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bigjsl, 4 months ago to random

This is a great graphic that explains why green hydrogen is not the future of fuel for cars and possibly not the fuel for anything much else.

bigjsl, 2 months ago to random

Justice Lee: “Having escaped the lion's den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat."

bigjsl, 2 months ago to random

Remember how Foxtel were selling Hubbl for half price and all the reviews said they are junk? Now Foxtel are giving them away to former customers. "We want you to be one of the first to experience Hubbl; Australia's newest transformative TV experience and right now, as a previous Foxtel Now customer, you can get a free Hubbl* (normally $99)."

bigjsl, 8 months ago to random

We seem to have acquired a puppy, a mostly grown year old rescue puppy. The dog and pup had a romp around in our firewood pile and chased and caught a rabbit. Both consider it was a good day even if they didn’t get to keep their new toy. Rabbit acted fatally wounded then hopped off.

bigjsl, 10 months ago to random

Forget aliens, room temperature semiconductors is big news! https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/26/1824235/the-first-room-temperature-ambient-pressure-superconductor

bigjsl, 9 months ago to random

If Australia was truly capable of moving on the next announcement would be a high speed train linking Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney but no, Qantas will continue to be protected while they and the other airlines spew megatons of CO2 on the densest air route on the planet.

bigjsl, 8 months ago to Amazon

First proper #Amazon failure today. These pegs are meant to have hex heads to match the hex driver that came with them, in the same nice plastic case. Lodged a return on basis goods not as described and I just take them to the post office and get a refund. What I really wanted was screw in F-ing tent pegs for the weekend.

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bigjsl, 8 months ago to random

After 16 years an app store experience this bad exists because the monopoly owner wants it to be this bad. Still no closer to finding a good household inventory app.

bigjsl, 4 months ago to random

An alternative explanation would be that Toyota has been caught flatfooted on EVs and their chairman has to say any old rubbish to avoid losing his job. Japan’s economy has been stagnant for nearly thirty years and Toyota is a big part of that.

bigjsl, 1 month ago to random

bigjsl, 10 months ago to random

As my builder said, once concrete gets away from you it’s all over. The props have props.

bigjsl, 8 months ago to random

Remember Forth? And 6502. The first article I wrote that was ever published was Forth code back in the 80s. This is not that code. This is FigFORTH. https://ksquiggle.neocities.org/ff6502

bigjsl, 2 months ago to random

Stokes is going to need to try much harder to polish his long term legacy.

bigjsl, 11 months ago to random

Tried “federated” mode. Saw my first dick pick. Enough of that experiment.

bigjsl, 1 month ago to random

AI generated content is garbage. The website has detailed driving instructions which do not mention the ferry.

bigjsl, 5 months ago to random

Useful reminder of where the coin comes from that operates Spud & the leftovers. The Guardian: “Peter Dutton was flown by a billionaire to Gina Rinehart’s Pilbara party – where he had a message for parents
Federal opposition leader told audience at Roy Hill mine that parents and teachers should instruct children about benefits of mining”

bigjsl, 1 month ago to random

Special Chinese electrons? 3500 watts from 200 volts at 10 amps? Electric water heater sold by Amazon in Australia.

bigjsl, 5 months ago to random

Someone at this Bunnings has replaced the Christmas music with some generic gen X station. I would like to nominate them for employee of the month. Argh! No, American Xmas is back.

bigjsl, 6 months ago to random

The Libs and Ch7 have all the best people: “Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has confirmed that Channel 7’s Spotlight program has been paying his rent for a year as part of an arrangement to deliver a “bombshell” interview with host Liam Bartlett.”

bigjsl, 2 months ago to random

In case you're wondering about ROE vs ROI here's a simple explanation: Return on Equity is a measure of how well the company is doing for the shareholders, Return on Investment is how well the company is doing for itself and its lenders. So ROI can look quite healthy while ROE is tiny or negative.

bigjsl, 4 months ago to random

Nationals senator, Bridget McKenzie, and Liberal senator Dean Smith said “The Albanese government has failed to ensure travelling Australians are not taken advantage of by our airlines and instead have spent the past 18 months running a protection racket for Qantas who represent more than 60% of the Australian airline industry.” This is of course a completely different protection racket than the one the Coalition ran for the previous nine years from the Chairman’s Lounge. I hope Albo’s government legislate more protection for airline passengers but I would love to see concrete progress on building high speed rail between Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/09/new-pay-on-delay-airline-flight-delays-bill-compensation-passengers-liberal-coalition-details

bigjsl, 2 months ago to random

Meta removing the news tab? Cop that Rupert. Sqottie from Grovelling isn’t PM any more and clearly the bargaining didn’t go the way Rupert expected.

bigjsl, 2 months ago to random

Google to purge billions of files containing Chrome users' personal data… in the USA and I’m supposed to feel relieved, happy, positive about using Chrome? Might as post all your private data on Pastebin than use Chrome. Note well that this purging is for US users not Australians. Interesting article if you read it carefully. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-02/google-to-purge-billions-of-files-containing-personal-data-in-se/103657584

bigjsl, 7 months ago to random

Looks like address+suffix@ gets eaten inside Pickle's server because that email hasn't arrived at gmail.

bigjsl, 6 months ago to random

Humanity isn’t going to change trajectory on destroying the environment.

“At least a quarter of the billionaires registered as delegates at Cop28 made their fortunes from highly polluting industries such as petrochemicals, mining and beef production, a new analysis has shown.
The findings, revealed to the Guardian in an exclusive analysis of the 34 billionaires who are signed up to the UN summit, raise concerns about the influence wielded by ultra-rich, mega-emitters on the world’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis. Together the 34 are worth about $495.5bn.
The high number of billionaires at the conference, along with the many private jets they flew in on, suggests Cop may now be second only to Davos as a gathering point for the world’s ultra-rich, who can meet and potentially influence government leaders and senior politicians and bureaucrats, while making deals with other business owners.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/12/one-in-four-billionaire-cop28-delegates-made-fortunes-from-polluting-industries