Ilandar
@Ilandar@lemmy.today
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 3 days ago:
Ruqayah, who graduated from a western Sydney high school in 2024, thinks the bans were an “overreaction”. After going through high school with access to phones, she finished her final year with the phone ban in place and says fellow students were still finding ways to use them in secret.
If they’re being forced to use them in secret, then they are being forced to use them in a less disruptive manner. It makes it easier for the students complying in good faith with the ban to concentrate and goes some way to normalising a lack of visible phone use in schools. Teenagers are never going to 100% comply with a ban on their liberties, but if some of them do then it is an improvement.
When I was in high school, we changed from very lax uniform rules one year to strict ones the next. Of course there were some students who didn’t comply with the rules and continued to wear what they wanted and risk punishment, but because a majority of students did comply it made it easier for all of us. We didn’t feel like we were missing out or at risk of being bullied for complying with the rules. Over time, the culture of the school changed to one where students just complied with the uniform rule by default. I’m not trying to compare uniforms to smartphones here; it’s just common sense that you don’t abandon a ban overnight because it wasn’t instantly 100% effective.
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 3 days ago:
You don’t have to provide your ID, that is misinformation. There will be alternative measures in place for all services covered by the “social media ban”. You can also export your YouTube subscriptions to a different app and continue receiving a personalised feed whilst signed out. Apps like Grayjay and NewPipe allow you to do this.
- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 4 days ago:
It hasn’t changed much.
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There are 6 new maps, 2 are smaller and limited to certain game modes. None of the new maps are great, a couple are quite bad.
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Inconsistent footstep audio hasn’t been fixed.
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Shotgun secondary on Assault wasn’t removed, so there are still loads of OHK shotguns in every match.
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The movement penalties that existed in the beta are heavier (bigger weapon sway when landing from a jump, etc).
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Physics engine is kinda fucked. Infantry movement feels floaty and you can bounce off objects and fly in the air like there’s low gravity.
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They added a ladder as a default gadget to the Assault class. There are head glitches everywhere now, it’s very annoying to attack into on game modes like Breakthrough.
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Not sure if this was the case in beta, but smoke is locked to Support so you basically have to play that class on game modes like attack Breakthrough if you want to reach the objective.
If you liked it in the beta, you will probably still like it. If you disliked it, you will probably still dislike it. If you were on the fence like me, you will be glad that you only paid for a month of EA Play Pro and not the full game.
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- Comment on ‘Australia is not the USA’: Labor accuses Coalition of importing Trump-style culture war on immigration 6 days ago:
And they already have greater privileges than anyone else on a working holiday visa.
- Comment on SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition 1 week ago:
By contrast, three days after the Albanese government’s recognition of Palestine, the ABC updated its own policies permitting ABC reporting use Palestine when referring to its geography, history, community and the intended state encompassing the Occupied Palestinian Territories, editorial director Gavin Fang said in an email reported by this masthead last week.
Is that in contrast? The ABC’s guidelines sound quite similar.
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- Comment on Two Australian women and four children escape Syrian detention camp and flee to Victoria 1 week ago:
One woman who was returned in the second repatriation, Mariam Raad, faced charges of entering Syria’s al-Raqqa province while it was under the control of the Islamic State. She pleaded guilty, and was discharged conditionally, without a conviction.
If you’re going to let them re-enter Australian society without a conviction, what are you afraid of?
- Comment on Albanese invites Arab 'hypermarket' to compete with Coles and Woolworths 2 weeks ago:
Foodland is just an IGA franchisee. Also it only operates in South Australia, and Drakes is only SA and Queensland.
Well yes, I live in Adelaide. That’s why I talked about what I’d have to choose from, not all Australians.
- Comment on Albanese invites Arab 'hypermarket' to compete with Coles and Woolworths 2 weeks ago:
There have been rumours about Lidl moving here for years now as well. I’m not against more competitors, but if another one joins I’d have 6 major competitors (Coles, Woolworths, Drakes, Foodland, ALDI, Lulu/Lidl/???) to choose from, plus smaller stores like NQR, IGA and all the local independents. I feel like it would just dilute the non-Colesworth share of the market further, leading to the closure of one or several of those smaller chains.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 3 weeks ago:
I could explain further
Fascinating how you suddenly backtrack on this when actually being asked to explain further lol
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 3 weeks ago:
Like you literally said that you don’t understand my argument
Yes, that is what I just said. You had an opportunity just now to explain it, instead you typed up four sentences that achieved nothing other than to (I assume) make you feel like you’d “won” the argument.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not really sure what you’re trying to argue here. “Clickbate” is not a word.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 3 weeks ago:
It’s always spelled that way. The word is clickbait, there is no such thing as “clickbate” and it’s nowhere near common enough of a misspelling to be considered an eggcorn.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 3 weeks ago:
The word is “clickbait”, by the way.
- Comment on ‘We would reverse it’: Ley writes back to Republicans over recognition of Palestine 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure Gillard’s was purely about domestic polling and had nothing to do with the US. There’s a TV series called ‘The Killing Season’ that interviewed a lot of the people involved. Thanks for the effort you put into explaining the two.
- Comment on ‘We would reverse it’: Ley writes back to Republicans over recognition of Palestine 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t really matter if they’ll let her or not. She has zero power and is irrelevant, she can’t even control her own party. They are at best two election cycles away from reelection and there’s no way she’ll last till then. Even if she did, Trump will likely be dead or out of office and the Republican Party will be too busy with infighting to worry about Australian politics.
- Comment on ‘We would reverse it’: Ley writes back to Republicans over recognition of Palestine 3 weeks ago:
I doubt anyone in the US knows who Ley is or cares if she writes a letter to them. This is much more about her own political survival than Albanese’s
- Comment on ‘We would reverse it’: Ley writes back to Republicans over recognition of Palestine 3 weeks ago:
is a not-so-subtle plea to get America to coup Albanese like Rudd and Whitlam.
How would the US “coup” Albanese? I don’t see the connection to Rudd or Whitlam.
- Comment on Australians are in more pain – and our new data shows it’s not just due to ageing 3 weeks ago:
So, what are some of these factors?
Evidence suggests people have become more likely to report that they have pain.
But there is also a growing prevalence of chronic conditions in Australia, which are strongly linked to pain. Obesity rates have also increased, and we know obesity can increase physical pain, for example by putting more stress on joints.
- Comment on Australians are in more pain – and our new data shows it’s not just due to ageing 3 weeks ago:
The fact that people with a normal/healthy weight are a 1/3 minority in this country will never not be shocking to me. It doesn’t really feel like that when I’m outside but maybe that’s because I live in a major city or have become desensitised to it.
- Comment on Summer is coming. How long do you shower for? 3 weeks ago:
Much longer than I should, although they are shorter in summer. Ignoring those short, extra showers after exercise or before going out, usually I just shower once in the morning. When I was younger I got into the habit of short showers due to the drought and water restrictions, but it has crept back up in adult life.
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- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The person who replied to you had no idea what they were talking about. You were correct the first time.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Clearly you didn’t read the article either, because the journalist asking the questions is Jonathan Karl who works for the US ABC. You are talking about a completely separate incident and entirely different questions, and you would have known this if only you’d bothered to read the article or watch the embedded video.
- Comment on Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed 4 weeks ago:
You correctly point out some big numbers involved in current support for indigenous focussed programmes
Spending without proper consultation of Indigenous stakeholders is wasted money, and it’s not Indigenous Australians upon whom it reflects poorly. Every time right wingers bring up the spending it’s a massive own goal.on their part.
- Comment on Kim Beazley defends Australian War Memorial decision to exclude Ben Roberts-Smith book from prize 4 weeks ago:
It’s a bit wild they still have to call him an “alleged” war criminal, even after all the Ls he’s taken in court.
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 4 weeks ago:
The eSafety Commissioner was established under a Coalition government and age verification had bipartisan support at the most recent federal election.
- Comment on Australian glove-maker Ansell accused of exploiting workers 4 weeks ago:
I wear Extra Large!
- Comment on Too soon? 5 weeks ago:
Why didn’t he just edit out his death, like he did with all the debates he lost? Is he stupid?