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- Comment on Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say 5 days 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? 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Not rich enough
- Comment on Russia’s war in Ukraine carries a warning for Australia: prepare for possible conflict in the Asia-Pacific 6 days 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.
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- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week 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 week ago:
I come from a long line of immigrants.
As are nearly all of us.
- Comment on Fertility rate falls to lowest globally 1 week ago:
Good news!
- Comment on One of the most detrimental things to a productive society is when people think their actions don't make a difference 1 week ago:
Kind of the opposite, it can be depressing recognising the lack of shits given.
Tesla is the most popular car purchase in Norway for eample and is extrmely popular here in Australia. People still use Reddit, X, iMessage, Facebook erc etc. My neighbour uses Stralink when we have a local 400/80 service available. 90% literally don’t give a shit.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
But thats the same with everything, Mastodon and X as well.
Hell, even Governments like mine here in Australia use that shitty platdorm. Why there is no gov.au Mastodon server I don’t know.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 1 week ago:
I looked at getting a place on the SMBI, lovely area, on either Lamb or Karagarra Islands, visited a few places, ferry across and used the electric scooter to get around, visited Russel Island aa well. Awesome place, inter island is free. It’s protected from the worst storms by Stradbroke Island.
Still have find memories and Woollies delivering was a great thing
Decided on Tassie instead. No Woolies deliveries though where we are (small NE village) :) No Aldi or CostCo to help keep them honest either.
Not really sure why a business charging more is news worthy ? Happens every day. Hate on Colesworth is easy to stoke I guess.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 1 week ago:
There’s also a different Woolworths in South Africa, they also own fashion label Coutry Road amonst other things.
- Comment on Trump says US needs to own Greenland to deter Russia, China 1 week ago:
Help Ukraine win, build an airbase there ?
- Comment on EU shies away from condemning Trump's renewed threats on Greenland 1 week ago:
Same for how they treat Putin
- Comment on The strange new economics of negative electricity pricing 1 week ago:
is so abundant that it actually makes sense to pay people to consume it.
Mehhh, this is when things like electroc hotwater systems should be switched on with smart meters, V2G enabled eCars charge etc
Some of mainland Australia is gettibg 3 hoirs if free electricity a day soon because of this, that will encourage folks who can time shift to do so eg running washing machines on a timer, charge their ecars etc.
- Comment on Victorians told to brace for more property loss amid 'catastrophic' fire conditions 1 week ago:
Having been through the Black Summer fires, we saw the future and moved from Northern NSW to Northern Tassie, we made sure we are off a flood plain (on a small hill), with high average rainfall (raining now and 20c) and zero bushfire risk. Nowhere in the world is taking any of this seriously, including Australian voters, so we had to do what we could,. We know we can’t escape it, we just don’t want to be at the front of the queue like the people in this article
My partner as an ex RFS Captian still suffers truama from back then, from the homes she couldn’t save and home owners cursing her for it and the 6 days a week 14hr days work for no pay, still have bills to pay. She did get a cap and a badge from the NSW Premier, so there is that /s.
- Comment on 'Racist censorship': Boycott calls after Adelaide art festival pulls Palestinian author in wake of Bondi attack 1 week ago:
Her writing wasn’t why she was cancelled though, it was at the request of a Jewish Lobby ‘as a mark of respect in these troubled times”. Apparently the troubled times in Gaza are unimportant?
I find it problemeatic, as do many writer’s who have withdrawn as a protest.
- Comment on Australia opens trade frontier on its doorstep as counterweight to China, pushes to increase business with south-east Asia at a time of heightened tensions 1 week ago:
Meanwhile Lynas, the mining company and the largest non-Chinese rare earths company, refines its metals in Malaysia.
This is because Lynas couldn’t get permission some 20 years ago to refine in Australia as the waste from processing rare earths is always super toxic and radioactive. Malaysia spat the dummy in 2023 and said the cracking and leeching could no longer be done in Malaysia or they’d shit the plant as its too toxic
The cracking and leaching generates radioactive wastes, which is the most polluting and controversial part of Lynas production. Before 2023, the cracking and leaching was done in Malaysia. However, the radioactive wastes produced in this stage was unacceptable to Malaysia, so the Malaysian Government required Lynas to relocate it or the entire plant would be shut down. In order to ensure the integrity of the rare earths production, Lynas had no choice but to move its cracking and leaching facility to Kalgoorlie.
The water supply has also been a controversial issue since the Kalgoorlie facility began its operation. The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder signed a 30-year deal with Lynas and agreed to the annual supply of up to 1.7 gigalitres of recycled water, which left Australias biggest island cities facing severe water shortages.
It has generated much more discontent and controversy as the Australian Government and Lynas decline to disclose details of the deal.
Mutiple times the waste dams have overflowed and released toxic shit into Mayasia river sysyems, to the point they were threatened with closure a few times
Why we do this stupid shit in a monsoon area is just another data point on the human stupidity graph, the Ranger Uranium mine is another example, their tailings dam must fail eventually.
- Comment on US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover 1 week ago:
And ? What’s Denmark going to do if the US lands troops in Greenland. What’s all of Europe going to do ? Stern words is about it, call the ambassador in and protest? The only caveat in all of this is China.
- Comment on Hindu extremists try to shut down Christmas in India Right-wing vigilante groups disrupt church services and tear down festive decorations across the country 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the insite.
- Comment on Bolivia’s new right-wing government eliminates fuel subsidies and thousands of workers fight back 3 weeks ago:
Good on them, fuck fuel sibsidies.
I woukd rathersee a slow wean off so people can electrify and also better public tranport which seems alas a fantasy
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 3 weeks ago:
Indeed and I would agree but plenty of Ukrainian’s are unnecessarily suffering and dieing because of Russia.
- Comment on The Billion Dollar Balcony. ASIO's sovereignty failure - Michael West 3 weeks ago:
It alwayss seems off that in the face sonw teadwgy the knee jeek is to make it even more illegal as the reaction.
But to be fair voters seem to mostly respond positively to it …so i understand why polticans do it.
As to ASIO hey, soon they’ll be able to distribute child porn, so there is that.
- Comment on India: 7 elephants killed in passenger train collision 3 weeks ago:
Well, thas the worst News I’ve read today. :(
- Comment on 'A den of bandits': Rwanda closes thousands of evangelical churches 3 weeks ago:
Closing a church just because you don’t like their teachings is a violation of human rights
What right ? To grift, thieve and speak lots of shit.to the easily decieved.
Governents legislate on lots of things to keep people safeer (road rukes,.food safetly etc) this is for the same reason..
Woukd you support peoole driving on whatever side of the road they wanted becase taking that choice off them would violate their human rights ?
- Comment on “Catastrophic consequences”: Russia warns of nuclear escalation, accusing NATO of pushing world toward dangerous threshold 3 weeks ago:
Russia coukd of course deescalate and just go back to it’s borders.
Fuck you vlad
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 3 weeks ago:
Goid lord, i had Mario Cart and GoldenEye and that was it :)
Fuck Nintendo, I’ve mibed to Linux gaming and am eyeballing a Steamdeck
- Comment on Australians Overwhelmingly In Support Of Gun Law Reform 3 weeks ago:
If a Labor government can just opportunistically ban one kind of protest an LNP can easily just ban another.
A lot of aged Qld ALP members were dismayed when Qld cracked down on protests under the previous state ALP government, saying the legislation nearly exacrly mirrored the Bjelke-Petersen Governments Union anti protest laws. Didn’t help though… (mostly climaye protests becase protesting the destruction of the enviorment and the likely collapse of civilisation is apparently not on)
I notice the Greens supported the revised gun laws but were against more protest crack downs, so voters do have a choice.
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 4 weeks ago:
They could have funded this themselves, stick to there philosophical guns over governemt … didn’t need to get a grant but here we are.
