trk
@trk@aussie.zone
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 4 days ago:
Dunno man, but if you find out let me know cause every time I see this bad boy I’m giggling like a schoolgirl no matter the situation
- Comment on ‘TikTok Refugees’ Flocking to China’s RedNote App Experience Intersection of Free Speech and Censorship While The Chinese App Seeks To Meet Censorship Requirements Set By Beijing 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘TikTok Refugees’ Flocking to China’s RedNote App Experience Intersection of Free Speech and Censorship While The Chinese App Seeks To Meet Censorship Requirements Set By Beijing 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about propoganda from a political point of view, but the amount of casual animal cruelty on the platform is enough for me to leave it with a worse opinion of the country than I originally had.
- Comment on Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump 4 weeks ago:
Do you know how to tell if someone isn’t on Facebook?
- Comment on Catch: Wesfarmers winds down online marketplace, putting 190 jobs on the line 4 weeks ago:
I used to buy some of their lame crap back when it was 1 unique item a day. It was kind of fun, even if most of the stuff I ended up with was total junk.
But just being eBay, or Amazon, or Kogan, but worse? What’s the point.
- Comment on TikTok goes dark in the US as Trump says he's likely to give ban 'reprieve' 4 weeks ago:
I actually joined Rednote just to see what it’s like.
It’s cool, being on a platform that’s mostly people from another country/culture/language. You see that people are pretty much the same world over.
… Same inane bollocks from “influencers”, same stupid jump cuts constantly to make something boring look partially exciting, always with the end goal of pushing some product or service. But now it’s in Mandarin, and the brand names are written in moonrunes so I don’t know what they are.
- Comment on Satellite images reveal devastating scale of LA fires 1 month ago:
I know fires bad, people dying sad, etc, but I feel if there’s going to be fires (and there’s gonna be!) then an affluent area of LA is probably the “best” place for it right? People living there are in the best position to support themselves after losing their house more so than if it was in a poor area where they have no financial backing.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 1 month ago:
I dunno man, I’m happy for the site to just grow and change organically. I deal with enough paperwork and faff at work, I don’t want more of it on my shitposting provider too.
If Lodion needs cash I send cash. In fact I think I already changed it to a monthly donation to make things more consistent. Otherwise whatever happens, happens.
- Comment on Did Apple kill iTunes for windows? 1 month ago:
If she only uses the browser and texting, whats to learn that’s different?
I actually push my family members to buy Apple products because then I dont have to provide tech support but tbh if their usage is just tapping on like 3 different icons, there’s really no difference between the two from a UI point of view. And a mid-range Android phone that allows you to tape those 3 icons is probably 1/5th the cost of an iPhone.
- Comment on [2024-12-24] After hosting a (failed) neo-Nazi recruitment event, head office gets their door bashed in by Santa and office sprayed with liquid 1 month ago:
I don’t know what’s worse: nazis, or Instagrams video player.
- Comment on Did Apple kill iTunes for windows? 1 month ago:
… to Android
- Comment on Labor looks likely to win 2025 Election 1 month ago:
For the first time ever I reckon I’ll just donkey vote.
I will never understand this attitude.
We have preferential voting, every (legitimate) vote has an impact.
Donkey voting is a lazy way of pretending that none of what happens is “your” fault, cause you didn’t vote for “them”.
- Comment on I couldn't eat another thing 2 months ago:
It has become our Christmas tradition to watch this video after Christmas lunch is over and we’re all laying around on the couches struggling to breathe through the over indulgence of ham and fruit mince pies.
It always hits just right when you’re in that state.
- Comment on Vale @Ilandar 2 months ago:
I dont know who that is. I’m sure they were a big deal though.
Glad to hear they aren’t dead I guess, which was my initial expectation based on the headline.
- Comment on Former Nine boss Hugh Marks appointed ABC's new managing director 2 months ago:
Oh good, another bit of “for profit” leadership. This bodes well for the future of the ABC.
- Comment on ‘This is just a photo op’: anger greets Albanese as he tours Melbourne synagogue destroyed by arson 2 months ago:
What a weird thing to get fired up about.
Who cares if the dude played a game of tennis ffs?
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 2 months ago:
I, for one, support more activity and more viewpoints being presented.
Getting pretty sick of every social media platform turning in to an echo chamber as people (or algorithms) filter out everything they don’t agree with.
- Comment on Greyhound racing to be banned in New Zealand 2 months ago:
Good, now do Australia
And horses next
- Comment on NSW Police face fresh calls to be banned from Mardi Gras 2 months ago:
Because some of those organising it where the ones that had the crap beaten out of them by police not so long ago.
Right, and in all likelihood so were the current police who are now wanting to join the march.
- Comment on NSW Police face fresh calls to be banned from Mardi Gras 2 months ago:
I’m not part of either community so grim the view of an outsider…
Why wouldn’t “you” (the people organising and participating in the march) not want police as part of it?
The Venn diagram of homophobic police and homosexual police are surely two distinct circles - why wouldn’t you want the circle that’s part of your team to be included? Are they not deserving of the same support the march is encouraging?
- Comment on So I want this giant teddy bear outside my block of flats? 2 months ago:
That has a non zero chance of having either urine or semen on it, possibly both.
I probably wouldn’t use it as a pillow.
- Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? 2 months ago:
Admitting to being a landlord on Lemmy? Brave. Very brave.
- Comment on Albanese moves to capitalise on Trump's plan to slash green energy investment 3 months ago:
God it would be good to be doing something positive and proactive for once.
I’m sick of always having the option between Option A: “world leading, best practice, transformative, long term project” and Option B: “regressive, poorly planned, guaranteed to result in private profits for a few but public debt for many” and we always end up with B. So, so many B options. Always the B.
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 3 months ago:
I just came here to say it wasn’t working, but looks like it got switched off a few days back.
I really like the old.reddit layout, so I’d be a huge fan if it was able to be used here too. No biggie if it cant, standard Lamington is pretty uncluttered anyway. Just not very compact. Whats with web devs and whitespace? I’m here to see content, not empty pixels.
- Comment on Labor backs 16 as the minimum age to use social media ahead of national cabinet meeting - ABC News 3 months ago:
I swear Labor’s policy making is to find the stupidest idea possible and then enact it.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 3 months ago:
You’re suggesting defederating the 5th largest Lemmy instance (~52k users, ~2.2k active) over the actions of a single digit number of people. I think you also suggested defederating hexbear (the next biggest at ~27k users, ~1.8k active) in the past.
Lemmy aint big enough to be wiping out majority shares when you don’t like how a very small number of people act.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 3 months ago:
They
… being the very small minority?
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 3 months ago:
Eh, I disagree. I don’t want to defederate from any instance except blatantly illegal ones or immoral ones.
The admins of an instance being dickheads doesn’t make every user of that instance a dickhead. And if you go around defederating every instance you don’t agree with a minority on, we’re gonna end up with no friends at all. It will also drive people away from becoming Lamingtons if they see defederation drama going on - why join any instance if you may end up on a deserted island?
Side note: here’s a nice bit of light reading on tolerating intolerance. And not tolerating tolerance. And vice versa:
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 3 months ago:
Front page side bar at the bottom has a link to my Ko-fi donation page
It doesn’t show up anywhere when you use an app, so I was very cleverly and subtly providing an opportunity to link it.
Don’t worry everyone, I’ll do it:
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 3 months ago:
I forget where the donations go… Can you refresh my memory?
