Even basic recycling of things like plastics is not done well.

Government using contractors as part of the system is fine, but not having a system at all seems to be the problem. Government should at the very least be setting up effective frameworks for management, recycling and disposal of all types of waste. Instead they set up a few guidelines and leave it to “market forces” and wonder why we end up with dodgy systems geared towards profit for company owners at the expense of the health and safety of the general public and the workers involved in the industry.

In the past decade or so in Victoria alone there have been: warehouses full of soft plastic being stockpiled, warehouses full of contaminated “mixed recycling” being stockpiled, warehouses full of toxic chemicals stockpiled and being stored incorrectly, a massive property being used as an illegal dump for huge volumes of toxic waste being secretly buried, an old landfill site leaking dangerous levels of methane into houses in a nearby housing estate

These are just the ones that were big enough to be in the media that I can remember off the top of my head. This is what “market forces” and weak regulations get us

I have about three possums per square metre where I am. I hear them carousing across the roof nightly, one lives (and raises baby possums) in the blocked off chimney in the bedroom, and I regualrly hear them disputing territory in the back yard. I recently lost a staring competition with a possum sitting on the fence outside my kitchen window. I’ve also had a possum come inside the house on three separate occasions.

I like possums in general, but I’d be very happy to have a few less of them around, I’m completely outnumbered and the garden suffers from their nibbling as well.

Assignment done, with 40 minutes to spare! It actually came together better than I expected, but I found this one to be a bit unclear exactly what they were after so I’m not sure what mark I’ll end up with. If I covered the content they were after I think I’ll have done pretty well, but I might have also missed the mark and focused on the wrong things. Time will tell.

Less than 3 hours to finish my assignment and my brain still wants to procrastinate!

I really need to finish my assignment but I’m sitting here wasting time on my tablet instead. My brain really does not want to focus on this one.

Poor bot suffered death by Lemmy upgrade.

Miss Meow has seen the photo additions and is not impressed. She has requested to look scary with big teeth instead.

I can’t seem to make a post with both an URL and a separate picture. I’m sure I’ve done it before, not sure why I can’t do it now.

Oops, I seem to have overridden the link with the picture. I’ll try to fix the post, but the link is https://appeal.slv.vic.gov.au/

A number of years ago I was able to do a behind the scenes tour of the library including the archive room. They do amazing work, much of which is very detailed, painstaking and time consuming. It would be a terrible pity to have our history decay because of the lack of resources to preserve it.

Miss Meow says it is definitely dinner time right now and is claiming my explanation about changing clocks to be an unfounded conspiracy theory.

My new passport arrived today. Pretty impressive turnaround, I only put the application in on Friday. Definitely a huge improvement on the post-Covid backlog days.

If I want it to time my resting period I just set the timer to run after the main cooking time.

Close resemblance, but definitely not Miss Meow. Based on the positioning of the back legs I believe this particular feline may be a ballerina.

My Facebook feed keeps on showing my AI generated images of kitchens and houses. I end up spending way too much time trying to spot the errors. My favourites so far are electric lights hanging directly from glass roof panels, three faucets with no tap, and cupboards with hinges on both sides of the doors and the handle in the middle.

Google corporate cars. You should be able to get a quote or they often have fixed price for airport pickups. Last time I did that it was actually cheaper than a taxi, but it’s been a while.

Edit: oh, re-read and realised you are just after a hat. 🤣 I can’t help there. Unless you want to set up an elaborate scheme luring out a car to a remote location to steal their hat, but that seems to be be going a bit too far.

Just had my first porrdige of the season. yummy

I don’t wanna go to bed. Going to bed takes me one step closer to the whole process which ends with getting up and going to work tomorrow morning. Don’t wanna.

Miss Meow is having a nap after a trying day supervising my study.

Mine don’t actually look too bad. The lighting did highlight a few skin imperfections I’d rather pretend didn’t exist, but overall I look a lot less like a dodgy drug mule than in my last passport photo. It does look a bit odd to me though because I had to take my glasses off for the photo and I pretty much never do that in real life.