Depressing, isn't it. Imagine using your nation's natural resources for the betterment of your citizens and not so vile fucks can make comments about the jealous poor.

Good luck with that. He's employed by Gina Rhinehart to protect her interests - and protections from climate change are contrary to her business goals.

Thunderstorm just rolling over the village, but the house battery is fully charged and I need not fear the inevitable power cut.

They've got absolutely fuck all of any use to say about anything - they're just 'anti' the greens. No policies, no big ideas, just opposed to another party. Fucking useless nazis.

Made chunky bolognaise in the Thermomix we inherited from my dad and it fucking rocked. Wasn't sure about the worcestershire sauce and the chilli flakes, but went with it - very glad I did.

Read this story this morning in my feed. Pretty shocking outcome to be honest. They'd been trying for EIGHT years to get these EV chargers funded for their region and then the mayor watched that channel 7 video about nickel mining in Indonesia. On the basis of that video he called a motion to cancel the install and it passed 4:3. Turns out that he also has some constituents who 'regularly contact him' whenever anything about renewables comes up - I'm sure you can imagine the type - and he decided to pull the pin. Side note - the ch.7 doco was debunked - turned out literally nobody uses the nickel from that Indonesian mine in car batteries because it's too low quality. He also failed to mention what the nickel in car batteries has to do with EV chargers that, since this is in Queensland, are probably powered by fucking COAL.

I'll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.

The central issue is control. I'm happy to use EFTPOS but would definitely not want to see cash disappear as it's not something governments can easily track and/or move.

I'm on the fence about it. I was part of the Digg migration and made it into the Eternity Club. I've supported the black-out and will continue to do so, but I have a soft-spot for the site and even if I'm not active on there for the time-being, I won't be deleting my account. My 'on the shitter' site switched from Reddit to TikTok a couple of years ago, so I won't miss that, but there is a vast amount of pornography on the site that is neatly contained and easily filtered that will be hard to replace.

Oh no! Anyway …

What a legend. Love it.

You can guarantee it will. In fact I was amazed not to find exactly that kind of response here already.

FFS. We had 12.75kw of panels installed on the roof and a 13.5kw battery in the garage six months ago, and we weren't under any illusion as to the money we'd get feeding back into the grid. It was literally the last thing on our minds. We use all the power we can during the day (washing machine, dishwasher, tumble dryer all set to come on at about 11am), cook the big meal on the induction hob at lunchtime, run the aircon all day long. On sunny days the battery's full before midday. In the evening the battery kicks in and sees us through to about 11pm if we've been running the aircon and right through to the next day if not. Zero expectations in this household for earning money from the electricity we produce.

I'm local, he's my state M.P. The reason he was re-elected was because he was (and undoubtedly still is) extremely popular with the kind of people who live in this part of the world - by which I mean (mainly) white and well-off. He's without doubt one of the slimiest most vile and repugnant people I've ever met, but he has this base he's built in almost Trump-like way that loves him. Women of a certain age defend his every action on the local FB groups and are giving off very Trump-like vibes about the verdict ("how could the jury do this?" etc). He will, of course, appeal the verdict because he has literally nothing to lose by doing so.

There isn’t a policy yet devised that Dutton and the jackboot brigade wouldn’t oppose if it looked like it would do some good.

You're a legend - no judgement here about how you choose to go with the courts .

If they have influenza, they’d fucking well know it

100%. I had full-blown influenza in my mid-20s, when I was the ideal age to fight it and extremely fit - and it well and truly fucked me up. I was completely out of it for three weeks in bed and it wasn't until about six months later that I began to feel even remotely like my old self. If you've ever actually had influenza, you never call the 'sniffles' the flu ever again.

They argued they used it for entertaining potential clients. (I know, right!)

Seriously? I think it's about as funny as cancer. Different strokes I guess ...

I used to work for Surf Life Saving Australia and had to fight really hard to get two WFH days a week. This despite the fact that I was in IT supporting volunteers via an online ticketing system.