Longmactoppedup

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[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As an Australian, it's Irish accents that I struggle with the most.

Scottish I can deal with, probably from watching shows like Still Game and Burnistoun.

Most other UK accents are not to difficult to understand.

One odd thing, I was watching an USA wildlife documentary that was set in South Africa. I noticed they put forced subtitles on when ever the South African's spoke in English. I found that bizarre as I've never had any trouble understanding when South Africans speak English.

The Telstra pay phone boxes near me now all have massive ridiculously bright screens displaying advertisements. For sure that is their primary purpose now.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago

Well I guess travel to or through the USA is off the cards for me until they have a regime change.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

As far as laws regarding digital rights / freedoms go, we have no chance in Australia anyway as the major parties are all against them.

In fact the coalition has an even worse track record than labor.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Mostly because I fear the kids might get unfavourable treatment.

Our school principal reminds me of south park's PC principal.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

For my youngest I use pipepipe on an android tablet.

No ads.

No feed / recommendations.

Just the channels I subscribe to.

The final straw with stock android apps was years ago with my eldest when it showed an add for women's g strings in the middle of a fucking educational video about cats.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Resisting the urge to send this video as a reply to the boot licking email my kids school sent to the parents regarding this bullshit.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It'll be down to the golden triangle being north of the river. And maybe midland and armadale being south.

Map needs to be by post code.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Will be interesting to see if that changes when the millennial's boomer parents die and pass on the wealth. I think it will further divide the have and have nots with the wealth concentrating in fewer hands.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

Are you aware of Labor's 2009 plan to censor the entire Australian internet? It didn't succeed back then thankfully.

There is no way that they will stop at just the big social media platforms.

This is about control and further removal of being anonymous.

It's not even a liberal vs labor thing. They both have a history of bipartisan support for this type of bullshit. See: metadata retention, assistance and access, identify and disrupt laws.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not true at all.

 

Can't make this shit up, reality is beyond satire at this point.

This is the same media talking head who argued against Labor's fibre to the premises national broadband network. Who then brown noses NBN execs to get his own house upgraded to Fibre as a higher priority than anyone else.

Copper for thee, fibre for me.

What the hell happened to the federal ICAC anyway. Still waiting for all the politicians who spent billions buying back Telstra's rotten copper to go to jail.

 

The WA government is pressing ahead with its plan to create a motorsport street circuit in Burswood Park.

It is opening the community consultation process for the controversial new proposal.

But Treasurer Rita Saffioti has denied it will only be a motorsport track, saying it will be a "multi-use facility".

 

I thought it was odd that I've been able to enjoy this perfect weather instead of being holed up indoors to escape the smoke.

 

Recently received my postal vote ballot papers.

For anyone interested this is the 2025 W.A. senate ballot with links to party sites.

A – The Great Australian Party https://www.greataustralianparty.com.au/

B – Australian Christians https://australianchristians.org.au/policy-positions/

C- Citizens Party (formerly Citizens Electoral Council) https://citizensparty.org.au/

D – Trumpet of Patriots https://trumpetofpatriots.org/policies/

E – Sustainable Australia Party https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/

F- Australian Democrats https://www.democrats.org.au/what-we-stand-for/

G – Libertarian https://www.libertarians.org.au/policy

H- Gerard Rennick People First https://peoplefirstparty.au/policies/

I – The Greens https://greens.org.au/platform

J – Fusion | Planet Rescue etc https://www.fusionparty.org.au/policy

K – Socialist Alliance https://socialist-alliance.org/policy

L – Australian Labor Party https://alp.org.au/policies

M – Pauline Hanson’s One Nation https://www.onenation.org.au/issues

N – Legalise Cannabis Party https://www.legalisecannabis.org.au/

O – Animal Justice Party https://www.animaljusticeparty.org/

P – Australia’s Voice https://australiasvoice.com.au/what-we-stand-for/

Q – Liberal https://www.liberal.org.au/our-plan

R – Nationals https://www.nationals.org.au/

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