hanrahan
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 5 days 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 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 month 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? 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 months ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 months ago:
Welcome my dude/dudette.