Ilandar
@Ilandar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Australia's travel advice for the US has toughened three times since April 3 days ago:
Is the US now officially a “shithole country”?
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 6 days ago:
I know how you feel! I have the same year while a couple of my family members have the newer (larger) ones. They don’t even look like they’re from the same series.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 6 days ago:
I have a 2006 Forester, but a couple of my family members have the newer models. The size difference is quite significant when we’re parked side-by-side, mine looks like a small car these days.
- Comment on Why does Australia still have 2 major political parties despite preferential voting? 1 week ago:
Australia’s 4 largest parties are the Labor, Liberals, Nationals and Greens parties (in order of popularity).
The Greens are much more popular than The Nationals. ~12% of nationwide first preferences at this election vs 4%.
- Comment on Why does Australia still have 2 major political parties despite preferential voting? 1 week ago:
This is not a direct answer but you might be interested in the ABC series ‘Swingers’, released in the lead up to the most recent federal election. It has quite a bit of history about Australia’s political system and the attitudes of Australian voters.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 weeks ago:
Bots attempting to manipulate humans by impersonating trauma counselors or rape survivors isn’t useful. It’s dangerous.
- Comment on How many times will i hear about the evil left if the greens loose their leader 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t stress too much about it, I don’t think this will be a major setback for The Greens as a political movement. They are in a difficult stage of their evolution as a party where they are facing some issues balancing environmental and social issues, older and younger voters, hard left voters that will support them no matter what vs soft left voters who they’ve picked up from Labor over the past couple of decades, etc. Under the past couple of leaders they’ve had a strong desire to grow and become a real progressive force in Australian politics, but that is not necessarily a realistic goal while our system continues to favour the larger centre.
After jumping to 4 MPs in the 2022 election, I think they tried to go too hard, too soon which might have frustrated some of those softer left voters and pushed them back to Labor. Everyone is very focused on Trump’s impact on the right, but if this election was a rejection of culture wars then you have to question whether The Greens have also been caught up in that and were seen as too disruptive and divisive during the last term. I think they actually realised this prior to the election, which is why they tried to pivot to a “keep Dutton out” strategy and back off Labor, but the chaos in the US ultimately made it a difficult perception to dislodge from the minds of some of their softer voters.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
HMD are doing everything better than fair phone now with their latest models.
How much are the factory workers paid? Where are the raw materials sourced? What percentage is recycled? What work is HMD doing to change the industry?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
Better to get an older phone and hold onto it.
That’s sort of how they’ve marketed their phones over the years. Fairphone exists as a fairer alternative to brand new phones, but the company has always been quite clear that the most environmentally friendly phone you have is your current one and that you should keep it for as long as realistically possible.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
im still not sure the whole business thing is a just a greenwashing scam or not.
What does “greenwashing” actually mean to you? None of your criticisms are related to the environment.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
You don’t need to explain, they are clearly retarded. Literally made a sarcastic joke without using /s, then got confused because an obviously sarcastic reply that was riffing off their joke didn’t use /s.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
“I…am Steve (Jobs).”
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
It gets even worse if you separate users by age groups. Younger people overwhelmingly go for iPhones.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 1 month ago:
They say when a boycott meets a girlcott, a baby cot is born…
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 1 month ago:
MELVIN USED MORAL SUPERIORITY
BUT IT FAILED
IT HURT ITSELF IN ITS CONFUSION
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 month ago:
You are ignoring the bit where this was a private conversation. They wouldn’t need to laugh along with jokes at their expense because, in the context you are discussing, they would never even be aware that the jokes were made.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 month ago:
Is this a copypasta?
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
But many people don’t want to have everything completely public
This isn’t true at all. Most people do not care about privacy; those that do are an extreme minority. You (presumably) and I are part of that minority yet even we still comment here, in a public space. The issue with forums has never been about privacy because most are content with pseudonymity. It is a big mistake to think we need to cater to the extreme minority in the privacy space when tackling big issues that involve a majority who do not care.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 month ago:
My problem isn’t that rhetoric targeting anti-Trump Americans is mean but that it’s counterproductive.
Typing this after you’ve just whined about “Europeans” is peak irony. You guys are so fucking clueless.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 month ago:
Why shouldn’t they be? Americans have long had a superiority complex, always confidently mocking the problems of others around the world as if they were immune to them. It may feel bad for you now but the schadenfreude the rest of the world feels is completely justified. Frankly, the way some of you are suddenly crying about the rest of the world being mean to you is only further contributing to this image of Americans thinking they are above everyone else.
- Comment on I never realized this 4 months ago:
Because their entire poltical and world view is based on identity politics. They cannot simply say “that joke sucked” and move on, they have to make it into yet another virtue signalling exercise and lecture everyone else because that is the behaviour they associate with being a “good person”.