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.
Since posting the link, I’m concerned it may not be.
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.
Question for locals: do you need gas connections?
Opinions on this are going to differ a lot.
I really like cooking on gas, but acknowledge it wastes a useful resource, is environmentally bad and potentially harmful to my families health.
Side question: do you have fireplaces, gas or otherwise?
It’s becoming less common.
My last house, we had an internal combustion (wood) heater as the primary form of heating.
I know several people who have gas powered whole house ducted heating.
Both of these things are becoming prohibitively expensive to run compared to decent reverse cycle (heat pump) split systems.
Like everything, there’s more layers than an onion to this.
Older houses had decent insulation as heating and cooling were hard.
Houses built from the 70s on have shit insulation, as running a heater or cooler year round were cheap and easy.
Back in the 00s, the federal government tried to kill 2 bids with one stone here - stimulate the economy whilst improving the insulation of most houses through what became known as the “Pink Bats” program
This itself become massively controversial as the program was rorted to hell, and even some deaths, leading to a royal commision.
The whole “ban new installs of gas” is a bit of a Green initiative, but it’s becoming more common across the country, starting with Australian Capital Territory, which banned it in June.
KMart Australia has no relation to KMart USA anymore, it’s completely separate.
Target is worse, it was never affiliated at all.
Falsely claiming that what I said was ad hominem is itself ad hominem.
You keep doing you mate, I’m sure chucking sickies is the least annoying thing you do at work.
I’ve already explained above why a legit sick day is important, it stops your staff having to choose between being paid and doing the right thing - not spreading the illness.
Unscrupulous business owners demanded too much of their staff, including working whilst sick - so the law was changed so that those staff would be protected.
Unscrupulous employees abused this, so a limit was put in place - you get ten days a year.
But somehow, you’ve decided that a staff protection is actually extra days off, that are being stolen from you if you don’t get sick!
“in your own head” as you put it.
I’m not currently managing a team, but when I did, I never asked for a sick note from the doctor, what a waste of time and money.
People with your sense of entitlement cause nonsense like that.
No one is entitled to your work for free.
You aren’t entitled to payment for nothing.
There’s a balance here, ever changing, with sloppy vague laws applied post facto in an effort to maintain it.
I’m not against changing it, but taking your sick days as unplanned leave is against the spirit in which those sick days were bargained.
So the system should be changed so that you can take the days with notice. 🤷
The problem is people taking days off without notice, regularly.
As currently implemented, you feel ripped off.
If you just don’t turn up on a day leaving me short staffed, you’re letting me down (my targets won’t be met), you’re letting your co-workers down (they end up picking up your slack or getting called in on their day off at the last minute).
FFS, let me know ahead of time (psst, I’m going to take a “sick” day on Friday) and maybe I won’t be grumpy.
To extend on this, which is accurate, there’s a few extra things that are worth mentioning.
Unless you’ve signed a contract that specifically changes these (and which you would need to be compensated for to make the contract legal):
Full time employees get long service leave, which only kicks in for full time employees after several years.
Certain industries in South Australia such as Electricians, Plumbers etc have transferrable long service leave (it carries across employers in what is effectively a gig job).
Full time employees are paid for public holidays, which they are not obliged to work.
A full time employee basically cannot be fired without cause - only made redundant.
If you are made redundant, you will be paid a settlement.
This is why it’s easier to get loans etc by the way, the bank has reason to believe you’ll continue your employment.
As an aside, the paid sick leave is pretty important.
If I get sick, I don’t go to work and therefore don’t spread that illness to my coworkers, and I can still pay my rent and buy food.
A casual employee has to decide if they are sick enough to forgo income for one or more days.
Unscrupulous individuals taking “mental health days”, where they’re not sick, has been a big part in the movement to casualising the workforce (in my opinion).
These animals, especially the camels, thrive in inhospitable areas.
It’s an unfortunate reality that it’s not financially viable to collect the bodies.
Every now and then someone get’s the idea of rounding up all the feral cattle in the NT.
https://news.csu.edu.au/feature/are-feral-cattle-the-brumbies-of-the-northern-territory
That’s not going to happen either.
I love the top gear reference, but surely May would have been the obvious choice, Hammond is just asking for a crash!