kudra
@kudra@aus.social
I like beets.
#UBI techno-#Georgist #4dayworkweek #ev #ebikes #parent #embryoadoption #auspol #health
Allergic to Friendface. Hoping fellow allergy holders & #Twatters decamp here (I was here in 2018! see: @kudra 😅)
Let's decouple our ideas of innate human value from jobs, mmk?
- Comment on Colesworth exit gates 1 week ago:
@PeelerSheila jeezus! That sounds horrifying.
Glad I generally use a pram if I go to woolies but this totally puts me off going there too.
- Comment on Colesworth exit gates 1 week ago:
@prettygorgeous I avoid Coles now because of these fucking things. I have yet to see a Woolies with one though?
Honestly, ALDI as much as possible, or farmers markets where they exist
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 6 February 2025 2 weeks ago:
@Nath @tombruzzo the owners of private childcare centres are making a killing. It's criminal that the educators don't get better pay. What they industry needs is some smart career educators who band together and start a chain of centres as cooperatives.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 4 weeks ago:
@just_kitten @Taleya the other thing that sucks about WGAC is the toilet paper is coming all the way from China. We DO NOT need to ship bum roll from effing China, it's one of the least sensible things to buy from there, srsly.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 4 weeks ago:
@RustyRaven @Grackle who do they use to deliver? It would be good to have a backup if Yarn'n go down the gurgler.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 4 weeks ago:
@Taleya @briongloid had it with them about a year ago, just awful couriers, failed at least 3 delivery attempts in a row and I told them to go jump. Switched to Yarn'n, who so far haven't fucked up once, but I'm kindof waiting for it to happen, it just seems almost inevitable.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 4 weeks ago:
@Salvo @Zagorath EV batteries so far are generally outlasting the expected/rated lifespans significantly. Yes, the range reduces and first gen EVs have more marked range reduction, but batteries can be replaced and the old battery repurposed as a stationary home battery or similar for a significant period before ultimately being recycled.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 4 weeks ago:
@Deceptichum @Eyekaytee I drive my EV to and from the city from rural Victoria where PT is half an hour drive from my home, park it and take PT around town, or ebike. You may find name EV drivers are pretty pro-bike and pro-PT, they aren't mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 4 weeks ago:
@Salvo @Deceptichum my #minicabMiEV weighs about half the average ICE ute, it also has tiny light commercial tyres. So choice of EV matters.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨🦯 Sunday, 12 January, 2025 5 weeks ago:
@Seagoon_ Awesome thankyou!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨🦯 Sunday, 12 January, 2025 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛄ Wednesday, October 9, 2024 4 months ago:
@Duenan @Gibsonhasafluffybutt beat saber is great. I haven't played in ages though.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🖋️📃📖👩🎓 Tuesday, October 8, 2024 4 months ago:
@Nath @just_kitten there a few compassionate landlords around, but they are few and far between.
Personally I don't get the cards, though I got a stupid amount of the bricks farm bricks a couple of years back and stored them, waiting for my daughter to be old enough to get excited by them, which is finally happening now she is 3, and we've been opening a few a day for a week or so. Much more fun than cards!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏠 🐈⬛🐈⬛ Saturday, September 14, 2024 5 months ago:
@Seagoon_ @Gibsonhasafluffybutt 🎶 revolutionary biscuits of Italyyyyyy... rise up out of your box! 🎶
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 6 months ago:
@LowExperience2368 @DolphinLundgrin I ended up using Restavit too often and decided I needed to try something else. I now have a script for Endep (amitriptyline) which is safe to take long term if needed, it really helps me sleep.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🥂 🐈⬛ Friday, July 19, 2024 7 months ago:
@stepchook @Nath @Baku yes this is infuriating in many of the sharing/gig economy areas, and it's definitely Aussie culture but also many others, US is actually the cultural outlier here.
To the point that I basically will never allow French people in Airbnb because they ALWAYS rate low.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🦟 Friday, June 28, 2024 7 months ago:
@TinyBreak @Seagoon_ try Temu? I have been surprised to find replacements for some things I didn't expect, and I now look there first for all sorts of stuff.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🐻 Sunday, May 26, 2024 8 months ago:
@wscholermann @SituationCake battery technology is improving constantly. I have a 10yo ev, bought secondhand and got the battery upgraded, the new battery is double the range than the old one was when new, and the old battery was still very serviceable and can be used for an off grid home battery system, but new batteries if the size of the old one are getting so cheap now it's probably cheaper to connect a new battery to an off grid pv system.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🐻 Sunday, May 26, 2024 8 months ago:
@SituationCake @wscholermann I'm a single parent who lives rurally but comes into Melbourne roughly every second week for work. While I usually charge at home I'm minding a friend's house this month and they have street parking only. I'm heading up to Kyneton today. No dramas, my EV only has 30kwh battery but there are these things called fast chargers, they are a bit like petrol stations, you have to wait slightly longer, but 8 only have to use them when travelling long distances. While in the city I'll largely charge at work. At home I largely charged from solar, especially in summer. Having a family is no barrier and I don't have a second car. It's these kinds of myths about EVs that keep people from considering them in the first place. I pay less overall and the extra cost of the battery is paid off within 5 years of fuel at its current cost: who knows where petrol cost might be in 2 years let alone 5.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍩 Friday, May 17, 2024 8 months ago:
@Baku yeah it is a bit weird and disjointed but I just like the fact that I *can* do it, even if it is sub-optimal.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍩 Friday, May 17, 2024 9 months ago:
Replying from Mastodon here. Sorry to be annoying, I like Federation 😊
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🎖️ Thursday, April 25, 2024 9 months ago:
@ajsadauskas @wscholermann @Seagoon_ I think it's a combination of different things, pollen, dust, weather, pollution: all of which may be somewhat more localised?
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🎖️ Thursday, April 25, 2024 9 months ago:
@wscholermann @Seagoon_ my sinuses cleared up when I stopped living in Melbourne most of the time - I still visit very regularly, but I live rurally and the difference has been dramatic. Not tropical, far from it - but I'm originally from Perth, and I developed a few different health issues when I moved to Melbourne. I think it's unfortunately got pretty poor air quality generally compared to many other places in Australia.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:🍄Wed 10 Apr 2024 10 months ago:
@Baku comments/replies just come through like regular posts in my feed, so yeah it's a bit janky but I like not having to look at different places, and if stuff comes up that I can comment on, it's quite easy to do =) I love social network interoperability, even if it is imperfect!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:🍄Wed 10 Apr 2024 10 months ago:
@danwritesbooks @CEOofmyhouse56 my tip is: clothes dryer lint! Save it and you guarantee a fast start.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🦍 Mon 1 Apr 2024 10 months ago:
@Mittens_meow @Aradina correct, current radar shows more incoming shortly
- Comment on Plans for Parliament Station to become much more fun! 10 months ago:
@RustyRaven I WANT SLIDES
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
@wscholermann @melbaboutown I usually have my AC cooling at 22 as well.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ☀️Sun 28 Jan 2024 1 year ago:
@Seagoon_ much sympathy, I'm c6-c7 and now it looks like c4-c5, as MRI 4 months ago when the c6-c7 herniated showed a c4-c5 which became symptomatic just as the c6-7 settled down. It's scary to contemplate that this might continue regularly the rest of my life, it's fucking agonising. Still haven't worked out ideal pain meds. Opiods do nothing.