Not Foss but does the job and well https://www.macrodroid.com/

Ground news? It’s a news aggregator focusing on bias of news sources. Great when a news item is in many sources as you can see how it is spun differently.

You’re an absolute ripper, mate! Fair dinkum, I can’t thank ya enough for your bonzer effort. You’re a true blue legend, and I reckon I owe ya a cold one at the local pub. Cheers! Thought an Aussie thanks was appropriate.

This is a crazy story. Most houses in northern Australia have full electric hot water. Very rare to have town gas and bottles is often painful.

Olympics here we come!

No

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At the NATO Summit, member nations agreed to expedite Ukraine’s membership but didn’t provide a timeline due to the ongoing war with Russia. The membership action plan requirement was dropped, simplifying the process. Controversy arose over the US supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions, and NATO allies are expected to set a minimum defense spending of 2% of GDP, a target Canada isn’t meeting.

Here are the key points from the video:

1. At the NATO Summit in Lithuania, member nations agreed to let Ukraine join the alliance and to fast-track the process. However, they did not issue an official invitation or any clear timeline for membership.

2. NATO members made it clear that Ukraine can’t join while it’s involved in an active war because that would immediately bring all NATO members into direct conflict with Russia.

3. Sweden was allowed to join NATO after Turkey, which had been blocking its membership, agreed to drop its veto in return for concessions from Sweden, including the lifting of a ban on arms sales.

4. There was controversy over the US decision to give Ukraine cluster munitions, some of which failed to explode. Canada disagreed with this decision, citing a treaty banning such weapons.

5. Ukraine’s defense minister pointed out that Russia has been using cluster munitions since the start of the war and promised they’d only be used on Ukraine’s own territory, away from built-up areas.

6. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg laid out a simpler path to membership for Ukraine but did not provide a clear timeline for full membership.

7. The requirement for a membership action plan was dropped, which is seen as a positive indication of how NATO views Ukraine.

8. The allies are expected to agree that 2% of GDP is the floor for defense spending, not just the target. Canada is nowhere near this target and has no plan to get there.

9. The US controversially sent cluster munitions to Ukraine, a type of weapon that Canada and 123 other nations pledged to prohibit back in 2008.

Pretty interesting it is still a thing

This is a pretty dated article… I wonder if they are still happening or if has fallen out of fashion.

https://aussie.zone/instances

Thanks!

What do the first two words mean?

I’m guessing the aim would be to encircle and try and take it back without a fight. Imagine the moral hit that would cause to Russia

Ya Ground News is great. It looks amazing overseas where they have a lot more sources and just alright in Australia

Kaboom!

Current work around for Twitter sources being broke is to point it at this community. Thanks everyone who posted into this community in the last 24hours!

Looks like all my abc links are broke… Sorry

Correct, I’m not certain but I suspect it will be all be done by calculation. Battery bank will have a digital meter and so will each of the participant houses. If your producing energy when the battery is charging your entitled to an equivalent amount for free from the battery in the other direction. When your actually consuming you can’t tell where the exact power you are using is coming from but you can do calculations on the net energy movement and allocate from that.

I suspect the real benifit of the bank is actually network stability (ie preventing spikes/brownouts). A battery bank can respond to a drop in source or load in about 1ms while a generator typically takes around 100ms. This is really helpful for maintaining a healthy 240V supply when you have unstable supplies (like solar panels or wind turbines) or highly variable loads (like everyone turning on the kettle at once during state of origin half time). The whole cheaper electricity benifit is really just a way to sell it to the public.