Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia Under-16 Social Media Ban: Unintended Consequences 5 hours ago:
I’m not using my usual archiver because for some reason they’re ddos-ing some random dev’s personal blog
Fwiw they seem to have stopped that. At least when I checked a couple of days ago.
web.archive.org is a little more work to use and sometimes fails on paywalls that archive.today/.is doesn’t, but it’s 100% morally upstanding as an archival tool.
- Comment on Is Australia a Good Place To Be Transgender? | FairyPrincessLucy 2 days ago:
My interpretation of the video is that it’s a yes, but I can’t relate to it from any personal experience.
- Comment on Is Australia a Good Place To Be Transgender? | FairyPrincessLucy 3 days ago:
Yeah Lemmy’s cross-post detection feature is telling me it was posted to !videos@quokka.au by @Quokka@quokk.au.
- Comment on Is Australia a Good Place To Be Transgender? | FairyPrincessLucy 3 days ago:
You have to pay to go to a dentist
Unfortunately
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- Comment on Substack won't let me in without verifying age, and VPN doesn't work; any ideas? 4 days ago:
When I first read your comment I figured it was some weird bug in the site. But the truth is so, so much weirder.
Wow, I read through the HN comments on that and it is just wild. Allegedly posted by the archive.today owner themselves, outing the fact that they were doing a DDOS. Allegations that archive.today is run by Kremlin operatives, or by the FBI, or that all of this has come out as the result of some sort of a dead man switch for…some reason. And talking about past drama with Cloudflare. And the alleged doxing that initiated all of this…even though it’s nearly 3 years old now. And is the doxer actually there in the HN comments, or is that a troll impersonating them?
Anyway, it doesn’t seem to be doing it anymore.
- Comment on Substack won't let me in without verifying age, and VPN doesn't work; any ideas? 4 days ago:
Try just using archive.is.
Substack is a platform that promotes Nazis anyway, so denying them the legitimate clicks is worthwhile.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
If you’re so illiterate you can’t even understand your own comment, I don’t know that there’s much value in continuing here.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s your logic, you explain it
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah I see. Racism is ok then, when it “affects only a very small percentage of the population.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
3rd March 1986 is the date the Australia Acts were enacted, which is actually what removed the last shackles of UK dominion over Australia, including the UK’s ability to pass legislation that would have effect in Australia or for Australians to appeal to the UK privy council. Up until this point, Australia was officially still a dominion of the British Empire.
The Statute of Westminster was officially adopted on 9th October 1942, though it was backdated to 3rd September 1939. It removed most of the ability of the UK to legislate with effect in Australia (still enabling them to legislate over Australia with Australia’s “express request and consent”), removed the ability of the monarch to refuse to allow the Governor-General to give royal assent, and gave Australia the ability to control the laws of royal succession independently of the UK, which is why prior to William having his first kid, Australia (and other countries such as NZ, in addition to the UK itself) had to enact legal changes to the laws of succession in order to allow for succession to be simple primogeniture, rather than male-preference primogeniture.
So that’s 3 good dates there: 3 March, 3 September, and 9 October.
There’s also 9 July, which is the date the Australia Constitution Act 1900 was enacted by the UK Parliament, allowing for federation to occur on 1 January the following year. So a potential 4th date, but kinda a lame one IMO.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m with you. 3rd March is a good pick for both what it represents (throwing off the shackles of the British) and for the time of year (early Autumn is basically still summer), and I strongly support the idea of changing it to that date.
I think I would prefer 3rd September or 9th October, the date the Statute of Westminster was enacted (depending on whether you go by the date it actually passed in 1942, or the date it was retroactively applied to in 1939). They both come at a time of year where there’s a relative lack of public holidays. The 5 month period from late December to early May already have Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year’s, Good Friday, Easter Monday, ANZAC Day, and Labour Day. That’s 7. The entire rest of the year has just 2!
(Using Queensland dates here, but the trend is similar elsewhere, with a lot of state or local public holidays also being in that span. And, obviously, I’m discounting Australia Day from the 5-month period for the sake of the hypothetical. Otherwise it would be 8.)
Ideal would be an early November/late October holiday, to get that warm weather while still being reasonably removed from the Christmas–Labour Day period. The early October of the date the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act received royal assent is a little earlier than ideal, but has the added bonus of some synergy with ACT, NSW, and SA’s Labour Day, as well as Qld’s King’s Birthday, giving two long weekends in a row: sometimes (including this year) a 3-day week, usually two 4-day weeks in a row.
But any of these dates would make great alternatives and have my strong support.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
We had a referendum about this
Not in my lifetime we sure as fuck didn’t.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I hate racism, promoting one race over other is racism no mater what
Very true. Why, then, are you not opposed to our national celebratory holiday being moved away from a day seen as a day of mourning by some, because of what it represents for them and their culture?
- Comment on Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark 1 week ago:
Why the fuck do they even need to talk about (non-avian) dinosaurs at all? If the point they’re trying to address is “how did meat eaters on the ark survive?” they could just as easily talk about lions, tigers, wolves, etc.
- Comment on Woolies' new AI system fundamentally changes the role of the shopper 1 week ago:
I’m with Woolies Mobile, which gets me 10% off of one shop per month. I signed up when they had some really great long-expiry plans so I pay only about $12 per month on average, paid annually instead of monthly. The catch was…right after I recharged for the second time, they announced you can no longer use the monthly discount on online orders.
It was about that time they made their Delivery Unlimited worse too, though I forget exactly how.
- Comment on Woolies' new AI system fundamentally changes the role of the shopper 1 week ago:
It’s for online delivery and direct to boot orders I assume, but no thanks.
Though I haven’t used online delivery or direct to boot orders since they decided you’re not allowed to use your monthly discount on anything other than in-store.
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- Comment on Ibis chicks are as ugly as I imagined... 2 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Too close to green and gold, the indication “only Australians can swim here”.
