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- Dr Fiona Stanley: ‘If we want better health outcomes, the last thing we need is more doctors and hospitals’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
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- Comment on Has anyone migrated from a Markdown notes app to another? 5 days 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 5 days 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. 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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! 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Yes, alas pretty much
- Comment on Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own 1 week ago:
Australia’s hypocrisy is ubiquitous on much of this
Australia has the worst record of any nation for jailing and abusing climate protestors, as one example of perhaps not throwing stones
Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters
We regually kill people in custody, yet to see any black lies matter protests in Australia becase we give few fucks.
I find the entire thing bemusing as though we aren’t sone of the worst arseholes in the world, we send people who legally arrive in Australia to internment camps off shore, were they are treated so badly they suicide. We deport “criminals” overseas Now (like the US is doing) we sieze and copy peoples computers and phones at the border, we have invasive anti privacy laws and when some other country does it we get “oh my god” here.
- Comment on Australian denied entry to US after being grilled about Israel-Gaza views 1 week ago:
I thought he was actually denied entry becase he was found to be lying on his visa over past drug use, where he had, but said he hadn’t ?
- Comment on Is there any open source tv focused os/ui? 1 week ago:
I have one as well (own launcher aa well) but the perennial “when in heck will they update it” becomes an issue. It is getting old now. I use Kodi and YT Next mostly but supplemnt that with some local Australia FTA TV apps (ABC and SBS). I mean where else can we get such awesome TV as “Black As”
- Comment on PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad. 2 weeks ago:
Meta will be asking for anus scans soon and people will sit their asshole on their phone and think nothing of it.
- Comment on Anyone else going basic with their NAS? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really get the whole NAS thing i must admit. Most of what I read about what people are doing is enabling slacker family and friends ? (Thtaai not a critisism, just an observation)
I have a TV, a HDD connected on the router and Kodi on the Nvidia Shield Pro. Any music is stored on my phone, or streamed via Netradio
I very occasionally copy media across to my phone to watch and then… it sits there and I dont watch it.
My parter uses Kodi on the TV occasioanly.
I don’t stream anything aside from some YT occasionally (DIY etc)
I get people do endless shit with their NAS, or server but I’m am retired and don’t have the time
Books are managed via Calibre on a a Kobo.
- Comment on As Australia campaigns for Cop31 hosting rights, it’s time to stop talking and start doing 2 weeks ago:
We shouldn’t but we probably will. Australian voters have near zero support for climate change action aside from pearl clutching.
- Comment on Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour 2 weeks ago:
Based on how we vote, the articles headline seems unlikely.
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 3 weeks ago:
My.apologies :(
- Comment on Australia’s latest emissions data reveal we still have a giant fossil fuel problem 3 weeks ago:
Votera don’t care,.why would politcans ?
- Comment on The super tax debate is divorced from reality – and more proof that Australia’s tax system is built for the rich 4 weeks ago:
Why ? People are doing it to avoid tax, dumping huge numbers if industrialial properties, houses or farms into their SMSF. Once again to AVOID tax, so fuck 'em. All of that penalises young people who then havr higher tax burden.
Once agin this is a exyoar tax on amounts OVER $3 Million. Currently something like $500k-$1Mil is about the amount recommended for people to have a comfortable retirement.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-29/…/105347654
They want to pass that on to people in the next generation and they’re not going to pay any tax on it because the value is never realised, the gain is never realised."
- Comment on Andrew Leigh says Australia is a generation away from “US-style inequality” 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 4 weeks ago:
So their kids don’t have to be with the poors ?
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- Comment on After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS 5 weeks ago:
This iai going to be as drawn out as the SCO thing isnt it
Or maybe more like the Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Dicken’s Bleak House
- Comment on After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS 5 weeks ago:
Apple is apple. They don’t make false claims about how walled off they are.
That’s doesn’t make it a good thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think we should just go the Swiss-route and do direct democracy;
That’s literally the Anarchy system. I.e Laws and no leaders.
As an Australian who has ranked choice (we call it preferential) it’s not the panecea folks here seem to think it is to bring about the enlightenment.
I’m 58, have voted in every election from when I was eligible through to this year. We don’t have ICE but we have Border Force and we routinely deport non citizens, we inspect digital devices at the border, we off shore legal refugees in internment camps, we have zero care for the enviorment and love penis shaped defence spending, we are a car dependent shit hole with few redeeming qualities… It’s ever been thus, Donad Horne oponed on this in the 1970s.
We don’t have feedom of the press or freedom of speech, so often these things are unable to even be reported on at all and our most egregious atrocities have widespread support amongst the broader population. In that respect its not as big a divisor as. n the US as we’re all arseholes :) We’re happy to allow religious scumbags to discriminate against LGBQT folks, happy to have our privacy removed, are quite fond of fucking over our indigenous peoples and the wider enviorment and near zero concern for exestential issues like climate change. We’re happy to shit over homeless people and have unaffordable housing and racism is broadly endemic.
We have never elected a government that i think is anything but objectively fucking horrible, we have our tongue firmly stuck up the US foreign policy asshole and follow them into every stupid dumb shit military action. We have had the occasionally decent poltican but then so does the US (Bernie etc) .
Like us, your people are broken and you’re not going to cure what ails ya’ with RCV.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 month ago:
Yeah, went Mint 18 months ago. Started at MSDOS in the 1990s, ended at W10.
