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- Comment on Popular sunscreens accused of greenwashing by Australian Consumer Commission 10 hours ago:
What do you think when two organizations you trust say different things?
To be honest, I would have trusted Cancer Council much more than Choice before this news challenged my trust (not because of any particular thing Choice has done). The ABC article today about the Princeton Consumer Research test and allegations of its results being concerningly homogeneous has just made this a bit more complicated.
- Comment on Popular sunscreens accused of greenwashing by Australian Consumer Commission 20 hours ago:
That last paragraph. Oh my.
I hope the Cancer Council ones are fine.
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 1 day ago:
Hey OP, I noticed at the bottom of the article it credits that it’s a republishing of the original article by ABC. Always good to link upstream if you notice, for example the upstream article might notice a mistake and correct it.
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 1 day ago:
give em a good old “nw,gf,fo”
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 1 day ago:
On the other hand, I enjoy finally seeing a correct use of the word “antisemitic” by ABC News.
- Comment on Kanye West barred from entering Australia over Hitler song, Tony Burke says 1 day ago:
pls check the comm before reposting the same news story that’s already been here for hours.
- Comment on Dr Fiona Stanley: ‘If we want better health outcomes, the last thing we need is more doctors and hospitals’ 6 days ago:
I disagree with the implication that a child should be left to die if the medical centre isn’t paid. I know the doctors need to be paid and their work deserves to be compensated, I know medical centres need to have costly supplies to operate, of course, but the commodification of society’s critical healthcare needs is an atrocity.
The author suggests it was the doctor’s lack of care, but if there’s some missing context that somehow justified their decision, it’s still a damning insight into paid healthcare systems. Would distributing the cost of that treatment be more or less damaging than the cost of denying it?
one less person
On the other hand, if they’re replaced with someone who doesn’t let patients die like that, that’s saving lives.
- Comment on Former Greens candidate may lose sight after being arrested in Sydney protest 6 days ago:
I hope they heal up alright and keep their sight. A friend who was arrested by NSW Police at Port Botany for similar protests said they saw headshots of people the police were aiming to arrest (union and organisation leaders) so I don’t think it’s an “unfortunate coincidence” they brutalised someone so famous.
- Comment on Tax data round up: ATO tells you what suburbs to hit up with bolt cutters and a van. 6 days ago:
Yeah let’s have a look into those tax-deductible charities they’re dumping tens of millions into.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 1 week ago:
New checkbox on the sign-up form. Works every time.
- Comment on 'Sovereign citizens' sentenced to prison term in Western Australia for defiance of court order 1 week ago:
Yeah part 2 is about a different subsection specific to niche indigenous groups trying to play the same kind of “well technically” game with fake laws instead of actual effective resistance strategies, so while I think it’s interesting too, it’s less relevant to these news stories we see so it’s alright to hold off on.
Which brings us full-circle
Yeah, interesting to see that the legal system (at least that judge) has finally stopped with the initial toleration of these SovCit-style claims. When the system ignores or shows the restraint to tolerate this flavour of SovCit pseudolaw, it can validate them and (as you pointed out) some have lost homes or ended up in prison over their idiot ideas. That really puts context into the judge’s quote below; it’s not just the harassment or gun-holding compounds to worry about, but the danger this delusional arrogance can do to themselves.
Mr and Ms Martin have told me more than once they are not dangerous people," he wrote. “The ideas they express, however, can be extremely dangerous”
- Comment on Just landed next to me. 1 week ago:
“These guys are honestly fairly chill as long as you’re not close to their nest (like inside 1m), and they’re important pollinators and great pest removal experts.”
Save the flamethrower for the real scary bugs.
- Comment on 'Sovereign citizens' sentenced to prison term in Western Australia for defiance of court order 1 week ago:
I’m late to the thread but shout out to Tom Tanuki’s deepdive into the surprisingly unique world of the Aus SovShit movement.
- Comment on I'll get a bag of those carrots that they reckon are mistaken. WCGW. 1 week ago:
If this question was sincere surprise, there was an Australia documentary episode two years back (“War on Waste”) with a section about “up to a third of” carrots being dismissed by the dominant supermarkets because they were “misshapen”, sometimes really petty stuff, not even bruises or discolouration or anything that a picky person might question but being too long or short.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNEW8ydOm4 (clip from the docco)
In reaction (or by recommendation), some supermarkets have added small sections marketing various fruit/veg as ‘odd’ funny-looking ones at discount prices. An improvement, but a long way to go.
- Comment on I'll get a bag of those carrots that they reckon are mistaken. WCGW. 1 week ago:
You know that saying, two is better than one.
- Comment on Just landed next to me. 1 week ago:
You passed stingy bois ocular patdown.
- Comment on News Corp boss earns $42m as highest-paid CEO of Australian-listed company 1 week ago:
earns
- Comment on Australians losing billions in savings due to poor management of appliance efficiency scheme, audit finds 1 week ago:
- Comment on Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered 1 week ago:
Yeah I think so too, I got the joke, I’m just emphasizing that this isn’t some spooky “socialism for the rich”, it’s literally just capitalists doing capitalism in a very capital way.
- Comment on Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered 2 weeks ago:
That’s just regular old free market economics.
- Comment on Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks 2 weeks ago:
Cool, how long ago was this? It seems like there will be a fair bit of time between strange mince and familiar steak. The exotic faux gras is a smart move in this early game if they can pull it off, because the texture doesn’t have to match a structured muscle.
- Comment on *Wiitching Hour at Northland* - an important video about how Aussies can prevent Nazis promoting themselves and gaining power 2 weeks ago:
Sorry for late reply:
They can’t form a political party. Right?
All I really know is it’s their stated aim.
Plenty of their spokespeople are capable to being careful with their words, and they have lots of experience with woof-whistling. So it might not be nazi in name, just platforming the same policies. But, on the other hand, we have had Nazi electoral parties before: en.wikipedia.org/…/National_Socialist_Party_of_Au… , and we have white nationalist parties still existing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_First_Party
- Comment on *Wiitching Hour at Northland* - an important video about how Aussies can prevent Nazis promoting themselves and gaining power 3 weeks ago:
One of the important points is people sharing the uncensored message. This is a cut-and-dry example of unintentional promotion. For example, I tried looking up the initial news on /r/Melbourne and the mod team wisely said something like “The Guardian has chosen not to share the image in their article and we will do the same”, locking the thread so that no accounts, whether sincere curious people or Nazi astroturfers, can say " what did it say", “it said X, how fucked up”, “omg how can this happen?”. That’s an example of the no platform tactics , which given the nazis’ goals, is an effective tactic in the arsenal.
On the other hand, you’re right that Tanuki is raising awareness of the event. I think their perspective is, if they have a platform, it’s best to make crystal clear how pathetic these people are behind their anonymity. (And I’m not saying that as a blind claim, these people have had their own members embezzle them, get repeatedly infiltrated by current affairs shows, have major financial donors lose their jobs and half their members and promoters are headed to the camps one train after the socialists and Jewish). Their recruiting effort relies on trying to show they’re better than all those failed neo-Nazi groups like Patriot Front and Atomwaffen, so we if we must talk about them (ignorance doesn’t work), we should make sure to laugh at them too, show we have a community willing to fight these alienated tourist flash mobbers.
And I think you raise an excellent point about unnecessarily naming a specific group, pointing potential recruits towards them more easily and making it a more common name to hear. I would be guilty of that too.
- *Wiitching Hour at Northland* - an important video about how Aussies can prevent Nazis promoting themselves and gaining poweryoutube.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Snap election likely as Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff loses no-confidence vote 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate the write-up, friend. Thanks :)
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 weeks ago:
What a loser. Great to see this kind of thing gets discovered, it was one of my concerns when joining Lemmy (and one of my motivations for leaving sites like reddit).
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 weeks ago:
I often downvote Hotznplozn’s posts because those posts are exclusively warmongering propaganda. That is literally the only posts they make here, so I’m usually downvoting them whenever they appear here.
I’m surprised my cm0002 votes are so one-sided. I think their drama is weird but I don’t see them much. If they post generic memes a lot they’ll probably get some downvotes when I browse All but I can’t think of any other reason I’d show up there.
- Comment on Australian high-speed rail has barely left the station – some experts say a new US project shows a better way 4 weeks ago:
Out of all the countries to take high-speed rail inspiration from, I would hold off until that US line is actually operating.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 4 weeks ago:
And I’m also surprised it was higher for 25-44 than 25-24, although it could simply be that vehicle accidents knocked it down a spot.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 4 weeks ago:
Bowel cancer is now the leading cause of death in people aged 25 to 44 in Australia.
This is surprising. It wasn’t even in the top 5 a couple of years ago, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (gov).
