Mountaineer
@Mountaineer@aussie.zone
- Comment on Anthony Albanese must show the same determination as John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre 6 days ago:
I dont really think this is a fair assessment.
Rowland Browne is a well established anti-gun nut, who other pro gun control individuals feely uncomfortable associating with.
This organisation that he’s Vice Chairman of? www.guncontrolaustralia.org ? You could fit their active members in a Kia Carnival.
What they do have is a website and a fax machine, and they REGULARLY spam all the media outlets with “press releases”, which those media outlets publish on a slow day.
According to Mr Browne, anyone who wants a gun for any reason is guilty of wrong-think.
“How dare thousands of wrong-thinkers band together to stop righness!”We’re past the point of diminishing returns on gun control in Australia, but Mr Browne won’t be happy until there isn’t a single gun, nor the means to make them, and children aren’t playing “cops and robbers” with bent sticks.
I’m a bit surprised we haven’t heard from Phillip Alpers yet.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 2 weeks ago:
All good, I feel like we’re in total agreement here.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 2 weeks ago:
The Australian government isn’t scared to piss off Big Tech when it suits them.
The ASSISTANCE AND ACCESS ACT 2018 lead to some people I know being given the option of quitting or relocating to somewhere that the Australian government couldn’t do THAT.
It’s certainly an extra factor when deciding to offshore development teams here.
As a “great” man once said:
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia,”
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 2 weeks ago:
I understand that I’m making a slippery slope argument, a fallacy in itself.
I just don’t trust that the purpose of this legislation is what it says on the tin because it’ll never achieve it’s stated aim, it’ll just teach a whole generation how to break the law.
And having failed, will the government stop?
No, they’ll try to ban VPNs, or something else equally vacuous. - Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 2 weeks ago:
Beyond the above, I feel there’s an inherent value to anonymous conversation that will be lost.
Sure, anonymous conversation allows echo chambers where cookers come up with nonsense - but every societal upheaval in the past would have started with unsanctioned conversations happening behind closed doors.
Woman’s suffrage?
Same sex marriage?
Person-hood/voting rights for indigenous Australians?It’s easy to see them as obvious now, but once they were illegal.
Those changes occurred in public referendums that started with private conversations. - Comment on GPs will soon get extra incentives to bulk bill. So will your doctor be free? 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
But I want to be wrong.
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 3 months ago:
Category C (semi auto .22LR + miss-categorised shotguns) is for farmers.
Category D (centre-fire semi auto + miss-categorised shotguns) is for specialist pest controllers.Professional hunters tend to use Category B (manually cycled bolt/lever/pump centre-fire).
You’re not wrong, I just wanted to add more info.
There’d be like a thousand people that qualify in the entire country for a real Category D.
- Comment on The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead. The US can’t provide the submarines. The UK can neither make up for the shortfall nor co-develop such a submarine in a reasonable timeframe 4 months ago:
nationalsecurityjournal.org looks like a propaganda outlet.
How do you even check the bonafides of a random site like this?
- Comment on The mane attraction: how many lions are in Australia and how well are they regulated? 5 months ago:
It should go without saying that this was done by loving carers who had the best interests of the animal in question at heart, not coloured by anything crass such as financial considerations - yet here I am.
There are lions at Monarto, a short trip up the freeway and I’ve heard the question of why she wasn’t taken there?
Because the pride would probably have killed her.She was old, she would have refused to eat, then she’d become weak, then she’d get sick and then she’d have suffered until she died.
The keepers made a call, and as much as people might call this callous, others would have called them out if Amani was allowed to suffer for the following 3 months. - Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 5 months ago:
If you “vibe code” your way through trial and error to an app, it may work.
But if you don’t understand what it’s doing, why it’s doing it and how it’s doing it?
Then you can’t (easily) maintain it.
If you can’t fix bugs or add features, you don’t have a saleable product - you have a proof of concept.AI tools are useful, but letting the tool do all the driving is asking for the metaphorical car to crash.
- Comment on Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks 5 months ago:
Rabbits, Cane Toads and Artificial Meat in a three way knife fight, winner gets stomped by the Emus.
- Comment on Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks 5 months ago:
The CEO of Vow, George Peppou, is taking a very different approach from these competitors. Rather than asking customers to pay $71 a kg for frozen shredded “chicken”, he says the company is embracing the high cost of cultivating cells by creating products to match the price.
“We selected going with these very high end products, very high end positioning … as a way of trying to shape and influence food culture as much as possible,” he says. While foie gras prices fluctuate significantly, at the time of writing Vow’s Forged foie was cheaper than the real deal.
I like this, just like how Tesla’s first release was a roadster - it’s not supposed to replace a Camry, why make a Camry with half the range and 4 times the price?
Start at the expensive end, match the quality and then work down. - Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favourwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on Opinion: Australians remain deeply sceptical about the value of private healthcare – it’s time for radical reform 6 months 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 7 months 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? 7 months 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 8 months 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 10 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 ↗Submitted 1 year ago to australia@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Comment on US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores 1 year 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.