What does a bunch of Aussies enjoying a holiday at the beach have to do with Israel?

I have a real 14-year-old in my house. I should see what accounts he can manage to create for himself.

Not instantly. I’ll go through all the DMs soon (I was going to go through them on the weekend but, December) and send replies. Yes, replies will come from Molly.

Is the rest of Australia really not aware of WA’s Domestic Gas reserve? In short: 15% of gas extracted in WA is reserved for the people of WA. As a result, our power bills are a bit under 25c/kwh + ~$1/day supply.

Ooh - I missed this update last week:

This genuinely boggles my mind. The government can make sentences like this, but they can’t make them reality. Imagine if it said that only people with red hair were allowed to access the site. What technology exists to handle that? Because it is effectively what we are facing. We can only try our best - but we can’t assure the government 100% that no user has tricked us onto the platform. And I’d still say that if I had the resources of Google to ensure compliance.

We aren’t going to make public what people have given us in confidence. That’s simply not happening.

We might share some of the text-based responses as reference examples to inspire others, but it’s an emphatic “no” on anything that has an above 0% chance of doxxing our people. Which will likely be all the photos.

We love you guys too much to remotely entertain that risk.

I’d have to double-check the wording to be 100% certain, but if you don’t make accounts, I don’t think it counts as social media.

I think this about sums everything up. I just pinned it to the top of Local with the non-satire post. 😀

Bedtime!

It’d be funny if it was only Israel competing.

I haven’t looked at the dms in over a day, but to that point, exactly zero of the responses included a face, or anything identifiable.

The answer to your direct question is “yes”, alcohol served to you at a restaurant would be just as fine as alcohol in a bar. The point to it is the setting. A kid can raid mum and Dad’s liquor cabinet and pose a photo. Doing that in a restaurant is not so doable.

As a general guide for whatever you choose: what we are looking for is essentially ‘could a kid have sent this?’

Only a 3-4 people had gone the alcohol route when I last checked.

There are some episodes on YouTube. I do not think you’ll be able to get that one legally.

If it was Tom’s Diner, that song has a special place in digital music history. It was the test song for what became the MP3 standard.

Oh wow! That this came from a non-Queensland kid is extra surprising. Yes, this was the breakfast club. It gave us Agro by the way. Queensland kids knew Agro years before the rest of Australia.

Arnie! 😢

We aren’t copping any abuse. Everyone understands that this isn’t coming from us and that there is no point hassling us over it.

Shutting the instance down is not on the cards. It means too much to too many people.

Nah, I don’t think that’s it. Your comment here constituted more effort than some responses we’ve received. We don’t need much.

We’re lucky in Australia in that there’s a treasure trove of pop culture from the 20th century in our minds that isn’t really on Google. Just talk about Nudge’s antics or something. No kid will know who Nudge is, but he was a household name in the 80’s. Or maybe Bobby’s death and how that affected you? Google “Bobby’s death” and you’ll get the wrong Bobby.

I’ll have you know that I’ve had three birthdays since I created my account!

While we have tried to make the verification system as light-touch and unobtrusive as we can, we need to accept that this policy will cost us users. Just as we have no influence on government policy, we have no control on how people will respond to our willingness to obey the law.

I even understand it. If Canada introduced some sort of law that required me to do something I couldn’t justify, I’d likely let my lemmy.ca test account lapse. People are going to evaluate their own position from evaluating the variables in front of them. And some of them are going to come down on their Aussie.Zone account not being worth that much to them. Which is totally fine.

Crocodile Dundee came out in 1986. Hoges was huge on TV in the 70’s though - the Paul Hogan show ran for years. Fun fact: almost all of the Paul Hogan Show has been lost. It aired before VCRs were a thing and the station lost or over-wrote the original tapes.