Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
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- Comment on Did you miss last night's aurora? You might have another chance tonight 1 day ago:
The 2024 event was seen as far north as the coast of Central Queensland.
Holy shit. I imagine it’ll probably be too dull to see over the artificial lights within Brisbane, especially the north of Brisbane where looking south means looking towards the brightest concentration of artificial lights. But I’ll be out for a run this evening to give it a look.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 3 days ago:
The most important thing is to keep building. Once you stop the knowledge is gone
Hear, hear.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 3 days ago:
Establish national standards for high-speed rail, in a way that is classic-compatible, so that trains can run slowly on legacy lines
Queensland doesn’t run standard gauge, so that’s extra hard up here.
It’s so frustrating to me that even relatively new projects like Cross-River Rail didn’t build dual-gauge so they could be compatible with a future high speed project.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 3 days ago:
Yeah I’m not sure how I feel about the expensive tunnel + bridges route. Maybe getting that out of the way early could make it easier to keep going, giving a sort of “the hard part has already been done” argument in favour of continuing. On the other hand, the high pricetag could give opponents something to point at to say “stop this here”.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 3 days ago:
I do wonder about that “relatively short distance” bit. You’re definitely right about the large number of commuters, but considering 60% of it is going to be tunnels, and a further 20% via bridges and viaducts, that seems likely to be much more expensive per kilometre than some other routes might be. Someone else suggested Sydney to Canberra, which would have added prestige factor and be connecting different states/territories, demonstrating more clearly the need for federal involvement. I imagine it would have a much lower per-kilometre cost, too. Starting with Sydney to Wollongong (on the way to Canberra) might achieve a fairly similar level of demand and time savings to Newy.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 3 days ago:
I would suggest quite the opposite. Privatised transportation systems have proven themselves to be absolute abject failures. The UK is currently moving back towards nationalised railway after decades of failure under privatisation. My city of Brisbane, Australia has one private railway, and it’s extortionately expensive at 45 times the price of our regular public transport…and they have literally not allowed any other public transport along that route to be run.
Private businesses necessarily need to make a profit. But public transport is a public good (in the informal sense), and it’s practically an economic public good. It shouldn’t be run for profit, but for the benefit of society. That means sometimes being unprofitable.
- Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 18 comments
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
Ouch! I hope it recovered ok!
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
Ah right, I missed that.
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
Thanks for sharing! Yeah, it was hearing an American/British historian explain this version of red rover that got me wondering about it, since that’s different from what I knew.
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
I haven’t thought about this game in over 40 years!
Yeah same (ok, not quite 40 years, but 20 for sure), until a YouTube video about folklore (of all things!) had the presenter talk about what “red rover” was for them, and it was very different from what I knew.
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
Did it involve one person trying to run and avoid the catching team, who tries to tackle them, or the runner trying to forcefully break through a line?
Also, love the name Vic Kick. I assume that’s a precursor to the Auskick I did for a bit as a kid?
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
Hey, wondering why you deleted your reply. If it’s cos you realised this was the Australian community and you’re not Aussie, don’t worry! You wouldn’t be the first non-aussie to answer, and I actually really value the international perspective on this question (since seeing an international answer to the question on another site was the reason I came here to ask it).
- Comment on The Bureau of Meteorology's new site is doing great 1 week ago:
Not being able to provide feedback is pretty shit.
But I just haven’t noticed any of the problems I’ve seen anyone reporting about the redesign. I’m honestly finding it so much better than the old design. The worst thing is the more niche parts of the site which are still awkwardly on the old design, like river/creek levels.
You want to bookmark a particular weather map? It’s…trivial. And the map experience is so much nicer now, since it feels like a real modern map with satellite overlays, instead of the awkward static pages that it felt like before. No more need to deal with arcane things like “64 km” vs “128 km” radars (wtf even is that measuring?) and move north or south in predefined increments, you can move around exactly how you would in any mapping app.
The capital city centres are linked from the home page, and you can find your own suburb with a simple search. Any of those can be bookmarked on their own. Here’s Brisbane. And here’s St Lucia, a suburb of Brisbane.
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
Roughly what time period was this?
Being banned for tackling is interesting. I suspect that fact is the reason it was tag by the time I got to school.
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
And what, in your version of the game, would I do next?
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 1 week ago:
I went to school in suburban Brisbane late '90s early '00s. Everyone would line up, except one person, who would stand in the middle as red rover. Red rover would call over someone else, whose goal is to make it to the other side untagged. If tagged, they join the red rover team, making two people the next runner has to avoid. Repeat until nobody is left to run.
But I ask the question because I’m aware of another fairly distinct version of the game.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 28 comments
- Comment on Australia: Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads being offered on China's Temu, Shein to get around laws forbidding the importation of sex abuse material 2 weeks ago:
While extraordinarily distasteful, I decidedly prefer the idea of a pedophile using one of these distinctly-not-abusive dolls instead of practicing their sexuality on an actual child
I’ve heard arguments both ways, and frankly I don’t know which is better supported by evidence. One, that things like this, AI CSAM, etc. might provide a safe outlet for people with paedophilia, and the other is that it can encourage them and act as a “gateway drug” of sorts. It’s an area that I assume the experts are already doing/have already done research on, and I’ll defer to them because I don’t really want to investigate too much further. It may even be the case that some substitutes work well and others don’t.
- Pocock reinvited to parliamentary sports club after PM weighs in [after being kicked out for criticising their gambling sponsor]www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition 5 weeks ago:
Based only on my reading of this article, the ABC would permit calling the place “Palestine”, for example saying “Gaza is part of Palestine” (geography) or that a person being interviewed/talked about is “from Palestine” (community). SBS would not.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Only one of these genocides is receiving direct military support from western countries. That is why westerners are so concerned with it, and you know that.
- Comment on Australia Post releases footage of posties being hit by cars as it urges drivers to ‘keep an eye out’ 5 weeks ago:
!fuckcars@lemmy.world
Also, come on AusPost… crashnotaccident.com
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, SHE̶P̴RδBORE, Montana, my favourite Canadian city.
- Comment on Governments keep making our housing crisis worse – and they’ve just done it again 5 weeks ago:
The entirety of every city should be, at a minimum, low-medium density, permitting 2–3 storey row houses, townhouses, and apartments, without restricting people’s ability to do low density if they want. And then everywhere within 500 metres of a train or BRT station should be zoned properly for 4–6 storeys at least.
But market forces cannot do the job alone. They don’t have the incentive to. It’s far more profitable to slowly release more properties on the market to keep prices high. So we need significant government involvement too. Fully 30% of the market should be owned by the government, with more under some form of government-mandated “affordable housing” category.
Plus strong tenant’s rights, treating their home as their home first and foremost, more important than someone else’s investment. That works with the tax incentive changes you mentioned to ease demand and reduce property prices, by making investment in housing look less appealing.
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 5 weeks ago:
It’s because legally, it’s part of a single Local Government Area. The same could be said of the Sunshine Coast, which contains 6 different sub-regions according to Wikipedia, and frankly I think that’s cutting it short (I count roughly 10 distinct towns). And, though it’s not included on this map (presumably because it’s considered part of “Greater Brisbane”) Moreton Bay City has at least 3 distinct areas (Redcliffe/North Lakes, Pine Rivers/Strathpine, Caboolture. And each of those slashes could almost be separated too).
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know for sure, but that doesn’t really sound true. It sounds like on of those “just so” stories. Like when people say the definition of a “city” is a place that has a cathedral.
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 5 weeks ago:
Ok I reverse image searched it, and apparently it’s at least 7 years old. Since Bendigo was at 103,000 in 2021, I’m guessing it just missed out on the cutoff in 2018.
Tagging @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure I take your meaning. As best I can tell, it’s simply a Varonoi diagram centred on Australia’s cities of over 100k. The only complicated bit is how they chose the exact centre point of each city, especially Sunshine Coast and Central Coast. How the lines are drawn doesn’t seem to be based on any statistical data beyond that.
