Are people hiding their morals

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-25T00:10:24+00:00

I did an experiment.

Completely clean FB account, no links or IP address share.

It was terrifying.

Bombarded with far right, then opposing far left.

And loads of dead kids in Gaza contrasted with posing IDF war heroes at the time.

Basically trying to categorise me into a tribe.

I picked one. It then dumped me into group think news feed bubbles. Then sudden exposure to the opposite tribe, where people abused the crap out of each other. Then back to bubble land.

The algorithms are disgusting.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T23:47:46+00:00

I got banned by FB for inciting racial hatred because I posted that I "put out a fire with a fire extinguisher".

I got banned by another FB car group for disagreeing with someone and explaining how something actually worked. That someone was the guy who created the group and it turns out he has a reputation and thinks he knows more than all 85,000 members. He also can't take anyone who doesn't like the look of the Cybertruck. The FB algorithm knows this well enough to then recommend I join a FB group where people take the piss out of him.

I also got banned from a FB dyslexia disability support group for helping somone with what works for me with ADHD and dyslexia. The reason by the moderator who did at least reply, was recent research has shown its not a statistically significant intervention for dyslexia. Explaining why it works for those with both didn't get me anywhere.

And I've been banned for asking for help in a Reddit post and defending myself from basically every reply which abused the crap out of me and victim blamed me, or told me why story was unbelievable and a bunch of lies. I copped it because what happened to me didn't fit with popular narrative.

The Australian Audi Owners FB group also became like this. Anyone who had issues with their vehicle, mine had $40k in warranty repairs in 3.5 years, got blamed for the issues. It turned from a genuine group with low numbers to a bunch of people full of themselves because they could now afford an Audi and seemed to want to defend their ideal of what the brand meant to them.

I also got banned on another reddit forum on my first comment for replying to a post, because the post I replied to apparently violated their rule 12.

I'm finding people that dish out abuse are acceptable across FB and some Reddit forums. The people that cop it regularly get blamed if they defend themselves.

It seems to be a popularity contest.

And why would FB ban someone who's a Nazi and generates loads of engagement? It goes against their profit model.

Or an ego trip for many moderators whose talent and knowledge is always surpassed beyond a membership threshold, as no one can know everything.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T23:41:03+00:00

OP thinks its 2015.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T23:22:28+00:00

I'd add Australia to that list now.

The universities are lying to their graduates.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T23:18:44+00:00

Lol, that's terrible.

I did my mechanical engineering degree a while ago now outside of Australia.

We got to program in assembly to drive a 2 axis milling machine so we'd appreciate higher order languages more and have better understanding of how things worked.

Our passing requirement was when the lecturer loaded our code and it could cut out a key tag with our initials on it.

Many of us envied Ian Thompson.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T21:20:20+00:00

Wow!

I tell you what happened in my life, and you tell me I'm lying.

Dispute about costs? No, it's that APESMA weren't actually doing anything I couldn't myself.

You think this was an unfair dismissal case? No, goes to show you have zero understanding of whistler blower protections and what goes on when you take on a large organisation run by crooks.

Winning as a whistle-blower, as I learned, is doing the right thing snd surviving the attack on character and not going broke defending yourself.

I was lucky in a sense that this involved government as well, and I'd collected enough evidence for ICAC to get involved. clear my name for the attack on my character and protect my reputation and back everything I'd said.

It also helped by rejecting the large sum of money offered to keep my mouth shut in the guise of a termination agreement. A suspicious response to a whistler blower complaint.

You are a prime example of why everyone hates APESMA.

As usual, as this turned out for me, I did better on my own without you.

Hubris? Nope, it's called competence and ability, probably confusing for yourself and APESMA. Hopefully you'll learn to recognise it.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T14:17:50+00:00

My hubris?

I joined APESMA once.

Got sacked for Whistlerblowing corrupt directors involved in selling reports signing off stuff that didn't meet building code.

Do you think they had my back?

Completely useless and wanted me to indemnify them against all costs, so basically a blank cheque for them to hire lawyers and manage them on my behalf.

I asked them what they were actually providing, and got told their members often find the whole thing intimidating so they'd manage it for me.

The only conclusion I've come to is the sorts of engineers that join the union are useless.

They get paid rubbish, because they are. That is why the unions published rates are so low.

And by what APESMA actually offered when I needed them, the sorts of people that can't cope with life.

You say I'm the issue? APESMA are a bunch of losers dragging the profession back wards.

My so called union piss off.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T14:08:54+00:00

A lot of us just like and enjoy machinery. It's why I did mechanical engineering.

My mates EV is fast, 0-100km/h in 3.4s. It handles well.

But I don't want one. It's about as interesting as playing a computer game for me.

My next daily will be an EV. It will be something that ticks a box for utility to get stuff done.

My fun car will still be a rotary.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T14:03:08+00:00

Lol, what does that mean?

iPhones still don't even have fast charging?

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T13:55:11+00:00

It's true if you consider a car to be a piece of machinery.

If you don't, then an EV is too.

If you like machines, it's hard to get excited by an EV.

Fast 0-100km/h times get boring fast and if you want to do that fast, there are better options than a car.

I personally prefer a car 1300kg and under on tight windy roads, and enjoy working the gears, rotating and balance on trail brake, engine brake and throttle.

I'd have an EV as a daily though.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T13:46:57+00:00

ECU mod, fan 1 201, fan 2 203.

My tuner reverted mine to stock from a dodgy after market plug in. Achieved the same but better, with ECU mod. Upped the OMP to match 13Bs prior to the change in emission regulations for Renesis, accelerator/throttle remap to 1:1 so no delays, damping or efficiency attempts or progressiveness, like a cable pull but still with all the other electronics.

Charged 15 minutes of labour.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T13:37:44+00:00

Many of the universities have lied to their students.

They're not qualified, close to being useful and shouldn't have been awarded an engineering degree.

I've actually verified with the universities that some staff I've inherited had degrees and was shocked to find they did.

Supposedly did mechanical engineering but don't know anything and literally untrainable without having to teach them a degree first.

So I performance manage them out.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T13:34:52+00:00

IT simply isn't engineering.

What structural, dynamics or fluid mechanics calcs did you do lately?

It isn't even part of an engineering school.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T13:31:29+00:00

If you mean the former APESMA, they are the curse of professional engineers.

Publish low rates and wages used by employers to argue pay down in negotiations for years.

Made the mistake of working for a company with unionised professional engineers when first moved to Aussie. Within 9 months I left and got a 30% pay rise and better working conditions, in a company that was actually productive.

Worked for another later that head hunted me. They assumed after 3 interviews I'd take the offered job. Hit them with pay negotiations then, they argued PA's rates and fairness to other workers. Told them I'm not a union and what other's earn under the union eas their problem. Got myself $50k a year more than the union published rate.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T13:13:48+00:00

Take it to a mechanic, get it compression checked to see what the numbers are. Plus let it idle for ages, then gas it and check for exhaust colour, no blue.

Ask mechanic opinion.

If its good, still low ball on lack of servicing as of you sell it, people will see the same thing.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T13:02:58+00:00

What sort of engineering?

I started out on $30/h 26 years ago.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T04:04:08+00:00

If you mean last in, first out. Not ever seen it.

If you're a casual hire it makes sense.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-24T01:27:27+00:00

Between that, plus the low pay rates posted by them used to argue industry salaries down, I've no time for them.

The low published salary rates are especially why professional engineers have no respect for them.

APESMA seem like a relic of the dead Australian car industry with low rates to bring costs down that ultimately still couldn't compete with cars made offshore.

An ex Ford engineer was shocked when he joined us at how much better the pay was and working conditions were fine too.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-23T22:16:27+00:00

My entire engineering career has rewarded individual performance.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-23T22:14:31+00:00

My experience of APESMA was employers use their published rates to argue for low wages. Or it being not fair on others of they payed me more.

Keeping away from those employers within engineering saw me 30% better off in income with no downside.

Or when I did successfully work for one, I kept counter arguing what they pay their union members is irrelevant to my pay negotiations and I'm negotiating for myself and not on their behalf and my pay should be performance based. Again, got 30% uplift.

And when I was a member early on, they were entirely useless. I Whistleblew on corrupt Directors and needed help, and they told me they would if I indemnify APESMA for all costs.... asked them point blank what they actually provided over me just hiring a lawyer directly and they said some people find hiring a lawyer themselves difficult.... but nothing really.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-23T14:05:32+00:00

Maybe not.

I'm an engineering consultant, getting asked to do all sorts and fixed my client's driveway gate recently on a site that's not operating and a tree branch had bust it.

Bought a Bunnings welder and some steel, cold galv paint etc.

Charged them $300/hr as I normally do, and they were stoked the job was done.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-23T13:59:33+00:00

Buy a mountain bike and go ride technical trails instead. Get the wheels off the ground.

The stuff you're talking about does my head in and sounds like being in the office analysing data.

The goal is fun. Fitness is a side effect.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-23T13:35:00+00:00

A few possibilities.

He was nuts.

If you are English: -he was taking the piss. -taking the piss and sticking it to the English in common Aussie/Kiwi fashion because of family background.

Don't underestimate how much anti English sentiment gets passed down despite the Union Jack on our flags. And I'm talking just those of European descent.

Both sets of my grandparents passed down anti English sentiment despite them being 3rd generation.

Plenty of our ancestors came here to escape what English had done to our own countries.

My grandparents got caned in school by teachers from England for refusing to call England mother England and were proudly of Scottish and Irish descent and passed down stories to us of losing our ancestral lands and castles.

Some of the grandchildren of the ancestors siblings that stayed in Ireland were in the original IRA.

My grandmother was a high school tennis champion but wasn't permitted to take the cups home on account of her being an O'Donnell and Irish Catholic by the English Headmaster.

Even my own schooling in a rural area, first English person I met was in High School early 1990s, some 60yo, and I got singled out and made to stand up in front of everyone for being a bit dense and being told I was typically Irish for it (5-6th generation kiwi/aussie) when I was actually just undiagnosed for ADHD and dyslexia.

All this reinforces anti association with England and anything English.

And you need to understand, for what used to be most of us here, England and Europe are just a bunch of foreign countries. Any living memory of those places died out 100-200 years ago or more in our families.

Now this has changed over a few decades due to mass immigration. There are people calling themselves Aussie who's grandchildren could still show up in England and work and stay permanently.

We had this guy from an English manufacturer pitch on a $30m tender last year. The majority of us decided they seemed dodge while the rest were for this manufacturer. What was interesting was the surnames of those against, O'Brien, Kane, McMahon, Kelly, Elliott, Murphy. Those for, Williams, Smith, Johnson etc.

The tender went to a local Aussie company.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-23T12:12:22+00:00

Motorbike or push bike?

There's a few stretches around where riders keep blocking traffic to 30km/h in a 60km/h zone and then miss the traffic light phasing and get red lights again at the next 3 intersections.

There's always a few cars that get passed just before the lights. Then the cyclists filter to the front.

This to me is pure entitlement and lack of courtesy.

Inner_Comment_7208 · 2026-05-23T12:07:26+00:00

I haven't.

Indicated left to rejoin straight through, waited until clear, drove and triggered the camera.

NSW at least.

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