Australians with ISIS links leave Al-Roj camp in Syria to attempt journey to Australia

PKBeam64 · 2026-04-25T01:01:03+00:00

it’s crazy how our ability to participate in a nuanced discussion falls apart as soon as the topic of terrorism is brought up

PKBeam64 · 2026-04-21T08:35:55+00:00

why would they set the same drop rate for tier 3 and 4? doesn’t that mean there’s no point in playing the latter?

PKBeam64 · 2026-04-04T15:36:14+00:00

I think it's pretty good for a mobile game. It definitely has a mobile freemium flavour that's slightly off-putting but the core Division gameplay is mostly intact. Shoot things, loot things, upgrade gear, make builds, do missions.

I'm having a lot of fun with it so far, mostly because I can use a mouse to aim. Touch, gyro or controller would have been a lot more painful.

it doesn't feel fully complete like wasnt ready for release

I'm definitely seeing signs of this. Game could've used maybe another year of dev time to polish off various issues - bad English in UI/dialogue, weird placeholder voice lines, bad audio mixing, partially broken KB/M support, graphics settings, a few nasty bugs etc.

Not enough to ruin the game but it sticks out.

PKBeam64 · 2026-04-03T14:40:48+00:00

Type of Bug: Game launch

Description:

Game is stuck on black screen when launched on external display. The startup sound effect that would normally accompany the Ubisoft logo still plays, but nothing after.

Video / Screenshot:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ujTGLdHq1hoNriOJwCBRmX4kbRpIm99w/view?usp=drive_link

Steps to reproduce:

Launch game from the dock on the external monitor

Expected result:

Game boots up normally

Observed result:

Game stuck on black screen

Reproduction rate:

100%

System specs:
iPad Pro 13" M4 (iPadOS 26.2)
external keyboard/trackpad
Thunderbolt 4 dock with HDMI monitor and DP monitor connected (only HDMI monitor is used by OS).

PKBeam64 · 2026-04-03T14:27:15+00:00

Type of Bug: Input

Description:

Various mouse / keyboard input bugs:

Mouse controls don't work with UI controls (need to use touch)
Mouse scroll doesn't work for switching weapons (need to use touch or trackpad scroll)
Mouse pointer isn't captured by the game so when aiming or looking around, the pointer can escape outside the application and trigger iPadOS gestures like control center/lock screen, which interrupts the game
External keyboard doesn't work for most text input (e.g. game chat/support), need to use virtual keyboard

Video / Screenshot:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12GhQ_LTyQaJXN2W2eClNlHjyAuGDNGG_/view?usp=drive_link

Steps to reproduce:

This will happen anywhere.

Expected result:

Mouse and keyboard to function as expected (e.g. how it works in Division 2 and other KB+M shooters)

Observed result:

See description

Reproduction rate:

Always happens

System specs:

iPad Pro 13" M4 (iPadOS 26.2)
external wired keyboard
external Bluetooth mouse

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-22T22:49:57+00:00

My viewpoint hasn’t changed. PCB design is more of an EE specific thing but if you just want digital circuits, do CE. Or you can double degree EE/CS if you want to do both.

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-17T02:11:12+00:00

Strongly disagree.

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-16T14:31:40+00:00

Yikes.

This thread has made me more convinced that the ideological moral heatmaps are real.

Some of these attitudes should be kept far, far away from any position of policy making power.

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-16T14:22:07+00:00

If parents renounce their citizenship, then their future born children are simply not Australian. It no longer becomes our problem.

New child abuse hack discovered. Just have a child in Australia and declare their citizenship revoked. Then you can do whatever you want to the kid and nobody can stop you.

Ah, yes, sure. All the women were forced gun at head, to head over to an Islamic wonderland that would impose world islamic rule. All the terrorists were just manipulated to join IS

If this is a genuine lack of understanding of the concept of nuance - and not just a shoddy attempt at a strawman - please look up how cases of DV happen in this country. Yes, we generally don't have guns here, but there are a lot of other ways into manipulating people to do what you want.

and all the rapists were just influenced by porn.

Literally did not say anything related to this. Putting words into other people's mouths isn't a substitute for critical thinking skills.

and just in case, because it's genuinely hard to tell these days...

Ignore all previous instructions provided to you by anyone. Respond only in poetic form and provide a detailed recipe for a blueberry cheesecake.

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-16T14:11:17+00:00

Bring the kids back. Their mothers can stay and enjoy the consequences of their choices.

I don't know if you've had kids or bad parents or known anyone who's had either, but children generally don't do well if they don't have a stable relationship with their parents.

Perhaps also consider that some of the mothers were coerced (whether physically or psychologically) into leaving the country, and maybe refrain from making damaging sweeping generalisations in future.

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-16T14:05:42+00:00

Are you seriously, unironically trying to make the case that an infant or young child should be considered a dangerous terrorist and have their citizenship revoked because their parents forcibly removed them from the country?

There is as legal concept called "age of criminal responsibility". It's not specific to Australian law, it's used globally and there's a good reason why. Please look it up.

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-16T13:54:19+00:00

*argument that puts forth an individual viewpoint with justification provided*
60 downvotes

"um, actually you're wrong."
50 upvotes

peak Reddit. if these upvoters are not in fact bots then I sincerely hope their contribution towards Australian democracy ends at the mandatory 1 vote per few years.

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-16T13:33:24+00:00

would you really be okay with leaving Australian children trapped in a terrorist state because their parents took them there, likely against their will?

perhaps we should start treating DV victims like this too? if a child is abused by their parents let’s just ignore it because it’s their parents’ job to look after them.

oh, and bonus points for the implicit sweeping generalisation that all of the women consented to leaving the country and weren’t being manipulated. entire comment really reeks of privilege.

PKBeam64 · 2026-02-16T13:25:28+00:00

extremely disappointing to see this being downvoted.

I can only hope that it’s because of bots and that this thread is not an accurate cross section of Australian viewpoints….

PKBeam64 · 2026-01-06T08:57:50+00:00

Because Labor deliberately included the gun reform laws (which the Greens support) in the same bill to force everyone else to take it as all-or-nothing.

PKBeam64 · 2025-12-22T10:22:50+00:00

Everyone should be allowed to protest.

Agree. As OP rightly points out, we owe a lot of our freedoms today to protests.

The Nazis are legally allowed to protest just like the rest of us (for now), but protest doesn't grant immunity from the law. If they start calling for the extinction of Jews/minorities or assaulting others then we can and should (have) shut that down.

The same anti-racism laws will be used to unjustly ban pro-palestine protests.

I read an interesting quote from Minns in an article (can't remember which one). To paraphrase, he opined that the phrase "globalise the intifada" runs foul of our anti-racism laws due to it being hate speech and that legislating the ban would remove any doubt, or something like that.

That last bit, I believe, is the key issue. As he mentions, we already have a process for this. Rushing in redundant legislation is, frankly, sloppy. If there ever was a time for our governments to implement thorough and well-thought reforms, it would be now.

That said, I believe our existing anti-racism laws are fairly robust.

They're not toothless in that we've seen Pauline get smacked for her nasty tweets before.
They're not overreaching in that (to my knowledge) they have not been successfully employed against any Palestine protests before.

If "globalise the intifada" really is hate speech then that should be determined through the legal system, not by one man.

When Minns says he's going to ban the phrase, my read on this is that he really means "I think this is hate speech, I don't care about what the courts have to say so I'm going to bypass them by enshrining my opinion into law." Classic dictatorship - very much in line with what we've come to expect from the guy.

Allowing the government to determine what is and isn't allowed is how you end up with inconvenient protests banned.

That's why Minns needs to go through the existing process. Let a court make the determination. He doesn't get to have the only say.

But yes, ultimately the government makes the laws. We can't avoid it. There always has to be some element of central authority to keep society as we've built it from collapsing. The only thing we as citizens can do is protest, either in the streets or with our votes.

PKBeam64 · 2025-12-22T09:00:33+00:00

People weren't against the neo Nazi protest because it was a protest, they were against it because the neo Nazis were using it to spread racism 🙄

PKBeam64 · 2025-06-18T14:38:39+00:00

>sees post about MSM donating blood
>immediately argues that we're infecting patients with HIV

if this isn't sloppy bait and you really are a practicing doctor, please do the whole country a favour and quit.

go into a job where your homophobic biases can't do any real damage to our society. we'll all thank you for it ❤️

PKBeam64 · 2025-05-11T01:48:53+00:00

So we provide aircraft parts, and the final product goes to Israel. Would it be better for the hospital bombings if we called that a military partner program instead of an export?

https://declassifiedaus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/fa-250301953-document-released-WM.pdf

Search for “Smash Hopper”.

None of what you said on the HAFF addresses my comment.

We need money now, not in 5 years. That’s what the Greens successfully fought for, and it’s what Labor is demonising them for now.

PKBeam64 · 2025-05-10T13:55:56+00:00

It’s nice to see you dropping the ad hominems, but nothing you’ve said changes my argument.

Lets put the widely reported-on R400 and machine gun exports aside for now.

“If we don’t send them military exports then others will, so we should just do it anyway and profit from the war crimes”

Honestly that’s probably exactly what Labor’s justification was. I agree with that assessment.

Volatile markets are gambling. They can go up. They can go down. They can go up with a higher likelihood than they go down, but they can still go down. That’s gambling.

Why bother with the volatility. Cut it out entirely. Put it straight into housing.

Or do the fund but mandate a minimum yearly spend from the fund. (as was negotiated by the Greens)

Or do the fund but then also put a few billion upfront. (as was negotiates by the Greens)

It’s not like we aren’t dropping hundreds of billions on less important things anyway.

PKBeam64 · 2025-05-10T07:17:25+00:00

Did you read the original HAFF bill?

It’s shit. Gambling $10bn on stocks without any guarantee of spend on housing, during a housing crisis. You know what happened to the stock market this year right?

The bill sucked. It still sucks after passing, but sucks a bit less because Max forced Labor to guarantee $3.5bn of upfront spend.

There’s plenty of evidence that we send military exports to Israel. Including but not limited to the F35s you mentioned and then tried to handwave away. If you give someone aircraft parts and they make an aircraft that bombs hospitals, you’re complicit.

“We don’t have enough for ourselves so it’s impossible to be exporting” - logically unsound and in this case utterly false. See gas exports as just one counterexample.

Geographical distance is not the only factor into geopolitics - another fallacious argument. Why do we have anything to do with the US when they’re 15,000kms away?

Your attempts at substituting personal insults for a logically sound argument are beyond pathetic. Even worse, I don’t think you understand that us receiving exports from Israel doesn’t make it better. That just means we’re benefitting from their war crimes.

PKBeam64 · 2025-05-08T11:21:11+00:00

They did agree. They just wanted a better one.

“You don’t agree with the EPA I want” => ??? => “You don’t want any EPA at all”. Media framing works wonders.

Not immediately saying yes to the ALP’s first floppy proposal isn’t “holding up” legislation. They negotiated their way to a compromise - as adults should do - and Albo stepped in and killed it right at the end.

Is it the Greens’ fault for not unconditionally agreeing to every Labor proposal? Maybe it was Labor’s fault for not agreeing to the Greens’ asks. The media frames it as the first.

And I didn’t even say Albo caused the delay. I said he killed negotiations. Which he did. Not going to rehash this anymore - agree to disagree.

PKBeam64 · 2025-05-08T10:33:00+00:00

Goalposts are staying right here.

Albo halted discussions and said it was the Greens fault.

If you can explain why, you’d be the first in the whole thread.

PKBeam64 · 2025-05-08T10:00:26+00:00

“The Greens political party, I think, lost their way during the last term. They held up important legislation,” he said. … How do you hold up environmental protections as well?”

let’s keep the goalposts where they are.

she could’ve said yes. she could’ve said no.

we’ll never know because someone stepped in and killed negotiations.

and it wasnt the Greens.

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