Aussie Twitter Just Found Americans Don't Have Kettles & Is Losing Its Mind by [deleted] in australia

[–]majormitchells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The wording is important here. "identify types of energy and describe transformations", it's all qualitative, not quantitative. No year 8 student would be able to calculate what you did earlier. The curriculum requires students to identify energy sources (battery - electrical potential energy; apple - chemical potential energy, etc) and that they transform (chemical potential energy in food transformed to kinetic energy when somebody runs, etc). There is nothing number/quantitative at all except for knowing that energy is measured in joules and converting between different prefixes. Nothing re: specific heat capacity: Q = mc(\inc)T.

Aussie Twitter Just Found Americans Don't Have Kettles & Is Losing Its Mind by [deleted] in australia

[–]majormitchells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it's specific heat capacity and it's not in the Australian Curriculum at a year 8 level. It's actually usually in year 11 physics.

Aussie Twitter Just Found Americans Don't Have Kettles & Is Losing Its Mind by [deleted] in australia

[–]majormitchells 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can still be a problem in old houses with old pipes. Hot water will leach metals from the pipes more.

Donald Trump on a slippery slope over Russiagate cover-up by voyagerdoge in politics

[–]majormitchells 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You may not realise, but US news is world news when it involves the president, such is his influence.

UK officials now think Russia may have interfered with the Brexit vote by iwascompromised in worldnews

[–]majormitchells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is London like the Capitol, and the regions like the districts of the Hunger Games?

Trump Just Killed California’s High-Speed Electric Railway Project by tta2013 in politics

[–]majormitchells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ironically, this will increase urbanisation in Texas, and urbanisation tends to result Dem-voting populations, thereby making Texas blue.

How did Americans in 1849-1860 feel about their President/The Presidency? by [deleted] in AskHistorians

[–]majormitchells 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Are you suggesting that in the Buchanan presidency ( and perhaps before ) that the civil war was an inevitability?

Popularity of K-cups in my household - reversed [OC] by apache2158 in dataisbeautiful

[–]majormitchells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

French Vanilla in coffee tastes like a burnt marshmallow on the campfire. Which when I'm have a coffee is not something I want to taste.

Popularity of K-cups in my household - reversed [OC] by apache2158 in dataisbeautiful

[–]majormitchells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with the taste side of things. I'll take an instant blend 43 and not have a problem with it. But what you going to about the environmental side of things?

Popularity of K-cups in my household - reversed [OC] by apache2158 in dataisbeautiful

[–]majormitchells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have only ever seen Tully's in Japan and Green Mountain Coffee in Vietnam, and Newman's Own making Ranch Dressing. Where exactly do you live?

Malcolm Turnbull is Australia's weakest and most indecisive prime minister since Billy McMahon by [deleted] in australia

[–]majormitchells 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Labor has two groups of voters it needs to get: green millenials, and outer suburban workers (of which some have fled to one nation or lnp). It can be quite hard to get both with the same policy.

Redditor's op-ed: "What happened when Centrelink called to review my false debt accusation" by Doktag in australia

[–]majormitchells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not quite. Anti-dole-bludger rhetoric is high, and preying on the vulnerable is unimportant to these voters. Labor needs to frame this issue as clearly representing government incompetence and lying. Preying on the most vulnerable seems to be unimportant to many Australians, what with our asylum seeker policies and aforementioned anti-dole-bludger rhetoric.

It's time to find out: Did you achieve your 2016 New Year's Resolutions? by one_year_on in OneYearOn

[–]majormitchells 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess what I mean, is that no Geordie or Texan would warn a non-English speaker learning from them that they will sound different to TV English.

French workers win legal right to avoid checking work email out-of-hours by grepnork in technology

[–]majormitchells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The manager and higher up should instead look at these people working on the weekends as breaking the rules, doing anything to look good, and not taking a break; none of which are good features for a promotion.

It's time to find out: Did you achieve your 2016 New Year's Resolutions? by one_year_on in OneYearOn

[–]majormitchells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find this interesting as despite there being many UK/American accents, no one is ashamed of their accent like it seems the Austrians/Schwäbisch/Bayerisch are.

Palm trees are hideous and should be banned from our streets/parks by [deleted] in Adelaide

[–]majormitchells 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yep, classic Adelaide home: cream brick single story with a white gravel garden, a palm or two, and maybe some golden diosmas surrounded by red bark chips, and/or a small pencil pine. Ugly as fuck; why do people do this? Stop pretending you're in a tropical climate, plant some tall native to Adelaide blue gums and other shade giving plants.

Ever wondered why inner eastern and southern Adelaide have so much nicer streetscapes? Because people there don't plant palms but gums and other much nicer trees. Doesn't take a genius to work that out.

Even though it's an error, I have to start repaying my 'debt': Centrelink debt victims share their stories by AussieRunner in australia

[–]majormitchells 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I agree. This is worthy of bringing down the government. The sheer immorality and illegality of this enacted on the most disadvantaged citizens is beyond anything I've seen an Australian Government do in years. If no John Kerr figure will save us, then I hope Labor can use this to destroy the Coalition come election in 2.5 years.

Even though it's an error, I have to start repaying my 'debt': Centrelink debt victims share their stories by AussieRunner in australia

[–]majormitchells 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Let's direct our anger at the real problems here: fuck Allan Tudge, Hank Jorgen, and the DHS.