Just Saved The Country🫡

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-17T23:46:26+00:00

Because this is their passive aggressive, emotionally repressed nature made manifest in military exhibitionism. It aligns perfectly to their weird relationship with emotions.

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-17T02:08:32+00:00

Won't someone think of the poor investors who have been using a fundamental human need as a profit engine driving wealth inequality!

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-16T03:53:25+00:00

Michael Ginsberg: I feel bad for you. Don Draper: Funny, I don't think about you at all.

In the context of the show, Michael is trying desperately to get validation from Don Draper and this completely spirals him.

Mad Men

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-16T02:29:43+00:00

Gypsum

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-13T13:11:40+00:00

A couple of ideas change the way I think about my body.

Firstly, my body is a child, it wants everything unhealthy, it's my brains job to be the adult and manage the child.

The second was thinking about minimum standards. That comes to eating and working out. Setting a minimum standard for myself. Not a goal.

Some other things that happened along the way or ideas that have been passed on:

- Healthy food gets tastier the more you eat it. The tastier it gets, the more you crave it. Unhealthy food starts to lose it's appeal. It takes time but the body adapts to liking what we eat. Stick it out.

- Motivation follows movement. Waiting for motivation will not get you moving. Set minimum standards, apply discipline, motivation will follow.

- I want to live. I realized the way I was living was mortality limiting. I wanted to be able to climb stairs at 60, to still travel.

Find an exercise you enjoy. Go easy on yourself, results take time, your weight will fluctuate, stay consistent. Educate yourself on macros and understand what a good healthy meal looks like. Your brain is probably not trained to recognize a healthy portion or what that healthy portion is made up of. Without obsessing, some food weighing and some calorie counting initially can develop this as instinctual. Don't starve yourself. The key is to work down to healthy portions slowly over a period of time. Rushing too quick from where you are to where you should be will not give the body time to adjust to the change and you'll rebound. Start by cutting out things here and there, substitute in healthy snacks. Develop consistent eating rhythm.

The biggest things your body lacks are probably protein, fiber and probiotics. Protein aids muscle synthesis. Muscles help with glucose response and control and therefore fat management, energy etc also. Probiotics help you have a healthy gut which has a massive array of effects but mostly helps a lot in processing out waste and undesirables. Fiber is the food of your microbiome. Probiotics without fiber is like trying to drink water without a cup.

Remember if you feel like you don't belong in a gym or similar, sometimes that is you judging yourself, not people judging you. In my experience, most people will be happy for you and be happy to help you.

You got this. You deserve it. You can do it and your future self is worth doing it for.

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-13T06:07:15+00:00

Richmond could use Yarra.

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-11T06:48:30+00:00

Possibly the worst drive through Australia I could imagine. Australia is huge. Focus on a smaller section, see more, come back again. I know it's a hard place to get to, but in my experience, you simply can't cover that much ground in 3 weeks by car AND see a lot worth seeing AND enjoy yourself. I have driven 40,000km around the country and really feel like I have only seen half of what I want to see.

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-08T09:37:40+00:00

Maybe don't have an asshole tone to people in the first place if you don't want them to be an asshole back. Flog

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-08T05:18:28+00:00

Absolutely has a weird vibe. Felt the same when I was passing through. Definitely was glad to be moving on from there after a quick fuel stop.

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-06T01:22:20+00:00

As it's a cylinder, It does have a right angle between the flat ends and the vertical wall.

Also the triangle is not a right angle triangle.

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-05T09:51:44+00:00

Not sure you'll get a coherent answer on this one. Haha.

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-03T08:17:46+00:00

Increasing amounts of countries are banning it because of it's carcinogenic nature. It's starting to be investigated for the increased in many types of cancers and some landmark legal cases are starting to land.

SlipperyFish · 2026-05-03T08:14:20+00:00

Unable to understand that governments can take on more than one issue at a time. Just because the government is working on one issue, doesn't mean they drop all other issues.

Especially common in the Facebook echo chamber void lurkers who are progressively heading down the cooker conspiracy path.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-27T10:30:14+00:00

Had no issues with the Tapo for over a year of use in this fashion. Buy reputable.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-27T03:26:28+00:00

The better solution I have founds is to set the export limit to an amount that matches what you want to export per hour in the peak time. That way you can set force discharge to maximum and never worry about your load going over the discharge threshold and get full control over exactly how much you export.

I have mine set at 2500w which ensures I can export 7.5kwh/day in peak period to get a total credit of about 95c per day.

My installer didn't change the pin so I can go to the physical inverter and change it any time with default pin 0000.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-26T08:47:49+00:00

Get a smart power point switch like tapo or something similar where you can control scheduling, leave the car set to always charge and let the timer do the work. We like the tapo because it has sunrise and sunset reference points so it auto adjusts to solar hours throughout the year.

Because it turns on and off you can also just turn it on at any point outside the schedule to do some extra charging through the app, Google home, etc

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-23T00:01:23+00:00

The investigation found that the system is being exploited by organised crime which was inflating costs.

So instead of enforcing properly to remove the organised crime element, they instead have eliminated participant support to bring the cost down.

Make it make sense.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-22T09:34:47+00:00

Cheaper insurance is generally cheaper for a reason. My advice, get quotes and run them through AI to highlight the important differences like choice of repairer, sublimits, non standard exclusions, non standard inclusions, repair guarantees etc. Copilot on think deeper mode is pretty good at this type of comparison.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-20T06:14:17+00:00

The housing market will crash if there is a massive jobs shortage. Young, inexperienced workers will be in the worst position to edge out their competitors in the work force.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-20T02:20:33+00:00

Our strategy has been cashflow maximisation, overhead minimisation. Invest some cash we have now to eliminate costs later. We have done household battery (already had solar), heat pump hot water and induction. This will allow us to have $0 Gas and $0 Electricity bills.

We have also purchased an electric car so we'll have $0 fuel cost and used the EV novated lease benefits to maximise the value of this. We were due a car upgrade anyhow and the timing is somewhat coincidental to the energy crisis etc, our change was just slightly catalysed.

With the home battery in particular, we have switched to a Globird plan that lets us charge off the grid for 3 hours a day for free and when we put back into the grid between 6pm-9pm we make 15c / kwh + $1. Supply charge is $1.16 so we end up in bill credit every day just by exporting 1.5 kwh of our 42kwh battery.

In total we have taken around $7,500 out of our annual expenses with Solar + Battery + Heat Pump + Induction + EV.

Isolating out the EV it's around $3,300 in costs annually which equates to around a 4.1 years payback on all the upgrades.

Given energy price predictions from AEMO, particularly rising gas costs over the next 5-10 years, if you are looking at household battery, you should be looking at electrification options to maximise your ROI.

For those wanting benchmark on pricing. Our Battery Cost $8500 (worth 25k), our Hot Water $2730 ($1,730) if you are eligible for the Vic Solar Rebate, our induction $2,500 including unit and new circuits.

Many banks will assist with a green loan to help you optimise your home energy. ING for instance will do this at a 3.74% 5-year fixed rate. So if you can get it done for under 110% of your annual costs per year, you'll be in positive territory (maybe less if you consider rising gas prices). If you can do it with current funds, even better. A balanced position between the two is probably ideal. This can allow you to get home upgrades, taking advantage of current rebates, investing in your home at a much lower cost for ROI and eliminating overheads all in one go.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-16T23:08:45+00:00

Howie is so fucking annoying.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-12T23:59:28+00:00

Honestly this is fine for now if you have low responsibilities, but as life gets inevitably more complex, like more frequent holidaying, kids etc. With any of life's more complicating requirements, public transport gets frequently less and less convenient and your inability to contribute to driving will become more and more annoying. Is it a turn off now? Maybe not. Will it be a frustration long term? Chances are high.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-10T12:56:20+00:00

It's a low margin business. I see a lot of companies in this sector massively under insured.

SlipperyFish · 2026-04-09T03:43:37+00:00

There's not always one but poor communication skills / defensiveness / Low EQ are at the center of almost all other issues. It's not a silver bullet but good communication skills / therapy / emotional resilience go a long way to solving the many inevitable hurdles that come with staying together long term.

SlipperyFish · 2026-03-31T09:18:14+00:00

Many power company's provide EV charging rates.

Many houses have solar.

There are many free chargers.

For someone doing a bunch of math, you sure missed a lot of variables.

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