Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥸 Wednesday 3 September 2025 4 days ago:
Seven whole hours? In a single night?
Image - Comment on Never ask... 5 days ago:
I don’t understand, Bob. Your grandfather was an immigrant from Lebanon. My Grandma was an immigrant from England. I see no difference. I have no idea why you’d be sensitive on this topic.
Even if your platform is ‘Stop immigrants coming here’, you can be proud of your Middle Eastern heritage and maintain that the present cultural mix of Australians is a part of our new local culture now, while saying we lack the infrastructure to take more immigration at this time. You’d even have something of a case worth discussing, if that were your platform.
But by being all huffy about your middle eastern heritage and combining it with talking points about integration, you’re just being racist.
Accept that you aren’t 100% white. Accept that Australia is not 100% white. Accept that our white Aussie kids are going to marry non-white Aussie kids - this is already happening and is already “normal” (if there is such a word). Australia is not and has never been a “white” country.
- Comment on ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlight 6 days ago:
Of all the things going on in the country, the specific wording of a census question is right up there on my list. 😃
- Comment on Ignorance is bliss 1 week ago:
I usually compare Fediverse to email, as that’s familiar to everyone online. You can email people on the same domain, you can email people on other domains.
You can even send emails that become sms messages, which is sorta like interacting with Mastodon folk.
- Comment on Vikurfjara (& Reynisfjara in comments) 1 week ago:
I love the volcanic black sand. I experienced it in Vanuatu. It is super rough on hot days if your feet are bare however. 🔥
- Comment on Caught lemmy in the "wild" 1 week ago:
I love you for sharing it with is on the opposite end of the globe! It’s 17,000km from Reykjavik to Melbourne - about 85% to antipode distance!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 28 August 2025 1 week ago:
From the way he was talking it sounded like it was a routine delivery until it wasn’t there.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 28 August 2025 1 week ago:
Dad called me upset that someone had stolen his delivery. Congrats arseholes, you have yourselves a month’s supply of doggie insulin. It’s totally useless to you.
Except that it cost dad $530, and it needs to be chilled. So even if you return it tomorrow, it’s no good for the dog.(It’ll probably be covered by contents insurance because the delivery driver left a photo of it on the doorstep, but even $200 excess is not a trivial amount for a pensioner in his 80s)
- Comment on Officers shot dead in Porepunkah while serving warrant 1 week ago:
The ABC can confirm police were executing a warrant for historical sex offences at a property near Porepunkah when the shooting began.
Police believe the shooter identifies as a “sovereign citizen”,
Sovereign citizens believe the government is illegitimate and use pseudo-law — a collection of legal-sounding concepts that have no basis in actual law — to target government institutions.
The shooter remains on the run.
I have a suspicion they will struggle to take this one alive. Which is a pity, he deserves to chill in a cage.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 25 August 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen the value in it personally, but I work in a field where you can usually get a job.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 25 August 2025 1 week ago:
Woolies would like to remind you that Christmas is only 4 months away and it’s time to start thinking about spending season.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 25 August 2025 1 week ago:
You can buy insurance from being made redundant, but it’s bloody expensive.
- Comment on ‘Long may she reign’: How powerful is Gina Rinehart? 2 weeks ago:
Conjuring a future in which Australian Defence Force vehicles, ships and planes could be stranded without fuel
As farcical as this image is, I’d actually love to live in a world where two nations at odds with one another have to call a ceasefire because they’ve exhausted their emissions budgets.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 2 weeks ago:
Possibly. It’d be a terrible way to get that data if so. You could just spin up a Lemmy instance and federate with all of Lemmy far easier than trying to scrape all the web front-ends. Also, we try to fly under the radar from the Internet a bit. We opt out of Google searches, Amazon, Apple and GPTBot for example.
While our data is all human-generated (attractive), we’re a pretty small userbase. There are shinier web sites to scrape than us.
- Comment on Labor and the Coalition have very different ideas about ties to the United States 2 weeks ago:
In truth, you brought me here. I usually avoid politics.
But if you turn up in an Australian instance and have nothing but vague “look at that” to go with, don’t be surprised if Aussies respond with snark.
- Comment on Labor and the Coalition have very different ideas about ties to the United States 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps “does little” would have been a better turn of phrase?
I say this because mocking that sort of thing does cause people to second-guess the validity of it. Which in-turn may make that line of thinking less attractive to people heading down that path. - Comment on Labor and the Coalition have very different ideas about ties to the United States 2 weeks ago:
I’m married. So, I suppose I’m not a single person. Can single person explain what this person is on about?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🚙 Friday 15 August 2025 3 weeks ago:
I’m starting to think about retirement. Not very seriously, it’s still over a decade away - but in a “how the hell are we going to get a house and pay it off before that?” kinda way.
But if we somehow manage it, retirement is going to be awesome.
- Comment on Melbourne airport ranked Australia’s least convenient 3 weeks ago:
I mean, Perth installed a rail link in the last five years to the airport. It also costs $5.20 to travel 100km from the airport (if you buy a cash ticket - cheaper if you get a smartrider card).
Melbourne has been talking about it for 60 years, they just can’t seem to prioritize it over whatever else the government spends money on. The airport itself has at various times been an impediment to the station as well, though. Much of the debate appears to stem on whether to make a subway or go above ground (cheaper).
- Comment on Satellite imagery reveals what Israel didn't show to the ABC when it granted rare access inside Gaza 4 weeks ago:
So, basically like Theresienstadt.
- Comment on Police escort neo-Nazis in early morning march through Melbourne’s CBD 4 weeks ago:
I agree there needs to be more to stop Neo Nazis. I can’t help but think those powers could be used on other protesters though.
This is also my concern. While I mock these losers for hiding behind their masks like cowards, I also don’t want it to become illegal to wear a mask in public/protests. Because I might want to wear one someday for something.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 5 weeks ago:
In Australia at least, those cards are everywhere in populated areas. Supermarkets and department stores pretty-much all stock them. I’d say that over 90% of Australians live within 3km of a store that sells Steam cards and takes cash. Most of us even closer than that.
- Comment on Should Australia lower the voting age to 16 like the UK? We asked 5 experts 5 weeks ago:
I hear you - if I no longer paid my tax now, it wouldn’t make a difference to the ATO financially. However, if all middle-income taxpayers in my demographic who pay between around $30,000 and $80,000 in tax were to stop paying the ATO, they would feel that.
I forget the tax brackets decades later, but $90x2-3 days a week was getting taxed enough that I was losing about two hours per shift on tax. I remember thinking of it in hours at work. The first two hours paid Mr. tax man, the remaining six were for me. I remember that I was making $7 per hour. My annual tax came out at less than $2k, before deductions etc. If all the kids in the same boat as me didn’t have to pay tax, I doubt it’d make much difference to the ATO.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 5 weeks ago:
Your point is sound because I usually use a credit card for this, but most of my Steam purchases come from buying gift cards. However, I could easily buy those gift cards with cash.
Your comment implies this is not possible/common.
- Comment on Should Australia lower the voting age to 16 like the UK? We asked 5 experts 5 weeks ago:
It rankled with me when I was 15-17 that I had to pay income tax as a kid making ~$70-$90 per day. My paltry income would be doing nothing for Mr tax man, but that money would be much better given to me on payday. I think I would have signed up to vote and get a say in how it was spent. But there are also a lot of 16 year old morons who would act in predictable ways if forced to vote.
Maybe introduce it as optional until you are 18? And then it goes compulsory.
- Comment on Bob Katter refuses to swear oath to King Charles 1 month ago:
What makes you come to this conclusion? Given that Australia has been connected to the British crown since colonial days - before federation, and we haven’t gone down that path, I’m wondering what makes you think we will? The UK has had its attachment for half a millennia, they also seem to be doing ok.
In fact, I’ll go one further and give a counter-example: India detached from the monarchy nearly 80 years ago and I think they’ve gone way further down that path. Presidents Modi and Trump have a fair amount in common.
So, I think I disagree with you on this point. At least, I can’t see what you’re getting at.
- Comment on Bob Katter refuses to swear oath to King Charles 1 month ago:
I don’t call myself a monarchist. But I am in favour of someone holding the power to send us to an election if we get a non-functional government. Whoever that is needs to be totally independent of our day-to-day politics and essentially un-bribable.
Right now, that’s the king in England. I’m not against disconnecting from that - but like I said, I don’t know where else you’ll find someone who is outside daily politics in Australia and can’t be bribed to act against our interests. If you have a name, I’m all ears (so is the king! 😆).
If you are proposing we just do away with that, then I’d love to know how you’d deal with an Australian Trump administration. Because 3-4 years of that doesn’t sound fun.
- Comment on Australia joins other nations in call for an immediate end to war in Gaza 1 month ago:
While Australia is in that supply chain, “stopping it” wouldn’t do anything. For a start, the manufacturer/seller of the parts is Lockheed Martin. The government can sanction a country and tell LM they can’t send their parts from Australia to Israel.
But all that will happen from this is LM will send the parts to their USA operations and from there, they’ll magically be reassigned to Israel. Or worse: They move production of those parts to another nation and Australians lose their jobs. Either way, the parts will still get to Israel. The government holds no actual cards in this equation.
- Comment on Bob Katter refuses to swear oath to King Charles 1 month ago:
It might be time for another referendum on this topic. However, given the chaos that has come out of the USA in the hands of a rogue government, I’d be hesitant to completely remove the role the monarchy plays in our government. We need that check on power and I don’t know what you’d replace it with.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Thursday 17 July 2025 1 month ago:
Huh. A Switch 2 game besides Mario Kart World. I haven’t been able to justify upgrading. I’ll likely go to Steam Deck instead.
