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When the kids from next door lose their ball over the fence and try and retrieve it they’re gonna get a face full of flame!

They paint their houses those bright colours because of the long, brutally cold, depressing, grey, sun-starved winters. But great place to visit in the summer months.

See how confusing it’s going to be. Thanks, Elon Musk, thanks for nothing you jerk!

Does this mean I won’t be able to use the letter ‘x’ anymore because a multi-billion dollar company has trademarked it:

• Two people fighting will now be boing.
• When I want to bake some bread I will mi the ingredients together.
• When I want to leave a building I will eit it.
• I will now look up to the stars at night to see the magnificent epance of the Milkyway galay.

Would have done better if he could kiss a few babies out on the campaign trail - but the bin over his head gets in the way. It’s a shame, I like Count Binface’s policy platform…and the cape.

Yeah, all imgur.com images for me are blank, and I can’t figure out why.

From the image in this link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-17/gabba-stadium-redevelopment-funding-2032-olympics-infrastructure/101988206
…looks to me like they will be linking the river by sinking the roads surrounding and capping them with pedestrian walking areas, or some of them anyway . $2.7 billion price tag. The walkway links look like they are trying to give access to southbank/ the rocks but also river frontage at Mowbrow Park on other side of Kangaroo point.

With the Gabba I think it’s all about increasing the oval size and stand capacity so they can complete with other large stadiums in Australia for events.

Here’s another article: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/feb/17/brisbane-2032-olympics-live-arena-gabba-rebuild-redevelopment-queensland
…which says the proposed new stadium will only add another 8000 seats. There’s also pics of an alternate and cheaper proposal to have demountable stadium then reuse the materials from that after games for other infrastructure. Insteresting.

The Olympic Committee specifically asked for bids that emphasized no-budget-blowouts due to many previous Olympics essentially bankrupting cities and the bad rep that was causing to the Olympics brand, and Brisbane’s bid was the only one that stacked up to scrutiny, is what I understand. So at least it wasn’t just politicians by themselves blowing smoke up are collective arses for a change - there was some kind of scrutiny.

I think the Gabba is a special case. They have been wanting to expand/fix the Gabba district for ages - the two 4-lane roads on either side that the back of the stands over-hang has been a problem forever. Olympics has given them a chance to fix the whole thing, link it up with the river better. They put in the bus tunnels to fix access fairly recently. Adelaide Oval had similar growing pains - that stadium put in large sail structures back in the 2000’s that were completely redone only 5 or 10 years later. The Gabba is a signature bit of infrastructure in the inner city worth doing - they will probably use it for big concerts and so on. The whole of the inner Brisbane city is coming along nicely, Southbank and bikeway upgrades and bridges, docks - it’s getting there.

The Olympics aren’t the Commonwealth games, it’s a global audience - think commonwealth games + china, north and south america, the rest of Europe. And Brisbane is an obscure city on the world stage, but has amazing weather and natural tourists attraction, theme parks - I think Brisbane will get value for money, put it on the map.

Brisbane won the Olympics on an everything-is-already-built-so-no-blow-out-in-cost-likely campaign, and they were basically the only credible bid so got it with no contest. I think the Gabba is being upgraded because it was due for a face-lift anyway. Something like that - bris olympics is different situation.

And I think Bris Olympics only lacks accommodation facilities which will be built, then those apartments will very much help with the housing crisis after Olympics, so it all works and helps the city in the long run.

And pretty large satellite cities share the load, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, is a point of difference also.

Thats’s my vague understanding, but don’t quote me.

I’m with you.

Too soon.

And I will reply to your reply, and boost 2 replies and add 3 upvotes, further demonstrating that Lemmy is a vibrant active online community.

Yeah, okay, I am a little bit techy, but so far I haven’t had to employ any of my limited techy abilities in Linux Mint. I didn’t even notice I was using it more, it just happened over a few months that I was finding there was no need to go back to Windows. To load programs on Linux Mint I just google “How to load program X on Linux”, and there will be a page saying, type “sudo apt install <program_name>” in Terminal and it always works and I’m done. (I’m a beginner programmer who was told to try Linux for the Unix stuff) .

If you’re a gamer, I would look up any discussion of gaming in Linux - that would be my only proviso.

I wouldn’t say I’m that techy and I recently jumped over to Linux Mint from Windows because it has the C-compiler gcc pre-installed and it’s UNIX seems to be a better experience for programming. It was easy to install, I find I’m going back to Windows less and less. I used to use Photoshop a lot, now I’m just using Krita. I’m lovin it so far. Only games are a problem maybe, although the game I play has a linux version, I just can’t be bothered loading yet.

Linux Mint is supposed to be the easy for-the-layman Linux distro and that’s been my experience so far - everything has worked, no issues.

We should probably do deep analysis of all these positions, tbh. Of course, 8 is the preferred approach for most people, but I prefer 9 to minimize splash-back (I’m still processing position 0, hmm…)

For me it’s just ‘When the ad…’<mute>

Just give him the legal aid then when his case is done start calling him constantly asking him to repay it because he wasn’t actually eligible, sorry.

This post is wet with spittle…I will type this reply out then wipe myself down and be on my way.

Yeah, and I’m pointing to your pointer pointer and I’m a pointer pointer pointer. Or more accurately but less funny is that I’m pointing to your pointer-to-pointer and I’m a pointer-to-pointer-to-pointer.

Why not get those quirky Taliban guys over to America for a Twitter ad campaign, Elon. He could probably throw in a tour of Space X launch site or the Tesla car factory in Texas? (Just keep all the female employees out of sight, shh, mums the word…)