rcbrk
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- Comment on Delicious rocks 2 days ago:
Asbestos can be used by kids as chewing gum:
Wittenoom’s roads were paved with asbestos tailings from the nearby mines and workers went home covered in a layer of deadly dust.
Children played in the lethal mineral, and some even stuffed it in their mouths as a substitute for chewing gum.
– www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-15/…/101433166 - Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 4 days ago:
A child’s skull doesn’t know whether it’s steel or lithium making up that extra 0.5T.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 4 days ago:
I’m just grappling for an objective measure of the impact hazard posed by a given vehicle which might be more accurate than weight alone.
Impact hazard × Impact likelyhoodcould form a determination of whether a vehicle should be subject to a Zero BAC requirement.Impact likelyhood should be determined by dimensions and sight-lines – maybe there’s a good comprehensive measure of this that doesn’t give too much weight to things like ADAS?
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 5 days ago:
On weight, why not? – because F=ma – weight influences the risk posed by the vehicle regardless of whether it is lithium or steel.
Then again, newer cars have ANCAP pedestrian/vulnerable road user safety ratings which could override a weight threshold where available.
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 6 days ago:
Nah. I reckon you’re engaging in a bit of a sneaky anti-semitic dogwhistle and a little slipping of the mask.
- Comment on "Intifada is what the kid is doing. Terrorism is what the tank is doing." -Palestine Action Group Sydney on IG 6 days ago:
It’s not referring to Jewish people at all – that’s the lie being pushed by Minns & Segal & co!
It relates to the globalised nature of the genocide – the complicity of our own government in its pissweak response to the genocide, its support through the hosting of facilities like Pine Gap, gigantic defense contracts with companies like Elbit Systems, permitting the manufacture and supply of F-35 parts to Israel as it relentlessly continues the genocide, integration of corporate and Australian government entities with Palantir.
- Comment on "Intifada is what the kid is doing. Terrorism is what the tank is doing." -Palestine Action Group Sydney on IG 6 days ago:
It’s an image and quote from Palestine Action Group Sydney which they made in response to the current Australian issue of the NSW government planning to outlaw phrases like “globalise the intifada”.
- NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chantwww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 15 comments
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- "Intifada is what the kid is doing. Terrorism is what the tank is doing." -Palestine Action Group Sydney on IGlemmy.ml ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 week ago:
Eh, people can submit odometer readings once a year with their rego renewal.
Honesty based should be good enough. Penalties can apply if you’re caught tampering or severely underreporting.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 1 week ago:
It argued a reduction in the default speed limit from 100km/h to 80km/h on unsignposted roads would save hundreds of lives, billions of dollars and avoid thousands of injuries.
“The risk of being killed on a regional or remote road is 11 times higher compared to a road in a major city,” said the regulatory impact study.
It attracted opposition from farmers, truckers and rural residents who said it would […] rob them of valuable time with their families
FFS.
- Comment on The Clown Show: grifting, lies & AI after the Bondi massacre 1 week ago:
I think Tanuki is referring to various players across the entire spectrum taking the Bondi tragedy to dishonestly twist the narrative and outright lie about to further their interests in political advantage, disharmony, and racist ideology.
The other aspect you might be raising – the position of the line between news/commentary, and attention-seeking monetisation of tragedy – is sometimes more subjective or delicate, but I feel Tanuki’s commentaries are on the good side of that.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 week ago:
Zero BAC requirement for vehicles exceeding various hazard thresholds? Say, 3T GVM, vehicle width/length, and a particular vision path requirement.
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- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 week ago:
No, of course not a fucking excuse, but a distinct possibility if you coldly consider which entities could possibly benefit from a violent attack on civilian Jewish community.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 months ago:
you’d have to design your own charger and battery management modules
Just searched for “Sodium-ion BMS” on Aliexpress:
screenshot of aforementioned search’s results, showing listings for sodium-ion bms boards for AU$10~AU$40 or so - Could federated social media networks enhance cooperative behavior between everyone, relative to both insular and massively popular services?www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- How neo-Nazis captured the March for Australia [mirror of Tom Tanuki's youtube vid GLRoFdeI_5Y]peertube.wtf ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed 3 months ago:
Really need to stop treating the yes-/no- vote as a dichotomous measure of intent or understanding.
It erases the substantial indigenous (& -allied) positions of profound dissatisfaction and misgivings towards the voice proposal – that it would entrench problematic power structures within indigenous representation; that it would be legally ineffective and unnecessary for its purpoted aims; that it would legally undermine recognition of first-nation sovereignties; that it was a pissweak alternative to working towards treaties; and more.
- Comment on Supermarkets are collecting soft plastics again, as recycling trial expands 3 months ago:
Was redcycle ever effective?
aerial photo of a melbourne recycling facility - bales of soft plastics etc ablaze…
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 4 months ago:
It’s a consistent highly inefficient heat because it only smoulders, without a flame.
It will clog your chimney with creosote.
It’s also a horrible thing to do to yourself and your neighbours.
No efficient wood heater/stove is designed to burn like that.
If you want a slow release of heat you need to store it in masonry or water.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 4 months ago:
Masonry heater or don’t even bother.
It’s barely practical to run a typical modern Australian wood heater efficiently because they can’t store the heat of a blazing hot efficient smokeless burn.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 4 months ago:
Yep, need to get a hot blazing burn then it’s fairly clean (and efficient). Smaller wood is better – just keep loading it in.
Trouble is, no one ever listens. They throw on massive logs then crank the airflow right down for the lovely slow burn through the evening, then wedge in the biggest piece they can find and close the airflow “so it’s still burning in the morning” (*smouldering).
- Comment on Pensioner robbed of $1,338 is taking NAB to court for millions 5 months ago:
Catches the train and supports other principled causes:
Cropped photo of Williams on a vline train with badges on his suspenders supporting Aboriginal rights, Yes for that referendum, and anti-nuclear - Comment on What a weird apple 5 months ago:
Long answer, yes.
- Comment on Ben Roberts-Smith loses bid to overturn defamation case loss 7 months ago:
“Having carefully considered all these matters, we are unanimously of the opinion that the evidence was sufficiently cogent to support the findings that the appellant murdered four Afghan men and to the extent that we have discerned error in the reasons of the primary judge, the errors were inconsequential,” an executive summary from the court said.
- Comment on Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling 10 months ago:
And how much of that “cycling infrastructure” mileage and spending is on easy yet expensive and useless examples such as along freeways, in islanded suburbs where calm backstreets should suffice, or just mystery unconnected segments?
Does anyone know of any studies on this?
