Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Ibis chicks are as ugly as I imagined... 8 hours ago:
Aww, it’s kinda cute, in a weird sort of way.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 2 days ago:
I signed up for unlimited because it was a better deal than Coles, it still was when they bumped the limit up to $75
I think that might have been the same time, or around the same time, they took away my 10% discount once per month on delivery and click & collect orders? It was just one more nail in the coffin for me.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 2 days ago:
You’re welcome! I’m a big believer that titles should avoid editorialising, but I also hate clickbait, so this compromise helps deliver on both of those.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 2 days ago:
According to comments on the Woolworths subreddit, “more than minimum wage”. On Sundays they’d also be getting double time.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 2 days ago:
Ironically, for a time, the South African Woolworths used to own an Australian luxury department store David Jones.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 2 days ago:
Hate on Colesworth is easy to stoke I guess
Hate on any business with too much market power is my philosophy.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 3 days ago:
Yours was spelt Kohls, wasn’t it? Or is that a separate store? I’ve had the confusion with that one before with people mentioning it on podcasts or in video.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 3 days ago:
Unrelated company. Woolworths in Australia and New Zealand goes back to a 1924 company founded in Sydney, and is today one of Australia’s two “supermarket duopoly” (along with Coles, they control 67% of Australia’s grocery store market).
The American one you’re familiar with is the F. W. Woolworth Company of “five and dime” stores, which expanded to a lot of other countries.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 3 days ago:
Does Dominos have a $15/month subscription fee which waives their normal delivery cost, if the total cost of the order is over $75, except on Sunday? Because that’s the situation we’re talking about here, it’s not just a fee for delivery, it’s a fee for delivery even if you’ve paid a subscription to give you free delivery on large orders.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 3 days ago:
Woolworths is really shooting themselves in the foot the past few years. I used to have DU and regularly shop with them through either delivery or direct-to-boot. I signed up for Woolies Mobile because they had a really great year-long plan, and loved taking advantage of DU + my once-monthly 10% discount from Woolies Mobile to do a big shop online.
And they’d be my preference to go to for in-person shops, too, due to Scan & Go.
Then they announced, about a month after I had renewed and paid for my second year of Woolies mobile, that you can no longer use your 10% discount in delivery or direct-to-boot orders, it has to be in-store. I have no idea why they would do this, since I can easily do a much bigger shop online than in-store, but oh well. I cancelled my DU subscription and switched to shopping in-store more often. Scan & Go was pretty fucking awesome anyway.
And then last year I moved houses. I previously happened to live right between two of the only 17 stores in Queensland that had Scan & Go, so I had just assumed that it was ubiquitous, but I moved and none of the stores near me had it. I was disappointed but figured it’d come sooner or later. But then just a month or two after I moved…they killed off Scan & Go. It shut down entirely in about half the stores that had it (including one of the two I used to be near), and they removed the ability to pay in the app from the rest.
- Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited]honey.nine.com.au ↗Submitted 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 21 comments
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 1 week ago:
Too close to green and gold, the indication “only Australians can swim here”.
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 1 week ago:
That runs into the problem mentioned in the article that I was just discussing with @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world, where people apparently interpret “swim between flags” differently.
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 1 week ago:
There’s a good argument to be made for intuitive design. Red means danger, green means safe. That’s a pretty worldwide understanding. Yellow means caution; that’s a little less universal, but still pretty common.
There are, in my opinion, good reasons to not say “safe” at the beach under any circumstances, so I don’t think using green flags is a great idea, but that doesn’t mean some other form of tweaking is inappropriate.
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 1 week ago:
The only thing worth doing is adding a few common international languages
The problem with this, as the article says, is getting the translations right. To convey the message properly. “Shore dump” is currently being translated into Chinese as “beachside rubbish tip”, and “shore break” is being translated into Korean as “shore relaxation”. And many people are already seeing “swim between the flags” as an indication that people doing serious swimming (e.g. swimming laps) are the only ones who should be between the flags.
In Dutch, they have two words for cyclists: fietser (cyclist) for the average person using a bike to get around, and “wielrenner” (literally, “wheel runner”) for people doing cycling as sport. I wonder if a similar language difference might be a problem here with “swim”. We normally use it for anything in the water, but some people are obviously interpreting it as more like the aquatic equivalent of the wielrenner.
It’s not an insurmountable problem, but it is a difficult one.
Plus: most people don’t read signs. So it’s not a bad idea to make the symbols as self-explanatory as possible.
- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 1 week ago:
The effectiveness of the red and yellow patrol flags is unequivocal as there have been no recorded coastal drowning fatalities this summer or in the previous year between the flags.
Oof. That is…not the slam dunk they think it is. The whole point of the critique is that evidence shows many people don’t realise they’re supposed to swim between the flags.
Now, I’m not fully on board with the reporting of the Guardian here either. The studies they cite talk about people misunderstanding the signs and flags, but they don’t say anything about what people actually do in response to this. If they misunderstand the sign and then just ignore it and swim between the flags because that’s where everyone is anyway, then there isn’t much of a problem. If, on the other hand, the confusion causes them to either make a conscious decision to swim away from the patrolled areas, or to throw up their arms and go “well I dunno what I’m supposed to do” (and then either decide against swimming at all, or decide that swimming outside the patrolled areas is fine), then it’s a significant problem. But we don’t know, based on these studies, which of those is happening.
The Guardian’s suggestion of using green flags is a silly one, but the study they cited just before that, where pictograms of a lifesaver were put on top of the classic red and yellow flag, could be a good idea to follow.
- Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Comment on federation to feddit.nl issues? 1 week ago:
Check your language settings. Every post and comment on Lemmy has a language tag associated with it, and Lemmy will only show you posts and comments in languages that you have said you speak. (The Dutch language is called “Nederlands” in its own language, but I think the language settings sort order is based on languages’ two-letter code.)
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 3 weeks ago:
The service was shut down on June 26, 2024
- Comment on Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash 3 weeks ago:
One spammer. Not sure their motivations. Plus one from someone who is either the operator of the spam bot, or just randomly caught up in this by accident.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 3 weeks ago:
Holy shit, I didn’t realise Juice Media went back that far! I think I first discovered them about 5 years ago, and it seemed like it was pretty new at the time. I had no idea until your comment that 10 years ago they had a series old enough to wrap up gracefully.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 3 weeks ago:
You’ll need to let the mods or admins know your concern there. It’s got nothing to do with me.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 3 weeks ago:
No, you can’t, unfortunately.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 3 weeks ago:
As many people were killed by traffic murders on the day of the Boncli shootings as by gun.
Fuck that’s a good stat to have. Do you have a good source I can use to point to it?
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 3 weeks ago:
Not seen any of the polling, the comments under politicians’ Facebook posts about it, or heard interviews on the ABC? It most definitely is a very popular policy. Unfortunately, that’s mostly because of a lack of understanding of the nuance. They just see “social media = bad for kids, therefore this bill that says it’s going to stop that must be good”.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 3 weeks ago:
That’s pretty interesting. Personally I prefer being able to edit at any time, door example if that reply is pointing out an error, you can then fix the error. Keeping a visible change log of edits is also great, to provide transparency. A forum I still frequent has that.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 3 weeks ago:
and to maintain
Absolutely untrue. Rail is insanely cheap to maintain, compared to roads. Especially roads taking heavy freight. The amount of damage a car does to the road increases by the 4th power of its weight. Meaning Carey twice the weight, do 16 time the damage to the road.
Plus, they can take much, much higher volumes of cargo. One train can carry as much as 4 road trains and not even be an especially noteworthy freight train. So operation costs are lower.
And they’re safer, since rails are not shared with cars and are a more controlled route.
Yes, upfront costs are higher, but after that it’s literally all wins.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 3 weeks ago:
It didn’t take them years to figure it out. It took them years of collecting the evidence proving that it’s a good idea. Then 11 days of listening to reactionary morons telling them not to do it was all it took to kill it.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 3 weeks ago:
The first comment I see when I look at the comments on the article is particularly upsetting:
Meanwhile truck crashes kill an average of one person each week in NSW and seriously injure 5 others. What is most iniquitous about this situation is that the majority of those killed and injured in truck crashes are other road users. For example, of the people killed in fatal truck crashes in 2021, approximately 50 per cent were occupants in a light vehicle, 25 per cent were occupants in the heavy truck and 25 per cent were other road users (pedestrians, motorcyclists or pedal cyclists). Many would regard this situation as unethical. Others would say that such disregard for human suffering is a mortal sin given that a far safer alternative – the railways – already exists but has been largely abandoned in favor of heavily subsidized road freight.
Australian data shows that a high proportion of heavy vehicles exceed speed limits on both open and urban roads. It is estimated that if all heavy vehicles complied with speed limits, there would be a 29% reduction in truck crashes. Australian Design Rule (ADR) 65 — Maximum Road Speed Limiting for Heavy Goods Vehicles and Heavy Omnibuses - specifies the devices or systems used to limit the maximum road speed of heavy vehicles. Unfortunately, there is evidence that speed limiters are frequently disabled. Speed controllers, much more effective at controlling truck speeds, are readily available devices that prevent trucks from exceeding a maximum speed under all road conditions, downhill included.
The problem is not just the roads.
Why we use trucks for freight as much we do is beyond me. Any route that sees more than 2 road trains per day should be served by rail. And maybe we could improve our passenger rail while we’re at it.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, I’m more interested in speed limits and road design within cities than I am in rural areas. But this is still a major loss for evidence-based policy. We’re not talking lowering the speed limit on major highways, just on minor, often poorly maintained, rural roads.
