hanrahan
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual? 3 days ago:
No
but it does depend on your ethics
- Comment on Australian government not suspending ads or posts on X amid antisemitic Grok chatbot incident 1 week ago:
I long ago opined they should have a Mastodon instance and use that ffs.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
No, it relies on massive automation. Similary their solar industry etc
For example
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- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
- Building Commission NSW fails to seek fines for developers that lag on defect orderswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Cancer rates are rising for generation X and millennials. What can we do about it? 1 week ago:
Yeah, ban cars in cities. Endless studies telling of the health benefits from active transport and we kill over 10,0000 a year from transport pollution diseases already.
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/…/102015778
Thers also lots of anecdotal studies linking pollition and cancers and there’s just nore and more of it
Only fund active and public transport solutions going foward, no more new roads… Even the freight solutions we do are insane, like the inland rail that stops at an inland port and then unloads loads everything onto trucks and has no extension to Gladstone.
Pollution and lifestyle.
- Comment on Cancer rates are rising for generation X and millennials. What can we do about it? 1 week ago:
So you don’t own a house ?
- Comment on Australian doctors call for clampdown on social media influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines 1 week ago:
It’s is telling though, to be able to glamorise being bad at maths.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 1 week ago:
If there are cars lining the streets, that’s a red flag to build a damn light rail instead.
- Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientistswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
Had endlesss issues with 2x Nexus phones, eschewed google, gave them another chance with a Pixel 6Pro, sold it after a month it was so shitty and grabbed a Samsung S22u that i still use. I use the pen so often its shitty not having one and goodlock does along looottts of customisation. I also mostly prefer their apps to googles, alas googles cant be deleted :(
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 1 week ago:
Thats the story behind most extreme wealth, random luck.
We just dont here much of most who didn’t have radom luck. e.g imagine a guy buying a lottery ticket, and he wins a $200million, we’d here the story, we don’t see interviews with people who bought a ticket and then lost.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 2 weeks ago:
So said Orwell many, many decades ago and people still vote for theae shitstains. There was some slight chance under Corbin but people want more Tory, so here we are.
- Comment on Why are hotels in Australia so inexpensive compared to hotels in the USA and Canada? 2 weeks ago:
Do not go to Tasmania then, A$150 gets you a shit box room.
As an Australian I’d recommend not going to Australia, i have no idea why anyone visits.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Or he’s stripped of citizenship and deported by Trump
- Dr Fiona Stanley: ‘If we want better health outcomes, the last thing we need is more doctors and hospitals’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
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- Comment on Has anyone migrated from a Markdown notes app to another? 3 weeks ago:
To answer the OP I went the other way, Obsidian to Joplin. Very mich not a heavy user
- Comment on We solved the Smartphone Keyboard problem back in 2013… It’s time to bring this concept back 3 weeks ago:
I loved the kb on my BB … sigh :(
- Comment on Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others. 3 weeks ago:
I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don’t get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.
I don’t want to be rich, as to even try to do so I’d have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I’m rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me.
- Comment on How My Reporting on the Columbia University Protests Led to My Deportation 3 weeks ago:
Vs the number of people who actually voted for the turd bag ?
- 'Sovereign citizens' sentenced to prison term in Western Australia for defiance of court orderwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 4 weeks ago:
That may be, but you are not all men ? So some have.
There have been several cases here in Australia where men have been denied access becase they are men and taken it to court… and lost, I suspect that’s sort of what the person posting is referring to. Theres a carve out in the law to allow womens only spaces.
Now, whether you agree with the ruling of the courts or not, is to some extent ilrrelevant to the discussion (the courts are notionally after all just following the law) because gender equality then isn’t about what’s on the tin and that’s when you get push back.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 4 weeks ago:
We are, it’s near ubiquitous. I’d suggest as high as 80% of us. Those folks will still use anything but the store anyway.
Being generous, most people are overwhelmed with choice … in matters of no inportant (walk down the ceral aisle) , it’s just with matters of importance they are given little choice.
That said I use Android becase I can sideload, some 50+60% of the apps I use regularly are sideloaded, stand out that aren’t are banking and government. To have that taken off me would be shitty.
That said, I’m bemused at people that complain of a wall garden but also enable it to occur by being part of sipping at the kool aid.
My biggest gripe though is governemnt doing it, using Windows, MS Office etc etc and communicating using closed protocols. Maube like Demark and Germany we’ll also move off that toxic shit.
- Comment on Australia’s environment minister Murray Watt, has lobbied Unesco in a bid to overturn a recommendation that ancient rock art should not receive world heritage listing 4 weeks ago:
So the reason voters don’t vote say Green is becase they’re enthralled to Americans ?
We have it quite good in Australia, for the most part. It could be SO much worse.
We are the country that is likely to be worst impacted by climate change and the collapse of civilisation. As pointed out by Donald Horne in the 1960s, (paraphrasing) we’re a nation of gormless twats who elect mostly fools. At age 60, all I have ever seen is that writ large and worsen as we ignore a litany of experts on health, drugs, the environment, climate change, agriculture, inequality and on and on.
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- Comment on PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare! 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know, saw a “creator” who is funding her endkess cruise ship journeys using YT, and all she taks about how she funds her cruise ship journeys using YT
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- Comment on Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own 4 weeks ago:
Yes, alas pretty much
