The roughly four dozen migrants that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis helped fly from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard about a year and a half ago have been granted legal designations due to the Republican’s crimes against the “victims.”...
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
Actor John Leguizamo obliterated a small horse piñata while reciting a thorough catalogue of Spanish-language profanities on “The Daily Show” Tuesday in response to a New York Times/Siena poll that reported former President Trump leads President Biden among Latino voters....
This is thankfully only about imports so it will limit the damage, but the coming fuel efficiency standards carve out an exception too (although I believe they are more stringent than the US standards at least).
EDIT: I was under the impression the tax only applies to private imports, but it actually doesn’t. See my below comment. But it is limited to higher priced vehicles at least.
The fight over “net zero” at the National Party over the weekend was all a bit of a charade. Yes, it garnered attention from mainstream media, but it was essentially meaningless....
With testing many different shaders over dozens of games, the generated instruction count was down by about 2.5%, the code size around 2% lower, etc. Some users report this quantifying in some games like Cyberpunk 2077 yielding 4~14% better performance.
Migrants get visas for being "victims" of Ron DeSantis (www.newsweek.com)
The roughly four dozen migrants that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis helped fly from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard about a year and a half ago have been granted legal designations due to the Republican’s crimes against the “victims.”...
Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says (www.cbsnews.com)
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
John Leguizamo on Trump’s Latino support: ‘He doesn’t like us, and he doesn’t want us here’ (thehill.com)
Actor John Leguizamo obliterated a small horse piñata while reciting a thorough catalogue of Spanish-language profanities on “The Daily Show” Tuesday in response to a New York Times/Siena poll that reported former President Trump leads President Biden among Latino voters....
Gas lobby forced to pull ad for misleading viewers over “50 pct cleaner” claims (reneweconomy.com.au)
An advertisement by Australia’s gas lobby has been taken off the airwaves after it was found to mislead viewers with environmental claims....
Rooftop solar eats up all demand in South Australia, world’s most renewable grid (reneweconomy.com.au)
Gas lobby launches new scare campaign on electrification, saying it will break the grid (reneweconomy.com.au)
Bruce Lehrmann revealed as high-profile man charged with Toowoomba rape (www.theguardian.com)
Outrage as new Aussie car tax ignores 'dangerous' mega-utes (au.finance.yahoo.com)
XWayland 23.2 Released With Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, EI Support (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr support for disabling VSync on Wayland with X11 apps (most games)
The Australian solar tech that may have found a low cost solution to deep storage (reneweconomy.com.au)
Nuclear energy remains weapon of choice for climate deniers and coal lobby (reneweconomy.com.au)
The fight over “net zero” at the National Party over the weekend was all a bit of a charade. Yes, it garnered attention from mainstream media, but it was essentially meaningless....
Valve detail their plans to combat Steam Deck OLED scalpers (www.gamingonlinux.com)
After all those dole diaries and ‘mutual obligations’, it turns out Australia’s privatised employment services don’t work | Van Badham (www.theguardian.com)
Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)
With testing many different shaders over dozens of games, the generated instruction count was down by about 2.5%, the code size around 2% lower, etc. Some users report this quantifying in some games like Cyberpunk 2077 yielding 4~14% better performance.
Larry was paid $4.20 an hour in Australia. It’s not enough to live on – but it’s completely legal (www.theguardian.com)
Australians keep buying huge cars in huge numbers. If we want to cut emissions, this can’t go on | Richard Denniss (www.theguardian.com)
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
(QLD) - Home battery rebate gets major boost as demand for solar storage surges - One Step Off The Grid (onestepoffthegrid.com.au)
Giant utes and SUVs are taking over Australia's roads - and that’s a problem (www.youtube.com)
Australian fossil car industry spends over $500 per vehicle on advertising (thedriven.io)
A town like Alice. How a complex, isolated solar grid could provide blueprint for rest of Australia (reneweconomy.com.au)
The push against wage rises has begun again – it’s an argument for Australia’s poorest workers to become poorer | Greg Jericho (www.theguardian.com)
All the Ways Car Dependency Is Wrecking Us (www.youtube.com)
OpenTTD 14.0 released (www.openttd.org)