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Recreational nihilism serves no political purpose.

Australia used to build institutions to stay ahead of powerful industrial and economic forces both domestic and global like it was a casual Tuesday. Today, we shit the bed about how much *extra* government subsidises private health insurance for pensioners who don't use it.

It doesn't matter as a newsish article if voters aren't buying it - the Iran war of choice is responsible for about three quarters of our inflation above the RBA band directly. The question people should ask is why parts of the public aren't buyng the *overwhelming reality in front of their eyes*?

Am I going mad, or did Russia just blink because of the US midterms?

<Old man shouting at clouds> Our local pool never had lifeguards (town population 3500). It was also compulsory for kids to both learn to swim and be encouraged to engage in and understand the level of still water rescue you could safely do (throw them a float through to proper rescue and CPR).

Bluesky has four kinds of users

The UK "national resilience conversation" this week. The ASD warned of online system attacks here today. These are all the same thing. Last month, a rare Five Eyes joint statement - a group not renowned for their public relations enthusiasm released this www.cyber.gov.au/blog/five-ey...

Ternus becoming Apples CEO didn't follow the usual new CEO path. No new product explosion on a festival of carefully constructed PR. Instead - cost cutting, reorganisation. Like he's trying to expand their mountain of cash. Smells like second mouse that gets the cheese on AI when it crunches areas

The world needs to ban share classes. One share, one vote - no special share classes where those shares get to vote and the other's don't. Imagine the shitty mofo's and the economic and social damage it would have stopped.

You can't stuff the shit back in the donkey, and the faster you all realise it, the better our collective response can be.

Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns

The only thing missing from that Oz game against Fiji was Alfie Langer running onto the field with his magic sponge, water bottle and a Zimmer frame for some of the players. Australia has a roster of the most amazing young athletes you've ever seen - and we're stuck doing historical reenactments

Tommy blew a turbo, like all overrated and over hyped small blocks a few years past their best before date. (Selectors shouldn't put professional athletes through this - it is bad selection management, and nothing to do with the athletes involved). So saying, go Fiji!

The defence found a crack in Tedesco, which is not the usual way those words are ordered 🤣

You cannot tell me that the Jillaroos are not a more well disciplined, thinking, talent emancipating team than the Kangaroos. The men need to hire the women's side for some coaching (yeah yeah I appreciate the relative competition strength etc)

There's a guitar joke here about drive and hype between a Klon Centaur and an Elon Centaur, but I've had lunch with friends and am in no condition to crack it.

The funnest band I was ever in had a lead singer who owned a late 70's V8 Dodge Tradesman van (RHD converted by her mad dad mechanic). It could fit our 5 piece band + soundguy, 3 4x12 cabinets, 5 guitars, drums, full outdoor PA and mixing desk in it (looked like this but metallic black)

Just a quick reminder - the price of a barrel of oil today is pretty close to an economically irrelevant measure that has become substantially uncorrelated with your pump price. It's about refinery capacity. And people don't buy oil unless they can refine it.

This is why the federal government is doing the right thing and regulating it. These sorts of operations are a grift now looking for a prayer. Like Firmus.

I especially love this diagram.

Well that's a take 🙃

Just shut it down and turn it into a mushroom farm. Batteries are a cheaper option than the forward costs of this moronic white elephant reneweconomy.com.au/catch-22-lac...

Republican candidate’s campaign website accidentally publishes AI prompt: “The president is not popular, so all messaging should be focused on local politics and needs." www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

You've got to stop giving these dipshits a pat on the head and a biscuit. They want cheques from renewable firms because they can see their windmills.

When everything has to be bad, always, dialled up to eleven - as your only functioning business model - you just end up with media organisations wandering around in hotdog outfits for a couple of days every six months eh

I really hope the Helen Haines thing isn't what I think it is.

You know what I'm excited about? Australia is just about to fill it's "missing middle" with solar. The rooftops of commercial buildings. Commercial solar growth will put our fastest years of residential growth to shame But! You know what large spaces can do that house blocks can't? Big batteries

Progress is hard to accept when you see injustice everywhere. But that's how we get progress in the first place! The two sides of that coin should go a little easier on each other.