Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Watch: Gout Gout stuns with a record-equalling time in the 100 metres 1 day ago:
Sorry, you got beaten to that exact same joke earlier this month in this same community.
A while ago his dad came out and said the original South Sudanese name is actually Guot (pronounced gwot), and its spelling changed because of a transcription error when they fled to Egypt. But his manager said they’re sticking with the name Gout. I don’t think I’ve heard anything on the subject from the kid himself.
- Comment on Watch: Gout Gout stuns with a record-equalling time in the 100 metres 1 day ago:
The DDoS thing seemed to have already stopped when I first heard the news last month. I certainly wouldn’t rely on them for serious archival purposes, but as a quick and easy link to send people that will bypass paywalls I still haven’t found a better alternative.
- Comment on Watch: Gout Gout stuns with a record-equalling time in the 100 metres 1 day ago:
Ah, looks like it’s back. It was down when I first posted this.
Screenshot of Down for Everyone or Just Me showing Internet Archive as down.
- Submitted 1 day ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Grace Tame event moved after Murdoch coverage fuels harassment campaign 2 days ago:
Unironically, this should be evidence that the Murdoch media would be labelled a hate group under the laws passed last month.
- Comment on Communities for each state and territory 1 week ago:
Even on Reddit, the state subreddits are an afterthought compared to the capital city subreddits. The best place to go for Queensland politics is /r/brisbane, for example. /r/queensland exists, but is not nearly as active.
If Reddit can’t make state subreddits work, I don’t think there’s much point in us trying here.
P.S., this type of post should be in !meta@aussie.zone.
- Comment on NSW Premier Greenlights Extra Holiday For Long Anzac Day Weekend 1 week ago:
Cmon Crisafulli, take the hint! It’s an easy win for you!
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
Whisky is a fantastic example of exactly what I’m talking about. Nobody has a regional claim preventing you making whisky whereger you want. Scotch whisky uses Scotch as an adjective telling you it’s the type of whisky made in Scotland.
If the town of Parma didn’t want people calling their cheese parmesan, they shouldn’t have named it using their town name as the noun for the whole style of cheese.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
If they think their ingredients are so much superior than the same product made elsewhere, they should be fine with calling it “parmesan from Parma”. As it is, in places that respect this form of intellectual property, they’re essentially given a state-backed artificial monopoly that props them up more than their product can earn on its own merits.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
No, I’m pointing out that one particular style of cheese has been conflated by the region. But parmesan cheese is a style of cheese. You wouldn’t start calling a smooth, creamy, yellow cheese “parmesan” just because it was made in Parma. No, that’s still gouda. Likewise, a hard granular aged cheese doesn’t become gouda when you make it in the town of Gouda. In fact, if that was true, I’d probably have more respect for the geographic indications. If any style of cheese was Parmesan when made in Parma, then the word “Parmesan” would be an accurate adjective worthy of protection, in the same way I’m saying “Belgian chocolate” should be protected for chocolate made in Belgium. But they insist on saying it’s one specific style of cheese. But they want you to only call it by the name of the style of cheese that it is if it’s also made there. No thanks.
The name belongs to the style, and the EU’s protectionist policies don’t change that fact.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
Why would you think I need to look anything up?
I think you’re right that capitalism is involved. But the capitalists are the ones rigidly trying to enforce one of the most ludicrous types of intellectual property. If someone says “parmesan cheese” or “champagne”, I don’t care where it was made. I care about the qualities of the product itself. Which can be made anywhere. All that happens when they restrict it is they’re artificially supporting businesses in one area by giving them a state-sponsored monopoly on an entire class of product.
It’s not super different from trademarks. And while I’m not necessarily in favour of the total abolition of trademarks, I am in favour of legal genericisation being much, much easier. Velcro, frisbee, and bandaid, for example, are so obviously genericised now in practice, they should be legally. Words like parmesan and champagne are no different. Indeed, geographic indicators are always like this, because they by definition can’t be limited in the way a true trademark is.
If the people of Parma believe their parmesan is superior, they should be able to survive by calling it “parmesan made in Parma”. And if they didn’t want their region’s name to be part of the generic name for the product…they shouldn’t have insisted on conflating their region with the type of cheese in the first place.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
It’s like calling a Lepatata from Botswana a Didgeridoo because they are both wind instruments
No, it’s not. It’s like calling a didgeridoo made in Botswana a didgeridoo. Which would be fair, because that’s what it would be. A didgeridoo has a different shape to a lepatata. Saying that any two woodwind instruments are the same is absurd.
Australia already has plenty of parmesan cheese on the shelves. If parmesan from Parma is a superior product, it can succeed on its own merits. Government crony capitalism protecting it shouldn’t be forced on us to make it succeed.
Take the chocolate example I made above. In addition to the countries I listed, you can also sell chocolate as being “made in America”. And because of the reputation, I would avoid the American chocolate and buy the Swiss or Belgian chocolate. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to call their product what it is.
This is just yet another shitty example of the EU forcing its protectionism onto the rest of the world while claiming to be a bastion of free markets and capitalism. The hypocrisy is laughable. And even more laughable is the amount of people who back them up on it.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
But it’s not parmigiano reggiano
Yes, it is. Some dumb fuck ultra conservative European laws don’t change that. Australian law doesn’t currently protect the name, and I can go out right now and buy parmesan cheese that wasn’t made in Italy.
The law changing would make it illegal to keep doing that, but it wouldn’t change reality. Reality being that the type of cheese they sell today is the same as the type of cheese they’re selling in the future.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
The problem is when the region is the name of the product. That shouldn’t be allowed. Using words like “made in” should absolutely be protected and required to be honest, because anything else is dishonest marketing. But parmesan is a type of cheese, and the fact that it’s named after a region in Italy doesn’t change the fact that you can make exactly the same type of cheese in Victoria.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 1 week ago:
I fucking detest geographic indicators. How is parmesan from northern Italy meaningfully different from parmesan made in Victoria? I hope that point doesn’t get compromised on.
- Comment on It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon 1 week ago:
“Alleged+” is certainly an interesting way of phrasing “officially declared by the relevant independent UN commission”. That certainly is above alleged.
- Comment on It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon 1 week ago:
You’re right, the point of the AFL isn’t the same as a protest.
The point of the protest is to stop our country’s government from aiding and abetting a genocide. Anything else pales in comparison.
- Comment on Australian sprint star Gout Gout will not race at 2026 Commonwealth Games [because he's focusing on the world under-20 championships in August] 1 week ago:
Two negatives make a positive, I guess.
- Australian sprint star Gout Gout will not race at 2026 Commonwealth Games [because he's focusing on the world under-20 championships in August]www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
You have to pay to go to a dentist
Unfortunately
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Substack won't let me in without verifying age, and VPN doesn't work; any ideas? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Try just using archive.is.
Substack is a platform that promotes Nazis anyway, so denying them the legitimate clicks is worthwhile.
- Comment on 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
It’s your logic, you explain it
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Ah I see. Racism is ok then, when it “affects only a very small percentage of the population.”
- Comment on 4 weeks 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.
