of anti-Israel movements.
- Comment on Breaking: Neo-Nazi group says it will disband due to proposed hate speech laws 4 weeks ago:
they will scuttle away to whatever holes they can find
The March for Australia (26th Jan) is a nice sunny hole for them - we’ve seen that they have members as official marshals and event organisers. They’ll probably try and sneak into One Nation, since they had trouble infiltrating the Young Nationals last time. And as The Age’s expert suggested, they’ll probably resume their “active club” formations, minus the uniforms.
- Comment on Breaking: Neo-Nazi group says it will disband due to proposed hate speech laws 4 weeks ago:
Wonderful news. I agree with (Ross?) in The Age that they’re likely to regress to their “active club” stage.
Reminder that this group’s members and sympathisers made clear plans to counter protest Invasion Day marches. It wouldn’t be wise to assume the dedicated neo-Nazis would suddenly abandon their efforts simply because their organisation is disbanding to avoid imprisonment - they have shown with the March for Australia rallies their willingness for deception, such as acting in plain clothes and as staff/marshals while others wear their uniform. So it’s vital we show up on the 26th and make sure these scum stay gone for a while.
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but without a danger-danger elsewhere, a caution-danger might reasonably be interpreted as “don’t swim here”
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 5 weeks ago:
What about green and yellow?
- Comment on Cameron Corner celebrates New Year's Eve three times in one night, on three state borders 5 weeks ago:
Image Gee Bill, your mum lets you have three new years?
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 1 month ago:
Please don’t just say “title” when the post title explains absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Christmas Present Inspiration Thread 1 month ago:
One that worked very well a few years back (although around the limit of your budget) was getting a picture of their record collection, with permission, then sending the list to a music-fan non-mutual friend and asking what else they’d probably like.
Easy simple ones are small soaps, food treats like cheeses (yes, especially for the lactose-free crowd, e.g. goats cheese). I think you can’t go too wrong with something that’s quick enough to go through and doesn’t end up cluttering someone’s space if they don’t use it if you give it to them each year and birthday.
But for close family, we openly just ask each other what we want.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
I think that’s their point - the Zionist movement intentionally tries to conflate Israel with Jewish people and with Judaism. For example, criticism of the country Israel and pro-Palestinean actions have generally been framed by Zionist groups as an attack on Jewish people, rather than an attack on a country and its actions.
This uses Jewish people as a shield for the actions of Zionism, and encourages antisemitism as a result. When some mass media news, social media influencers and racist agitators (e.g. neo-Nazis) try to associate regular Jewish locals with the atrocities of Israel, this scapegoating puts all Jewish people (even those who are anti-Israel) in danger of indiscriminate attack.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
Coincidentally, they are wrong (the guns were legally owned), but it doesn’t even matter. They’re coming into a grieving community to sarcastically troll about US gun legislation using some ridiculous strawman argument.
So they can get fucked.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
Horrific. This is horrible, I hope the ambulance are able to help all the wounded. It’s important that we do what we can, as a community, to help support those affected.
The heroic response from those around, including citizens and the police, probably saved many lives, and it’s important that we recognise their courage.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
Police media have confirmed to the ABC that 10 people have died in this evening’s shooting at Bondi Beach, including one of the shooters and nine victims.
Twelve people were also injured, including multiple police officers responding to the incident.
A second shooter is among the injured, and is in custody.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 2 months ago:
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I assert that imoldgreeeg… IS ACTUALLY YOUNG GREEEG!
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
- Comment on Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino 2 months 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 2 months 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.
