hanrahan
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- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 days ago:
Indeed First Nations Australian’s had many more “seasons” and Australia being a huge country differwet areas had different seasons.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 days ago:
Bloons 6 🤓
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 2 days ago:
You can make your own Lemmy iinstance and be your own censorship police, that’s the difference. Thats NOT an option on Reddit.
Hell, you don’t even have to be on Lemmy, Mastodon, any if the Bins etc can interact bacause they alo use ActivityPub.
There are plethora of instances people don’t federate with becase they don’t agree with them, that’s how it SHOULD be.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 3 days ago:
To much regulatory oversite needed I’d siggest to make ot work outside of the paid solutions.
When i was first interested in the issie this seemed the perfect use case for crypto, fast foward 5 years and it still seems that way.
I’d suggest XNO but maybe there is something else ?
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 3 days ago:
Hey XNO bro, I thought it was the perfect token for what you were talking about.
I jave a bunch of XNO, any creatives taking them ? Might as well “gift” them away.
- Comment on One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds 1 week ago:
In this release, ‘migrants’ refers to people who have arrived in Australia since January 2000, and includes permanent migrants who have become Australian citizens during this period.
Is that a peculiar way to be refered to. When is an Australian citizen not a migrant ?
Yeah that ‘average salary’ is lies damned lies and statistics
Only if you don’t understand the difference between avergae (mean) and median. A kid working at Maccas twice a week can skew the diffeence as much as the repugnant wage paid to the Macquaire Bank CEO.
- Comment on One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds 1 week ago:
and are generally classified as shit areas as a result.
But that’s subjective yeah ? I’m hear visiting my 83yr old mother on the Sunshine Coast over Christmas, this place is to me a literal “shit hole”. It’s mostly a sprawling mess of hot terrible housing with acres of concrete and asphalt with a car needed to do anything and zero redeeming qualities. For a few days prior I visited my sister in Brisbane, another sprawling mess of hot terrible housing with zero redeeming features.
I used to live in an apartment I owned on the 10th floor with an ocean view on the Gold Coast, cool beezes, a walk to swimmable broadwater and a tram and train were some compensation.
The tiny rural town in Tasmania I now live in to me is comparative nirvana. There are basic houses near me for sale starting with a 3 and quite nice ones starting with a 4. We have a little van, as for sure u need a car occasionally but we mostly walk or cycke. I filled it up in August and it’s still on 1/2 a tank.
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 1 week ago:
Why could they not go to Ukraine if they wanted to actually fight for freedom, instead of taking up arms with the idf…of all the repugnant orgisnations to join, this ranks up with Isis, to glorify violence and helping make the world a worse place.
Let’s hope they’re treated like Isis recruits and if granted Israeli citizenship, forever denied travel visas to Australia
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank pauses plans to charge customers $3 fee to withdraw cash 2 weeks ago:
What fucking communication is there to get right on being greedy money hungry bastards?
A cost of cash conversation. Trying to cover the ever increasing cost per traansactiin for the small nunber of cash transactiins and possibly preempt the RBA stopping them milking so much from credit/debit fees where they can recover costs
As to being money hungry we’re in a neo liberal, capatilist economic system. They’re supposed to be money hungry, it’s how we incentivise. If you want more government oversite, or government institutions competing, you’ll need to stop voting LNP or ALP and start voting Green. Until then, more of the same. Less competition and more enshitifaction is the only outcome possible as this continues…
- Comment on The loyalty tax shoppers willingly pay despite push for supermarket competition 2 weeks ago:
No worries, I’ll go into the Aldi near me in Tasmania… Oh, wait…
- Comment on SJW upgrade to v19.5 2 weeks ago:
It’s the same with CBT, I always see Cock and Ball Torture.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 weeks ago:
Not allowed in Australia without legislation anyway,.owners groups would shit their pants.
And they plug them into thier mains electrical systems how ? I can see them charging a battery and you get an inverter to run something from the battery but that’s not the same thing.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 3 weeks ago:
Maube but I see pedo.school (amongst others) is a blocked instance on Mastodon.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 3 weeks ago:
We’re not the Borg?
- Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 3 weeks ago:
Henry Ergas AO is an economist
Aka an astrologer.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 4 weeks ago:
One if a purely intellectual practice, the other is connected to our souls and will damage us inside.
True enough, selling your soul to Google to pay the bills might make.you reasses your life and becone a sex worker.
My snark aside, your assertion is the most ridlcious ludicrous thing I’ve read this year and theres not much left to the year. Its that weird perspective that makes it different to what ? fisting a cow as a vetenerian or jacking off a horse to collect it’s semen ?
- Comment on Can Australia actually have a sensible debate about immigration? 5 weeks ago:
Can’t see how ? Many see immigration as a business thing, seeing people as a utility, let in well educated people who can nation build or some such justification to exploit others.
Many see it as protecting their “way of life”, see the same thing around housing with NIMBYism, “I’m here fuck anyone else”, bizzarely, recent immigrants seem the worst in that respect
Many are just outright (or covert) racist.
Some weirdos like me are complelty open border.
There’s little in common with any of them aside from dislike for the other groups, aside from then all loathing my stance which seems the uniting factor :)
There are no nations, there’s only Humanity, but if we don’t understand this soon there will be no nations, because there will be no Humanity" - Isaac Asimov.
- Comment on The latest COVID booster will soon be available. Should I get one? Am I eligible? 5 weeks ago:
Def getting one. Si far give kept uo to date with boosters. A vairiety of Moderna ans Pfizer swirling around in me.
- Comment on Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia 5 weeks ago:
Well yeah but i find it “interesting” that our poltical reaponse to defence seems to be big bad toys, 1/2 of which never seem to work or we have zero ability to service in a time if war, then we can’t trasport them on our roads as they’re too heavy (Abrams Tanks) becase we have no rail.infrstruxture. Ukraine woukd be finished without their rail.
For the reasons you point out, there are only two nations in the world that could prosecute a war on the other side of the planet, China and the US. We have defences against neither and cant not offer ofrence against either, so at the end if the day I’m not sure why we even bother? Personally I’d be more worried about a US invasion,which they defaxto done but at least with China we’d end up with a decent railway system and better food.
Particularly after watching thr war in Ukraine unfold, everything we do in Aus. in terms if defence seeens laughable. One manufacturing facility for artillery for example. Finland seems to actually take it seriously, sure they’ve had war at their door in the past but so have we…
- Queensland whooping cough vaccine numbers down in pregnant women amid huge surge in cases - ABC Newswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
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- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 1 month ago:
Onky if you’ve been one of the people who abuse their staff, steal or have been banned Your face is scanned upon entry, it is then compared to that rogues gallery, if it doesn’t match the scan ot is deleted, if it flags against their rogues gallery, securty pays closer attention to you.
- Comment on Australia took its interest rate medicine – and it has poisoned our living standards | Greg Jericho 1 month ago:
I don’t know the details of how that works, but yeah, it’s possible for the vast majority of home borrowers to be on fixed rates.
Essetially “socalism”, In the US Goverments backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, so commercial banks had to compete for loans.
We’d need a government bankto do the same, I think its part of The Greens policy to reestablish one and offer them? but we’d need way more voters to pivot Green, thay seems unlikely, so we’re left with the same stupid, repeating the same stupid mistakes… we sold the last Government bank off.
- Comment on Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power 1 month ago:
Unfortunately it is a problem that needs solving.
New V2G will help, take it up through the day,. some discharge at night.
And this could be actioned
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- Comment on The country is done for 1 month ago:
Right behind you my dude.
- Housing affordability, lifestyle key reasons people are increasingly opting for remote Australiawww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 1 month ago:
Indeed, this in the FT yesterday
If Europe wants to see how Chinese manufacturers could affect its all-important car industry, it could do worse than look to Norway. Fully 94 per cent of cars sold in the Nordic country in October were electric, putting it on course to hit a target of no new fossil-fuel passenger vehicles next year.
Chinese carmakers sold no cars in Norway in 2019; this year so far, they have managed to take 11 per cent market share. Brands such as MG, BYD and Xpeng are common sights on Norwegian streets. Perhaps most telling is that Oslo’s main shopping strip Karl Johans Gate has only one car dealership on it: Nio, a relatively new Chinese brand.
The US and EU have sought to stem the rise of Chinese electric cars with tariffs, but Norway has pointedly refused to follow suit.