My mind was blown about a year ago when I realised the band was called “Eagles”. Not “The Eagles”. Just Eagles. None of their albums/posters etc refer to themselves as The Eagles.
Wow, I’m all in with these, except I’d have added Subnautica and I would have had Dishonored instead of Thief II. I Never played this game but I may fix that.
I think if you were commuting from Brisbane to Taiwan, the length of trip would come into play also. Perth to Taiwan would make more sense. It’s slightly closer and in the same time zone. 😁
To answer your unstated question: suburbs with rail links see those rail services enthusiastically used. So, usage is not the issue. It’s the upfront costs of establishing links, coupled with how long it takes - a decade or so. Our politics is just not well equipped for long term big infrastructure projects. The chances are high that the opposition will be in power to take the credit for the project’s completion, or they’ll blame your party for the bad project when they get in and the costs blow out. Or, they kill/maim the project anyway.
I’d be more in favour if I thought the movement was really driven by a desire to showcase the work of Australian artists. But, this feels more like an attack on Gina than anything positive. And I just don’t care that much about her.
I don’t know in truth. From friends I know who shoot, they need to keep their hand guns at the range. They can’t take them home. Farmers can have rifles, but I’m having a hard time picturing a rifle being the weapon in this story.
It was confirmed this afternoon that he had two handguns on the scene and was licensed as a collector for them.
I am personally surprised, I didn’t know that was possible. Meanwhile, there’s a petition going around by gun owners saying they don’t want tighter gun laws in the wake of this. I wonder whether there is an opposing petition saying it should not be legal to have a handgun at home?
This is all kinds of horrible. How did he even have a gun?
While he certainly intended to commit violence against a woman, there’s a little nuance in this example. I don’t believe that he’d have walked away and not shot the people in the house had it been a father and son.
None of the snow gear moves at all. This stuff would have been gone in the first few hours in Melbourne. I think this is actually the second week, too!
I’d keep going to work, at least until I figured out how I was going to deal with having life-changing money. Maybe another month?
Even once I’d figured out what my plans were, I expect it’d still involve some sort of work. It’s not like I’m going to sit and do nothing the rest of my life. I would just be doing projects that were of interest to me and on my own terms - instead of needing to work 40 hours a week and contributing to the family finances.
I’ve had a brain cell chugging away in the back of my head for the last hour or so thinking of what I’d really like to do if I had this sort of money. The first idea that has come to mind is something like Coles/Woolies online. No stores. You order what you want and it is delivered in x hours.
Set it up as a non-profit to break up the duopoly. Give the farmers somewhere to sell their produce besides those jerks. I might be showing my naivety, but I believe with that much money on the logistics, it should be able to compete price-wise.
Dad’s in the USA at the moment, so I have an opportunity to use US Amazon and have him bring things home that are normally too expensive/unable to ship to Australia.
So, I’m looking to get my wife a new lunch box. And even accounting for our American friends’ love of putting adjectives in front of any consumer product, I have to say the phrase “tactical lunchbox” just makes me giggle.
“I’m far too manly to carry around a lunch box!”
“But, it’s a tactical lunch box, dear.”
“Oh. Well, that’s ok, then! I will take my tactical lunch box to work in a very manly fashion!”
A lot of this is on us (the consumers). If they put produce on the shelves that isn’t perfect, we don’t buy it. So, it gets wasted. Either
at the farm before it is loaded onto a truck,
at the warehouse before it is sent to store,
at the dock before it is put on display,
by the customer, who will pick the ‘nicer’ fruit/vegetable from the pile.
We can’t entirely blame the supermarkets for this, though they absolutely deserve some of the blame. Having the ability to buy an apple with a bruise on it for a fraction of the price of the perfect apple is both good for the environment and a way to help address the rising cost of living.
Not sure they’d go for it, as they care more about the loss of the sale of that perfect apple than they do about the food waste.
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Queensland slashes public transport fares to 50c in six-month trial (www.theguardian.com)
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