Gorgritch_Umie_Killa @ Gorgritch_umie_killa @aussie.zone

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Thats a strong point to make.

It probably smashes through that mental barrier people have between 'pOliTicAl' discussions and their personal lives in the most aggressive way. In an illustrative sense.

Tickets/Voucher for a rock climbing centre could be up his alley.

If you want something that will last you could get him a powder bag, or his first Carabiner as well.

Be prepared that the climbing place might not let him use the Carabiner in conjunction with their equipment though, so it might sit around until he got his own harness if he ever went that far. Powder bag would be all good.

Welcome!!! Come over to Aussie Zone for a banter anytime you like!

So, further to mu previous comment, no you shouldn't need to create an account on each instance you want to explore. At best creating an account on the instance might make navigability better.

Mastodon is single developer

I think he has a few people with him now. But i listened to the interview at the start of the year, so i'm starting to the detail.

Exploring instances should be as easy as looking up any other website. At least to get their 'local' front page. Or just navigate to them through that link above.

As an example you could look up jlai.lu, a french instance. They're pretty active.

No idea on Mastodon myself. I've heard a couple interviews of the developer, seems like a cool guy. But thats about all i can say.

I's playing round with this instance and community finder the other night, works really well. Might be useful to find a more active community that you'll enjoy.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

The instance could be a problem if you scroll through the 'local' feed often and thats where you see a lot of things you don't wish to see. A European or special interest instance might suit your context, (Portuguese?), better.

I spend more time on my 'local' (aussie zone) feed than 'subscribed' or 'all' and its definitely nicer, so a move like this can work.

But you could also optimise your own 'subscriber' feed as another option.

Its a trade deal for military technology. Where the US already is in the superior bargaining position for re/setting terms, agenda, and prices.

I don't know why anyone in Australia, or the world, thinks thats in jeopardy. Even the most craven of administrations would love this, as far as i know, uncapped 'deal'.

At most the screws might be turned, but our unimaginative military leaders will always recommend we pay, or rely on the US' decisions in regards agenda or terms.

They will do this, because they seem to have no genuine ideas for builing our own defense capabilities. Their answer is always the same.

A wise government would be directing companies around Australia to build up the Australian military industrial supply systen in the national interest. They should've given up the slower single large contract tendering processes when the Russians tried to decapitate Kyiv.

A roadway allowed multiple speeds across the lanes could be how to get around this.

If the citizens of a transport zone don't like the rules as they stand, ie, one single speed for all lanes, they should lobby to vary them.

Apart from cases where multiple speeds happen, the speed limit is the speed limit, the person behind contravenes rules if they speed, use the shoulder, etc. They're in the wrong, they have agency, and decide to cause the unsafe situation.

The person ahead, as that video showed to the tune of straight funktown, may cause worsened traffic conditions, but they're not the people being dangerous on the road. (Assuming they are going within the range of the expected limit)

1. Often people use those lanes to speed. If a car ahead is overtaking at or within a reasonable range of the speed limit, but not at the speed the speeder wants to travel. The speeder must be patient, they don't get to dictate what manoeuvres are happening ahead.
2. The argument you present at the end isn't logical,

... Always do the safest thing.

I can largely agree with this sentiment, but you say before,

People who sit in lane 3 at 69mph are breaking the law and likely to cause an accident by forcing people to pass on the wrong side out of frustration (yes illegal but they will do it)...

If undercutting is the most unsafe thing for the person behind to do in the situation, then as your sentiment captures, the frustrated party undercutting are still in the wrong.

They are in the wrong because, they have failed to 'always do the safest thing' in the given situation.

3. Never be the reason someone else does something stupid on the road.

Nice sentiment again, but it implicitly assigns a rigid cause and effect regime to a situation where the 'frustrated party' behind has their own agency and likely as much training. There is no necessity that they undercut, it is a choice the party behind makes. The cause does not necessitate that effect, at best it could contribute.

In essence the sentiment shifts the blame from the person causing a potential accident (the undercutter), to the person ahead who, at worst, is causing poor traffic conditions.

Speed limit is the speed limit. End of.

If someone wants to go above the speed limit in the fast lane, then they're contravening road rules.

No matter what social norm people believe there to be, it doesn't have precedence over the speed limits.

In a case where the the car in front is going slower than the speed limit, it would be good etiquette though to move over.

Oh okay. I only have a vague sense of these things due to family members being big into running.

What a great idea! :)

Haven't read the article, does this mean its classed as an Olympic qualifying event?

Go!

I'm so interested to see the results from this QLD election. The Katter-abortion issue i've really seen as analogous to the USA's much talked about 'October Surprise'.

Hi!

Moderator from !perth@aussie.zone here.

Just been playing around using the spoiler tags as makeshift drop down lists in the sidebar for the Perth/WesternAustralia community, and noticed the 'spoiler' markdown formatting isn't recognised in the 'about' page on the Sync app. :)

The Australia Institute was actually saying the increased demand in the last few years is less about population growth, as Ian Verender states in this article, and more about the drop in 'persons per household' phenomenon that happened during COVID.

Oh great, this shit again. First thing Labor should've done when they came to power federally was revoke that country licensing deal the propagandists at Newscorp got from, was it the Morrison government?? I'm sure Labor waved ot through also though.

Whats the issue for Labor here, are there really that many people in Aus that blindly side with Israel that its electorally suicidal to come out and say, 'we're with the rest of the world'? If so, then we should look at ourselves.