min0nim
@min0nim@aussie.zone
Refugee from the great Reddit crisis of 2023
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 9 months ago:
Fuck around and find out that stocking shelves for a one day event with cheap plastic crap that isn’t selling well is a bad idea?
‘Help help, I’m being repressed!’
- Comment on Defence whistleblower could plead guilty after appeal rejected 11 months ago:
Mate, come on, that’s not fair at all. Get your head out of your arse.
ABC have been covering this heaps. They broke the Afghan files story in the first place. Adele Furgheson has literally been writing articles about whistleblowers and David McBride for weeks in the lead up to this. Latest one from looking at the ABC website here: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-18/…/103120544
Fairfax is also literally the news link at the top of the OP post here!
There are always excellent reports coming from the ABC & Fairfax with a quality of investigative work that FJ doesn’t even come close to matching. ABC & Fairfax may have their faults, but this is not one of them.
- Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS 11 months ago:
The good old Google way. I’ve no idea why so many people are so willing to hand over everything to them. Say what you like about Apple, but at least they’re not selling your personal info.
- Comment on X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns 11 months ago:
Weird take, what’s your beef? They most certainly do slap on huge fines, and are much more aggressive about enforcing privacy requirements than the US/etal.
This is kinda like cursing the worlds fastest sprinter for just not running fast enough.
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 11 months ago:
I don’t see this being very popular in Australia. It misses the mark for why people buy a Ute or dual cab here.
- Comment on [Satire] - People who build wind turbines at sea do not care if whales live or die. Monsters! | First Dog on the Moon 11 months ago:
Ahhh, Port Kembla. I mean it’s already a whale graveyard what with all those massive container ships chopping them up all year and the massive sewer outfall gassing them out. A few measly pylons just adds a bit of spice to the game!
- Comment on Future Fund exposed to dangerous Chinese investments with links to human rights abuses and national security threats, audit finds 11 months ago:
There’s a mouthful. Free market except when….
- Comment on ABC to complain after Bronwyn Bishop tells Sky the public broadcaster is ‘aligning’ itself with Nazi policies 11 months ago:
Ahhh Bronwyn! I could Nazi that coming!
On a side note, I’ve just finished installing a whole lot of vertical searchlights at her home for the annual Christmas celebrations. I hear all her guests will be Gobbelling down the drinks while saluting some kind of whole potato.
- Comment on Indefinite immigration detention ruled unlawful in landmark Australian high court decision 1 year ago:
Sometimes you need to take a hard line. I get it.
But indefinite detention is fucking barbaric. And I hope that those affected now have legal recourse due to this decision.
It was never the only solution. It was an expedient solution, and it’s wise to remember that when the architects of that shit show are in power and need to make hard decisions. Because the decision will be the one that maximises their political leverage - it won’t be the one that addresses say…catastrophic climate change, or over irrigation in the Murray basin, or falling education standards, or….
- Comment on [HN] Amiga runs Michigan schools' heating and air conditioning systems 1 year ago:
Full title - “Amiga runs schools’ air-conditioning, maintenance staffs’ chip tune releases, and the janitor’s Dungeon Master addiction”.
- Comment on The hottest July in 120,000 years. What’s in store for Australia this summer? 1 year ago:
You’re right, but funnily enough the last few years have been quite wet. You may remember a flood or 2 if you cast your mind back…
- Comment on Coalition attacks rooftop solar inverters in new scare campaign against renewables 1 year ago:
Nobs. Who do they think is going to be building their reactors if they push to get one built?
Just remember - wasn’t too long ago the Liberal party was receiving Rolex watches in brown paper bags from Chinese spy’s posing as donors.
- Comment on The hottest July in 120,000 years. What’s in store for Australia this summer? 1 year ago:
I think we won’t have a lot of fires this year. It’s been really wet for a while and the dense bush need consistently hot days to dry out enough to burn.
If it stays dry for the next couple of years though, we’re going to be screwed again. I imagine some places will be like western sydney and north NSW in the floods - no point rebuilding if it burns down every 5 years.
- Comment on Questions raised about 'overly generous' power price rises amid tumbling wholesale costs 1 year ago:
So, let’s be honest here - producers artificially ramped up wholesale costs in the months before the new increases were handed down by the regulators (e.g. restrict supply through maintenance, and then unleash supply when the price is higher).
They can do this because the biggest ones are both on the retail and wholesale side. We’re getting fucking fleeced.