This doesn’t sound like much, but with very minimal effort, it could save over 10% on your power bill.
Do the washing.
Cook a meal.
Run the dishwasher.
Fill a thermos.
Crank the aircon to cool/heat the house.
If your power bill is $400/month, that’s $40 for doing stuff you were already going to do - just in that 3 hour window each day.
This is the game I remember from primary school in the 80’s on the Gold Coast. Then the family moved to WA and I don’t think the game existed here. I haven’t thought about this game in over 40 years!
Because the rest of us don’t have houses and aren’t set to lose half our net worth by such policy changes. So, we have a variety of election policies that we prioritise.
When Labor propose making changes to the status quo, even with mild changes, they have historically lost the election.
It might be different next time, but it’d be a huge political risk to propose changes again after previous rejections.
Yes and no. There are a lot of owner-occupiers in Australia now who on paper are Millionaires, and they like being Millionaires. They are not going to like it if/when that status is stripped from them.
If houses nationally suddenly dropped in value by 50%, even if people’s mortgages were halved at the same time, I expect the change would still be met with hostility. It’s the unspoken truth of housing affordability: far too many Australians are happy with the present housing prices. They’re outnumbered by the rest of us, but they are a large enough voting block to decide any election.
I’ll buy the Aldi Tim Tam knockoffs when Tim Tams have been full-price for too long. I refuse to pay $6-$7 for 11 biscuits, but will pick up a few packets when I find them half-price and use them up over the subsequent weeks.
The Aldi “Divines” are like most Aldi knock-off products: Not as good as the real deal, but close enough that you don’t really miss the real product. And they’re even a little cheaper than half-price Tim Tams.
Until this article, I’d never heard of Penguins. But I know the brand McVities and I like their Digestives, I’d probably have been willing to give Penguins a chance.
I get so embarrassed when I see these idiots. I can’t watch this video, the cringe is too much for me.
I’m not sure what metrics those sites adopt to determine whether the instance is up or not, but clearly they’re in error regarding us being offline. I can’t even get the second link to show instances to find us.
I have no intention to help you do either of these things. Maybe possibly feed you in a pinch, but absolutely not the other one.
https://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml
Just use one of their feeds. Why on earth would you mess around with scraping the web UI?
There was. I got something like $236 from being a part of the class action.
It’s an interesting precedent. I’ve used AI several times in my job. Even for a government client. My prompts tend to be ‘give me a demo function that does x’ so that I can see how to do a thing. It’s usually quicker than Stack Overflow, but still requires human oversight - it often gets things wrong.
But yeah - just using AI to do work: If that leads to being unacceptable to some clients/government departments, workers are going to be doing their jobs without the latest and most efficient tools. I think my situation is different to Deloitte’s, because I didn’t give the client what the AI spat out. It looks like they did.
I hate how the Guardian routinely does this.
Payment cancellations have been paused since July last year
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“The system is being applied unlawfully at worst, and it’s defective administration at best. It’s thousands and thousands of people who are having really serious consequences because there are errors in the automated processes.”
The system is not being applied unlawfully. They recognised that it is buggy and turned it off over a year ago. There is enough true stuff in this matter to make a story that is worth discussing, particularly since it affected people who are most in need of support. But because the truth isn’t scandalous enough for someone a the Guardian, they need to make it sound worse than it actually was.
Our primary school did this last year. The kids did some art project and the school submitted them to a website where you could buy it as a calendar, diary, tea towel etc. I thought it was a great idea. We bought a few tea towels that went down well as Christmas presents.
He discounted the preliminary dance, I assumed because it was not a battle. But I’m not going to go back and check. It wasn’t that interesting. 😀
It was mildly interesting to watch (listen) to this perspective. He’s right: I don’t care much about Breaking as a sport. It turns out the scene in Australia is tiny and the people who do it are amateur. For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women to qualify as Australia’s entry into the Olympics. Which globally is a very low bar.
To sum up the video:
Yes, she sucked. But it isn’t like Australia was ever going to do well in this event no matter who we sent.
Dancers in the Australian breaking scene can’t afford to travel to global events and get good.
That is the title of the actual video with the bit in braces added.
The description reads:
Welcome to the Raygun retrospective.
My name is Jafri, I’ve been dancing for 10 years and been going to events in Australia for the past 7. I’ve been observing all that’s been happening over the last year since the Olympics and wanted to provide my perspective on Raygun and Australian breaking.
Why now you ask?
I felt this was important for me to share as someone who has experienced breaking in Australia. You all know by now that breakers are a rare breed in this corner of the world and I feel like a lot of detail was missed in other videos, so I wanted to provide something for the scene that was actually substantial.
Now that the smoke and mirrors around Raygun has dissipated, I’m hoping you can watch my video from a different place.
Thanks for your time and enjoy.
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0:00 - Chapter 0
2:44 - Chapter 1: Australia’s Disadvantages
11:11 - Chapter 2: That Fateful Weekend
16:32 - Chapter 3: Complacency
20:15 - Chapter 4: Incidents
23:51 - Chapter 5: Picking Up The Pieces
Costs aren’t actually that high when the nerd labour is free. Hosting costs were around $200/mo last time I looked. It’s really a @lodion@aussie.zone question, though.
If your kid is into trains, go with Chuggington over Thomas. Dinosaur Train is also pretty great. Time-travel, Trains and Dinosaurs!
Bring it up occasionally when appropriate. Most active Redditors know about Lemmy already. Don’t get too spammy or you’ll find yourself in Reddit’s sinbin.
We aren’t trying to steal Reddit’s userbase. We are not equipped to handle millions of users and frankly, the whole of Lemmy is not, either. The admin and moderation tools are not mature enough to deal with activity on Reddit’s scale. We’re happy to organically grow and while I think most users are either refugees or dual-citizens from Reddit, I’d be happier to pluck up users who have never been Redditors in the first place.
It may seem like everyone has solar panels, but alas we don’t. For two-thirds of us, this would not be free anyway.