I love the top gear reference, but surely May would have been the obvious choice, Hammond is just asking for a crash!

I agree with the division you propose, but I don’t think we’ve got the traffic here yet.
It was a happy day for me when I could stop posting news articles in /r/AusGuns, but it was when we reached like 1500 subs and there was about a dozen random posts a day occurring.

This whole episode is giving me flashbacks to the ActiveX days.

The tyranny of the default.

“Here mum, I’ve installed Firefox for you, it’s better than Chrome in every way!”
“My knitting circle website doesn’t work, I can’t download patterns, it says I need Chrome”

Internet Explorer was effectively abandon-ware for a decade after Microsoft used their OS pseudo-monopoly to crush Netscape.
It took another tech giant abusing THEIR monopoly to relegate IE to the trash heap it should have already been on.

Comforting and Terrifying.
Comferrifying?
Terriforting?

So you won’t use your banks website?
Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
You won’t let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.

They claim to still have 70 locations.

https://wendysmilkbar.com/

Since posting the link, I’m concerned it may not be.

I could cross post obviously political stuff there.
My intention is to concentrate on putting content here to build up it’s community, before splitting out into niches.

Hence why I’m g[l]ad my motorbike doesn’t count.
I guess I left my meaning too open to interpretation.

There’s some nuance missed here.

The “observation program” mentioned here, was a $1.2 billion program that was announced in the last days of the previous government.
There were no contracts, no tenders, just a vague proposal with a nebulous tax funded dollar figure attached.
The sector as a whole was using that announcement to entice investors in their own startups.
Now that it has been axed, the startups are struggling to gather further financing in what looks like a shaky industry.

I’m gad that my motorbike doesn’t count.
If I’m doing the maths right, 101 kW @ 259kg ~= 390 kW/tonne

I’m not a big fan of anyone other than the author having default rights to change anything.
But as the OP, you could copy the bots tldr up there.

And deregulate everything, and reduce funding to schools and hospitals…

Same shit.

Indeed.

Labor is just a little right.
Our other major party, who are far more to the right call themselves the “Liberals”.
When a new minor party started calling themselves the “Liberal Democrats” (espousing Libertarian values), the Liberals complained to the Australian Electoral Commission (who are in charge of running elections) that the Liberal Democrats were deliberately trying to cause brand confusion, they were promptly told that the Liberal Democrats name was far closer to the actual meaning of the words.
It’s all a bit of a farse.

To paraphrase the Joker, this isn’t about justice, it’s about sending a message.

If Julian was Chinese or Russian, acting in the same way on behalf of his country, the US would be doing nothing right now.
But because he’s a citizen of an ally (vassal), he’s going to be hounded forever, anywhere, until the US shows just how tough they are on “traitors”.

America: We fight in your wars. We spy on your citizens for you. We bought your bloody submarines. Can we have our problematic fuckwit back now?

Once upon a time it would have simply been a Telstra line item, subsidized by city users.

I remember having to do the maths once upon a time, and decide that I didn’t want a shift in my part time job, even though I could use the money, because it would effect my payments.
I had to reach an agreement with my employer where they promised to offer me at least X hours a fortnight (I can’t remember what it was, and there was no guarantee, just a verbal promise), because there was a point at which I was not only losing the centrelink payment, but I’d lose the rent assistance, and health care card and all the other things, necessitating my reapplying for everything.
To someone on that knife edge of paying rent and eating, with electricity for heating… That was a bit too dangerous to play with.

I’m a big fan of both raising the payment floor and the cutoff ceiling.
People claiming benefits shouldn’t be going hungry if they can’t find work AND we want to not discourage people who are currently claiming benefits from getting work.
Whether that be through simply raising the ceiling at which point the benefits are reduced, or perhaps having some sort of “earnings bank” where earning too much in a single fortnight doesn’t effect your payments until it happens several fortnights in a row, or some other clever mechanism.

Because burning it (mostly methane) creates/releases greenhouse emissions such as CO2 and N2O.

This is a very specific and nasty example of a trend I’ve witnessed becoming common on a whole bunch of issues: climate, health, economy, pedophilia, etc etc.

Useful idiots online are spreading “I’m just asking questions” garbage about “pizza gate” and the “covid hoax” and the “climate hoax” etc etc, and anyone who has to deal with this just gets beaten down and withdraws their participation.

I don’t even know who the hell could possibly benefit from damaging the BOM/CSIRO, without some multi-party and honestly contradictory conspiracy of china + russia + resource companies.