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bigjsl

@bigjsl@aus.social

G’day from #Adelaide. I can endlessly discuss solar, batteries and EVs. Husband, father, EVs, renewables, batteries, investor, company director and business owner. I'm particularly involved in Cloudstep.io, jtwo solutions, Redflow Ltd, UltraCommerce Ltd and Clevertar Pty Ltd. Former Director of Uniti Group Ltd & the TIO DoB: 322.16ppm

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What evil is Elmo distracting us from by having his pet robot come out and dance? Presumably an accomplice is picking pockets while we’re all watching. Like the shell games at Montmartre.

timrichards, to sydney
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This George Street tram is useful, but IMO the CBD stops are too far apart. It's a fair walk if you happen to be halfway between some stops (eg QVB and Wynyard).

bigjsl,
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@luciedigitalni a consequence of thinking about a tram as a thing that travels between two places rather than a thing that moves people between places they need to be.

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This is an excellent initiative: Russia Wants to Build a Safe Space for Conservative Americans to Move To

https://newrepublic.com/post/172710/russia-build-safe-space-conservative-americans-move

bigjsl,
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@kcarruthers nothing would be finer than luring MAGA retirees to a Russian gulag.

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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

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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,
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@stib yes, absolutely, green hydrogen, made at point of consumption using lots of solar panels or surplus wind, makes sense for steel production. It won’t be as cheap as coking coal but there isn’t much choice. Hydrogen as fuel is a gas industry distraction.

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@mattdarveniza if the goal is to move 10,20&40 foot shipping containers there are better solutions than trucks driving on interstate highways but I suspect the future for regional trucking is electric or biofuels. Electric trains seem to work fine for freight in Europe and elsewhere. I remember being in the Indian Pacific ~40 years ago being hauled up the Blue Mountains by electric loco. Was changed for a diesel at the top. So once upon a time that was cheaper. Cheaper is the thing that causes businesses to change stuff.

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@Hypx @stib word salad.

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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.

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@Hypx Tesla claim their cars are cheaper to produce than ICE. This is why Chinese manufacturers have concentrated on them. Legacy car makers are milking the last yield from past investments. The near zero capital gains over the last 20 years for Toyota and Ford investors and the same for GM since their bankruptcy a decade ago are not convincing me they have a bright future.

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Fascinating Hamilton Gallery exhibition.
“However, few would know their names today because at some point after Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi became famous, their artistic careers were written out of history.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-20/hamilton-gallery-italian-female-masters-exhibition/103189414

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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”

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Perfectly normal weather. Merry Christmas from summertime Australia.

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    bigjsl,
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    @DrALJONES just the small matter of a two thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress. This is a distraction. If the Democratic party loses that badly in November they deserve to be obliterated.

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    @DrALJONES then the need for 38 of 50 states to vote to ratify.

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    @MisuseCase @DrALJONES yes, we find it unsurprising that our new left wing government is misidentified as right wing because they are so spineless they keep doing the same horrible things the previous Trump huggers did. But carry on. We love watching American politics.

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    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.

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    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

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    From elsewhere.

    bigjsl, to Adelaide
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    "My advice to riders is, please wear a helmet and stay off the footpaths," unless you’re in where it’s required to ride on the footpaths. I went over the handlebars of one of these a few years ago. They’re actually insane. Fun to ride but insane as public transportation.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-29/e-scooter-accidents-melbourne-trial-safety-concerns-730/103165810

    weezmgk, to random
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    things might be bad in your life as a consequence of your own actions but probably not 'getting paid to stay in the news by Kerry Stokes' bad (cf Ben Roberts Smith ) https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/watch-live-lehrmann-grilling-continues-after-court-hears-of-drug-use-lie-to-former-boss-20231127-p5en6w.html?btis

    bigjsl,
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    @weezmgk or the admitted cocaine user who was (is?) getting his rent paid by Ch7, so by Seven West Media’s shareholders, which means in large part by the same guy. Great day in court for 7’s biggest attractions.

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    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.”

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    This is a silly comment by the journalist - given the airport trains are planned to run along the Pakenham line via the new city tunnel, bringing them close to vast numbers of people.

    "While people seem to instinctively like the idea of an airport rail link, there are genuine questions about how many people would actually use it, considering the cost, inconvenience and time involved in travelling to the CBD and then out to the airport."

    Federal infrastructure funding: Melbourne Airport Rail Link in danger of becoming the next East West Link

    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-s-airport-rail-in-danger-of-becoming-the-next-east-west-link-20231117-p5eksp.html

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    @timrichards have you seen the Melbourne Airport buses? Packed. They go nonstop to Flinders St.

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

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    Nigel Farage to be dumped in middle of Australian outback for I'm a Celebrity

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/16/nigel-farage-im-a-celebrity-australian-outback

    bigjsl,
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    @br00t4c somewhere arid with snakes and scorpions I hope.

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