hanrahan
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- Comment on Getting older is so much fun 2 weeks ago:
I’m 60, still squatting but def my body doesn’t squat as much and every thing creaks on the way down and up! and longer to recover and after i need to slump in my recliner feeling fcuk3d for 30 mins (have a home gym)
fuck it. Deadlift day tomorrow, MTB ride on Sunday
- Comment on Cheaper EVs, easier job access: What's in the EU-Australia free trade deal for you? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cheaper EVs, easier job access: What's in the EU-Australia free trade deal for you? 2 weeks ago:
am also in a tiny Tassie town in the NE with an EV, there is a Tesla Y up the round, an old Nissan Leaf, our BYD and that’s it. Also cycle on our ebikes when we can. I’m retired, my gf works 3 days a week part time uses the ev for that, Coles delivers and we can collect from the back of the truck
Fucking totally blows my mind the locals drive everywhere like 30mins into the nearby big town to buy 2l of milk… , 1/2 of them have solar panels but none an ecar.
- Comment on Trump Organization paid for Tom Tate's meals and more during visit 2 weeks ago:
Toms is well liked by the boomers on the GC.
- Comment on 'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40pc of its staff 2 weeks ago:
Blaming AI makes AI sound like a legitimate technology.
CBA got caught out, bunch of layoffs announced, stock price up, they say “because ai”, turned out they just offshored the jobs to India.
- Comment on 'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40pc of its staff 2 weeks ago:
Cutting looks bad.
unless you look at the stock price which nearly always goes up after job cuts are announced.
so to owners it looks good.
- Comment on Government says people can 'make the call' on work from home amid fuel supply concerns 2 weeks ago:
and why we’re seeing the rise of toxic shit stains like ONP.
- Comment on Government says people can 'make the call' on work from home amid fuel supply concerns 2 weeks ago:
afford to walk down to their local cafe and buy a coffee
i see you haven’t visited Australia vast shithole suburbs recently ? endless tracts of ticky tacky houses packed in and no facilities ?
an anecdote, we used to live across the road from a massive shopping center, in a 15 story building, 4 towers. You could walk on footpaths, one proper pedestrian crossing and be there. Endless cafes etc and I’d estimate 70% of people from our complex drove. Would have been hilarious if it wasn’t sickening :(
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
until that has you labeled as a terrorist
- Comment on Gary is part of the super-rich. He believes wealthy Australians should be paying more tax 2 weeks ago:
literally part of The Greens policy platform. At the polling booth last federal election, this lady handing out how to bote cards, “Tax billionaires, dental into medicare”. and a few skillwags proudly showing their ignorance but saying loudly they’d never vote green, laughing through their rotten teeth because they cant afford dental care.
FFS
- Comment on Astronomers reported that they identified an extremely powerful cosmic explosion as powerful as a billion suns only after seeing its delayed "echo", rather than the initial blast itself 2 weeks ago:
10 billion suns… anything but metric /s
I had a YT video playing in the corner of my PC screen the other day with Professor Brian Cox opining about the Fermi Paradox and he mentioned in passing that “the universe is a particularly violent place” seems an understatement now.
- Comment on A Fresh Wave Of Perovskite Solar Cell Activity Is Under Way 2 weeks ago:
so, go long Silver ? (used in solar panels)
- Comment on BYO sandwiches and no cafe lunches as retirements threatened by rising costs 2 weeks ago:
agreed, i read the story a couple days ago and am only a few years younger with little sympathy for them. It also reeks of entitlement.
and it’s odd they say there’s no chance of their house flooding and then complain about the price of flood insurance. I don’t have flood insurance because i live on a hill, that was a deliberate choice in the face of climate change.
- Comment on Hundreds of petrol stations across Australia run out of fuel as Labor inks supply deal with Singapore 2 weeks ago:
12 months ago when i got an ecar every whiney prick saying too long to charge an EV, they’re useless. How long to wait at a servo with no petrol or diesel ? i pointed out the main reason to go ev was the uncertain supply chain and the ability to refuel off the solar panels on your roof adding resilience. Australia has endless solar but here we are.
- Comment on ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected 2 weeks ago:
It’s ok but I’d regard it as center right after years of fuckery from the LNP. You just have to look at the Lattouf incident
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/…/105810052
and its coverage if our left party The Greens is appalling, while a lot of sucking up to the loony ONP
It’s closest to the PBS in the US and the BBC in the UK I guess, and certainly not dissimilar to the BBC and their similar fawning obsequiesness to Reform.
- Comment on Spain is a role model in weathering Iranian oil shocks | The country’s speedy rollout of renewables has put a lid on electricity bills 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for that. I ran it through .ph I think it was and nanda, then gave up. :)
- Comment on Australians urged to work from home and drive slower to save fuel 2 weeks ago:
have an ecar (drive as lottle as possible) e bike and solar panels, alas only one bus a day bit vote Green to try and move the policy needle t9 try and leave a livable plant for other peoples kids .
- Comment on Six fuel ships bound for Australia cancelled 2 weeks ago:
waiting in the queue at the servo…
fuck ’ em
- Comment on Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround 2 weeks ago:
Ffs I am 60, everyone was faking their age when I was 16/17 to get into nightclubs and buy beer.
- Comment on THE BRITISH COLONIZED OUR NIPPLES 🇬🇧☕️🧐 2 weeks ago:
Same in Cambodia, all across the Angkor temples, naked tiddies everywhere and the occasional dick statue for fertility… … outside, every Khmer woman wearing pajamas and a hat and socks (so as not to tan) even when swimming.
- Comment on Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls 2 weeks ago:
that’s why I put in my dads birthdate, he dead, I can remember it. I use it everywhere now that’s not a bank or my government
- Comment on Fuel stations run out of diesel across Australia’s NSW | Latest Market News 2 weeks ago:
I see 100s of boomers with landcruisers etal towing massive caravans near me here in Tassie and camper vans the size of houses lumbering along, must still be some here
When i ride at Derby and have a coffee at a cafe afterwards, an endless stream comes through town.
I have an ecar charged off my solar panels at home but rarely drive, my partner drives 3 days a week to her part-time job in it and once a fortnight grocery run (we get free beef, free fruit and some free veg)
It will be interesting to see how this affects the local farmers and forestry. IMO diesels way too cheap, the endless park and idle and use the phone for an hour.
I remember bring mocked online for ears about the stupidity of a long, perilous supply chains fi fuel from the middle easy being a disaster in waiting and then laughing that it takes too long to charge an ecar so they are useless. How long wait at the servo with no fuel ?
we should have been building electrified rail lines decades ago to move people and freight around and gas to liquid plants for that bit we couldn’t electrify. Instead our new inland rail is a debacle because it finishes inland of Brisbane port and doesn’t have a spur line to Gladstone.
Trump could be the best thing yet for emissions reductions /s
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 2 weeks ago:
people keep saying they don’t like this in ecars
- Comment on Australia’s new physical activity guidelines won’t shift the needle – here are 4 better ideas 3 weeks ago:
Anecdotal story, my ex wifes friend had two first year high school kids, lived 800m in a straight line with a footpath, to their door, the kids refused to walk and she drove them everyday. They’d literally wait longer then walking home
Nearly everything we do makes Australia worse, so I don’t see that changing.
- Comment on Spain is a role model in weathering Iranian oil shocks | The country’s speedy rollout of renewables has put a lid on electricity bills 3 weeks ago:
paywalled and archive can’t get around it.
- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 3 weeks ago:
this disjointed thinking is what happens when your mother drinks too much vodka with you in utero
- Comment on The RBA faces its 'most complicated' rates call in years. What could it mean for you? 3 weeks ago:
no, you’re still spending, whether it’s pies or petro they’re both measured in the CPI
- Comment on ‘The world is transitioning away from fossil fuels’: Gulf oil investors turn to African renewables 3 weeks ago:
I can only agree, it’s not like climate scientists telling us to stop burning fossil fuels has made any difference.
that said we have an oil crisis every other decade and it makes little difference.
- Comment on The Battle Over Solar on Farmland | Agrivoltaics is either a green revolution or a poison pill for good land. Depends which farmers you ask. 3 weeks ago:
some years ago an article here in Australia interviewing a sheep grazier who had solar a large solar farm, one of the things he said he’d not considered was in times of drought, the many acres of panels had water droplets in the morning condense on the panels and made drip lines of grass for the sheep, apparently enough extra growth it got him through a recent dry spell, that and shade for the sheep
- Comment on Mastodon not federating to Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
my dude (dudette?) , you’re doing an amazing job, so thank you
