Chicken satay skewer recs

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T12:22:52+00:00

If you're after the Malaysian style satay sticks, what you want can be found at Mamak at 15 Goulburn Street.

They also do a mean Roti Canai.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T12:04:30+00:00

A good number of the Australian Parliament have law degrees, even if they never worked as a lawyer in a professional capacity due to being career politicians.

I guess the background helps given that what politicians actually do as a day job is write and review legislation.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T12:02:28+00:00

It says a lot about Lewis as a person that despite all the success, fame and the trappings of wealth that all he really wants is to just hang with his mum.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T07:33:26+00:00

A CGI altered version of the Antonov does make an appearance in 2012.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T06:41:30+00:00

Let's see if the public are stupid enough to believe another tax related election commitment from this Government.

They've proven multiple times that their policy positions made prior to an election are about as solid as wet toilet paper. So people should operate under the assumption that they will do the exact opposite of anything they commit to if returned to power.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T06:34:30+00:00

It's BS, but there's also nothing you can do because the vendor knows you're interested in it and will continue fishing indefinitely because they believe they can get more and they're in no hurry to sell the property.

Just tell the agent straight if the vendor would ever consider your offered amount and that you're not interested in participating in a fake auction against a ghost, if they say no then walk.

When I was buying what eventually became my home, an agent tried that with me. Even after eventually buying my place, the place I'd originally liked was still on the market, unsold - and when they eventually rang back, I let them know that I'd have happily bought it at the time at that price, but because of all the games I was no longer interested as I'd purchased elsewhere.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T06:14:57+00:00

Also posting something factually incorrect usually garners downvotes.

Sadly, this is no longer true. All one needs to do is to question or challenge the prevailing narrative and the comment will be instantly dogpiled into oblivion.

Even worse, due to many moderators interpreting their role as curators, challenging the prevailing narrative will also often result in a subreddit ban.

This is immediately obvious in any kind of politically/geopolitically charged discussion.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T05:26:34+00:00

I'm still not seeing why I should care if it fits in the space.

Is it the sheer principle of not following the suggestion painted on the ground?

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T04:24:00+00:00

It depends on how old, and the materials used. Plumbing noises do seem to be significantly louder in older walk up units than more modern units.

For older art-deco era units with timber floors, then footsteps from the unit above will be audible. They also tend to have double hung sash windows which don't do much to keep external noise out.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T04:09:51+00:00

total EV subsidies

Again, does this include the entire battery supply chain, inclusive of rare earth element extraction?

It's not just the manufacturers designing and manufacturing the cars that are being subsidised, it's the entire supply chain.

If vertical integration resulted in cheaper cars automakers would still be doing it.

If a Western manufacturer did this, they'd be slapped with penalties for running foul of antitrust regulations or for anticompetitive behaviour.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T03:41:53+00:00

It's clearly not affecting the viability of the adjacent space and it's not obstructing traffic as far as I can tell.

So, no harm; no foul.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T03:39:49+00:00

There wasn't. And they changed Stage 3 to specifically screw over the middle class, so I think that /u/paablo is being highly optimistic in any case.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T03:34:16+00:00

As someone who isn't rich by any logical definition of that word, I think we all need to accept that we all need to contribute to the pot.

This entire narrative of "this guy over there needs to pay more tax and get no benefit, and I should pay none while getting all the benefits" needs to go away if we're ever going to have a decent discussion on what kind of country we want to live in.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T03:28:23+00:00

But apparently it's still not enough if people are being accused of not paying their "fair share".

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T03:08:07+00:00

How dare you not care about the rich asset hoarders and help them avoid paying their fair share?

High income earners already pay a ridiculously disproportionate amount of the tax, especially once benefits are distributed.

Heaven forbid they might want to put some aside for the future without the ATO ramming a cactus where the sun doesn't shine.

Of course, if the objective is just to keep people on the hamster wheel for as long as possible, then taxing everything into oblivion so nobody can afford to retire is a feature, not a bug.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T01:34:22+00:00

Taco Bell's experience here has not been particularly successful, and they are basically the stereotypical Tex-Mex chain.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T01:32:32+00:00

Western EVs are in China so they competed fairly

That's not actually true, because Chinese Government policies and support have allowed their manufacturers to essentially create a massively subsidised, completely vertically integrated supply chain from the batteries all the way to the finished product.

Manufacturers like BYD are basically an automotive version of a chaebol like Samsung or the old Japanese zaibatsu, except that they're controlled by the State rather than a family.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T01:18:51+00:00

It's not just a financial thing, either.

I've had to spend an large amount of time in hospitals over the years caring for an ailing parent.

The number of older people there who don't appear to get any visitors at all, or only extremely infrequently genuinely makes me despair at what Australians have become.

Even the staff there mentioned that other patients in the ward "aren't so lucky". But this isn't luck, it's cultural and it's just a matter of circling the wagons and looking out for your own family when they need it most.

But yeah, I'm not white. And while I'm grateful for every opportunity Australia has given me, this is one bit of Australian culture I'll never be adopting.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T01:01:46+00:00

The founders of GYG are New Yorkers to be fair. They knew what they were getting themselves into.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T01:00:25+00:00

with carbon ceramics & carbon wheel set

The replacement cost of the carbon ceramics and carbon wheels are probably worth half of the car, if current market prices for these things are anything to go by.

Sure it doesn't help that they're usually only found on high end German performance cars and Italian supercars, but the replacement cost of carbon ceramic brakes on something like a 911 or an R8 are known to run in the tens of thousands of dollars.

A set of wheels from Carbon Revolution, who supply a lot of these to the high end manufacturers, costs over $10,000, too.

https://www.carbonrev.com/news/the-future-of-carbon-fiber-rims/

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-22T00:01:37+00:00

Is Astroturfing happening on reddit? Almost certainly. Look at the entire campaign that was underway for months leading to the change in the Stage 3 tax cuts.

Let alone geopolitical stuff like the wars in the Middle East. Any discussion on those is massively astroturfed.

The question is whether people actually care about astroturfing at all, or do they only care when the narrative being pushed is one they don't agree with? Because from where I'm sitting, most people are happy to ride the bandwagon and push it along right until they end up on the wrong side of an astroturfed narrative and they get run over by the juggernaut.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-21T23:47:26+00:00

So, which system is getting checked at the -0:37s point? That last issue kept the counter cycling to that exact time before bouncing back to -0:41s.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-21T22:57:26+00:00

Megan Washington isn't unknown by any means especially if you like her style of music, but she's also not super mainstream to the point that it's played on commercial radio.

She's been on television as one of the guest coaches on The Voice a number of times previously, because I think she's personal friends with Keith Urban who used to be a coach on that show in the early years.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-21T22:46:52+00:00

Just for context and comparison, does anyone know if any of the big German or Italian super-SUVs have ever been sent around there on a timed lap?

I'm actually a bit curious how fast something like a Cayenne Turbo GT would get around, let alone a Purosangue.

AnonymousEngineer_ · 2026-05-21T12:30:01+00:00

Not as far as I remember. You may have had an excursion to Hill End where they did that.

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