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ajsadauskas

@ajsadauskas@aus.social

Australian urban planning, public transport, politics, retrocomputing, and tech nerd. Recovering journo. Cat parent. Part-time miserable grump.

Cities for people, not cars! Tech for people, not investors!

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ajsadauskas, to art
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A vital step forward for Parramatta as Sydney's second CBD.

The old Riverside Theatre is frankly starting to show its age.

Having a modern venue for theatre, concerts, and live music in Western Sydney is an important investment for the arts.

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/theatre/broadway-comes-to-parramatta-new-188-million-theatre-for-western-sydney-20240522-p5jfoh.html

@sydney

ajsadauskas, to afl
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Want to be an AFL media personality? It's easy — just follow the four-step Kane Cornes plan.

  1. Look up which teams that lost on the weekend.

  2. For each of the teams, come up with a reason why either:

a) It's the players' fault. They're too lazy. Don't train hard enough. Don't put in enough effort!
b) It's the players' fault. They're not skilled enough!
c) It's the coach's fault. Bad tactics. Bad strategy. He's allowing those players to be lazy!
d) It's the recruiter's fault. They picked/traded for the wrong players!

  1. Get your producers to find a passage of play, interview, or press conference you can say backs up your claim.

  2. Go on TV or radio and say what you think confidently, as if you're really pissed off about it.

Yeah, the older Richmond players didn't show enough effort. You really don't care — you used to play for Port Adelaide after all.

But you pretend you do on TV and the radio, because it makes great content.

That's really all it takes, folks!

@afl

codepo8, to random
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The BASIC programming language is now 60 years old.
Did you also start with it?

?OUT OF MEMORY ERROR.
READY
_

https://www.zdnet.com/article/basic-turns-60-why-simplicity-was-this-programming-languages-blessing-and-its-curse/

ajsadauskas,
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@codepo8 In honour of this momentous occasion, I think we need to celebrate the most popular program ever written in BASIC:

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"
20 GOTO 10

timrichards, to random
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People are weird

Free the fridges! Make dishwashers great again! US conservatives have odd priorities - Emma Beddington https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/free-fridges-make-dishwashers-great-again-us-conservatives-odd-priorities

ajsadauskas,
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@timrichards Look at these easily offended snowflakes wanting to intervene in the free market when it doesn't support their 'correct' political position.

They hate freedom — in this case, the freedom to buy an energy efficient appliance — and so are using the might of big government to force their ideological agenda on businesses and ordinary freedom-loving Americans.

ajsadauskas,
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@timrichards I think the bigger story is the GFC, and the Iraq/Afghan Wars, put an end to Bush/Reagan neoconservatism as a governing ideology.

That mix of Friedman/Hayek neoliberal economics and American interventionism wasn't ever a great governing ideology. But at least it was at least something.

Now, a lot of the American right's ideology is just anti-leftism.

It's advocating for anything American progressives oppose, and opposing anything the left supports — no matter how inane.

Which leads to legislation to mandate less energy efficient home appliances. For freedom.

ajsadauskas,
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@StudChud @Pilk He may now have softer, more supple and youthful skin, but he'll always be awful on the inside.

Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? (www.abc.net.au)

Broader adoption of keeping cats safe at home would have large benefits for cat welfare, human health, local wildlife and even the economy. So, should cat owners be required to keep their pets contained to their property?...

ajsadauskas,
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@trk @TassieTosser Knox City Council in outer-eastern Melbourne did exactly this: https://www.knox.vic.gov.au/whats-happening/news/keeping-your-cats-safe-and-secured .

The council did it because some of its suburbs (The Basin, Ferntree Gully, Upper Ferntree Gully, parts of Boronia, Lysterfield) border national parks and the Dandenong Ranges.

Younger cats can adapt to living indoors.

But the challenge was with older cats, who are used to roaming around.

The happy medium would be to phase it in over five to 10 years, where any new cats registered or adopted after a particular date have to stay indoors, but older cats can continue to roam.

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