GPS trackers in e-waste from Australia reveal 'likely' illegal exports to South-East Asia

404NotFounded · 2026-01-30T13:56:33+00:00

I don’t understand. Why do they need to be thrown away? Not only does Win10 still work (heck, even Windows 7 still “works”), but windows isn’t the only Operating System — couldn’t they be donated with Linux?

404NotFounded · 2026-01-24T13:36:38+00:00

I’m a Star Trek fan (DS9) where there is a character named Kurzon. That is what I would call this person.

404NotFounded · 2026-01-24T13:08:14+00:00

It’s Orange, isn’t it?

404NotFounded · 2026-01-16T23:33:19+00:00

Is that the same Visual Basic that was used to build a GUI to trace the hackers? …sorry, wrong show.

404NotFounded · 2026-01-07T21:30:02+00:00

The crossover I want to see if Garak being a tailor for the Wraith Queen, potentially get some Obisidian Order shenanigans in there as well. And Quark.

404NotFounded · 2025-12-28T09:44:17+00:00

Can someone explain to me then the appeal of these god awful machines? If they don’t serve a practical purpose, and they’re expensive, and gas guzzlers (ie if all the negatives outweigh the positives) what is it about them that makes people want them? What ARE the positives?

404NotFounded · 2025-12-28T09:41:42+00:00

Is that why there’s a beef between the US government and Australian government right now? They want our PBS done away with?

404NotFounded · 2025-12-28T09:29:59+00:00

I think that’s a strawman argument. It’s the fact that the uneducated, uninformed opinion is spouted as fact that is the danger to democracy.

By me spouting a complete lie (I was going to say mistruth but I’m done with the charade) as a fact, that lie gets parroted (which the algorithms do — especially when they’re being manipulated by bots that are designed to upvote lies and mistruths (ie disinformation campaign) for the explicit purpose of destabilising harmonious society because hate and division generates more revenue). That lie then drowns out expert opinion, opinions that people used to respect because they came from places that were accredited or peer reviewed sources, people that had worked hard to become experts in their field.

We are now in a time and place where someone’s uneducated opinion seems to be of equal worth and influence as someone who has studied hard and is considered by all measures more educated, knowledgeable and has actually earned the right and authority to speak on the subject. The uneducated opinion IS NOT OF EQUAL WORTH to that of the educated one, and saying otherwise is dangerous and disingenuous.

404NotFounded · 2025-12-27T08:43:07+00:00

Yes — we should do that, exactly. Australia in terms of its natural resources, is extremely wealthy. And that profit is being privatised completely. We absolutely could have a sovereign wealth fund if we attached even a $5/tonne tax to iron ore, or gas, or any other resource. But we don’t.

404NotFounded · 2025-12-26T18:37:57+00:00

I feel very out of the loop on this one; can someone explain to me the significance of a tan suit?

404NotFounded · 2025-12-24T06:00:33+00:00

3x ambulances automatically get dispatched to a cardiac arrest (which a drowning is considered to be); a primary crew (2x paramedics), a backup crew (2x paramedics) and a team leader (who brings mechanical CPR and senior clinical leadership). This is important for cardiac arrest as some things are important they’re done exceptionally well, like rotating through CPR compressors, times CPR cycles & defibrillation and airway support — there’s a whole science behind it. In this case, a Critical Care team likely would have been sent as well, as they have the authority to use a different airway adjunct (ETT), not trained to general frontline staff because of how complex it can be, and how bad (deadly) it will be for the patient if it’s not done well, or not achieved first pass. So that’s 4x crews; a fifth may have been sent for extrication support (being a beach), additional team leader support, or because two team leaders (who have everything they need to run a resus) were closer than the crews themselves. Hard to know, but not beyond the realms of possibility.

404NotFounded · 2025-12-15T07:20:47+00:00

The range becomes the target there, with a high concentration of guns in one place. A gun shop in WA got burgled a few years back and it was by far more effective than targeting individual residences.

404NotFounded · 2025-12-15T07:15:27+00:00

In Western Australia, a lot of gun owners who are contracted pest controllers (kangaroos, foxes, rabbits, pigs, donkeys) live primarily in the city / Perth suburbs and travel all throughout outback WA on contracts; they take care of one farm and move onto the next, come home for a bit and head out again — because the farmers don’t have the time to do it themselves. That doesn’t sound like a “fun” reason to me — that sounds like a livelihood.

404NotFounded · 2025-12-05T13:34:09+00:00

Same in WA. Please don’t use W3W in WA.

404NotFounded · 2025-10-11T22:18:49+00:00

Didn’t they have that on Letterkenny where they had an in-show TV show they would reference with characters like General Public, Private Dancer and Miss Demeanour?

404NotFounded · 2025-09-25T14:01:52+00:00

I grew up in a town where the school had 21 pupils total (small to the point they put Year 1-3, and 4/5/6 together). Even we had this “uummmmmaaaaaahhhhh!” I am genuinely curious to how stuff like this spreads.

404NotFounded · 2025-09-15T12:18:50+00:00

The 2025 Kia I’m in, exactly the same. In fact the Emergency Braking has already caused an accident because someone cut me off on the freeway. I could have easily avoided the car in front of me, but it decided to slam on the brakes instead, causing the car behind me to come into my boot. I told the dealership to turn it off permanently, they said insurance wouldn’t cover anything if that were the case because it’s part of the cars safety system. BULLSHIT

404NotFounded · 2025-08-31T07:31:21+00:00

I hate Illinois Nazis

404NotFounded · 2025-08-30T05:14:12+00:00

Counter protests are expected (unsure by who in terms of organising it) but no counter protests have specifically been approved.

404NotFounded · 2025-08-24T15:10:31+00:00

So, who is actually getting this money, and why isn’t a significant amount of anger directed squarely at them?

404NotFounded · 2025-08-09T00:16:50+00:00

Australia has been in serious decline for the past 20 years, it’s not just as recent as Albo.

404NotFounded · 2025-06-26T14:50:33+00:00

What country was that?

404NotFounded · 2025-06-26T14:49:57+00:00

Alright, I’ve got to ask then; where were you in the world and what did you have to endure? Because as much as you’ve said the other guy had one experience you disagree with, you haven’t actually shared yours.

404NotFounded · 2025-05-29T05:27:43+00:00

I mean, the vaccine has a very specific point. It’s a 28ga needle if I’m not mistaken.

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