The irony of an American lecturing another country on finding an alternative to shooting.
Yeah, I don't reckon I need to listen to a 4 hour podcast for the answer.
I would also like to die on this hill.
Lemmings is dumb. Lamingtons is rad.
Between this and the proposed internet filter, Labor clearly don't want any more election victories.
Later, the name hashtags, in American English this symbol #οΈβ£ was
alwaysbest known as the pound key. It was also known as an Octothorpe.
The first time I learned of its American naming was the classic "pound quake 3 arena" audio clip from the #quake3arena IRC channel.
"Uhhhhhh pound quake 3 arena"
".... What the hell was that?"
It's not the first sperm that fertilises an egg... The first who make it put in all the effort breaching the wall and dying of exhaustion before some lazy piece of shit sperm towards the end just waltzes through the hole and does the needful.
Explains a lot tbh
... And my axe!
Edit: I said the funny line, updoots to the just please
How do I opt in for the ball fondling?
Anything GM associates with is generally shit, so this is less exciting than Hyundai going it alone tbh.
I wish the government would be more proactive in encouraging local manufacturing.
You know a great way to ensure a product is free from modern slavery? Produce it locally where nothing is obscured.
I'm actually surprised the robot mowers dont just bump off them to be honest, my Husqvarna 450X is barely an inch off the ground and just bumps in to anything higher than that then spins around and goes in another direction
I prefer to argue on the internet via my phone, which I can type pretty fast on thanks to the swipe to type
I'm the opposite... I rarely reply when I'm on my phone because swiping and tapping away at the touchscreen keyboard is so slow and inaccurate. I spend more time correcting swypos than I do writing I think.
Meanwhile on the desktop I can punch out a shining example of wit (or at least a spoonerism of that) at 100+ wpm at 100% accuracy.
Sent from my phone, slowly.
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I got lucky, don't get many that quick
Pretty much never. Direct family only really.
Talking is for IRL, or actually urgent things. Everything else is a message or email.
Don't ring me to discuss an email.
It's a black rectangle!
*gasps of admiration*
After reading the site, I'm still not entirely sure how to use it.
Is there a decent demo site somewhere? The examples they show are very simplistic
Whenever I see Lemmy without being logged in, it's a wall of German and all I can think of is "ach, du lieber... das ist not eine booby!"
Driving, gymnastics, break dancing (ESPECIALLY break dancing)... Anything that can't be timed or measured or otherwise objectively decided should be removed from competition.
How do you quantify "style"? How do you ensure there is not biase from judges based on their knowledge of the competitor, be it country they are representing, or personal connections, or racial / religious opinion? How do you fairly compensate for what your personal opinion considers "worth" more when it comes to a trick or routine compared to another?
Swimming, running, jumping, throwing things a distance are all things that can be measured and ruled against a standard that every competitor uses. It's fair and it's removed from any bias.
The Olympics are supposed to be about competition between athletes and shouldn't be affected by popularity or politics, which anything with an interpretive aspect to the result will suffer from.
So yeah, remove the feels sports and limit the Olympics to reals sports.
New cars sold by MG in Australia are now covered by 10 years or 250,000km of warranty coverage.
10 years / 250,000k just announced by MG in Australia - including electric vehicles (and thus batteries)... Not bad considering the anti-EV crowd are always declaring battery packs to have a 3 year lifespan!
> MG has introduced the longest factory warranty ever offered by a new-car maker in Australia β 10 years or 250,000km, whichever comes first β five years after rolling out seven years of coverage across its line-up.
> And unlike Mitsubishi β which in October 2020 became the first brand to market a 10-year warranty, but with only a 200,000km distance limit β there is no mention of a requirement for customers to have their car serviced within the MG dealer network to access the full decade of coverage.
> While MGβs new 10-year warranty is longer in time β compared to its previous seven-year offer β it now has a distance cap of 250,000km, rather than unlimited.
> In effect from today (1 August 2024) for all newly-registered petrol, hybrid and electric MG models, the new warranty applies to vehicles not deemed to be "commercial use" β such as Ubers, taxis, food delivery couriers and driving schools.
Gambling inducements are banned in many countries and a parliamentary committee has recommended Australia follow suit, but more than a year later nothing has happened.
> Callum feels the familiar vibration of his mobile phone. Another text from Sportsbet.
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> Callum hasn't placed a wager for more than a year. Sportsbet is still trying to lure him back into action with an almost daily stream of text messages.
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I actually had the opposite experience to the complains in this article..
I'm not really a gambler, but I did fire up SportsBet for my first ever bet in my life during State of Origin. I put in $50 and lost $10 on Queensland. Then I found the horse bit and selected some random horses and apparently I'd won $100 so I took out my original $50, then threw away the rest on random horses and greyhounds, and Queensland at State of Origin again.
Outcome? Zero dollars lost, and a couple of games worth of funsies thinking I was going to become a tenionaire with my 1.xx odds win.
Sportsbet sent me one SMS, and I replied STOP.
Sportsbet sent me one email, and I hit unsubscribe.
I haven't received any communication since - no sms, no email, no push notifications, no anything.
Not sure I'm fully on board with people claiming its all SportsBets fault they're gambling and being preyed upon IN THIS SPECIFIC WAY.
I do say their constant spam during any sports match of any kind on free to air television is an absolute disgrace though.
What a pair of clowns (ALP and LNP)...
Also I really hate TikTok.
> There are currently no rules at either the state or federal level to stop political parties and candidates from using AI-generated material in election campaigns.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-22/qld-premier-slams-opposition-for-ai-generated-tiktok/104126936
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/labor-questioned-over-ai-generated-tiktok-of-peter-dutton/104131228
Laws to phase out Australia's live sheep export trade by 2028 pass parliament, despite last-ditch attempts by opponents to put the brakes on the legislation.
> In short: > * Live sheep exports by sea will be phased out over the next four years, after laws banning the trade passed parliament on Monday. > * Earlier in the day, opponents met with the prime minister to request a Senate inquiry into the legislation.
> What's next? > * WA Premier Roger Cook says he will continue to negotiate for additional support for farmers affected by the laws.
Sky News and other similar conservative whinge rags are already posting the anti-Labor and anti-Greens headline as a response.
Personally I think its great news. Keep the value add in Australia (processing), and remove the cruelty of long ship travel followed by questionable processing practices in other countries.
Olivia went on Australia's biggest show to find love, but lost almost everything. She says she got a "villain edit" β so do they exist?
tl;dr - fuck "reality" tv
> In the reality TV production process, after the casting of villains and the baiting for villainous behaviour, comes the editing.
> It's in the post-production suite that a villain edit can truly come to life.
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> The editor says there are a few techniques to achieve these characterisations. The simplest one is being selective in what gets included.
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> The second technique editors use is amplification β finding a moment amongst what the editor calls the "boring crap" that can be boosted into a storyline.
> In the show, it's spun as a major conflict.
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> And then, the drama is further enhanced with a technique called "frankenbiting".
> Like Frankenstein creating his monster, editors will mix together unrelated elements from the footage to make their own beast.
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> When the show finally goes to air, the final phase of a villain edit begins: controlling the narrative.
> Now, program makers try to ensure that no narratives that contradict the edit make it into the media.
> "They would remind me in a very threatening way before every single media interview that I had signed a [non-disclosure agreement]," Olivia says.
This becomes a problem for Olivia, because when the show goes to air, the backlash is swift.
Cheaper electricity, less emissions and ready by 2035 are some of the Coalitionβs core promises on nuclear energy, but are they backed by evidence?
> Cheaper electricity, less emissions and ready by 2035 are some of the Coalitionβs core promises on nuclear energy, but are they backed by evidence?
tl;dr - no
Broader adoption of keeping cats safe at home would have large benefits for cat welfare, human health, local wildlife and even the economy. So, should cat owners be required to keep their pets contained to their property?
> Broader adoption of keeping cats safe at home would have large benefits for cat welfare, human health, local wildlife and even the economy. So, should cat owners be required to keep their pets contained to their property?
The answer to the question is obviously "yes".
I've had YouTube Music since it was Google Music, but the price has recently doubled and at the same time I've started noticing my "Radio" keeps playing the same dozen songs over and over again. Started to feel like I was listening to Triple M.
Yesterday was the final straw as every song played on repeat until you manually skipped which is just... wtf? How does that even happen?
I have jumped on to Spotify for the minute, but find it is too heavily focused on "pop" music - it seems to choose songs that are broadly more popular, but aren't really the same as what I'm choosing to play. I somehow always end up back with top 50 chart artists in the queue, even if I started on like bluegrass or hillbilly or something. Also if I select a song or artist and choose "Radio", it always the same 50 songs and then just stops which doesn't seem like what "Radio" should be at all.
What other options are there that are accessible from Australia, and preferably have a decent amount of Australian local content? I have zero interests in podcasts being jammed in, I just want music. And preferably music that I can just say "play stuff that sounds like this" and it'll go on a deep dive to focus on things I haven't heard before.
Critical:
- No ads
- Able to actually choose the music and skip and what not, so not Sirius or similar
- Good catalogue of Australian artists
- Android and Desktop clients
- "Family" plan or similar for 2 people
Budget not really an issue.
Qantas is investigating reports of customers having access to other passengers' information on their app.
> Qantas is investigating reports of customers having access to other passengers' information on their app.
> In a statement issued this morning, the airline said it would provide more information as soon as possible.
> "Qantas is investigating reports of an issue impacting the Qantas app this morning," a spokesperson for their airline said.
> The scale of the issue has not yet been confirmed.
Luckily I can't afford to travel anywhere so this won't affect me, but probably will others.
Telcos will be forced to share real-time network information during outages and set up a body to take charge of Australia's triple-0 system, in the wake of last year's Optus outage.
> The report found a key cause of the outage was a problem with Optus's 3G network.
> During the outage, Optus's 4G and 5G towers shut down, meaning emergency calls were diverted to other network's towers β known as camping on.
> But the network's 3G base towers did not shut down, so those calls got lost along the way.
> "Some devices β¦ attempted to make emergency calls via those [3G] towers (rather than look to camp on to another network), even though no mobile service was being supplied by the Optus network," the report said.
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> The recommendations include:
> * Obligate telcos to shut down their towers during outages, allowing triple-0 calls to be carried by other networks > * Establish a "Triple Zero custodian" whose sole responsible is to make sure the system is working > * Force telcos to share real-time information about outages with emergency services organisations and authorities > * Force telcos to file a timely post-mortem on major outages to the regulator and the government β including what caused it and steps being taken to resolve it, with a clear and detailed timeline > * Review the government's contract with Telstra to run the triple-0 system, with any changes to be made within a year > * Introduce an industry-wide approach to responding to consumers affected by large-scale outages > * Establish an agreement between telcos requiring them to help each to manage and resolve outages > * Review all legislation and regulation relating to triple-0
To understand why 30-somethings feel like they're struggling financially, the ABC analysed five factors β housing, healthcare, debt, tax, and income. The data reveals this generation is caught in an economic perfect storm.
Feels bad man
A man in his 50s has been taken to Liverpool Hospital with stab wounds and three others are being treated at the scene, NSW Ambulance says.
> A man is in custody after at least four people were injured in an alleged stabbing incident at a church in Sydney's south-west on Monday night.
Molly the magpie, whose viral fame led to his rescuers signing a book deal, will be reunited with his best friend, Peggy the staffy β but conditions apply.
> In short? Authorities say Molly the magpie will be returned to its original carers on the condition they make no commercial gain from the bird.
> The couple, who have had the bird for four years, run a popular Instagram account and have signed a book deal.
> What's next? The environment department will work with the couple to ensure the magpie is properly cared for.
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> The department said in a statement that independent expert veterinary advice had shown that Molly was highly habituated and may have developmental issues, meaning he can never be rehabilitated or returned to the wild.
Good news they've put the condition on in this particular instance, but you can guarantee other Instatockers who want their five minutes of fame will be out there collecting whatever they can get their selfish mitts on to try and be the next big thing.
Polestar follows Tesla out the door of Australiaβs main car lobby, saying its campaign against vehicle emission standards cannot be supported.
> Tesla announced it had quit the FCAI on Thursday and Polestar followed it up on Friday, saying the FCAI campaign β driven largely by Japanese car makers led by Toyota β is intolerable.
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> Tesla and now Polestarβs announcement that they intend to leave the FCAI adds to mounting pressure on CEO Tony Webber who last month came under fire for threatening to run a 2010 anti mining tax style fear campaign against the governmentβs New Vehicle Efficiency Standard.
> The fossil car lobby group CEO claimed that the NVES would cost the entire car-buying public $38 billion in the first five years, which led to the AFR running a story titled βLaborβs new EV-boosting rules will cost $38b, auto group saysβ followed by Coalition leader Peter Dutton and Nationals Senator Matt Canavan parroting claims that the NVES would see the price of popular vehicles increase by up to $25,000. Claims that have been widely rejected including by the Electric Vehicle Council.
Queensland's real estate lobby says people are too afraid to point out that unions are driving up the cost of housing, but an economist says that while wage growth is a contributing factor, so too are growingΒ material costs, labour shortages and excessive government regulations.
> In short: The Real Estate Institute of Queensland says high-paying government projects are pushing up the cost of construction.
>An economist says growing wages are a contributing factor, but growing material costs, labour shortages, and excessive government regulations are in the way of development.
> What's next?: The government has vowed to build 55,000 social houses by the year 2046.
Crazy how the wealthiest people in society are all those over paid tradies
I bought a torch that has a 365nm UV light, which I believe is UV-A?
When doing a poke around my house to see what I could see with UV, I noticed that my freshwater fish tanks looked "cloudy" / "milky" under UV, yet they are crystal clear under normal light.
I checked tap water and bottled water with the same torch and they do not react and look perfectly clear under both UV and normal light
I also have an auto top off for one of the tanks which is full of ~50L of a mix of RO water and tap water treated with dechlorinator and this also does not react.
I have 3 tanks inside of various volumes (700L, 150L, 20L) and various stocking levels which all show the water as a pale flourescent green colour under UV. The colour is uniform and completely spread out through the water volume, not concentrated on any area or in layers or whatever.
The currently empty 20L tank reacted the least, leading me to believe that it may be some sort of organic material that is causing the UV light to react so much?
Optus reveals more than 2,500 people tried and failed to call triple-0 from their mobiles during last November's network outage, after previously telling a Senate inquiry just 228 people were affected.
> * In short: Optus says close to 2,700 customers tried and failed to call emergency services from their mobile phones during the November 2023 network outage. > * This number is more than 10 times higher than what the telco previously told the Senate. > * Whatβs next? Optus says it is writing to each customer individually to apologise, and the federal government is conducting a post-incident review.
Some real estate dickhead just rang my mobile (which is not advertised anywhere) saying they were "just in the area" and wanted to do an appraisal on a house we own in <suburb name>.
It's an agency we don't use for any purpose, have never used for any purpose, and have never approached for any reason.
Is there some sort of legal issue with some smarmy sales knob looking up property owner details and cold calling them?
Makes me feel all gross that their grubby mitts are pawing through my deets somewhere in the hope of being able to stick a tongue up my bum and get a taste of some back door cash.
The Queensland premier says supermarkets have agreed to share "information and analysis on prices" to provide more transparency on soaring grocery prices and alleged price-gouging.
I'm sure this will go nowhere, but it would be nice if it did. It would surely flow on to other states given right?
I worked at Franklins way back in the day and their profit margins ran at about 5%. It would be interesting to know if the profit margin has increased significantly or not.
This is probably the most important part, IMO:
> Queensland Fruit and Vegetable Growers association chief executive Rachel Chambers said farmers fear retribution if they make a complaint to supermarkets.
> "Growers don't trust the system that is in place that they can escalate these behaviours to," Ms Chambers said.
> "They are fearful of commercial retribution, which is their entire business, their life and livelihood, so the process is broken."
