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Absolute nonsense.
Unreadable nonsense.
We have to curtail because the cartoonishly evil Ausgrid not only has a demand tarriff but also a charge for exporting in the afternoons, meaning negative feed-in
How good is a graph showing you how much you’re not spending? Which battery do you have?
It’s wild how hard the power companies are working to make us pay a bill instead of storing the energy we put into the grid. I’m fully expecting to have to fit two more batteries over time.
I mean that works on a number of levels
Should people who are Amber Energy customers who talk incessantly about wholesale energy prices be called Amperverts? (yes, I’m talking about myself here)
Elevators are weird because for 30 seconds you’re roommates with strangers in a box pretending walls are the most interesting thing on Earth.
Dead set, Canadians. Just call it a long black.
It’s like Keir Starmer has decided he’s going to make Labour as unelectable as the Tories to see what happens.
Importation of American nonsense. I used to think left turn on red was ok but yeah, people are too silly to be allowed it.
The modern ALP are very very bad at institutional partisan politics. It is in their BEST interests to massively EXPAND open government through FOI and concrete it in, because they govern in a way that more harm will come to the Libs then themselves. Plus it's good www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The ultimate balance
One tries one's best.
Hee hee. And of course decent chunks of the Pacific.
This is woke and you know it
Half of Africa anybody?
Good news, Google fixed it (ran the same query at 1640 AEST). Apparently it's now 2024. Which is great if you're a Democrat, you can try and put up an electable candidate on an electable platform.
Two days earlier someone wiped their car down my son's and left a note. What parallel universe is this?
A very nice Uber driver found my glasses and posted them back to me, what a nice fellow. The lady who bumped our car and left a note sent me the money for the fix and just to make sure, she bought the house around the corner. That's the kind of neighbour you want. Not a bad day all round.
Gone too soon. Closest thing since is a manual E87 130i. Whack a few parts on it and it's a weapon.
Nearly completely stuffed that up by missing the fact that the E30 is forty and not 25 and had missed that only the laptop scale was 25 years for reasons that aren't immediately obvious. For reference, the 25 year old 3er is the still lovely E46.
I mean, yes, but wouldn’t it be more accurate to have a 3 Series of today (yes, a much larger car than the E30) but also I don’t remember owning a laptop that big in 2000.
Police chase transpired over several blocks
Nothing says "transparency in government" like making FoIs harder than they already are to get and running the cabinet confidentiality line, which is is almost as good as the Morrison Doctrine of saying everything is about national security.
My hat doesn’t mind what it is you do. After hours in your time and not negotiating time.
Good things can happen.
Sitting on the train at Martin Place and saying, “The next stop is Woollahra.” Just to imagine the wailing and moaning.
The mind boggles
has anyone actually seen what free-to-air TV broadcasts these days? I would say there is no worse use of taxpayers funds to prop this up, at least not without a significant mechanism to improve the standard of programming.
Double time and a half after hours if I have my “f**k Neo-liberalism” hat on correctly
A man that split a woman's head open yesterday, for asking them to just please leave, walked up to a Woman Premier and threatened them and he is still walking around. A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
I mean, obviously Tony Blair was involved in the Trumpification of Gaza. Like night following day, really.
The ATO is no fun.
Man it’s right on the tin and they don’t even do that. SMDH
The best thing about this is that computers are literally numbers machines and they’ve managed to break even that simple idea.
If you comment, “fun fact about these guys is that they are allegedly in trouble with the ATO” then it’s not a fun fact anymore, it’s an allegation. D’you see how this works?
What were they arguing about
same thing happened at the 2022 election where anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown groups had a negligible effect. for whatever reason — I'll let you speculate — there are big chunks of mainstream media and politics who elevate extreme anti-migration sentiment as if it is a strongly & widely held view.
I feel like if you insult him first, you win.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Some would say it was too much
Life is short and the hour of our death is a mystery, so no, I will not rate my transaction
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
It's 5 years since the best thing I've ever written and will ever write aired on Mad As Hell
Imagine being so bad that even the age says "bit toooo far"
Once again, I am old enough to remember when anyone stupid enough to publicly declare they’re a Nazi would find themselves under a pile of WWII veterans, war widows and assorted other traumatised folks getting the snot kicked out of them.
For someone who calls herself a people pleaser, very few people are actually pleased with me
So many people who travel hate travelling.
So much more to complain about though
Incredible
watching a random movie on netflix: unpleasant, disappointing watching a random movie on tubi: extraordinary, a blessing
Personally I think it’s vaguely ridiculous for folks to be buzzing around in helicopters for funsies , but you see what I mean.
Old mate says he’s making flying affordable for the common man again with this admittedly quite lovely little helicopter. The price? Roughly $2m before taxes and options. Okay mate. I think we’re safe from general aviation suddenly becoming affordable again.
Amusingly, YouTube offered me a video about a new helicopter. In the video, the CEO of said helicopter company waxed on about the decline of general aviation and how when some Cessna came out, it was only 1.2 times the average wage and was therefore affordable. Nowadays, blah blah, skip to the end
Worse, got peddled some awful FB group.
Four and a bit. That’s a crap ton of money for *slightly* more legroom and two-by-two seating. And slightly better food.
In “people for whom I can’t feel an ounce of empathy” news, someone got swindled into paying $5800 for a business class seat on a 737 between Perth and Melbourne and they complained it wasn’t very good. Yes. That’s right. Domestic business on a 737 isn’t very good.
every time i see the words "back to school" a small part of my brain worries it's for me, that i have to go back to school for some reason
Says a lot about the ratio of pudding to brain in my head
Meanwhile in the White House medical centre, RFK has turned up with some advice. https://youtu.be/guhWasuWt-M?si=0TbOBLw4X7c03zOK (Edited 4:28 pm via @skeetsapp.com)
If you're disgusted by Trumps attempts to establish foreign gulags and forced deportations, you should be disgusted at this too. Australia has been pioneering these assaults on human rights and decency for decades. We are the model for the authoritarian far right.
Superb.
has anyone checked the roof
*sigh* waist-deep in floodwater
When I was on the ABC the other day a bloke called in to say he prefers being waist-deep in ankle water to parenting.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
It was quite a thing. I distinctly remember the heat that came off it when they fired one down the main straight at Albert Park. I vaguely remember one over Sydney Harbour, probably NYE.
I say that for two reasons - they used to do the four jets, then dropped steadily to one. Having said that, you’ve surprised me as to how late that last one was. I’d have said 1999 or something 😀
Hence my over 40 remark. Rare suggests it rarely happened. It was a routine thing in the 80s and 90s. The only reason a photo *might* be rare is because they’re all pre-digital
Perfection
Just change the flags to the southern cross Eureka format and it’s perfect.
I’d join in
Love that for them. GenAI is good for something at least.
Related: putting a DTM spec wing on a car with stock 15-inch alloys makes that lovely looking sedan ugly and completely out of proportion.
You can tell I’m bored. “Stolen car alert” followed by pics of a tastelessly modified BMW E36 3 Series. You really want that back, pal? You’re really telling on yourself here.
Repurposed to hold shells.
That’s how 78-series come from the factory, yeah?
Bad batch of avgas
Yeeeeesss. And a bunch of racist stickers and along with a gun-toting My Family series.
He’s probably got detachable one for the windscreen with a handy Chinese-made dash cam added for better vision.
Caption on a photo on FB: “A rare photo of four RAAF F1-11s dumping and burning.” It’s not rare mate. Seriously. Everyone over 40 who has been to a major sporting or, at least major motorsport event, has seen this.
His image is certainly appropriated by clowns of the cooker nature.
And one of them is now loudly slurping a new-fangled drink called a “mocha”
Can’t stop thinking that Ned Kelly was the ur-cooker.
Stopped to get a tyre fixed and two blokes insisted on choosing the two empty seats next to me to discuss rugby league as though it was life or death.
We were separated at birth.
'navigating minor cultural differences in the workplace' me going from NRL country to AFL country in 2009
If the way they thought prayer worked he’d be dead
"I see you're an interface now, Father."
The Bible. There are several references on what is prayer. Again, you don’t have to be a believer to understand how prayer is explained in both testaments
Yep. Horrific behaviour.
No, I meant if you regard the text as literature, there’s still narrative purpose and exposition. Prayer is not portrayed as universal ordering “in-universe” if you will.
Whether you believe or not is immaterial because a cursory understanding of the text demonstrates what prayer is and isn’t.
The doctrine of prayer is not the universal ordering some people think or perceive it to be. The US evangelical right commends a heretical prayer doctrine in that it’s a. wrong and b. used to avoid the necessary action behind the request
Did a lot when I went to Wollongong uni. Without the last bit. Not the same without a V-set
Very grim.
*twitch*
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