hanrahan
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- Comment on Slrpnk.net is down 1 day ago:
down again ?
- Comment on Be Wary of Bluesky 1 day ago:
sure and he left.twitter, him ostensibly leaving doesn’t make it any better. The entire way its set up is the failure, it’s yet another shitstain on the internet.
- Comment on Despite government help, affordable housing is further out of reach for these Australians 2 days ago:
the government help is to appeal to buyers who don’t think behind the headlines and to prop up housing proices with more subsidies.
- Comment on 'Need to do more of everything': Australia's 2030 goal that's at risk 1 week ago:
Less cars and more and much better public transport are the only solutions, stop bir8ldi g roads and only light and jea y rail projects going forward.
Moving heavy trucks off roads as well with more rail by freight ffs
Tis all easy and done elsewhere but not while voters do the same thing and re-lelect the same people.
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
The bar is very low nowadays with all things digital
Yes, Apple users be like this.
I don’t know how people ever figured out how to make a phone call to a friend on a different Telco /s :)
- Senate committee features climate disinformation, the Atlas Network, and Dr Karl's clash with One Nation - ABC Newswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Carmakers face possible heavy fines in Australia for failing to meet climate targets 1 week ago:
Indeed, fucking shitbox Dodge Ram, allowed, Kei car, near impossible… What the dickens ?
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 1 week ago:
I can’t think of any “leftist organisations” that support Zionism ? Maybe you’re confusing fascist with leftist ?
- Comment on Do migrants feel they belong in Australia? The answer is complicated 1 week ago:
As an Australian born in Australia, to parents born in Australia, I don’t belong. This hate filled anti - science, greed filled country isn’t a place I want to be, nor do i feel any allegiance to. I so wish I could claim EU citizenship via a grandparent and move there but they too were born in Australia
- Comment on Man jailed for a year after endorsing neo-Nazi views and making antisemitic speech at Sydney rally on Australia Day 1 week ago:
He cant, he won’t be allowed in with a criminal conviction :)
- Comment on Chinese warships came within 10km of Australian waters: Defence 1 week ago:
So they are where they are allowed to be.. And this is news somehow?
Ffs
- Comment on ‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier 1 week ago:
That latter is a dishonest shithead for sure.
- Comment on ‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier 1 week ago:
I’ve had that discussion with my mother (father passed many years ago) precisely for that reason. She said we each get 1/3, which, surprised me as I’d assumed she’d leave whatever was left to her 2 grandkids (brothers kids)
- Comment on ‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier 1 week ago:
The person that was there taking care of the parents, getting them to doctor appointments and taking time off work to provide for them while everyone else was absent physically and/or financially. Nobody else cared when they were alive, they dont get to care now that they are dead.
What ? that’s bullshit, you’re not an employee on a deferred share scheme. If you don’t want to do the looking after, don’t.
- Comment on Slrpnk.net is down 1 week ago:
Tuesday I think the owner said?
- Comment on Angus Taylor says party on track for Net Zero women by 2040 – The Chaser 1 week ago:
- Destanee Aiava announces retirement, calls out online trolls and 'racist' tennis culturewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
As an Aussie i wish that we were closer and were invited to join in the EU itself.
- Comment on Four-year-old boy dies after car crashes into shopping centre in Canberra 5 weeks ago:
Can we do a car buy back to remove these horrors from our communities?
- Comment on Nuclear fusion would be a clean-energy game changer. How close is it to being a reality? 5 weeks ago:
A good read on this is Sun in a Bottle
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3024263-sun-in-a-bottle
And a physicists take on the Livermore announcement that so many went bat shit over, one dude on Mastodon said he was so overwhelmed he was on tears as we can now “solve” climate change .. Wtf!!!
- Comment on Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over last year, report shows 5 weeks ago:
Greens policy:, “tax the Billionares to afford dental in Medicare”. Australians…
Voters clap back: “Gina needs a foot massage on her new private jet and I dont need teefs anyway!”
- Comment on Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say 1 month ago:
Alas, very much this.
We should have started to move away under Bush, I remember wheb Bush was adrsssibg parliment and they banned Bob Briwn. An elexted Australian Senator, banned from neing in parliament ? That was the last straw for me
The first red flag was the dodgy US shit around Whitlams sackng and US interference, let alone the endless shit fuckery th US has been up to since the 1950s.
Fuck it, Vote Green
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 1 month ago:
Everything ? I though MS Office woukd fail becase no one will want to close source their data files, i was using an Amiga at the time at home and the file format was standard and you chose the app to use
It started there and just progressed, Apple was a big one, people won’t buy into their closed wall’d shenanigans. Wrong again.
Messaging, what a debacle that has turned into. I assumed the system would be standardised and the fight would be over the front end for interoperability, wrong again.
- Comment on Human ands pigs 1 month ago:
Heck! Human meat tastes like pork
If the TV show Whitechapel taught me anything , it’s that human meat does NOT taste like pork.
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 1 month ago:
Not rich enough
- Comment on Russia’s war in Ukraine carries a warning for Australia: prepare for possible conflict in the Asia-Pacific 1 month ago:
Against who ? The only country with the ability to attack us are the US and China, nothing we can do will stop either of them. Our defence force is mostly dick waving theatre.
We have zero strategic petroleum reserves and no electrified rail transport system to speak of for logistics. They don’t need to attack us, just starve us of petroleum products for a couple weeks and we’re fucked. We have a total of two muntions factories. We are closing or jabe closed the WW2 dry dock near Brisbane which seems stupid.
Joining the EU and then trying for NATO membership might be one possible way foward. Starting from scratch with some sort of mutual defence Asian pact might work, Japan, Canada etc but then if Canada is invaded by the US what then ?
The US is probably our greatest threat, China not so much.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 month ago:
it was one of the most important breakthroughs to date in fusion
What ? It was not really. Here’s a physicist discussing why.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/fusion-foolery/
In the end, the NIF fusion accomplishment might be called a stunt. Stunts explore what we can do (often after an insane amount of preparation, practice, and failure), rather than what’s practical. Stunts hide the pains and present an appearance of ease and grace, but it’s a show.
The “more energy out than laser energy in” equation masks several fundamental problems. NIF’s doped glass lasers have an efficiency of about 0.5 percent, meaning that they would have sucked in roughly 400 megajoules of energy from the grid in order to produce the 2.1 megajoules of light energy…
To be fair the hype machine was from the press not the scientists
Let’s pause to say: well done! Honestly. No sarcasm. What they did was ridiculously hard, and it finally worked after more than a decade of trying. They actually produced a significant number of fusion events! There’s no faking that, and I’d like to see you try. So let’s be clear that I’m not knocking the accomplishment in itself. My major beef is how we interpret the implications for society.
- Comment on Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr 1 month ago:
I come from a long line of immigrants.
As are nearly all of us.
- Comment on Fertility rate falls to lowest globally 1 month ago:
Good news!