Oh I want them to introduce campaign funding limits, just without the loop holes and unfair advantages.
They won't though, because it wouldn't benefit them.
MisterFrog
joined 2 years ago
$5,000 in expenses on a standard four-bedroom home
This seems pretty damn reasonable to ensure that the house is built to a good standard...
Even their cherry picked numbers aren't convincing
but provided an exemption for funds transferred to registered political parties through their “nominated entities”.
The only parties with nominated entities registered with the Victorian Electoral Commission are Labor, and the Liberal and National parties. While laws allowed for the creation of new nominated entities, any set up after 1 July 2020 were subject to the donation cap.
Seems like the High Court made a sensible decision. This is some anti-democratic bullshit if I ever did see it.
Fuck the Labor Party. Watch them not reintroduce these laws at all now...
Electric cars will fix everything.
Really hoping this is sarcasm.
The only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving.
I strongly dislike anyone who actively decides to go to these things.
I know they left the royal family, but for purely personal reasons.
Fuck the royals, and who gives two shits about these two ex-royals?
As much as I think tobacco and nicotine are really stupid drugs (very addictive with the most boring mind altering effects one ever did see).
I support you doing that because at least people could "shop local" with you and not support mega corps or other large cartels.
The prohibition though, in my opinion, is sound.
There's a reason why smoking is being banned in more and more locations: it stinks, and smoked as tobacco, definitely causes cancer - which the community also has to bear the cost of in medical expenses and familial/fraternal trauma.
Understandably, alcohol and other drugs also have bad side effects, and there's an argument to be made about whether is appropriate to control that also - but heck, at least the mind altering effects are actually fun, and it's not chemically addictive.
Basically. Smoking sucks, and I wish people didn't do it, sorry bud.
Water definitely should not count, wtf
Damn, that sucks :(
Hope your insurance excess isn't too high
Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested, expected to be charged with war crime of murder
About bloody time. I'm glad that for once there's a semblance of justice
The only bad thing is the state government not rapidly increasing train frequencies for off-peak, when we have the rolling stock to do so (and also removing the VLine booking system, like, that is really stupid).
Whether we have enough drivers, I dunno
It's absurd that a private school receives a single cent of public funding.
Go be private if you're going to be private...
All funding destined for private schools should be redirected to public schools (and more) at rapid pace.
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/29742117
The "big switch" has ended up being a lot less big than originally promised. I'm really happy we now have a turn up and go service - or at least every 10 minutes - on the lines going through the Metro Tunnel (the Munnel), but feels really silly we haven't brought more drivers on board to run services at least every 10 minutes across the network, and upped all bus routes to the same frequency.
There's a great map that Taitset made showing sections of the metro network which could already do 10 minute running.
My mum, who's in her late 60s, told me of growing up in [European city]. She interchanged 2 times between 2 trains and a bus on her way too highschool. Her and her friends didn't like the bus because it only came every 10 minutes. In the 1970s.
It's a bit embarrassing to me how bad our frequency is, given our massive population.
It would be great if we could convince our government or MPs holding the balance of power at the next state election to invest in a larger workforce to achieve the frequency PTV needs to thrive.
Keen to hear others thoughts on the "Big Switch".
P.S. I've talked to multiple colleagues who live on the lines who literally didn't know about the "Big Switch" until I told them about it, 2 days beforehand.
The "big switch" has ended up being a lot less big than originally promised. I'm really happy we now have a turn up and go service - or at least every 10 minutes - on the lines going through the Metro Tunnel (the Munnel), but feels really silly we haven't brought more drivers on board to run services at least every 10 minutes across the network, and upped all bus routes to the same frequency.
There's a great map that Taitset made showing sections of the metro network which could already do 10 minute running.
My mum, who's in her late 60s, told me of growing up in [European city]. She interchanged 2 times between 2 trains and a bus on her way too highschool. Her and her friends didn't like the bus because it only came every 10 minutes. In the 1970s.
It's a bit embarrassing to me how bad our frequency is, given our massive population.
It would be great if we could convince our government or MPs holding the balance of power at the next state election to invest in a larger workforce to achieve the frequency PTV needs to thrive.
Keen to hear others thoughts on the "Big Switch".
P.S. I've talked to multiple colleagues who live on the lines who literally didn't know about the "Big Switch" until I told them about it, 2 days beforehand.
Cross-posted to !melbourne@aussie.zone
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[Help me fight a scam] Google Moderators Refuse to Take Down Fraudulent Puffing Billy Locations on Google Maps
(aussie.zone)
Edit just for the good people in this community: mission accomplished folks! Not sure what did it, perhaps the railway was successful in their legal challenges, but only the real listings remain as far as I can tell! (Checked today 2025.08.09)
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/20546632
Friends, please help me report multiple scam listings for Puffing Billy on Google maps "located" in the CBD/South Melbourne.
Location 1 CBD: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fxVNa5w4SbZ7V1Qi9
Location 2 South Melbourne: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YB7w8NzmbtMJbdmf7
These, for those who know, are obviously not real. And include a bunch of AI generated photos (plus photos from people who didn't realise the postings were not the real ones)
The locations link to a fake puffing billy websites selling "discounted tickets" (putting a markup on the tickets, or stealing personal information, do doubt).
I've tried repeatedly to suggest an edit to have them removed, the CBD listing was briefly taken down, but somehow the scammer has had it reinstated.
The one in South Melbourne keeps being rejected by the Google moderator.
Please leave negative reviews on these listings based on your own assessment and opinion. If you come to the same obvious conclusion, please use the keywords "scam" so that google highlights this to people looking at the reviews.
Please suggest an edit > place is closed or not here > and choose one of the following:
- Doesn't exist here
- Duplicate of another location (make sure you don't select the other fraudulent location, only none of the above if the one from Belgrave doesn't appear)
- Offensive, harmful or misleading
Hoping the number of reports will help it be reviewed by someone who isn't just looking at the age of the postings and the number of reviews.
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[Help me fight a scam] Google Moderators Refuse to Take Down Fraudulent Puffing Billy Locations on Google Maps
(aussie.zone)
Friends, please help me report multiple scam listings for Puffing Billy on Google maps "located" in the CBD/South Melbourne.
Location 1 CBD: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fxVNa5w4SbZ7V1Qi9
Location 2 South Melbourne: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YB7w8NzmbtMJbdmf7
Edit: this location appears to have been removed (at least for now, hopefully they can't appeal successfully!)
These, for those who know, are obviously not real. And include a bunch of AI generated photos (plus photos from people who didn't realise the postings were not the real ones)
The locations link to a fake puffing billy websites selling "discounted tickets" (putting a markup on the tickets, or stealing personal information, do doubt).
I've tried repeatedly to suggest an edit to have them removed, the CBD listing was briefly taken down, but somehow the scammer has had it reinstated.
The one in South Melbourne keeps being rejected by the Google moderator.
Please leave negative reviews on these listings based on your own assessment and opinion. If you come to the same obvious conclusion, please use the keywords "scam" so that google highlights this to people looking at the reviews.
Please suggest an edit > place is closed or not here > and choose one of the following:
- Doesn't exist here
- Duplicate of another location (make sure you don't select the other fraudulent location, only none of the above if the one from Belgrave doesn't appear)
- Offensive, harmful or misleading
Hoping the number of reports will help it be reviewed by someone who isn't just looking at the age of the postings and the number of reviews.
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To me this is the crux of the matter. It's why AI is absolutely worthless for engineering (the traditional kind) beyond asking "hey, what's the part of the standard that says something like XYZ?" and then just going directly to the source.
LLMs can't reason.