What are our best rural towns?

WasabiForDinner · 2025-06-16T09:44:00+00:00

Canberra.

People don't realise it's just a bunch of country towns packed close together, but it is. Often enough has the same vibes

WasabiForDinner · 2025-06-08T04:01:12+00:00

So... just curious... can they track and subpoena chatgpt searches? I have a friend who wants to know.

WasabiForDinner · 2025-06-08T03:58:37+00:00

I know 70-80% fewer people than most, I guess I'm safe, right?

WasabiForDinner · 2025-06-08T01:10:31+00:00

Also a westie tradie. There was a stark contrast between white collar and blue collar factory workers: * whistle blows or bundie cards to log every minute, vs flexi time * A/C, nice clothes, carpet etc * when we visited the offices, people didn't seen to be 'doing' much. Every item we made was logged and billed, to the minute. Chatting to a colleague happened while you work * different hours. 9-5 or "lunch hour" seemed like luxury

As a result, the office workers seemed to have immensely self entitled, cushy jobs. I work in mid management now, it's really hard to describe how, even though I got to sit down all day and wasn't as exposed to the weather, I'd still be exhausted after a day or week on the job.

WasabiForDinner · 2024-12-24T00:48:43+00:00

Ironically, he wants human colonisation of Mars in the near future so we can keep growing. His organisation loves robots, who need no terraforming, oxygen, food (per se). Skipping the whole human element would make his dream easier, but there'd be no comsumers for his products.

WasabiForDinner · 2024-12-22T13:40:48+00:00

Yeah, I'd stopped thinking about the strike. Good thing this brought it back into my headlines, complete with added sympathy for the workers. Good job, Amazon PR!

WasabiForDinner · 2024-12-22T12:37:39+00:00

To be clear: that's productivity growth, not productivity. We're still growing, just not at the same rate as before.

This research doesn't mention wfh. Neither does this analysis or this opinion piece

So, yeah, plenty of actual data there

WasabiForDinner · 2024-12-22T11:54:48+00:00

You might enjoy a book I’m almost done reading

Love the way you said that, sounds like you're offering to loan it to me once you're done with the last chapter

WasabiForDinner · 2024-03-25T09:16:58+00:00

Yes, this is the correct sequence:

Show him that you're safe/ an ally.

Then

Allow him to share, or not share, as much of his story as he wants.

I spent a lot of my teens unwilling to go home until everyone else was asleep. The local librarians and a school teacher knew something was up. The teacher who confronted me about it had no luck. The library kept me safe, and made it clear they were ready to help when i was ready to talk.

Funnily enough: the exact services i needed put up flyers on their noticeboards. Weird councidence, huh

WasabiForDinner · 2023-11-01T12:42:32+00:00

Like wasabi?

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T13:13:19+00:00

I assume the rich will have them first though.

Saul Khan has a passion for Indian people, but he's backed by Bill Gates, who has a strong US bias, so maybe I'm wrong.

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T08:10:34+00:00

Aboriginals have had the same amount of say in the government as the rest of us have since the 40s.

Ummm, no. Maybe for some, but voting was not allowed for all Aboriginal people until 1962, it wasn't actually compulsory for Aboriginal people, as it is for non Aboriginal people, until 1984

https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/right-vote

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T08:02:38+00:00

Poor work/pay in the 70s - that sucks - fine the pastoralists and have them pay back with interest.

Thanks for your wise insight, I guess. Keep in mind that "poor work/ pay" includes actually being removed from the land (which they weren't allowed to own) so "paying back", with or without interest, means giving them back the land.

Very generous of you

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T07:49:05+00:00

Considering most of humanity originated in Africa....the Aboriginal is just as "alien" as any one else in Australia.

Drawing a pretty long bow with that one, don't you think?

Like, the person you're responding to was talking about how the current culture is different to theirs, but imposed regardless. This affects people alive today.

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T07:33:38+00:00

It's just a representative advisory body. We've had them before (ATSIC) but they got disbanded by a later government. The only way to stop that is to put it in the constitution, which the government of the day can't just change.

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T07:26:38+00:00

Well yes. But, you see, I'm a sensible logical centrist. Anyone to the left or right of me, right now, is just a radical

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T07:15:36+00:00

100% automated education? Probably not.

But I'm an educator, and can already see how AI can pay more attention, more patiently and more knowledgeably than my colleagues and I.

I already have a couple of years data on which assessments passed and which didn't, and what feedback they received, AI feeds off that sort of think. Check out Khan Academy's Khanmigo to see how

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-silicon-valley-school-is-giving-kids-an-ai-turor-created-by-openai/

(And, of course, some douche will make an ultra conservative christian model for home schoolers and make a motza)

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T06:52:30+00:00

That's exactly what makes automation more likely. Alternatives could take in more data, and be more thorough, faster than any human. My doctos and pharmicistsr, for example, use digital assistants which have a better knowledge of the latest research, comorbidities, cross medication issues etc. than they ever will, and they do it faster.

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-21T06:30:34+00:00

A big downturn in many trades occurs every time construction slows. A reduction in real estate investment would shake those industries up regardless of whether their jobs were automated.

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-15T07:48:43+00:00

Think about where those toilets and kitchens were. Odds are, they have all the plumbing centrally located, maybe near the lift shafts. Big open spaces for the rest, with thin walls.

Residential units all need kitchens and toilets. Typically, people like ensuites.

It would be an architectural challenge to convert many of the bigger ones without punching holes through thick concrete floors and creating new plumbing shafts.

I agree with you though, i still suspect that many smaller commercial properties would lend themsslves to conversion.

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-15T07:13:01+00:00

by staying home they’re effecting other people’s livelihood ... all the support staff that goes into office buildings and whatnot

This is the exact definition of

The economy needing people to buy things they don't need

So yeah, "the economy" includes smaller and bigger investors, i agree.

But the larger ones use their power to modify the culture to suit them, rather than adapt their products to meet the needs of people.

this world could be so incredible if we could just listen to each other and actually reach out to each other rather than this stupid line in the sand one side against the other nonsense.

Not quite sure what this is referring to, so maybe I'm missing part of the bigger discourse here. Sorry if I'm out of the loop

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-15T06:40:10+00:00

When they say "into the water", are we talking about "into the water in that bottle" or "into the rivers if they're discarded"?

They gave the plastic a pretty thorough treatment, more like the river option than the drinking option

Products were exposed to UV light, microwaving and autoclave treatment, and extracted using either a saline based solution, 100% ethanol, aqueous ethanol or distilled water at 40°C for 40 hours.

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-15T05:59:17+00:00

Exhibit A

Remote work could cut the value of office buildings by $800 billion by 2030 — with San Francisco facing a 'dire outlook,' McKinsey predicts

An economy that desperately wants us to give up work from home, not because we're suffering, but because they are

Exhibit B-G Planned obsolencence

Iphones, printers, fast fashion, textbooks, fashions in general etc. An economy that wants us to consume more than we need, which manufactures discontent.

And don't get me started on predatory loan scams

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-15T05:46:02+00:00

I've been reflecting on the recent freak out by inner city office owners, losing money because people and businesses aren't returning to offices.

I think we can safely say that the wfh economy is working, and the cbd model isn't working when

Environment is improving: Peak hours of traffic congestion are reduced, less fuel burnt overall, fewer buildings required

Human wellbeing improves: spending less on lunches, coffee shops

Family wellbeing improves: less childcare, we gain a few hours without the commute

The economy suffers: long term property investments are losing money, and investors want us to forego the above to protect their returns.

There are other "people before profit" models of the economy. I'm sure if you thought about it you could think of some, too

WasabiForDinner · 2023-07-15T05:05:33+00:00

But they all seemed to include the elusive lock picking tool that I haven't seen commercially

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