hanrahan
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 4 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day ago:
paywalled and archive can’t get around it.
- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 3 days 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 days 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 days 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. 4 days 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? 4 days ago:
my dude (dudette?) , you’re doing an amazing job, so thank you
- Comment on Fresh warning over risky financial advice targeting young Australians 4 days ago:
on a similar note, an article in the WSJ about a young guy trying to make bank based on reddit advice, made a good amount, then lost it.
paywalled
wsj.com/…/alexander-hurst-generation-desperation-…
my advice ? :) get your degree, fuck off to Cambodia, (super easy visas), you don’t want to be 60 and still lumbered with a mortgage because 1/2 the time you’ll be made redundant along the way,
or if you can figure out how to work remotely move to a small rural town in Aus if you want to do the family thing, or head os as a nomad and dollar cost average into a couple ETFs.
I retired at 40 and am now 60.
- Comment on Hydropower Line From Quebec to Queens Could Power a Million N.Y.C. Homes | A 339-mile buried transmission line is on schedule to bring clean electricity to New York City this spring. 4 days ago:
hydro ? clean ? ffs its incredibly environmentally destructive and can emit more GHGs then a coal fired power station, i partuclar vast quantities of CH4
we now enter the world of absolute absurdity, instead of doing something to lower GHGs we just lie to ourselves…
- Comment on Amid rationing and shortage fears, here's what Australia's fuel supply looks like in charts 5 days ago:
a bazillion huge camper vans and Landcrusiers towing massive caravans all over the place here in Tassie
And fuels still not expensive enough, assholes sitting idling in their car for an hour on the phone.
- Comment on Popular tax discount on electric vehicles could be phased out, just as petrol prices rise 5 days ago:
ffs every other article I’ve ever read admonishes the policy as being welfare for rich people
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 5 days ago:
bitwarden
seems odd you say how cumbersome it is to manage and backup (not an issue I’ve faced though) and yet you are using some cumbersome alternative ?
- Comment on fuck it, just paste your clipboard in the comments 6 days ago:
- Comment on 13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station 6 days ago:
the world is truly an amazing place
- Comment on Cambodia aims to shut down all online scam centers within weeks 6 days ago:
Laos is just starting as well.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 week ago:
some good news!
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
Masturbate All Gorillas Anally
- Comment on OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to modern UEFI PCs 1 week ago:
loooong time since i used OS2, thought it would go somewhere, but then I thought the Amiga would and I liked BeOS
wtf would I know :)
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 1 week ago:
with no boots on the ground, Iran has already won as there will be no regime change.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 1 week ago:
yes, “we” are. How do we know this, look at election results.
- Comment on How new superannuation changes will impact you 1 week ago:
access when they turn 65.
60
aged pension when they are 67
- Comment on Ballarat Muslims traumatised after right-wing attack on community dinner 1 week ago:
lucky for him he didn’t have a climate change protests sign, they’d have shot him as a terrorist.
- Comment on Australia to provide military support to Gulf states attacked by Iran 1 week ago:
A bit like Obama, we had 3 years of Labor, realized they were hopeless…so then we said this mediocrity is as good as it gets and recycled them.
- Comment on Boss repeatedly shouted 'potato' at Irish employee 1 week ago:
civilengineers80% are entitled asshats
- Comment on ‘Vicious cycle’: panic buying is biggest risk to Australia’s petrol supplies, experts say 1 week ago:
Interesting, I haven’t bought a roll of toilet paper in 20 years, I use a bum gin
I’ve had an ecar and charge that mostly from my solar panels, since last March
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 1 week ago:
Alas the US conservative Christian narrative has infested the english speaking world.
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 1 week ago:
so after 1.5 yrs you’re at 80% and they’re at 93%?
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 1 week ago:
chinese companies are often run by engineers not management consultants, lawyers and accountants.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
perhaps but one example, Commonwealth Bank (largest Australian Bank and in the top 10 worldwide AFAIK) in Australia said they were dismissing 1000’s of staff because of AI, turned out they were just offshoring. The latter is seen positively apparently, the former not so much.
