Zagorath

@Zagorath@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom murderer likely to die in jail after failed appeal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth remembering that her ex, the person many believe was the primary target of her murders, didn’t come to lunch that day, despite her specifically urging that he be there. His comments seem to imply that he may already have been suspicious of her motives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom murderer likely to die in jail after failed appeal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the “likely” in the headline probably refers to the slim chance that she successfully appeals this decision to the High Court.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coalition says cuts to climate, housing and more would save $31b⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Build-to-rent developers is corporates getting into the rental game isn’t it?

  Yes. I believe it’s actually the norm in some other countries, such as America. I’m ambivalent about it, to be honest. More big corporates getting involved could have upsides, like a greater degree of professionalism and potentially being more responsive to serious issues than bad individual landlords. Many individual landlords will blatantly break the law not out of malice, but just sheer incompetence. And because they’re a relatively small target, the chances they face legal repercussions are minimal. A larger landlord with hundreds of tenants has a much larger legal risk if they do it on purpose (at least in theory—before regulatory capture sets in), and will have procedures in place to avoid it

  But it could have very serious downsides, like never being as good as a good individual landlord who chooses to allow something they don’t actually have to, and creating a more oligopolistic market that gives the landlords more power in the wider market than they currently do. It also means they have more political power to change the laws than they currently do, in theory (there’s an argument for precisely the reverse: that policies that help landlords are an easy sell to the voting public when the landlords are mum-and-pop shops as policies that help people’s “retirement nest eggs”, whereas when it’s a corporation it’s harder to convince the public)

  Ultimately, to me who owns the property matters much less than what the law says they can do with it. If it’s impossible to evict a tenant who isn’t causing damage without a really good reason (a legitimate need of serious repairs—which occurred for reasons that couldn’t have been avoided by doing regular routine maintenance), the landlord or an immediate family member moving back in (with serious fines for not actually moving back in long-term after this reason is used), if the tenant is able to make minor reversible modifications like hanging up paintings or painting the walls, if they are required to be able to pay through reasonable convenient fee-less means, if they are protected from obscene rent hikes, and if retaliation against a tenant who tries to enforce their rights is penalised harshly, it doesn’t matter much to me whether my landlord is Joe Blow or Apartments Incorporated.

  to the uncompromising domination of a rental-corp

  True, but for the reasons partly stated above this may not always make things worse. Plus, many if not most individual landlords go through a realtor anyway, who does most of the actual work. Does the rental-corp owning the building vs managing it on behalf of an individual actually make that difference? Maybe. Maybe not.

  Reducing this support will likely deflate house prices a little, so the timing of changes like this would need to be considered carefully

  I honestly reject the notion that policies that “deflate house prices a little” need to be “considered carefully”. Deflating houseprices should be seen as a good in and of itself. That said, I think it should be done by way of reducing incentive to invest in housing, not reduce incentive for someone to own their own home. The end goal is making it more affordable for people to live. That means house prices and rent need to go down. For that, demand needs to be reduced without reducing the buying power of people who don’t already own a home.

  But regardless, voters aren’t going to look at the nitty-gritty details. They’ll see this headline and see “the Liberals want to make it harder to own a home”. That can never be a vote winner. Nor can continued climate denial. Their base already votes for them on that account, but the vast majority of Australians accept the reality of climate change. The Liberals just need to keep climate change as far away from being a political issue as possible if they want to avoid losing potential votes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coalition says cuts to climate, housing and more would save $31b⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jfc read the room Liberals.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people protesting across Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, this Community is specifically for world news with some specific relevance to Australia. We’re sometimes lenient when it comes from an Australian news source, but otherwise the news should have some significant focus on how it affects Australia in particular, or some group of Australians such as a politician, an Aussie sporting team, etc.

  The Guardian has an Australian site, but this article seems to be from the original UK version, co-written by a UK-based and Spain-based journalist. Did it have some other particular relevance to this Community that I’m missing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, this is the first I’ve seen about it being a potential false flag. Is there any sort of consensus around this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G7 countries to release 100 million barrels of diesel and oil to curb fuel prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting possible consequence of this is that it could reduce pressure on the Republicans in the lead-up to the midterm elections by reducing the cost of petrol and therefore the impact of inflation to the average American. Which Europe probably doesn’t want, since it’s Trump’s ability to do whatever he wants unchecked that’s caused this problem in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Opts Out Of The Algorithm By Throwing His Fucking Phone Off A Bridge And Going To The Pub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever heard that about Lemmy. It has basically the same algorithm as Reddit. It might work for Mastodon and Friendica, relative to Xitter and Facebook, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the AUKUS flip-flop didn’t do it, there’s zero chance that requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a fair price in a situation where the entire world knows they’re currently being allowed to rip us all off will have any impact on other industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most gas is already under contract. Breaking those contracts would massively hurt our economy

  Nah fuck that. There aren’t alternatives they can reasonably turn to. The only thing hurting our economy is allowing companies to steal from the Australian people without paying for our resources.

  Courts can’t overturn it if Parliament enacts a law specifically saying they can do it. There’s certainly nothing in the constitution that would prevent this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh haha very convenient timing. I took the time to do that exact same search myself before refreshing and seeing your message posted 8 minutes ago. But yeah, their About page makes it clear that they’re a legit journalist, so I’ve already updated the title to reflect that.

  It’s not Substack by the way, but Ghost.io, based on a DNS lookup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah I’m a big fan. Only discovered him a few months ago but he does great stuff.

  But in this case he’s not the one being referred to as an “influencer”. That was the creator of the video Punter Konrad is commenting on in this video.

  Which as it happens, I just discovered was created by an actual legit independent journalist, Jesse Noakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Punter Konrad isn’t the influencer referenced in the title. Konrad is commenting on a clip made by someone else. And I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think that person was a YouTuber. Instagram or TikTok is their stomping ground, I think.

  I definitely would use YouTuber if it were someone primarily from YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was simply the most accurate term I could think of. They’re not a proper journalist, even if in this context they seem to be doing some pretty damn good (if not especially difficult) journalism.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federation between Aussie.Zone & Quokk.au is getting even worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it still seems off. I just submitted this 20 mins ago but it’s not showing up on AZ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nauru officially changes name to Naoero⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  with a rolled r

  If you’re being super strict, that’s technically what /r/ means. But in practice, it tends to just get used to mean “your rhotic consonant”. That’s why you’ll note the same symbol is used for that part of the word in both English pronunciations and the Nauruan* pronunciation.

  * do we need to update the spelling of the demonym?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not my president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There might be some third-party version of Android you could put onto it that’d keep you more up to date? I’m not really sure, as I’ve never had a phone last that long with a usable battery, so I’ve never tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not my president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like your phone is very out of date. You should probably consider upgrading, for security if nothing else. (As in, if your phone is old enough to show the wrong message here, it’s probably also not receiving mainline security updates. A correlation, not a causation.)

  Up-to-date devices showed “Critical AusAlert”.

• Federation issues don't seem limited to Quokk.au
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve written a bot for Lemmy before. You can see it on !dailygames@lemmy.zip if you’re interested. I agree completely re the messaging being as nonthreatening as possible.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, in response to Nath’s advice, I’m considering if the group name should change to Overseas Tidings, yes because of the pun, but admittedly I didn’t even know that word so I won’t go forth with that unless there’s community backing.

  I actually don’t know how much that will help. I think the problem comes from the fact that its ID is !worldnews, and no change to the display name can change that.

  But I do kinda like the implications of it. The dictionary says tidings just means news, but at least to me it feels like it connotes a greater degree of relevance than “news” alone does. Like “what tidings do you bring‽” seems like a request for “what news that is relevant for me to know?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel's embassy takes rare swipe at Labor's platform on eve of conference⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rare?

• Australia's Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur communities condemn China's new ethnic unity lawwww.abc.net.au ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daylight Savings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cos a significant majority of the population is on the east coast. 50% in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne alone, before you add the rest of those states. So for economic reasons, it’s convenient for the central states to be a bit closer in time to the eastern states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bot would be immediately replying to a post a user has just made. I figure in that context, an hour should be more than enough time for the person who posted it to confirm that they’ve followed the rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect most rule violations are probably committed out of ignorance, rather than malice. Most people probably don’t read the sidebar.

  I wonder if it wouldn’t be useful to have a very simple filter. A bot that replies to every post, and asks the user to check if they’re following the rule.

  Going a step further, the bot could tell the user to downvote the comment if it is following the rule, in which case the bot would delete its own comment. Anything where the OP did not downvote the bot’s comment within, say, an hour, gets removed by the bot. Its message could also (optionally) threaten banning the user if the violation is clear. No automated enforcement of that, but if a human reviews it and finds that not only did it break the rule, but it very obviously did and there’s no excuse for not knowing it, the human could then follow up with a ban.

  Would there be any interest in something like that? Either the whole thing or just the first half? I’ve had a little experience developing Lemmy bots before and would be interested to try my hand at it.