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anenefan commented on Australia once the gold standard for gun safety: Experts say it's losing control theguardian.com/australia... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

wrp · 2 days ago

American usage is for "gun safety" and "gun control" to mean different things. In Australia/UK, are they interchangeable?

anenefan · 2 days ago

In Australia the two terms are certainly not interchangeable.

However such articles and general media reporting in Australia that use the term gun safety - we'd generally take to mean they are talking about gun control including the wider ramifications of laws regarding weapons that are either restricted or prohibited.

The term safety has IMO gained popular usage most likely due to the fact that many people in cities where much of Australia's population resides (where reasons like self defence is viewed as not a genuine reason for a gun licence) - thus they don't (no longer) have guns, there exists a strong view where less guns is seen as safer in the way that if there were 95% less cars in a city there would be less car accidents and thus better car safety.

In cities or large towns there's limited reasons to justify a gun licence with exceptions such as if they belong to a sporting gun club or a recreational shooter visiting rural hunting areas occasionally on their time off.

anenefan commented on Australia once the gold standard for gun safety: Experts say it's losing control theguardian.com/australia... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

LilBytes · 2 days ago

Unfortunately I find this article to be true.

Only just today two policemen were killed, and a third injured in the rural Victorian high country.

There's been a huge spike in cookers/sovereign citizens using violence through firearms.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/victoria-police-incid...

This happened in Wieambilla Queensland in 2022. This story made international news. The policemen and women were executed. Similar story, police perform a welfare check, are shot on sight.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieambilla_shootings

The assumed suspects from todays shooting are well known to the local community, for all the wrong reasons. Notorious 'sovereign citizens'. More information in the Reddit post below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1n09tef/victoria...

anenefan · 2 days ago

It's most unfortunate and sad when shootings happen esp where fatalities are involved.

However it all depends on how situations are handled. Sending unsuspecting police to do a welfare check - for instance when another state's police had already sensitised / inflamed someone who wanted to be left alone ... nutters need to be handled with care and / or special tactics used to subdue.

anenefan commented on Australia once the gold standard for gun safety: Experts say it's losing control theguardian.com/australia... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

anenefan · 2 days ago

This article does not reflect the situation accurately.

Australia's over the top knee jerk action in the 90s is not a gold standard for gun control.

Almost immediately a black market in gun trade started up via importation (or worse theft) - thus since modern hand guns were not very common amongst the criminal elements up my was (North Qld - Australia) - they soon were - also since not a great proportion of the population sought to get a gun licence, there was a shift to where the criminal element though having an illegal gun (pistol) would give them an upper hand - this IMO soon changed though after a few years, since having such when they were finally busted by the police was probably going to be jumped on harder than any other petty crime they might have endeavoured in.

What mattered most was giving the police the power to remove guns from and prosecute repeat mishandling tools. Scarring the wannabe crime lord / drug king / big time tough guy for what happened in the courts to the few unfortunate examples who mishandled a gun in public. Locking up any loose guns (this is somewhat painful if one needs quick access to a gun but ... it means to stop angry drunks and malignant narcissists having a temper tantrum doing something impulsive.) Controlling the sale of ammunition so that the criminal element has difficulty using any guns they do happen to have.

I miss the weekend gun culture that used to exist in my locale - but it's a different world now - short on common sense.

anenefan commented on Cochrane library, global source of indep. health evidence: NZ restricting access theconversation.com/the-c... · Posted by u/mdp2021

anenefan · 5 days ago

Hmmm I would presume someone connected to the article has shares in Cochrane which owns the library. NZ govt is still sponsoring heath professions for their free full access, it's just no longer paying for the public within NZ to have that free access.

Perhaps it might be better for whomever connected to the article to appeal to Cochrane for a discount rate for the mere public since the public probably by and large would not profit or really land anything significant that once good search engines would have delivered delivered results for sites with the same or near same information in a jiffy.

anenefan commented on Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6? righto.com/2025/08/Cr2Ge2... · Posted by u/rbanffy

A_D_E_P_T · 9 days ago

Happens a lot. Cr2Gr2Te6 is a particularly egregious example, but whenever a claim is made in a textbook or well-cited journal article, that claim is going to be repeated.

I've got a funny example. It's said that "Ytterbium (Yb) is sometimes alloyed with stainless steel to improve its mechanical properties, such as strength and durability." This claim has been repeated 1000 times. It's one of the best known "properties" of Yb. But there is no factual basis for it -- there are no commercial grades of stainless steel that incorporate Yb, there's no published research on Yb as an alloying constituent in stainless steel, and as far as I can tell it started as a throwaway line in a textbook that was probably just a mistake or misunderstanding...

anenefan · 9 days ago

Typos happen, parrots copy.

As for Ytterbium - since there doesn't seem to be any stainless steel (SS) alloy for sale or even described / designated a code, it was possibly a one off project. Wikipedia [1] refers to it as a dopant when used in stainless steel alloys - but I think manufactures would still want to know if the SS metal they purchased was treated as such. But there's a lot of secret sauce BS in the manufacturing world.

Some things though are just in error. I used to late teens, refer to and spent much time reading an old but rather technical late 50s or 60s inorganic chemistry book - one of the things that stuck with me was where it mentioned Titanium would decompose boiling water into hydrogen and oxygen ... when I finally got my hands on some pure Titanium I found out it wasn't going to do that like I expected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterbium

anenefan commented on Israeli Forces Allegedly Bulldoze Palestinian Seed Bank e360.yale.edu/digest/hebr... · Posted by u/YaleE360

anenefan · 9 days ago

I really worry about the declining mindset in regard to views on farming and the science behind protecting it. Earlier this year it was some so called geniuses who thought agriculture wasn't that important and for short term gains sought to starve funds from the scientific community protecting / preserving older crop varieties. [1]

But I guess the destruction in this article is just bloody mindedness deserving of the Nobel prize in the Sharpened Mango category.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/seed-r...

anenefan commented on Aussie ISP iiNet confirms data breach impacting more than 200k customers cyberdaily.au/security/12... · Posted by u/King-Aaron

anenefan · 9 days ago

Imagine my surprise when I found out a short while ago and not via an email from them. Since I still use an iinet email for my formal email using my full name ... it's going to suck.

They no longer manage their email service passing it on to another company ... but old costumers are unfortunately affected. [1]

[1] https://help.iinet.net.au/information-on-cyber-incident

I’m no longer an iiNet customer. Why was my information compromised?

The incident involved a system that contained historical customer records. While you may not be an iiNet customer anymore, some of your information remained stored due to legal, regulatory, or operational requirements.

anenefan commented on Ask HN: How do get cached version of websites – other than wayback machine? · Posted by u/orsenthil

anenefan · 9 days ago

If the site is still active, you can archive it yourself using tools like wget if the blog is still plays friendly with old school tools.

Edit to add, if you need to find pages that have been removed, thus the only place might been once cached within the likes of google - about the only place left is asking the admin or author(s) of the blog.

anenefan commented on A fraudulent cancer breakthrough investigated bostonglobe.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/abawany

anenefan · 10 days ago

https://archive.md/47xqm#selection-1419.14-1419.23

anenefan commented on Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking gizmodo.com/scientists-id... · Posted by u/amichail

mouse_ · 12 days ago

...Sunk cost?

anenefan · 11 days ago

Sunk cost - in regard to time spent, but perhaps task completion syndrome would better describe what they're observing. This syndrome has led to accidents where people have set a path, planned objectives and despite emerging obstacles keep on going regardless.

This new term they've coined, also seems to, from one example they've listed, is already covered by better the devil you know where the second option is unknown or uncertain. Their list other apparently confirming observations IMO fall into task completion syndrome