Tenderizer
@Tenderizer@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 39 minutes ago:
I’m guessing the sales of emotional support vehicles would drop overnight with that policy.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 40 minutes ago:
People are surprisingly unkeen on tracking in their car. So kilometers driven wouldn’t work.
I’d say just go with a fee based on the weight of the vehicle, exponential of course. We need fewer heavy cars, fewer kilometers driven in just a side effect. And as a bonus effect maybe I’d be able to buy an EV without a range that’s 8 times what I actually need.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese must show the same determination as John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre 1 day ago:
It’s more like 1.001th class citizens. Gun ownership is not a right, it’s not statistically significant in terms of the classing of citizens.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese must show the same determination as John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre 1 day ago:
It’s not common sense that a permanent resident should have all the same rights. It’s perfectly valid that if someone isn’t considered worthy of being a citizen they should also not be considered worthy of owning lethal weapons.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese must show the same determination as John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre 1 day ago:
Yeah, you’re right.
I think today what needs to change is that only gun clubs themselves should be able to own guns, not members of gun clubs.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese must show the same determination as John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre 1 day ago:
The optics are bad of restricting gun ownership to citizens, but guns ought not be something people are entitled to like they are in America. It’s common sense that to use a gun within Australia someone should be a citizen of Australia. A non-citizen can always buy a bunch of guns, sell them, then hop the border to their home country.
In short, there should be the absolute maximum restrictions on guns. Every lever possible should be pulled.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 3 days ago:
They’re just as personalized. Google knows everything.
- Comment on How Australia's social media ban threatens free expression 5 days ago:
Apparently there was some academic research making the rounds a few years back about this (and legislation moves slow). Of course, the law is still written by tech-illiterates.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 2 weeks ago:
And Gen Alpha is pretty cooked. They’re gonna forget entirely about the ban in a week, if they even notice (because the ban only applies to accounts and not many even use social media logged in).
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 2 weeks ago:
They won’t.
They shouldn’t need to.
They will still need to under the current form of the social media ban.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about you, but in every circle I’m in the concern is just the abysmal implementation that not only doesn’t address the actual problems but kind of makes them worse, and it’d be really easy to write a better policy that properly addresses that without any ID being involved.
- Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? 2 weeks ago:
So … it gets worse. Apparently they’re quietly rolling out a porn ban, and part of that is that you won’t be able to “log in to a search engine” without verifying your age. As I understand it a YouTube account is kinda different from your google account but the same isn’t true for google search.
In the past I thought that even though I don’t like it, social media addiction is the issue of the decade. But half the issue is also digital privacy. This not only fails to meaningfully address social media addiction but it also actively worsens digital privacy. This whole crusade is counterproductive.
- Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? 3 weeks ago:
Officially Steam is not included but they reserve the right to add it back. …gov.au/…/which-platforms-are-age-restricted
As for gmail, I can’t find a clear answer or even anyone who’s asked the question. The whole account deletion thing is stupid, they should just remove all the safety consequences of having an account (limiting interaction, hiding public profiles, etc). Actually they should just make me e-safety commissioner, because I’d do a far better job.
- Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? 3 weeks ago:
I’m already fully prepared for all my social media accounts to be deleted (because there’s no way in hell I’m giving google my ID).
If they go after Steam or my Email then I’d be in trouble, but I think those’ll be fine.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 5 weeks ago:
The first leg should be short and intrastate. The first step is building any high speed rail at all.
- Comment on Australia: In China's dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order 1 month ago:
Reminder that ASPI gets money from the US government and US weapons companies.
They say they’re independent, but regardless I doubt a think tank that believes in peace would receive such funding.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 1 month ago:
(inb4 irrelevant anecdote about yourself)
- Comment on Health funding is one of our trickiest issues – here’s a politically sweet fix 1 month ago:
It’s not that simple. The gas companies are powerful.
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 2 months ago:
And it’s working far better than the social media ban ever could.
It doesn’t solve the issue entirely, but rather than get it over the line all the things the e-Karen is doing will take us in the opposite direction.
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 2 months ago:
You don’t need to provide your ID documents, but you do need to provide your identity. I was being hyperbolic but technically what I said was still correct. I’ve already installed Freetube just in case my account gets deleted.
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 2 months ago:
Do this, instead of banning YouTube subscriptions and forcing me to rely on the algorithmic feed (I’m over 18, just don’t want to give google my ID).
Do this, instead of making Steam delete my library of thousands of dollars of games (allegedly).
Do this, instead of banning accounts on a bunch of social media apps but NOT TELLING US WHICH APPS WILL BE BANNED.
In short, it’s only tangentially related but I wanted to vent about the e-karen.
- Comment on University wrongly accuses students of using artificial intelligence to cheat 2 months ago:
Remind everyone you can that AI detectors don’t work. It does a lot of harm that people think they do, but they fundamentally can’t work because of Goodhart’s Law.
- Comment on Something not in the water: why are Queensland councils voting to remove fluoride? 2 months ago:
Chlorine is to disinfect the water, fluoride is to prevent tooth decay. Fluoridated toothpaste is widely available, and it’s recently been found that relatively low levels of fluoride in the water have an adverse effect on IQ.
To be clear and so there are no misunderstandings here, I am aggressively pro-vax. I also strongly support a sugar tax.
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 2 months ago:
Lets make these all the new states. Abolish the 6 (and 2 territories) we have and replace them with these.
- Comment on [Satire] New ‘This is Australia, Dickhead’ option added to tip screen 2 months ago:
Which is why they don’t give you that button.
- Comment on Australia offers Europe, Japan, other allies to sell stakes in its Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve to counter China's control over supply chains 2 months ago:
Chinese rare earth minerals are super cheap. Nobody would buy them if we charge more unless China cuts off supply, and that’s a military anxiety rather than anything the market sees opportunity in.
- Comment on Australia offers Europe, Japan, other allies to sell stakes in its Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve to counter China's control over supply chains 2 months ago:
We’d need to mine the rare earth metals at a loss. Nobody’s getting anything back from mining them.
- Comment on Australia offers Europe, Japan, other allies to sell stakes in its Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve to counter China's control over supply chains 2 months ago:
We’d need to mine the rare earth metals at a loss. Nobody’s getting rich off them.
- Comment on Australia offers Europe, Japan, other allies to sell stakes in its Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve to counter China's control over supply chains 2 months ago:
Rare earth metals aren’t profitable. If the world wants ours, they should become shareholders.
- Comment on The majority of Queensland councils are washing their hands of fluoridation under the watch of both sides of politics 2 months ago:
jamanetwork.com/journals/…/2828425
It says fluoride levels of 2-4mg/L is correlated in a reduction of IQ. But technically the WHO has long since recommended a maximum of 1.5mg/L due to a risk of fluorosis which is a comparatively minor concern, though it’s hard to find information about what levels are considered safe beyond “recommendations”.