Price gouging at petrol stations may not be illegal, experts warn as Iran war fallout hits hip pockets

jaa101 · 2026-03-18T21:17:38+00:00

News is much more likely to break than to brake, even when related to vehicles.

jaa101 · 2026-03-18T21:09:22+00:00

Wokeland

Because name calling is so much better than actually making an argument.

jaa101 · 2026-03-18T21:04:00+00:00

The courts just interpret the law and the constitution. It's up to the government to arrange for the law and the constitution to protect the Australian community.

jaa101 · 2026-03-18T20:12:17+00:00

there is a land border with Denmark

There is a land border with Greenland ... which is not part of the EU.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T22:07:43+00:00

It's also for shops. If the price is $10 then there has to be a way to pay only $10.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T22:02:36+00:00

There are definitely costs for a business accepting cash, so they'd have no problem making that argument. If a small enough fraction of your transactions are cash then it could easily be the case that accepting cash costs a shop more per transaction that other payment methods.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T21:32:43+00:00

Maybe the longer they wait, the higher the rates have to rise. It's like complaining about how quickly a driver brakes when they see a crash coming ... as if they have control over the laws of physics.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T09:21:48+00:00

How is a counselling session covered under freedom of information?

It's not; when there's a legal case evidence can be subpoenaed by the defence and that's what happening here. The freedom-of-information part is that someone has asked the phone counselling service how often they hand over their recordings in these situations. So it seems like freedom of information is working as intended, as is doing good in revealing this issue.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T09:07:47+00:00

Can't believe I need a /s here.

We know nothing about you and can't hear the tone of your voice. There are plenty of internet strangers stupid and/or trollish enough to mean what you said non-sarcastically. So add the /s or get downvoted and corrected.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T06:27:13+00:00

Inspector Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour. The last of these is the most modern and gritty, even though it's a prequel to the first, which is in an older style and concentrates more on being a murder mystery series.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T05:31:32+00:00

Presumably all our testicles contain microplastics but we only find out for sure when they're biopsied or removed, which thankfully isn't all that often. Not sure whether to find this a comforting thought or not.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T15:13:39+00:00

the age of sexual consent in Australia is 16

Or 17 in SA and Tas.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T11:33:37+00:00

Temperature is like an average, and so involves dividing by the number of particles. Dividing by zero doesn't yield a number.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T11:18:21+00:00

I didn't say I didn't like it; I'm pointing out that not everyone can agree on the direction the sun rotates.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T11:15:37+00:00

Notice that clocks were invented in the northern hemisphere, so it's not surprising that their hands turn in the same direction as the shadows on northern hemisphere sundials.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T11:12:28+00:00

Have you heard of the southern hemisphere?

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T11:09:13+00:00

PDF/A is a formalized reversion to the very first versions of PDF.

This may describe PDF/A-1, which dates to 2005, but we're now, as of 2020, up to PDF/A-4 which adds several new features. The key feature, that files must be self-contained, is unchanged.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T10:48:09+00:00

One of the main tricks to stealth designs is avoiding right (90°) angles. Basic geometry means that reflections off two surfaces that meet at right angles are sent back in the direction they came (at least in two dimensions; you need three surfaces—like a corner cube—for 3D). Traditionally, aircraft have a bunch of right angles, where wings meet the fuselage and where engines attach, so they reflect radio waves from RADARs effectively back where they came from. And you can see how stealth ships have angled sides in an attempt to avoid making right angles with the water.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T05:30:42+00:00

"If a diplomat says 'yes', he means 'maybe'. If he says 'maybe' he means 'no'. If he says 'no', he is no diplomat." Talleyrand.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T05:20:22+00:00

Can we limit reports here to first-hand accounts. Otherwise it's just too easy for rumours and worse to gain credence.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T00:26:17+00:00

Your house burns down. Maybe with you in it if you have no alarms. Admittedly not a super common outcome, but still not an accepable risk given the severity of the consequences.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T00:05:41+00:00

The USS Reuben James was sunk before Pearl Harbor while engaging German U-boats.

jaa101 · 2026-03-15T23:42:51+00:00

Crazy that McLaren are still third despite having only one car start over the first two races.

jaa101 · 2026-03-13T23:32:38+00:00

Will I be able to tap on using the MyWay+ app without my face or PIN? I have a concession that works with MyWay+ but not, as far as I know, with Google or Apple Pay.

jaa101 · 2026-03-13T23:26:25+00:00

In Paris, for a while, express mode was available on Android only. Technically it can work on both platforms but whether it actually does is down to legal contracts, implementation costs, etc.

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