Yes, I only ever see you here to stir up drama and your flood of posts agitating against a day you would never celebrate anyway regardless of the date are no exception. You’re doing it again with this comment, post stuff that’s not attempting to stir up shit if you want upvotes.

It’s a feeling based idea to assuage the public rather than a logic based one. If someone has four guns already there is little difference between what damage they are likely to be able to cause with those four vs what they could do with five, six, or seven (and the difference is less significant again if they already have ten). The limits seem rather arbitrary instead of evidence based and would not stop a repetition of the Bondi massacre, they appear instead to just be a quick decision made to show the government is doing something in reaction to a tragedy (something must be done, this is something therefore we must do it…).

“These are low-IQ individuals who don’t actually understand the historic significance of the monuments that they are attacking,” he said.

True, though I expect they’d still be the type to tell everyone else they should learn our history.

This sort of thing is why I’m less and less inclined to support changing Australia Day - why bother changing the date when it’s clear the loudest voices against it will never support celebrating Australia. That this is happening in the state that went to the effort of a truth telling commission and a treaty is the icing on the cake.

Probably, I did find a copy of that as a kid but it’s been long enough that I can’t recall specifics.

That is something that could fall under the new rule though, as could watching youtube videos of people modding guns, or gun owners downloading a maintenance manual for the guns they own, or if particularly misapplied even things like getting an ebook that happens to mention an aside about weapons/explosive manufacture (pretty sure Jules Verne describes a way to make explosives in The Mysterious Island for example).

It’s a way of saying a method of transmitting information. Replace ‘a carriage service’ with ‘the internet’ and you’d cover much (albeit not all) of the intention there.

It will be an offence to use a carriage service to access material on the manufacture or modification of guns and accessories, as well as other explosives or lethal devices.

This has such broad potential for misapplication, but apparently everyone throws critical thinking out the window because guns are scary…

I think the gun number limit is also a kneejerk reaction playing more on people’s fears rather than actually being logical, but at least it’s affecting less people than the above.

Bit rich for her to be going on about censorship and silencing authors if she demanded someone else be excluded previously from the same festival over provocative comments.

Like the possums in NZ there isn’t really a good reason to keep them around - it’s just interesting to see a switcheroo from the usual stories of other countries animals causing problems in Australia.

The little Honda is a pretty attractive idea, looks nice and it’s good to see something that’s supposedly designed to be fun to drive rather than yet another sluggish poor handling SUV.

The BYD Atto 1 I think though is a more significant model simply because it’s something that’s at least approaching affordable to an average person. That 24k price is really narrowing the gap between the cheapest cars and cheapest EVs and I expect will result in a noticeable increase in uptake.

I like that another van option is appearing too, it’s sure to be well above a price I can justify but having more secondhand options in the future will be good for me when my Transporter gets beyond logical upkeep.

And there goes the chances for a minor incident. I guess I’ll just hope it stays below the level of us getting dragged into another war that we shouldn’t need to be involved in…

It does appear that they have, as of a few minutes ago the article is now saying Venezuela’s government has accused the US and that a anonymous US official told Reuters the US was performing strikes in the country.

Hopefully this ends up just being another relatively minor step in the progression of this conflict, but (probable) air raids on another nations capital does sound like something that could escalate quickly.

Pretty good so far, hopefully it’ll continue that way

That would be the best idea to reduce the issue and there is a lot that could be cut out. For example looking at recent shopping the potatoes could have come in a hessian bag instead of plastic (or loose and paper bagged in the shop for small amounts) and the lettuce really did not need to be in its own plastic bag. Soft plastic is harder to replace though for some things (e.g. cheese) so having a way to recycle what will be used is good.

Hope this puts into perspective the widely spruiked majority support for tighter gun laws that was used to help ram through changes in NSW.

Interesting that they mention a decrease in sparrow numbers because that is something I’ve noticed too. Go back 20 years to my childhood and sparrows seemed to be all over the place, now they’re a more occasional street bird.

Depends on the state. NSW for example is one that does vary depending on weight (based on weight ranges, not a full sliding scale) - there’s a ~$180 difference between my sedan and van due to the van’s higher tare weight placing it in the next category up. QLD on the other hand is one that doesn’t - they charge based on the cylinder count instead.

Shouldn’t have taken them years to figure out it was a poor idea but I guess that’s what you get when there’s such a vested interest in demonising speed. I’m quite happy it got kiboshed - it’s a rare case of government actually listening to the people.

Discord implemented age verification due to us and the UK moving towards such laws, a third party involved in this was breached and ~70k users had information leaked (though presumably not all of these included IDs). Approx 68k of these users turned out to be Australian.