Barnaby Joyce??!?!?!?!??!??

Writers give publishers legitimacy. Publishers will regularly pull the writers out to trot out some “copyright is important” line.

Modern day book burning. Done by the writers this time.

Yeah I can’t remember where I read that but it’s definitely a possibility IIRC.

Pumped hydro is not exactly a dam. There’s a hole and 2 water reservoirs. Yes there’s a cost but so does anything.

You also can’t just turn nuclear on or off. You’d need to also get rid of existing solar. Ie: get people to disconnect rooftop solar to make nuclear work.

sad facts :(

Honest fact: It’s dear, but firstly, AUKUS is more expensive, and secondly, when it’s storing energy we’re going to forget the amount we spent and really enjoy the amount we’re saving.

I wonder how they deal with flash storage degradation.

EDIT: Apparently the Switch uses something called XtraROM. See This for more info.

Wow there isn’t even a punch line, Andrew Marlton just skewers those involved. I think this was a criticism of the NACC when it was founded. Albo basically neutered it till it was useless.

EDIT: For some excellent coverage of Robodebt, see https://www.youtube.com/@KnightsInShiningLlama/videos

Toll roads aren’t bad, it’s all in the details. The problem is that the government is often “captured” and therefore has no incentive to have a fair contract, so they’ll add clauses like

• If the company loses money because the government does something, the government will pay them. This often prevents the government from reducing or removing the toll road / other privately owned resource.
• The government can’t “compete” with the toll road, either with another road or (sometimes) through public transport.
• The government will often, as a form of pork-barrelling, offer people reimbursements for the toll road usage, thereby funneling tax payer money into the private company.
• Toll roads are tax deductible.

Ideally, toll roads encourage people to take the train.

TIL on this one. Thanks dude.

I dunno man, you said you wanted to find parking but we passed like 10 parking spots because you wanted to park closer to the shops and now you can’t find any… Feels like you just don’t want to park.

One thing which is irritating is just how ingrained Bunnings has becomes into our culture. Many people just go to Bunnings just for browsing. Unfortunately, they will also suck the air out of the room and basically force you to go to them. I have had to go to bunnings on occasion and have spent well more than I wanted to there.

If you live in the areas it’s extremely clear this is satire.

Happy Apr 1.

So an argument was to have the people who burned all the oil initially sink it, and they’re not doing that.

And the President of Guyana also basically said the same “you don’t pay us for the forests we maintain”. So yeah, maybe it’s time to actually pay them like the countries are meant to rather than dishing out 0.00001% of the goal spending on this.

The Franzen quote for the Solarpunks:

“If you’re younger than 60, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilisation of life on Earth – massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, imploding economies, epic flooding, hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing regions made uninhabitable by extreme heat or permanent drought. If you’re under 30, you’re all but guaranteed to witness it.

You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope today.”

non-commercial file sharing is not piracy, the industry just re-defined it because they don’t want anyone to share stuff.

To maybe make my point clear: The Greens didn’t “concede”, and neither did JLN. Labor appears to be stating (although the auto-summary below seems to throw some grey area in here) that they’re just not interested in a minority government, and I just don’t think that’s what the voters wanted them to do here.