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Why the hell can’t politicians think past next week?

Some of them can, that’s why it got built even though it wouldn’t be that much help with covid.

Exactly. The brain damage caused by covid has many impacts. Social skills and empathy are absolutely affected.

Absolutely. Yeah it’s not as bad as the US, but it’s not good.

Is ammunition also controlled? Are people DIYing ammo as well?

Each contestant is on their own. They place cameras themselves to record their activities. The goal is to be the last one remaining.

They get to bring a limited amount of equipment and supplies with them, there is no way for them to get anything additional from outside. They need to build their own shelter and find their own food.

They each have a satellite phone they can use to call for rescue or to notify the organisers that they would like to leave. Doing either means they lose.

The winner will be told when they’re the last one remaining, they have no way of knowing how many are left at any point otherwise.

That’s the show, it’s extremely good.

This article is literally “some architect built a tiny home, could million dollar tiny homes on million dollar land parcels be the answer to housing?!”.

The answer is no.

The government said it would work with states and territories to pause further changes to the National Construction Code. It would then consult on ways to streamline the code, including the use of artificial intelligence to help tradies, small business and households in using the three-volume, 2000-page code.

No fuck, don’t strap AI to this shit.

“Chief executive [of the Property Council of Australia] Mike Zorbas described the announcements as “sensible” and a “win” for housing supply.

“Let’s also put AI to work turbocharging housing delivery. A smart rollout of AI into planning and assessment systems will give decision-makers the clarity they need and save valuable time in delivering new homes,” he said…

Oi, I said no! Fuck.

So this is a property investment lobby group pushing for a freeze to further improvements to the national construction code and calling for the implementation of AI to weaken environmental protection.

Fuck off knob.

But former industry minister Ed Husic said this week he was concerned about a pause to the code.

Husic said the former Coalition government had frozen new homebuilding regulations, only to rush through a mass of changes in a short period of time. “People who’ve lived in older homes with regulations that weren’t as strong understand why livability is such an issue.”

This guy gets it though.

I wonder where these were published. Any reputable journal should have rejected them outright since the authors are speaking outside their areas of expertise.

No way, any reputable journal would use a process of double blind peer review. The background of the researcher should have no bearing on the decision to publish.

The papers should have been rejected for being shit.

My sister worked at a sorting facility. It is shutting down permanently at the end of the year.

Not a good sign :(

Fuck suffering. The system should be focused first on rehabilitation and second on seperating the person from society so they can’t harm others.

The infliction of suffering does nothing to help society at all. It just creates horribly broken people in prisons and encouraging hate outside.

If someone can’t be rehabilitated I see no issue in providing a comfortable isolated environment for them. Hell, give them whatever drugs they want too, who cares, just keep them away from society.

First thing I tried yeah, I tested a few and verified with a multi meter. It isn’t that sadly :(

I have a motherboard in a state where it won’t boot unless you pull and reinsert the cmos battery. After this it will boot exactly once.

It will also boot without issue if you don’t have a cmos battery at all. This is obviously not ideal.

I wonder if these issues are related? I purchased the motherboard second hand in this state about a year ago. So it is far too early for this update, but it remains a mystery.

I absolutely paid attention to these things, even spending more on more efficient appliances after figuring out the break even time on the price difference.

I consider the power usage of everything in my home. I’m down to 300w idle draw from more than 700w.

I’m pretty annoyed to find out the star scheme is bullshit :(

Your idea works great as described. The system has grown beyond that though. Capitalists receive these IOUs because they own a portion of a company that owns a thing that neither the company nor the capitalist has ever had anything to do with. They receive these IOUs in perpetuty, but they never provided any contribution to the creation of anything.

Then you stack this a billion times, with IOUs servicing IOUs, amplifying the amount of IOUs, and skimming IOUs at every point from people who actually do the work, just to increase the number of IOUs held by a handful of people, until those people who contribute nothing, now hold the majority of the worlds IOUs.

This is fucked.

It’s pretty obvious, it’s right there in the name, capitalism.

Shit sucks.

That’s absurd. Reporting super details to the government for 80,000 Australians would not be a significant ongoing cost for any competent provider.

There would be an initial cost to develop the reports, the ongoing cost would be minimal as it would be spread across the existing costs to maintain their reporting infrastructure.

If somehow this is true for some super providers, you should avoid those providers as they are already operating with incredible inefficiency.

I do wonder how it would work for those in defined benefit schemes, but I doubt any of those are above the $3m threshold.

He should be fine, his Australian girlfriend should help him out with the normal stuff here.

One thing that might be useful, when visiting the US many Americans would express concern about Australian spiders. I explained that it wasn’t really much of an issue, you just make sure to check for spiders before putting your hands in places, putting on shoes, etc.

The shoes thing seemed particularly outrageous to them. It’s pretty simple though, you just look at your shoes before putting them on. Any spiders in there? Any sign of webs? Don’t put them on. Easy!