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@ Longmactoppedup @aussie.zone

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  • What are the modern design trends you hate most?

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  • Infinite scroll

    Enshitification of search results when shopping

    Planned obsolescence

  • My petty gripe: Australians just don’t know how to act right on public transport

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  • If those are the biggest behavioural issues the author is worried about then I would question if she has ever even caught public transport.

  • Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame

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  • Mass consumption of "low fat" (high sugar) processed food like products?

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  • I imagine they might lose a few supporters under Faruqi or Hanson-Young.

    I could be one of them. I've voted green in the lower house based on their policies the last 20 years. Last couple of elections I've held my nose as I did it. Most of their policies I still like. Some of their politicians not so much. I wish they would stop generating so many media sound bytes on social justice issues.

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  • As a fan of wagons, yes it sucks that there are so few left to buy.

    The European manufactures still sell wagons here. But $$$

    There is also still the WRX wagon.

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  • Vehicles with a front height that's above the average adults waist height should be given automatic zero stars for vulnerable road user protection rating.

    Anything with a zero rating should be restricted from being driven while on probation. They should also attract a special extra registration fee.

    The fact that at the moment some high fronted child crushers can get 5 stars is a damming indictment of ANCAP.

  • Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart

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  • The sky propaganda said this after the last election, the libs put Dutton as leader and did just that. Historic loss for them.

    Again they are saying it now. I look forward to the libs following the advice more and getting reduced to a minor party.

  • Here's where things went right for Labor, and very wrong for the Coalition

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  • I used to think that a majority labor govt should have fixing media concentration as a top priority.

    I think they should still do it, but it's becoming less of an top priority issue these days.

    Murdoch and Packer/Gina propaganda failed this time and last.

    I think that the billionaires have learnt it's easy to negotiate in the background with labor to get their reforms through as far as cutting red and green tape goes.

    Bolt is just salty because he built his whole fake media persona on culture war outrage. The worst thing that could happen to him is happening, that is him and the rest of the sky talking heads are losing audience share and fading in to irrelevance.

  • ISO 8601

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  • I used to work for a company that agreed with you, well at least some clown in management did. Even though it was an Australian company, at least part of the problem was we had an office in Manila, and they speak "American English" which seemed to include the awful date system too. We dealt with a lot of files being issued to clients / received from vendors etc. Because the "official" system used those fucked up dates, everyone ran their own secondary sets of data folders in / out with everything done in ISO dates so you could actually sort it properly.

  • How to lock down your phone if you’re traveling to the U.S.

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  • We have pretty much the same policies as the USA when it comes to digital rights, including border force being able to search your devices upon entry.

  • How to use facebook without an account?

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  • I tried this then it wanted me to do a verification video of my face.

  • IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning

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  • We have:

    • Preferential voting.
    • Proportional representation (at least in the lower house)
    • Independent organisation that sets seat boundaries.
    • compulsory voting
    • no electoral college system

    Our system is completely different to the USA. Granted our media landscape is still just as fucked as theirs.

    First preferences also result in funding going to that party provided it meets a minimum threshold. Putting others ahead of the major parties sends them a message to do better. It has also resulted in a number of seats being held by independents.

    Unless you actually live in the seat the party leader is in, you are not voting for that party leader / giant douche / turd sandwich.

  • IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning

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  • As much as I love the south park analogy it simply doesn't apply to our system at all.

  • Folks who moved from Google to Proton: What do you wish you'd known at the start?

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  • Having to manually share ICS was a bridge too far for me. Especially if event details get updated.

  • How are people so chill about co-workers stealing food?

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  • Maybe it varies by industry, but I've been a white collar desk jockey for 18 years and I've never once heard of lunch theft in real life, only seen on social media.

  • Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power

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  • Depends on the state. I don't think they vary by much though. In W.A. I paid 28.7 cents per kWh. Plus a daily supply charge of 102 cents per day.

    Have also had a few hundred dollarbucks worth of credits this year from the state government.

  • Online Gaming Platforms And YouTube Will Also Seemingly Be Banned For Aussies Under 16

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  • Ha. Better from Labor? When it comes to digital rights they are terrible just like the liberal party.

    Labor rubber stamped the libs meta data retention and secret software backdoors legislation.

    This one is up there with the 2009 Krudd / Conroy clean feed.

  • The [Australian] government plans to ban under-16s from social media platforms.

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  • The two major parties here are always trying to out do each other when it comes to taking away digital rights.

    Circa 2009 we had Labor trying to bring in a nationwide filter. That failed however since then we have had a ton of shit legislation with bi partisan support dropped on us.

  • The [Australian] government plans to ban under-16s from social media platforms.

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  • My guess is that small targets like the fediverse will likely escape scrutiny because it would be a lot of trouble for a tiny handful of users.

    If large numbers of kids started moving here once all the big platforms are blocked, and the pearl clutchers get wind of it, then the govt might move slowly towards trying to do something.