Almacca

Almacca @aussie.zone 20h ago

Sucked in, dickheads!

Almacca @aussie.zone 23h ago

It must be about time they put out another album.

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Almacca @aussie.zone 2d ago

My Moza direct drive wheel, pedals, shifter, handbrake and multi-function stalk. They have transformed my sim driving experience. And hate Meta all you like, but my Quest2 has likewise made sim driving all the more awesome. I'm looking forward to the Steam Frame, though, so I can ditch Meta altogether.

Also adding a vote for the Steam Deck. Outside of sim driving, it's been my primary gaming device since I got it.

Almacca @aussie.zone 2d ago

That's almost reassuring,

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Almacca @aussie.zone 2d ago

I'll take two.

Almacca @aussie.zone 2d ago

Complete and utter insanity is the main policy of the Trump administration, though..

Almacca @aussie.zone 2d ago

What a revelation! Give that CEO a raise! :|

Almacca @aussie.zone 2d ago

How old are you?

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Almacca @aussie.zone 2d ago

After like a hundred messages of arguing,..

The only stupid person here is the one arguing with a toaster.

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Almacca @aussie.zone 2d ago

This is what I don't get. Everyone knows he fucked kids, and it's never cost him any support. I think the reason they're going to such lengths to suppress the files is that there's something much worse in them. There's already been suggestions that he's involved in infanticide. Who knows what other depraved shit is in there?

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Almacca @aussie.zone 3d ago

Thanks, but I'm fine with my Quadlock phone mount and an aux jack. (I still have a phone with a 3.5mm headphone jack.)

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Almacca @aussie.zone 3d ago

I'm in Brisbane, but I don't do anything or go anywhere interesting enough to post. You have my upvotes though, probably.

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Almacca @aussie.zone 3d ago

That's not a koala!

Almacca @aussie.zone 3d ago

The bill gives the police some extraordinary powers. It allows them to enter your home without a warrant on the mere suspicion that you may have an unregistered electric motorbikes.

Fucking hell. This is what happens when you vote LNP.

Here's what Bicycle Queensland had to say in their recent newsletter.

THE E-MOBILITY LAWS
Over 3,200 submissions were received by the Parliamentary Committee reviewing Queensland’s proposed new e-mobility laws. This is one of the biggest out-pourings of concern about a piece of legislation the Parliament has seen in the last decade. The local bicycle user groups (BUGs), especially the Brisbane and Toowoomba BUGs, Space for Cycling and the Story Bridge Active Travel Alliance, have all worked tirelessly. Thank you everyone! Well done!
Bike advocates have used advanced AI to review the submissions received by the Committee and over 90% are in favour of our positions, including: i) that you shouldn’t need a car licence to ride a safe, legal e-bike; ii) that currently compliant e-bike owners demand a no-cost pathway to keep their bike compliant iii) that the 10km/h speed limit proposed on footpaths, shared paths and most of the state’s bikeway networks is insane ill-considered.
Andrew Demack, BQ’s Director of Advocacy, and I appeared as witnesses to the committee earlier this week, along with a who’s who of affected stakeholders. The Bicycle Industries Australia, the Brisbane West Bicycle Users Group, the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail Association, Lime, Neuron, Uber-Eats, Doordash, the Queensland Tourism Industry Council, the big local governments, the disability sector, the Public Advocate, and even a coalition of 15 Queensland transport professors. The message received by the Committee was loud and clear throughout: this bill has been badly drafted; there are issues that are not yet resolved; and, as BQ has made abundantly clear, the key problem of the illegal devices won’t be fixed. The bill still allows the same shops selling the same illegal bikes and scooters to remain in business and keep selling their same illegal products under the ‘private property use only’ loophole. This is the same way every illegal device currently on the streets has already been sold in Queensland.
At this late stage we hope the bill is at least delayed, if not pulled entirely, for a rethink. BQ has long had ‘off-ramps’ available to the government to help solve this mess.
We know proof-of-age would give the Queensland Police Service all they need to clamp down on illegal device riders – who the cops need to ID - without the overkill of requiring cyclists to have a driver’s licence. Changing this in the bill would solve all the discriminatory issues compulsory licence-holding creates for the disabled, seniors, international students and others. This would keep our shared e-mobility schemes (Lime, Neuron) alive in Queensland and allow international tourists to use them during the Olympics. It would keep Uber-Eats drivers in a job and ensure your pizza arrives at your door.
We know that if the Department can do a good job defining a footpath in the legislation, they can then achieve what the Parliamentary Committee wanted in placing a speed restriction on footpaths, but leave alone all the shared paths, rail trails and shared multi-use trails that cyclists use. That would stop forcing local governments to spend hundreds-of-millions of dollars across the state assessing, then signing, every shared path or trail they want to assign a non-default speed to. We also know that cyclists are much more stable, upright, and able to manage road risk at 15km/h or 20km/h than at 10km/h, if the government remains determined to put a speed limit just on footpaths.
We know the Bicycle Industries Australia proposal for e-bike compliance/assurance to be provided by retailers, and labelled on a sticker on the frame, would provide a pathway to compliance for those of us without a permanent standards mark on our safe, legal e-bikes. This would also help the police with enforcement. The bike industry has already thought through how this can work.
We are calling on the Transport Minister to intervene and #savelegalebikes. There were signs the Committee members have realised the unintended consequences of the proposed laws, and are considering the possible ways out. Minister Mickelberg can step in and save this.

Almacca @aussie.zone 3d ago

Look at him, he's a chooka-train yeah!

Almacca @aussie.zone 3d ago

I once referred to him as 'the physical embodiment of the seven deadly sins coated in fat and toxic chemicals'. I was hoping it would catch on.