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- Comment on Why Do Co-Op Stores Only Work in Small Towns? 3 hours ago:
These are all really good examples of what large grocers can do to maximise profits, but it doesn’t really answer my question.
A large not-for-profit could leverage most of these advantages. Multiple stores in multiple cities certainly could.
IGA stores are all independently owned but have a combined distribution network.
They wouldn’t have to achieve the same volume that colesworth does because… they don’t need any profit.
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- Comment on Billionaire Gina Rinehart criticises ‘relentless attack’ on former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith 14 hours ago:
I disagree.
During a campaign, ok - her political alignment is relevant in so far as who she’s donating to.
Otherwise her statements of opinion on political matters are not at all relevant and I don’t see the value in reporting it.
It might get clicks but does that mean it should be reported?
- Comment on 7 for me 1 day ago:
I’ve been 20 for most of my 43 years.
However, we had twins recently. They’re 18 months old and we all co-sleep. I don’t want to be a prudish family where kids aren’t allowed to see a bum or whatever, but I also don’t want to feel weird about snuggling up together.
So… I’ve been wearing pyjamas just to avoid any awkwardness.
- Comment on When you see danger coming 2 days ago:
Is this a false equivalence?
Is the rate at which wood rots indicative of how quickly plastic would rot?
Also plastic tends to be very thin. Like if bacteria can denature 0.1mm per year that’s lots of years for a timber beam but a few months for plastic packaging.
- Comment on Need help with searxng docker compose 3 days ago:
Awesome.
You not only solved your problem but learned a heap along the way.
I love searxng too btw. It’s the best way to search for the time being.
- Comment on Need help with searxng docker compose 3 days ago:
I’ve never used portainer sorry.
If you see the published port for a very short time then something might be crashing when it tries to start.
docker logs searxngfrom cli might be revealing - Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 3 days ago:
Obviously.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 3 days ago:
Additionally, just fucking stop scammers from using fucking gift cards.
Surely it’s not that hard to detect that a gift card sold in Australia is being activated in Russia.
- Comment on How are roundabouts made? 4 days ago:
Firstly, roundabouts aren’t perfectly round.
The city I live in is relatively small but has dozens of roundabouts. They might look round as you drive through them, but if you look from a satellite image most are just “mostly” round, and some that seem round on the ground are plain oblong.
With that in mind, you’re dealing with curves, not a perfect circle.
Different points are defined with a range of methods like survey, measuring, and just plain eyeballing.
- Comment on Five fishermen who survived 55 days adrift by drinking rain and parboiling passing fish arrive in Galapagos 6 days ago:
Yeah. That’s kind of what I was saying. It’s a big deal and a life threatening situation but it’s nothing compared to the oceanic survival hall of fame.
Bligh’s voyage after the mutiny of the bounty is kind of the feat by which others are measured:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty#Bligh'…
Navigation by dead reckoning, no supplies, hostile natives et cetera.
- Comment on Five fishermen who survived 55 days adrift by drinking rain and parboiling passing fish arrive in Galapagos 6 days ago:
Yeah who knows. It might have been a translation issue. They might have had very rudimentary cooking stuff so maybe the best they could do was to boil it for a couple of minutes.
- Comment on Five fishermen who survived 55 days adrift by drinking rain and parboiling passing fish arrive in Galapagos 6 days ago:
I guess they drained some water from the radiator on the engine.
- Comment on Five fishermen who survived 55 days adrift by drinking rain and parboiling passing fish arrive in Galapagos 6 days ago:
Shame there’s not more information on what they had with them.
I assume their boat was barely sea-worthy to start with but they probably left port with the expectation of staying at sea for several days at least. They also obviously had the gear to catch and cook fish.
It’s a big deal, and a life threatening situation, but not an epic feat of survival.
- Comment on How do children address a non-binary parent? 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s really true.
Dad is a title, bestowed by anyone for any reason.
“Biological dad” may have a specific meaning, but “dad” does not.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 1 week ago:
I don’t think we will like the new model though.
I mean IDK what it will be, but it will be implemented by tech bros working for tech giants.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 1 week ago:
I call it the side web.
It feels like sneaking along on the shoulder of the information super highway.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 1 week ago:
Nope. Happy to identify myself with credentials to specific service or content providers, but not for general internet access.
For example, in Australia I use a government issued identification service to identify myself to government sites, like our tax office, or medical cover. That’s fine.
Obviously not going to use a government id number to identify myself to facebook or whatever though.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 week ago:
Docks are pretty great now.
I have a dock at home and at work. Single cable to plug in and get proper peripherals, 2 + 1 monitors, and power.
It’s nice to be able to undock and go sit in a Cafe to read emails or do whatever you don’t need full regalia for.
I can see this working on a smaller form factor.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 weeks ago:
I’m conceptually opposed to oat milk generally.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 2 weeks ago:
I love my ebike.
I’ve been big into bikes forever, but the ebike just makes it super convenient to bike to work.
- Comment on Housing, we all know 2 weeks ago:
It’s a complex problem with no easy answers.
The tax benefits are what has made property a wealth creation scheme, so the problem will only get worse until that’s addressed. Generous CGT exemptions, and negative gearing.
Sadly Shorten demonstrated how little appetite Australians have for addressing that.
The liberal policy of tax deductible interest, and the Labor policy of a 5% deposit, will only make the problem worse with increased demand.
If a majority of Australians wanted to address this (they dont) then IMO the solution is land tax. Land tax on all properties with an exemption for your home, and Australian owned farm land.
Then use the revenue from this for social housing. Build low cost housing, allow tenants to have some kind of rent-to-buy scheme.
This way you’re making it less appealing to invest in property, and you’re presenting more affordable options, both of which will rationalise pricing over the coming decades.
- Comment on Housing, we all know 2 weeks ago:
In west aus at least professionals are getting paid way above the award. My consultancy is paying about 25% over the award to attract good candidates.
Truck drivers hauling grain are earning $50 an hour plus super, where that was $30 an hour in 2019.
These numbers aren’t “stagnant wages”.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a near-infinite number of better things trump could have done.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
oddly enough, no one has suggested that I start an OF if I don’t have money /s
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oh please.
Did you really just create a lemmy account to tell us about your best friend who is a top international high-end escort who also runs an extremely profitable OnlyFans account ?
I imagine lemmy is fairly low-yield as regards paying fans. The stereotypical lemmy user is young and broke.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 3 weeks ago:
It’s never too early to efficiently count your sheep!
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 3 weeks ago:
Double entry accounting system.
I’m an accountant by trade. The double entry system wasn’t invented until the 15th century.
I could account for any lords various assets, goods, and livestock in an efficient, reliable and accurate manner
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 3 weeks ago:
In my industry it’s an incremental improvement.
Potentially the current tech could make firms 10% more productive if fully realised. That’s my estimate anyway.
It’s not a game changer.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 weeks ago:
I know some people who eloped.
They went to the registry office with a witness then did a week of cycle touring because that’s their thing.
Posted it on social after the fact.
I thought it was a great way to go.