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- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 5 days ago:
OoooOOOoooOOOHHH!
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
My vision would be a peace corps-like body that works on projects that specifically are designed to mitigate climate change, or respond to disasters caused by climate change. Planting trees, creating bike lanes, working in tech areas that are helping with modelling and mitigation…transition town initiatives, rewilding… I’m sure many other options.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s elitist, it’s from a perspective that is aware of the incredible damage done by advertising, and the dumbing down and control of what people think is their own opinions that is only exacerbated when people are exposed to it.
See The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard and No Logo by Naomi Klein, for starters.
And one of my favourite anti-facebook rants ever:
(admittedly that’s about the whole package not solely the advertising part tho)
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
I think a climate corps world not have to be run in a military fashion, and can be doing very peaceful things like planting trees, making bicycle paths, social outreach, or tech if that’s what motivates you. Read the article linked for more ideas of what could be included.
I agree about capitalism & lack of space and car depency, 1000 percent. But we’ve also given people the idea that society of just this given, the structure just exists and you get the benefits of infrastructure (even though it’s far from perfect) without being required to give back. I think that concept of valuable and with an aging population, we will have difficult choices to make in future. Kids shouldn’t have to shoulder a greater burden, and I also believe the welfare state is going to collapse because of logistics of population decline and degrowth in our future, unless we manage it incredibly carefully. We can’t keep going the way we have been, that’s certain.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
I cannot remember the last time I watched free to air that wasn’t ABC. It’s mostly reality tv crap and reruns. And propaganda, given who owns these bloody things. Not much would be lost if advertising supported TV was not allowed.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
Yes that’s fair, but stricter controls on how and where that happens. Classifieds were always a reasonable thing, and without them the press has been destroyed, but the enshittification of online marketplaces has made the deal really unfair for everyone. The enshittification of socially media through advertising, especially political, has been catastrophic.
Cory Doctorow has had a lot of great things to say about this, and much stricter control is needed to stop platforms making everything awful for both individuals and businesses, but overall I did not get a lot of value when I used to advertise my small business and I just rely on word of mouth largely these days. Been in business over 20 years.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
Oh! Also forgot to say: we already came up with a model to remove, very successfully, advertising from TV:
it was called Netflix.
Unfortunately it got enshittified, and now everything is a giant shit show in that department.
But you make advertising illegal, and companies are still going to have subscribers.
I’m also pretty happy with just ABC iView these days, I rarely even bother with SBS and haven’t had Netflix for years.
There’s also Beamafilm and other public library initiatives.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
Sweet on 3. I’m also big on adjusting that as a carbon tax, so for example, your tax if your goods ship via sail/carbon neutral means is way less than carbon intensive transport. But refrigerated long range transport seems super crazy at this point.
1 I am open to persuasion on. I know there’s some parts of the world that outlawed billboards, and that’s a vast improvement and a public good for a more restful visual environment. We’ve seen the evil perpetrated on the internet through advertising. It’s just the worst way to have monetised everything, and in hindsight was a massive mistake, and has been since long before this (look up the history if deBeers, and advertising in general. I actually studied advertising briefly as one of several streams in graphic design study, and backed out after one semester, I did not have the stomach for it). People of Fedi are largely already convinced advertising for monetisation is evil. Maybe some kind of limitation in advertising regarding company size, dunno, but I really don’t like the future of Idiocracy, and smarter people than me have already commented that we’re more than halfway there.
And to 2. Allow me to explain further. I first came to this idea of compulsory national service after a conversation at a nightclub over a decade ago where it was mentioned that only 2 nations in the world (at the time) had conscription for all genders: Sweden and Malaysia. This was incorrect as there were several more, as I discovered when I looked it up, and most northern European countries have added conscription for women since. But the person speaking was female and had said it was fantastic, got her opportunities that she might not have had otherwise, allowed her experience in leadership roles that were rare at the time (and often still are in many places), and lifelong friends.
This article just published 3 days ago pretty much gives a bigger overview and I agree with.
www.abc.net.au/religion/…/105257832
I think that we are going to need more social cohesiveness as the world becomes more unstable both geopolitically and physically as climate change really ramps up.
And please note, I do not believe anyone should be required to serve mandatory military service: that’s why I stated specifically military OR climate corps.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! Good to see there’s at least one other nutter here in Fedi that would vote for these 😊 the idea would be to go into it knowing that the majority would say “you’ve got to be f&*>ing joking mate” - which is exactly the Overton window strategy of right-wingers: of which Overton was one. We gotta start really pulling back not just to the centre but far beyond.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 2 weeks ago:
I think now would be an excellent time for the Overton window to be pushed even further to the left, given the results of the Federal Election, and to highlight exactly how far from the original “left” Labor has moved. The intent wouldn’t be to form government or even have much chance of getting a seat: I’m talking left of Socialist Alliance. And I have some pleasantly controversial policies with which to begin this project. Things The Greens won’t touch, and that the Socialist Alliance don’t even really have on their radar as they are focussed generally Marxist theory and unions. I’m talking mainly about being honest and open about the need for radical change in economic policy to degrowth, things that the current left parties don’t talk about because it’s seen as “political suicide”. Yup. Need someone in the far far left to tell the emperor they have no clothes.
Some specific fun policies:
- Make advertising illegal (especially billboards, but also on social media, no money changing hands to force shit people don’t want to see in front of their eyeballs. Bring back word of mouth!)
- Instigate a compulsory National Service period for young adults (like a gap year between high school and university) for all genders, can choose between military & climate corps
- Massively tax carbon costs for food transport. Those oranges from California should not cost the same as Australian in season oranges, sorry.
- Comment on Election recap 2 weeks ago:
The One Nation old ladies doing rural HTVs during my one shift this year were surprisingly pleasant. I really am saddened that ON has such appeal in this demographic, I think it’s the Skynews effect in rural areas tbh, a very shrewd tactic by Uncle Rupert, I do hope we are relieved of his vile manipulations before the next Federal Election…
- Comment on Watch Peter Dutton lose his seat, live 3 weeks ago:
I think a metric fucktonne.
- Comment on Djirri Djirri & Auntie Joy statement 3 weeks ago:
This doesn’t surprise me at all, these types love to find any excuses to pander to the white supremacy segment, which unfortunately has been quite emboldened of late. It’s important to call this behaviour out when it occurs, and fortunately that has been happening.
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- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 5 weeks ago:
I think the ratio on your comments Lemmy-wide speaks for itself. If it quacks etc etc. Maybe think about how you come across to people, and if you’ve been called a troll and blocked multiple times by people on a variety of communities, then perhaps some self reflection might be warranted.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 5 weeks ago:
From the article you linked:
“Factors contributing to used EV sales trends cited by the report authors included:
- The implementation of the FBT exemption in November 2022 that potentially prompted EV owners to acquire new vehicles, contributing to an increase in the availability of used EVs.
- Uncertainty surrounding battery health of used EVs deterring some potential buyers.
- Pricing of new EV models coming down, negatively impacting used EV prices.
The authors of the report did caution the EV pricing findings were volatile because of the small amount of vehicles involved.”
I would say the biggest issue is likely that new EVs are coming rapidly down in price, with longer range, so a second hand EV is comparatively not as good value currently. Many people are waiting for slightly bigger batteries or different types of ev, and I’ve seen at least half a dozen BYD Sharks on the road, one I talked to the guy had literally bought it yesterday, and many of them are getting tax benefits to buy new.
You are making out it’s all about battery concern where there’s much more going on.
So, you’re a moderator in a politics community, and you troll in various places on Lemmy, and like to threaten if you are challenged. Interesting.
Can’t help wondering if the other mods here might want to look into whether that’s a good thing… or not.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 5 weeks ago:
From the article you linked:
“Factors contributing to used EV sales trends cited by the report authors included:
- The implementation of the FBT exemption in November 2022 that potentially prompted EV owners to acquire new vehicles, contributing to an increase in the availability of used EVs.
- Uncertainty surrounding battery health of used EVs deterring some potential buyers.
- Pricing of new EV models coming down, negatively impacting used EV prices.
The authors of the report did caution the EV pricing findings were volatile because of the small amount of vehicles involved.”
I would say the biggest issue is likely that new EVs are coming rapidly down in price, with longer range, so a second hand EV is comparatively not as good value currently. Many people are waiting for slightly bigger batteries or different types of ev, and I’ve seen at least half a dozen BYD Sharks on the road, one I talked to the guy had literally bought it yesterday, and many of them are getting tax benefits to buy new.
You are making out it’s all about battery concern where there’s much more going on.
So, you’re a moderator in a politics community, and you troll in various places on Lemmy, and like to threaten if you are challenged. Interesting.
Can’t help wondering if the other mods here might want to look into whether that’s a good thing… or not.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 5 weeks ago:
Given the EV market is barely a decade old, I think it’s a bit soon to make such ridiculous claims, that myself and others have given many, many sources of facts (not feelings, which is literally all you are providing).
It’s clear you are quite happy being influenced by scary propaganda c/o the oil industry - you’re still living in 2019 in Scummo’s “ruined weekend” land.
And having a peek at your other activity, I’d like to echo some others opinions - you really don’t belong here, maybe just leave, troll. You are tedious and just seem to want a fight with anyone who will take your bait. Boring.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 5 weeks ago:
Dude. I’ve provided the receipts with literally every post. You have provided nothing. Give it up already, you are ideologically hamstrung and unable to accept that you are wrong.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s already been proven, at least in the case of Teslas, that the batteries DO actually last that long on average?
Batteries that lose range but still functioning generally are being swapped out but then sold as house batteries, will incredibly useful and bigger than most house batteries. So they are not a total loss and largely still functioning. Newer battery systems allow swap out of individual cells.
If you look in the comments, someone swapped out the BMW to a cheap ICE car and the Tesla was still cheaper, lol.
I don’t know where you are but electricity prices here have been going down as we add more renewables to the grid. Most EV owners have solar, and mostly charge for less or free from home - I’m one of them.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 5 weeks ago:
Where is this guy egregiously wrong, in your opinion?
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 5 weeks ago:
You are lowballing the cost of replacing an engine significantly: it MIGHT be as low as $3000, it could be over $10,000. You also are completely ignoring the plethora of moving parts in an ICE vehicle that can fail. The drivetrain in an ICE vehicle contains 2,000+ moving parts typically, whereas the drivetrain in an EV contains around 20. This makes for a massive reduction in maintenance costs over the lifetime of the vehicle, which you also don’t take into consideration in total cost of ownership.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 month ago:
An incorrect assumption you have made is that batteries fail at a higher rate than major components on an ICE car. It’s a misunderstanding of the relative risk. Like how people hop in their car every day no worries but are afraid to fly.
Also is 100,000 miles or 160,000 km, not 100,000 km as the current warranty standard. And like any new technology, they really don’t know exactly how long they are going to last, so at this stage manufacturers are hedging their bets.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 month ago:
It was a facetious question. Clearly you wouldn’t with such misguided preconceptions.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 month ago:
I’m with Amber, and while I don’t have a battery yet, their VPP offering does appear different to most. I’d be wanting to check the conditions if this goes ahead as I would not want to sign up if I wasn’t allowed to control when power is sent to to the grid.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 month ago:
Correct, new EVs have even better batteries than first gen too. My first EV I replaced the battery, but not because they’re was anything wrong with it: that battery likely would have lasted at least twice as long, but an enterprising engineer created a battery upgrade that doubled the original range in the same footprint, and we can expect further improvements in batteries, so I expect to upgrade again in future, maybe 10-15 years, and double the range again.
Old EV batteries can be reused and make ideal off grid house batteries.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 month ago:
Have you actually bought a second hand EV?
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 month ago:
I have bought two secondhand electric cars and about to buy my third. Most people still don’t understand this isn’t quite as risky as it appears.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 month ago:
Haha just read the article, it’s great to see the approval but appalling we apparently have zero compatible cars. I have a JDM grey import with Chademo and that tech has been bidirectional for over a decade. So dumb.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 month ago:
I think it’s taking longer for bidirectional to be legal in most parts of Australia, though that might be happening soon. V2G is going to be a game changer for reducing dependence on coal, can’t come soon enough!
