@liamvhogan Holy shit. Car parking, in NEWTOWN?!
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There you go, look at that: It *IS* possible to jail public servants after all.There you go, look at that: It *IS* possible to jail public servants after all. Does this work Federally? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-17/mark-ainslie-jailed-for-department-of-communities-fraud/104361960
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Adelaide University is dumping lectures, not available from 2026. https://www.indaily.com.au/news/2024/09/12/adelaide-university-says-goodbye-to-face-to-face-lecturesAdelaide University is dumping lectures, not available from 2026. https://www.indaily.com.au/news/2024/09/12/adelaide-university-says-goodbye-to-face-to-face-lectures
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This is hilarious.@liamvhogan Our heritage protection laws are modeled on Europe, where the heritage that's being protected is often thousands of years old.
We've shoe-horned that into a place that has 60,000 year old heritage but uses the law to protect 70 year old blocks of flats for "heritage value" in urban settings that aren't old enough to have any heritage in the first place.
Whenever I see someone use "heritage" as a reason to block something new, my first impulse is to demolish it just to spite them. We shouldn't have heritage protection laws here unless and until we're old enough and civilized enough to deserve them.
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I have seen a cyber truck drive past.@MattHatton @liamvhogan @daedalus @mike Note that @daedalus is reporting from the USA, and they aren’t on sale in Australia.
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Where am I?Where am I?
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5 mins until top of descent.5 mins until top of descent.
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Slavery in the Northern Territory ceased to be managed by the Australian Commonwealth Government in 1971.Slavery in the Northern Territory ceased to be managed by the Australian Commonwealth Government in 1971. It’s taken 53 years and a lawsuit to kick off compensation. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104319936
(For all their faults, at least the USA fought a war to get rid of slavery. Australia’s various governments owned black slaves and leased them to farmers and miners for forced labour, all happening so recently that almost all of our MPs were alive and personally benefiting from the fruits of slavery while it was happening)
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Fucking hell he's an idiot.Fucking hell he's an idiot.
If he can ask for "lawful access" once a product has been redesigned to yield it, why can't the Government of China or Afghanistan or Iran or Israel or Russia ask for it too?
Is his position genuinely that tech companies don't have to follow the rule of law in countries we don't like? Is that the conversation we're having?
Fuck him. Use Signal.
ASIO boss puts tech companies on notice regarding encrypted chats
ASIO boss Mike Burgess says he may soon use powers to compel tech companies to cooperate with warrants and unlock encrypted chats to aid national security investigations.
(www.abc.net.au)
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This is literally a meme. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/03/irish-prime-minister-says-336000-cost-for-bike-shelter-is-inexcusable -
Removed the smoke tank today for the first time in a year and a half. Did a quick evaluation flight in the wind and turbulence to make sure the bulkhead fitting on the firewall that feeds smoke oil into the exhaust pipe wasn’t going to leak carbon mono...@liamvhogan You can only roll a motorcycle once.
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Removed the smoke tank today for the first time in a year and a half. Did a quick evaluation flight in the wind and turbulence to make sure the bulkhead fitting on the firewall that feeds smoke oil into the exhaust pipe wasn’t going to leak carbon mono...@liamvhogan Unpressurized. If I fly too high I’ll lose consciousness. Icarus rep-ruh-sent.
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Removed the smoke tank today for the first time in a year and a half. Did a quick evaluation flight in the wind and turbulence to make sure the bulkhead fitting on the firewall that feeds smoke oil into the exhaust pipe wasn’t going to leak carbon mono...Removed the smoke tank today for the first time in a year and a half. Did a quick evaluation flight in the wind and turbulence to make sure the bulkhead fitting on the firewall that feeds smoke oil into the exhaust pipe wasn’t going to leak carbon monoxide into the cockpit.
(It doesn’t)
I’d almost forgotten how sweet RVs fly when they don’t have 20kg of smoke oil in the back. Lighter is better for RV control feel.
Minimal aviation this weekend. I’ll make up for it next weekend when I fly 4 hours each way to Mt Gambier for a family event.
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I need your opinion @NewtonMark as to whether the chief of the Air Force is a) right to be concerned or b) a huge sooky baby@liamvhogan I doubt he’s actually concerned. This seems like fighter manoeuvring training, right? How else is the RAAF supposed to train dogfighting?
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If you see someone shoplifting food: No you didn’t. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-27/asx-markets-business-news-live-updates/104272052?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web#live-blog-post-118066If you see someone shoplifting food: No you didn’t. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-27/asx-markets-business-news-live-updates/104272052?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web#live-blog-post-118066
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Well this is terrible news.Well this is terrible news. Australia’s economic slowdown is killing financing for energy transition. We might end up with coal and gas by default for a while https://reneweconomy.com.au/australian-flow-battery-pioneer-put-into-administration-after-failing-to-find-backers/
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Nothing.@akent Yeah, but wealth calls the shots right? Agents are coin operated humans who do what they’re told or fuck off. No landlord realistically needs to put up with their shit. Even the bad ones can be forced into boundaries.
(Tenants, on the other hand, have to take what’s served. The imbalance of power is enraging)
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Nothing.@akent The landlords need to take responsibility for the behavior they’re paying the agent to deliver. (I, too, have been both. Firing an agent for misconduct is hilariously easy)
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Nothing.This comment is prepostrous.
Inspections don't "ensure the property stays in good shape over time." That's what the tenants do. The inspection is an invasive annoyance.
And when a property is legitimately falling apart, how often will a landlord do anything about it? Complaining about (eg) leaking roofs is just as likely to lead to an eviction as anything else. The suggestion that the landlord wants to "ensure the property stays in good shape over time," is FREQUENTLY absurd.
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Nothing.You only need to give a good impression to your landlord if your landlord is a petty despot.
It's no business of theirs if there are crumbs on the counterop or towels on the floor or dirty fingermarks from children on some of the walls. They're all things that are easily dealt with during cleaning at the end of the tenancy, they don't affect the value of the property, and the landlord and their agent can stay in their fucking lane.