An interesting take: the government is proposing minimum wage standards for gig workers. The paper went with ‘Now you might have to pay up to $15 to get fast food delivered’.
Of course you will. You are looking at two items, both costing the same price ($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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!”
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.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in hospital (www.bbc.co.uk)
I hope it isn’t anything too serious. Get well soon, Woz.
We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago (www.abc.net.au)
I’m sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it’s nice to see it recognised like this.
Front page of yesterday's West Australian (aussie.zone)
An interesting take: the government is proposing minimum wage standards for gig workers. The paper went with ‘Now you might have to pay up to $15 to get fast food delivered’.
Western Australia's lower house of parliament now has equal representation between men and women for the first time in its history (www.abc.net.au)
I think this is likely the first time it has happened anywhere in Australia.
Authorities rush to contain blaze near famous Perth staircase Jacob's Ladder in Kings Park (www.abc.net.au)
I run up Jacob’s daily. Today, I had to take the Kokoda trail. 😥
As a trans man, Max Simensen says he has unique insights everyone could learn from (www.abc.net.au)
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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)
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Perth mother and daughter shot dead by friend's ex-partner in double murder-suicide (www.abc.net.au)
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