Nath @ Nath @aussie.zone

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I somehow missed this and thought that Lord of the Rings was coming out of copyright about now. It seems not.

I could probably be swayed by that, for examples like Pine Gap, Exmouth and any permanent US bases on Australian soil.

That's not really what HMAS Stirling is, though. It's an Australian naval base. Remove the US, the base would still be there.

HMAS Stirling has been there for 50 years. I lived/went to school down that way. I remember in the Cold War days saying that we'd never know about World War 3, as a nuke would take out the Naval Base on day 1.

So it's a bit rich for anyone to be saying that the base is making them feel less safe today. It's been a legitimate military target my whole life.

New York has a huge Jewish population. This is totally geared toward selling papers to them.

Hrm, yours is a tricky one because I had read it and moved past it. I recognised you came from a place of hyperbole and didn't think much of it. I didn't remove it.

But looking at the comment again after it was removed, it does pretty much break all three of the rules I posted. So I'll not override the mod and restore it.

It's not that criticising actions of religious people is the issue, it's grouping them all members of a religion into your criticism that is the problem.

'Those two guys are bad' is fine. '115,000 Aussies are terrible people because those two guys are bad' is not fine.

Noooo!
I used my icq all the time! In 1997.

This is a great idea, but keep in mind I'm likely to test it.

We see you trying to manipulate the vote.

Please address this, @Mazdak@lemmy.org.

Excuse me, that's a load of horse shit. The modlog is right there at the bottom of the page. From this discussion, it'll default to filtering mod actions for /c/Australia.

Point me to any comment you think should be restored and I'll re-evaluate. But don't sit there and pretend we censor you from behind secret doors like this is Reddit. I see stuff I disagree with on the regular, but I very rarely step in. I let the community votes do that.

The main rules of the site are and have always been:
Golden rule - don’t be a dick. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your grandmother, don’t post it.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.

In case this isn't clear:
Criticism of a government's actions (Ours, USA, Israel etc) is fine. Start bashing Muslims because of the actions of two jerks or start lumping all Jewish people in with the actions of the Israeli government, and we'll step in. If/when we do though: it's visible. You can see what was removed and what justification we used when we did it. Whatever impression left you with the attitude that we censor users is mistaken.

“Ultimately, running in Sydney is what it is because of the people who do it here.”

This says it all. You have a world major event because of decades of local participation lifting the marathon's status and visibility.

I hope this was an accident and unintended. I expect that the organisers will fix this so the local runners (NSW at a minimum, but preferably an Australian pool) who literally built up the event aren't excluded.

One sister wants cash towards a new motorcycle helmet. So yeah, she's sorted. 😀

Another sister is all about the thoughtful gesture. It makes her super hard to buy for. She has loads more time than I do.

Go to your messages and then "All".

Hershey's kisses would be a perfect accompaniment to this specific mug.

Once I'm through the messages waiting for me, I'll DM the stragglers. I don't know when/if I'm legally required to outright ban non-verified accounts. But for now any delay in getting users verified is on me.

Bluesky asked me to enter my date of birth when I logged in recently. I'm fairly positive that level of effort is mentioned in the legislation as not enough "reasonable steps". There's no way a kid would just lie, right?

We're minnows in the Australian web landscape, and that's probably being generous. I seriously doubt the government is coming after us any time soon to be sure we're responding properly. But if they do, I can and would demonstrate that we've been doing our best.

We're doing something at least. My 14-year-old regaled me with his friends' response to the ban and how completely ineffectual it has been so far. Nobody has been impacted yet, they're just going about their day with whatever accounts they had before December 10.

Yep I know, but this thing is built like a nuclear bunker. Honestly: 11 years of daily carry, being knocked and crashed and squished about like a set of keys. Even Gotten wet a few times. I have doubts they make them on temu or eBay like this thing.

Lacie made the "rugged" range of disks and this is representative of their build quality. It's only 32gb, and only usb2. I wish it were bigger and faster, but I'll take its amazing toughness over those traits.

Sorry, that was me. I'm working from the Molly inbox because mine is full of user reports and site-wide stuff. Keeping the user verifications in the Molly account just means we keep them separate from anything else. I'll have another look tonight (I can't access Reddit from work) and see if I missed something.

Sorry - December is a busy time. It took me a while to set up the system to record stuff in a way that we can report on it if that ever becomes a thing. I've started replying to the messages, but there are 130 to go as I look at the inbox right now. I'll get to you, I promise.

The utili-key looks like a regular key on your keyring, which is why I've never had it confiscated at airport security. Frankly if you can hijack a plane with one of these things, you can hijack a plane without one of these things.

The USB is a "Lacie imakey". Lacie has since been assimilated into one of the big hard drive companies (Seagate I think). These USB keys are a victim of their success. You just buy the one, and never need another. This one is over ten years old.