SaneMartigan

@SaneMartigan@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Battlefront 2 multi player has come back to life for the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Zealand approves medicinal use of 'magic mushrooms'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All her life my Aunt looked like she was on top of her business. Owned multiple houses around the world, travelled regularly, lived in the inner city of a top tier European city. She was found dead at home in her 70s. As the finances were unwound to deal with her estate, she’s flat broke, everything was loans on loans, her sister who rented one of her apartments is set to lose her housing. One of my family members commented “I thought she was good at business”, I replied that she was, she died without ever having to clean up the mess she made, her finances were a disaster and now they’re someone else’s problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendica's marketing is terrible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you place “be kind to each other” on the propaganda scale?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah dude. You gotta respect your girlfriends wishes on this. Maybe consider getting a place when she’s 18 so she can get away? Will she be moving for university?

  If her plan is to keep living with her family and never revealing you, there’s no outcome to that path. But if she is looking to move or study or whatever, you might see a future for the relationship.

  Talk to her about the future and where this is going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you go back on your son receiving this gift, it’ll be a dick of a dad move. Like some people have mentioned your best bet is probably to have a discussion about wealth and ethics with your son as well as letting him know your concerns. Like some people say, it’s a lot of money for YOU, for these people it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You gotta shoot your shot and then be prepared to walk away if they’re not interested. It’s as simple as that. I’ve ended a few friendships with women I’ve developed a crush on as once I had a crush, they weren’t really friendships anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You shouldn’t cut him on on behalf of your mother. Maybe I’m projecting here because I’ve got a shitty dad, but I reckon your dad’ll give you a reason of your own to cut him off soon enough. He’s starting a new family with the affair partner and doesn’t have time for you? The new affair partner doesn’t like that you call her the “cheating slag” on your weekends with dad. Really there are plenty of reasons likely to pop up, no need to use your mothers excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Start going out in the garden at night and making wolf noises. This sounds like an untreated mental health issue. If no one (council, cops, ambulance) is going to respond to the current levels, try to increase them. Consider calling in a welfare check rather than a noise complaint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even without mtx, cod6 was the most expensive boring game I’ve purchased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Opinion) A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business | Julianne Schultz⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Death during restraint is a common and well documented issue. There is training on how to appropriately restrain someone whilst offering minimal risk to all parties involved. A huge part of it is not squashing the person being restrained - positional asphyxia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private hospital giant Healthscope collapses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love that private health system. Both eroding public health and being at the mercy of big finance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair dinkum? Strewth mate, I’d be gutted if I lost mi onloine privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use samba (file sharing) and vlc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fwiw, I’ve been enjoying qwant for a few months now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Landfill mining.