Longmactoppedup

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[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Not true at all.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

If anyone thinks that conservatives are going to lower migration in the slightest, let alone slash it then you might be interested in a bridge for sale.

Conservatives answer to the business council and real estate lobbyists. Both of which love high immigration. Only need to see the liberal party's record on immigration since John Howard.

Conservatives also love our housing market just the way it is.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 47 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Guessing you are using Google Chrime as your browser. If so switch to Firefox and ublock origin works.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 15 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Be Australian. Set language to English: Australian

Write word: color. Does not underline spelling error.

Don't even mention PowerPoint language.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vaping could be cancer fog

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

Is there a setting that can be enabled at the management end to allow Graphene to pass the device health check?

When my employer rolled out intune I had to get a second device to run their ms apps. This was after them trying to figure out a way to get them to work on Graphene.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Oof it was behind bunting when I rode past this morning.

I wonder how many of those are slowly corroding in the river.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Starbucks is an abomination. They tried to launch in Australia in the 2000s and ended up losing loads of money and closing most of their stores.

They couldn't compete with even our worst chain stores let alone our endless individual coffee shops.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not the first time that nation state actors have been accused of supporting division in western societies.

I've read allegations that Russia tends to fund / encourage / amplify both sides of debate in the USA to increase division.

Wonder if they are also secretly on the counter protest side here too.

IMO the 1% are the real and immediate beneficiaries of this. The business council wants more immigration. More potential workers than jobs = more compliant workforce and lower salaries. There is also more customers, renters, real estate demand.

No surprise to see newscorpse and other right wing business mouth pieces fanning the flames on this issue. Now instead of having a reasonable discussion about what a sustainable amount of population growth through immigration is, we get a polarised outrage debate. You either support unlimited mass immigration or you are a Nazi.

I wonder if the neonazis realise they have been used as pawns in this game. I doubt they are smart enough for that.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Part sun / part shade.

Mines in a large pot so I try to keep it where it won't get the afternoon sun in summer, but gets a bit of sun in winter.

 

West Australians believe the state’s capital will need to rapidly decarbonise and diversify its mining-dependent economy, halt urban sprawl and support more apartments if it is to accommodate 3.5 million people by 2050, according to a new report by a Perth think-tank.

 

A rally will be held in Margaret River at the weekend to call on the state government to fund rapid bushfire suppression equipment and scale back “failing” prescribed burns in the South West.

Globally there has been a shift towards adopting new early detection and rapid suppression equipment to quickly identify and extinguish bushfires.

The technology, including smoke detection cameras, satellite monitoring, AI software and drones to give a bird’s-eye view to spot developing fires, is already operational in Canada and California.

It is being rolled out in European countries and along the east coast of Australia.

WA Forest Alliance senior campaigner Jason Fowler said the WA government and Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions were lagging and reliant on “outdated and dangerous” policy.

“The prescribed burning program is no longer effective at protecting South West communities in a drying and warming climate,” he said.

“Only half of prescribed burns close to communities have been completed last year because they are too risky.

“Forests are also suffering with an increasing number of high-intensity burns causing severe damage.”

 

Likely a pipe dream at this stage. But having just visited south bank in Brisbane it would be awesome to create something similar here.

What I liked about south bank: -big shady trees to sit under Lots of nice places to hang out that don't require you to be a customer open access pool, water playground. Lots of places to eat

If Perth tried to do it, we would need to bring in the team who did south bank, and keep away the clowns who made the shadeless concrete wind tunnels like yagan square and Elizabeth quay.

 

Laborel party letting foreign companies dictate policy.

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