Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Tariffs on 'incredibly important' ally Australia branded 'insulting' in fiery US Senate hearing 1 week ago:
There was a political parody comedy radio series in the 80s called “How Green was my Cactus”.
I remember a negotiation between “King Bonza” (Bob Hawke) and a simulacrum of Reagan discussing letting Australia win the Americas Cup yacht race.
KB “Let us win or we’ll force you to tell us what’s at Pine Gap”. R “you will need to force us to tell you where it is first” KB “Then we will send Don Lane home” R “no! Anything but that! OK, you win”
- Comment on what a good boie 1 week ago:
Fun fact; osteo-archeologist and palaeontologist students used to be given thylacine skulls to identify as a hazing ritual. They would usually be misidentified as Canine (fox or domestic dog).
They do have different teeth to Foxes and they are smaller than Wolves but the similarity with Domestic Dogs and Dingos are uncanny!
Convergent evolution at its finest!
- Comment on Revealed: nearly 2m hectares of koala habitat bulldozed since 2011 – despite political promises to protect species 1 week ago:
That is because there is money to be made by fossil fuel companies by blocking wind turbines, but there isn’t money to be made maintaining Natural Habitat.
That is why fossil fuel companies are pumping so much money into astroturf campaigns against renewables and infrastructure.
- Comment on ‘Fabricated terror plot’: Police make bombshell update into Dural caravan investigation 1 month ago:
They don’t need explosives to destroy a Caravan in Australia, All they need is a couple of Baby Boomers and a dodgy Auto Electrician. Grey Nomads destroy more caravans than Faux-Terrorists ever could.
- Comment on Insurance industry calls for $30b flood defence fund as fees cripple households 1 month ago:
“Insurance Industry demands Taxpayers subsidise their record profits”
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 23 February 2025 1 month ago:
Attempting to clean the bathroom, giving up a binging movies from the 1990s
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 23 February 2025 1 month ago:
Same thing we do every weekend.
- Comment on ASIO boss reveals multiple nations plotted to murder critics in Australia 2 months ago:
I think that Kingsmen did it best with The Sun headlines plastered all over Galahads office. He kept every front page from every time he saved the world.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 2 February 2025 2 months ago:
My front sprinklers are on the fritz. I had to water half of my front yard by hand! Oh well. I had to do the naturestrip anyway.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 2 February 2025 2 months ago:
I’m out watering the garden at the moment.
Well, I am relocating and timing the sprinklers as necessary, patting the dog, listening to birdsong and drinking my morning coffee.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 2 February 2025 2 months ago:
It’s Sunday and I am a Home Owner.
Avo Toast with accompaniments please chef.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 31 January, 2025 2 months ago:
I’m cleaning pigeon guano off solar panels and gutters tomorrow morning on the 2-storey roof. I don’t want to fall off.
Hopefully Sunday will be in solar-powered, air-conditioned comfort tomorrow at home, rather than solar-powered air-conditioned comfort of the local Trauma ward.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 30 January, 2025 2 months ago:
I hear stories of people wheeling entire shopping trolleys of Lego out the front entry, ignoring the greeters/staff members.
They typically wheel the entire trolley straight to their Drug Dealer where they trade it for their recreation of choice.
The Drug Dealers then put them on BrickLink.
- Comment on SA Police arrest man for allegedly displaying Nazi symbol as two neo-Nazis granted bail 2 months ago:
Do you mean that the news agency’s should anonymise photos of Nazis or that someone should use an industrial press to change their appearance?
Kneecap a Nazi, Face-plant a Fascist.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 30 January, 2025 2 months ago:
If it was Nappies and Baby Formula, there would have been prosecutions and security guards wrestling single mothers to the ground.
It is anything like my local Big W, since it was Pokémon Cards and Bathers, it was probably employees supplementing their minimum wage of their 7.5 hour shifts.
Pay your employees a living wage!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 2 months ago:
Is everyone Celebrating Australia Day/ Commiserating Invasion Day on Sunday or Monday?
I need to get the Lamb Chops for the BBQ, but don’t know exactly when I will be having them for Lunch.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 2 months ago:
This doesn’t sound like a problem with PT -per se-, it sounds more like a problem with PT infrastructure Melbourne doesn’t have a train to the Airport either (currently) and all attempts are receiving severe political roadblocks.
Melbourne does have regular radial public transport to the CBD during peak times and the potential to have regular public transport during regular times.
Melbourne does need more connective public transport, we do have an adequate bus network, but due to congestion, it is unreliable during peak traffic times. The Suburban Rail Loop (if it gets finished before the next change of government) will be a good start, but more outer suburban lines (Frankston-Dandenong-Ringwood) would also be of benefit.
Just remember, when you are stuck in traffic, you are the traffic that you are stuck in.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 2 months ago:
It depends a lot on vehicle longevity. An EV, PHEV or even a hybrid all have batteries that degrade within (or more likely just after the expiration of) the warranty period. They batteries are often more than the car is worth. A pure ICE vehicle should keep running for decades after the warranty period has expired, as long as it is maintained to the minimum standard.
Both Toyota and Porsche claim that EVs are a WOFTAM because their vehicles typically have “infinite” lifespans, (For very small values of “infinite” 😉)
Lately, manufacturers are heading away from this mindset because it is much more profitable to sell EVs with engineered obsolescence, forcing punters to buy a new car as soon as the warranty expires.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 2 months ago:
You are right, but the greater majority of people who are sensitive to fluctuating petrol prices are either PAYE employees and get paid on Wednesday or Thursday or living off government payments, which are also paid on Thursdays.
People who are Salaried are more likely to have a company car or company fuel card, which means that they are not affected by fuel price fluctuations.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 2 months ago:
Different models of EV wear tyres at different rates, but you are correct that on average, EVs chew through tyres at a much higher rate than comparative ICE vehicles.
Also, while low profile tyres reduce the unsprung weight of a vehicle, they are much more prone to damage than vehicles with relatively smaller rims. While you may save fuel/energy on paper, all it takes is one irreparable puncture to have a much higher environmental impact.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 2 months ago:
The only EVs that are better for the environment than ICE are shared EVs (like Trains, Trams and Electric Buses) and ultralight EVs (like e-bikes and cargo e-bikes).
Driving a Lithium battery EV full-sized car is just shifting the environmental damage to different locations and cost centres.
- Comment on Motorists able to lock in low petrol prices for 24 hours under Victoria’s new ‘fair fuel’ plan 2 months ago:
I’m sure that this will mean that instead of fuel prices being inflated on the Friday Morning before a long weekend, they will be inflated on the Thursday Morning before a long weekend.
This will mean that that those people who fill up on Payday will be paying the inflated price, even if they are organised and plan ahead.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌚 Wednesday, 15 January, 2025 3 months ago:
“The world really is wonderful”.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌖🌕🌘 Monday, 13 January, 2025 3 months ago:
The thing is that with a few minor setting adjustments, Win11 behaves exactly the same as Win10.
The only thing an IT department does need to do is disable all the intrusive automations that assume that you are using your work computer for personal use.
You don’t need News and Weather on your work computer and Edge should not even think about saving Credit Card data, especially if you are processing customers credit card payments through a banking web portal.
And don’t get me started on CoPilot. If you use an LLM to do your job, it means your job can be replaced by an LLM. What are you even doing there.
Speaking of which, how do you disable Adobe’s intrusive AI in Acrobat Reader? Adobe doesn’t need to analyse my Pending Invoice Report.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌖🌕🌘 Monday, 13 January, 2025 3 months ago:
Keep in mind that many IT departments can see everything you do on your computer. Your saved passwords will be stored in the Directory server.
I used to use Firefox for any personal stuff I was doing on my computer and I would use Edge and Chrome for work-related. (Firefox was also faster because it wasn’t being bogged down with AI bullshit).
Our IT department remotely uninstalled Firefox.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 📸📽️🎥 Saturday, 11 January, 2025 3 months ago:
When I tore my rotator cuff I would wake up in the middle of the night, in pain, with my shoulder out again. I would have to sleep wearing a sling.
My advice is to see a physio and do the exercises they recommend to build up your shoulder muscles. It can’t dislocate when it is being held in place by muscle.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 📸📽️🎥 Saturday, 11 January, 2025 3 months ago:
Same with DIY. “You can repair this using just a screwdriver, file and hammer: here is how I did it with an industrial workshop of tools, sponsored by…”
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 📸📽️🎥 Saturday, 11 January, 2025 3 months ago:
Our Pot Drawers are like the worse game of Tetris anyone has ever played. At least our Pots and Frypans are all round(ish) and can stack. Our baking dishes and casseroles are all different shaped oblongs and round rectangles. Our “Tupperware” cupboard is impossible to keep organised due to the hodge-podge collection of different designs of Tupperware, Sistema, Decōr and random brands of plastic containers that have collected over the years.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐬🦭🦈 Friday, 10 January, 2025 3 months ago:
I paid for express passport replacement because I didn’t have enough points of ID for COVID benefit payments.
I then had a change of policy at work and didn’t get much benefits after all. The benefits barely covered the cost of the passport.
Then, because of the change of policy at work, I got pushed into the next tax bracket and had to pay back the benefits plus more.
I should have just burned some Annual Leave and not bothered with the COVID benefit payments at all.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐬🦭🦈 Friday, 10 January, 2025 3 months ago:
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I hope you feel better after that! Crook guts are never fun.