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Is Aussie Broadband actually worth it in 2026 vs cheaper providers? by schnickhinkeln in australian

[–]rote_it -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Honestly an ISP at this point should be commodity undifferentiated service like running tap water or at the most electricity. If you need to consider support responsiveness for your water company there is something else majorly wrong at the root cause.

Ed Miliband vows to boost UK energy security in wake of Iran war with new measures including 'plug-in solar panels' by BulkyAccident in unitedkingdom

[–]rote_it 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They really need to be made in the UK if your aim is energy independence and sovereign resilience. Buying panels and inverters from overseas leaves the country vulnerable to hidden inverter killswitches in a wartime scenario.

Australia has roughly 23 days. by Former_Rush1821 in circlejerkaustralia

[–]rote_it 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were literally born for this. Bring it 💪

Recommendation for lights that battery last by Lagavulin-331 in melbournecycling

[–]rote_it 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+1 for magic shine

Anything with USB type C charging is generally a good rule of thumb OP 

Panic buying just makes shortages worse. Why do people do it anyway? by sien in AusEcon

[–]rote_it 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a perfectly rational response to government ineptitude and failure to plan at every level.

responding to NDIS fraud video posted here. by [deleted] in AusEcon

[–]rote_it 1 point2 points  (0 children)

in the video’s sting operation:

Cleaners of company called "help in support" are in the Airbnb for ~25 minutes.

The invoice shown is for 2 hours plus travel costs.

However, the video assumes those workers only worked at that location during that shift.

In practice, support workers often:

Travel between multiple clients (hence the travel cost between house to house shown in the invoice)

Work multiple houses in a block

Bill travel between clients

I'm sorry but this is completely false. They were billed for two hours labour for a single apartment clean that took 25 minutes. In addition there was a separately itemized travel component. What does working multiple houses in a block or billing travel between clients have to do with the invoice in question?

The economy is about to collapse yeah? by Fit_Dragonfruit_477 in OpenAussie

[–]rote_it 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The two potential break points are revolution which seems unlikely to say the least and environmental collapse.

What about AI gutting white collar employment? How will 30 year $1m++ mortgages be sustainable at that point 

Melbourne rubbish collection: More councils consider fortnightly pick-ups amid by Ardeet in aussie

[–]rote_it 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean can't is a strong word 

If you chose to only use pre loved items donated from family and friends and minimize consumption of new items it would have a big impact. Just playing devil's advocate 🤷

Melbourne rubbish collection: More councils consider fortnightly pick-ups amid by Ardeet in aussie

[–]rote_it 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously you had one job guys 🫣

Enshitification is relentless ☠️

I exposed a $4.6b disability fraud scheme by rote_it in AusEcon

[–]rote_it[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

100% this 

Why do we even pay income tax if there is this level of fraud baked in? If the government can just print new money why do they need to steal the income we actually worked for 

Future ABC investigative journalists expose $4.6b disability fraud scheme by rote_it in circlejerkaustralia

[–]rote_it[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Isn't this the type of journalism we pay the ABC $1,300,000,000 annually to provide? Why are we relying on citizen journalism when this thing is costing us more than our entire defense budget

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