hanrahan
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on In a difficult year being unemployed, I learned what success really means | Sunil Badami 2 days 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 2 days 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? 3 days 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? 3 days 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 week 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 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
How big are their clits ?
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- Comment on Super fund took more than 500 days to approve death benefit for grieving widow, Asic says 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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.
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- Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles - ABC Newswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.
- Comment on fedi 4chan? 1 month ago:
even a screen name
/. been around for awhile.
- Comment on fedi 4chan? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Have you not met voters?
- Comment on How To Migrate A Mastodon Account From One Server To Another 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Fuck cars!
We need more and better public transport.
- Comment on Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election? 2 months 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