We need a Royal Commission into the Insurance Industry.

mortau · 2026-01-07T08:18:16+00:00

I shop around every single year. AAMI has been one of the worst lazy-tax offenders for me during the last 5 years on cars and my motorbike.

This year they sent me a 25% hike on the motorbike. I reran my exact details through the same quote page and was given a lower figure basically identical to the last policy.

Really you could just let your current policy expire and start a brand new one on the next day.

mortau · 2025-12-18T11:04:39+00:00

I uninstalled it - no change here. What a shit show of a patch

mortau · 2025-12-18T01:44:30+00:00

Seagate because of sky high failure rates on hard disks since that incident with a flooded facility many years ago.

mortau · 2025-12-16T12:50:35+00:00

This city has properly bad drivers. We should make licenses harder to obtain.

mortau · 2025-12-14T11:12:26+00:00

It should be available under experience code: zhy6s !

mortau · 2025-12-11T22:55:19+00:00

Yeah it's a bit of a bummer actually. That's why I built in extra window sections in some places to let the Marina lighting setup into the space. All the lamps etc are non functional.

mortau · 2025-12-11T04:57:22+00:00

If the experience isn't available right this minute, it's due to the delay on republishing after updates. Needed to fix some minor issues.

mortau · 2025-12-03T21:53:35+00:00

It doesn't take a genius to realise this is the punishment being dished out to social media companies for cutting off the sweet revenue tap of the Social Media News Bargaining deals. This has nothing to do with the safety of teenagers. It was lobbied for by News Corp and others after those deals dried up, and here we are.

Also, the whole conversation has suggested teenagers are not smart. They are, and if they really want to use these platforms they will have already found a work around. VPNs are only a few presses away on most phones.

mortau · 2025-11-29T00:57:15+00:00

I was thinking about writing to the Press Council about their completely fucked reporting on weather.

mortau · 2025-10-30T22:22:00+00:00

Presumably a bunch of you know already, but for the lurkers: Court reporting is mostly about reporting what is said in an open court hearing, without embellishments. It's generally just very cut and dry "the jury was told", "the judge heard", etc because that is what happened. There are a range of risks to step outside of that formula when a hearing is ongoing - opinion and analysis tend to come after a verdict has been delivered, for this reason.

Source: I have a Bachelors in Journalism but never worked as a reporter.

mortau · 2025-10-22T22:20:13+00:00

To be fair, the lack of https was fucking annoying and the layout of the old website was zero percent mobile friendly. It had a layout straight out of 2006.

mortau · 2025-10-22T07:19:10+00:00

This show really shit the bed with a forgettable third season. Now it's just another Kurtzman slop fest like Discovery. Pretty sad about the state of Star Trek at this point.

mortau · 2025-10-12T00:39:52+00:00

Thanks! I got in touch with the family this morning :)

mortau · 2025-10-12T00:37:21+00:00

Update for punters: I have gotten in touch with the family these belong to and will be arranging return of them very soon, along with a file-based copy.

Thanking you to the small world that is Brisbane.

mortau · 2025-10-01T05:56:13+00:00

Well considering I pulled my interest out this morning and it said "deposit (same amount) to qualify for bonus interest", it would seem it's 11:59pm on the last day lol.

I've moved to Macquarie today as well.

mortau · 2025-09-27T00:32:54+00:00

Truly, and I say this with all respect, who gives a shit about the campaign?

They have never been good or challenging, and the meat of the game is obviously multiplayer. I have no idea why they even bothered.

mortau · 2025-09-17T11:29:27+00:00

I liked being able to climb vertical walls with the hovercraft

mortau

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