Almacca
@Almacca@aussie.zone
- Comment on Scott Morrison accused of ‘deeply ill-informed’ attack on religious freedom after Islam speech 1 week ago:
While it’s hard to argue against Morrison being ‘deeply ill-informed’ on pretty much any matter…
“Once you accept religion is practised in many ways in Australia, singling out one faith for proscribing is isolating that faith, and causes people of that faith to feel victimised, humiliated, distanced and not Australian. That can actually feed into extremism.”
Ok. Let’s apply it to all religions, then.
- Comment on Reddit says it’s not a social media platform. Australia’s High Court is unlikely to agree 1 week ago:
Reddit claims that while it enables online interaction it does not enable online social interaction.
Reddit says that for an interaction to be social it has to happen “because of a particular user’s relationship with or interest in another user as a person; indeed, in most cases the identity of a user on Reddit is not even known to other users”.
Yeah, that’s a bit of a reach.
They’d have a stronger case for saying it’s not social media if they admitted that it’s 90% bots.
- Comment on Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game 2 weeks ago:
Also, Palestinians are also a semitic people. Words and their meanings don’t matter anymore.
- Comment on Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game 2 weeks ago:
As a nation, we’ve always been pretty racist, tbh.
- Comment on Debt collector hired to chase unpaid taxes for the ATO pays zero corporate tax itself 2 weeks ago:
The golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
- Comment on Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over last year, report shows 2 weeks ago:
Spoiler: all money doesn’t actually exist.
- Comment on China says Australia must accept Taiwan reunification or face ‘no forgiveness’ 3 weeks ago:
What do the people of Taiwan want, Mr Xiao?
- Comment on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year 5 weeks ago:
Because it’s been such a ringing success over here. [rolls eyes]
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 month 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 month ago:
I guess I am out of touch then.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Sabotage =/= terrorism
- Comment on Demand for water cannot be an 'afterthought' in AI push 1 month ago:
Driest continent on Earth.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
It’s crude, but effective.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Cheerful looking bunch.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
Was that my bald head?
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 3 months ago:
Legend!
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 3 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 3 months ago:
One click and you’re there.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 3 months ago:
As a fellow gen xer, I’m hoping this is sarcasm or satire.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 3 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 3 months ago:
Here’s hoping!
- Comment on Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
Didn’t they have unprecedented bushfires in places that are usually to damp to catch fire not to many years ago?
