I work in print.
I am stealing this for Monday.
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I work in print.
I am stealing this for Monday.
Or perhaps the cost of maintaining aging infrastructure is expensive. Poles, pits, lines, substations aren't cheap.
Me having solar doesn't reduce the cost of replacing infrastructure.
Day 23 of Level 4uel Lockdown - Queenstown reports a strange silence, birdsong audible during the day time, quiet nights. Investigation reveals the town's Australian population has dropped to zero.
Why am I not surprised that sluggate and this have similar interested parties.
Day 78 of Level 4uel Lockdown - Anti-walx activists plan a convoy to Wellington from Invercargill but run out of fuel before they reach Gore. A planned Parliament Grounds protest is attended by Winston Peters and Bryce Edwards.
Day 2150 of not knowing how much gas cost.
Disappearing act: Tony Burke erased from Courier Mail as News Corp tabloid alters image | The Weekly Beast
Not going to lie, they had me in the 1st half.
"I’m prepared to have more Australian babies, feed them from more Australian barbecues and choke their atmosphere with more Australian fossil fuels so they can grow up experiencing more Australian bushfires"
Image of backyard with almost perfect lawn
Image of same lawn from a different angle showing very damaged lawn.
It should be illegal, with statutory fines in the $10,000+ range, for manipulated images to be used in realestate.
Colour correction is fine.
This howerver is blatant fraud.
$10,000 per photo.
I was having trouble understanding my partner. I felt it was more their pronunciation than my hearing, but I went and got a hearing test anyway.
Turns out with the exception of 2.0k and 3.0k (15dB) I can hear frequencies down to 5dB.
However 4.0k is 5db and 0db.
I can not use this info can I. :-)
Probably. However it is regulated somewhat heavily.
That said, my monthly power bill is about AUD$80, of which about $35 is simply connection fees, not consumption fees.
I feel pretty smug about that too.
"Might" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Oh. I can't use the discover tab if I don't verify my age with a random website?
Great.
Pass.
Be brave everyone and soldier on.
That'd be VED yeah?
"Road tax" having been abolshed approximately 90 years ago?
VED being an excise. Excises are used to discourage undesriable consumption, e.g. tobacco, gambling, alcohol?
Hehe. #roadtax
Can you show me your receipt for "road tax"?
Also, can you explain the process for refunds when I drive my Nissan X-Trail somewhere, pull the bike out and start riding?
Does a government man meet me there with a cash refund?
Do I have to pay it again when I get back in my car?
Sooo, apparently when using a 24 hour Blood Pressure Monitor, I'm not allowed to shower?
Yikes.
For other people that is.
#BACHELORDAYYYYYS!
Roads more choked than the centre isle of an ALDI on Saturday morning.
That was horrid.
* I am not a statistician, but I did see the school bike shed go from being full 15 minw before bell time to being 10-15% full, and only in about 2 years.
Primary school, <150 kids, 50+ bikes in and around the bike shed ('85-91)
High school, 1,600+ students, less than 20 bikes in the shed ('92-99)
There is one fella who drives a V8 Commodore here. Good bloke so I wont give him a hard time. It is well kept, I'll give him that.
No fluffy dice though, which is a red flag :-)
He does prefer to work from home as much as possible though, hehe.
Oooaah. They look pretty. Love that there is no bulky awkward external battery either.
Great to see a chain guard on it. Keeps pants and skirts clean. Some mudguards and it could be an all-weather commuting weapon :-)
Ride on!
Ride the heck out of it :-)
Have you decided on a model? Which?
I wish more had the same opportunity as I do.
However it's a brave person who cycles on a road in Melbourne. Drivers are dripping in entitlement and rarely face consequences for killing, or worse maiming someone.
Frustratingly I live in a mandatory helmet law area. The reduction in cycling participation from this (along with drivers basically having immunity) is massive.
At population scales, the reduction in head trauma doesn't outweigh the increase in obesity related health outcomes. 🤬
Niiice :-)
As for why petrol prices went up in Australia who well and truly has enough reserves of Dino juice to be independent but politicians are too spineless to keep the billionaires under control? Combined with two right wing fascist news media organisations owned by Murdoch or an ex Liberal treasurer...
With respect, I want everyone to be in a position to choose.
Some of my younger co-workers are forced to purchase and pay to maintain a car. The cost of renting forces them into areas far away from jobs and those places don't have trains and the busses are terrible.
Two part comic. Car on the left, bicycle on the right. Left text under car: this one runs on money and makes you fat Right text under bicycle: this one runs on fat and saves you money
I have more than a few Strava activities entitled "Dumplings powered" or some variation thereof.
Also...
Superiority came with the bike panniers. Double panniers, double awesomeness :-)
In my defence, I'm Australian, spelink is opshonal.
But.. yeah... mea culpa.