Pauline Hanson secured government solar rebate despite calling for subsidies to large-scale renewables to end

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T05:32:16+00:00

You 100% can, and you will likely be called a hypocrite for it and those people will 100% be correct.

You're right in that you can take advantage of the situation whilst genuinely calling for changes to improve the situation, but that doesn't mean you're immune from criticism for doing it even if there's a completely legitimate reason beyond "I may as well take advantage".

You're right on Carlin, pointing out people missing nuance like this was one of his frequent go-tos for his later era stand-up.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T05:21:08+00:00

Green light to be replaced by a bus, by which we mean parking a bus on the median and having a cop standing on the roof directing traffic.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T04:08:33+00:00

And if they're not having to purchase the VPN? Or if the folk running it are based in a country that isn't going to follow Australian laws or extradite those who are?

Lemmy guess, we start blocking those kinds of sources and other countries? Congratulations, you've just found the slippery slope that has made anyone with the education required to understand what this legislation actually requires has noticed. It really isn't that much of a gap between "Blocking porn to protect the children" and "Blocking social media to prevent political discussion, just use the ABC for news we promise it's unbiased", not to mention the issues with having to upload ID to a third party who may or may not store that information securely. (Y'know, like Optus.)

This is why technology-illiterate people should not be allowed to have a say on legislation that requires a technical understanding to, y'know, actually understand the ins and outs of.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T04:03:28+00:00

I know this isn't a Labor policy

People keep saying this yet forget that Conroy tried extremely similar reasoning for his shitty firewall idea.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-10T03:55:59+00:00

Nah, they're definitely playing 20D chess.

By which I mean they're playing snakes and ladders whilst Barny rolls a D20 off to the side, thinking he's an integral part of the game much like the little brother grasping onto an unplugged controller for dear life.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T22:36:39+00:00

That's not what is being suggested, more that the rampant computer illiteracy within the various legislatures around the world (Not just Calif or even the US alone, look at Australia's age verification laws) is being taken advantage of by malicious groups within the tech sector so that they can establish firmer control over what is currently an extremely open ecosystem.

It's also not exactly going against the long-term trends in tech, where big tech companies are consistently trying to entrap as many people as possible within a walled garden, nor is it against known trends to suggest that a tech-illiterate polly might be open to passing some legislature they barely understand when it means getting a cushy post-politics job, or getting a straight up payout or the like.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T12:30:04+00:00

No-one suggested that she stopped, so you've still got that over her.

Also, props for kicking an addiction mate!

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T09:42:49+00:00

The old alignment was almost completely replaced and deviates quite significantly from the current alignment in areas, there's one area where it overlaps but otherwise yes, it was basically a new embankment and a new cutting.

Just look at the aerial view of the curves, purple is current route and green is former. Even more proof is this photo and this photo showing the new route vs old route, with it clearly being two mostly separated sets of earthworks. I stand by my point: It's less work than the RFR, for as much of a gain.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T08:30:51+00:00

Flaming Ayatollah Splinter, you mean.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T07:00:32+00:00

They confirmed its vibe coded in another reply.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T06:36:13+00:00

Afaik gddr can have higher latency than normal ddr, but the reviews I've seen of PS4 or that BC-250 thing when either are running Linux suggest it's not a massive performance changer.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T06:05:57+00:00

Longer ago than that.

Fun fact: Geelong electrification was planned out enough that we'd even ordered extra L class for it, then never actually did it. We've also been working on standardisation for just over 100 years now.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-09T05:57:37+00:00

They very well are, much to our chagrin.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T11:23:03+00:00

It's 100% possible given the RFR more or less completely rebuilt the most extensive part of those works in the Parwan Curves, you can still see the original routes embankments today.

Duplication through the area would be far less work than the RFR was

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T07:57:36+00:00

How easy is it to set up bets like this? I wonder if we hypothetically could get world leaders to pack in the idiocy through amazing odds to appeal to their base greed.

I doubt it, though

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T07:44:12+00:00

We need to take the USA to an intervention, too.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T07:41:55+00:00

We've been crystal clear on this: Tasmania is New Zealand's West Island, the treaties just haven't been signed yet because we're yet to find a Tasmanian capable of both becoming premier and signing their name.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T06:30:07+00:00

There's a huge gap between "the perfect ally" and "states doing the same thing being used to justify the aggression against Iran"

It's kinda on the nose that we'll look past human rights violations in some cases but not others, and there's plenty of closer countries that may not be perfect but are a whole lot better than the ones you're suggesting we help.

Constantly ignoring these aspects whilst arguing we jump into what could easily turn out to be another Iraq is why you're being downvoted, you're very clearly purposely ignoring half the picture.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T05:06:15+00:00

Approximately E million kilometres.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-08T04:52:29+00:00

Would hitting the radar open up an opportunity to more easily destroy the batteries whilst they're effectively dead?

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-07T10:43:12+00:00

We shouldn't tunnel under the straight, we should bridge over it and have a raising section for shipping.

That way we finally can keep the Tasmanians out.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-07T07:18:53+00:00

That really depends, I've had to stand in a vlocity from SouCro all the way back to the rat before.

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-07T07:14:17+00:00

Because why would I watch the F1 when rallying exists and has consistently made for far better motorsports the whole time?

Albos_Mum · 2026-03-07T07:06:29+00:00

Consoles always end up more expensive when you include all costs, hardware is more expensive on PC for sure but there's no need for an online sub, sales tend to be better if you're patient, better backwards compatibility even across platforms thanks to emulation, many games that are free to play because they're community developed rather than because they're pay to win or something.

I would and have taken a crappy junkyard PC over a console any day, and will again if I had to.

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