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- Submitted 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Super fund took more than 500 days to approve death benefit for grieving widow, Asic says 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 22 comments
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- Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles - ABC Newswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
Maybe. I thought and fought for this from the 1990s on my own small ways with no luck and only to see the rise and rise of walled garden, proprietary, bullshit software.
The issue is end users have the prescience of a gold fish, i have zero solutions to that.
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 4 weeks ago:
Mastodon, Lemmy, Goto Social, Pixelfed, Bookwyrm.
Peertibes default no federation thing is too frustrating for me to deal with
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 4 weeks ago:
Enshittification is subtle and started long before we realized.
No it didn’t , lot of folks have been banging on about it for decades.
Like privacy, most peole dont give a shit until it’s too late and then say but no body said anything.
I’ve been screaming into the void from the mid '90s.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, i went Steam in stead, Nintendo makes my skin crawl with disgust.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.
- Comment on fedi 4chan? 4 weeks ago:
even a screen name
/. been around for awhile.
- Comment on fedi 4chan? 4 weeks ago:
Wow that changed too politics quickly, why drag Trump and the GOP into this ? :)
- Comment on Dutton slammed over threat to cut 36,000 public service jobs 4 weeks ago:
Have you not met voters?
- Comment on How To Migrate A Mastodon Account From One Server To Another 4 weeks ago:
How could it though ? Posts on server A might not be allowed on server B ?
I’ve always assumed post migration would never be a thing becase of that.
- ‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buffwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann faces Hobart court accused of stealing Toyota 4WD 1 month ago:
This seems so weird, he asked somone who he thought was the owner if he coukd borrow the car to help a neighbour out, they said yeah, so he did and returned it full of fuel.
Next thing the cops are arresting him for theft ? Turns out the guy that said yeah knew the owner but wasn’t the owner ? If all of this is true, wtf didn’t the dude who didn’t own it say yeah take it ?
My guess, tbis will be dismissed.
- Comment on We need faster speed limits in Australia - and I'm not saying that because I'm a hoon | Opinion - Car News 1 month ago:
Fuck cars!
We need more and better public transport.
- Comment on Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election? 1 month ago:
Their are 3 countries with rare earth minerals China, Australia, and greenland.
What ? Rare earths are everywhere, they are just difficult to extract and toxic as shit to procees, you also always have nuclear waste associated with it that is concentrated in the treatment process.
There’s a reason Lynas set up a plant in Malayasia for thier WA mined ores, they would have been unlikely to get a license way back in the day becase of the toxic shit that comes from processing. They’ve already polluted large parts of the rainforested areas in Malaysia from tailings dam overflows.
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-22/…/11434122
Australia’s advantage isn’t it’s massive rare earth windfall, it’s that only a few “black fellas” live in or near vast areas that can be mined, so we just ignore them or throw them a few tokens as we rape and pillage the natural environment. Much of the rest of the world has people living on it.
There are all sorts of mineral deposits across Europe for example, look at Rio’s large proposed Lithium mine in Serbia and the push back, why ? People… and not just indigenous people no one gives a shit about.
afr.com/…/rio-loses-in-serbia-as-europe-s-biggest…
Serbia blocked plans for Europe’s biggest lithium mine – a flagship project of Rio Tinto new chief executive – in a dramatic response to local opposition
- Comment on You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting 1 month ago:
“If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president,” she writes,
Ever the optimist? The only four years thing i mean.
- Comment on Tasmanian cider gum ferment 'a drink that shaped Australia' 1 month ago:
There’s a Gin Distillery near me here in Tassie that uses Kunzea
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunzea
I don’t drink, so i have no idea if its any good. Seems to be the new hip thing?
- Comment on The fundamental problem with housing in Australia 1 month ago:
The problem? Housing policy, like most of our polices are based on cruelty.
- Comment on Do you like the smell of bookstores? 2 months ago:
No, too many dead trees :(
- Comment on aussie pride worlwide 2 months ago:
Well, not really they have face recognition on the entrance to see if you match one of the scum bags beating their staff or stealibg shit and it’s deleted, there’s no tracking. If you do match there security staff are alerted.
Taking them at their word, your image is deleted after 0.2s and they have no idea who you are anyway. Your anonumous scan just doest match said scum bag.
I’m ok with it if what they say happens does happen, an audit by the privacy commissioner should conform that either way and then thy can clear them or expose them. Instead they just said don’t do it.
It’s nothing like biomteric scans at airports where who you are is matched to your facial scan.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 2 months ago:
3G was shut down so they can use the spectrum for other things.
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 2 months ago:
I used to much the leaves of the Stevia biswh we had in our garden. Quite tasty :)
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- How to see the rare 'Sun-skirter' comet entering Australian skies this week - ABC Newswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments