Mountaineer
@Mountaineer@aussie.zone
- Comment on As Fact Check signs off after 11 years, here's your guide to being your own fact checker 3 days ago:
Whilst I didn’t always agree with their pronouncements, having a fact checker at this time seems to me a very important thing.
They include reference to “a new in-house verification reporting team, ABC News Verify”, but that sounds like they’ll only be verifying their own news, which is nice, but not the point.
- As Fact Check signs off after 11 years, here's your guide to being your own fact checkerwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra 4 days ago:
You could read David Leigh’s book, in which he published the full decryption key: www.amazon.com/…/161039061X
That’s literally how he leaked it.
The wikipedia article on it has the whole “he said - she said”:
en.wikipedia.org/…/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assan…Including the lie that @ChairmanMeow@programming.dev is parroting about Assange not caring about people dying.
- Comment on Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra 4 days ago:
That was an editor at The Guardian, David Leigh.
- Comment on Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra 4 days ago:
This didn’t happen, Wikileaks vetted information before releasing it for exactly this reason.
Name one person.
- Comment on Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says 6 days ago:
Yes, the threats worked and the corrupt won.
Now he gets to see his kids.
I’d choose that too.
You can call it cowardice, I’d call it pragmatism. - Comment on Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says 6 days ago:
The US get to show just how tough they are on whistleblowers and their associates.
Assange gets to go home.If I was him, I’d keep my head down and try to get to know my kids.
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- Comment on Does the Coalition’s case for nuclear power stack up? We factcheck seven key claims 1 week ago:
the cheapest and most widespread nuclear reactor design
Can you share this knowledge, please?
- Comment on Coalition announces where they want to build nuclear power stations 1 week ago:
Let me paraphrase the LNP here:
“Private companies have researched Nuclear and decided it’s not cost effective.”
“Financial institutions have investigated Nuclear and decided they WILL NOT INVEST.”
“But our financial backers at the Mineral Council and the private companies dragging the last of the profit out of their end of life coal power stations are insisting that we continue with our current market AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, so we’ve decided to announce an extremely long term plan, to scare private investment out of renewables short term.”
“Don’t worry, between NIMBYs in the target areas, laws surrounding nuclear energy, lack of local expertise and the general unsuitability of Nuclear for our widely dispersed yet small population, we won’t actually build more than one of these things.”
“Jokes on them, we were only pretending to be retarded.” - Fake job ads waste applicants' time and harm their wellbeing. So why are companies posting them?www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Lemmy 0.19.4 2 weeks ago:
Just to resurrect this thread from a week ago, posts I just made in /c/Adelaide are not showing thumbnails.
- Comment on Australia Community Anniversary Thread 2 weeks ago:
And thank you for modding.
I didn’t want to call you out by name.
You’ve already noticed that I’ve transferred here as my official instance. - Comment on Australia Community Anniversary Thread 2 weeks ago:
“Be the change you want to see in the world”.
Then a moderator was unhappy with my posts, so I stopped. - Comment on Australia will never elect a Donald Trump – and it’s due to one national trait[: our culture of not getting too big for your boots] 3 months ago:
Sure I read it, but Simon’s premise is incorrect.
Even his tangential commentary is incorrect.
Neither Kevin Rudd or Tony Abbott were booted for making “captains calls”, they were booted as fall guys by their parties before going to election. - Comment on Australia will never elect a Donald Trump – and it’s due to one national trait[: our culture of not getting too big for your boots] 3 months ago:
Oh I thought we were talking about “bad people who shouldn’t be anywhere near political levers”, not “egotisitical idiots”.
- Comment on Australia will never elect a Donald Trump – and it’s due to one national trait[: our culture of not getting too big for your boots] 3 months ago:
We elect “Donald Trumps” all the time.
Clive Palmer.
Craig Kelly.
Barnaby Joyce.
Bob Katter.
Pauline Hanson.
Jacqui Lambie. - Comment on "Regardless of what you think of Mr Assange, justice is not being done in this case:" Federal MPs pass motion urging US and UK to allow Julian Assange's return to Australia 4 months ago:
The US is reaching when they seek his extradition, and many countries in the world would outright deny the application.
And the basis of an extradition is that the crime was committed in the requesting country, even if it was done so remotely.Making heroin in the US is illegal.
Hundreds of tons of it are made in Myanmar every year without the US demanding extradition of the producers.
Until someone tries to import that heroin into the US, because THAT’s the crime in the US.As you point out, Assages only involvement in the crime was encouraging someone else to gather information for him - something journalists do all the time.
Whether or not we like Assange as an individual is beyond the point, there’s a definite “greater good” point to be made here.
War crimes were committed and covered up.
Without wikileaks, that may have never come to light.
Even without punishing the individuals involved, KNOWING that this information might leak out can help prevent these things happening again in future.Journalists need to be able to publish with protection.
And Assange being personally unlikeable doesn’t change the role he was acting in, no one should get to say “he wasn’t employed by the wall street journal”, or “she doesn’t have a journalistic degree”.
Because a foundation of law in all the countries involved here is that the truth is protected, and Assange published provable facts.And the US is trying to punish him for doing so.
- Comment on "Regardless of what you think of Mr Assange, justice is not being done in this case:" Federal MPs pass motion urging US and UK to allow Julian Assange's return to Australia 4 months ago:
You repeatedly speak of a trial: “he deserves to see trial”, “avoid trial”, “If he wants a trial here”. And his supposed guilt.
Assange is not a US citizen.
At no point during any of this was he in the US.There are no valid charges to even place against him, and if he was a citizen of a competing country like Russia, China, India etc we’d hear NOTHING about his role in any of this, because those countries governments would tell the US to sod off.
The truth here is that the US is desperate to get access to him so that they can make an example of him, so that others are less likely to share embarrassing US secrets in the future.
The little jabs about “worked with Russians” (ooh, he’s working with the ENEMY) and how “he’s guilty and he knows he’s guilty” (he must be guilty, he’s running!) are some straight up bullshit talking points from the likes of Tucker Carlson.
I mean not Tucker Carlson now (nose up Putins ass), Tucker Carlson then (SOME PEOPLE say that you beat your wife, I’M not saying you beat your wife, BUT a lot of people are saying it, and she had a bruise on her arm the other day. It does make you wonder, doesn’t it?) - Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 5 months ago:
The man is like a compass that points south.
He’s not actually useless, but why Bizarro? Why? - Comment on Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2" 5 months ago:
I’d guess the fine line is “Valve intend to earn money from something official in the future”
- Comment on Internode and Westnet shutdown: TPG moves customers to iiNet 6 months ago:
The end of an era.
Internode WOULD NOT move you off a grandfathered plan.
I rode that until I had to move somewhere without FTTP :-(
- Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users 6 months ago:
It’s not the android side that’s failing, it’s Apples refusal to implement anything other than SMS for cross ecosystem compatibility.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is betting that Australia is too weak to protect its elections 6 months ago:
You, being aware that there are more choices that Labor vs Liberal, are more educated than the vast majority of my family (and dare I say the community at large), who believe that voting for anyone else is “throwing their vote away”.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is betting that Australia is too weak to protect its elections 6 months ago:
These are not contradictory at all.
People have to vote, and its easier to convince someone to NOT vote for the hated enemy, which implicitly gets them to vote for you. - Comment on Optus outage nationwide 7 months ago:
The facts here are that the core mobile infrastructure, the core broadband infrastructure and the core landline infrastructure are all down.
This doesn’t feel like a “whoops, misconfigured a route”.
This feels like a coordinated attack against multiple (theoretically) separate systems. - Comment on What did you pay for your democracy sausage? 8 months ago:
$3.50, with onions and sauce on cafe cut (thick) white bread.
- Comment on Rooftop solar eats up all demand in South Australia, world’s most renewable grid 9 months ago:
I have an American based friend who recently visited and I discussed this with him.
His house has an asphalt shingle roof, which is beyond common, it’s standard where he is.
This means the roof supports are light, and won’t tolerate the load of solar panels (direct weight maybe, but not torque from wind).
Beyond that, his states power company have limited the accredited installers to a group that refuse to sell panels, they effectively lease them to you, with an insane payoff period.
If you go independent, you can’t tie into the grid.
He’s subject to a HOA, which means he can’t build anything in his yard without approval.And so, whilst he’s paid for his dad here in Adelaide to have panels on his roof as a no brainer, he’s given up in the US.
- Comment on 'Have a second look': Surge in motorcycle deaths prompts desperate plea to drivers 10 months ago:
No, I’m saying it’s weird to ask everyone to care more about someone’s health and safety than that person does.
Now do “provocatively dressed women are asking to be raped…”
- Comment on Motorists are paying more for petrol now than they have all year — and it's likely to stay that way for weeks 10 months ago:
I spotted a servo with fuel for 198c/L last night and pulled in to top up.
Crazy times