SaneMartigan
@SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
My previous account was @dumblederp@aussie.zone I left it because Rowling has turned out to be a pretty shitty person and I don’t want the association.
Mostly I’m just here for idle friendly conversation over shared interests.
I can get caught up in my own stubbornness on some topics.
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 14 hours ago:
Six years jail and never getting to hold a license again right?
- Comment on Xi Jinping says Australia and China should ‘unswervingly’ work together despite global instability 2 days ago:
I imagine Xi says that to all the leaders.
- Comment on Misogyny is thriving in our schools. Why aren’t we doing more? 3 days ago:
The Manosphere is a problem all over the world. Turning men against women is another distraction from the class war. We all need to be turning against billionaires, but it’s hard to convince young people/men of that.
- Comment on Indian villagers beat five to death for 'witchcraft' 1 week ago:
Bihar is a shit hole. Even Indians think it’s a shit hole.
- Comment on 2% Wealth Tax on Just 3,000 Billionaires Could Raise $250 Billion a Year: Nobel Economists 1 week ago:
To quote Bill and Ted “execute them”.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 1 week ago:
oh no no, we won’t be doing anything sensible like that.
- Comment on Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists 1 week ago:
Fuck US lawmakers. Like they’ve got a leg to stand on when talking about things being “needlessly cruel”.
- Comment on NSW to ban people from appealing if working with children check denied 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on NSW to ban people from appealing if working with children check denied 2 weeks ago:
I needed a WWC for a council park worker job, probably in case there’s kids at the playground while we’re whipper snipping or whatevs.
- Comment on I'm not sure what's worse, driving on the road to work assuming that you're surrounded by idiots, or knowing about it. 2 weeks ago:
Driving a van and truck around Melbourne, way more than 1/20 are fucking about with their phones.
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 2 weeks ago:
yeh nah fuck off cunt
- Comment on Paul Keating claims young Australians are guaranteed to have $3m in super by retirement – but not everyone agrees 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like when they used to advertise dsl with maximum theoretical speeds.
- Comment on Calls for Australia-wide crackdown on real estate ads that use AI to hide faults and lure in renters 2 weeks ago:
I cut the stickered bit off fruit that I’m eating. I’ve done enough sports strapping work to know that stickers (sports tape) leave a residue that can be difficult to clean off so instead of trying I just cut it off. I don’t want to eat sticker residue.
- Comment on Australia’s had two more years of gambling ad harm since the Murphy report. It’s time for Labor to show some courage 2 weeks ago:
CFMEU issue - government acts.
Gambling issue report - government sleeps. - Comment on Former Greens candidate may lose sight after being arrested in Sydney protest 2 weeks ago:
Copper with the torch looks like she’s trying to wash out the video.
- Comment on Former Greens candidate may lose sight after being arrested in Sydney protest 2 weeks ago:
NSFW. New South Fascist Wales.
- Comment on Dr Fiona Stanley: ‘If we want better health outcomes, the last thing we need is more doctors and hospitals’ 2 weeks ago:
Firstly I’m a bit suss as the whole thing feels a bit like PR for her book.
She’s proudly clutching a book called First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture, which she co-authored.
However:
“We need systems that keep people well, not the systems that pick them up after they’re broken.”
The whole system is pretty fucked. People are overworked and underpaid so that the wealthy grifters of society can make as much profit as possible while grinding the population down to dust. It’s no secret what’s wrong with things and until we have an actual revolution about the way society works I don’t see it changing.
- Comment on Majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035, study shows 3 weeks ago:
I hated school sports but like jogging and weightlifting.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 3 weeks ago:
Not equivalent, but Lindybeige makes fun content about medieval times.
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 3 weeks ago:
I block a lot of the “theme” posters.
- Comment on Random pic for FireWire 400 3 weeks ago:
Cosmic Gate - fire wire
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Battlefront 2 multi player has come back to life for the moment.
- Comment on New Zealand approves medicinal use of 'magic mushrooms' 4 weeks ago:
It’s a drug with therapeutic uses, they’re simply scheduling it for professional use… within an extremely niche community of psychiatrists.
- Comment on Australia lifts plasma donation ban for gay, bisexual men in world first 4 weeks ago:
I’m glad they went with the civil rights friendly option when softening the donation restrictions. We’ve had a blood drive going for a month or two at the moment, they’re looking for typo-O in particular. If you’re eligible, go be civic, help a stranger.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 4 weeks ago:
Australian xiellenial here, 12 years ago I taught at tafe and I reckon about half the class was on gambling apps. I was shocked as none of my peers use them AFAIK.
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 4 weeks ago:
I’m in my 40s and daily a spoon I was given around my birth.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 4 weeks ago:
It’s a big club and you aint in it.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 4 weeks ago:
That’s the key point I reckon “if coding is your thing” many people are trying to learn a complex thing they have no interest in.
- Comment on Albanese opens search for ideas to shape second-term agenda 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got some more:
Wind back private health insurance. It leaches money from the population while providing worse health outcomes. The finance side has lobbyists to encourage the government to lean toward private health and away from public services. Private health at the very top, is just money and bankers, so when the global finance system shifts ever so slightly one way or another, entire branches of our health care services come under fire.
Microtransit. Lean on states to regulate eBikes and eScooters with some reasonable legislation. Improve micortransit freeways around the cities and frankly through the country as well.
Fast trains for transit and freight.
Remove mutual obligations from centrelink payments effectively making it a soft UBI. If people want to work they will or at least will try to. If they don’t want to work they wont. It’s a waste of money to try to punish people who don’t want to work.
Buy back our god dam services. Telco, utilities, government departments (eg, vicroads), public transport.
Manufacturing. How much fucking raw ore do we ship overseas? At least process that here into iron, steel, etc.
That Norway citizens fund thing that Whitlam got shafted over, do that.
Build commie blocks for housing in every major city on top of train stations. 1-3 br apartments, with services on the ground floors.
- Comment on Could this be the death of Australia's nightmarish welfare system? 4 weeks ago:
There will be no change. Punching down at welfare recipients is so ingrained in Australian politics it’ll never go away. If Albo tries it’ll be the perfect campaign basis for the Libs, your tax money given free to blue haired dole bludgers that want to turn your kids trans.