Mountaineer

@Mountaineer@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion: Australians remain deeply sceptical about the value of private healthcare – it’s time for radical reform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read that enough youth are just taking the surcharge and loading on the chin that insurers have started to worry.

  I’m not young, but I’m doing this.
  My tiny ideological stand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telepathy will be real once we master brain computer interface⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept of direct brain interface is both exciting and terrifying.
  We struggle to secure offline systems against determined attack, and my brain is not a test bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain Australian parties to me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in 1909 The Protectionist Party and Anti-Socialist Party put aside their differences to take on the Labor party, which was seen as Socialist.
  The founders wanted freedom (Liberty) from what they saw as Labour Union dominion.

  Funnily enough, an actual Libertarian party has since popped up and the Liberals challenged their name with the AEC, which as I said is funny because the Electoral Commision correctly pointed out that if ANYBODY has an incorrect name, it’s the Liberals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor's home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here's how | Adam Morton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It needs to be mandated that if you own a rental, it will have a battery and solar setup of a minimum size.
  Otherwise renters are a key demographic that will miss out on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you forget that you hired THEM because you weren't skilled enough to do it yourself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fantastic.
  Tradie doesn’t want to be watched while they work.
  I want to learn by watching, so I’ll hire someone else.
  We both get what we want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL: Deer are popping off down here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s venison farms.
  I don’t know how many or where.
  Theoretically all the ferals are escapees, as they have never been officially released (unlike rabbits, foxes, cane toads etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL: Deer are popping off down here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Regulatory Capture.
  The government didn’t want to be in charge of this, so they’ve offloaded the responsibility (and the power) to a private organisation, in this case the Game Management Authority.
  The GMA aren’t all bad, they are also a primary driver behind the protection of native waterways (that just coincidentally happen to be duck shooting spots).
  As a shooter, I have complex opinions about groups like the GMA and SSAA that theoretically exist for my benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL: Deer are popping off down here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Deer are a point of division in the hunting community.
  I don’t know the rules for all the states, but I can highlight the different approaches different places have with just 2 examples.

  In Victoria, they only want to hunt deer “sustainably”, so they have recognised “Deer Habitats”.
  It’s also illegal to hunt them at night with a spotlight (the easiest method, they’ll literally stand still and look at the light) or use a thermal scope (which of course helps silhouette a naturally camouflaged animal), even during the day.

  In South Australia, we have shoot on sight laws - as in you’re legally obliged to attempt to humanely kill feral deer when possible.

  Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?

• Platforms, not parents, to be responsible for social media age limit, but penalties as yet undecided - ABC Newsamp-abc-net-au.cdn.ampproject.org ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just glad that this judgement travelled back in time!

  It must have, otherwise Samsung phone’s wouldn’t have the Galaxy Store on them.
  And Huawei phones wouldn’t have AppGallery on it.

  And things like aptoide, f-droid and taptap wouldn’t exist.

  This is about Epic wanting their store to be available on the google store, and none of these articles understand that at all.