zero_gravitas
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- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 2 days ago:
Barcode numbers can sort of give an indication.
The first three digits are determined by the country the barcode was assigned in. The barcode can’t tell you the country of origin of the product, but it’s fairly likely the company that made the product is headquartered in the country indicated by the code (or at least has some administrative presence there).
Here’s a list of country codes for reference: www.barcodestalk.com/…/barcode-country-codes
Here’s a Snopes article about what the country codes can’t tell you: www.snopes.com/fact-check/bar-code-origin-point/
- Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekendwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
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- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 1 week ago:
In some states, but not in federal elections
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- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 2 weeks ago:
Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent?
Only you can answer this. How many days worth of data are you prepared to lose?
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 3 weeks ago:
Europe is closer to China than us. Why aren’t the Brits, French and Germans doing this?
Australia is slightly closer to any part of China than Germany is, but Australia is much closer to the Paracel Islands (Germany is about 9000km, Australia about 4000km).
The rest of your comment is spot-on, though. There’s no way we’re getting those nuclear subs.
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 3 weeks ago:
Yet another case of China aggressively placing its territory near American military assets. They must be stopped 😡😡😡
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- Comment on Two men arrested over Melbourne's 'Pam the bird' graffiti attacks 5 weeks ago:
WTF is a a “graffiti attack”?
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, with ABC articles the last couple of years, generally the headline that appears on the page itself is far better than the sharing metadata headline.
- Grace Tame wears anti-Murdoch shirt to prime minister’s Australian of the Year morning teawww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
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- Comment on Australian police say antisemitic crimes may be funded overseas 1 month ago:
Related article over on !news@aussie.zone - aussie.zone/post/17103248
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 month ago:
I agree with your comment entirely, so you may be misunderstanding the point I was making.
I agree it’s not surprising there’s been a rise in anti-jewish racism, especially since the Israeli state consistently tries to muddy the waters and conflate itself with jewish people in general (which is fucked).
The comment I was replying to (“Maybe if they stopped genociding people?”) appears to uncritically accept this conflation and the racist falsehood that the whole ethnic communities being targeted in these incidents are inherently connected or responsible for Israel’s genocide, and that needs to be called out.
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 month ago:
Done: aussie.zone/post/17098473
Would probably usually post this sort thing to c/news, but posted in c/Australia seeing as two other articles on the matter were posted there.
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- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 month ago:
Conflating all Jewish people with Israel is fucked and is also a key tactic of Israel.
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 month ago:
What is going on in Sydney??
Police say they’re investigating whether some of these crimes were commissioned by “overseas actors”: www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo
So that’s interesting. It might go some way to explaining what seems like a sudden onset, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also been driven by a copy-cat phenomenon.
- Comment on Childcare centre torched in latest antisemitic attack in Australia 1 month ago:
Not a Sydneysider, but I wouldn’t say there’s a ‘strong anti-semitic feeling’ anywhere in Australia - at least not in comparison to the levels of villification faced by any non-‘white’ ethnic group.
I though this was interesting:
“We are looking into whether overseas actors or individuals have paid local criminals in Australia to carry out some of these crimes in our suburbs,” Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Reece Kershaw said, adding that it was possible that cryptocurrency was involved.
from: www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo
If these attacks are commissioned, it’d make some sense of some of the graffiti misspelling “Israiel”.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on How did I miss this important Australian historical event? 1 month ago:
Oh, I’m aware, it’s just bizarre even with that context. But yes, important to note for anyone not aware.
- Comment on How did I miss this important Australian historical event? 1 month ago:
Haha, I saw it around when it was originally posted. It’s just so bizarre I didn’t know what to make of it. I couldn’t find an extended version or anything describing the context around it.
- BOM Indigenous Weather Knowledge - the seasonal calendars of different indigenous communities around Australiaaussie.zone ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Australia's secret war in Yemen ... just don't call it a war 1 month ago:
The number of US bases/facilities and personnel on Australian soil is set to massively increase, too. Pine Gap has been a festering national shame for decades, and successive Australian governments have only made moves to make things worse.
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 1 month ago:
Once they’ve been dead for a hundred years, it’s fine. They moved onto the next phase of their existence in the universe a long time ago.
Yeah, this is the impression I have as a generality, but I don’t know for sure the specific cultural practices relevant to this man, so I threw it in there to play it safe. It doesn’t cost anything, and I figure it’s a good idea to get into the habit of doing it. At very least one user (Tar_Alcaran) learnt something!
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 1 month ago:
No worries, glad I could be informative!
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 2 months ago:
It’s a cultural sensitivity thing, with many Aboriginal Australian cultures having a prohibition against using the name of a deceased person.
Guidelines here: www.abc.net.au/edpols/…/13633944
