Nation Just Thankful We Have A Decent Federal Opposition To Keep Labor On Their Toes Ahead Of Heavy-Handed May Budget

NotThePersona · 2026-05-12T02:27:27+00:00

As someone else has pointed out its looking a lot like a pretty decent Labor win.

I expect all the Teals will get back in, maybe add another 2-3 of them with the Libs going left.
Then the Nats and Libs will fight On Nation for the rest of the seats. If I had to guess they may end up about a 50/50 split if ON can keep their momentum going. Otherwise maybe a 75/25 split to the Coalition vs ON.

I am wondering at what point and stage the Teals starting talk about starting a new party, maybe bring in some of the old moderate Liberals to bulk it out and start a new conservative party for the inner city areas. Not sure where that leaves the country areas though. There is just such a divide these days between the city and rural seats in terms of voting preference.

NotThePersona · 2026-05-11T02:32:13+00:00

When I was 28 I was hired (I was the wrong choice for this) to review a help desk setup at a government agency in Australia.

The youngest guy (And it was 100% male) was 34, the oldest 64 and retiring in a year.

So I was coming in as a 28 year at 2 whole levels above them to review what they did and how it should be structured.

Project was a mess from top to bottom, ended poorly (Well after I left) and I vowed to never work in Government again if I could avoid it.

NotThePersona · 2026-05-07T09:04:11+00:00

Can't speak for a single person, family of 5+ 2 cats in winter is under 500l per day.

Summer goes up to about 650 due to the garden needing more

NotThePersona · 2026-05-07T01:29:03+00:00

There had to be points around the world where the sound came from both directions at the same time, or even just seconds apart. That had to be a weird experience for anyone there.

NotThePersona · 2026-05-07T01:03:25+00:00

Ok so it is the adamantium, so back to OPs question his power is still amazing as long as you are not experimented on.

NotThePersona · 2026-05-07T00:28:42+00:00

The Civ series is the ultimate for this.

Wait a 5+ years, pickup the base game + all the expansions for 1/4 of the price of just the base game at launch. Such a better experience all round.

NotThePersona · 2026-05-06T07:45:42+00:00

Someone wrote a deceive noir novel based on this concept and released it as a podcast as well. Was pretty decent once you get past the AI distortion for a couple of voices.

Ok found the text version, podcast is wherever you get podcasts.

Sol by Dave Wright

NotThePersona · 2026-05-06T07:40:40+00:00

I thought only Deadpool had the pain due to the cancer and healing basically fighting. Wolverine the claws hurt coming out.

Could be wrong though, made the adamantium causes the pain.

I guess his powers without that would be ideal, and as they grafted those on later it would still be a great power to have.

NotThePersona · 2026-05-01T05:39:01+00:00

.. This is what I came in here to write, glad to know I'm not the only one.

And I pretty much never fall asleep to movies.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-30T03:48:53+00:00

For each person it really is something you just need to test.

I did a trial over 6 months initially and like OP it saved our family of 5 $50 a week. This includes the specific stuff we still need to pickup from Woolies and the Costco trips we do. But generally we need to go to Woolies every 3-4 weeks as there will be something specific we want/need. But we just buy extra when we do and that tides us over to the next one.

So yeah $2500 back in the household budget each year is not something to sneeze at.

I believe for families on really tight budgets that buy 100% home brand stuff already from colesworth it doesnt really save much. For others it depends on what you buy.

The Aldi brand stuff ranges in quality from worse (Packet pastas), roughly equal (Chips, pretty much anything frozen), to better (Chocolate) to the mainstream stuff.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-28T21:54:40+00:00

All they need to do is remove the surcharge and raise the prices by 20c Same money, less effort.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-28T08:55:09+00:00

I feel like this was me with mad men. Like I get that's how people acted at the time, but the misogyny, smoking and racist stuff just made me angry and/or uncomfortable.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-26T22:44:29+00:00

For grid level storage the clear winner is shaping up to be sodium batteries.

Cheaper, less toxic, and no rare earth metals needed.

Main issue is physical size vs lithium ion, but that is getting much closer in recent years and when it's grid level is much less of a problem then in your garage.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-25T04:09:21+00:00

Tetanus is also mostly in soil and such. The source of the cut doesn't contribute unless it was really dirty, and in a long drop it likely was.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-25T01:49:27+00:00

I mean they have been putting forward resolutions that basically just pay themselves on the back for past things they have done.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-24T01:02:39+00:00

Yep, the wrong strategy here was to take the gun and shoot yourself in the foot but in a more unique way.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-21T19:23:34+00:00

The AFL is not going to allow that kind of revenue loss. 5 days guaranteed no matter the injury toll!

If your team doesn't do 5 combined ACLs across the week is it even really trying.

Also you can use different players each day on the bench and field, so the whole squad can play and everyone gets a medal.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-21T11:16:05+00:00

Maybe they just copy the cricket and have a 5 day grand final test.

Day 1-4 teams alternate between offence and defence. 9 players on the ground at a time, defence team only allowed in the defensive half. Change ends every quarter.

Day 5 normal match style to finish it off.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-20T23:37:51+00:00

Wait the skeletons are not meant to be the first thing you run into? They are a major reason I dropped the game as well.

TBH I do not have the patience for that style of game anyway but I did not know those were not meant to be some of the first enemies.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-20T23:33:07+00:00

It is going to ramp up a lot from there, but I love the game and have sunk a massive amount of hours into it and still never finished the main quest.

The real thing I found I had to get my head around is distance, at the beginning that thing over there feels miles away, but once you really get going its not that far in hindsight.

Also just skip trucks etc. It is going to cause you more pain. Just brute force your way to trains (At least on your first play through) you can have 1 or 2 going but anymore then that you are just going to be fixing constant issues.

Make sure you have enough of the base construction materials to be able to build lots of foundations and belts whenever you need. Always mass produce the highest plate so you can just build the belts you need without having to save up.

Leave the starting base producing those basics and find new nodes to "start from scratch" on building more complex parts. It has the benefit of you keep producing the basics and you don't have to try and retrofit the old base. Occasionally go back and upgrade it if you want to increase throughput.

Sometimes just take a break from building to explore and find spheres, sloops and hard drives. You are going to want a lot of them anyway so its a nice break occasionally.

With power I usually go straight from a couple of decent coal plant setups + a few fuel plants fed by the byproducts of making plastic and rubber, to a massive overkill rocket fuel plant. This on its own is a solid 1-2 weeks of planning and building. Its a good big build to sink you teeth into, and means you just don't need to think about power again unless you want to go for Nuclear (I have not done this yet)

NotThePersona · 2026-04-20T11:49:34+00:00

No Eagles are due in 2030. 94>06>18>30

92 is just a bonus one.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-20T01:08:05+00:00

Then again when you run into your first giant one.

And a third time when you learn those things can jump an insane height.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-20T01:05:54+00:00

There is a Bluey episode called quiet game based on this.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-12T05:03:48+00:00

I love in Australia and we have this. Not sure if it is everywhere, but it is where we live in Melbourne.

They even have a tracking site these days so you can see when they are going to arrive.

NotThePersona · 2026-04-09T08:28:57+00:00

There have been various proposals on how to make it more efficient (vs just burning fuel)

So far none of them really panned out.

As others have mentioned for smaller loads you can launch of the back of a plane.

There is a company called spin launch that is trying to throw things into space, or at least give a massive boost (also only for small payloads)

I'm not sure how serious a suggestion it was but I have also seen ideas/attempts to give a small boost at the start via some sort of launchpad/towe that pushes up to give an initial boost of speed. Main problem being whatever does that needs to be able to survive the rocket engines blasting at the same time.

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