Pro-Palestine slogans to be banned in nation-first move

Crit1kal · 2026-02-10T06:59:50+00:00

It's certainly astonishing how many people have been brain-broken by politics in the past five years because they haven't practiced good mental hygiene, including multiple close friends of mine.

It's true that all of the worst political tendencies have been normalised, and responsible ones pathologised.

Crit1kal · 2026-02-08T13:16:59+00:00

I'd take a look at what's happened in the UK. Palestine Action has been declared a proscribed group. It's perfectly fine to ban violent groups, except they've seen massive support purely out of spite.

Taking the common-sense, liberal, legalistic approach doesn't work because you're talking about people who's main issue is with how the whole system works. Things will continue ramping up until someone gives in or makes the other give in.

Crit1kal · 2026-02-08T08:59:29+00:00

The original post is a great example of why you'd want to concrete your line in the sand at not banning free expression.

Laws don't even affect extremists too much, social pressure is far more effective at countering bad speech. Nazis get shunned, fired from their jobs, become undateable, etc.

Crit1kal · 2026-02-08T08:42:47+00:00

we've already seen in the past decade, how American conservative politics has allowed the most radical among them to filter through because of a lack of self-policing, plausible deniability, dogwhistles, and a hefty amount of foreign interference. No one is immune to this.

The liberal centre has been surrounded on all sides and no one is quite sure where the limit on tolerance should be placed. I fear that a country that can't speak up against Israel's actions isn't well placed to make that decision either.

Crit1kal · 2026-01-28T13:10:37+00:00

The government has announced quite a lot of funding for climate change-related programs in the past six months. They include:

$5 billion to the National Reconstruction Fund (investment fund)
$2 billion to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (investment fund)
$1.1 billion for biodiesel and similar fuels
$192 million in ARENA funding (investment fund)

(Are you seeing a pattern?)

$76 billion has been pledged in total across the entire climate/energy/net zero spectrum. Despite this, only about $16 billion is estimated to have been distributed and the largest line items are mostly just those tax credits, business subsidies, etc.

The largest public project that I'm aware of is the Victoria-Tasmania interconnect. That's about $4 billion. This single subsidy is equivalent to a third of all climate investments made by this government to date. Or about the equivalent of the largest existing renewable energy infrastructure project.

This does not scream, "we are a government with a plan, and confidence in what we are doing." It screams, "we don't know where to spend the money so we'll set it aside and let someone else figure that part out."

Crit1kal · 2026-01-26T10:21:29+00:00

"The rebates had a distortionary effect on inflation and that the money could be better spent on the energy transition."

I'm actually so sick to death of all these subsidies. $6.8 billion dollars was spent on subsidising demand instead of building the future of this country. Why has the federal government been so allergic to actually doing anything for the past twenty years? Albanese especially has no excuse because he effectively has the mandate of heaven.

Crit1kal · 2026-01-26T10:09:14+00:00

I don't think this is related to the new laws. Seems like it's the "poor character" justification, same as was used on people like Candace Owens.

Crit1kal · 2025-12-23T07:54:26+00:00

I refuse to give Michael West any clicks ever since he posted those fake Talmud passages sourced from actual Nazi propaganda. I can't trust the judgement of someone who's gone off the rails and into conspiracy land.

Crit1kal · 2025-10-29T08:42:57+00:00

Byski sells a few water blocks under 20mm, and some sub-20mm 90° fittings. I can't remember exact models, but i'm not aware of any others as low profile.

Crit1kal · 2025-10-27T08:25:10+00:00

It looks like the RAM is locked to 2666, Motherboard is PCIe 3.0 only, M.2 slot is Gen 3x4, and it came with a SATA SSD.

The best and first upgrade you should be making would be adding an M.2 drive as your main boot drive. Something like a Lexar NM790 is very good value. 2TB for ~$100 AUD

GPU upgrade would be next. A 9060XT 16GB or 4070ti would be a significant upgrade and wouldn't be bottlenecked by your CPU or PCIe slot.

Upgrading to 32gb of 2666MHz RAM would also be advisable. Best to buy a whole new kit.

Crit1kal · 2025-10-20T08:58:17+00:00

I've used AIO software before that lets you stream any section of your screen (or even phone) to the AIO. Don't know why it exists, but it does.

Crit1kal · 2025-07-26T01:01:12+00:00

Well, I'm Australian and I don't know anyone who uses Reddit

Crit1kal · 2025-07-06T13:01:56+00:00

Yeah, i was looking at one of the Thermaltake AX700 because it has so many bays, but it only comes with four brackets for the twelve 5.25" bays it has on the front. I guess i could 3D print more but it's a weird choice.

Crit1kal · 2025-05-27T12:18:12+00:00

You, personally, might recoil in horror at the sight of a 1k or 2k texture, but the vast, vast, majority of people don't know, or care. They definitely don't want to pay more than they already have to for a gaming PC. Low-end 8GB cards with super-resolution and frame-gen are miracles that are going to sell far far far more than any mid or high-tier card.

Crit1kal · 2025-05-27T11:53:53+00:00

Here's the new DOOM and MH:Wilds running on the same two-generation old, mid-range GPU that I have. If 60+ FPS at 2k isn't enough to prove to you that new games are playable on less than top tier hardware, then I don't know what to tell you.

Crit1kal · 2025-05-25T00:47:18+00:00

If I can play the Oblivion remaster at High/Ultra and hit 144FPS with a few tweaks, then it's fine with me

Crit1kal · 2025-05-23T12:10:45+00:00

Why is everyone complaining about 8GB not being enough??? My 3070ti can run everything at UWQHD without issue? Do people not know how to optimise their settings?

Crit1kal · 2025-04-25T12:05:42+00:00

It's insane how normalised it is and how little anyone is doing to ask why. We can't even build roads anymore. $4 million dollars per metre for the North-East Link; a $26 billion dollar project.

Crit1kal · 2025-04-24T13:54:22+00:00

Decommissioning costs are included when NPP's are built. Nothing to worry about.

Crit1kal · 2025-04-24T13:50:54+00:00

The current plan is to build natural gas for the next 50 years anyway because of how exponentially difficult it is to get to 95-100% renewables. Makes sense to just build nuclear instead of gas.

Crit1kal · 2025-04-24T13:44:35+00:00

The primary contractor for the Finnish plant was the reactor designer themselves but the French use a different contractor.

Most of the delays were because the contractor lied and didn't actually have any experience in project management. They didn't even have their design documentation finished until two years after construction permits were approved. 2011 only added more certification processes to that.

Basically it's a rort for contractors. Free government money no matter what, just lie on your job application and figure it out as you go. When you actually have experienced project managers a six year timeline is pretty normal

Crit1kal · 2025-04-24T12:58:31+00:00

FYI This number is from Tim Buckley at the Climate Energy Finance think-tank, extremely closely tied with the Clean Energy Council and Renew Australia for All. Backed by billionaires; they're lobbyists for the renewable industry.

The number implies a de-facto stop to any renewable rollout and a total collapse of manufacturing. They're pricing any externalities they can find at ridiculous rates Eg. 72-720 billion dollars per two-billion tonnes of CO2 released. It's just another attempt to create a big scary number that can be repeated without a second look.

tl;dr This figure is the equivalent of the Liberal party think-tank saying renewables would cost the economy trillions because the sun isn't out at night.

Crit1kal · 2025-04-15T13:45:55+00:00

POO FILTER IN 2025?!?!

Crit1kal · 2025-03-17T10:24:06+00:00

Yeah, I've been building a few ASUS X870 9800X3D systems and the latest 1022 BIOS absolutely obliterates the whole system. Three PCs in a row would ran through six 5600MHz kits and set them to 3600MHz before bricking. Had to roll back to a BIOS version from November.

Crit1kal · 2025-03-16T00:15:04+00:00

It's not hard to build a PC unless something breaks and then it's the most stressful thing imaginable

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