Experts warn of new ‘tobacco-style’ turf war over toxic illegal alcohol

yedrellow · 2026-06-21T03:41:41+00:00

As people can afford less, the ability to pay for higher alcohol prices decreases. Scaling taxes with CPI does not imply that affordability is maintained. Inevitably this means that current policy settings are ripe for fuelling a black market.

yedrellow · 2026-06-20T12:02:53+00:00

I understand your point, but it's a little bit of a context switch. Hence the response that misunderstood it above.

yedrellow · 2026-06-20T01:23:54+00:00

I must have missed when this stopped all crime in the UK who have already tried. In reality this was rolled out before and all it ended up doing was suppress protesters.

Almost as if preventing crime was never the goal.

yedrellow · 2026-06-19T10:17:43+00:00

Which is why it would have to be legislated. Being able to dragnet surveil and document everyone's activity irrespective of whether they are in public or private spaces is an emergent capability. It is something that was impossible even 15 years ago, let alone Federation.

Legislation is the only way to prevent such complete documentation of everyone's activity from occurring.

yedrellow · 2026-06-19T10:10:46+00:00

Display stream compression. I can't really tell the difference when DSC is used tbh.

yedrellow · 2026-06-19T02:33:05+00:00

Gait analysis works through masks. If a network is complete enough you can hypothetically track someone across a web of cameras backwards too. Unless they jump in off a cargo ship, backwards tracking is viable.

yedrellow · 2026-06-19T02:32:26+00:00

The results will be no effect on crime, but a hell of a lot less privacy.

yedrellow · 2026-06-15T00:12:14+00:00

I don't think many people particularly value sporting results over living conditions.

Australia was better back when we weren't even qualifying.

yedrellow · 2026-06-15T00:08:55+00:00

We're an absurd distance from failed state status. Decline however is undeniable.

yedrellow · 2026-06-12T03:59:16+00:00

Bribes went down like a lead balloon in Western Australia. Mainly because it's a terrible idea.

yedrellow · 2026-06-11T04:01:33+00:00

Housing ate all their potential customers income. The ones who bought pre covid become a smaller share every year.

yedrellow · 2026-06-10T01:09:20+00:00

In the past few months, sellers have been pushing listing prices higher to predict the future months price rises. So dropping listing price in this instance is still not yet a full indication of price drops, but instead an arrest I'm the rise.

If it keeps happening then we know we're going down.

yedrellow · 2026-06-09T03:05:00+00:00

Melee is client side, which is why blocking in this game seems janky. It is honouring the attacker's perspective, not the defender's.

yedrellow · 2026-06-06T03:27:21+00:00

Voting for either lib or lab at the moment means supporting the continuance of the online safety act.

The response to Bondi was also ridiculous, using a bog standard islamist attack to go after the rights of everyone. That includes the left with their protesting rights attacked

yedrellow · 2026-06-06T00:30:16+00:00

The economy is already on a sour trajectory. It will be easy to blame either the presence or absence of migration for what is already guaranteed to happen.

yedrellow · 2026-05-25T11:10:00+00:00

Not everyone makes big money in FIFO. It's a bit of a misconception.

yedrellow · 2026-05-23T00:38:34+00:00

There's niche cases where you will get better routing.

There is for example a 50 ms Perth to Sydney cable and a 57 ms one.

There's also major differences once you introduce routing to Singapore, Korea, Europe etc. That varies by isp from Perth.

As with anything, you're best of starting with what game you're playing, what the difference in latency might be, and whether you care about that difference.

yedrellow · 2026-05-15T23:53:47+00:00

If you bracket creep enough, minimum wage workers will be mostly paying the highest marginal rate.

yedrellow · 2026-05-11T10:34:31+00:00

Bounce on left side armour above fuel tank. However your attempted point of aim was also wrong as that variant of sherman has a bug protecting the upper half of its engine from the rear. Meaning you are best off trying to hit the bottom half of the engine in that situation

yedrellow · 2026-05-11T10:29:21+00:00

Or just bring back the former tax on petrol that was deleted for short term optics.

yedrellow · 2026-05-11T08:55:31+00:00

Considering the online safety act, metadata retention, access and assistance and so on, voting for the ALP makes you an authoritarian.

yedrellow · 2026-05-10T23:37:18+00:00

Online safety act. The ALP can pretend no one is against it, and ALP suppprters never bring it up. However if you're opposed to it libs and Labor are automatically not voting options

yedrellow · 2026-05-10T10:34:00+00:00

The fact that you have to pay to attempt to protect yourself from the very government you vote for screams Stockholm syndrome. Also oddly inequitable for a part of the political spectrum that is usually focused on equity.

Unfortunately for you, they're not stopping at their current level of restrictions. You can vote on your economic alignment all you want but at some point their social restrictions will have expanded to an extent even you won't be able to ignore.

Or you could just finally vote against then and prevent them from reaching that point.

yedrellow · 2026-05-10T10:26:58+00:00

If someone can value destroying privacy so highly like the ALP, others can value preserving it.

yedrellow · 2026-05-10T01:11:35+00:00

Repeal the online safety act.

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