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  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

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  • ANCAP guidelines are pushing for larger and larger vehicles.

    Crumple Zones, and pedestrian protection add significantly to the size and weight of a vehicles, and negatively impact driver awareness.

    Driver Assistance is OK to provide an extra level of protection, but result in complacency.

    A compact vehicle with good visibility and visceral road awareness will be less destructive on the roads than an oversized SUV with a driver ignoring all the ADAS technology blithely unaware of their surroundings.

    That said, a compact vehicle with unobtrusive ADAS would be even safer.

  • It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it

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  • The reason is that there is profit to be made by inefficiency.

    When rail is used, the people who profit are;

    • the sender
    • the recipient
    • the railway company
    • the train drivers
    • the community.

    When Trucks are used, the people who profit are;

    • the petrochemical companies
    • politicians who receive contributions from Petrochemical companies
    • vehicle manufacturers
    • vehicle maintenance providers
    • vehicle parts providers
    • the trucking company
    • politicians who receive contributions from trucking magnates.
    • road maintenance and construction companies.
    • politicians who receive contributions from the construction industry.

    These are all at the expense of;

    • the sender
    • the recipient
    • the community
    • other road users
    • emergency services
    • the poor truck driver who is high-as-kite on amphetamine in order to meet his outrageous deadline.

  • Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash

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  • This is excellent news.

    The bubble will burst within the next 3 years and our creative heritage would not have been subsumed and given away.

  • Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash

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  • Hopefully this leads to a larger divestment in LLMs.

    Banning data harvesting of Australian Citizens would also be a good move.

  • Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco

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  • The government needs to exercise Eminent Domain over all critical infrastructure.

    • Telecommunication
    • Water
    • Energy.

    The damage of Jeff Kennett and John Howard can be reversed.

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

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  • Ban F-trucks, Silverados and RAMs.

    I saw an F350 Super Duty parked in a suburban mains street the other day.

    It is so big, it needed Interstate Heavy Vehicle plates. It was not a tradies Utes; It was not a Tow Vehicle, It wasn’t even an Oversized Load pilot. It was just compensating someone’s inadequacy.

    It had a sticker on the window “Patriotism is not Racism” and it looked like a MAGA sticker but with an Australian Flag instead of the Stars and Stripes.

    With all my heart, I wanted to get a paint marker and write “GAGYGF Seppo Cunt”, but I was on work uniform and did not have a paint pen. Also, I am not a complete arsehole.

  • Rumors of the demise of the Home Battery Program much exaggerated.

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  • In related news, expect more spam phone calls.

  • Thousands Sign Petition Calling For Man Who Tackled Bondi Shooting Gunman To Be Australian Of The Year

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  • Is that you would have advised all the people on AA Flight 11, 77 and UA Flight 175 ?

    Obviously the people on US Flight 94 would have not taken your advice.

  • Thousands Sign Petition Calling For Man Who Tackled Bondi Shooting Gunman To Be Australian Of The Year

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  • Discussions of Affirmative Action and “Positive Discrimination” aside, Ahmad did what any Australian should do.

    I’m sure that when he stands on the lawn of Parliament House in 6 weeks time, this is what he is going to say.

  • Anyone in tech confirm?

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  • I suppose “mature” would be a different word, but still not 100% accurate.

    I meant Stable and Secure as in “consistent over time”.

    The fact that it is also Stable as an operating system and Secure as in production workflow.

    They are Conservative without being regressive.

  • Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned

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  • But everyone with half a brain will acknowledge that it was very poorly implemented.

    I reckon the Gambling Ads should still be banned.

    Children are still hurt when mummy and daddy donate their entire paycheck to the Lloyd Williams retirement fund.

  • Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach

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  • Are you paid by the NRA or are you just being a dumbarse cockhead NRA schill for free?

  • Anyone in tech confirm?

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  • Debian is a great foundation for any distribution.

    That said, Debian is perfectly fine to use as a daily driver. Besides RedHat, it has had the most stable longevity of any distribution.

  • Anyone in tech confirm?

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  • I work in automotive.

    My livelihood depends on people crashing their cars because they are idiots.

    People not servicing their cars is also a great money spinner because parts sales lost to missed services are made up by parts sales from breakdowns due to lack or servicing.

    I wish people would service their cars regularly, drive safely and not be idiots.

    ADAS is also zero-sum because drivers with ADAS are more complainant and just as likely to crash. ADAS just creates more idiotic idiots. (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems).

    I work in Automotive because I didn’t want to work in Tech anymore.

  • Spiralling costs spark 'urgent' overhaul of $2.3b battery subsidy scheme

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  • Scammers? Yes. Not part of the program? No.

    Just like the Solar Panel Scheme, LED Scheme and Insulation Scheme before them, I am confident that there are opportunistic companies rorting the system with barely adequate product and unqualified labour.

    Just like the serving politicians running the NDIS scam.

  • Spiralling costs spark 'urgent' overhaul of $2.3b battery subsidy scheme

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  • At least the Spam phone calls will stop…

    The overhaul needs to include an audit of the companies making claims.

    If they engaged in unsolicited phone calls to people on the Do Not Call list, they should have the subsidies repatriated back into the program.

  • MegaThread: Australian Social Media Ban - Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required

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  • Sounds like Aussie.zone is the largest platform that has any sort of verification. Thankyou Molly@Aussie.zone

  • Kia and Dettol ads top complaints list for 2025

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  • “Lower entry costs” …“without the appropriate understanding”.

    They need to be fined for inappropriate content to increase entry costs.

    This will make advertising firms valuable again for accountablilty.

  • Time to stop tiptoeing around and step on the gas to ease inflation

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  • The same advertising agencies funding the anti-Pylon and anti-Wind farm Astroturf Campaigns run pro-fracking campaigns.

  • Demand for water cannot be an 'afterthought' in AI push

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  • Without water for cooling, these data centres will overheat and be forced to shutdown.

    While I don’t condone EcoTerrorism, it would be advantageous to society as a whole if this happened.

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    Salvo @aussie.zone

    Vehicle camping at Mueller River, Croajingalong