Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question 1 day ago:
Okay interesting, thats a broad point to claim. If supply is always the problem, and demand never the problem, then, running with the food theme, why is sugar so popular?
Humans went to extraodinray lengths, and committed many crimes against others to produce and secure supplies of sugar cane in particular. Whole nations now exist that are a result of that trade hundreds of years ago. Supply of sugar was hard, and while its quite abundant now, i think its hard to argue that people don’t still exert a massive demand pull for the product in a multitude of forms.
The demand for sugar was so high in France during Napoleon’s reign that when the British essentially cut off the French from the sugar fields of the Carribean, the French were under pressure to develop a substitute for the citizenry in the form of beet sugar, apparently a poor and expensive substitute. So where supply was cut off, the pressure of the demand side created an alternative product.
Time to out myself here, i’m not impartial in this discussion. I may have asked my partner to stop in at the shops to grab biscuits for a sweet snack. My brain demanded sweetness, and I delivered… well, my partner delivered…
- Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question 1 day ago:
There is no implication, you’ve misunderstood why he’s made that comparison.
Think about it this way, if the housing stock of the world is to be considered, what set of that stock is likely to be acceptable to the Australian public? This is why Kohler picked the Egyptian example, do you think Australians are going to want to live in the same kind of housing that Egyptians live in? Its a non-starter.
By creating such a broad and arbitrary yardstick, the NSW Minister has just invited a political and media circus. All because he failed to account for the set of the world’s housing stock that Australians would find acceptable. There are plenty of acceptable denser housing examples to create a set of realistic options out of.
The Minister should be comparing like for like in terms of quality of housing and quality of life that brings, the measure he has chosen won’t do that, and is ridiculous for the exercise. That is Kohler’s not so subtle point.
- Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question 1 day ago:
So you’re in agreement with Kohler,. Least dense city is a metric the NSW Planning and Public Spaces Minister used, Kohler is demonstrating why its a silly metric to use by highlighting the complexities and diversity of housing across the world being boiled down to a single metric like the NSW Minister is trying to do with this ‘Least Dense Housing’ yardstick.
- Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question 1 day ago:
Gonna need some examples from the text where he’s being sneaky and not just trying to represent reality in a highly politicised (cheers murdoch cunts) conversation. Alan Kohlers not known for being rich in those sentiments.
- Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question 1 day ago:
Those objecting to the densification of Australia’s cities needn’t worry because there aren’t enough tradies to build the apartments anyway.
I love Kohler’s writing, he’s got this gentle satirisation style that punctuates the sometimes dry topics he covers.
Anyway supply and demand, how about the electorate start realising demand is the problem as well, and maybe we’ll get there. I suppose the problem there is it comes back to the Upton Sinclair quote,
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it
Too few home owners are willing to sacrifice their personal slice of wealth for a more stable national settlement. So the ivory tower grows, so the space on each floor narrows. Such is a downside of Australia’s strong ownership rights largely only enforceable by the already wealthy.
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- Comment on Don’t mistake truth for hate, prime minister 1 week ago:
When we finally reached the Israeli side, the humiliation deepened. Soldiers shouted “Ishlaḥ” – take off your shoes. We were herded into lines. My two-year-old cried when her pink Sketchers were taken and thrown into a pile with dozens of others. Then came the strip searches. In the cold of late winter, exhausted and hungry, my daughters sobbed as we were forced to undress under the gaze of armed soldiers.
This is the part in that open letter that really sticks for me. No wonder the Israelis can’t see the crimes in their constant attacks, the whole regime is so dehumanising to the other. How do you deprogram, what seems, almost a whole nation?
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 1 week ago:
There is no way you should be paying that on your own. I thought things were good with once a year payments, but i’ll look at setting payments up for monthly instead. I’ll increase the amount as well.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 1 week ago:
Well, okay. You know more about this stuff than i, it might not be a bot. If you view by Local theres usually a post in the top ten most active still up from their latest account.
Theres someone that keeps launching new lemmy.world accounts and spamming some AZ communities. A look at their history and you can see they’re doing the same with British and European communities as well. The accounts when left to run, quickly reach the hundreds of posts, with only a few comments so there seems to be someone actively controlling it to some degree? Some of the comments were… interesting. They don’t seem malicious, from what i’ve seen at least, but definitely spammy, which can undercut quality of discussions.
So i don’t know if this is a bot or not, but its kinda insane behaviour, relentless, if its a person doing all of it.
- Comment on ‘We would reverse it’: Ley writes back to Republicans over recognition of Palestine 2 weeks ago:
nor did he seek advice from the queen
Jenny Hocking - Palace Letters is definitely a key source for these questions.
Kerr certainly sought a great deal of advice from the Queen through her private secretary Charteris.
Anthony Mason, and one other High court judge were certainly involved.
CIA, they might not have liked Whitlam, they mighy have expressed a specific interest in the happenings of an ally. But i don’t know if i’d even call that circumstantial evidence they were involved. The Americans could have been given a nod and a wink from Buckingham.
The key element here though, is Kerr pursued it for months and months contacting and almost obsessing over this unproven power. From what i’ve read, i can’t see that anyone but Kerr himself was the central driving force behind the sacking. The rest are certainly interested parties though, some like the High court justices i think acted treasonously.
- Comment on Fiona Stanley ‘ashamed’ after hospital bearing her name cancelled event featuring Palestinian Australian doctors 2 weeks ago:
This ‘executive’ needs to be named and their decision makong process investigated with any violations of personal rights, or against hospital policy being punished to the correct level.
This procedural protection racket for the powerful can’t go on. It undermines the public licence these institutions have.
- Comment on Fiona Stanley ‘ashamed’ after hospital bearing her name cancelled event featuring Palestinian Australian doctors 2 weeks ago:
Mustafa noted that five days earlier, Royal Perth hospital had hosted a talk by an Israeli surgeon, who spoke about the 7 October Hamas attacks as a mass casualty event and received significant sympathetic media coverage.
“I am working as a doctor within [this system], and I’m not allowed to talk because they said it was too political,” Mustafa said. “There is a huge disparity here.”
What a surprise, yet again the powerful are handed the larger megaphone. I know its different hospital etc, bit lets see Royal Perth step up and take on this lecture as well then.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 2 weeks ago:
It must be time consuming, especially due to the constant monitoring.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 2 weeks ago:
We’re pretty protective of our ~500ish regulars. We are not a large instance, but our users are very engaged. We don’t want them to be drowned out by a massive influx of new accounts utterly shifting the vibe of the site overnight
Well i hadn’t considered that, but perhaps i should’ve considering the effect that one bot account has had.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 2 weeks ago:
Whoever has been spamming Lemmy with that bot, davriellelouna or whatever they’ve called it this week, i think has deteriorated the salience of discussions to a degree. But these accounts a getting tagged really quickly in the last week, i suppose this is something Lodion and Nath are doing in the background. Cheers for your efforts admins!
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, i think Lodions a great steady hand on the tiller. For me, i feel like AZ could become the basis for a wider ‘fediverse first’ set of social media alternatives for Australians. That would take more active growth and discussions and actions on direction in that vein. Lodion has a different vision to me on this projects development, and Lodions the lead on this experiment, and we’ve hashed that out before.
There are definitely practical, time consuming administrative hurdles that Lodion and Nath have highlighted that a user and cheerleader like me rarely notices, i think this is a key driver behind the non-listing. The only thing i can say to that is there seems a fairly technologically knowledgable and engaged set of people on AZ that might be willing to muck in to support the project in material administrative ways. There are some particular users that i’m surprised aren’t admins from the beginning tbh, but thats my ‘on the outside looking in’ assessment of a situation i don’t really know about.
- Comment on 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2 weeks ago:
Based on your server name, your from the UK?
Shaun the Sheep is an excellent one for the kids, Bluey is as well.
Paddington bear is interesting, in that its a nice show for the kids to watch, but i notice its very British upper middle class with it’s approach.
- Comment on Summer is coming. How long do you shower for? 2 weeks ago:
I think the water corp in WA still say they want everybody over here having 4 minute showers. So… yeah…
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- Comment on [Video] Sky news called out for endorsing collective starvation of Palestinians 3 weeks ago:
Well done.
It just confounds me, the hypocritical double-think of people like this skynews host. They’re are able to contort themselves into such farcicle positions. It would be funny if their lack of self reflection didn’t contribute to such horrifying outcomes.
- Comment on Pay to deport. Australia's shameful return of penal colonies - Michael West 3 weeks ago:
We can’t have a fair minded national discussion about these unresolved issues and contradictions because revanchivist bigots who hoard so much power in this country quash any discussion beginning with yet another culture war through their onsanely large networks of propaganda.
- Comment on what is up with u/dwazoup 4 weeks ago:
Just noticed this new account myself! Bad week for dav! Accout after account, tututut…
Yeah its too much, never know, maybe this new account has been improved, but i’d rather not interact with a bot all the time.
Interestingly there were a few comments last week from the u/davriellelouna account. I’d started to hope the person behind it had decided to engage in a more meaningful way, but no go.
- Comment on what is up with u/dwazoup 4 weeks ago:
Hey Blaze! :)
Didn’t realise the account had been banned places, seemed to be everywhere for a while. Maybe if it is somebody fiddling about with a bot they step off the gas a bit with their posting schedule. Feels like an avalanche of irrelevance at times with all the seemingly aimless, and low substance posts.
I’m all for boosting activity on Lemmy, but activity for activity’s sake risks a slop-like situation.
It also quickly buries posts that may be more engaging quicker than is necessarily necessary. A slower social media doesn’t mean a bad social media after all.
- Comment on Recently got approved for the block with this view. 4 weeks ago:
Oh cool! That mini dragon will keep the rats down!
- Comment on Recently got approved for the block with this view. 4 weeks ago:
Hows the snake situation? Theres a lot of grass around there
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Claim 1544 migrants arrive daily misuses data: experts | AAP 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for posting this. The Media Watch transcript is a useful quick summary,
In fact, there are reliable migration numbers laying about—and what do they show?
"Over the 12 months to 31 December 2024, NOM [Net Overseas Migration] was estimated at 341,000 – a decrease of 190,000 (36 per cent) …"
- Email, Department of Home Affairs Spokesperson, 21 August, 2025
Which paints a somewhat different picture, no?
And while, yes, the data has been used as an indicator of long-term migration trends, the experts we spoke to assured us that rather than being overwhelmed by migrants in fact, we’re getting fewer:
"… it is our expectation that net overseas migration will continue to fall when the next round of numbers is published in September …"
- Email, Peter McDonald, Emeritus Professor of Demography, Australian National University, 22 August, 2025
- Comment on Who is telling the truth? 4 weeks ago:
To add to and continue your theme,
A Voice from Independent Media
In Sydney, protest organiser Jesse Stewart spoke about the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory – the key ideological underpinning of the Christchurch shooter who murdered 51 Muslims.
The leaders of neo-Nazi groups were handed the microphone to rail against “Indians, Africans, and Chinese” migrants who were “exploiting” Australian land. They received loud cheers.
In Brisbane, when some participants expressed dismay that Nazis were being platformed, the crowd dismissed them.
- Comment on Do I have permission to create a very unsavoury community? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe if everything that appears on the feed was blurred it could be accepted.
But i don’t see how this wouldn’t contravene Rules 1, and 5 quite often.
Rule 1: Grandma’s are unlikely to be shown this kinda stuff.
Rule 5: I think theres some pretty strict rules about death related content in Australia. I’m not on top of these laws, a moderator though would absolutely have to be.
- Comment on Development Suggestion: Instance Engagement Filter to visit other specific instances to interact only with their local communities. 5 weeks ago: