Ilandar
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- Comment on 2 days ago:
They’re just saying what we all knew to be true at the time. No voters weren’t voting on the proposed changes to rhe Constitution.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
They have a point. Why play devil’s advocate on a subject you admit to knowing nothing about?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
‘Forgotten War’ by Henry Reynolds and the SBS documentary series ‘The Australian Wars’ are good accompaniments to this. Both go into the significant clashes in more detail.
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 1 week ago:
Again this is just in my experience, but it’s definitely an older generation (like Gen X and up) order. A lot of these people didn’t grow up with espresso coffee and they still drink garbage instant coffee + hot water and some milk at home. That’s what coffee is to them, so when they go out they get a flat white because it’s the closest thing to what they drink at home. If they want something fancier they’ll order a cappuccino and if they’re not a milk drinker they’ll get a long black. Because they drink coffee at home in the same way as they drink tea (add boiling water and sip over a very long period) they often ask for their flat white to be “extra hot”, which usually means absolutely scalding which of course completely ruins the milk but they don’t care as long as they can sit there and sip it for like 2 hours while chatting. The concept of coffee as something served to be enjoyed immediately and in a short amount of time is completely foreign to them.
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 1 week ago:
This is a bit of a strange argument from the author because they start by saying people are ordering flat whites because they’re “too afraid to admit” they want a latte, but later they claim that actually many people have no clue about coffee and don’t even know what they’re ordering. The latte is the most popular order by far in my experience, way more popular than both the flat white and the cappuccino. We are well beyond the point of people feeling embarrassed about ordering one. The second point about many people not knowing what they want /not knowing anything about coffee is much more accurate.
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 2 weeks ago:
The DJs are usually pretty popular regardless, in my experience. They play later at night when there is less going on and people are drunk and just want to have a good time dancing under the bats.
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 2 weeks ago:
No need to apologise, your rant was justified!
- Comment on Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning 2 weeks ago:
Sendle was dogshit. As someone who runs a small business and uses the much more reliable Australia Post, it always annoyed me when I’d buy something from another small business and they’d completely cheap out and use this terrible service to save a few dollars. It shows a complete lack of respect to the customer, for whose order we should feel responsible for until it arrives safely.
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 2 weeks ago:
Okay, I can definitely understand what you mean now. Yes, it’s pretty obviously designed to deceive.
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the photos aren’t demonstrating the problem but I can’t really see where it suggests there are two sticks in the pack. There are definitely way worse examples of misleading packaging out there.
- Comment on Magic mushroom use rises despite concerns about little known paralysis syndrome 4 weeks ago:
the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year.
Nine Perfect Strangers?
- Comment on After Deadly Attacks, Australia Debates: Do Shark Nets Work? 4 weeks ago:
The New York Times has had an Australian bureau for many years.
- Comment on Will Reddit's challenge to Australia's "social media ban" succeed? | Constitutional Clarion 1 month ago:
Thanks for the summary! I’ll definitely be following it more closely if she thinks it has some legs.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
Sydney + Melbourne is closer to 40% of the nation’s population. Not really sure why you’re talking about states, that’s a complete strawman on your part.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
Did you not read the page you linked?.Most of the incidents are in Sydney or Melbourne or their outer suburbs/districts. And yes, bigger cities tend to have more social problems.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
Look through the list of terrorist attacks (successful and prevented) in Australia, you’ll consistently see the same two cities coming up. It is hysterical and/or arrogant to immediately frame this as a national issue when it’s just simply not. Australia is not mono-cultural, we shouldn’t be extrapolating out from two cities and pretending the other ~60% of the population suddenly has something to fear.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
Well it happens in Sydney, and to a lesser extent Melbourne. It does frustrate me a bit that these things get framed as Australian issues when they’re often not.
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 1 month ago:
By that logic U16s could then just access whatever unrestricted if they don’t sign in?
Age-restricted results will be blurred by default unless you are logged in and meet the minimum age requirement. Those sites that are age-restricted will also require age assurance (porn, for example).
Also can you still access the connected email or need to get a new one if you don’t verify?
I’m not sure how Google will choose to implement it. Maybe age assurance won’t be required at all unless you try to disable the new restrictions. In the case of app stores, for example, no age assurance will be required unless you want to search for R18+ apps.
More information:
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 1 month ago:
Only if they are signed into a Google account.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s not gonna do much for the iPad kids being raised by YouTube, unfortunately.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 1 month ago:
It’s pretty depressing to see how many people have been ignoring the genuine harm that can occur using social media.
I feel like most people agree that it can be harmful. The problem is more that they don’t understand enough about how social media works to realise that it’s a structural design problem with the technology itself and one that can only start to be addressed through government regulation. To a lot of people it becomes solely a personal responsibility problem. If a child has an addiction it’s solely the parent’s fault for allowing their child to become addicted. If an adult has an addiction then it’s solely their own fault for letting themselves get addicted. When it gets framed as an individual problem rather than a structural one, it’s easy to oppose any and all legislation on the basis of “well none of us have a problem so why do we have to pay for a solution/be punished?”. It’s difficult to understand how easily psychological manipulation can occur if you don’t understand the techniques being used.
Another, related, problem in this particular case is that a lot of people still seem to think the main problems are the more sensational things like child predators or violent content. Whilst those are very real and serious concerns, they are pretty extreme examples and getting fixated on them makes it very easy to ignore the more insidious effects of social media usage on developing brains. I guess that’s one of my main problems with the current implementation; it’s based around account ownership and some platforms like YouTube still use an algorithm and build a shadow profile with recommendations based on what you’ve viewed even if you’re logged out. For some of these platforms, the current legislation is going to do little to combat addiction (beyond signalling to parents that this stuff is bad, which is definitely important).
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 1 month ago:
The ban doesn’t really affect Gen Z, they are a lot older than you think. It’s only the tail end of that generation who will have to wait a few years.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 1 month ago:
There’s absolutely no way this goes anywhere considering they can’t even vote for another 3 years.
- Comment on Australia's beloved weather website got a makeover - and infuriated users 1 month ago:
A consensus was quickly clear: “Please bring back the previous format,” one person surmised on social media.
“It’s awful, the most useful features are gone and it’s not user-friendly. A waste of taxpayer money,” another added.
Others said the timing was poor: “Why change it on a day of severe weather?”
There were some fans, including one who posted: “I like the new site. The front page is much cleaner”. But they were few and far between.
What a time we live in, when social media vibes are enough to determine a “consensus” of an entire population. Have we still not worked out that the loudest people are almost always the miserable ones? People who are happy/content don’t tend to waste their lives screaming online about how happy and content they are.
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000 2 months ago:
It’s frustrating that this Labor government is so cowardly, because with the Coalition being a complete shambles now is the perfect time for them to actually look at big social services reform. We are well past the critical mass point with so many stories like yours.
- Comment on Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000 2 months ago:
“There’s nothing people need to do right now. From late October 2025, we’re contacting impacted people,” the spokesperson said.
So if we owe you, you’ll hound us with debt collectors until we kill ourselves, but if you owe us it’s just “trust me bro”?
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 3 months ago:
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- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 3 months ago:
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