spiffmeister
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- Comment on Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills? 1 week ago:
Renewables do decrease prices though? Maybe l2add?
If you’d heard it was 40% why did you say it was only 6-8% in your previous comment?
Because that’s literally what the referenced article states? Maybe l2read?
- Comment on Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills? 1 week ago:
You can do a bit better than citing a dude with vested interests. You can even find government sources that roughly agree with you: The AEMC report
However the report also notes that:
Delays to new wind and transmission build, and the uncoordinated use of CER are projected to have the biggest impact on electricity costs.
Highlighting that renewables do decrease prices. Of course, reducing gas prices would probably also reduce prices.
Also at least for last quarter the [AEMO] (www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/…/qed-q4-2024.pdf?r…) report that coal and transmission are the driving costs. Negative energy prices were primarily driven by renewables.
- Comment on Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills? 1 week ago:
You know you could just read the article
The renewables in our grid lowered average household electricity bills by up to $417 in 2024, collectively saving households up to $3.8 billion in just one year.
Thanks to the high share of renewables, wholesale prices nearly halved in the last three months of 2025.
And on your point the report says
Transmission – the highway system that transports power from where it is created, to where it is used. Transmission only makes up about 6-8% of an overall power bill.
- Comment on Exclusive: Albanese government expresses interest in setting up privileged faith advisory body | Rationalist Society of Australia 1 week ago:
Albo has decided to consume the liberal vote by adopting some right leaning behaviors.
What I’ve never understood is, don’t they realise those people will never vote for them? The libs will always be the party of the right, it doesn’t matter what labor does or says.
- Comment on Exclusive: Albanese government expresses interest in setting up privileged faith advisory body | Rationalist Society of Australia 1 week ago:
Why not give the Christian nationalists more power? What could go wrong?
- Comment on Punching bags 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully nsw remembers this come elections.
- Comment on Scott Morrison accused of ‘deeply ill-informed’ attack on religious freedom after Islam speech 5 weeks ago:
So he’ll be charged under the new hate speech laws now right?
- Comment on Why most Australians won't get a weekday off for Anzac Day in 2026 [but Western Australia and ACT do] 5 weeks ago:
But in January, Mr Bleijie said he would not be moving to substitute Anzac Day for another day as it fell on a Saturday, rather than a Sunday.
This is the definition of un-Australian.
No shock that the lnp is opposed to days off work though.
- Comment on March for Australia admins encouraged people to join White Australia Party 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s definitely the referendum and not the at least two decades of bullshit after Howard decided to weaponise immigration to win some elections.
- Comment on Antisemitic incidents across Australia since 2023 – timeline 2 months ago:
But the article has:
In March, the then AFP deputy commissioner, Krissy Barrett, who took over as commissioner in October, announced police were confident the caravan was a “fake terrorism plot” and a “criminal con job” allegedly orchestrated by organised criminals.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it should be in here, but the article does state the AFP thought it was a hoax.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies 3 months ago:
I thought it had been demonstrated some time ago that these were a scam designed specifically to harvest taxpayer cash?
- Comment on Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000 4 months ago:
Well yeah obviously, what are the poors gonna do about it?
- Comment on Don't blame migrants for the housing crisis, blame the millionaires 5 months ago:
Most people on that march won’t really care about the housing issues. If there was no housing shortage they’d find something else. They want an excuse to hate migrants.
- Comment on Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies 5 months ago:
“Oh, but isn’t that unsafe?”
Surely people need to understand that it’s more unsafe to let this sort of shit fester.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 6 months ago:
I use jerboa. I have just tried and it seems like it’s working. Cheers. I’ll keep you posted if things change though.
Thanks for the hard work mate.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 6 months ago:
That’d be sweet. I’m in Germany and so far none of the apps work. Just using my phones browser at this point.
- Comment on Traditional owners call for diaries of WA settler who killed Aboriginal people to be released in full 6 months ago:
Really in the spirit of truth telling. The country will never be ready to face it’s past at this rate.
It’s a bit hard to single that poor fellow out…
Won’t someone think of the poor genocidal maniac?
- Comment on Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before 7 months ago:
Loved revelation space, but yeah long read.
Arthur C Clarke and Asimov both wrote loads of good novel length SciFi so I’d start there if you haven’t gotten into them.
- Comment on Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before 7 months ago:
If you’re into sci-fi, how much have you gone through the classics? Most are novel length so don’t require a huge commitment (I too struggle with long books).
- Comment on Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists 7 months ago:
I’m not convinced that increasing dingo numbers wouldn’t at least help control the population. Basically all predator-prey systems go though cycles afaik (we teach this model to first year maths students). Obviously I’d have to read more to form a stronger opinion though.
In fact, for those of us who eat meat, we should avoid beef, lamb, and pork. Kangaroo is FAR more sustainable from an environmental perspective…
… even if Skippy is on our National Coat of Arms.This I agree with, I live overseas now and I miss a good roo-steak.
- Comment on Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists 8 months ago:
Governments have backed controls and culls of the kangaroo’s natural predator – the dingo
“The natural alternatives are being killed by a dingo or dying by starvation,” he says.
Farmers livestock might be at risk but can we not reintroduce more dingos to manage the population?
- Comment on ‘Wake-up call’ for Australian universities as 70% suffer a fall in latest global ranking 8 months ago:
Wow what a shock. Guess running a uni like a for profit business works like shit. Maybe the real problem not cited in this article is that the upper management are all worthless.
- Comment on Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs. 8 months ago:
I think this was the original proposal in 2007 when Rudd was pm. We’ve been flip flopping on subs for almost 20 years
- Comment on Aboriginal community shaken by second death in Australian police custody 8 months ago:
Because his contexless stats is just 13/50 for indigenous Australians. I know it’s popular with American conservatives to say that black people deserve it, but we can do better.
- Comment on The super tax debate is divorced from reality – and more proof that Australia’s tax system is built for the rich 9 months ago:
I think the idea is that it stops rich AF people using their super to store wealth by sitting on assets and instead forces them to use super to invest, which can actually help the economy.
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 9 months ago:
This corrosive billionaire puts a lot of money into Australian politics, I think it’s important to know what you’re enemy is thinking.
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- Comment on Welcome to Country is not an election issue, so why are we talking about it? I think I know 10 months ago:
It’s blown up since the voice, if you watch clips from CPAC Australia you can watch every extremely funny conservative dickhead make the same joke about it for the last 2 years or so.
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 10 months ago:
The bill has been passed, but doesn’t come into effect until next year.
- Comment on US tech companies joins winemakers, film studios and drug companies in urging Donald Trump to target Australia 11 months ago:
Adobe Haven’t these dickheads been charging Australians more for their products than anyone else for decades?
If you’re going to urge the US to target Australia it should be within the rights of every Australian to just torrent your shit if they want.