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 friend’s 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.
Of course you will. You are looking at two items, both costing the same price ($x/kg). One is in fantastic condition and one looks less-than-fantastic.
It’s just human nature that you’ll take the pristine product. Why on earth would you pay the same amount for an inferior product?
I had some nice customer service from Google. I know Lemmy is full of people de-Googling and raging at how Google is the devil, but they honestly do treat you differently if you are a Google Workspace user. That’s actually annoying most of the time, as I can’t use a pile of services because the privacy protections of Workspace accounts aren’t compatible with some things.
Anyway: on top of my workspace account, I have paid about $25 each January for extra storage. Over the weekend, “Google Ireland” refunded me that $25. I figured they were up to some sort of tax haven shenanigans and I’d be re-billed. It turns out I was out of line: Google have increased the storage allocation to Workspace users and that extra storage I’ve been paying for is now free.
If they had emailed me to say I don’t need to pay going forward, I’d have been happy. If they’d given me a half-refund because I’m half-way through my year, I’d have been happy. But they refunded me the whole amount. That’s above and beyond. Thanks, company-that-knows-everything-about-me.
I would not want Covid again. If you are hoping to get it ahead of a cruise to maximise your resilience ahead of exposing yourself to it, I’d question whether it’s actually worth such a risk. That all said, if you could control such things, then time it for about a month before you travel. You’ll have a couple of weeks to recover and will be at peak resistance when you travel.
You run the risk of course of being someone who gets what is called “Long Covid”. If you’ve never had the virus previously, I wouldn’t risk this at all. It’s nasty at the best of time with all the boosters and stuff. It’s extra nasty the first time, and you might have long-term effects.
The only time I struggled was when they had Black Hermione in the Cursed Child play. I would have had zero qualms with her being black at the outset, and I was logically on-board with JK Rowling when she said “the books never specify her race, it’s unimportant to her character”. I’m even someone who can separate the movie and book portrayal of a character most of the time.
But Emma Watson has completely brought this character to life. I just couldn’t reconcile the new actress with the character in that example.
Update: the Mercedes parked in the 5-minute zone was gone this morning. It was still there yesterday afternoon. I don’t know whether they finally returned or whether it was eventually towed.
I guess some things will just forever be a mystery.
I nearly commented yesterday to say it was still there. And muse at what it takes to actually have your car towed. I’m pretty sure a car parked in front of a city loop station in Melbourne would have been towed on the first day. In fact, a friend had her car towed from Flinders St about 4:05pm after it became a clearway at 4 one time. That was an expensive coffee!
Ultimately it is being used for drinking water. So I’m not too disturbed that the water is being extracted. It simply needs to not be free. That’s the community’s water. You want some? Pay for it. Hell, given the price of scheme water (not too much), trucking it can’t be that much cheaper than paying Water Corp.
I don’t have such an issue with orchards and farms taking it for free, because they’re turning around and putting it straight back into the local ecosystem. Also, that water is used for growing plants which take carbon out of the atmosphere.
But Coke? They’re taking it, putting it in bottles and removing it from the aquifer system. As though the water was theirs from the outset. It isn’t.
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.
He remained in the car with her child while she was forced to make the purchases.
This is the bit I don’t understand. How could he know she wouldn’t involve police the moment he let her out of sight? I know there’s the threat to the baby, but the risk he took there is unbelievable.
People will just go back to what they did before negative gearing: Make businesses and move their properties into that. “Oh, your business made a loss paying more interest than it brought in as rent, I guess you can write that off as a loss and not pay tax on your income”.
The result is the same, but it’s more work for the ATO.
My old boss still had his holiday home under the business, because it’s how he did it before Negative Gearing was a thing.
There’s a new Mercedes parked in the 5-minute zone outside one of Perth’s city stations. It’s been there a couple of days. On the first day, I thought it was a case of rich jerk parks wherever they want to and just pay the fine.
Now there are several presumably expensive tickets on the windscreen and a notice it’ll be towed soon.
I wonder what the story is? Presumably if it had been stolen, police would have notified the owner by now. So has it just been abandoned? If so, why there? It’s very mysterious.
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I don’t pay any attention to this stuff at all. I should probably feel guilty about that, but I honestly just sort of trust the super-engaged to keep the government of the day to account.
Thanks for this thread, I wouldn’t have even known about the budget and the main points of what is in it without it.
Daily discussion thread: 🦅 Thursday, May 23, 2024
Bird flu detected at Vic poultry farm - strain not confirmed yet (www.abc.net.au)
Fingers crossed its not H5N1.
Woolworths CEO says supermarket contributes 'very little' to food waste (www.abc.net.au)
Daily discussion thread: 🦘 Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Daily discussion thread: 🍭 Tuesday, May 21, 2024
As NZ unemployment rises, Kiwis are making their way across the Tasman (www.abc.net.au)
Bad in NZ or hyperbole ?
Daily discussion thread: 🍔 Monday, May 20, 2024
Company still hiding water usage details and deflecting issue with request to regulate all bore owners. (www.abc.net.au)
Put Vincent Namatjira’s work in Times Square [Indiegogo campaign] (www.indiegogo.com)
Bluey’s World Presale tickets (tickets.blueysworld.com.au)
One of those interactive jobbos at Northshore if you’re interested....
Mother and daughter abducted from shopping centre carpark, forced to buy laptops (www.abc.net.au)
Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers (youtu.be)
NOTE: Video sponsored by the ACTU...
Daily discussion thread: 🍩 Friday, May 17, 2024
Daily discussion thread: 🥧 Thursday, May 16, 2024
Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait (www.theguardian.com)
Streisand Effect, do your work!
Collingwood fan left 'a broken man' after AFL bans him for grabbing West Coast's Harvey Johnston (www.abc.net.au)
Budget Night Thread
Let’s party!
Daily discussion thread: 👾 Tuesday, May 14, 2024