ephemeral_gibbon

@ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hammerheads sharkz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that’s the grey nurse sharks we get in aus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming for large scale commercial solar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s 5-10 years in which it’s really hard to enforce though, as you can’t just have some cat trapping and taking to the pound program. So people would still let them outside you’d have the same problem at the end of your phase out period

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make it so that interest on money borrowed against residential real estate can’t be declared as a business loss then. That’ll also make speculating housing investment funds a bad idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trial finds cashless gaming makes little difference to gambling behaviour on pokies⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh absolutely, but an improvement is still good. Pokies are absolutely shit and should be ripped out, but it’ll be harder to get that to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trial finds cashless gaming makes little difference to gambling behaviour on pokies⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s both, stopping one doesn’t mean you can’t stop the othet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trial finds cashless gaming makes little difference to gambling behaviour on pokies⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, get rid of cash for the pokies. It alone won’t help with harm reduction but the pokies are one of the most common ways to launder money in this country. People use the resources taxes buy and should be paying their fair share.

  We also need cashless gaming cards with default and settable hard limits with restrictions on when you can change it to help combat the addictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godlike⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do that at any doneness, a cast iron heated up for 10 mins will do a perfect sear in a bleu steak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve chosen the green so there’s a much lower difference in contrast between the white and green when compared to the white and blue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Apple has intentionally made the Android text bubble more readable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Hairdressers, dentists and dining out': The price rises that told the RBA it needed to raise rates again⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has had an effect. To show what it can do look at countries where they don’t (e.g. Turkey, Argentina) and you’ll see that raising interest rates is important. The government has other tools as well, but interest rates are a very important lever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Except worse because they mix inventory so it’s easier for sellers to get away with scams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Families distressed after 'highly misleading' video used by anti-Voice campaigners goes viral⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There has been a bit shared on that. From memory it would be a body made up of a few aboriginal people from different areas, that would exist to consult with parliament on issues that concerned aboriginal people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia will fall well short of 82 per cent renewable energy by 2030, analysts predict, as problems mount⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For transmission (at least in NSW) there’s a fair bit of bad blood because transgrid has a history of building unnecessary powerlines. They get paid on their asset base and were building a lot of powerlines that had no use in any reasonable projections, only in bullshit projections from transgrid.

  That’s now made it very hard for these projects to be done as there’s a history of the bad projects that’s pretty recent.

  I’m not saying that these aren’t necessary now, but it’s no surprise people are opposing them with the history transgrid has.

  For example they dumped a proposed Stroud to landsdowne powerline around 2012 after it was shown to be just the trying to increase their regulated asset base