Mountaineer

@Mountaineer@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gun buyback deadline expires with most states still refusing to sign on⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget to stay active, contacting your reps and what not.

  I am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gun buyback deadline expires with most states still refusing to sign on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve already had to justify each purchase to the registrar individually, just like everyone else with guns in Australia.

  Placing an arbitrary limit on the purchase of something you have to individually justify is silly.

  Just like a golfer doesn’t use a wood when they’re on the green in golf, and “mum” doesn’t use a semi trailer to drop the kids to school; a hunter doesn’t use an air rifle to hunt foxes.

  Or at least, I don’t.

  If I wanted an air rifle capable of humanely dispatching a fox, I’d need to apply for a permit to acquire this snowflake 50cal single-shot-with-a-scuba-tank abomination.
  And part of that is justifying why one of my existing firearms can’t do the job in question.
  And even if that’s approved, I have to consider my storage obligations; because quantities and categories impact your storage requirements.
  Which are subject to inspection, failure of which can cost your licence, forfeiture of your firearms and fines.

  The /average/ gun owner doesn’t have 6 now, it’s a pain in the ass.

  And frankly, none of your business or concern.

  Mmm, bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gun buyback deadline expires with most states still refusing to sign on⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was indeed speaking in generalisations, we could split it even further into hundreds of little sub-groups.
  Those who are anti hunting, but pro gun vs those that are pro hunting but anti gun for instance.

  The amount of people who are actively pro gun in any form is bigger than the group who are ACTIVELY anti gun.
  And both of those together are outnumbered 20:1 by people who either don’t care at all or non active.

  this?

  the fuck does 1 person need more than 6 guns for?

  This is bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gun buyback deadline expires with most states still refusing to sign on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The National Cabinet agreed in principle to the deal, but implementing it requires their individual states to buy in.

  I’m surprised the federal government hasn’t completely abandoned this yet.
  It’s simply not worth the political capital:
  There’s a vocal minority desperate to take away other people’s guns for personal/idea logical reasons.
  There’s a slightly larger, but still a minority, desperate to keep their guns (who personally have never done anything wrong).
  And an uncaring majority who are being told they will have to pay for it with their taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liberal election autopsy delayed after Dutton suggests report defamatory⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For something to be defamatory it has to:
  a) Reduce the public’s perception of him (which is laughable, the public’s perception of him is “monster”)
  b) Be untrue (doubt it)

  I think he meant derogatory.
  And even that’s of questionable accuracy, as it’s about being shown an inappropriate amount of respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does vibe coding sort of work at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you “vibe code” your way through trial and error to an app, it may work.
  But if you don’t understand what it’s doing, why it’s doing it and how it’s doing it?
  Then you can’t (easily) maintain it.
  If you can’t fix bugs or add features, you don’t have a saleable product - you have a proof of concept.

  AI tools are useful, but letting the tool do all the driving is asking for the metaphorical car to crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy sell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Me: Hi, I need some high quality components, you know better than office stuff, and I’m willing to pay a premium. Company: Great, we have a huge range. And as a bonus we’ve covered EVERYTHING in LEDs! Me: Err, can I get the good mechanical switches and silent fans without LEDs? Company: Ooh, that’s a SPECIAL item! 3x the price!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia: Melbourne residents receive letter offering $200k for information on Hong Kong pro-democracy activist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a form of terrorism.
  Canberra should be demanding public apologies from China, not because they authorised it or could even stop it, but to show they don’t condone it.
  But instead nothing will be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  By the end of Trump’s term

  So, when he dies?
  Because if ever there was US president who intends to try for “President for life”, it’s this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you forget that you hired THEM because you weren't skilled enough to do it yourself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fantastic.
  Tradie doesn’t want to be watched while they work.
  I want to learn by watching, so I’ll hire someone else.
  We both get what we want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-C charging is now mandatory in EU, here's what you need to know - GSMArena.com news⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is basically a botspam talking point.
  It doesn’t matter.
  If you’ve got bad cables, you should do the same thing you would do with a bad iPhone cable or any other cable that no longer serves its purpose - recycle it.
  Now buy another cable that’s actually good, if you don’t know which one that should be, maybe find out which ones your phone provider sells.
  This is a self correcting issue over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Purnell Real Estate principal Nick Purnell, who bought an apartment in Canberra as an investment property in 2020, said people will stop investing in property if negative gearing is abolished.

  Don’t threaten me with a good time.
  Investors, with their ability to outbid potential owner-occupiers are a significant component in the current rise in housing prices.
  Those rising house prices are DIRECTLY related to the raising rent prices.

  Negative gearing was implemented to achieve a change in the market, a large thumb on the scale by the government.
  Now it’s time to step back and reassess the market and figure out what we need to do to achieve our desired outcomes.

  Million dollar plus shoe boxes, whole suburbs dominated by short term rentals, people using the 15% equity on their 4 investment property to back a 5th in a giant house of cards gamble are NOT HELPING.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨did you hear that Dr Disrespect tried to make a comeback the other day with a Deadlock stream?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, that was worth watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia explained to Americans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The “City Of Churches” statement, whilst true was actually a deliberate rebranding - as in the early days of the colony, it was colloquially referred to as the “City Of Hotels”, as there were (and remain) a large number of drinking establishments relative to the population.

  History is fun!

• Why $238 could cost a South Australian independent MP his seatwww.abc.net.au ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia explained to Americans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said, please tell me more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia explained to Americans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Adelaide … associated with religion/church

  Please, tell me more about a place you’ve never been, but half remember hearing it’s the “city of churches”.

  profile.id.com.au/adelaide/religion

  51.3% of people had no religion

  profile.id.com.au/melbourne/religion

  49.1% of people had no religion

  profile.id.com.au/perth/religion

  43.8% of people had no religion

• Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economywww.theguardian.com ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨australianpolitics@aussie.zone⁩ | ⁨1⁩ ⁨comment⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Own goal': One Nation mocks Robert Irwin's legal threat to sue over cartoon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  A parody mimics an original work directly.

  This is One Nation abusing the copyright exception of “Parody or Satire” to deliberately to stir up controversy for their own gain.

  He might not have a legal case, but using a famous persons likeness without their permission is dirty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy 0.19.4⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to resurrect this thread from a week ago, posts I just made in /c/Adelaide are not showing thumbnails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everything actually important is already metric⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  .308 is 7.62, civilian measurement vs military (there’s actually implications related to pressures, sidewall thicknesses, machining tolerances, but yeah same same)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low tech DHCP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t tell if you’re joking, but a Request For Comments is effectively a proposal for how a process should be performed.
  Some of them are eventually ratified as internet standards by the IETF.
  Plenty of them remain useful as defacto standards even without formal acknowledgement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d guess the fine line is “Valve intend to earn money from something official in the future”