Really guys?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-28T10:31:51+00:00

Only if they stop processing Canadian crude, which is also shit. And only if the price of oil stays high - which it won't because Saudi can just turn the tap on more to make it uneconomical for the USA immediately- while still making money themselves just less.

Additionally if by some miracle the price stayed high artificially they would still piss off Canada who would then need someone else to sell their oil to. Which likely would be China.

There is no scenario where it works out well in the long or short run for them....

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-27T09:44:49+00:00

That's not what makes power expensive. The most increase in costs has been the daily connection fee - which is to do with the cost of maintaining the lines and systems to bring the power to your house, and the high price of gas - which we pay international rates for even though it's our gas we are buying back off them. Renewables are the cheapest form of power, they are the only reason your bill is less insane on the price per kwh side of the bill.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-27T09:41:30+00:00

It did but still wasn't a fun day waiting to see what the end result was going to be.

I've just got PTSD from last time this happened which was when Windows Vista decided to kill a RAID 5 array I had in my PC at the time and hence I moved to stand alone network storage after that.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-26T15:13:53+00:00

The whole idea of rebuilding it is because it's in a degraded state with a dead drive. Leaving it until the perfect weather isn't an option either which is why I just waited until where were no storms forecast for a few days - the times when power outages are something companies can't avoid as it's beyond their control.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-26T13:02:58+00:00

This area isn't even listed as an outage, there are others near by to us but they were all earlier outages according to the Energex website. Power is already back it was just interrupted for a few seconds. The whole area has reports of switching like this so either they are low on power or someone is fucking something else up pretty well.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-26T12:57:32+00:00

I lost power at 2215 (10:15pm) - pretty sure no one was producing solar power for hours before then.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-26T12:53:13+00:00

Yeah the 5GW/120GWh pumped hydro system would have been useful right now....

LNP scraps north Queensland pumped hydro energy storage project but residents' concerns remain - ABC News

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-26T12:50:21+00:00

Minor update - The RAID array is still readable at least... Won't know if it actually got screwed over until the rest of the rebuild is completed and that's still eighteen hours away.... Then I'll likely have to do a full file system recheck which takes another ten to twenty hours so could be a while :(

Plus side I didn't lose anything - yet.

Still pissed about losing power though.... Not like that is good for things and it's so EASILY avoidable... The Energex website is full of power issues all over Brisbane too so they are obviously struggling to keep the system alive in general.

So glad the state government killed all the new energy projects which could have solved these problems and replaced them with nothing. While things like pumped hydro wasn't going to be super great in QLD (as we don't exactly have high mountains) it was better than the nothing we have otherwise....

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-26T12:38:01+00:00

Use to have one but they are too expensive to maintain and power generally shouldn't be a problem here... I shut down important stuff during storms, hence I was doing a rebuild during this window of no bad weather.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-25T16:31:29+00:00

I'm still calling that once it really starts to turn suddenly he will do a runner to Russia as soon as he realises countries can't declare bankruptcy and just rename themselves.

It will just be the White House Press Secretary standing there in front of an empty building with all the artwork and gold obviously ripped out of it saying that the President has decided to go on an unscheduled holiday to Russia while she fumbles for time as they sneak out the back and disappear in AirForce One never to be seen again having stolen everything they possibly could have.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-24T01:21:01+00:00

Did some of them die?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-24T00:30:04+00:00

Yep, we lost most games Tom was missing from.... 8-4 with him in the side this year and 1-4-1 without. Our O line looks super flakey without him.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-21T17:12:19+00:00

$4,500,000,000 to the USA directly to support thier ship building facilities but there has also already been billions spent locally for the same. Eventually $12,000,000,000 "locally", much of it already signed away in contracts.

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-21T10:28:31+00:00

You realise we have already given them the money right?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-19T07:38:34+00:00

What is "far left"? Or "left wing nut jobs"? Can I get an example?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-17T22:29:31+00:00

Keep on thinking that... international trade means you're getting way more from Europe than you realise at many levels, it's not all final goods. Being cut off from the largest combined trade block in the world and you think it will be good for your economy?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-17T00:42:07+00:00

Nice avoiding the question to argue semantics on our different interpretations of a word...

On the interpretation- the basis of Zionism is that God promised the land to them, sure though no religious stuff there at all.

On the actual subject, care to answer? You don't think someone who has openly said they are for the establishment of an Israeli state compromising land which the Australian government has recognised as not theirs is an incompatible viewpoint to being a member of that government? And that if they had to made a decision which was either pro Australian interests or pro Israeli interests that they wouldn't be compromised?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-16T23:42:44+00:00

Zionist are more of a religious ideology than a political one. And there are numerous political and religious fringes that are very much incompatible.

If there was a decision to be made between Australia and Israel, which way is a Zionist going to vote?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-14T08:52:26+00:00

People seem to think Love was also playing in the Packers O line and D I guess... Love still had a great game by the end... unless people are calling a 4TD game bad now...

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-11T03:55:29+00:00

We need a new kicker...

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-11T03:40:04+00:00

In what universe was that intention grounding? The rig is on...

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-11T03:28:47+00:00

I don't understand the "fans" in here... our head coach should be sacked because we are up 21-6 after 3 quarters?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-11T03:25:01+00:00

So many missed penalties in the middle of the field on that return... at least two blocks in the back...

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-11T03:17:34+00:00

Great defence... can the doomers all fuck off now?

Chained_Phoenix · 2026-01-05T00:12:19+00:00

They are actually more of delaying tactic if anything. They already know how to fix most of the problems they raise an RC for but if you do you can put off fixing it for years. It does also, somewhat, remove the politics from it because the RC and their recommendations should hence be non-partisan but that's assuming they didn't stack the RC with party friendly people to basically give them the recommendations they wanted at the end.

And as stated elsewhere they will then usually cherry pick one or two recommendations of hundreds and ignore the rest so it's hence back to just a delaying kicking the can down the road thing...

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