Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 1 day ago:
I suppose thats an understandable position for your wife to have taken. Sorry about your workmate.
But, damn! I was so sure it was Armaguard.
Didn’t even know armed security guards for buildings/premises was a thing in Aus. But then i don’t tend to hang around fancy places when they’re closed to see.
I still reckon theres an IAMA in this.
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 1 day ago:
I can’t help but start guessing at the sort of security job this was,
My first thought was as personal security to some politician, maybe even Big Brows Howard himself! Kind of relevant to the article.
But i reckon your job must really have been driving the Armaguard, (money trucks), to and from the banks and casinos, etc.
In which case, wheres the AMA?
Did any drongos ever try a heist?
- Comment on What's everyone doing tonight? 4 days ago:
Looks an interesting game.
- Comment on Australian Government funnelled $2.5B to Israeli arms manufacturers 6 days ago:
no reason for the Australian Government to not do business with Israeli companies if they provide a product/service that the government needs
Not supporting a country whose military and leadership are committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and running an apartheid regime is the reason. Its not rocket science.
In what small ways a country like Australia can push back against the persecution of these people, especially when its an erstwhile ally of ours committing them, we should, and stand up for the rights of humanity.
Be sure to remember there is also self interest as well as morals here. After all we Australians might one day come to rely on the safe harbours these international conventions provide that the Israeli’s (among others) are ignoring and pissing all over.
If there is no reaction and cost for these crimes, we can pack the international institutions up and lock our borders in the very real knowledge that others will come for us and our ‘stuff’, and human history shows ‘they’ always come.
Thats not a world Israelis, Australians, Palestinians or any others should want to live in. Better we call Israel out and try to reduce as much disintegration of international norms as is possible for a middle power to do.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 6 days ago:
Whats the difference between this event and a DDoS event?
I was able to access AZ on the browser during the downtime period, i’d assume that wouldn’t be the case with a DDoS?
- Comment on Australia, why are you still obsessed with freeways – when they’re driving us away from net zero? 1 week ago:
Haha, yeah it was a pretty hairy ride in places, but other parts were really nice down by the river, even some of the back roads in the welshpool industrial area were nice to ride down.
- Comment on Australia, why are you still obsessed with freeways – when they’re driving us away from net zero? 1 week ago:
Hahaha
- Comment on Australia, why are you still obsessed with freeways – when they’re driving us away from net zero? 1 week ago:
Hmm, i had a road like that when i rode to work, Orrong rd, if you want to look it up. It was ‘dual carriageway??’ (I think, thats what you call it) and busy as fuck.
Riding along that road sounds similar to how you describe. I don’t know if anyone was really gunning for me, the roads construction feels constricting to the driver if you’re trying to pass a rider, so i’s happy to give the benefit of the doubt when a driver got a bit close.
After about a month or so I realised the council had me sorted, they’d constructed a safe road specifically for riders running parallel to Orrong, of course, until you reached the industrial area, no one ever gives a shit about riders or public transport in industrial areas, that shits me.
- Comment on Quiz: can you pick a Victorian from a Queenslander? How our accents change from state to state 1 week ago:
Something… something… SAND!!!.. something… minesite… something… something… the Ore must flow.
- Comment on Australia, why are you still obsessed with freeways – when they’re driving us away from net zero? 1 week ago:
The bus driver bit is very surprising. Got some aggressive drivers out there in brisvegas hey?
But i’m not in the Perth city much, the roads are quieter where I am, pretty sure your inner suburbs brisbane so maybe theres a difference in that.
- Comment on Australia, why are you still obsessed with freeways – when they’re driving us away from net zero? 1 week ago:
Not saying you’re wrong, the driver road rage mentality is definitely a thing, especially when it comes to cyclists.
But i’ve been surprised at the difference the 1 metre separation, etc laws have made to drivers general behaviour to cyclists. I think it really set a tone for better behaviour.
Since those laws were introduced i’ve seen one aggressive driver to cyclists. So thats a cool bit of annecdotal progress.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
Gotchya, yeah in terms of control we certainly have more power over the Indigenous rights and Asylum Seekers.
Time for a hot take: (somewhat unrelated)
I actually have come to really credit Dutton for what he did with the boat people issue.
“We don’t comment on on-water matters.”
With that he killed a line of attack used against progressive parties in this country by conservatives.
And suddenly the conversations around asylum seekers arriving by boat couldn’t be a national pinata for the news.
It hasn’t solved any of the fundamental rights violations, but it did take the politics and grand standing way out of it. But the professionals have to carry out their work, but with less fear of a national outrage campaign against their decisions.
I’m not saying it has lead to better delivery of rights, but i am saying he created a situation where the delivery of better rights is more likely. Away from the culture wars and political grandstanding decision making can be clearer.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
I don’t subscribe to the theories around CIA grand strategy there, the US has many fingers in many pies doesn’talways mean they’repulling the puppet strings.
I’ve learned a bit about that period, and Kerr really seemed to have a boner for using that power and being the big (conservative) dog.
Also i’m not sure its as simple now for the GG to go ahead and do that, i can’t remember the details but i think the GG’s requirements forbuse of that power were significantly tightened in its aftermath.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
Wow. Interesting time for sure. I’s under the impression John Howard’s sudden flip was down to the Americans saying go.
Yep, it will have to come down to grass roots.
Thats how Albanese plays everything. Maybe with the possible exception of the Voice to Parliament, he goes about a bees dick further than the public on everything.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
Until a Government actually takes us down that road i suppose we can’t really know what costs Australians would be willing to endure, so i guess its my hunch.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue what is happening in Gaza is very relevent to anybody who believes they benefit from a world system that ‘should’ frown upon neighbours attacking each other. Australians in general i argue fit that bill.
I suppose indigenous rights are more relevant to Australians than whats happening in Gaza, although i’m not sure on that. The fundamental right to live in peace within borders of your community, even if un-recognised, seems to me to be a foundational pillar for indigenous rights to stand upon. In this instance if we don’t stand up against genocide and violations of human rights in Palestine, then it seems hypocritical to stand up for indigenous rights at home.
But the above assumes a faith in an internationalist cause, i think there is a stronger argument, without hypocrisy, if a person determines they have more parochial concerns and values.
I’ve left out the asylum seekers because there is always a very clear motivation to demonise and alienate that group in any society. They are targetted because they can be, and at little to no cost for the attackers. Its bullshit that people don’t see through the carousel of propaganda and lies that wheels around endlessly targetting immigrants. So i suppose its a rights issue, but i think its different from Indigenous rights. Their mix of rights are a result of gaslighting and prejudice. I haven’t explained myself well here, sorry.
pro-Palestinian advocacy really costs Australians nothing, so for most the opportunity to take a selfish position doesn’t exist. It’s free moral high ground with zero trade-offs.
I want to come back to re-read this when i’m in different mental contexts. Its right, but i think it’ll hit different as i consider different actor’s motivations.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
It is. Theres a point in things where you have to say as a nation we’re willing to wear the consequences of our convictions.
Its a shame that i feel that Australians aren’t willing to accept costs like those for what i still believe are broadly held convictions about how we want to live in the world.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
Well, what are the costs of moves like those. I’m working on a moral and humanist calculus, Albanese may be partially working on that, but he’ll also be working from a political calculus.
The US has made it pretty clear that Israel is their favourite protectorate. If, as you say in another comment, we are owned by the US, then does that mean in the heirarchy of protectorates we are lower than Israel and therefore likely to seriously damage our standing with the US by imposing arms sanctions? And what does that mean for Australian military defence? And technology supply?
For one thing, we’d have to be ready for massive and disproportionate responses from the fascists in charge in the US. Is our defence establishment ready for that? Our population psychologically ready for that?
I’m proposing these, not as my values, but to demonstrate that this is more complicated for the politicians than for ordinary people. PK on Politics Now podcast had a good discussion on this last week.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 2 weeks ago:
Its come so late, but the lobbying and propaganda is always an ongoing threat Australia needs to be alive to. Mike Burgess alluded to similar, without naming names a couple weeks ago.
I’d say the crimes committed have reached a breaking point where the propaganda and lobbying of Israel has finally failed to be succcessful in light of the reality.
Its horrible that we couldn’t have the moral courage to be more decisive earlier, and act in the interests of humanity. This is a failing we own as Australians.
- Comment on When it comes to food, my dog is like a tow truck driver. 3 weeks ago:
Ha, cheese addiction has gotta be a thing with dogs.
My dog knows the sound the cheese container makes very well. That fuckers come in from outside when we’ve got that container out in the past.
I’ve stopped giving him cheese now, (i think i read its toxic for dogs), so he doesn’t care so much about when we get it out. I wonder if the sound gives him happy reminiscences though?
- Comment on When it comes to food, my dog is like a tow truck driver. 3 weeks ago:
Its gettin put through the crusher as soon as posession is taken.
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- Comment on aussie.zone down 4 weeks ago:
I’m here. Things seem to load fine, haven’t tried to upload any posts though.
- Comment on First Australian tanks handed over to Ukrainian army 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah thats a good idea. I’d probably get too lost with the contents of the articles if i didn’t post one at a time, even if i’d previously read them! But all power to someone who can do that!
Kinda hoping they find and share from sources I’m unfamiliar with to expand the range.
Too true, that’d be my one current gripe with AZ, and Dev’s pretty big on that train.
Sometimes its just ABC articles followed by Guardian articles. Makes me worry AZs a bit stale with such a heavy reliance on those two medias.
- Comment on First Australian tanks handed over to Ukrainian army 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, i’ve noticed that batch behaviour Dav does, i imagine they must sit down in the evenings, catch up on the news of the day for themselves, then share the articles to Lemmy as they go.
I hope they actually read the articles though, feels fake to me when posts are just shovelled up and the user doesn’t seem to have taken the timebto read it themselves.
- Comment on First Australian tanks handed over to Ukrainian army 5 weeks ago:
Because you’ve already posted this in overseas news?
Yeah, scrolling ‘Local’ these double posts do become a bit of a block. They are posted in different communities, i suppose.
- Comment on Uploaded by Renee Coffey, Member for Griffith 1 month ago:
Oh, thats cool! We should definitely make LOR maps the standard map for Aus.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 1 month ago:
There are many floors to the beer plan, one of which i may hit, depending on how many different social media services i need to prove my age to…
That JP idea is actually good. Whats better it relies on a system that is already in place and has a high level of trust. A specific Social Media verification Government stipend would be needed for JP’s though, as this would become a massive initial, and largish ongoing increase in demand for their services.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 1 month ago:
Get everybody to go buy a beer at their local bar. Then post a pic of their username, bar, and the beer. Age Verified by industry professionals.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 2 months ago:
Only a communist deals in absolutes! … wait… thats not it…