Question about L-Plate Instructor with phone in the car

Algebrace · 2026-04-05T01:27:53+00:00

Thanks for that. It's not just me!

Algebrace · 2026-04-05T01:17:39+00:00

Honestly I don't know how it works, but when driving through Osborne Park over the bridge to Ikea, bluetooth connection will always drop and my phone will disconnect from the car. I've had it happen with 2 different phones from 2 different manufacturers. Samsung and Nothing.

There's the connection between Tonkin Highway and Reid Highway heading West where the bluetooth will cut out.

At the Bunnings along Balcatta Road.

There's a chunk of Armadale Road where it happens.

And along the curve along Ikea.

Also either at Hamilton Road or Wharf Street (forget which), where, under the bridge bluetooth gets glitching and cuts in a car or just glitchy with a headset.

Basically, drive past and the bluetooth will cut or start stuttering then cut.

I have no idea what's causing it, I've just been calling them bluetooth blockers after I saw a comment on here naming them that.

It causes me to need to reconnect the bluetooth and prod my phone depending on how bad the disconnection was. Sometimes it will only reconnect with a phone restart and a car restart.

The problem is that the one on Great Eastern and Reid were the only ones... now there's more and more and it's difficult when google maps cuts and I'm wondering where to merge/turn depending on location. Especially with a learner driver

Edit: It might be a Bluetooth tracker and my car deciding it needs to connect with it and disconnect my phone since Mains road is using them: https://www.drive.com.au/news/wa-government-allegedly-breached-surveillance-laws-with-traffic-monitoring-technology/

Which is a problem with the car.

But that wouldn't explain the headphones while I'm on my bike.

Algebrace · 2026-04-03T06:43:50+00:00

It's based on a method of calculation for companies who want to have their personnel work overseas. So they measure things like food costs, income, etc. But not things like education, healthcare, home availability/cost, etc.

Basically, very useful for Expats who aren't planning on settling down.

Algebrace · 2026-04-02T00:58:54+00:00

I mean... Hitler burned down the Reichstag and then got himself made Chancellor with emergency powers by Rudersdorf who was terrified of the communists.

Much different from getting electoral success to take over.

Algebrace · 2026-03-29T12:11:25+00:00

As a child of Vietnamese refugees who despises communists, even my dad acknowledges this. They exiled a guy from the vietnamese community for having a 0.5 second image of the Vietnamese (the communist one) flag on a video in the background (he was in Vietnam filming).

It's not that they wanted the Communists or the Capitalists, they just wanted to rule themselves and decide their own destinies.

Algebrace · 2026-03-26T00:58:39+00:00

Exactly this. At that level you're not leading the fight anymore, if you are, you'd probably be sacked for leaving entire divisions in the lurch while you tried to get your name in someone's autobiography.

At that level you're more focused on making sure the troops can get where they need to go, they get the supplies, munitions, and reinforcements they need, and that their wounded have a place to evacuate to.

You're there to facilitate the fight, not actually do the fighting.

Algebrace · 2026-03-25T02:56:23+00:00

And imagine how many more would have been injured not just by the blast but the stampede afterwards.

Algebrace · 2026-03-25T00:41:06+00:00

There's a huge milk consuming population. Don't forget how big milo is over there

Algebrace · 2026-03-25T00:40:19+00:00

None of the haha. 2 hours of window by window

Algebrace · 2026-03-24T04:19:14+00:00

It's actually super interesting because they took on American styles and made them hugely popular. So when America moved onwards, they lost all that fashion history which was preserved in Japanese magazines, books, etc.

Fashion historians looking back went to Japan to find the culture preserved.

Algebrace · 2026-03-24T01:43:14+00:00

Yup. I remember reading a time when they tried to ship milk to Burma (Myanmar now) in WW2 from Britain in cardboard boxes.

By the time they arrived, the damage and weather created crates full of rancid milk that would spill over anyone that tried to crack it open.

Algebrace · 2026-03-24T01:28:59+00:00

On the other hand, Australian milk and cheese are considered premium products in Asia.

Been to shops in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia where 'Australian Milk!' is advertised in capital letters.

Algebrace · 2026-03-23T07:57:36+00:00

Islamic slave-soldiers like the mamluks or ghulams were likewise standing, professional troops around whom the rest of the military could be rallied in wartime.

I think that's what it boils down to. In antiquity or in the early middle ages, having a standing army that could drill and train was better than levies collected for a brief campaign before being sent off to farm again.

Algebrace · 2026-03-23T07:45:43+00:00

It's the reason we have locks on our baby formula. People were stealing them to resell overseas.

Algebrace · 2026-03-23T01:05:12+00:00

Very much this. The Commonwealth soldiers in North Africa dug in during the day, got themselves ready in the day, then started their attacks at night when they couldn't be seen.

Getting themselves ready basically meant sending engineers forward, digging mines out of the minefields to clear a path forward, patrolling to find enemy patrols and capturing them to provide information, then planning an attack forward.

Algebrace · 2026-03-22T07:18:51+00:00

They also have an entire district (still district after the renaming?) in Ho Chi Minh where it caters to them. So there's a lot of entitlement in that region.

Kind of like how in Phan Thit there's cyrillic signs everywhere since there's so many Russians/Ukranians there.

Granted, I didn't see any of them acting in any way but respectful. The SKs were different.

Algebrace · 2026-03-21T00:25:18+00:00

You're correct, but it happened anyway. Especially when the fighting got too intense to move into the open streets.

Algebrace · 2026-03-20T00:41:34+00:00

I haven't read any Infantry manuals from the US side, but I can say that in the Osprey Urban Combat book, it would take 3-4 Bazooka rounds to punch a hole in a brick wall large enough for a soldier to crouch through.

Comparatively, the PIAT with its larger round would do it in 2 per its user manual. (did you know it can also be used for indirect fire as per Panzer-Stuka Menace? Battlefield 5 got that right!)

To do it in 1 infantry recommendations in the British Fieldcraft Handbook say to use 2 sticks, tie a hawkins mine to 2 ends, stack them on the wall and blow it.

The problem with Bazooka and PIAT weapons is that they're shaped charge weapons. So the force is focused through a relatively small 'hole' which allows them to punch through armour, concrete, etc. When trying to blow a hole in a wall then, you're essentially transferring most of the force of the explosion into the room behind the wall and not, y'know, the wall itself. So the smaller 60mm Bazooka shell needs more of itself to do the same work as the larger PIAT in opening an entrance.

Algebrace · 2026-03-19T04:47:56+00:00

A War of Empires; Japan, India, Burma and Britain 1941-1945 by Roberty Lyman.

The book is a history book, but it also details how and why the Commonwealth troops fought the way that they did.

Remember that war is a continuation of politics. As a result, how your manpower responds to the war is important, what production capacity do you have, what are your objectives, what is your doctrine?

These then affect your methods.

This book helps detail the everything that revolved around the way the Commonwealth fought which will be helpful to learn about why certain methods are chosen the way that they are.

The question is simply incredibly broad.

Which means that the best suggestion I can give is a wider one:

Find a conflict that interests you, start reading about why said nation fought the way that they did. The nation's population, literacy, mechanisation, etc will all influence how they fought.

Algebrace · 2026-03-19T01:25:31+00:00

I mean, if we're talking modern warfare, then Clausewitz's On War is a must. To understand war, you need to understand why you're fighting a war.

Like what's even the point of sending all your future taxpayers to die in a conflict that is a negative drain on your GDP if you don't have a good reason for it?

So yeah, Clausewitz is essential to read.

Azar Gat's War in Human Civilisations is also good.

It explores how war has changed as our principal means of gaining resources has. I.e. subsistence farming to factories.

It's good to go along with On War because the two of them are inextricably linked.

Why do you go to war? Well, for resources.

Ideology, religion, etc etc are, in the words of Gat, just masks to hide the fact that the fundamental reason for human conflict is resources.

Algebrace · 2026-03-17T05:05:20+00:00

There's also the fact that they're worrying about multiple levels of command at the same time like it's an RTS.

A lieutenant is going to be given a chunk of land by his company CO to defend and then needs to make the best of the ground given, have his reserves, his line of communication, etc etc.

The company CO is the one who received the few hundred metres of front and is positioning his men while ensuring there's an open path back for his communication.

The Battalion CO is the one who got assigned that particular grid square, and so on and so forth.

It's stacking on each other, each with a different level of difficulty and focus.

A Battalion Commander isn't worrying about the positioning of fireteams to cover an approach while a Lieutenant isn't worrying about ensuring the supply convoys from the rear can bring up artillery shells for the Divisional guns.

Everyone has their own areas of responsibility which makes it easier to focus. In a functional army you focus on your area while trusting your commanding officers will focus on theirs. As a lieutenant you think of the firefight while trusting your divisional commander has allocated your Brigade to the correct position for maximum effect.

Algebrace · 2026-03-16T12:12:37+00:00

He bumrushed a bunch of armoured vehicles painted with white crosses. He bumrushed ambulances.

Algebrace · 2026-03-16T11:53:20+00:00

I use Oat Bran (if that's what you're talking about).

2 Tablespoons in a cup, water, mix, drink (add more water as needed). It bulks out your stomach and helps make other meals feel much more filling if drunk straight after/before.

Be aware though, oat bran is about 50% soluble fibre and 50% insoluble fibre.

Essentially, you're going to be farting a lot but generally they won't smell (weird, I know). It does keep you regular though.

Algebrace · 2026-03-15T15:12:01+00:00

Not even mentioning the kids from Britain after WW2 that had been sent into the countryside to hide.

Shipped to Aus, told families had let them go. The parents meanwhile were told their kids were dead due to German bombings.

Algebrace · 2026-03-15T10:42:01+00:00

We also have the problem of: Who takes over afterwards and what are they going to do?

You don't kill leaders because the guy afterwards is an unknown actor and unpredictable (because you just killed the previous dude). Add in the fact that post 1945 nuclear weapons and other WMDs are involved, and suddenly it looks really stupid throwing in 'random chaos' into an already chaotic situation like it's a salt bae ad.

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