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- Comment on A 'huge' trade-off: One Nation's pitch for cheaper cigarettes 4 days ago:
“Labor has not only lost the revenue, it has lost control of the black market in illegal tobacco,” Hanson said in her announcement on Tuesday.
Conveniently forgetting that the LNP Coalition was in power for what… 17 of the last 26 years, last as recently as 2022?
And that One Nation typically voted with them and gave their electoral preferences to them…
- Comment on Whistleblower David McBride Released on Parole 1 week ago:
Should have been dropped by Labor day one of gaining power.
Reminds us all that they largely push the “increased government transparency and anti-corruption” agenda performatively when they’re in opposition. When they get the chance to actually demonstrate it they either water it down or back off entirely to keep their powers.
- Comment on Deliberately misleading party name approved for Victorian election 1 week ago:
Mate it’s not even illegal according to the AEC to mimic AEC livery and ‘how to vote’ forms and placards to trick Chinese immigrants into voting for the LNP.
Nor is it illegal to hand out “How to vote for Greens / LNP / Labour” cards at polling stations as a member of an opposition party, and deceptively place all preferences for the opposite intentions.
Nor is it illegal to mimic the AEC and puport to simply be a government representative enabling your application to a postal vote, while actually being from Liberal or Labor party and taking any submitted information as your own, to do whatever you like with.
So there’s zero chance they’ll care about a party misrepresenting their political goals.
Australians have very little freedom of speech enshrined in law, but what little there is aims to protect politicians only.
- Comment on AI Slop 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The way Walmart delivered my son’s new backpack 2 weeks ago:
Bummer. When this kinda thing happens to me I just accept the fate the universe has delivered me and pick of the sticker for like 45 minutes while watching an episode or something.
No other removal method has proven reliably non-damaging.
- Comment on Does Israel have a right to your tax dollars? 2 weeks ago:
I’m disappointed with the US regularly, but gotta say it’s really great watching the current movement with Mamdami and El-Sayed unfolding.
- Comment on First Thing: Trump chastises oil companies for ‘making too much money’ from his Iran war 2 weeks ago:
“Whereas my taste”
Fuckin dollar-store mafioso-ass presidency.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
What a reactionary zealot response.
This is a dumb exclusionary policy being fairly pointed out, not ageism.
I’ll explain it with a comparision of the language used.
The language used for benches like this in my country, Australia: “Priority seating. Please stand for seniors, pregnant, or handicapped people”.
Priority, based on needs. Anyone can use it otherwise.
The language used in this sign: “Benches are for seniors are handicapped citizens only”
Exclusionary, based on privilege and needs. If you are old and infirm and a citizen ONLY YOU may ever use this bench, and if you’re not a citizen (tourist, asylum seeker, migrant worker) you can fuck off regardless of your needs. Pregnant women? Who cares, they’re not old and they’re women.
This is not a subtle distinction. This is language used to assert a hierarchy and exclude underclasses, and it’s embedded into every aspect of US society without most people even noticing because they’ve never seen different.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
I disagree wholeheartedly. This is a dumb exclusionary policy being fairly pointed out, not ageism.
I’ll explain it with a comparision of the language used.
The language used for benches like this in my country, Australia: “Priority seating. Please stand for seniors and handicapped people”.
Priority, based on needs. Anyone can use it otherwise.
The language used in this sign: “Benches are for seniors are handicapped citizens only”
Exclusionary, based on privilege and needs. If you are old and infirm and a citizen ONLY YOU may ever use this bench, and if you’re not a citizen (tourist, asylum seeker, migrant worker) you can fuck off regardless of your needs.
This is not a subtle distinction. This is language used to assert a hierarchy and exclude underclasses, and it’s embedded into every aspect of your society without most people even noticing because they’ve never seen different.
- Comment on Leggo's, Coles and Aldi selling Chinese tomatoes as 'Australian' and 'Italian' in products, forensic testing finds 3 weeks ago:
Lying cunts preying on people trying to support local farmers, and with forced-labour sourced goods no less.
All off my shopping list for good, and hoping to see ACCC action. This is clearly deceptive labeling and false advertising.
- Comment on My body, my life, my choice 4 weeks ago:
The hero we need, but not the one we deserve.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Haha… OK pal. Have a great one.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Re-reading my comment it was way more aggressive than it meant to be. I think I laid on the sarcasm too thick after reading the latest Trump bullshitery. Anyway, appreciate your comment.
We culturally usually bring our glasses to parties if we are drinking something that needs a glass (eg Guiness, Kilkenny) if the gathering is over a dozen people. Keg parties require hiring the keg - and glassware (or washable plastic schooners) are included in the hire price. Kegs aren’t any cheaper than buying by carton/case here unless you’re doing bulk kegs for a wedding or something (Australia - we have a significant alcohol tax).
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yes of course, my hundreds of personal parties attended are invalid evidence compares to your personal experience of several commercial venues (which is not even what was being discussed).
I don’t care about downvotes. Parties full of red plastic cups is a very American phenomenon - and also in countries that have low environmental concerns and use a lot of single-use plastics. All through Europe, Australia, NZ, Japan, its far more common to use glassware or bring your own cups. I’ve only been to a few keg parties because it’s no cheaper than buying cans/bottles unless you’re running a really big event like a wedding - and even then, proper glassware or washable plastic schooners are included in the hire contract (kegs are hired and must be returned).
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah generally. Or everyone is drinking from cans / beer bottles. Keg parties are not a common thing for your average BBQ or your average student party.
- Comment on Review: EXO-6’s ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Garak Is No Plain, Simple Figure 1 month ago:
I see it too.
The photo leading the article is a bad angle tho, he looks much more accclurately captured in other angles of the figurine.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yes. The rest of the world uses glasses because we’re adults and we don’t hide the glassware from our friends.
The only time I ever see disposable cups used is at kids parties, or to play beer pong.
- Comment on no time rule 1 month ago:
TFW you abolish clocks and you are forced to work from ‘sunup to sundown’ instead.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
This is just a social engineering attack for rich, gullible people.
- Comment on AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw 2 months ago:
$10k is nothing to AMD. The middle-management bean counters making these decisions are actively harming their company’s (and user’s security.
- Comment on ‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap 2 months ago:
Uhh what are you talking about… The (long) article is about how “believe all women” is a right-wing invention, predominantly used by detractors of feminism, and that “believe women” is the genuine leftist/feminist phrase, and discusses the difference between the two. My comment was that it’s a good article but that it may not be heard widelt due to the complexity and nuance of such a discussion and people’s short attention spans.
And then here you go… clearly not reading the article, and complaining about it and my opinion on it.
Way to prove my point I guess.
- Comment on Australia's fuel supply secured well into August as bowser pressure eases 2 months ago:
Thank goodness we’ve propped up the fossil fuels industry with another massive tax write-off, instead of more common-sense approaches like encouraging transition to electric vehicles and public transit, and legal allowances for working from home.
- Comment on ‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap 2 months ago:
Good article. Doubt it’s nuance will ever be understood by those that wield ‘believe all women’ as a weapon, though… Because as with the article, nuance takes a long time to explain, and we live in the era of the short attention span.
- Comment on Is MMA and UFC "somewhat" rigged like boxing was in the Don King era? 2 months ago:
I don’t know for sure, but my magic 8-ball says ‘signs point to yes’ if that helps.
- Comment on We are so close 2 months ago:
Yeah… I don’t drink Coke often but I like caffeine free diet coke / coke zero. I don’t want the sugar and I don’t need caffeine.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Comment on Windows BitLocker 0-Day Vulnerability Enables Access to Encrypted Drives 3 months ago:
I mean… with the amount of times Microsoft has just decided to BitLocker user drives without approval and then accidentally locked people out of it with bad updates, they should be offering bugs like this to the public via tools as a means to access their old Bitlocker-trapped files.
Good reminder that if you do ever have important files encrypted and lose access to them - put the files (or drive) aside if financially viable, it will likely become accessible in the near to mid-term future via incompetence/bugs/advances.
- Comment on Durian supremacy 3 months ago:
Smells like sewerage (which is why they’re banned in most hotels, planes, transit and enclosed spaces where they’re common), tastes like a fancy dessert. It’s a complex flavour that’s honestly unique, and they don’t all taste the same - various sub-varieties exist.
To me the most consistent flavour of them is a very creamy mild honeydew-melon and vanilla flavour, with a dash of banana. Very pleasantly floral and generally quite sweet.
Given that description you’d think I’d love them but I actually can’t stand the smell and look (bro the fruit flesh looks like yellow turds), I’ve only ever eaten them under duress haha.
- Comment on Albanese vowed no changes to housing tax breaks. Now he's defending reforms 3 months ago:
Good. Govt should break stupid promises. Housing is insane and the “well, let’s just keep propping it up” approach has not helped one bit.
I’m sure they will be grandfathering-in any boomers though, wouldn’t want to actually anger the largest voting base or their 4 houses. We’ll see I guess…
Would love to see foreign ownership canned for both businesses and individuals (need citizenship to buy house and land). There so much that can be done to ease the housing crisis, and so far we’vr tried very little.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 3 months ago:
Religion.
Historically the primary reason that euthanasia is repeatedly challenged / legally blocked worldwide.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
Well, that sours me enough to the game that its no longer on the wishlist.
