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> Solar Quotes, the pioneering and highly regarded instant quote comparison service for the installation of rooftop PV, has been snapped up by Big Three gentailer Origin Energy, 16 years after its genesis in the walk-in robe of its founder, Finn Peacock. Well, thats the end of Solar Quotes. What a pity, it used to be a great resource for finding information (and installers who werent cowboys).
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People who ring instead of email: why?
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Oh man I cant wait for the weekend to just hurry up and be over so I can get back to work on Monday
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Today's pupate:
Feeling cute, might chew the couch later idk
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lol, remember the last two elections where Labor took even the tiniest hint of housing reform to the election? Liberal landslide.
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Is there a more over hyped bit of drama at the minute than old mates house buy or what?
Sydney's median house price is 1.7 million. You reckon the PM of this country can't buy a house worth three times median?
Old Turnbull who fucked the NBN sits in his 50 million dollar joint without a raised eyebrow, and Dutton the creepy potato rolls in worth 300 million and that's cool... But the bloke who is in the highest position you can possibly be in can't buy a nice place to live?
I bet half the talking heads on free to air pretending to be outraged at this are living in properties of similar value the hypocritical fucks.
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When does an afternoon shift finish? 8pm?
Probably not a bad gig tbh, got a bit of time up your sleeve in the morning to get stuff done when shops are open, and be heading home when theres no traffic and its not hot anymore.
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We already have a funny Australian version of The Office, it's called Utopia.
Don't try and beat Working Dog at Australian comedy.
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I've been using FX File Explorer since 2012. It's straight up the best file manager on Android, especially when you use SMB and SFTP. Multi window makes moving things around easy as, and the built in text editor works a treat. Being able to share images from apps to FX's "Save As" option is awesome to. It means every app can save where you want.
No idea why it isn't more popular compared to the alternatives.
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Todays pupdate:
Someone did themselves a little mischief and has managed to tear out a toenail. I didn't even know this was possible.
We had just taken one of our other dogs to the vet because he's got heart failure going on and he was panting so we were worried (good news: turns out he's got a little time left yet). We literally just walked in the door from getting him back from the vet and found blood all over the floor and couch from this little stonker. So back in the car and off to the emergency vet where they had to sedate him and pull the nail out the rest of the way.
So now a week of "keeping him quiet" (right... a puppy quiet) and the nail will probably never go back cause it looks to have snapped off the... something... bone that the nail bed is in. Good times.
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I start my car before I leave the office so it's nice and cool when I get to it. Or in winter, warm. EV charged via solar do don't be scared about emissions.
Also it has GPS so you can see where your car is and what is doing - handy if it ever gets stolen I tell you what.
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Spondulix
That's an odd name. I'd have called them dollarydoos.
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Thanks to the Liberals who decided to halt the FTTP roll out, I have spent a literal decade paying for mobile internet, then Starlink, then FTTN internet, before finally getting a FTTP connection just recently.
It's already overpriced and underperforming by virtue of being a decade behind the curve, I can only imagine how hard it would suck if it was privatised and profit became the driving force.
Its a public utility, spend the bucks to get it back where it should have been and run it as a service not a business ffs. I dont mind being taxed out the arsehole if I actually get something for my money!
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Libs over here stripping funding from disability groups left right and centre.... But Albo says something dumb and that's the front page news.
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Here you go my dude:
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Felt a bit Higginsy to me... Lots of zomgthupercells and the best we saw was a bit of water and a few rumbles of thunder.
Did take the opportunity to move some shit out of the carport so I could stick my work van in though just in case so I guess there were positives.
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Todays pupdate:
Snoozing with Uncle Dinners
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I bought this game in July 2023 for some reason, and have 60ish hours in it.
I randomly fire it up every so often because it's quick to load, quick to get in to action and actually playing, and most importantly it's fun - you know, what games are meant to be!
Vampire Survivors is the other time sink in this genre. Unfortunately I have that on PC and mobile. That's bad for productivity.
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I'm sure they're making all sorts of valid points, but it seems like all they had was a notes app that supports markdown? There's about a billion free versions of them on the Play store.
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I love that this post was like four rows below this one on my front page:
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I'm never voting to become a republic until they promise an equal or greater number of public holidays in return.
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> The Queensland government is in talks with Star which reportedly needs $300m in short-term funding to continue operating Queen’s Wharf precinct in Brisbane’s CBD. Sucked in. I hate casinos. I hate gambling in general. Having said that... How do they get in financial trouble?? You're literally stealing money from people on a grand scale. Some punters are losing their homes because of how much money they pour in. Crooks are laundering money by losing a huge percentage of their cash there. International visitors turn up and drop tens (hundreds?) of thousands in a night. > “The worst case scenario would be that they have to close their doors not long after opening them,” the premier, Steven Miles, said on Wednesday. IMO the BEST case scenario is that they close their doors, and the space is used for something better than gambling.
Driving, gymnastics, break dancing (ESPECIALLY break dancing)... Anything that can't be timed or measured or otherwise objectively decided should be removed from competition. How do you quantify "style"? How do you ensure there is not biase from judges based on their knowledge of the competitor, be it country they are representing, or personal connections, or racial / religious opinion? How do you fairly compensate for what your personal opinion considers "worth" more when it comes to a trick or routine compared to another? Swimming, running, jumping, throwing things a distance are all things that can be measured and ruled against a standard that every competitor uses. It's fair and it's removed from any bias. The Olympics are supposed to be about competition between athletes and shouldn't be affected by popularity or politics, which anything with an interpretive aspect to the result will suffer from. So yeah, remove the feels sports and limit the Olympics to reals sports.
10 years / 250,000k just announced by MG in Australia - including electric vehicles (and thus batteries)... Not bad considering the anti-EV crowd are always declaring battery packs to have a 3 year lifespan! > MG has introduced the longest factory warranty ever offered by a new-car maker in Australia – 10 years or 250,000km, whichever comes first – five years after rolling out seven years of coverage across its line-up. > And unlike Mitsubishi – which in October 2020 became the first brand to market a 10-year warranty, but with only a 200,000km distance limit – there is no mention of a requirement for customers to have their car serviced within the MG dealer network to access the full decade of coverage. > While MG’s new 10-year warranty is longer in time – compared to its previous seven-year offer – it now has a distance cap of 250,000km, rather than unlimited. > In effect from today (1 August 2024) for all newly-registered petrol, hybrid and electric MG models, the new warranty applies to vehicles not deemed to be "commercial use" – such as Ubers, taxis, food delivery couriers and driving schools.
> Remarkable video shows a driver's wild rampage from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. > A number of vehicles were smashed including an ambulance, with the accused live streaming himself hooning through South Bank. The story said he dumped the ute *and his dogs* before stealing a truck... Anyone know if the puppies are ok? 😬
> Callum feels the familiar vibration of his mobile phone. Another text from Sportsbet. ... > Callum hasn't placed a wager for more than a year. Sportsbet is still trying to lure him back into action with an almost daily stream of text messages. ... I actually had the opposite experience to the complains in this article.. I'm not really a gambler, but I did fire up SportsBet for my first ever bet in my life during State of Origin. I put in $50 and lost $10 on Queensland. Then I found the horse bit and selected some random horses and apparently I'd won $100 so I took out my original $50, then threw away the rest on random horses and greyhounds, and Queensland at State of Origin again. Outcome? Zero dollars lost, and a couple of games worth of funsies thinking I was going to become a tenionaire with my 1.xx odds win. Sportsbet sent me one SMS, and I replied STOP. Sportsbet sent me one email, and I hit unsubscribe. I haven't received any communication since - no sms, no email, no push notifications, no anything. Not sure I'm fully on board with people claiming its all SportsBets fault they're gambling and being preyed upon IN THIS SPECIFIC WAY. I do say their constant spam during any sports match of any kind on free to air television is an absolute disgrace though.
What a pair of clowns (ALP and LNP)... Also I really hate TikTok. > There are currently no rules at either the state or federal level to stop political parties and candidates from using AI-generated material in election campaigns. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-22/qld-premier-slams-opposition-for-ai-generated-tiktok/104126936 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/labor-questioned-over-ai-generated-tiktok-of-peter-dutton/104131228
Bit of an update to an earlier article --> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-21/qld-daisy-hill-hit-and-run-appeal/104123370 > A woman charged over the alleged hit-and-run murder of a young mother south of Brisbane has been remanded in custody after a brief court hearing. > Police allege 23-year-old Kiesha Thompson was deliberately struck by an SUV just before 9am on Friday in the Logan suburb of Daisy Hill, south of Brisbane. > The alleged driver — 24-year-old Larissa Rita Mae-Leigh Sant — has been charged with one count of murder. > Police said the women were known to each other but their relationship was unclear.
> A teenager has admitted to being behind the wheel of a speeding stolen car and causing a crash which killed three people on the Fraser Coast last year. > The boy, who cannot be named, was due to appear in person in the Childrens Court of Queensland on Tuesday morning, but he refused to travel to Brisbane from the detention centre. > Instead, he appeared via video link, and Judge Deborah Richards told him the defiant behaviour was "**a pretty stupid thing to do**". Seems a bit of an understatement...
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Dunno how he managed to do that - fell asleep maybe? Made for an interesting commute to work today with that closed off. Archive link: https://archive.md/4K3TZ Original text: > A man was killed when he hit a barrier and rolled his ute on a Brisbane road. > The 32-year-old man, from Orange in NSW, was driving through the Granard Rd exit of the Ipswich Mwy in Rocklea about 3.20am on Thursday when he crashed. > Paramedics were called but the man was declared dead at the scene. > No one else was in the car and no other cars are believed to have been involved in the crash. > A forensic crash investigation is underway. > The Granard Rd exit on the Ipswich Mwy was closed amid the investigation.
> In short: > * Live sheep exports by sea will be phased out over the next four years, after laws banning the trade passed parliament on Monday. > * Earlier in the day, opponents met with the prime minister to request a Senate inquiry into the legislation. > What's next? > * WA Premier Roger Cook says he will continue to negotiate for additional support for farmers affected by the laws. Sky News and other similar conservative whinge rags are already posting the anti-Labor and anti-Greens headline as a response. Personally I think its great news. Keep the value add in Australia (processing), and remove the cruelty of long ship travel followed by questionable processing practices in other countries.
> In short: > * Queensland's LNP opposition wants to increase the cap on poker machines that can operate at clubs with more than two premises. > * The gaming machine cap for a club licensee with three or more sites is 500, but the LNP wants to lift that to 700. > What's next? > * The LNP is taking the policy to the looming October state election, arguing that the proposal would benefit smaller clubs facing closure. ... Don't these statements contradict each other? -> Applies only to businesses with **more than two** premises -> benefits "smaller clubs" ??? Also I love the related stories: 
You never see a song called "Northside Rocks", that's all I'm saying 😎
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> This year’s series was the first to be played across three games, in a milestone acknowledged by Maroons captain Ali Brigginshaw after the match. “We’ve wanted this for so many years, and finally, for both teams, we’ve been able to achieve it,” she said. First ever decider, and a sell out crowd to boot Women's footy is on the up and up.
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> Mayor Adrian Schrinner says property owners would now need appropriate planning approvals, body corporate support and a 24-7 property manager for short-term rentals Hard to argue tbh.... Is there a negative to something like this I'm not aware of? Personally I think Airbnb is the stupidest thing going. You pay more than hotel rates, to live in a house you have to clean and tidy yourself and then pay cleaning fees on top, and its often a hassle if anything goes wrong as there's no responsible party you can approach - Airbnb shrug their shoulders, and the host just hides behind a mobile number they can conveniently turn off. Have used them a couple of times in the past purely because we had pets and I hated it.
tl;dr - fuck "reality" tv > In the reality TV production process, after the casting of villains and the baiting for villainous behaviour, comes the editing. > It's in the post-production suite that a villain edit can truly come to life. ... > The editor says there are a few techniques to achieve these characterisations. The simplest one is being selective in what gets included. ... > The second technique editors use is amplification — finding a moment amongst what the editor calls the "boring crap" that can be boosted into a storyline. > In the show, it's spun as a major conflict. ... > And then, the drama is further enhanced with a technique called "frankenbiting". > Like Frankenstein creating his monster, editors will mix together unrelated elements from the footage to make their own beast. ... > When the show finally goes to air, the final phase of a villain edit begins: controlling the narrative. > Now, program makers try to ensure that no narratives that contradict the edit make it into the media. > "They would remind me in a very threatening way before every single media interview that I had signed a [non-disclosure agreement]," Olivia says. This becomes a problem for Olivia, because when the show goes to air, the backlash is swift.
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> Cheaper electricity, less emissions and ready by 2035 are some of the Coalition’s core promises on nuclear energy, but are they backed by evidence? tl;dr - no
> In short: Queensland has a range of roadside cameras to detect offences such as speeding, mobile phone use, and not wearing a seatbelt. > The government has significantly revised how much it expects to make from cameras with revenue in 2023-24 tipped to fall $94 million short. > What's next? The cameras are now projected to make $409 million in 2023-24, followed by $465.8 million in 2024-25. Brace yourself for a reduction in tolerance. Government relies on that speed camera income so if there's a shortfall they'll stop dropping the percent tolerances until we hit the 1kph over fines they hand out in Victoria.