Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 22 hours ago:
Yeah, no carve out. The only way to be exempted is for them to specifically choose to exempt you. Or if you’re for one of the specific purposes listed as exempt, like education and work.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 23 hours ago:
According to the AFR…almost literally any. Many platforms don’t even stop you if you tell them you’re under 16. And none seemed to stop you viewing content if you told them you’re an adult, without any further verification.
- Comment on Israel to compete at Eurovision Song Contest in 2026, prompting several nations to withdraw 4 days ago:
she was narcissist wing
lol what? That couldn’t be further from the truth. The biggest defining feature of her prime ministership was her she contrasted with the actual narcissist that was Kevin Rudd. Rudd initially got kicked out because his coworkers hated working with him. And his rather extreme failure to be open to negotiating (yunno, the *main part of politicians’ job!) and the subsequent failure to pass his lacklustre excuse for climate law ended up providing the requisite excuse to roll him. Then Gillard comes along, does an amazing job of negotiating with the crossbench, and passes world-leading legislation on climate, along with passing more legislation overall than any other PM had to that point in living memory.
Her ties to America and its interests are a legitimate angle of criticism of her. But her personality certainly is not.
- Comment on Israel to compete at Eurovision Song Contest in 2026, prompting several nations to withdraw 5 days ago:
Really disappointed with the SBS that Australia is not among those boycotting. We’re repeating the Australian Rugby Union team’s tours of South Africa in the '70s and '80s. Except worse, because Israel has been doing apartheid for decades…it’s just that now they’ve escalated to genocide, worse than South Africa ever did.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I haven’t been to Melbourne since like 2011, so I’m just taking AllNewTypeFace at their word that you’re mistaken about 2019.
Is it possible you’re conflating it with Sydney, which has allowed paying with credit cards since 2017? Or maybe with Melbourne’s free tram?
- Comment on Right faction stages walkout at Labor conference over CFMEU motion 6 days ago:
Labor Left members should just be part of the Greens. They reason they’re not is because they value the power associated with being part of a larger major party more than they value good policy. That’s the same reason Labor won’t split.
- Comment on Accidentally range testing an electric motorcycle, and unexpected kindness 6 days ago:
and I don’t think anyone actually looked at a map. They were just going from memory and heading in a general direction
Yeah honestly that’s fair. But I do think it’s on them to at least give you a heads-up ahead of time about their level of confidence that the distance will work out, if you’ve given them prior warning that it’s necessary.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 6 days ago:
Haha fair enough! I guess it’s not quite as widely spread as I thought.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 6 days ago:
Haha yeah I know! I was actually watching a streamer (who mostly streams completely unrelated stuff—Photoshopping thumbnails for others’ aoe2 YouTube channels) just a few weeks ago, and the topic of Zoombinis came up. She’s apparently the moderator of the Zoombinis speedrunning records. Which…is apparently a thing.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 6 days ago:
What do you mean Lodion and you. I thought Molly was doing the verification!
- Comment on Accidentally range testing an electric motorcycle, and unexpected kindness 6 days ago:
Kinda sucky of your ‘friends’ to do a 140 km route when you had specifically told them you only had range for 100 km. Did they misjudge the route? Did they never actually check the length of the route before telling you it’d be ok?
But everything that happened after that is a great wholesome story. Thanks for sharing! I agree that on the whole people are pretty great. The number of times I’ve been on the side of the road with my pushy and had people offer help, even when the only reason I’m stopped is something simple like “I’m taking off my arm socks”. Even if I genuinely wouldn’t benefit from any help, it always puts a smile on my face knowing people would be willing to help out.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Yes, I can confirm I had a birthday at some point between 16 June 2023 and 2 December 2025.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Damn, that’s just wild to me. As I said above, I came in near the end of their era, so just storing one project on there was at times stretching the limits of what they could do. It’s kind of incredible to think of how far we’ve come.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Dayum, you were using floppies to hold multiple different unrelated files? Like a USB today?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Wait, you’ve never heard of it? Not having seen it is one thing, but never heard of it‽
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Oof, you just have to say that today‽ After my terrible performance on yesterday’s Connections?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
This one’s more my era: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombinis
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
I was under 30 when I made this account.
I no longer am.
Dunno if that counts.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Am I allowed to deliberately ignore that part of the message because it’s more fun to be verified in public?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Oh and if that’s not enough, hopefully you can believe that I didn’t have Reddit at the age of 3 years old on an account that is today 13?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
gaming off floppy discs as a child
Dang. I’m a little younger than you. We had floppy disks when I was in year 1 & 2, but I remember having a Powerpoint project where some of the kids’ Powerpoint files were too big to fit on a floppy.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Proof of age:
I’m using method 3 and telling you that I never watched a lot of the show, but I have a very strong distinct memory of one episode of Round the Twist (last released in 2001, 24 years ago) where one of the characters gains the ability to read minds. But then it messes up and suddenly it reverses, so everyone can read their mind instead. That’s the only episode that’s absolutely seared into my brain for some reason.
I also distinctly remember at one point somewhere in the range '99-'04, a block of children’s programming (I think it was on the ABC) on a Friday, which you knew was over when the MASH theme started playing. I’ve never properly watched the show, but Suicide is Painless is stuck in my head because of that fact. I don’t even know how long that block of programming lasted.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
how about a HRT label pic
Definitely should qualify if you’re in Queensland!
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Fwiw although the legislation says it applies to all social media, it seems as though the regulation that’s been imposed by the eSafety commissioner to actually implement that legislation relies on designating platforms. And AZ has not been designated. Only “Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X, YouTube, Kick and Reddit are age-restricted platforms”. So it seems as though there may not be any obligation for us to comply.
IANAL though, so take this with salt.
But if you are going to preemptively comply, taking the chinwag approach as you have seems like a pretty good method.
- Comment on 'Gone nowhere': Government criticised as progress fizzles on 'dangerous' reforms [on freedom of information laws] 1 week ago:
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland argues this is necessary to weed out the “abusive and frivolous requests” that delay genuine requests and tie up resources.
They will also remove anonymity to prevent identity fraud and assess security risks, a measure that could deter whistleblowing, including from within departments.
There are also new ways FOIs could be rejected, including if it takes the department more than 40 hours to provide the information.
It will also lead to cabinet exemptions being expanded, with the government having greater power to redact certain documentation if it can claim that its release may be harmful to public interest.
Sounds like its failure to pass the Senate is a good thing.
Which only raises the question…why has the LNP not backed it? It seems right up their alley.
- 'Gone nowhere': Government criticised as progress fizzles on 'dangerous' reforms [on freedom of information laws]www.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 1 comment
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- Comment on Favourite (least hated) and Most Hated Prime Ministers ? 1 week ago:
Abbott is most tolerable as a human being, if you put aside politics. But his politics was by far the most toxic in my lifetime. Turnbull probably had the best personal politics but was a complete pushover and allowed the right of his party to rule. Morrison had no personal politics, except that he saw personal success as literally godly. So he’s the worst as a person.
They’re all awful in their own way, but I gotta give it to Abbott as most-hated, because he’s the guy who cemented the toxic obstructionist approach to Opposition. He tripled down on the racist politics started by Howard. He set us back a decade in climate, by turning it into such a highly polarised issue. His was a politics of hate, and we’re still feeling the consequences. His genuine support for rural fireys and his involvement in triathlon just don’t change his terrible behaviour in and around Parliament.
For best, Whitlam is pretty obvious, but within my lifetime, Gillard for sure. She was the only PM who actually believed that a politician’s job is to do the right thing by the Australian people, by respecting their wishes and working with the Parliament that they elected. Where Labor has a long history, both before (with Rudd) and after (with Albanese), of being obstinate and playing a “my way or the highway” game, Gillard was an excellent negotiator who worked meaningfully with the cross-bench to get through numerous policies, including climate policy that was far better than anything Albanese has shown signs of doing even with his massive comfortable majority.
- Comment on Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age 1 week ago:
Always wondered why people “traditionally” moved right as they aged
I don’t believe it has ever been seriously suggested (by serious researchers) that there’s a link directly between age and conservatism. Rather, there are links between conservatism and various things that tend to be more common with age. Marriage, home ownership, higher wealth, etc. So it’s unsurprising that a generation where that is happening much less would be the one where the correlation with age disappears.
- Comment on Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why [They do not require the government to assess climate impacts of fossil-fuel projects] 1 week ago:
Article from before today’s announcement of a deal with the Greens to get the bill passed. But that agreement does not change the lack of a key clause being described in this article.
In summary, international courts have determined that countries must consider climate harm caused by fossil-fuel production, including down-stream impacts when you export your fuels elsewhere.