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Appreciated Minty :)
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Suicide Squad: Less interesting than discussing linguistics xD
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Took me a few tries to understand.
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She was playing piano.
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It's not land banking. It's land investment. We're making the land better, more luscious, stronger.
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Did mine last year. Took a little while to get results back, but it was really nice to see everything was OK in the yard and veggie patch. My garden has had lots of treated pine timberwork for decades (some CCA treatment type).
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STRIKE FORCE
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I love your take on this, thankyou for sharing. My friend didn't do too much rooting so maybe that's why he was missing out xD
"When in Rome..."
Glad to hear it's better than I heard.
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Glad to hear it's better than I heard :) Although McDonalds density is a terrifying metric.
Do you use public transport to get out or mostly car?
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Fluorindson Park? I thought they were too new for that.
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I had a friend who used to live in Edmondson Park. He hated it. Little public transport and mostly houses. I don't think it even really had parks last I looked.
Anyone here live in the area? Hope you're not affected by the fires.
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Pretty much. Dance between them every day.
I'm going to carry pants in my bag to work, public transport is too hot for pants but work is too air conditioned for shorts.
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BOM says it's going to be sunny for more than a week.
(Translation: there's a 50% chance it'll snow without warning.)
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The new theme seems deadset on replacing content with whitespace, driving my father in particular mad (he's having more luck finding Australian news on DW than the ABC right now; and he is sore that he has to hunt for the "Science" news category now in menus). Not sure how long they'll keep the ?future=x flag available, but for now it gives you about double the number of articles per page.
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Can confirm, 20 decimals gives you 100.
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Are these companies worth the suffering of vulnerable gamblers?
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Can't be much sunlight normally, the curtain rail is decorative.
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The bed is make of pork mince and the house is flooded. No bushfires though, so not realistic.
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Perfect dark has a fan PC port that's really good. I couldn't stand it on console (low fps made me motionsick) but it was a hoot when I played it on PC. https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
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Oof, that sounds horrible. Hope you're doing better now.
(Serves you right for rubbing your glands on other peoples glands! No more neck hugs allowed.)
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or simply inconveniencing them though
Screwing. 100% screwing.
An inconvenience is not being able to get someone on the phone in minutes or hours. Screwing is making someone spend days, weeks or months trying to get you on the phone and navigate a system that's supposed to help them, not hurt them.
My dad isn't at pension age yet and has been struggling the last few years whilst being a full time carer of my grandmother. It has often taken days to weeks of calling to get through and weeks to months get things approved.
Whereas, there are so many services we have that are for ACTUAL emergencies, and require fast service, where the money would save lives.
You have this so backwards.
Centrelink saves lives. Support saves lives. Welfare saves lives.
If you don't support people then they end up having to use the emergency services. Is it cheaper to support people before the need emergency services rather than after. You can't house all the unemployed, disabled, pensioners, veterans (and other people I've probably forgotten) in emergency wards, these people don't magically end up fed, housed and cared for if make Centrelink and related services a nightmare to deal with.
My dad has been keeping my grandmother out of hospital. She's now in a nursing home, funded mostly by government, that is keeping her out of hospital. It is extremely costly to put her in a hospital bed.
8PM (right now) +/- 10 hours Better call the tiberium harvester back in.
Encountered this fellow during bushcare today. He was sitting right on top of the [bridal veil](https://weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au/Weeds/BridalVeilCreeper) roots we were pulling, looking suspiciously like a rock. We probably shouldn't have handled him (I hope turtles don't get dizzy from being turned upside down). We put him back down and hid him under some other groundcover as a local Kookaburra was loitering.    
Anyone else? My feed reader was not happy this morning, all youtube feed URLS are 404ing. Both the old-style and new ID style: * https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=perochialjoe * https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=mrdodobird * https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCGLGhwIJfz4Nl2uhTqdNikw * https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8UNRmZpgCAYXUtyWQnhag
Imagine you're in the blue car, wanting to turn left:  Green is turning right. There is only one lane. Two options I see: (1) Stay behind the green car, to the left (and behind the crossing) until they leave. (2) Pull up to the left of the green car (as if there were two lanes). I assume (1) is correct given there is technically only one lane, but I can't find any materials on the NSW site or driving handbook about it and (2) is something I see other people do. (I have my license test next week) EDIT: Solved, option (2) is the right one. see https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-safety-and-rules/sharing-road-overtaking-and-merging/overtaking-safely > The only time you can overtake on the left is when the vehicle you’re overtaking is: > * waiting to turn right or make a U-turn from the centre of the road
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I could not find any mentions of these problems online. The article itself has no technical detail. Looking forward to seeing what the actual problems are. It seems this is the first product to market. Guesses based off the general subject matter: * Silica concentrations probably vary depending on the exact position of your head, especially since it's heavy material. If you mount this sensor even a few meters away from a worker then it's readings could possibly become invalid, eg because an angle grinder is firing dust a different direction to the sensor. * Silica is a slang term for a _very_ big category of materials. Some might look completely different to others under certain laser observations, leading to some getting missed (bad) and others materials triggering false positives (leading to the sensor's screams being ignored by workers). * Self-cleaning routines might be needed to stop it clogging up, otherwise the sensor starts reporting a higher baseline. They could either choose to report this ("pls clean me" light comes on) or ignore it (bury head in sand mode). * Alternatively it's performance might actually be fine, but perhaps it's still being spruked inappropriately. Government involvement in funding the project might (?) magnify this problem.
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Interesting title. Compare it with the ABC's version: [ABC: Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci announces retirement as company announces $781m loss]( https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/woolworths-brad-banducci-retires-announcement/103490636)
Context: https://aussie.zone/post/5207334 I'll make an account through Slrpnk if this doesn't work.
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“And then we’re going to add this suspension into some hexane. I mean here I’m just using Shellite because it’s from Bunnings and I dunno who else uses this so I feel like if I stop buying it Bunnings will stop selling it so, it’s like a couple of bucks and it’s like hexanes, it’s so good, Bunnings keep selling this please”
I accidentally held down the photoshoot button on my phone and ended up with a sequence of photos of the same scene taken over about 1 second. Interestingly the series of photos contains two very different styles of image:   The first photo looks how I'd expect. Sky is overblown from the clouds and foreground of the forest is dark. The second photo has somehow magically made the sky darker and the foreground brighter. At a guess I think a software algorithm is trying to separate the foreground and background, then individual levels adjustments are being applied to each region. Checkout these two close-up crops:   The first photo shows what I'd normally expect from a camera (bright light bleeding into the trunk), the second shows a white halo around the trunk on the sky (probably artificial/software blending from foreground to background). I think I can also see see some evidence of artificial sharpening on the trunk texture; or perhaps the photo was just better in focus (some of the photos were a bit blurrier than others). I'm using a Pixel 3 with OpenCamera. Does anybody know what this feature is called and more info about it? I'm particular interested in how binary it is -- it's either activated or not -- some some heuristic must be involved.
Spotted at my local bushcare group last week. This trunk section has been sitting on the ground for months. The main tree (background) was hacked apart, drilled and poisoned by NSW Forestry, but it's also happily sprouting everywhere again. [Camphor laurels](https://weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au/Weeds/Details/28) are beautiful, toxic trees that you will see everywhere but sadly they're also weeds. The ground near them tends to be barren, they intentionally poison the soil (allelopathy) to avoid competition. I've been told that they were used to make shipping boxes because their wood resisted insects
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Internode used to be a high quality home internet brand. My understanding is that loyalty is never rewarded for competitive subscription services (gas, eletricity, water, internet, insurance, etc). I wonder how long until AussieBB enshitifies?
I left my room for 15 minutes to visit the shitter and came back to this:   It also hit my shelves twice and my sheets thrice. My mattress protector now has avocado spots.  My window was about 10cm open at the bottom, so whatever the perp was it had enough of a brain to know how to get in and out withing getting stuck. No-one heard or saw anything. Given the high level of sophistication, speed and excellent criminal execution: I suspect an Indian Mynah may be at fault. I swear they understand English and spend their whole lives plotting schemes. Artists' impressions of the crime:   I would like to assume this wasn't actually malice and instead the Mynah was just curious, but I still think I need to consider appeasement strategies. Suggestions welcome.
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I wonder if the fines are enough, assuming they find the people? I've heard that it's cheaper or more profitable to just accept the fines. > Councils can issue a maximum on-the-spot fine of $3,000 for illegal tree removals by individuals, or $6,000 for businesses. Mr Wrightson said the council was getting legal advice about the best course of action, which could include seeking penalties of up to $1 million through a prosecution in the NSW Land and Environment Court. 300 tress x $6000 = $1.8million That's big if you chopped the trees for one house, but what if you chopped them for 10? Perhaps you would still get more than $180,000 extra each if they had better views?
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Key excerpt: > According to the late professor Patrick Troy, here's how things were viewed in the early 1970s: > >> "The cost and price of housing continued to be a source of social and political concern. Over the period 1969-1973 the number of years' average earnings required to buy a house site increased substantially. In Sydney, it increased from 1.7 to 2.7 years, while in Melbourne it grew from 1.2 to 1.8 years." > > Compare that to what modern researchers have to say about Australia in 2023: > >> "Since 2001, the national ratio of median house price to median income has almost doubled to 8.5, and the time required for the accumulation of a deposit for a typical property has increased from six years median earnings in 1994 to 14 years currently."
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aussie.zoneI once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It's not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.
Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.