Whirlybird

@Whirlybird@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The ratio? I assume you’re talking about upvotes/downvotes as if they mean anything other than to point out the political leanings of the people on Lemmy, which we all know is borderline communist at worst (and far, far left at best).

  For example saying “Illegal immigrants should be deported” almost anywhere on Lemmy will get you mass downvoted. Saying “Karmelo Anthony is a murderer who should spend the rest of his life in jail” will get you downvoted to oblivion almost anywhere on Lemmy.

  It’s not a reflection on me, It’s merely a reflection of the political leanings of the population here. Are you saying that anyone that says things that go against the echo chamber - of which Lemmy is most certainly an echo chamber - is a troll and should leave/be banned?

  Since you want to go there, show me what exactly you disagree with in my posts.

  Touching on your banning comment - If you look at my moderation history I was banned from 2 communities (on the one instance) I’ve never so much as commented on because the person that was disagreeing with me (who just so happens to be very active on that instance) obviously got me banned for no reason other than he disagrees.

  Again - banned from a place I’ve literally never posted, commented, or voted on, because someone couldn’t help but abuse their mod power. Apart from that it’s a bunch of nothing.

  I bet you can’t even see the irony in what you’re saying though. Trying to get me “cancelled” and have my moderator status taken off because we’re having a disagreement and I told you to just cool your jets with the attempted gatekeeping and accusations……yet I’m the one who needs to do some “self reflection”?

  This has now gone beyond a thread derailment and is borderline harassment and bad faith arguing, so I’m telling you now - this is the end of this personal attacking from you. If you want to continue you are welcome to PM me, but you will not detail this thread anymore with this vendetta of yours.

  This isn’t a “threat”, it’s simply telling you that this is not acceptable.

  Understand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the notification of your deleted comment so I can see what you said, so I’ll address it.

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  1. No, I didn’t delete anything. You can check the mod log.

  2. There was no “threat inherent” in my post. As a moderator would you prefer I tell you when you’re veering off into breaking the rules, or not and then just ban you when you continued? I simply told you to watch where you’re going with the accusations of trolling - and more importantly the “you don’t belong here” comment. You don’t get to gatekeep here. You have no right telling anyone that they don’t belong here, or accusing them of being a troll. That’s bordering breaking the rules, which I pointed out.

  3. It’s entirely appropriate mod behaviour, telling people they’re getting close to breaking the rules. Calling people trolls because you disagree with them, and telling them they don’t belong in a public community is not appropriate member behaviour, hence why I told you to watch what you’re doing.

  4. Accusing me of deleting your comment is, again, borderline unacceptable and starting to push it.

  I’m not going to ban you for any of this like you want me to, but if you break the rules flagrantly a moderator will take action, even if it’s not me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like to threaten? Lol good one. I told you that accusing me of trolling and saying I don’t belong here is starting to go too far. I didn’t threaten you, I didn’t give you a warning, I didn’t take any mod action. I didn’t take any action when you were name calling or throwing out other snide remarks, because that’s not a mod-worthy problem.

  Look at you “threatening” to try and get me cancelled because I told you to calm it down a bit lol. You’re behaving like a child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You posting pro-ev site propaganda sources doesn’t help your cause lol

  People don’t want second hand EVs precisely because of the battery warranty issue.

  I don’t even need to look at your profile to know that you’re like a Bowen loving “renewables” grifter.

  What’s hilarious is like I said way back at the start of this - my next car will be an EV, likely a Tesla. I’ve been a fan of them and following closely since the roadster. You ignore that though because I don’t just blindly ignore all inconvenient truths about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t provided receipts, you’ve provided baseless pro-EV guesses and terribly inaccurate guesstimates.

  You still can’t accept that buying a second hand EV, especially one out of warranty, is a massive risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It has not been proven that Tesla and ev batteries last that long on average.

  The more renewables that are added to the grid the higher electricity prices go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple TV+ Comedy 'Mythic Quest' Canceled⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not surprising given how bad this last season was.

  They made most of the characters, especially Dana and Rachel, insufferable. They made Brad even more of a comic book villain but just pathetic, and the whole thing with the new testers and carol just went nowhere and was stupid.

  The poppy/Ian/Storm thing was just dumb.

  The whole season was a dumpster fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple TV+ Comedy 'Mythic Quest' Canceled⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The last season was complete garbage, it’s not surprising it got cancelled. They’d run out of ideas and were just circling the drain. The entire last season could have been one episode and lost nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying that on average a EV battery will last you 400k miles for one lol.

  There’s also the fact that it will need to be charged more and more frequently the older the car gets, as battery capacity reduces.

  Then there’s the fact that one is a twin turbo performance car, the other is a family car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A new engine for a 7+ year old out of warranty car that cost as much as a mass market EV is NOT going to cost you $10k.

  And yes, there are more parts in conventional cars, but most parts are cheap to repair/replace. There’s no $20k part that WILL need replacing like there is in a EV. There’s no part that will make your car get less mileage every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t just rounding up people based on tattoos lol. They’ve said that they’re in communication with their government and are helping to get known gang members/associates that they are requesting.

  Also, and I don’t know why this seems to be hard for you guys - just because someone says they’re not a criminal/gang member/gang affiliated DOES NOT MEAN THEY AREN’T. People - especially criminals - lie. They’re not locking people up because of a tattoo lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s bullshit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Again missing the point. My assumption wasn’t that batteries fail at a higher rate than “major components” on an ICE car - it was that if/when the battery fails it’s exponentially more expensive than any component failing on a ICE car.

  If you buy a $50k ICE car and the entire engine dies out of warranty (which isn’t what happens generally, just parts of it would), a whole new engine will cost you probably $3k-$4k installed. Battery dies out of warranty on a $50k EV? ~$20k to replace……for a car that’s worth probably $10k by then.

  Do you see the difference? One means you literally send the car to the wreckers and have no car, the other means you’re back on the road in the same car a week or 2 later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely feels like something is missing from the story. Where did their 2 phones and drug selling claims come from?

  Did he have clearance/permission to have the ashes in his bag? The TSA has rules around transporting ashes:

  www.tsa.gov/travel/…/cremated-remains

  Not enough info to know what is true and what isn’t really. If he’s telling the truth it’s a shitty and unfair situation for him and something needs to change.

  Also most people don’t seem to know but the australian government also gives border security the ability to confiscate your phone/devices and even make backups of them, and arrest you if you refuse to unlock them and hand them over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Misguided preconceptions” lolololol

  Any battery powered device that costs more to replace the battery than it costs to buy a new device is not a smart purchase when it’s close to or outside of its warranty period. The risk is not worth it.

  It’s like you don’t even understand the point being made. If a EV battery was good for “the life of the car” (let’s say 350,000km or 20 years) then the warranty would be 350,000km or 20 years, wouldn’t it?

  Answer me this - why is the battery warranty 8 years / 100,000km with 70% capacity (or whatever the km limit is, can’t remember off the top of my head)? Why don’t they guarantee it for 15 years? 20 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most new EVs come with an 8-year battery warranty, which guarantees they will retain at least 70% of their original capacity

  So again, anyone buying an EV that is close to or older than 8 years old is taking a massive financial risk. Every link you post confirms this yet you think it’s proving your point lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except when they don’t, at which time you’ll be out of pocket tens of thousands of dollars.

  People like you are insufferable. EVs are awesome, but they’re not perfect and they’re a much bigger risk buying second hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A EV battery replacement is multiples of times more expensive than an engine replacement on basically any non-supercar lol.

  You’ve made some bad arguments but that one knocks it out of the park.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And that lifetime is what, 8 years according to their warranty?

  You can provide references for whatever you want, but like I said - the warranty is what matters. If the manufacturer warranty is for x years, anything after that is not guaranteed and is a massive risk because of how expensive the replacement is. This isn’t hard to understand.

  You might think there’s no risk in buying an electric car that’s out of warranty (or approaching the end of its warranty), but the tens of thousands of dollars you’d have to pay to replace the battery 1/2/5 years down the track says otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A small study by a pro EV company, reported on by a pro EV site…yeah nah lol.

  The warranty is what matters. Unless an EV is 10% of its sale price, if it’s even within 2 years of its warranty on the battery ending it’s no deal. Might it last 10 years past the warranty retaining ~70% of its capacity? Sure. It’s possible. Could it also just drop dead at the drop of a hat, or capacity just drop like a rock? Absolutely. One of those scenarios will cost you almost the price of a new car, the other won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why on earth would I do that based on my post?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Australian was denied US entry for bizarre reasons. He’s not alone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for you :). Downvoted :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently the subsidy requires you to be connected to a “virtual power plant” plan with your energy company, which means that they control when your battery feeds back in to the grid or can be used by you. This is pretty much a deal breaker for me and should be for most people.

  What it means is that the power company could force your battery to send its power to the grid at peak times, meaning any power you use comes from the grid, and your battery gets drained without them paying you a cent. It means that you could potentially not save a single cent on your power bill, while saving the power company money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It costs half the price of a new EV to replace the battery. Buying a second hand EV means you have no idea how the battery has been treated, and you know the clock is already ticking until you have to shell out a massive amount of $ for a new battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if one suited

  This is why not everyone wants one. EVs are great and I’d love to get one as my next car, but they don’t cover everyone’s needs at every price point, and most people don’t have the ability to charge them at any useful speed thanks to the power infrastructure. There’s also the issue of the second hand market - no one wants to buy a second hand electric car, but most people understand that buying a brand new car is a fools game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully they’re decent rebates on decent battery systems, and not means tested so only the low income earners would qualify (but couldn’t afford anyway).

  Every year I run the numbers to see if it makes sense to get batteries, and every year it doesn’t. Would love to go completely off grid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Australian was denied US entry for bizarre reasons. He’s not alone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The media have actually been surprisingly accurate with all of his actions, and he is extremely predictable too

  Hahahahahahaha good one.

  Oh you’re serious?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Australian was denied US entry for bizarre reasons. He’s not alone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m not buying this at all. There’s always more to these stories than meets the eye, and it’s usually that the person is telling lies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banks will be told to disregard student loans in mortgage tests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it still means you have less cash in hand than if you didn’t have it, so it definitely should affect your borrowing ability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two NSW Health nurses have been stood down after video emerged showing them allegedly bragging about killing and refusing to treat Israeli patients.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no difference between being israeli and being jewish for these disgusting racist terrorist sympathisers.