hanrahan
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- Comment on A French small business owner has his video game store looted 1 week ago:
opportunistic assholes, the same sort of asshole that loot homes after flooding etc
- Comment on Loneliness drives biggest quality-of-life drop for young Australians 1 week ago:
Wait this means it was definitely a good idea to ban youth from social media right
yes, just like it is with smoking, gambling, alcohol (I’d argue religion as well) and on and on.
the main problem with social isolation is cars. Need one to do any fucking thing in cities and sonlittke infrastructure fir alternates and then kids hanging around together is seen as bad, so they have “move on” laws. A good start would be a goal of removing 80% of cars from cities and ban dropping kids if at school in a car
- Comment on How important is owning your own video games to you? 1 week ago:
maybe it’s just me because im old but the photo itself shows why I have zero interest in owning a game, or any physical media (a someone who had vinyl originally, then tapes, seeing the back of both those was a joy. I’m also seeing “kids” return to analog cameras but that will pass, like bell bottoms.
a physical game that needs online authentication, or a server for collaborative play are all only here for a “short time” anyway, physical media aside.
I’m a reader more than a gamer, my books are all digital with no DRM, most of my games are digital from GOG and no DRM and are all single player, my music is all MP3 or flacc , zero streaming. It’s why I get pissy when phones don’t have an SD card, I can throw a TB of movies, books etc on a card and have another with me if I want but you streamers have killed it :)
- Comment on ‘Don’t burn your bridges’: Shoebridge warns Ukrainian community over military aid 1 week ago:
yeah, better to vote ONP /s
Shoebridbe is 100% wrong on this, we should double our military aid, reciprocity is a thing. We fuck over another democracy why would anyone come to our aid in a time of need ?
As a Greens voter I’m disappointed in this and several of their policies, the other side of that coin is I am disappointed with nearly all the polices of the other parties.
The only path to sanity lies through the Greens and moving the Overton Window to allow the rise of the truly radical politicians we need, every other political choice is deliberately choosing failure.
- Comment on i use debian btw 1 week ago:
so, one DP feed from the pc feeds the DP hub that feeds the multiple screens ???
- Comment on Anon drinks too much milk 1 week ago:
because it tastes like actual milk that’s been filtered through a used diaper
- Comment on Josh Frydenberg says 'things have to change' as he questions Liberal leadership 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings 2 weeks ago:
just as a curiosity what happened to the Adobe stock price ?
what’s he’s suggesting was the entire reason for the “SAApocalypse”
this guy could perhaps have done a Trump and made a bucket shorting Abobe BEFORE his “announcement”?
- Comment on This Is The Ideal Swing Voter. You May Not Like Her. But She's What Democracy Looks Like. 2 weeks ago:
same people who post on BlueSky ?
- Comment on I've bought seven of them 2 weeks ago:
yeah, Guardian did an article recently
theguardian.com/…/hyrox-joanna-wietrzyk-history-o…
and any number of search results
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
As an Australian I can only agree, I don’t want it as insane as the US but we’re only getting worse and worse.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
im an Aussie and I don’t know anyone who is an adult with a job who doesn’t have a credit card. I mean it doesn’t come up in conversation that often, so I am sure there are folks i know without one though.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
what ? im Aussie and im 60 I’ve been using credit cards as an Aussie for 35 years or so.
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have a credit card, i have 3 with a $0 balance that are paid off automatically monthly (I use 1 exclusively and the others are backups). I earn a extra month of income in a HISA and get JB HiFi and Woolies/Coles gift cards as rewards. I also have 5 debit cards because they give them out like candy every time you open an account somewhere and never use any of them at all, aside from one occasionally at the ATM.
- Comment on The Australia interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi 3 weeks ago:
housing isn’t unaffordable because of rate hikes, its unaffordable because of cheap money and constrained supply, it’s what “we” voted for.
this is a 50 year slow moving shit storm, tweaking rates 50bpd here or there matters nought when you have nothing to begin with but inflation matters a lot.
How would that improve the situation?
these many many have fucked around and now they’re finding out, they’re adults, with agency… this can only get worse for them because nearly everything we do in terms of neo liberal economic policy takes us this way, and they vote for it they’re accompolocies not victims… we literally eat the future and how they vote will make it even worse for themselves, we see the same shit in the US.
As to the many many… new car sales are at a record, 75% of them are ICE ffs, over seas travel is at a record, inflation adjusted spending keeps increasing. I go out anywhere and observe cafes and restaurants over flowing (I don’t eat out because i cant afford it) i live near a tourist town that drowns in tourists that require vast amounts of energy to get there, fuck any Hormuz crisis it seems. We’ve just seen record numbers of people pay ridiculous amounts of money to watch strangers run around in shorts chasing a ball (bread 'n circuses)
- Comment on Raise your hand for a second if this is new to you, too. 3 weeks ago:
don’t leave us hanging dude, where’s the link?
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 3 weeks ago:
somebody voted GOP to have Trump in charge and paying companies to NOT block wind farms, somebody keeps buying giant trucks and voting to rip up bike lanes etc
- Comment on Anon loves GOG 3 weeks ago:
they should just chip in some $ to help Heroic
- Comment on The Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance 3 weeks ago:
as a green voter this sucks balls, Ukraine support 100%,
Israel support zero
and treat the US as we’d treat Vietnam. etc
- Comment on Anon's mom has questions 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 3 weeks ago:
how is that possible ?
- Comment on If I became the next president how would I go about getting the illegally detained people under Trump freedom? Would I need congress? 4 weeks ago:
just shut it down, ICE work for you and the Supreme Court has given you complete immunity.
- Comment on It's Tough Out Here 4 weeks ago:
why would anyone even have a bottle of that stuff on them ?
- Comment on We live in a society... 4 weeks ago:
some of us charge our BYD electric cars from solar panels on our roof and ride our ebikes charged similarly.
- Comment on Terrorist arrested over video of dinghy slashing 4 weeks ago:
or protest climate change inaction
- Comment on el tigre 4 weeks ago:
weeelllllll, you can do the slightly drugged Tigers in places like Thailand, ketamine and fed I assume before you’re allowed to pet them?
As to the ethics of that, welllll, we destroy their habitat and have nearly made them go extinct and that seems perfectly acceptable, soooo. Just to be clear I have not done this personally.
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 4 weeks ago:
wont be allowed to be checked in most countries, as it has a battery, carry on only.
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 4 weeks ago:
heaps of young kids doing that in various Asian airports
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 4 weeks ago:
and in Australia
- Comment on Former shoplifter ran 'steal-to-order' Whatsapp group 5 weeks ago:
and I agree as. long as. you’re not beating up, abusing or bashing staff, which happens often in Australia.
- Comment on Paul Keating says Aukus locking Australia into a US war against China, which it would ‘certainly lose’ 5 weeks ago:
the US. Everything they do, they hurt us.
The US has threatened to invade Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Cuba, recently and currently have a pedo, rapist, felon as President (speaking volumes of it’s voting ciitizens). We align with them in some horrific shit like the appaling genocide in PalestineChina has some argy bargy with The Philippines over some shoals in the south china sea, fucked over Tibet and has some border argy bargy with India and will take Taiwan at some stage.
The question of their invasion is ridiculous, they could invade Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and and Myanmar, Pakistan, India, Mongolia, Malaysia, Singapore and Bangladesh tomorrow if they wanted, they are literally next door. New Zealand, Fiji etc would offer zero resistance.
They have zero chance of invading and successfully holding Australia, Russia can’t even walk into Ukraine and they are next fucking door.
The US cant be relied upon as an ally at all, it told Ukraine it would defend it if it gave up it’s nukes, they said tough shit buddy when they were needed.
Should we be best buddies with China ?, of course not but they should be in the same category as say Vietnam
The only reason we’d even be a target is because of stupid shit like ANKUS and the endless US bases on our soil (in many ways, we’re a colony if the US already)
China has zero reason to invade, we already sell them everything they want for way cheaper then an invasion would cost.
