Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Laws to ban live sheep exports by 2028 pass parliament following lengthy debate 1 day ago:
Its a pretty long standing policy now, hard to have assurance of continuity of business for sure.
- Comment on Laws to ban live sheep exports by 2028 pass parliament following lengthy debate 1 day ago:
Its been a long time coming. The sentiment of the rest of Australia has only grown in this direction as the terrible animal treatment in other countries and the arguments for deepening of our own economic value adding processes have strengthened.
Farmers had over a decade since the last serious push for them to set up a different business model themselves and they haven’t as an industry done it.
Its time government stepped in to provide the new direction for the industry and finally take heed of the wider Australian moral sentiment about the treatment of our animals in these circumstances.
- Comment on As Fact Check signs off after 11 years, here's your guide to being your own fact checker 3 days ago:
I didn’t read it that way. Sounds like for whatever reason the RMIT partnership is ending but ABC is going to carry on with it on their own.
This is probably a bad development. RMIT gave the work an extra sense of rigour and independence. It meant liberals and nationals, and conservatives in general couldn’t dismiss their work as just more ABC lefty commie wokeratti greenie stuff, as so many of those people reflexively do now.
The ABC should immediately start looking for a new partner of similar calibre in this ongoing endeavour.
- Comment on It's winter. so what is your favourite icecream / gelato / frozen yog flavour? 6 days ago:
Been a bit partial to vanilla icecream with one of those mini nonnas apple pies lately. If i’m feeling adventurous, a bit a custard to.
- Comment on Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ... 1 week ago:
Whats the link?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australia Community Anniversary Thread 2 weeks ago:
I’ve thought a fun promotional tag would be,
Aussie_zone, the socials alternative
Possibly recognisable from a certain media outlet ;)
Its probably better to focus on aussie_zone and any future sister servers rather than lemmy or fediverse as a whole.
Its a broad church out there. Last night i’s reading about the Maven AI controversy. People here on Aussie_zone might be cool with promotion, (also might not be), but others on Lemmy might not be, its not practical to check with everyone on every Lemmy server, and it’d not be nice to garner a perception of speaking for them.
- Comment on South Australia to legislate 'world leading' electoral donation ban prohibiting donations and gifts to political parties, backed by tough penalties for those who seek to circumvent the law 2 weeks ago:
It won’t halt all monied influences, lobbyists won’t be hit by this it seems, (its complicated to hit the bad lobbyists without hurting the good), corruption will crop up, but its a great reform nonetheless.
What i think it will do best is reset the tone from monied interests walking honourably through the front door, to sneaking guiltily in the metaphorical back. The reputational risk increases the costs for business people being seen to be influencing politics too much.
Bonus the lack of funding might reduce the amount of scare campaigns and political slinging matches due to the campaigns needing to attend to their own platform messages in a campaign rather than their opponents. Of course there’ll always be the outlying elections where the opposition can get away with virtually no platform.
Exciting news!
- Comment on Australia Community Anniversary Thread 2 weeks ago:
Sister instances would be my preferred option, it could mean we build the communities, but never have to sacrifice this instances culture by getting too large on a single instance.
Adding another view would be the way to go for sister instances to connect in a deeper way than the rest of the fediverse but still maintain some semblance of separateness.
It puts me in mind of the EU bloc, a supranational organisation, where the culture and way of life of the participating States is maintained, but many benefits of the closer connectedness are granted.
I’d be keen for a more descriptive view label than ‘curated’. Maybe it could become an extra field that admins launching sister instances are able to fill in themselves. I guess this is something we’d have to approach lemmy developers about.
Giving them the ability to have a uniquely descriptive name could be fun though. In our case it could be Australasian Allied Instances (AAI), or Australasian Union of Federating Servers (AFUS), or my personal favourite “Warboss Gorgritch’s Waargh on the Fediverse”.
and, my mind is mush, i’m going to bed…
- Comment on Australia Community Anniversary Thread 2 weeks ago:
I think your right about a need for critical mass.
Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign is probably a topic that should be discussed at some point. Be it of this instance specifically, or Lemmy in general, or even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 1 month ago:
Haha, i might have been embellished that a bit.
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 1 month ago:
People also only care about the environment for as long as it has nothing to do with their personal life
Plane travel i think is Australian’s biggest problem on this. I once had a friend spitting daggers at me for suggesting the amount of waste caused by travelling to a place like Europe every year needs to be stopped (read: trips spaced out further) until we access a different less carbon intensive transport.
I thought the point i’s making was really, really moderate considering the impacts, but my friend turned on me like i’d just insulted their mothers favourite budgie.
It was a surreal moment.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait 1 month ago:
Hahaha thats truly terrible! I can see why she wants taken down. NGA might need to extend their hours for this one.
- Comment on Budget Night Thread 1 month ago:
Sometimes means testing can become more expensive and time consuming than just getting the benefit out the door to everyone.
Plus its less popular because you inevitably have the murdoch-whingers crying about the less wealthy being undeserving by dint of their lack of wealth, and also people complaining over edge cases that miss out.
- Comment on Media Release: The Bureau issues a warning for a G4 geomagnetic storm 1 month ago:
Haha! Sorry, i wasn’t aiming the vitriol at you. I’d assumed that was the page title used. All my vitriol is aimed at the BOMs leadership :)
- Comment on Media Release: The Bureau issues a warning for a G4 geomagnetic storm 1 month ago:
The Bureau. Get stuffed! Some transient ceo having a wet dream about leading the FBI. It’ll always be the BOM!
- Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 month ago:
Did we just find the upper limit for this server?
- Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 month ago:
I’ll take the chance to say cheers for doing the same on the c/Perth/WA community. I at least appreciate it a bunch :)
- Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 month ago:
Lol Wtf, the mouse hover! Ofc
These are the problems i have when i never get off my phone!
I don’t know if i’m organised enough for down to the second work, i’m iffy with hourly estimates at the best of times.
- Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 month ago:
Right next to the comment never shows dates on jerboa, sync, or on duckduckgo when i’ve checked. As the comment gets further away in time it turns into x months ago. Which is totally fine, apart from in this case.
Cheers for the link! :)
- Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 month ago:
That sounds like its about the right timing. Where did you find that?
- Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 month ago:
It’ll be a trainline take over if @baku has anything to do with it :)
- Submitted 1 month ago to meta@aussie.zone | 36 comments
- Comment on Health and fitness 1 month ago:
My thoughts exactly.
- Comment on David McBride vs Goliath in a nutshell 1 month ago:
Coming in hot raring to go from Twitter! I like it. Welcome! :)
- Comment on 'I don't think it's that hard': The former cop who says he knows how to save more domestic violence victims 1 month ago:
Years ago I’s targetted by WAPol with a Mintie based propaganda campaign on Aussie day. I’ve been brainwashed ever since. Those sneaky bastards!
- Comment on Recommend me a music streaming service? 1 month ago:
Yeah, wow. Exactly. I hadn’t heard about this movie before. But yeah, hits the same point i’s making! With better looking delivery!
- Comment on Recommend me a music streaming service? 1 month ago:
Reading OP, i thought the same. The problem seems to be a sorting issue they have with the algorithm. Quit the reliance on that, rely instead on curated song lists and OP might have a happier time whatever new service they end up with.
- Comment on There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF? 2 months ago:
Good article. Fuck eugenics.
- Comment on There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF? 2 months ago:
The second comment also seems low effort to me.
At least for the introduction of such a separate perspective to the one being discussed.