MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@aussie.zone
- Comment on Why most Australians won't get a weekday off for Anzac Day in 2026 [but Western Australia and ACT do] 1 day ago:
This feels illegal!
- Comment on The capsicum paradox: new Australian supermarket pricing a ‘massive transparency fail’ for customers 2 days ago:
Where is the goddamn ACCC? I swear they do a good thing once in a blue moon, if that…
- Comment on Woolies' new AI system fundamentally changes the role of the shopper 2 days ago:
This would be incredibly easy to get a refund for under Australian consumer law, at least.
Not that I believe most people would do this.
Nor that any fines will be handed down for this despicable behaviour…
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 3 days ago:
Go ask the vast majority of Australians this same question and you’ll get roughly the same answer: because the number of guns in the community makes it more likely to be stolen and more likely to fall into the hands of people who will misuse those guns.
It’s the fact people can get access to guns, which is literally what happened at Bondi. The cunts had recreational licenses. Are you going to tell me with a straight face that it would not have been harder for them if recreational licenses didn’t exist? They legally owned those guns.
This isn’t America, the debate you’re having is no where near you side in this country. People don’t generally think you have a right to have a gun for fun. I would be willing to bet many people will judge you here for even being a hobbyist gun owner. As they should.
The actual hobby doesn’t bother me. I don’t doubt you won’t hurt anyone. But you’re lying to yourself and everyone if you’re going to try and deny the risk to the community recreational licenses present.
Its the number of guns out there and the ease of access that presents the risk.
In conclusion, get a new hobby. I’m in no way apologising for that position and it’s very self-centred if you can’t accept that allowing hobbyist gun ownership is a risk to the community, just because it’s fun for you.
It would suck for you if recreational licenses hopefully get removed one day, I get that, but seriously. You need to suck it up.
I hope we don’t need to have another massacre before we finally get rid of hobby licenses, and I think it’s ridiculous that wasn’t included in these law changes, considering that’s how the weapons were acquired in the first place.
Guns are necessary, but for fun? Nope.
- Comment on Civil Groups Urge NSW Police To End Protest Restrictions Ahead Of Australia Day 4 days ago:
I’m not a lawyer, and don’t know what the law is about telling people to break the law.
But when you look back at history, sometimes people have had to break the law when it’s fucking stupid, and make it unenforceable by popular will.
If you don’t stand up before it’s too late, then things will get worse.
These new laws at the state and federal levels are an affront to the principles of democracy and freedom of speech.
I hope that Sydney-siders do the ring thing this weekend.
- Comment on Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning 5 days ago:
Libs still want to destroy it.
As is natural, for neoliberal capitalists.
They hate everything that’s for the public good, instead of being run for a profit.
Fingers crossed the latest breakup of the coalition is permanent and the power vacuum shifts us (and hopefully the Labor party) further to the left.
- Comment on Four-year-old boy dies after car crashes into shopping centre in Canberra 5 days ago:
It seems to me they are saying that the community massively under-appreicates how much death and danger we accept from the use of cars.
And that our cities are STILL being designed for cars, despite decades of evidence that it’s a dumb idea (with some decent urban planning sprinkled in from time to time).
Australia has massive car-brain.
This death was assisted by that, because we don’t design our cities properly.
Cars kill. And people need to wake up to that, especially when they’re behind the wheel, which many have no choice but to do because of the design of our cities.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 5 days ago:
The number of guns you need for recreation is zero. Get a different hobby ffs.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 5 days ago:
We should limit the number of guns for recreation to zero. It’s honestly dumb it’s allowed at all.
There are legitimate uses for guns, “fun” is not one of them.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 5 days ago:
gun number limit is also a kneejerk reaction
Please explain how limiting how many guns people can have isn’t sensible.
Honestly, why do we allow “recreation” as a legitimate reason at all? Like, sorry, but when a hobby endangers the community, then it should be allowed. People will mental gymnastic a reason why it’s unfair to stop them enjoying their hobby, but I remain rather unconvinced.
I’m not across the new laws, but the limiting the number of guns someone can legally own part just doesn’t scream knee-jerk to me.
- Comment on Australians Overwhelmingly In Support Of Gun Law Reform 4 weeks ago:
Yes to everything except the gun control.
In what world does legitimate need for a gun include unlimited guns per owner? In what world does a hobby count as a legitimate use? (both things that lead the shooters to having the guns in the first place).
Sorry gun hobbyists, get a new hobby. Like how is it a sane position that you can have a hobby that puts the community at risk. Do archery ffs. It’s way cooler and you can’t kill a bunch of people in rapid succession (I mean, unless you’re Legolas)
Collecting every element as a hobby could be done responsibly, but we don’t allow that either, and for good reason. We, as a society, deem it an unacceptable risk.
Unfortunately this tragedy will be co-opted for the other bad things you mentioned, but tightening our kinda loose gun laws is not one of them.
Farmers, the military, specialised police and animal control need a certain amount of guns. The current laws do not achieve this.
- Comment on Leaked plan to limit blocking of abortion on moral grounds 1 month ago:
Good. Don’t become a doctor if you can’t separate your personal beliefs and doing the job
- Comment on A vote to approve an AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront will now pass 1 month ago:
Ahhhh, socialising the risk and privatising the profits, a tale as old as neoliberalism
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
I suspect if this comes to a head you can just change instances to one offshore .
If they start blocking tiny websites “not complying” then shit has really hit the fan.
My pet conspiracy theory is that corporations pushed for this so they can collect your ID and even more personal information you should never share with anyone on the internet.
Fuck this law is so dumb
- Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? 2 months ago:
Ahhh I see.
I mean, who’s reading the chat history anyway?
If you add someone to a chat you should say hello! Problem solved.
Further, people are already used to this with WhatsApp which functions on the same protocol (with Meta harvesting the metadata and connections of course)
- Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? 2 months ago:
There is chat history, you just have to back it up
- Comment on WeRide: Cycling community celebrates reinstatement of e-bike standard 2 months ago:
As someone who rides an e-bike with 250w power, 250w is plenty for one person.
Perhaps cargo bikes should be permitted to have higher wattages.
Want more than that? Should be licenced as a motorbike, in my humble opinion.
- Comment on Australian wholesale electricity prices are falling. So when will power bills stop rising? 2 months ago:
It’s almost like privatisation of natural monopolies makes no sense 0_0
Bring back the Victorian State Energy Commission (to be the retailer and distributor).
Hell, private generators and commerical users can keep their purchase agreements for all I care. We don’t need to nationalise every single part of the energy system (though, that’d be preferable, in my view).
But for the rest of us retail users, let’s stop doing this stupid dance where you “shop around” for an electricity plan, and get a way better collective deal by bringing back public ownership of this key infrastructure.
At a minimum distribution and retail of electricity should be publically owned and operated. Obviously.
It worked just fine in the past.
Privatisation hasn’t worked.
- Comment on GPs will soon get extra incentives to bulk bill. So will your doctor be free? 2 months ago:
I’m so sick of this stupid subsidy model.
Make our public healthcare actually public ffs.
Medical staff should be very well paid employees, and we won’t have to pay excess profits to practice owners.
Those not willing to work in the public system should get ZERO Medicare dollars, and private health should be required to cover 100% of all costs for their members. i.e. if you’re covered by private health, you should no longer be covered by public health. Why? Because it’ll make private health terribly uncompetitive, which it is, it’s a ripoff.
The public employees can unionise like everyone else. And we would do well to keep them happy, so we don’t lose them to overseas competition.
End the bulk billing model so we’re not having to do this every couple of years… Just employ medical staff and make the service free.
I’m sick of this
- Comment on Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies 2 months ago:
It’s absolutely wild we don’t have a government run job website.
Companies ought to play by our rules, not bribe a rent seeker.
- Comment on NSW Police Approval Of Neo-Nazi Parliament Rally Outrages Community 2 months ago:
They should receive a criminal charge, if it can be proven that they should have reasonably known that it was for a nazi event.
We do not have un-checked freedom of speech in this country.
Nazi speech is illegal.
- Comment on Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system? 2 months ago:
I likely would not be an engineer today if it weren’t for welfare, and my position was already fairly good.
I don’t enjoy people lamenting taxes, I don’t ever lament my taxes, and I especially don’t lament my taxes going to people who need it to give them a fair go in life (I try not to think about all the ways we’re wasting our taxes on corporate welfare and tax loopholes when I’m paying my taxes haha)
The solutions to me are simple, hire enough people to work in the department so they can actually handle their case load without absolutely hating their jobs due to burnout, iron out stupid requirements by making feedback easier to give (and give workers in the department the ability to fix them), make the automated systems actually work and not require you to call or turn up in person to get anything bloody done (when I was in the system, it felt like they were allergic to providing customer service in writing. I wasted so much of my and the worker’s time in what could have been an email and supporting evidence…), and raise the amounts you receive in line with cost of living (and in particular average cost of housing).
- Something makes me doubt it would cost all that much more money in the grand scheme of things
- Stop legislating tax cuts for Christ’s sake
- Implement wealth taxes for people with more than $10 m in assets, in a progressive nature (or some other number)
- (Unpopular) bring back inheritance taxes above a certain amount, like, ffs people, do we really like intergenerational wealth?
- Tax companies more in creative ways
- Mining tax that we should have implemented like 50 years ago, it’s our resources
- Brainstorming for fun: give a regulator or the central bank independent control over taxation rates in line with legislated guidelines so that inflation and unemployment can be managed in line with countercyclical fiscal policy, perhaps. (Could be a dumb idea)
So often you hear “what’s the solution to xyz?” and it so often is “maybe pay more”. It’s not always the solution and not usually the only problem, but these days, more often than not it is…
- Comment on CSL and Optus pay millions to executives despite paying no company tax in Australia 2 months ago:
Just a little more privatisation bro, that’ll fix infrastructure bro. Trust me bro, sell off Aus Post and it’ll be so efficient!!
I really hope we undo the madness of neoliberalism soon!
- Comment on Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout 2 months ago:
These settlements are always peanuts.
$50 million? For Facebook?
In German they’d say: “it doesn’t even give them an itch”.
- Comment on ‘Glamping’ proposal for NSW national parks slammed as privatising public assets 2 months ago:
Unless it’s run by the state, then part of the money will go towards profit.
So, a bit dumb, if you ask me.
- Comment on Optus among companies earning billions in Australia but paying no income tax 3 months ago:
Think it’s time we nationalised them. They’ve been doing dodgy shit for years.
- Comment on Governments keep making our housing crisis worse – and they’ve just done it again 3 months ago:
The fact people still think this show will be able to go on forever grinds my gears.
Humans avoiding doing things against their own collective self-interest. Challenge: impossible.
- Comment on AFP promises ‘swift action’ after Albanese, Ley and Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed online 3 months ago:
Well, when the regulator goes “have you complained to the company yet??m” as a standard first step before you can make a report, you know nothing is getting enforced.
Optus, for example, has gotten extremely small fines.
Nothing is going to change unless the cost is higher than the profit.
We as individual consumers can do very little by ourselves.
You don’t “have to” but you often do, if you don’t want to make your life a pain in the arse.
It’s basically take it or leave it. And I just don’t think that’s good enough.
- Comment on AFP promises ‘swift action’ after Albanese, Ley and Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed online 3 months ago:
I hate how there’s only mention of removing their numbers.
Why do we allow these lists and practices to exist in the first place?
It’s high time we actually start regulating data collection and use to something resembling common sense, and not allow anyone to “consent-wall” their services behind terms and conditions that allow for inappropriate collection and use of data.
I shouldn’t have to agree to marketing messages when I order dinner via a QR menu. I shouldn’t have to give Meta access to all my contact in order to use WhatsApp (I don’t, by using a work profile with no contacts on it, but this is a workaround), etc.
Time for some reason consumer protections made for the modern age, and not this silly tinkering around the edges with having them disclose how they use your data, maybe, with barely any consequences when they lose it all (see, Optus and other companies, many, many times).
Where are the fines? Where are the regulations?
I’m sick of this.
- Comment on Productivity summit ends with treasurer signalling tax reforms 5 months ago:
Not raise, but bring up to levels road users were previously paying.
Road maintenance doesn’t stop being required just because you’ve stopped burning oil.
Road users should pay to use the road.