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.
I have no idea who they polled, but I have grave doubts that it was a fair sample of the population.
I’d also love to hear how the questions were phased. For example, I do think the Holocaust should be taught in schools. But the infographic words this like it should be a subject or something.
I think the Holodomor should also be taught in schools, and if it was, I must have been chatting to a mate that one moment or something. While the Holocaust had loads of attention by comparison.
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.
They look boney and loads more work/less meat than chicken. I wouldn’t be against st trying it, but I can’t see them becoming a mainstay.
“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.
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.
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.
I have a real 14-year-old in my house. I should see what accounts he can manage to create for himself.
Not instantly. I’ll go through all the DMs soon (I was going to go through them on the weekend but, December) and send replies. Yes, replies will come from Molly.
Is the rest of Australia really not aware of WA’s Domestic Gas reserve? In short: 15% of gas extracted in WA is reserved for the people of WA. As a result, our power bills are a bit under 25c/kwh + ~$1/day supply.
Ooh - I missed this update last week:
This genuinely boggles my mind. The government can make sentences like this, but they can’t make them reality. Imagine if it said that only people with red hair were allowed to access the site. What technology exists to handle that? Because it is effectively what we are facing. We can only try our best - but we can’t assure the government 100% that no user has tricked us onto the platform. And I’d still say that if I had the resources of Google to ensure compliance.
We aren’t going to make public what people have given us in confidence. That’s simply not happening.
We might share some of the text-based responses as reference examples to inspire others, but it’s an emphatic n"o" on anything that has an above 0% chance of doxxing our people. Which will likely be all the photos.
We love you guys too much to remotely entertain that risk.
I’d have to double-check the wording to be 100% certain, but if you don’t make accounts, I don’t think it counts as social media.
I haven’t looked at the dms in over a day, but to that point, exactly zero of the responses included a face, or anything identifiable.
The answer to your direct question is “yes”, alcohol served to you at a restaurant would be just as fine as alcohol in a bar. The point to it is the setting. A kid can raid mum and Dad’s liquor cabinet and pose a photo. Doing that in a restaurant is not so doable.
As a general guide for whatever you choose: what we are looking for is essentially ‘could a kid have sent this?’
Only a 3-4 people had gone the alcohol route when I last checked.
If it was Tom’s Diner, that song has a special place in digital music history. It was the test song for what became the MP3 standard.
Oh wow! That this came from a non-Queensland kid is extra surprising. Yes, this was the breakfast club. It gave us, Agro by the way. Queensland kids knew Agro years before the rest of Australia.
That’s an apt comparison. The naval base has been there since the 70s. And before that, HMAS Leeuwin was 20km north at Fremantle from 1940.