hanrahan
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 6 days ago:
My.apologies :(
- Comment on Australia’s latest emissions data reveal we still have a giant fossil fuel problem 6 days 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 1 week 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” 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 weeks ago:
So their kids don’t have to be with the poors ?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 15 comments
- Comment on After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS 2 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 2 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 YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 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 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, went Mint 18 months ago. Started at MSDOS in the 1990s, ended at W10.
- Could Queensland's deadly melioidosis outbreak be linked to the Bruce Highway upgrade?www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 4 weeks ago:
The silent majority of voters rejected Dutton
This time, not for the last two decades though.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 4 weeks ago:
Y’all have first past the post / winner takes all, don’t you?
No, preferntial i.e ranked choice
There was a vote recently and “labor” won from what I’m reading?
Indeed
Labor, coalition, independents, etc. what kinds of parties are these?
Independents aren’t a party per se, the hint is in the name
We have the Green parry as our centre party and everyone ekse is to the right of them. There is nothing i’d classify as left.
Labor is anti refugee, pro fossil fuel mining, anti enviorment etc i.e part of neo liberal orthodoxy, centre right, Liberal Party (not liberal in the US sense) is climate change denying, anti refugees, pro private health care, TERFs, etc two sides of the one coin. Bit of difference over Gaza, like minded on Ukraine.
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 4 weeks ago:
To be fiar I do this as well as Greens voter :)
Its just The Greens support taxing her and her billionare bell end buddies higher to pay for dental in Medicare, more social housing etc etx something Australian’s don’t seem to want, hence my push back against voters as well :)
The difference is I just what to help all Australian’s what she wants is to help hereslf.
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 4 weeks ago:
Well Dutton did say The Biardian and ABC where left.
Left of Sky is perhaps what she mrans but aa you pointed out there zero left wing media in Australia.
To note Peta Credlin said much the same.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 5 weeks ago:
Indded but as an Australian, if I have to have an anal probe i’d rather it from the CCP as they wont share it with my Government.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 5 weeks ago:
Woosh ? Thats literally the proble. thr OP referred to,he to has a Plexpass and his watchers are being notified.
- Comment on In a difficult year being unemployed, I learned what success really means | Sunil Badami 1 month ago:
Iv’e been “unemployed” since 2000. Best time ever.
I’d seriously have to consider suicide if I had to go back to work becase of some fuck up on my part.
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank investigates ‘issue’ that has locked thousands out of account 1 month ago:
It’s IT, it has to fail occasionally. There’s a story every six months or so of some babk or other shitting the bed.
Long ago I went with mutiple accounts, i run four banks (NAB, Macquarie, Bankwest & Ubank) and can just switch if one is down
I’d suggest redundancy ? At least one other account. It will happen again.
- Comment on Friday essay: ‘War has made me a pacifist’. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge Australia’s anti-war veterans? 1 month ago:
b>ecause it’s stupid, pacifism doesn’t lead to less war, it leads to more suffering
You’ve confised self dence and pacislfism, they are not the same thing. A pacifist will always supoort self defence, like the Palestinians in Gaza,.the Houthi are the only onea defemding them, Ukrianians againt Russia
Australian’s in Turkey, or in Vietnam or Malaysia etc not so much.
it’s the equivalent of saying don’t stand up to your bully just let him get away with it, in the end you lose and suffer more
So you’re argument is that indigenous Australia’s should stull be fightibg against the invasion ? I can onky agree.
There was a quote by Geronimo who said his biggest mistake was giving up, he said they should have fought on, even if they all died.
- Comment on Friday essay: ‘War has made me a pacifist’. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge Australia’s anti-war veterans? 1 month ago:
An artlce abiut the UKs last surviving WW1 veteran who passed in 2009, Harry Patch
standard.co.uk/…/harry-patch-quotes-last-ww1-sold…
Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.
War is organised murder and nothing else
- Comment on Is there a federated Strava alternative? 1 month ago:
Have you tried Komoot ? Maybe it meets your needs ? Uses OSM as a base, O edit OSM as well around me as well.
- Rising temperatures could cause a surge in mental health disorders with young Australians most at risk - ABC Newswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
Yeah but thats a subreddit not REDDIT itself, you can similarly start a /c/TwoX on jist about any Lemmy instance.
- Comment on Record enrolment [98.2%] ahead of 2025 federal election | AEC 1 month ago:
Used to be big fan but no longer, forcing somone to vote when they don’t want to seems an odd thing to ne proud off. They wont make any sort of rational choice.
I read a stat some years ago that >60% of people still don’t know who they will vote for as they approach the polling booth which is why we get slammed with a zillion how to vote cards. They should not be voting at all.
- Comment on I do this all the time when both my hands are full and I'm a bit excited in my pants 1 month ago:
How big are their clits ?
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Super fund took more than 500 days to approve death benefit for grieving widow, Asic says 2 months ago:
The etire super industru js bemusibg to me, it’s diesgned for grifters to take a % of the top.
I remember an article over a decade or more ago in the AFR saying if government were serious about Suoer recorm, all thats needed is two dozen people and a bunch of computers in an office.
I am reminded that the entirety of Berkshire Hataway is run out of a single floor of an office block in Ohama
There is a significant difference between what’s best for the Super Industry and whats best for superannuants, and that can enver be fixed by tinkering at the edges.
The frustrating thing is the grift fron the financial industry has been normalised and people seem happy to accept it. This article is just another in a long line of examples.
- Comment on Australia’s coal mining emissions paradox. 2 months ago:
Not sure what the pardox is ? Dodgy reporting of date iant a paradox. Most Australians dont give a shit, happy to elect polticans who support that. In a sane woukd The Greens in Qld would have had a significantly increaded vote but Qlders kick the couple Green politicans they had out and elected a bunch of ultra conservative nutters who running aroind dealing with the consequences of decades of ignoring it.
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 22 comments
