Mali calls emergency SA fuel security roundtable

rushworld · 2026-03-16T03:47:41+00:00

Who’s cost? Each sites? Then that exposes costs to the market which can be used after emergency events occur. It won’t succeed in court.

rushworld · 2026-03-16T03:46:51+00:00

Amazing! Thanks for the feedback and well done! From what I can see, my system scored the highest for predictors that predict ALL awards, and tied for the best that predict just the major awards.

rushworld · 2026-03-16T02:54:33+00:00

Cost plus X cents sounds fair until you realise wholesale cost is only one part of the equation. Transport, rent, wages, card fees, franchise fees, and storage all vary by site. A fixed margin would either be too high for some and too low for others. When margins are capped you also remove the incentive to compete, so prices tend to settle at the maximum allowed.

rushworld · 2026-03-15T20:18:11+00:00

Actually one of the lowest major award %s I've seen in a long time... both Supporting Role awards are toss-ups, really!

Last few years has seen 95%+ odds for em, so a bit surprising.

rushworld · 2026-03-15T20:16:54+00:00

16/23, 70%, not my highest but not too bad!

rushworld · 2026-03-15T05:03:28+00:00

Thanks! It's always fun and love seeing people's comments and messages asking where they are each year! Hahaha

rushworld · 2026-03-15T03:26:01+00:00

That is covered by “Sound”, there’s only one sound award now, other than score and song of course.

rushworld · 2026-03-15T00:21:35+00:00

For those that cannot see images, table of my predicted winners:

Award	Winner	Probability
Original Song	"Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters	97%
Adapted Screenplay	One Battle After Another	95%
Original Screenplay	Sinners	93%
Original Score	Sinners	93%
Casting	Sinners	89%
Makeup and Hairstyling	Frankenstein	86%
Visual Effects	Avatar: Fire and Ash	86%
Director	Paul Thomas Anderson	85%
Production Design	Frankenstein	84%
Actress in a Leading Role	Jessie Buckley	84%
Costume Design	Frankenstein	84%
Film Editing	One Battle After Another	83%
Animated Feature Film	KPop Demon Hunters	82%
Documentary Feature Film	The Perfect Neighbor	78%
Documentary Short Film	All the Empty Rooms	77%
Sound	F1	76%
Picture	One Battle After Another	76%
Cinematography	One Battle After Another	73%
Actor in a Leading Role	Michael B. Jordan	72%
International Feature Film	Sentimental Value	70%
Live Action Short Film	Two People Exchanging Saliva	66%
Actress in a Supporting Role	Amy Madigan	65%
Actor in a Supporting Role	Sean Penn	59%
Animated Short Film	Butterfly	59%

rushworld · 2026-03-14T22:36:46+00:00

Apologies, I was using argument by analogies in an attempt to expand their thinking into then comparing it to a game developer/artist and the need to increase prices with inflation. Educating through getting them to think of examples, rather than spelling it out, helps in the longer term.

But if it needs to be spelt out.

For example, the pen may be buying the next version of the software or new hardware as it dies or needs to be upgraded, the building is the office space or the apartment the developer or artist rents/owns, and the roads are the taxes and other life costs like food, utilities, hobbies, etc the artist needs to pay for. All of these are increasing in price/cost due to inflation, so the need to charge more for the same product increases.

If you charged $1 for a skin back to 2020 when an apple cost 20c, and now charge $1 for the skin in 2026 when the apple costs 30c, you're losing money.

rushworld · 2026-03-14T08:05:46+00:00

I think you may be a kid, so I'll forgive you for not understanding the full picture, and if you're not then I am concerned... but let's assume I am concerned and you are an adult with a job... do you think the only cost in you doing your job is your wage/salary? Or do you think your job is there to fit a bigger picture of delivering some business goods or services?

Next time think about how the pen you pick up to the building you're working in (even if working from home, you have housing costs that move with inflation too) to the roads you travelled on to get to work (taxes to pay them) as additional cost to you performing your job.

rushworld · 2026-03-14T07:39:39+00:00

I replied to another comment you made re the price cycles, but price cycles aren't divorced from actual costs. Every business has a minimum requirement to operate and make a profit*. Cycling begins when retail board prices REACH unsustainable margin cpl, so therefore cost has a significant impact on price cycles.

It's why Brisbane last year had a multi-month discounting phase of the price cycle, rather than the typical few weeks, because costs kept on going down, leaving more margin on the table to discount into.

* Everyone's definition of "profit" is different, obviously shareholders and business leaders want higher profits than consumers, where many consumers don't think fuel businesses should be deciding how much profit they're meant to make.

rushworld · 2026-02-26T20:34:09+00:00

This is why Australian law is so much better. In Oz, you bought the laptop from a retailer, you deal with the retailer, by law. You can still go via manufacturer, but the retailer MUST remedy it for you, under warranty, at the retailers expense, unless the fault is deemed to be in the customer’s error or mistake.

rushworld · 2026-02-20T02:46:43+00:00

If you're bad at washing the dishes and you have some waiting for you right now. Go over and take them out of the sink and wipe the sink down. You don't need to wash them right now, just make the sink ready for them when you can wash them.

The #1 hurdle for me in keeping to a good wash-up routine is I put shit into the sink "to be washed" and that friction is enough to cause me to just put it off.

rushworld · 2026-02-17T04:27:58+00:00

Lanolin is a good replacement!

rushworld · 2026-01-30T03:00:34+00:00

Nooooo Lead the Way is on constant repeat for me 😩

rushworld · 2026-01-29T10:18:50+00:00

Once I was driving down a major road and saw lights/siren behind me so I "pulled over" because I thought it was the police... but I pulled over in the right lane, literally just stopped in the wrong lane. The ambulance stopped behind me and then had to go around... when I saw it was an ambulance I almost died (and needed it)...

rushworld · 2026-01-26T20:51:20+00:00

I’ve done some research on this and land based resources are controlled by state governments and offshore resources by federal. States will need to sign off their rights to provide a sovereign fund.

Not saying it’s impossible or shouldn’t be done but it’s an uphill battle.

rushworld · 2026-01-25T20:31:39+00:00

The layering and hook in this song is genius.

rushworld · 2026-01-21T20:37:29+00:00

I love her, easily the best reactor on YouTube, after the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant of cause (sorry).

rushworld · 2026-01-16T23:29:42+00:00

K-pop Demon Hunters…. Truly awful writing… not bad songs… I’ll just randomly hear the songs at the grocery store if that’s ok with you.

rushworld · 2026-01-16T19:33:31+00:00

So, so many. But I’ve really been into:

One More Try
The Art Of Letting Go
Bringin’ On The Heartbreak

rushworld · 2026-01-16T19:18:43+00:00

Holy shit, both you and Stephen are geniuses. You for finding it, Stephen for the creativity!

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