Nath

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

While I agree with you, she's in far better shape now than she has been for years. During a 50-day stay in hospital, she gained 7kg and grew 3.4cm. One presumes that recovery is continuing.

She certainly is not dead.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago (13 children)

In the news today: It's official. Pauline Hanson is a racist.
I nearly made a post about it - but I decided it wasn't actually news to anyone.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Wait. Hear him out. If he's offering beers, I might be interested!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was saying they're not likely to axe those seats. Sorry. 😀

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The back seats serve a purpose: You can buy a ute through your business as it is clearly a work vehicle. If you want your business to effectively pay for your family car, you make a ute that can drive your family around.

That's why tradies buy these. They don't need the dual cab for work, they need the tray to justify buying the family vehicle through their business and expensing/depreciating it.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yep, and I almost hesitated to comment because of it. But then I clicked on the main "IA News" link on the homepage, and this same article is right there on the top row. Since they themselves think this is a news article, I figured my comment was justified.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago (6 children)

This sort of article gets clicks, and at first this approach to writing jolts people and makes them think. But Mr Murdoch has shown for decades that once people buy in to your emotional writing enough, they actually stop thinking. Then you can drip-feed them a daily dose of outrage, bring them around to whatever cause you like and weaponise your readers.

I like my news to be boring. Just give me the bare facts. Don't tell me how I should feel about them, I'll make my own mind up, thank you.

Strip away the emotions of this article, and you are left with 'We are not happy that LNP won the Queensland election. We believe that Australia should cut ties with the Monarchy and the US military. Indigenous Australians are poor and not enough is being done to correct that.' Weirdly, none of these individual topics appear to be related to one another.

Did I miss anything?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Those first two videos are a bit extreme - I obviously wouldn't have attempted either of those in the Outlander. I doubt I'd have attempted it in the Teslas, either. Those were big risks with minimal rewards in both examples. Thought the second was obviously a planned "Is this possible?" crossing.

I'm equal parts impressed and horrified. I know enough about electrics to be horrified at what water can do if it gets in your motor. Would the vehicle be covered under warranty if you inundated your motor doing this?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lap around the sun day! Yay!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Start > CMD > Type 'Net Statistics Workstation'"
"Read the line where is says 'Statistics since' and a date"
"Oh, it's three weeks ago? It appears the reboot failed. That happens sometimes. Let's go ahead and reboot it again"

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah well, the protester didn't want to miss out on the show. There's no point in protesting during the first song and getting escorted out. Palestine is super important and all - but not worth missing out on the whole gig!
(I'm probably being nasty, but I suspect there's a kernel of truth in this)

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know where she got the idea that Radiohead weren't huge before 1997. That was the year Ok Computer was released, and that's about as big as Radiohead got.

 

For reference, my kids both reached 30kg when they were seven!

 

And as the article says - this data is only from individual tax returns. It doesn't cover companies.

 

I stumbled across a sports article from a US publication and thought it interesting that it showed the USA leading the medals table.

Instead of the regular table that gives weight to Gold, silver and bronze, they just see total medals.

I sorta like it. Celebrating all medal winners equally is nice. It feels a little like fudging the numbers, though.

 

Super sad case. She tried to kill him to ease his suffering. If he'd been on the record supporting her decision, I think the sentence would have been very different. And she lost him to natural causes anyway. 😞

 

So, I've just done something that I said I'd be reluctant to do in future without community consultation and blocked an instance.

I don't think anyone will have any issues with it, but I figured I'd let everyone know since this executive decision affects all aussie.zone users.

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Just when you thought you'd made it through the holidays. 😀

I think a half-day strike is just as bad for parents than a full one. We still need to arrange for the kids to be taken care of until 12:30. Apparently we can send them in anyway, but they won't be in class and it isn't exactly supporting the teachers to do that.

I hope there is progress in the negotiations and the strike gets called off.

 

On the one hand, it makes it really hard to stay motivated with the teeny contribution I make to reducing emissions.
On the other, think of how much of a difference these 57 companies could make if they actually reached net-zero targets.

 

I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.

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