TheCriticalMember
@TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone
- Comment on Can you afford to live in your postcode? Here's what the data says 2 weeks ago:
It’s a very pretty confirmation of how fucked I already knew I am.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
3 times as fast as 100? I don’t know what you’re expecting here. It’s 83.3 metres per second, if that helps. Your friend must have a nice car, there’s not many that can go that fast, and even fewer that can do it and still handle predictably.
- Comment on NT pseudo-cops filmed kicking a man's head like a soccer ball. 3 weeks ago:
Whaaaaat? No way! Things like this normally never happen when you take a bunch of untrained morons off the street and give them police like powers.
- Comment on Why wooden bridges still have a place despite upkeep challenges 3 weeks ago:
IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia) Bridge Guide. I’m a bridge engineer. That “proper care and maintenance” line is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Sure, you can make timber last that long, but it’s maintenance-intensive.
- Comment on Why wooden bridges still have a place despite upkeep challenges 3 weeks ago:
Trouble is, wood has a much shorter design life and needs a lot more maintenance than concrete. Concrete bridges have a design life of 100 years, while timber will likely need significant refurbishment within 20-40, not to mention constant inspections every year with testboring at 2 year intervals (per AustRoads) and they’re often more expensive to build nowadays with the price of timber.
So yeah, they can look cool, but there are far better things to spend our money on.
- Comment on Liberals Plan To Blow Current Educator-to-Child Ratios To 1:50 1 month ago:
Or, another idea - we stop subsidising private schools and only give public money to public schools? I don’t think the private school down the road really needs a fifth auditorium while the kids at the public school are sitting in the library for science class because there’s literally nobody to teach it. But I guess we don’t want the poors getting educated, can’t have my landlords little princes and princesses competing with the peasant class for jobs.
I swear if anyone tells me they’re voting LNP I’m going to have a really hard time not just punching them in the face.
- Comment on Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekend 1 month ago:
Maybe the execs went to trump university…🤔
- Comment on Why don't people going to college get HUD, Food Stamps, and free Medicare/Medicaid while enrolled? Instead of the parents footing the bill or the student working 3 jobs and school? 1 month ago:
Because in capitalist America, you only get financial help if you don’t need it.
- Comment on Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekend 1 month ago:
- Comment on Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average. 1 month ago:
So the man is only left with 22 cents??? 😯
I’ll see myself out…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sounds like a 13 year old edge lord with a lot to learn about the world. Pretty normal and hopefully he will grow out of it in the next 5 years or so.
Don’t mean to sound insulting, but sounds like you have a lot to learn to if you’re hung up on someone like this.
We all think stupid things at that age. Getting out into the real world cures a lot of people. Some are sufficiently privileged that they never get out into the real world - those ones become CEOs and senators, some are incurable - they become some version of maga.
Just try to remember that everyone has their own history, hangups, and demons. We’ve all got our own battles to fight, and most people just want to live their lives and be left alone.
- Comment on ‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buff 1 month ago:
You’ll never both envy and commiserate with bikeseats so much simultaneously.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 1 month ago:
There have always been Nazis in America, even during WW2. Listen to Rachel Maddow’s podcast “ultra” to hear about how close they came to a takeover of the US way back then. They never went away, they just went low profile for a while.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 1 month ago:
They’re either stupid or they’re liars.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You didn’t wake up, this is hell.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
I believe the US is a failed state. trump just decided that himself and his AG are the only people who can decide which laws apply to the executive, and ordered the termination of all remaining Biden era US Attorneys. I know we’ve been saying this a lot lately, but it feels like a mask off moment.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 2 months ago:
Not my kids, but my wife is American and I lived there for 10 years before moving our family back here in 2015. I thought all my in-laws were decent people, but found out that they all voted for trump last November, and I have to say it’s got me feeling very conflicted. I doubt I’d be able to maintain a relationship with any of them if I were still there, knowing what they chose to support.
- Comment on Do they make a TV device or dongle to connect quickly via a number of types of inputs? 2 months ago:
What types of inputs do you need? So far all I can find in Australia is 1 to many all HDMI. Worst case scenario you might need a bunch of speciality whatever to HDMI adaptors and feed them all into a HDMI switch.
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
Haha, I’m just operating under the assumption that we’re all Reddit rejects and this place is likely to get quite a bit busier in the near future. 🤣
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
Never been on Facebook, just got a lifetime ban from Reddit for being mean to magats. 🤣
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
The United states can’t be trusted as a trading partner anymore. trump doesn’t even honour his own deals.
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
It’s an honour to be part of this prestigious and exclusive group! ☺️
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
I’ll see what I can do! 😉
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- Comment on The fundamental problem with housing in Australia 2 months ago:
Awww, and I was sure that this was going to be the year my paycheck finally did more than keep me alive until the next one…
- Comment on No one feels safe in Zionist Australia 2 months ago:
We’ve all seen the before and after pics of Gaza. We’ve all seen the videos of Israel’s war crimes against Palestinian people. Are you going to tell us Hamas is lying about that too? You seem to be an expert on the truth of what’s happening over there.
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 2 months ago:
I just thought this was widely accepted as fact.
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 2 months ago:
Does this study have any groundbreaking insights into the wetness of water?
