Auzy
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- Comment on Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait 1 day ago:
She can buy the art off the artist or the NGA if she really wants it gone.
I’d argue there is no better way to let the world know what kind of person you are if you’re complaining about this though rather than laughing it off
- Comment on fight the power 2 weeks ago:
I’d prefer they were busy trying to remove trackers than swooping.
My friend works in outdoor lighting at certain events and recently worked on a major outdoor event. Some of the shiny treasure section went missing. Eventually, they worked out it was a magpie and it was the first time world wide a bird stole parts of the exhibit
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 3 weeks ago:
Why? He saved our asses during COVID… I never had any issues with him personally… And, the carbon tax was a good thing
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 3 weeks ago:
Interesting that you avoided the question entirely.
So, how would you place them?
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 3 weeks ago:
Huh? The guy who introduced the carbon tax, wanted people to wear masks, and who was in ALP isn’t a left winger?
The guy who is regularly on friendly jordies isn’t a left winger? The guy who knows how to speak chinese isn’t?
What do you think he is lol
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 3 weeks ago:
Which is funny, because Trump targeted our ex Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd). So the left-wingers are doing something right.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
I actually thought it was fairly standard.
But it does repeat music constantly without new songs too .
And Spotify connect is a bit of a suck fest since you need airplay or Sonos to use it on many speakers really (or matrix)
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
I hate Apple, but after Spotify paid Joe Rogan an absolutely crapton of money for his crappy podcast (which wasn’t worth that much honestly), despite not paying artists well, I swapped.
Most other services have High quality music options or otherwise too.
They don’t deserve your money. They give very little to you people you listen to
- Comment on Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Chaturbate, xHamster Over Controversial Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
These people are too stupid to use a computer and don’t want to look after their kids (they’re too lazy to monitor them when they’re on the computer).
This law is intended to shift blame for bad parenting.
I guarantee these same people are the ones blaming teachers for their dumb kids
- Comment on Chart of the Day: California surges beyond 100 pct renewables 1 month ago:
Losers have started to shift their argument from “the grid can’t handle solar” to “the grid can’t handle all the electric vehicles and the grid is already starting to load shed”
Those cleans have already shifted to the cobalt mining argument (despite vendors increasingly dropping cobalt).
Fortunately, the donkey patrol is just loud online and seemingly have no impact on normal people
- Comment on Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research 3 months ago:
yeah… I couldn’t give a toss about Australia day either way. If there is anything we can all agree on, its to make it two days
- Comment on Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research 3 months ago:
I’m not sure it is these days honestly.
I think only the loud and annoying people only care
It’s like the EV discussion, if you jump onto Facebook, you’d think everyone loves petrol. However, in practice, people are happy to switch, but just want them cheaper. But they aren’t the kind of people to be plastering Facebook with it
We have a huge problem with a small amount of toxic people here (and they cause the same problems for everything).
They might protest, but after aus day passes, honestly, it will simply flame out the debate when people realize they don’t care.
But you do make a good point, as they’d have to survive that first year
- Comment on Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research 3 months ago:
The only thing I care about is more holidays.
The donkeys smashing up Woolworths stores, and vaping on the train and driving their stupid dodge ram utes cutting through corners when driving though have ruined it for everyone.
No idea why we haven’t just changed the date yet. It’s not a big deal, and the people who are making a big deal about it are the kind of people nobody wants in Australia I’ve noticed anyway
- Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? 3 months ago:
Here in VIC, its also completely s*** there aren’t any junk mail laws.
Myself (and I heard this from others) plan to shred up any crap they put in my mailbox though from now on, and scatter it in their office. If everyone does that, it makes it unprofitable for them to do dodgy junk mail drops at least. It’s also likely totally legal, because you’re returning their litter… At the moment, they ignore NO JUNK mail signs because there are no repurcussions, but, even shoving it under their door at their office might be enough to make them stop.
I generally add their number to every callback number I can find on the internet, so they have to deal with dodgy phone calls.
- Comment on Switch 2 Allegedly Launches This September, According To An AI Company's Press Release 3 months ago:
Yeah… They do… But when they stop servicing them for free, they’re all going to fail rapidly. Apparently though, there are class action lawsuits.
They should recall them, but probably won’t
- Comment on Switch 2 Allegedly Launches This September, According To An AI Company's Press Release 4 months ago:
Nintendo has screwed their customers around so much I’m no longer interested. The constant sequels of games with the same characters also gets meh.
I’m surprised they haven’t been sued for all the joycon drift .
I don’t own a switch or a steamdeck, but my next handhold will definitely be a steamdeck (hopefully a v2)
- Comment on Reddit ☕ 4 months ago:
Was on Reddit today, and in r/Melbourne they were joking about firebombing someone.
Reddit was always a cesspool, but now without as much moderation, it’s gotten far worse (can’t even report it without an account).
- Comment on ‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase 5 months ago:
Only if it’s done during class unfortunately.
Here in Australia, two of my nutjob ex friends who work for the government and required to get vaccines didn’t.
Oh, and despite not getting them, they’re telling everyone about all the issues they’re causing in the rest of us (who are honestly perfectly healthy, including myself who took Astrozeneca)
- Comment on Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers 5 months ago:
I’ve never seen that before, but looks interesting. Unfortunately though, also looks like its still Beta.
And not sure I could rely in it for the extended long term either unfortunately if a distro developer like Canonical or the red hat guys aren’t working on it directly :(
- Comment on Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers 5 months ago:
You know what I meant… Obviously I meant something baked into a distro like Ubuntu or fedora to let me use Android apps without messing around.
Arguing semantics isn’t really helpful
- Comment on Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers 5 months ago:
Ability to easily run Android Apps natively, within Linux… There are lots of hacky ways, but I really want a proper official supported way (which both OSX and Windows does).
Because I have a few custom apps and such I need for work or for other things. Yes I can do them on my phone, but easier to do them on computer
- Comment on Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers 5 months ago:
I was going to switch to Linux, but my big hesitation at this point is none of the distros integrate Android support
Whereas osx supports iOS and Windows supports Android now
So, it’s actually far less productive for me
- Comment on Australia stuns India to claim record-extending sixth Cricket World Cup crown in Ahmedabad 5 months ago:
I dunno. I enjoyed it. I’m not a cricket fan lol
- Comment on [Satire] Optus board proud to single-handedly solve inflation in Australia, by limiting consumer spending 5 months ago:
I left Optus the moment they hired Gladys. They didn’t even wait until her investigation for corruption ended before hiring her.
Just really speaks volumes about the shady crap that happens there. I can’t trust them with basics like even telling the public if data gets compromised
- Comment on Indefinite immigration detention ruled unlawful in landmark Australian high court decision 6 months ago:
As an Aussie, thank God. Honestly, I love having foreigners in my hiking group because they’re more often respectful
More foreigners is great, and they’re not the ones screwing us either (it’s the rich boomer investors screwing us all)
- Comment on Melbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll finds 6 months ago:
You forgot, it’s also an opportunity for wealthy people to get a tax write-off for a free trip to Melbourne and network amongst themselves.
The one time I went to the race, when the actual race started, I sat with my back against the fence on my phone and didn’t even bother watching it.
It’s such a stupid event
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 6 months ago:
It’s not even worthwhile for $17. Many of the trending videos on YouTube use that stupid AI voice too, the people making the videos can’t even be bothered narrating them.
And people with under 10k subscribers can’t even monotise, so YouTube makes the money on all of those.
I’d be willing to pay maybe $3 per month.
- Comment on Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest 6 months ago:
So are you joking about assaulting her, or are you actually saying you’d do it?
At best, that’s a fairly toxic comment which doesn’t belong here
- Comment on SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds 6 months ago:
I own a jeep Unlimited… And, I don’t get why people give a crap about whether they are using petrol. I’d happily switch if a 4wd was released which was affordable and had sufficient battery.
The only real reason I have a 4wd is because I do a lot of hiking in my free time (and I got this cheap as it was 10 years old). If I wasn’t hiking though, I’d move back to my Toyota Echo Hatchback. That thing was SO easy to park, cheap to drive, and so reliable and safe.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't write your name on your referendum ballot paper 6 months ago:
In their defence, they probably do need how to vote cards, because I’m sure a lot of the No voters are probably struggling to understand the directions