Almacca
@Almacca@aussie.zone
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
I prefer it this way as well, but it is open to abuse. Can you see the change log in Lemmy
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
I guess I am out of touch then.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
It wanted to win some quick easy PR.
This is what baffles me. I may be out of touch, but I haven’t seen a single response in support of the thing. Seems more like a big PR fail to me.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
An old forum I used to frequent had the feature that let you edit a comment up until the point someone replied to it, at which point it was locked. That worked pretty well.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 week ago:
First, the “SUV loophole”: under US law, most SUVs are classified as light trucks, meaning they’re subject to less stringent fuel-efficiency and crash-safety standards than passenger cars.
This has always been baffling to me. Make the standards universal and I reckon people would make very different choices.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 week ago:
Make an anger management course part of the requirements to register one.
- Comment on Age verification errors see some under-16s retain access to banned social media platforms 2 weeks ago:
So it’s all going about as everyone except the government expected.
“My 13-year-old daughter still has access to all her social media accounts this morning, and she verified her age via facial scanning. I am hoping that they are still working their way through and she will be booted off soon. If not then it’s a fail for us.” — Alison, NSW
God forbid you take responsibility for it yourself. It sure is a fail for you, Alison.
- Comment on Demand for water cannot be an 'afterthought' in AI push 3 weeks ago:
Sabotage =/= terrorism
- Comment on Demand for water cannot be an 'afterthought' in AI push 3 weeks ago:
Driest continent on Earth.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 3 weeks ago:
It’s crude, but effective.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Cheerful looking bunch.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 4 weeks ago:
Was that my bald head?
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 2 months ago:
Legend!
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 2 months ago:
Fair enough. I too have, or had a bookmark to my local radar that no longer works. Mildly annoying, but I’ll get over it.
Not sure why they needed to change it for viewing on a phone, though, if that’s the reason. I never really had an issue doing that – just pinch and zoom – and there’s the dedicated BOM app for those that didn’t like it.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 2 months ago:
One click and you’re there.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 2 months ago:
As a fellow gen xer, I’m hoping this is sarcasm or satire.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 2 months ago:
:shrug: I’ll get used to it.
- Comment on KEVIN 27: Rudd Immediately Gets To Work Mapping Out Vengeful Plot To Topple Smart-Mouthed President 2 months ago:
Here’s hoping!
- Comment on Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune 2 months ago:
I was going to downvote this, but I just watched Friendlyjordie’s latest video about the current state of, um, the state, and holy shit you’re right.
- Comment on Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune 2 months ago:
I grew up in Tassie, currently living in Brisbane. It’s been a thought in the back of my mind that I should head back there come the apocalypse. No-one gives a shit about Tassie in the global scene.
- Comment on Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune 3 months ago:
Didn’t they have unprecedented bushfires in places that are usually to damp to catch fire not to many years ago?
- Comment on ‘We would reverse it’: Ley writes back to Republicans over recognition of Palestine 3 months ago:
Keep digging, Suss.
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 3 months ago:
He only showed ‘remorse’ when he realised he was facing gaol time. He only had remorse for himself. The correct time to show remorse is immediately after it happened by stopping and rendering aid/calling emergency services. He might have even not been penalised at all if the pedestrians had actually stepped out in front of him without warning or time for him to avoid them. This whole judgement is completely fucked up.
- Comment on The age assurance technologies under-16s could face amid social media bans 3 months ago:
Not just teens. Everyone.
- Comment on What's everyone doing tonight? 4 months ago:
Beer, whiskey and Talking Heads. Also Lemmy.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 4 months ago:
“The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.”
[sigh] Because of course they do. Those people couldn’t find their own arses even if they used both hands.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 4 months ago:
The worst thing about this guy getting beaten up was that it had nothing to do with his actions at DOGE. It was just some random muggers.
- Comment on Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit 4 months ago:
I daresay it was a book sold in America for ‘English Pronunciation’, or something, but it definitely spells out an American accent, which is understandable. Not sure why the person in the post feels so called out by it, other than ignorance of one’s own accent.
I always kind of enjoy reading spelled out accents as a literary exercise. Pratchett was great at it with the Mac Nac Feegle, for e.g., and wasn’t that James Joyce’s whole thing?
- Comment on Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit 4 months ago:
That’s easy for you to say.
