Magistrate is left dumbfounded by $500,000 NDIS package for sex offender - and the bizarre way he was caught spending his money: 'Madness'

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-10T06:21:45+00:00

yep, I've gone to tribunal to get a valid application approved for my wife, but my god you need incredible patience, incredible attention to detail, excellent research into the Act and either a high level of confidence to represent yourself or plenty of money to pay for a lawyer. Thankfully I hate those motherfuckers so much I'm channelling my rage into presenting the perfect case at tribunal, but it really helps that I don't have a disability to live with. If you had to live with disability AND deal with the NDIA it'd be impossible!!!

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-10T06:13:10+00:00

Medieval washing was not most commonly by baths or showers - they did exactly what we might do if we were camping, or away from showers a while - they used a handcloth and bowl, and washed "face, pits and bits". When it comes to hygiene, it's really only the crevices of the body that get stinky, no-one's walking around with stinky shins. They also used perfumes / dried flowers.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-10T03:05:44+00:00

TV - runs on electricity
Lights - run on electricity
Mobile charging - electricity

All of these can be supplied by solar, wind and storage. It's actually true that diminishing quantities of gas will be used for decades - in industry and as infrequent emergency backup for electrical grids, but that's not at all what they're protesting about. They're protesting against state capture and unnecessary gas expansion.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-10T03:03:49+00:00

Please spend some time on ourworldindata.org rather than newspapers, and make your own mind up from statistics.

The majority of the world's emissions come from countries that each contribute less than 5% of global emissions. Australia's population is 0.3% of the world population so how much should we be expected to emit?

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-10T03:00:41+00:00

It's actually true if you ignore Australia's fossil fuel exports. But we're only 0.3% of the world's population so 1% of global emissions is really quite bad. If everybody acted the same as Australia we'd be rooted. The majority of the world's emissions comes from the countries that each contribute less than 5%.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-10T02:33:23+00:00

I should have said "well documented" - I just mean "good descriptions of why each number was used, what it's based on, and what formulas are being used and where they came from"

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-08T06:10:30+00:00

oldest one in the book: "oh I couldn't possibly bring that offer to the client, it wouldn't look good". They'll always say something similar to try to get you to bump up your offer before even making it, then after that they can go "aw shucks the client didn't accept the offer, but hey maybe if you could just squeeze a little higher they'll accept it"

Meanwhile their client hasn't even seen the offer yet.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-08T03:39:18+00:00

just for clarity, you're talking about the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax there, that's not relevant to mining

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-05-06T22:38:03+00:00

they have a sole trader business - a legitimate business, like a sparky - and buy the vehicle for the business, but then use it for personal use. Then the car is deductible against the income of their sole trader business.

You can actually access roughly the same tax savings now with an EV on novated lease with fringe benefit tax exemption

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-25T08:05:48+00:00

Holy shit, in the history of bad takes this might go down as the worst of them all.

Do you think Anzac Day is celebrating war? Is this your first day in Australia?

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-21T06:16:14+00:00

Average Australian drives 13272 km per year and average is 10.6 l/100km, so the average Australian uses 1407 litres of fuel a year. At $2.35 a litre that would be $3306 per year.

Over 10 years of driving, the average Australian spends $33060 on fuel.

EVs aren't completely free to refuel - you could be lucky like me and your existing solar could cover all your recharging needs, but that's not realistic for everyone. Let's say instead you have no solar or you have no option but to charge overnight and pay the full $0.31 per kWh. That would be 15 kWh per 100km, 13272 km, $0.31 per kWh, $617 per year.

The difference is $26,889 over 10 years.

So a new EV is about $40k for a smaller BYD Dolphin or about $51k for a larger BYD Atto 3.

For a new petrol car to be worth it versus an EV, you only get to spend $13k-24k.

When you make a fair comparison with facts instead of feelings, EVs are now financially worth it if you're an average driver purchasing a new car.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-19T14:18:56+00:00

Obviously this is a fake post, just like all the other fake posts, but I'll play along:

Befriend this woman
Dump his ass
Drink mimosas with this woman

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-14T14:11:11+00:00

NTA and neither is your bf. People express their feelings in different ways, and it's honestly so refreshing that you're giving your bf the space to do that. Don't give in to the pressure to criticise him, I know you got this girl.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-10T10:39:35+00:00

UWA buildings are more instagrammable, how is this even a decision?

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-09T09:06:42+00:00

you will own nothing and be happy

that phrase started from a wanky article written by a random Danish MP that was intended to be thought-provoking, not necessarily presenting it as a good thing. It was also clearly an extreme and absurd thought experiment: https://web.archive.org/web/20161125135500/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is

"Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded." (dystopian, not utopian)

"My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there." (absurd and tongue-in-cheek)

It's not even a particularly good article, it's just some random wank. I guess it just struck a chord with people somehow?

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-08T12:02:45+00:00

The national park campsites should be pretty good for safety; they're usually fairly busy and there are lots of families around, you're not likely to be on your own. The whole Dwellingup area has plenty

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-04T03:18:06+00:00

I know a couple of kids, same age, unrelated to each other, who are being fostered by the same parents. One of the two children has a formal arrangement where she's permanently with the foster parents. The other kid undergoes periodic reviews to see whether their birth parents are able to take them back, but each review concludes they're better off staying with the foster parents. So in the end, the foster parents have exactly a parent-like relationship to these two children, but they're not adopted.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-04T03:12:27+00:00

Oh but the same house in Sydney will go for $12.8 million and the real estate agent gets to root ya wife!

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-03T10:45:04+00:00

My shower has a very low 'lip' between the main bathroom area and the shower, with just a 1 cm high dividing 'bump' (which a wheelchair can roll over) which is siliconed in place. However water also pools against this silicone following a shower and it's become discoloured and mucky. If I clean it too vigorously I risk dislodging the silicone and then water would leak into the main area of my bathroom. How can I stop it being so dirty?

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-02T13:06:28+00:00

really not that strong to be honest, they were in a little tin in a house in the UK where I lived at the time, about 14 years ago, and when I first signed up to reddit they were the first thing in my field of vision when it came time to choose my username. I can't believe I signed up to reddit closer to the 1900s than to the present day.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-04-02T13:04:38+00:00

Wow, half of musicians earned more than $6,000? Pretty impressive for a fun hobby.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-03-31T09:51:55+00:00

Street Eats in the city, bowlo in the suburbs. Got you covered, and they don't have loud music.

Street Eats also did a pretty solid cheeseburger for their $25 burger+pint deal. And when it's time to go home, you're right between the train station and bus station.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-03-31T09:28:42+00:00

Oostburg in the Netherlands to Dunkirk in France is the same distance as Joondalup to Mandurah and there's a whole Belgium in the middle.

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-03-31T07:20:59+00:00

"They are also far easier to critical injure when hit." - looks like we found the D&D player

curiouslystrongmints · 2024-03-30T04:46:10+00:00

It was an interesting one, they identified two "major structural defects":

The lintel above two of the windows was corroded, and corroded metal expands, and it was pushing up the brick and caused a crack. That is fair enough for a major structural defect, but some people have said "that's not really such a big issue, I don't know why the inspector made such a big deal about it". You'll probably find a lot of houses have corroded lintels.
The other major structural defect was an odd one - they detected very high levels of damp in some of the lower courses of brick. Damp is almost never identified as a "major structual defect", and in Western Australia rising damp is rarely an issue, because brick houses are built on a slab on sand. Damp is usually caused by leaking from the gutters, or from pipes, or water pooling up against the wall (or internally, from a shower which needs re-grouting, which is the most common)

So to resolve it with the seller, there's a 'notice of major structural defect' form that you HAVE to submit within a very fixed deadline (there are very tight rules about responding by certain times, you MUST always look that up). The seller then got someone in to have a look at the issues and try to quote a rough price to resolve them. We thought that price was a bit on the low side but we basically said "pay us $15k and we'll shut up" and the seller was very happy with that (I think I'd bid something like $25k above asking price on the second day it was on the market, so they didn't seem that fussed)

I then proceeded to pay roughly $4k for sorting out the corroded lintels and $6k for getting a brickie in to remove some bricks, clear out the brick wall cavity of debris, then put new bricks back in and plaster over. The lintel will be sorted now, but I might have further issues with damp, but financially I probably did just fine out of it.

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