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- Comment on Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves 3 days ago:
But birds are AI!
- Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moveswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on [Satire] Beef Wellington sues Death Cap Mushrooms for defamation 3 days ago:
Have you read a local paper lately? They fired all the sub-editors to cut costs, so this is pretty accurate 😆
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 days ago:
I often downvote Hotznplozn’s posts because those posts are exclusively warmongering propaganda. That is literally the only posts they make here, so I’m usually downvoting them whenever they appear here. Other users have reported them, and their previous aliases, in the Overseas News comm so I’m not alone in thinking this.
I’ve avoided mentioning them by name in my comments in this thread and elsewhere, but I agree on this.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 days ago:
Geez, putting me on blast a bit 😆
For the record, I only downvoted two of the linked posts (once each!)
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 days ago:
What, @eureka? ‘Eureka’ isn’t a right-wing dogwhistle, if that’s what you mean. @eureka is a good leftist - the red variant of the flag for their avatar is a bit of a giveaway.
Right-wingers and racists who uses the Eureka flag (any colour) can get fucked, it’s a union flag.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 days ago:
I just checked and I only downvoted two of those posts.
My reason would have been some combination of a) I thought the posts didn’t belong in the comm, b) I thought the news source was low quality, or c) for reasons covered in previous threads regarding “Objectification of our community":
I had noticed and was surprised by the significant downvotes on the posts mentioned in the OP. I figured either people were sick of it like I was, or the accounts were just under attack by accounts that serve the same function for the other side(s).
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 5 days ago:
The 7% difference in insolation between perihelion and ahelion (a figure I’ve seen mentioned in multiple places) seems like it would be significant for sunburn and skin cancer, at least at the population level.
I found an ABC article that doesn’t specifically say the 7% figure, but mentions perihelion as a factor in 10% higher UV in Australia. It downplays the role that extra 10% plays in our melanoma rates, though, and I suppose that’s fair, I don’t think anyone’s getting caught out by burning 10% faster, because they would have gone inside 10% sooner if they had known, haha
Together, Professor Whiteman says, these factors mean Australia’s UV is “probably about 10 per cent higher on average” than the equivalent latitude in the Northern Hemisphere.
“That would mean for people living in Brisbane it is higher than for people living in Miami in the US, and for people in Melbourne, it’s higher than for people living in Athens, Greece.”
While a 10 per cent increase in UV is significant, and might account for that sting in our summer sun, reasons for Australia’s high melanoma rates are more lifestyle-related, he says.
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 6 days ago:
Ah, thank you for the clarification! I hadn’t realised that the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit made an appreciable difference, but apparently yeah, especially at the equator: journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371%2Fjo…
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 6 days ago:
I don’t think your interpretation is correct. I think that comparison was of data for the two cohorts when they were the same age.
The study, yet to be peer-reviewed, found 28,265 cases of early-onset bowel cancer over the 30 years studied. An estimated 4,347 additional cases were attributable to the rising rates of the disease.
Early-onset cases, however, are increasing by up to 8% per year, the study found.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 6 days ago:
Thanks, I was finding it pretty astounding as well, so it’d make sense if it was the misinterpretation you’ve described. Maybe send the Guardian a message noting it so they can check?
- Comment on my kid is movin to AU 6 days ago:
The sun isn’t always a fixed distance from earth. It’s closest in January
Forgive me if I’m just missing a joke, but it’s not about the distance, it’s about the angle. In the summer the angle means the days are longer, and sunlight travels through less atmosphere (and is therefore less attenuated) before it reaches you and gives you sunburn.
- Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blamewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 25 comments
- Comment on Andrew Leigh says Australia is a generation away from “US-style inequality” 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, I have full confidence the U.S. will always stay one generation ahead of us 🫡🍔
- Tributes flow for the Australian who saved millions of brains; Creswell Eastman remembered for identifying health risks of iodine deficiencywww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- Comment on Pro-Palestine educators send teachers new classroom resource challenging ‘Anzac mythology’ 1 month ago:
Are you talking about Australian war crimes in 1918 or the fucking events of 1947.
Both - they’re drawing parallels between the two events.
That quote is actually from the booklet they published last year, which you can find here: drive.google.com/file/d/…/view
Specifically, in this section:
WHAT DOES PALESTINE HAVE TO DO WITH ANZAC DAY?
Few students and teachers sitting through the annual Anzac ceremony, for instance, would associate Anzac day with Palestine — but the first Anzacs invaded Ottoman Palestine in World War I, and they took control of the land and the people for the British Empire.
After the armistice in 1918, Anzac soldiers of the Light Horse brigade remained in Palestine, waiting to be demobilised and sent home to Australia. During this time, some returned to the Gallipoli Peninsula, where they engaged in what was described as the “holy task of locating the graves of Anzacs, and in collecting trophies for the Australian national memorial collection,” solidifying the nationalist myth of the Gallipoli Landings, the anniversary of which was already being observed as Anzac day from 1915 onwards.[1]
Such acts of quasi-religious myth-making about the Anzacs have continued to this day. In 2017, to mark the centenary of the Anzacs’ capture of Palestinian territory, then Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten attended a commemoration service at Beersheba with Benjamin Netanyahu.
In his official address, PM Malcolm Turnbull stated that the Anzacs “like the State of Israel has done ever since … defied history and with their courage fulfilled history. Lest we forget.”[2] His words are striking, not only because of the monumental historical narrative that they invoke (the Anzacs “defied” and ‘fulfilled’ history), but also because of the way in which they situate the Anzacs as “courageous” heroes who birthed two nations.
Turnbull was right to connect the Anzacs’ military successes with the creation of Israel. The Australian victories set in motion a series of devastating events, enabling the fulfilment of the Balfour Declaration, where Britain agreed, despite separate and contradictory promises, to recognize “a National Home of the Jewish people” to be located in Palestine, and the establishment of a “Jewish National Colonising Corporation for the resettlement and economic development of the country [Palestine].”[3] In short, the British mandate was secured in part by the Anzacs, and this laid the ground for the creation of the state of Israel, while preventing the creation of a Palestinian state.
There are some other parallels with Israel that Turnbull did not draw. If both countries form their identities through stories of noble military successes, they both also hide a history of horrific, racially motivated violence against Palestinians. More than this, the brutal massacre committed by the Anzacs at Surafend chillingly portended the Nakba, the catastrophic displacement of Palestinians in 1947-1949.
Turnbull did not share this darker parallel because it did not suit the heroic myth-making project of the Australian and Israeli governments to do so. As teachers, however, it is our obligation to bring this history to light.
- Pro-Palestine educators send teachers new classroom resource challenging ‘Anzac mythology’www.theage.com.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Early voting is now open. Find out if you're eligible and where to vote where you arewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Labor vows to consider strengthening Australia’s animal welfare body after shocking abattoir revelations 1 month ago:
“vows to consider”
- Monster swells claim a fourth life in NSW, while search to resume tomorrow for man washed off rocks in Sydneywww.smh.com.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite 1 month ago:
betootaadvocate.com/…/australia-moves-to-ban-mapl…
Australia Moves To Ban Maple Syrup Because Fuck You Too Canada
- Comment on Queensland council abandons EV charger installation plan after 'dirty nickel' media report - ABC News 1 month ago:
Non-AMP link: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-16/…/105177008
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- Comment on Something's up with all those airbnb locks | Purplepingers 1 month ago:
Purplepingers is an anti-landlord activist currently running for the Australian Senate for the Victorian Socialists party: pingers4parliament.com
He’s previously done a lot of ‘naming and shaming’ of landlords (www.shitrentals.org) and compiled lists of unused properties that people could squat in.
Reading between the lines, this video is encouraging people to fuck with properties rented out through Airbnb, or at least trying to mess with the heads of the ‘hosts’.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 26 comments
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- Comment on Go Private? 1 month ago:
As others have mentioned, there’d seem to be hard downsides:
- Can’t send direct links to people without an account
- Harder for people to ‘discover’ the instance or check it out, which would surely reduce people signing up to the instance and participating in our community
So I’d be against it unless there’s really strong reasons for it. I haven’t really experienced bad server-load issues.
There’s conceivably a middle-ground where the instance becomes logged-in-only automatically under high load. That’d no doubt be a considerable extra work, but just throwing it out there as an idea. I still don’t think even that’s necessarily a great idea, because again, if the traffic is people showing interest in the instance, that’s a good thing in the long term. It’d be better than setting it to logged-in-only permanently.
I think this should be pretty much a last resort for any performance issues, and any other measure should be considered first, including spending more money.
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