I hired a Yaris in Adelaide for a week once. It drove great but I couldn’t get over the dashboard console all being in the centre of the car. And nothing in front of the driver.
I figured I’d get used to it after a couple of days, but nope.
That one in five may also be a bit nuanced. Every time Bibi gets in, it’s by a bee’s dick. That tells me that perhaps not all Israelis are in fact arseholes.
As a citizen of a nation whose government has embarrassed me and made me ashamed of my nation in the past, I get it.
Their government and any who support it’s actions - Arseholes. Israeli kids burning their national service letters - they’re all right.
Is it only Aussie.zone where the posts/comments are failing to appear?
Alternately, are people seeing comments/posts from other instances failing to appear on aussie.zone?
I’m 99% local to this instance, so I probably wouldn’t notice either scenario without replicating it myself.
I was about to make the chronic condition caveat. It’s crazy that people with lifelong conditions that will require medication for the rest of their lives need to go to their GP to renew their script every couple of months. Make that twice a year and ad-hoc as required and pharmacists can assist with the middle ground.
I’d trust then to mostly manage repeats. I’m not so sure about diagnosing and prescribing meds though.
Moving states helps a lot! When I moved to Melbourne, I offloaded so much! It was so easy to justify when the cost of transporting a thing exceeded its value.
Ten years later now with a wife and two kids moving back to Perth with me - same deal. Another huge downsize.
We still have too much stuff. Our last move was a downsize to three bedrooms and there are a few boxes in the garage that can’t fit in the place. I’ve pretty much forgotten what’s in them.
It’s weird: you go on holiday somewhere and live in a quest apartment with barely anything in it for a week and don’t miss your stuff at all.
Sell. Flood that market!
People want an alternative to Labor. The lazy strategy of vaguely catering to boomers is no longer working for the coalition - that base is simply dying out and they’ve never gotten around to appealing to anyone else.
Now their voters are splintering and ONP is picking up the nutters.
You’d think compulsory voting in and of itself would be a smarter early policy to aim for if you want a US political shit show. Then you make elections a workday. Then you make it so you fall off he roll every year or so. Finally you make it difficult to get onto the roll itself.
Even in the USA, if you divide the population into categories, the ‘did not vote’ cohort would win every election.
We are not anywhere near as religious a nation as the USA. Abortion just isn’t really a topic here, because the 10% who’d be against it wouldn’t stand a chance of passing such a change. I think getting rid of compulsory voting would be a more popular policy to start with.
It probably isn’t actually $7k from those 3.7 million people. It’s more like $1k from every Australian. They haven’t only taken from the poorest among us.
It’s a strange world. It isn’t that there aren’t enough houses - well not just that. It’s that too many houses are owned by people who do not live in them.
Mr. and Mrs. Boomer and their property portfolio of seven homes are suppressing supply for six other people/families.
Then you have Mr. Foreign who has a place or two in Australia as a safe way to secure wealth in a place out of reach of his own government who might one day decide to simply take over all his assets.
50 years of successive Australian governments have been encouraging investment in real estate. I’m sure there were great reasons for it initially like keeping wealth within the nation. But now we’ve gone too far.
If we could get all those property investors to sell their properties, we’d go a long way toward meeting housing demand with existing supply.
Ok you’re a mod. Feel free to set up your new community.
I can change the display name of a community, but not its url. I could probably edit the database record, but I’m not sure what that would do on the Federiverse front for other instances looking for the old name. The only supported way is to delete the community and make a new one.
https://aussie.zone/c/support4life created. Go post in it so I can set it up properly.
We’re pretty happy to add any community there’s demand for. Community creation is only disabled to prevent a thousand empty communities from being created.
What are we calling it? aussie.zone/c/supportforliving is a bit of a mouthful - but there are certianly longer names around. Is that what you’re looking for? @arbilp3 ? Are you looking to moderate/curate it?
It’s 2026, Earth’s pop. is 8.3 billion people. I genuinely think we are going to be 2/3 this in ~5 years.
You think that 2.75 Billion people are going to die in the next 5 years?
Sorry - I can’t get past that. It’s possible I’d read an article that had this conclusion, as shocking as that would be - if it had a more credible bit of evidence than “I genuinely think”. I also don’t know what WHS is. I would normally google that if I wanted to be informed by the article, but yeah - I’ve already dismissed its contents as crazy and stopped being interested.
I’m being harsh, I apologise about that. Normally I’d have closed the tab and never thought about it again. But you’re asking for criticism and appear to be new at this. As a reader of lots of articles, I approach them something like:
Is this plausible? No? Who is saying it? Some random on the Internet? What’s their source? “Trust me bro”?
If you have bona fides on the topic, be clearer about what they are. If you have data to back your conclusion up, be clearer about that before you drop a bombshell like ‘3 Billion people are going to die in the next few years’.
From the bits I read/skimmed, you appear to be saying that present levels of food production are relying on artificial fertiliser, which in-turn relies on LNG to be produced. But you haven’t made clear is what’s changing, why this is a problem, why we can’t use alternate fertiliser sources, what trends you are already seeing to demonstrate that you’re not projecting everything.
It’d depend on whether you liked it for its engine or other aesthetics. I loved the look of late 90’s Celicas. Couldn’t care less about the engine in them, I just thought they looked cool. In some other life where I had the time and resources for such a project, I could see myself giving them such an upgrade.
I think I read that Arnie put an electric motor into one of his Hummers.
As much as I love Beached Az, it was made by Australian guys taking the piss. It’s not actually Kiwi.
I think the quintessential NZ video involves how Dumb Monique thinks you are, and whether you’d like some Ghost Chups.
I mean - what coverage do we want as a society on this? The headline tells just about everything we know. This sentence is carrying all that anyone has: “NSW police said a report would be presented to the state coroner to determine if an inquest into Chebii’s death will be held. A spokesperson for SafeWork NSW confirmed it was “making inquiries” into the matter.”
It’d be wall-to-wall if we knew she was murdered. It’d get nothing if we knew she killed herself. It’d get a minor article and the hotel would face charges if we knew a railing failed or something.
But we have nothing in this case. It’s weird that she fell to her death, and a bit suspicious. But I don’t actually know what coverage I would demand in this situation.
“The Family want answers” is probably about the only angle they can go with.