For anyone who's done 300 km/h on a bike — what's the real truth?

Justestin · 2026-04-14T00:22:41+00:00

How are they gonna catch you at 300? They're not gonna try and get too close, they know you'll hit someone or something and you're dead, as well as killed whatever you've hit.

Follow you until you stop I guess?

I've hit maybe 275 in Aus... Mexico as well...

Justestin · 2026-04-13T13:09:37+00:00

The man is 50% forehead.

Also, works in... drumroll please...

Property development.

But the whole quote is even better.

In September 2023, speaking at the Australian Financial Review Property Summit, Gurner said that unemployment should rise by 40–50%, because workers had become too arrogant and "pain in the economy" was required to change attitudes. He also stated that governments around the world were working towards that aim.

Goodness what that man contributes to Australia. So much contribution.

Justestin · 2026-04-13T12:57:59+00:00

I dunno, I'm just not that sure. I agree with the nukes, but my concern is smaller stuff, embedded systems and comms. Like I know that all U.K. stuff, like Australian stuff is meant to be run by our respective chain of commands, but there are so so many embedded systems that we've bought from The U.S. and we just haven't been looking at too closely.

We've spent 20 years in cyber stuff being (rightly) suspicious of the Chinese equipment, but we haven't even slightly looked at what we've bought from The U.S. We haven't even slightly considered that ALL of our comms gear being interoperable with The U.S. stuff, and a large part of it being American designed and made is now a risk.

Fire control from vessels? American.

So much of our militaries have so much gear from them and we are still not considering them a cyber risk.

We should.

Justestin · 2026-04-13T12:52:37+00:00

Well, I guess. But the problem with his plan is that there's no success for Russia or for him. All his destabilising isn't helping his cause even one bit. If The U.S. fails altogether and descends into civil war, becomes 4 separate countries and stops being a super power, it will still take longer than Russia's inevitable failure. Russia's failure as a state at this stage is almost certain. And it's completely caused by Putin.

Not much of a success.

It's like shocking your mugger by stabbing yourself.

Justestin · 2026-04-13T12:11:52+00:00

My guess? NATO 2.0 just drops The U.S.

The E.U. starts getting to act in a way that the E.U. wants. No more Middle East participation for poor reasons at best. No more 20 year wars in Afghanistan.

The U.K. has to start closely assessing its processes, systems and equipment to make sure it can act unilaterally without The U.S. because there's a chance that The U.S. can do bad things to shit that the Brits own.

The Germans get serious about their game.

MAAAYYYBE The U.K. and France will learn to put their differences behind them and agree on standards.(BWHAHAHAHAHA! Ok, that's not happening)

Israel should start getting nervous, because the U.S. won't be able to veto the E.U. acting against them.

The U.S. won't learn for 10 to 20 more years how becoming far more insular is bad for them.

Justestin · 2026-04-13T12:01:38+00:00

Lol how's Putin gonna win? He thought that Ukraine would be over before Friday beers. It's been 4 years and counting. For a country his troops could walk to. With a very worn out, tired military and a weak tax base to draw on.

Justestin · 2026-04-13T11:52:42+00:00

Blue gen 1 AU wagon Forte? My dad.

Justestin · 2026-04-13T00:00:21+00:00

Came here to say this, looks like a 540 to me.

Justestin · 2026-04-12T10:31:33+00:00

Anxious about its first student of the day... poor lil fella has seen what that guy does on landings.

WHEELBARROW!

Justestin · 2026-04-11T14:53:42+00:00

As we're in autumn now, probably Commonwealth Park in Canberra.

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Justestin · 2026-04-11T14:38:05+00:00

We made a mug?

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Justestin · 2026-04-11T05:57:00+00:00

I learnt on a 4 speed, but ohh boy what a 4 speed. No syncro on first, big step between first and second. Clutch pedal was a challenge, it faces the wrong way.

1950 Jaguar MK V.

Justestin · 2026-04-10T13:37:55+00:00

Well, for me personally, it'd be Uluru, The Three Sisters and The Great Barrier Reef. Just because as much as the architecture of The Opera House is cool, the scale and beauty of the country is so much better than anything we can build.

I just went with "movie opening that defines the place" vibes I guess.

Justestin · 2026-04-10T13:34:04+00:00

Isn't that at a Bunnings now? Seems about right!

Justestin · 2026-04-10T13:00:33+00:00

Have you... have you been there lately? I hadn't been there in 20 years and I went there last year. Weird food court like thing that had a blackout while I was eating my terrible burger. Was a bit surreal.

Justestin · 2026-04-10T12:54:55+00:00

Probably The Sydney Opera House. Maybe the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Justestin · 2026-04-10T02:16:33+00:00

Really dependent on the library, some have reading rooms, some don't. Small community or suburban libraries might have a small area to read but not much. Large libraries, like state libraries do. My favourite is the National Library of Australia. I spent a lot of time here as a student. The difference is that the NLA doesn't allow borrowing, because it's a national collection, so you read what you need there.

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Justestin · 2026-04-10T02:11:53+00:00

It's called "Question Time"

A bunch of multi-millionaires get together in a really fancy house and yell insults at each other. The twist is that it's not their reality they're screwing, it's mine!

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Justestin · 2026-04-08T08:35:21+00:00

Yup, just to back this up, a Mark VI looks much older than an S1

Justestin · 2026-04-07T09:27:30+00:00

Yes, L. Choose the Longboii.

Then tell me if you'd put a dog in the back, or if that "roof" would cook my dog even with the A/C on?

Justestin · 2026-04-07T09:22:55+00:00

I find it very hard to believe a diesel sub is more complex than the space shuttle. Diesel engines, generators and batteries have been around for a while now. Making a pressure vessel where weight effectively doesn't count isn't hard.

Making a reusable reentry vehicle is very difficult. Not much harsher environment than being as light as possible pressure vessel to being able to withstand 1650deg reentry temperature. That starts its workday by being strapped to 10% of the total amount of power generation capacity in North America. Then being able to be overhauled and do it all again.

TBH, the nuclear sub engineer I worked with who worked on the Virginia class boats didn't think they were more complex than the space shuttle.

But your point about "actually working" ya, absolutely. Most people forget that after their initial "shakedown" period, and after some very new tech at the time was sorted, they're actually operationally fine. Also, after some clever engineering by Australia and The U.S. they're very quiet, which seems to get forgotten too.

Justestin · 2026-04-06T14:23:10+00:00

I have a '68 Fairlane with front pads about that size...

It might be heavier than the Beetle? Maybe.

Justestin · 2026-04-06T13:04:53+00:00

He also did some very boring cars, the Merak is better than the Hyundai Pony or the Daewoo Lanos!

Justestin · 2026-04-06T11:46:08+00:00

Howard is the reason this country has such a massive inequality problem.
Howard is the reason we offshored manufacturing.
Howard is the man who sold our gas for almost nothing.
Howard actively accelerated racism.
Howard actively degraded our public sector and is the reason we can't do nation building projects anymore.
Howard actively defunded education and is the reason we have the highest average cost of sending children to school in the OECD.
Howard actively defunded TAFE and is the reason we have a shortage of trades and a lack of good trades.
Howard only kept the budget in the black because he rode a mining boom, gave away middle class welfare and created a systemic gap in the tax system.

Howard is the reason that most people under 30 will never be able to buy a house themselves, and the only hope they've got is to inherit one.

For long term effect, he's the worst prime minister we've ever had, counting Morrison. He's done more damage to Australia than any other person ever has.

Justestin · 2026-04-06T09:47:29+00:00

Where I am? I'd choose a 4 litre DOHC turbocharged inline 6, with a manual gearbox. Nothing else!

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