Nath
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- Comment on Sydney Muslim cleric tells court Jewish people can’t be offended by him calling them ‘vile’ as lectures were private 6 days ago:
Sorry Willie, you can’t upload a video to YouTube and then say it was a private setting.
I doubt you’d get away with calling the lecture private even if it weren’t broadcast.
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 1 week ago:
The problem is I love all three publications and would struggle to choose one name.
/c/NotBetootaShovelChaser ?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦉 Saturday 7 June 2025 1 week ago:
Every Saturday is much the same: Hockey, Shopping, Extra thing.
The kid lost hockey to the team on top of the ladder, but still scored a goal. Shopping was mostly a success, I need to go back for more stuff soon.
Not sure what Extra thing will be at this stage, but it’s my wife’s birthday soon, might take the kids shopping for that.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦉 Saturday 7 June 2025 1 week ago:
I hate getting up early for parkrun. But I’ve never regretted doing it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 6 June 2025 1 week ago:
Emergency Cheese has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I have emergency cheese in the fridge, I find I suddenly have an emergency that requires cheese.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 6 June 2025 1 week ago:
My wife has been fascinated by this case and listens to the daily podcast about it. She’s gone from “oh she definitely did it” to “maybe she’s innocent, I can’t be say beyond reasonable doubt” after this week’s testimony. So Erin is clearly doing some good for her case on the stand.
I haven’t been following the case closely, but I listened to one recap podcast a week ago where they describe the multiple phones, the missing phone seen on camera that wasn’t provided, with the one provided to police being factory reset first, and taking her dehydrator on CCTV to the tip after telling police she didn’t have one - it was all pretty damning.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
Full disclosure: I honestly thought everyone could. 😆
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
That sort of vote manipulation wouldn’t be posted to this community. 😄
I’m a little surprised at how many people have seen this post. More people subscribe to Meta/browse Local than I would have guessed. Whichever it is, I love how engaged our users are in the health of the instance. You guys are great!
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
You are absolutely allowed to downvote anything you’d like to see less of. Yours was one of the two legitimate downvotes I was speaking of.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
Nah, Eureka is legit. He just doesn’t think news should be in Australia. And that’s perfectly fine. There will come a time where we are getting enough content that we’ll want to introduce that as a rule.
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- Comment on New Zealand teenager dies playing ‘run it straight’ viral challenge 2 weeks ago:
The competition is built around actions seen in rugby union, rugby league, the NFL and AFL. Opposing individuals – a ball runner and a tackler – stand at each end of a 20m x 4m field, and run full speed at each other with the goal of trying to bowl each other over.
RUNIT Championship League released a statement to Stuff on Tuesday afternoon after news of Satterthwaite’s death was made public, saying it did “not encourage any copying of the sport as it should only be done under the strict conditions”.
I don’t know what to say in response to that. Nobody (even a teenager) who actually thought about it would read this and think it sounds like a good idea. As a dad to a teenage son, it hits a bit close to home - feeling terrible for the family, but also wondering how you teach a teenage boy not do such stupid stuff.
I remember being young and invulnerable as well. I think teenage me could have been talked into doing this. That kid was an idiot.
- Comment on Australian PM Albanese says Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is ‘an outrage’ 3 weeks ago:
although birth to an Italian father would ordinarily confer citizenship by descent, Albanese had no father recorded on his birth certificate and thus meets the parliamentary eligibility requirements of section 44 of the Constitution.
That’s an interesting little bit of information. He could have been caught up in the whole citizenship dramas of 2017 had he not been exempted by this. Though he had likely already known about his exemption since he knew his father was Italian and would have investigated whether he needed to renounce Italian citizenship.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 4 weeks ago:
Ha! We are not even the biggest instance in Australia. Nor are we the oldest or most used.
The biggest/oldest Australian instance I know of is Blahaj. While you can argue they’re more global than Australian, I count them because 1. I am super proud of them and what they’ve built and 2. Ada is in Brisbane and active in our communities. 😀
- Comment on Almost 2,000 missing ballots found at election worker's home 5 weeks ago:
“While concerning, this case does remind us that there are many layers of protection built into the electoral system to ensure it is secure.”
“The system ensured there was accountability, although it seems likely there was some kind of failure to identify immediately that the container had not been delivered to the counting centre.”
My confidence in the AEC remains strong. It is a little concerning that the container wasn’t noticed immediately, but it doesn’t appear to be anything malicious. Just an oversight on both sides for a scenario that will undoubtedly be corrected.
I think they’d have made a point of saying that the temporary staffer was facing further consequences or wouldn’t be a part of future elections if there was more to this. The fact they haven’t and that the case was sealed/intact leads me to believe it was an innocent mistake.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏟️ Tuesday 13 May 2025 5 weeks ago:
Damn, a movie she couldn’t finish still got 2 hobbits. 1 hobbit must truly be awful.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏟️ Tuesday 13 May 2025 5 weeks ago:
Look at me! I can play Piano!
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- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 5 weeks ago:
I mostly let the upvotes lead me on these sorts of questions. We aren’t algorithms - I’m happy for something worth talking about being posted on Australia (I do it often enough).
As a counter question: if you’d prefer to see less news and politics, what sort of content would you prefer to be posted instead? There might not be enough.
- Comment on Three-way race divides voters spread across Australia's newest electorate 5 weeks ago:
Kudos to whoever at the AEC drew up this seat. They hit the demographics perfectly for a balanced slice of the populace. This was a super close one, hopefully it stays as a swing seat. Trish Cook has just claimed victory of it, but she’s only ahead by 634 votes with 81.9% counted. She isn’t really a certainty, though is probable winner.
I’m a little sad that Mia Davies didn’t get a better showing. I suppose the voters of the Hills of Perth see themselves more a part of suburbia than a rural seat. Mia was leader of the State Opposition after the 2022 election when the State National Party actually got more seats than the Liberals and were the senior coalition partner for a term. Mia stepped down over the National Party’s decision to side with the Liberal on the question of the Voice to Parliament. She vocally supported the Voice and did not agree with the party’s stance. She may have actually done better as an Independent candidate, her profile is more than large enough to get consideration in her own right.
If she ran as an independent in my seat, I’d seriously consider her. She’s got experience, credibility and integrity. She’s historically been a too conservative for my tastes, but I don’t know how much of that is her and how much is her party.
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- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 5 weeks ago:
I saw the ONP vote - Sadly, it was upwards of 15% in some seats. If they head right, they’ll be getting some of that action.
Personally, I think most of the population is to be found in the other direction. It might take them another decade or so to admit they’re wrong. Or perhaps a new political movement will pop up in that time and supplant them? Who can say? I doubt however a strong move to the right will lead them to government.
- Comment on [Satire] James McGrath urges public to wait for outcome of Harold Holt’s disappearance before jumping to conclusions about Liberal leadership 5 weeks ago:
Gotta be fair to this chap. That ABC presenter was drilling him for who would be the next leader, while the poor dude was still in shock that his party lost the election with him sitting there live in front of the whole nation. He’s not come to terms with the loss, let alone his leader’s ousting.
And they’re trying to get the poor dude to speculate on leadership. Poor bloke didn’t even know who among his party was even surviving the wipe-out.
Not too fair though: He also called himself “a Regan republican; a Bush Republican” the same night.Not sure who the other Liberal dude they had on that night was, but he was spitting some hard facts. I liked him.
- Comment on MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat 5 weeks ago:
🎶 Why can’t you seeee~eeeee~
You belong to meeee~eeeee~ 🎶 - Comment on Greens' Adam Bandt in danger as seat of Melbourne remains on knife's edge 5 weeks ago:
“In Danger” means “Seat in doubt”. Nobody knows, it’s all speculation.
Antony Green even this afternoon still thinks Adam is in there with a shot. Although he’s gone from “I think he’ll retain it” even as recently as yesterday to “Too close to call” this afternoon.It’s been a fascinating seat to watch though. This is all because Melbourne’s electoral lines were redrawn in October: Image
They took away Fitzroy North and Clifton Hill and gave him South Yarra and part of Prahan instead. This has done fairly predictable things to his votes.
- Comment on Labor's Josh Wilson wins Fremantle after nail-biting race with independent 5 weeks ago:
The same thing happened at the state election in Freo in March. 15+% swing away from Labor. Freo is no longer a safe seat at either level for the ALP.
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- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 29 🛸 April 2025 1 month ago:
Ooh! Thanks for reminding me. The school was calling for sausage volunteers on Saturday and I forgot to reply.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 29 🛸 April 2025 1 month ago:
To make matters worse: blokes are totally oblivious to it all. I wouldn’t notice or care what makeup you had on (or didn’t) so long as you are happy.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 25 🫖 April 2025 1 month ago:
Same here. That’s how I managed to completely miss that she was now in her 70’s until she was literally in front of me.
