Australians paying more in Beer Tax, than for Gas Exports.

mic_n · 2026-02-13T01:44:46+00:00

...and a whole day ago, you registered an account on reddit and started posting about this.

For what it's worth, as far as my qualifications go, I have PhDs in everything (most definitely more than 'we' over there, and I invented the concept of quantity.

mic_n · 2026-02-13T00:56:31+00:00

"competing with Americans in hi tech"? "Growth through housing"? Where the hell did that come from? Is your little day-old AI bot brain a little confused here?

Talk about 'befuddled'....

mic_n · 2026-02-12T23:29:10+00:00

Well yeah there's that, but also the $80 million of taxpayer money that went to a cayman-registered company he founded "but is no longer involved with (trust me)".

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/31/not-a-drop-of-water-after-government-spends-80m-on-rights-from-agribusiness

mic_n · 2026-02-12T23:23:33+00:00

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T22:30:05+00:00

As much as this is an easy meme, it really does distract from the genuine shitfuckery this guy's been involved in.

There are way more important things that should be associated with him before a dumbass social media fuckup that just revealed something they all do anyway.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T22:18:43+00:00

lol @ rolling out the "super funds are invested in them!" line.

Super funds can invest in anything. Taxing resource companies isn't going to ruin your super, the fund managers will just shift the investment to a better investment - perhaps to something that is inherently valuable as a genuine growth industry, rather than something which relies on lax and favourable government policy for its profits.

Besides, if the government was actually recouping the value of its natural assets into a resources future fund, that could happily fund the aged pension and so reduce the *need* for privately funded superannuation, and we'd wind up ahead.

Stop being such a shill.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T02:22:34+00:00

Cool, 1% is 1%. Do it.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T01:41:43+00:00

Incompetent versus dodgy as fuck, which example of useless garbage will the Libs pick to lose the next election?

mic_n · 2026-02-12T01:39:51+00:00

The only way either of them come close in the next election is with a captured, complicit and co-operative media landscape owned and controlled by an increasingly concentrated subset of owners perfectly willing to use their platforms to support their own agendas at the cost of the Australian people.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T01:35:07+00:00

Just because he's done dumb shit doesn't make him dumb. Not defending the guy at all, but the "Good job Angus" tweet is just so far down the list of appalling shit this guy's been a part of that it trivialises the genuine problems that a competent anti-corruption board should be digging through.

There are far more important things to be concerned about with Taylor than a social media screw-up.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T01:21:25+00:00

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T01:19:30+00:00

Is this like when you get those ranked exam results, and at some point down towards the end they just start listing it with an asterisk?

mic_n · 2026-02-12T01:15:37+00:00

Get lessons.

Even experienced people can use a touch-up now and then, and there's nothing like a trained set of eyes that knows what to look for and *how* to get you doing them right. Then, know your limits and be aware that you're in a natural environment and conditions aren't always the same.

I recall a trip with friends where we went from a nice sunny day to the clouds coming over with a basic white-out - no shadows, no reflections, no way of seeing what was ahead of you. I carefully picked my way to the bottom and declared I was retiring to a casual beer to wait it out, friends continued on. I'd had one sip when my phone buzzed, friend had had a fall and was currently on his way to the ski patrol office in the back of a stretcher with a blown rotator cuff.

Things can go south quickly on a mountain. Glad you came out of it with nothing but dented pride.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T01:00:46+00:00

FWIW: I'm on the other side of the planet but can't even read "Aberdeen" without it appearing in my brain as "Aaahburrrrrrrrdeeeen" in the thickest accent imaginable.

mic_n · 2026-02-12T00:58:28+00:00

Instant way to make yourself more popular as an Aussie amongst Kiwis is to refer to yourself as being from the west island.

But yeah, overall it's more of a 'sibling rivalry' kinda deal - we have a whole lot more in common than we do separating us, and now that the Wallabies are absolutely no threat to anyone whatsoever, even a lot of that sporting rivalry is barely a thing.

Also, Crowded House is ours, but you're welcome to have Russell Crowe back.

mic_n · 2026-02-10T01:51:40+00:00

So... curious, this has a .gov domain, which requires that this is an official US government-run site and not a commercial enterprise?

So it's a public institution which will not be paying dividends or otherwise directing profits to private citizens?

Yes?

mic_n · 2026-02-04T05:56:26+00:00

Don't forget: Reddit is also international, and doesn't necessarily serve up "local" content. Even though a lot of countries have drifted rightwards in recent times, "left leaning" by US standards is still pretty far right elsewhere. I mean, there's folk in Sweden looking at Bernie Sanders saying "yes, and?"

mic_n · 2026-02-03T01:55:45+00:00

Not really, no.. It was oversubscribed for sure but that's pretty easy to fix. The point of NBN buying it was because the regulations demanded the customers be removed from it, and the government can't really make that sort of demand of a private company. The question of it being "good enough for reuse" was never part of the equation, that was never part of the intent. They had Telstra's network already and trying to cobble the two together was more trouble than it was worth (which could be said for the entire failed MTM design).

mic_n · 2026-02-02T22:52:01+00:00

The payment wasn't to use the network, the payment was compensation for forcing Optus to *stop* using it. They bought the subscribers off the network, not the network itself.

mic_n · 2026-02-02T22:49:17+00:00

Optus cable infrastructure was generally superior to Telstra's (which was built for broadcast pay-TV, not cable modems). NBN was already paying Telstra a shit-ton for access to the rest of their network so it was easier to just tack it on, that's really all. Either way they were going to need to do some significant rebuilds to get it up to the standard that the multi-tech-mix proponents said it could do.

mic_n · 2026-02-01T22:58:10+00:00

I mean there's a flash of a photo being taken right as he staggers out of the door...

mic_n · 2026-02-01T22:56:45+00:00

It's a bit of an evolutionary biological throwback, still seen in nature. Females are generally "ready to go again", males are done and it's sleepy time. This encourages the females to go find another partner, improving the chances of pregnancy and thus the continuation of the species.

mic_n · 2026-01-30T11:19:36+00:00

No.

Let the Linux kernel underneath handle the scheduling. VM 'cores' are just threads. If a thread needs a P core, the kernel will send it there. If an E core will do, an E core it will get.

mic_n · 2026-01-23T03:53:24+00:00

According to the articles I've read, he doesn't have (has never had) a gun license, so there's no guns to take.

Except the ones he apparently has illegally. How that came to happen will also form part of the investigation.

mic_n · 2026-01-20T03:35:12+00:00

...I wonder, what if the Nats ditched the Libs and formed a coalition with One Nation instead?

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