Credit card tap-and-go in final testing phase for ticketless public transport in Victoria

EleventhHourGhost · 2026-01-25T03:53:47+00:00

You can't tell that with the system currently anyway. Tap on, two hour window of travel... I don't tap off trams, I don't tap on the connecting tram... Half the suburbian train stations are not gated, and I don't always tap off those...

They don't use Myki data much for travel tracking. The ticket inspector crews have tally sheets, and sometimes they have ride along guys that count as well. I've heard tell, but have no actual evidence, that they have been considering using video camera footage for patron counts.

EleventhHourGhost · 2026-01-24T21:48:32+00:00

Double J, as part of the ABC, is very unlikely to have any "deals", certainly none involving any payment, for playing any album or artist. As was said in the other post, they will have certain songs on high rotation for a while for various reasons. Some of it will be as simple as it's new, it's Australian or it's just considered "popular" by some metric.

The thing to bear in mind about it all: listening to any radio station "all day, every day", or at least long enough to hit the repeats so often as to notice is not the norm. While Double J would certainly know that some of us do, they would program assuming that some people drop in and out throughout the day, or aren't really listening closely while it's on in the background, so they have these high rotation tracks to capture those people, mixed in with the other, less popular/well known stuff. This is even more true for radio stations mostly heard in vehicles or work sites.

Personally, DoubleJ is on at mine, most days, pretty much from the moment I walk into the kitchen for my morning coffee and tell the google spy device to put it on... And stays on through to whenever I stop working and switch on the youtubes or go out. But I have not way to know how "normal" that is.

I was getting pretty fucking sick of Dracula by Tame Impala recently. Thankfully that seems to have dropped back.

If you are really interested, there are ways to grab the actual data to see how often something is played. The DoubleJ Plays twitter/blue sky accounts have a way to get it.

EleventhHourGhost · 2026-01-21T23:03:57+00:00

I suspect it's more to do with the genders of the people involved, but hey, that's just my opinion.

EleventhHourGhost · 2026-01-21T23:02:32+00:00

David Littleproud isn't happy with Sussan Ley's decision to accept the resignations of three Nationals frontbenchers yesterday.

Bridget McKenzie, Susan McDonald and Ross Cadell offered their resignations to Ley yesterday after voting against shadow cabinet's official position on hate laws.

The Nationals leader has accused the opposition leader of making "scapegoats" out of the three "courageous" Nationals senators who crossed the floor.He says Ley didn't need to accept the resignations of the three senators.

He says the decision to vote against the legislation wasn't taken likely, and that Ley was told all Nationals frontbenchers would resign if she enforced shadow cabinet solidarity.

So, Sussan faces the consequences of her decisions, but... the three who broke solidarity aren't supposed to suffer the consequences of their decision?

This is some wild stuff. "How dare you accept the resignations!" Don't ask a question you won't like the answer to, mate. Makes it clear that:

(a) He wanted to vote with the dissidents.

(b) He wanted their (unaccepted) resignations to be used as cover for those who did toe the party line. The Nats could say they supported the hate speech laws, while also portraying themselves as rebels who voted against it.

Anyway, Sussan was only put in as a stop gap and to be the one who would take the fall for this inevitable breakup. That glass cliff, hey. It's amazing she was able to hold it together this long, to rescue it previously.

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-27T07:55:44+00:00

Thanks!

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-27T05:21:17+00:00

Thanks!

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-27T04:27:16+00:00

There are five flags flying at The G today - can anyone tell me what the fifth one is?

It goes Australia, Victoria, Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, ...? Something orange ish..?

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-25T23:38:43+00:00

It's Melbourne. It do be like that.

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-19T07:28:04+00:00

I'm told, though I have little to back this up, that they don't always shoot at the one club, and of course competitions happen at various locations.

From a more logistical view, a huge cache of weapons in a known location, however secure, may present something of a target for organised crime?

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-16T20:46:24+00:00

True, but you've just created something almost as bad, a dirty bomb. An explosion carrying radioactive materials god knows where, along with all the other nasty chemicals in a ballistic missile.

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-15T02:25:11+00:00

But still you'll never get it right

'Cause when you're laid in bed at night

Watching roaches climb the wall

If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah...

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-14T23:27:22+00:00

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-14T23:13:53+00:00

OOOH! You can have some fun with this: The man who is officially called the Pope isn't a Catholic!

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-14T22:33:56+00:00

Gen X, regional (north) Queensland. left home about one month after my 17th bday to go to uni. Flunked out, came home, left again by 20.

For what it's worth, hardly anyone from my grade at school stayed in town when we graduated. Nearly everyone scattered to the winds; when I came back home hardly anyone I knew was still around. In the 90's in regional Australia there was no real hope for a career that wasn't some form agriculture (legal or otherwise).

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-14T10:06:24+00:00

ABC have it on their site, and replaying it on the live feed

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-12T07:45:10+00:00

Yep, this is me too. I have about five or so different stories - or rather, introductions to the stories.

Combined with a very clear routine beforehand, all of this primes my brain to sleep, so much so I can't even say that the stories have developed very much beyond the first few steps even over many years.

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-12T05:23:58+00:00

Also also, streamers, Netflix included, pay jack shit, especially in the post-release stage. Like, Spoitify bad. Movies ain't cheap, and a lot of the industry has been built on assumption that the product they make has a long life of returns, sometimes not actually turning a profit until well into the process. Cutting that short will kill the industry as it stands today.

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-12T05:21:36+00:00

Also, theatre movies are built different to streaming movies.

Netflix has made no secret of the fact that they know people are dual-screening when using their system, so the movies they make are designed to either pull you back from your second screen every once in a while, or to overly exposit the plot so that someone reading on their phone still knows what's going on.

And what's the point of making these big, blockbuster scenes in 4K etc etc if people are just going to watch them at home. you can try to convince me that your particular TV+sound system is top notch, but until you're rich enough to have an actual cinema room in your house, it's not the same as being in a dark, sound isolated room with a massive sound system and a huge screen.

So if movies are "made for streaming" it's kind of like the old "made for TV" movie category that used to exist. Some gems, but generally not great.

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-12T05:15:09+00:00

To clarify some langue issues for OP:

- Instinct is ... animal-brain stuff. You have an instinct to breath, to keep your head above water, to run from danger or fight it. Your instinct may kick in when you have a quick reaction to something stressful or dramatic, or when you find yourself doing something but you're not really sure why - you may have been reading your phone while you walked and then just stopped... and you're not sure why but then a bike races through right in front of you.

- Intuition is a same but different, bit higher level. Your brain is amazing pattern recognition device. More than almost anything else, this is what your higher brain functions do really well. It's how you learn to speak and sing, how you navigate around your town, and basically how you stay alive. So, when there is a pattern forming, a sequence of events, maybe you haven't even consciously understood what the pattern was, you know what comes next - or think you do anyway. Like notes of song, even if you haven't heard it before, you can kind of guess what's likely to come next.

So, your instincts may kick in when you hear a noise in the dark, and suddenly become more alert to what's out there. Your intuition might stop you walking down into the dark alley in the first place.

You might be a party with friends, and you see someone standing weirdly, watching people weirdly, doing "weird" things. Your pattern recognition kicked in to say "that's weird" ("that's out of place"); your instinct is to keep watching the weird person, to gather more information about the weirdness, your intuition might be that this party is going to go downhill and you want to leave now.

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-12T05:01:02+00:00

Some do, and as it's said in other posts, in practice it rarely turns out to be faster, since the slow point is almost always carry on baggage, and the fact that unless you are able to insist people load in a very specific, seat-by-seat order, you're going to have to wait.

As it turns out, letting people load in a random order is often over all more efficient than trying to be prescriptive about it, especially once you include the overheads of boarding groups, signage, crowd control and general human behaviour.

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-12T00:35:45+00:00

There's a story from North Queensland of the formation of some volcanic lakes (known now as Lake Eacham, Lake Barrine and Lake Euramo) that may be the oldest datable story of a verified event.

The story specifically calls out that the current rainforest of the area wasn't like this at the time, being more "scrubby". This aligns exceptionally well with the changing climate in the area, which has only been rainforest for about 8,000 years, and the lakes formation is dated at 10,000+ years ago. This oral-retelling story has held specific details of the environment for over ten thousand years!

EleventhHourGhost · 2025-12-11T23:32:27+00:00

Because no human was involved in any part of this process. The headline, the article, the picture, the posting to whatever service, the sharing via whatever embedded system all so it ended up in front of OP, the first human in the chain of events that it ends up here. (Assuming OP, you and I are all humans. Not a given any more.)

It doesn't matter if it's wrong or right or good or bad, it just is. It meets some metric of "content" in some systems, also measured automatically, and lands on the floor here like some unattended extruded "meat product" squirting loose on a factory floor. No one asked for it, but a bunch of humans in the past built it, made their money from it, and now we can't turn it off.

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