Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 1 hour ago:
Try to keep non de-sexed cat
I’mma stop you right there. No, don’t do that.
- Comment on Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention 6 hours ago:
The way it’s phrased in the quotes, this seems more like a reference to their ridiculous conspiracy theory that he won in 2020 and is thus technically the president today, rather than an assertion that he’ll run in 2028 even if he wins this year.
- Comment on Community 19 hours ago:
The explanation feels very much like a “just so” story to me, as much as I want to believe it.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
If I say no, are you going to pick the next most recent named ancestor of the chicken, and keep repeating until someone says yes?
- Comment on Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later? 2 days ago:
Interestingly, I’ve noticed that in some cases a single thread will have some comments which do show up, and others which don’t, from LW users. In this thread you can see some comments from LW users which I saw and even replied to on the same day, alongside one that didn’t show up for 8 days.
Makes it very perplexing.
- Comment on If you're seeing this, I'm in jail. 3 days ago:
I’m willing to entertain the idea that he may not have intended to whistleblow in order to reveal war crimes.
But if that’s the case, why couldn’t the government have relied upon a fair trial to establish his guilt? Even if he is guilty, he is owed due process, and being restricted from presenting necessary evidence is a violation of that due process.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait 3 days ago:
Kinda reminds me of that messed up restoration of a painting of Jesus.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait 4 days ago:
- Comment on If you're seeing this, I'm in jail. 5 days ago:
Telling a mod of the community you’re in to “blow me”? Brave move.
- Comment on Writers telegraphing their fetishes 1 week ago:
I Googled, and found an article that said this:
in 2005 McMillan had a specific idea of who was to blame for the rent being, well, too damn high:
There are over (25) Twenty Five Thousand Newly Rented Apartments, Available, Now Renting in the Williamsberg Section of Brooklyn, NY. as is all throughout the (5) Five Boro’s. But… they are only being Rented to the Jewish People.
Which certainly seems antisemitic. I tracked down that claim to a Gawker article from October 2005 which said the above quote came from his website. It was hard to track down because all the news orgs link to his website’s homepage which substantially changed multiple times since then and eventually stopped existing entirely, and it wasn’t very easily navigable at the time. But here’s the page being cited. It’s…pretty fucking wild.
- Comment on Two chemists walk into a bar 1 week ago:
Huh? I know some clients fail to properly display superscript and subscript (which shouldn’t be a problem since it would be the same for my text as for the above text anyway), but I didn’t think there were any clients that would choose to render code snippets as formatted text. Anyway, here’s a screenshot of how it should look:
- Comment on Two chemists walk into a bar 1 week ago:
Lemmy supports subscript!
H~2~O~2~
displays as H~2~O~2~. - Comment on ‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world 1 week ago:
it’s just that conventional rail can often be a better alternative in many cases
Yeah it can. In most of the cases I’ve seen though, it’s been a question of light rail or buses. Buses also have their place for sure, but any time you’re sincerely asking the question “should we build light rail or use buses?” the answer is almost guaranteed to be light rail. That goes double if the buses are going to be BRT with specific dedicated infrastructure anyway.
- Comment on ‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world 1 week ago:
Australia seems to be arguably overenthusiastic about light rail in general
I have no idea where you get that sense. The Gold Coast light rail has so far been a massive success, proving that it was the right decision. It seems to have been very successful in Newcastle despite the route it takes being utterly ludicrous (incredibly short, only in areas that you’d probably have to drive to to begin with, parallel to a fantastic easy walking path), at least for now until the extensions are built. Sydney’s light rail has been an absolute blowout success.
And yet despite every time it’s been done it being enormously successful, we are still hesitant to do more. The Sunshine Coast has just made the myopic decision to not build light rail. Despite the enormous success of stages 1 and 2, stage 3 won’t be finished until nearly a decade after the completion of the previous stage. Brisbane decided it would go for short team ease rather than the long term superior option. And Newcastle doesn’t seem to have any serious plans for its stage 2 over 5 years since it first opened.
We have some good light rail systems in this country, but we are nowhere near “overenthusiastic”. Quite the opposite.
- Comment on ‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world 1 week ago:
Light rail is higher capacity. Being separated from the road is an advantage because it makes it more consistent. It costs less to run once it’s built. It’s far more environmentally friendly—even if the buses were electric. It creates a nicer environment for the people living, working, and visiting the area near it (less noise, less inhospitable asphalt, etc.) There are very, very few advantages to buses over light rail.
- Comment on 15 Reasons I may not be riding in the bike lane 1 week ago:
3–6 seconds per reason is not nearly enough to actually explain it.
- Comment on 15 Reasons I may not be riding in the bike lane 1 week ago:
Hard to disagree, but that’s because it’s very thorough, since carbrains have a tendency to need their hands held to find reason.
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- Comment on Australian Eurovision performer posts in support of Palestine 🍉 1 week ago:
I’ve never given a shit about Eurovision. In fact I’ve always thought the idea that Australians give a shit about a wacko European song contest is kinda dumb.
But this guy might just change my mind this year. Mad respect.
- Comment on Health and fitness 1 week ago:
I prefer to use Aus to Oz
Strong agree. Oz is an emerald city with fake wizards and real witches in it. Aus is short for Australia.
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- Comment on What's the retention period on Inbox messages? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah Matrix is a federated (but not ActivityPub) secure messaging service.
- Comment on 'I don't think it's that hard': The former cop who says he knows how to save more domestic violence victims 2 weeks ago:
We get plenty of it here. And deservedly so. Ask any Aboriginal Australian how police behave to people in their communities. See how they act when people are protesting on public land. See the NSW police strip searching children. Or the Canberra police choosing not to prosecute a driver who murdered a cyclist while driving a non-roadworthy vehicle (and lied about the circumstances surrounding the crash to cover it up)—heck, while we’re at it, try reporting dangerous driving around yourself as a cyclist and wait to see how long it takes the police to blame you. Or their widely-reported problem with domestic violence which they collectively cover up. Or when they kidnapped children and dumped them in the middle of nowhere in the '90s and were still working with no punishment into the this decade.
“ACAB” gets a lot more attention in America than here. Partly because of that country’s gross problem with guns, which thankfully largely does not exist here. And also partly just because American media is so ubiquitous over here and around the world. But it’s no less true that ACAB in Australia than it is in America.
That doesn’t mean every action taken by every individual cop is bad. It has never meant that—in America or here. This cop is doing a good thing right now. He’s using his voice as an ex-cop to try and help a real problem in our society. It’s notable that part of what he asks for is funding for non-police organisations that help with domestic violence situations.
But he’s also a former member of an organisation that is part of the problem with domestic violence. Committing domestic violence at a higher rate than the general population, and helping each other cover it up. He may not have actively done that himself, but was he speaking out about it while he still served? Heck, where is he speaking out about that part of the problem even now?
It’s a tough job, and giving them adequate mental health services to help deal with that difficulty is absolutely fair. But that shouldn’t in any way take away from them receiving all the same “vitriol” you’ve seen directed at them in America. Because they’ve more than earnt it.
- Comment on The discourse 2 weeks ago:
A meme that’s been going around the last week or two. Not sure precisely what it was, but something along the lines of asking a woman whether she’d rather be locked in a room with a bear or a guy, and she chooses the bear.
- Comment on What's the retention period on Inbox messages? 2 weeks ago:
You should probably be aware that nothing on the fediverse is private. ActivityPub is, by design, absolutely incompatible with privacy. (This may at first seem ironic, considering how many strong privacy advocates there are on Lemmy and Mastodon. But the key thing is that on the fediverse it’s entirely consensual and consists only of data you specifically chose to give it.) You should not consider even your DMs to be actually private, because it’s possible for clients to intercept and display them even to people who were not the intended recipient.
- Comment on Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID 2 weeks ago:
Nope. In Australia you can vote easily at any polling booth in your electorate, or with a little more difficulty (more paperwork, none of which requires ID) if you’re out of your electorate.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that providing never-ending service is likely practical.
That’s…the entire point? To require them to make arrangements so that the game is still playable in some form even once they are no longer able to continue providing that service.
This might be requiring they patch out a server callback; automatically unlocking all digital-store-unlockable content; open-sourcing your server code so others can run their own servers; or some other methods.
- Comment on animals you need to know 2 weeks ago:
Australia used to have the “Easter bilby” in addition to the more common overseas Easter bunny. Sadly I think stores stopped selling chocolate Easter bilbies; I don’t recall seeing any this year.
- Comment on animals you need to know 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever heard any of these used to mean “dumb”, apart from “numbat”.