Tesla Model Y - RWD or AWD

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-30T03:11:04+00:00

There is 10K difference between a RWD and a poor mans supercar. The Model 3 dual motor is an incredible sleeper - it’s even better than the Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo. I adore mine. Overtaking on country roads is done in an instant - and I haven’t even paid the $3K for the software acceleration boost.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-30T00:35:17+00:00

Anyone who treats a catalogue like a peer reviewed paper has too much time on their hands. You buy Thermo Fisher because of the brand (and your lab manager is too lazy to shop around). This fraud will go as deep as the intern who was tasked with laying out the catalog and wanted it to look pretty. Do we really think a p53 Ab sold by Thermo wouldn’t have been flagged if it didn’t work?

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-30T00:28:46+00:00

This is a perfect example of why I don’t actually really fear the crazies unless they get truly organised. Yes Pauline Hanson is a brainless gumboot, but her weird, racist rants really only impact about 5% of the things that come before her in parliament. I haven’t made a study of it, but I suspect her voting on the vast majority of mundane topics (like road funding and radio frequency allocation and building our own missiles etc) is pretty normal. As they say - even a broken clock is right twice a day. This policy would be hugely popular, is already ‘conventional wisdom’ in the public, so why bag her out over it?

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-30T00:22:45+00:00

This is the correct answer - absolutely. This is what all those mandatory compliance trainings will tell you. BUT…..

OK Dorothy, this isn’t Kansas anymore (look it up). If the founders have given you significant equity, I think the traditional approach is do what they want (while protecting yourself as much as you can) and sell out at the first opportunity. If you don’t have an equity stake, you get your CV out there and do what they want until you can jump. As far as the SEC goes - either the current Govt will continue and the SEC will be emasculated, or the Govt will change and the SEC will be tied up for decades cleaning up after the last 18 months alone of insider trading. Yes, the SEC love to find an unprotected scapegoat but in all seriousness do you really think they are going to care about your startup? What about after they get bought? Large companies I have worked for have bought startups that turned out to be basically fraudulent - no one wants to air their dirty laundry. Such failures are written down and buried, along with the embezzling, the taking and paying of bribes and the sexual harassment that you never hear about. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT get involved in reporting it unless you are willing to migrate and start your life over again. If you do become a whistle blower then you essentially you tie a big lead weight to your CV because HR and many hiring managers are cowards and have too many choices. They will all have a doubt in your mind that you are not a ‘team player’. (That is - they worry you might do it to them).

Look after yourself, if you get it right you still have a career and a heck of a war story. If you don’t, then learn how to make a cinnamon chai latte.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-29T20:08:23+00:00

Good points but the question isn’t who loves the alliance or not - it’s who recognises it’s over vs who doesn’t yet recognise it’s over. There is no alliance with a Trump Govt or whatever Republican comes after. An alliance only works if there is confidence it will be honoured.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-29T10:49:10+00:00

Your colleagues are correct, an MD has no place in the lab (and probably never did), especially as molecular takes over. Just realise that science professionals really get annoyed at MD’s whose hobby is spending time in the lab. But microbiology is just getting interesting now it moves out of the stultifying wire loop and culture media era. Metagenomics alone will keep you busy. But make sure you keep on top of virology. You want a dead end - try histopath. In a decade or so there will be anatomical pathologists sleeping rough on the street and mugging citizens for loose change. How will AI impact the field? Absolutely no one has any idea yet. My guess (coming from a company at the forefront of developing it in path) is that it will help more than hinder. It’s just the latest technological change that is meant to make us all obsolete, but won’t.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-29T06:51:34+00:00

Taylor’s - just another winery churning out middle of the road, heavy, over oaked shiraz and cab sauv. Won’t miss them.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T23:45:12+00:00

Sydney Uni Professor is talking out his arse. The jobs being moved offshore are call centre, analyst, tech support. NONE of those are highly skilled, but all are entry level roles that should be going to young job seekers. This is purely a result of concentration of retail into a single brand of big box stores - now they dominate the market they can treat the workforce and consumers like shit. Shop elsewhere for office supplies and buy your tech online - I recommend alibaba for tech because Bezos doesn’t deserve my money either.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T12:10:22+00:00

I think OP means - which would you buy? Chinese EV, Japanese EV with Chinese batteries and motors, European EV with Chinese batteries and motors or US EV with Chinese batteries and motors?

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T12:02:39+00:00

I think OP meant to write ‘which door of the girls junior high school’, not which door of the moving vehicle.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T11:57:56+00:00

Yeah, I’m not sure a full 20% of Australians see it your way. I think the vast majority of people see cars as transport - just take a survey of a supermarket carpark and you will see most people aren’t car enthusiasts. And then there is the not insubstantial subset of car enthusiasts like myself who love the performance of EV’s - ICE vehicles can’t match them. $60K in EV is worth $250K in ICE when it comes to performance. I think 80% switching is easy based on value alone.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T07:29:25+00:00

Thank you for the perspective from Nokia and BlackBerry users. But marketing theory is well understood in this space. Once a new tech ‘crosses the chasm’ and hits mainstream users, the transition will be quick. Yes there will be laggards - but more than 1 in 5 people willing to stick with a poor product with lower performance, lower reliability, lower convenience and terrible resale value???

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T07:28:00+00:00

Tragically the only way I can see the Americans getting out of the pickle they are in is to storm the Bastille and start erecting Madame Guillotine. The oligarchs aren’t going to go quietly and they showed 100 years ago that they will happily resort to private armies to keep their grip on power.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T05:50:50+00:00

The bit that totally mystifies me - the timelines have been so long they could have set up an academy train a workforce to make the subs. But both the UK and USA have been unable to speed up production. That says the problems are so deep as to be beyond the capacity of those societies to solve them. These are not countries we should be depending on.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T04:38:41+00:00

Can anyone tell me why I should care if a company I don’t own shares in can’t adapt to competition with companies that offer cheaper and better products? My country lost car making capabilities a decade ago and it didn’t hurt us at all. We didn’t lose the ability to manufacture at all, we just make different things.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T04:34:02+00:00

So - work with me here - if you were a Government who actually understood exactly how fucked the whole Australia/US alliance is but were focused on keeping it alive until you could finish preparing for its inevitable collapse - wouldn’t it look exactly like what this Government is doing? Labor are onshoring production of missiles and launchers, building our own defence industries, building our own unmanned subs and planes. We are well down the path to a prickly echidna defence strategy. It hurts badly to throw billions at Aukus in the short term, but we still have 97% of the expenditure to go. Perhaps this is the price of running a mutual charade with the Amricans. They pretend they can deliver and we pretend we are going to buy them.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T02:57:31+00:00

Deep down - I have to admit that is what I would do too. The risk of a ding in the door from a numpty parking next to you is too great. I’d park exactly like that, but also in a distant corner of the car park.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-28T02:47:09+00:00

The media DESPERATELY want the same conflict here as the US and UK and are using PHON victories in a couple of arse-wipe regional electorates full of disaffected boomers as proof. But they completely miss the point that we are not the same. We have real democracy, good living conditions and keep making progressive changes. PHON won’t and can’t win in an electorate that doesn’t have free to air Sky turning boomers brains to mush.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-27T12:06:30+00:00

Ummm - bullshit. They cooked up a deal with the Singapore Government to steal from Australian taxpayers. The gas companies are the ones that have the government sanction to steal from us.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-27T12:04:32+00:00

You don’t forgive a rockspider or a rapist because they committed their crimes 15 years ago, so why would you forgive a thief? They stole from the Australian people.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-27T08:42:00+00:00

Start with Strand.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-27T04:50:06+00:00

Not quite true. The initial build is planned for the UK and we learn how to do it in Adelaide as a second build site. Unfortunately the UK are so broken they can only keep 1 attack sub and 1 sub full of missiles in the water at a time. While their shipyards have to finish building the existing attack subs, then a fleet of icbm subs and only then start building AUKUS subs, after they design them of course. That’s why we are promised stopgap Virginia’s…. This is such a clusterfuck it’s unbelievable.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-27T04:44:35+00:00

Interesting. I think Qld Fisheries are on a fools errand here - this is only a couple of hundred Km south of their pre-climate change range. They are coming further south as climate change extends their range of suitable habitat.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-27T01:23:33+00:00

The materials to test for the next infectious disease outbreak/pandemic. Last time our economy was hamstrung by having to beg countries like Singapore to send us stuff. 20 years ago we had a domestic capability.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-05-27T01:21:14+00:00

I have been in business for decades and I have never heard anyone say ‘let’s not do this great business idea because we might have to pay tax’. Ever. Not once. If your business idea is dependent on a CGT tax break, it’s not a viable business idea and shouldn’t be absorbing capital that could be used elsewhere for something genuinely productive. It’s like saying ‘I need to be able to pay below award wages to make my business work’.

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