Who cares. Everyone said the algae would return, and it did because it's a stagnant pool of water without chemicals.

And fairly clear he rushed it to get it done for his birthday

Everyone needs to stop talking about what he claims, and instead openly ask him why painting the bottom at all would stop the algae. Everything else is basically defence

It's literally a one-way alert.

You keep mentioning "surveillance".

Seriously, installing VicEmergency on your phone gives them far more info

000 can already see your location, and has been for ages (if you click ok). But this is just a cell broadcast, not a two way feature that can magically read where you are..

They haven't always been avoiding disasters. In practice, we've been lucky that we've dodged a lot of them. But, if you speak to the 414 people injured in the black Saturday bushfires, they will tell you a warning would be nice. In fact, early warning systems were something identified explicitly during the royal commission. And, at Monash Uni during the attempted mass shooting, I would have been grateful to see on my phone that there was a active shooting in the uni.. Not because someone told me they heard there is a "sniper"

There is no slippery slope, because if it does get abused with spam, it can be turned off later. It's not a mandatory feature, and never will be. There's no reason to believe it would be compulsory either

This isn't designed to be used because there is a housefire 500m away. It's designed to be used for bigger things, like mass shootings, tsunami, bushfire, etc (and, I'd imagine it is just done as a cell broadcast). If they want to track you, they can simply check that cell tower you're on (they already know who your sim is registered to). But, they don't know your exact location

My point regarding mountaineering, is that I've been in a few "oh shit" moments, and I know people who have been rescued. This isn't for that. However, my experience is that the people who scream the loudest about how independent they are and who ignore safety are always the same ones who demand everyone bends over when it backfires.. I've seen it at EBC, on various walks in Australia, and in other circumstances.

Honestly.. That pisses me off. I couldn't care less if it only affected you, but, if you are affected, emergency service will be forced to waste resources on you.. Instead of using those resources on genuine cases that need it...

It's literally just a priority alert. The AFP aren't taking control of your phone, and there is no evidence you're going to be flooded with alerts either.

Like at Mt feathertop in winter, I've had f**kwits in my hiking group REFUSE to listen, when I say "don't go to the peak, you don't have a ice axe", and their response is always the same "if I slip, I'll take responsibility". Yeah, Alpine SAR will STILL have to fly you out, and if you get injured, their family will STILL blame me. And those resources are completely avoidable

Or VMTC who is encouraging people to "go out and just enjoy yourself and learn what you can withstand" (and I've seen them say this to new hikers who have barely tested their gear), and refuse to ever cancel trips, even with catastrophic conditions forecast.

If the idea of a priority alert is so scary, then so should phone calls, and messages, because the only difference here is that its a area message which ignores silent mode.

If it's abused, sure, makes sense to turn it off. There's no evidence of that

But they haven't..

This isn't a luxury controller, and its priced lower than the Xbox Elite controllers. Furthermore, they're not taking preorders, so the sales aren't confirmed.

If they were selling them at 2.5x the price, it would make sense to maintain a level of "prestige" and luxury surrounding them.. They're not though, and the high demand already exists.

There are more likely specific chips on them that are constrained for now (because unlike Nintendo, they aren't using cheap garbage that drifts after 6 months and overpricing the controller)

If it was some marketing thing, you'd take refundable pre-orders.

That doesn't translate into extra profit at any point. And it would just give competitors a chance to start copying it

Yeah. It's a matter of national security for them to be able to monitor everything in their app store so they can compete against popular products

Maybe you should check the context of the full thread....

Omg. How?? Nobody foresaw this

I'm confused. You mean Trump? You wouldn't say that if you were caught in a bushfire mate

I've actually just noticed the trailseeker looks like it might have the range and it's AWD to replace my Jeep finally.

But, really wish it was cheaper and had a slightly bigger battery still

Really looking forward to all these EVs that Petrol heads claim will have depreciated in 1 year for sale

No idea why would disable this here

And there are lots of situations it can help. Bushfire it can because it gives you a bit more time to prepare like what happened at black Saturday

It's like keeping your seatbelt off doesn't make you a badass. It just puts other people at risk. In this case it potentially wastes emergency resources when you ignore the alert and they need to prioritise you

Apple tv doesn't have much

It's funny

Here in Australia our far right wing pollie had a poster unroll behind her, and our exaggerators now are using the "what if it's a bomb" thing.

And I've been arguing the exact same. It wasn't, no chance of it. Police don't screen for embarrassing posters

Yep. She's doing what Trump does. Flood the zone.

It means we can't hear from the other parties because she's taking up space. And it makes it seem like despite her lack of real policies, that she actually has some too

We don't need to post everything debating what this woman claims or does

There are so many politicians worth listening to, who are actually worth attention

I actually sat during lunch with 2 mountaineering record holders when I did my mountaineering training with two record holders who spoke about all the fuckups they had and how one spent the night in a biouvac in a crevasse once and how terrible it was

Just what a guy doing his first mountaineering training needed to hear.. That and on the first day of training you're dumped in the middle of nowhere and told that everyone will fall in a crevasse during the training

They're already saying it needs protection from democrats who want to damage it

So.. already setting up the scapegoat

Gina bought 10% of channel 7.

I wouldn't necessarily believe her popularity. I've definitely seen a lot of comments that are definitely bots or lobbyists

Here in Australia, public healthcare too.

But our local right wing nutters like to argue it isn't a thing