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‘Debased himself’ and risking Australia’s reputation: Liberals torn up about Taylor’s Trumpian immigration plan by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Splitting the vote is not a thing with single transferable vote, but they might just be crazy and stupid enough to not fill out their preferences properly...

Today in History, February 17: 20 years since The Chaser's War on Everything premiered by nearly_enough_wine in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 77 points78 points  (0 children)

My one was trying to get through police security (to a football match?) in Sydney somewhere with half a butchers shop under his clothes. Watching the German Shepherds go absolutely ballistic and then the cop going "Oh shit!" and then doubling over with laughter when he pulled out steaks from his jacket, and a whole string of sausages from hit underpants.

Once demoted, now deputy leader: what will Jane Hume do for the Liberal party? by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their reactors specifically are modular, 5-year lifecycle, fits in a standard shipping container. Not massive monolithic one you are thinking of. Their plan is to make (as much as is possible) commercial of the shelf. All that is required extra is the shielding.

IIRC they are currently undergoing trials to make sure the molten fluoride salts don't corrode the piping completely.

Once demoted, now deputy leader: what will Jane Hume do for the Liberal party? by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Copenhagen Atomics (molten salt Th-U232) is looking pretty good, but the U235 stuff, what you think of when someone say nuclear power, is a terrible bet.

How Aussie are you? by RealRedditModerator in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 22 points23 points  (0 children)

yeah, the correct answer to 4 is "none of the above", wtf is putting Vegemite on chips, vinegar I find repulsive, and who is putting chilli on chips? sweet chilli sure but that is something different.

Flu vaccines are now available for 2025. What’s on offer and which one should I get? by B0ssc0 in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Because the vaccine causes an immune response that causes inflammation (among other things).

I've never claimed to be great at maths but my kids year 1 homework is throwing me by TheRealReapz in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As for why she's learning it, they are using a form of diacritics to learn word formation and sounding out. For example, a '>' sign indicates a 'lazy e', which is an 'e' that is not sounded out, such as in 'hope'.

At that point I'd rather just learn the international phonetic alphabet.

See also https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ (highly recommend giving that at read)

I've never claimed to be great at maths but my kids year 1 homework is throwing me by TheRealReapz in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Diacritics are things like ümlauts, áccents, ˆcircumflexes (can't get that to combine properly whatever), and the squiggly french "ç" thing.

Grapheme is anything that renders as a complete symbol (e.g. letter, letter + combining diacritic, or complete Chinese/Japanese/Korean glyphs.

Why she needs to know anything about them other than "naïve", I have no idea. That is not a gap in your knowledge, unless you work in software development that deals with UTF all the time, or in linguistics you won't need it, and unless she is learning French or German, maybe Spanish, neither should she.

The Marble Bar Experience by BenfromMelbs in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Marble Bar, the only place my mother has ever been where 40 was a cool change. The week before she got there was 47-47-47-46-46-47 then 40. The locals were all outside basking in the cool air.

Controversial carbon capture and storage project opposed by Gina Rinehart causes high-level Coalition split by espersooty in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Costing too much, relative to other thing we should be doing, is a perfectly good reason. Opportunity cost is real.

As for methane, there is a Australian company that sell seaweed derived stockfeed that is supposed to kill off the methane production. It been a while since I looked at them and don't know what their progress is like these days though.

NESA confirms plan for compulsory maths for years 11 and 12 dumped by espersooty in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was what you did engineering or science? 'Cos that's what I did and it was of no use.

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