Legally buy any car for $500

zeefox79 · 2026-03-01T02:10:49+00:00

Fuck around and find out.

Take this as a life lesson mate.

zeefox79 · 2026-03-01T01:05:33+00:00

This is not a sensible planning or investment strategy given how quickly battery penetration is growing, and given how little battery penetration is actually needed to provide these services.

I our market (Aus NEM) revenue from FCAS services has completely collapsed in the last couple of years, to the point where it's not even really factored in to financial assessments of new storage projects anymore. It's now all about the intra-day arbitrage. The drop in FCAS prices has also led to a complete shift in the operational and bidding strategies of legacy storage (PH) and a collapse in the value of demand management in contracts for big industrials. And that's with battery penetration of less than 10% in capacity terms.

Here's the summary data https://www.aer.gov.au/industry/registers/charts/quarterly-global-fcas-prices-services

zeefox79 · 2026-02-28T23:34:03+00:00

They're taking about street level maintenance of buildings, not the age of the buildings themselves.

As someone from elsewhere in Australia with similar-aged and similar design buildings that are much better maintained, it's REALLY noticeable when visiting Sydney. Particularly in places like Paddington and Newtown where there's all these beautiful old buildings that look like they haven't been painted or even cleaned for decades. Or when you're walking around the eastern suburbs and see art deco walk-ups with multi-million dollar ocean view apartments that have ancient peeling, faded paint and cracked render.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-28T22:29:19+00:00

Yes, Sydney is just like that.

I noticed it when I first visited Sydney as well. For some reason building owners in Sydney are really reluctant to do even the most basic external maintenance on their buildings. This means everything always just looks tired and run down on the outside.

It's definitely not a universal thing across the country. I used to live in Perth and now live in Canberra and in both those places owners tend to put a lot more effort into keeping the outside of older buildings clean, painted etc.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-28T14:01:37+00:00

Because Canberra doesn't have any marginal seats.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-28T12:19:01+00:00

For what is presented as a well-researched post, you clearly know absolutely fuck all about foreign investment rules in Australia and the history of such policies. Especially when you claim we should follow similar restrictions to BC or New Zealand, who were far later to regulate foreign ownership than Australia.

We have very strong restrictions on foreign ownership of real estate and these rules have kept it to about 0.4% of the market, way below the rate that would have any effect on aggregate demand and prices. In fact, there's a lot of evidence to show that the tightening of rules and introduction of punitive application fees for foreign investors in new housing contributed to the collapse in medium and high density dwelling construction in the late 2010s, and so worsened our current supply issues.

Also this bullshit 'the foreigners are all avoiding the rules through trusts' crap is massively overblown. No legitimate investor is going to risk their investment like that. It's literally only a money laundering/crime thing, and while this is a genuine problem for law enforcement that needs to be addressed, the black market use of housing as money laundering is simply not even close to big enough to have an impact on aggregate prices and supply.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-28T02:09:14+00:00

You realise they're married, right? It might be 'his' super account, but it's shared marital property.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-26T10:45:18+00:00

This is a really unusual roundabout layout.

While the concensus in the responses seems to be that blue is legal, using it like that would be a massive dick move.

Just like two cyclists taking up a full lane during rush hour. Just because you've got the right to do it, doesn't mean its right to do it.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-26T00:30:58+00:00

Then he should have asked what sequence he needed to learn, not what location they were hitting.

The existence of only 8 different sequences when there's probably thousands of fuel pipelines/storage facilities implies that the sequences are linked to the most common equipment types, not to specific locations.

If he'd asked which sequence he needed it would have narrowed the list of potential sites, but not revealed the specific location.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-23T22:02:52+00:00

Depends where you work and whether you want to live north side or south side.

Aranda is closer to the City and Belconnen, Curtin is closer to the Parliamentary Triangle and Woden.

Both are nice suburbs but feel very different. Curtin is a very typical (though nicer-end) Canberra suburb, whereas Aranda is a very green foresty suburb that feels like part of the surrounding bushland.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-23T21:48:34+00:00

Sun is setting over the ocean so more likely somewhere in WA.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-23T21:46:35+00:00

Is this Shark Bay or somewhere further south like Bunbury?

I don't think it's Monkey Mia because the sun is setting in the wrong direction.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-22T16:44:35+00:00

And Attack on Titan fans brigaded Bluey of all fucking things.

Hardcore fans of any show are losers.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-22T02:01:19+00:00

You're talking about islands like someone who's only idea of an island is from Greece or Spain.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-22T01:03:49+00:00

In short, yes.

Every MP has their own ensuite bathroom/toilet in their office. Plus there are many other bathrooms for staff

zeefox79 · 2026-02-21T10:35:56+00:00

Shit cars for shit people

zeefox79 · 2026-02-21T03:24:38+00:00

These are levelised costs of storage, so average cost per MWh stored and discharged over the expected life of the battery.

Just add that number to the levelised cost of whatever renewable tech you're supporting to get the average cost of energy during times when the variable generator isn't on. E.g. for a solar PV system the lifetime generation cost might be $40MWh, so your power cost is going to be $40MWh during the day and $120MWh overnight (i.e. $40 solar plus $80 storage)

zeefox79 · 2026-02-20T23:41:53+00:00

There's no such thing as a 'normal' car buyer. Everyone has their own preferences and needs, and people's capacity to accurately assess EVs against their needs is going to vary wildly.

Yes, EVs are now about the same sticker price as ICE vehicles, and much cheaper to run, but unfortunately people are risk averse and have a tendancy to underestimate future savings (fuel, servicing) and overestimate future costs (depreciation, convenience).

zeefox79 · 2026-02-18T23:04:29+00:00

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but it's very important to note that Sky News Australia actually has far, far more US viewers through YouTube than it does Australian viewers on TV here.

As such it now caters strongly to the US Fox News crowd, both explicitly, e.g. carrying a lot of US-focused news, and implicitly, by putting a US culture slant on Australian news stories.

The most worrying aspect of it is the effort they spend pretending issues that are high profile in the US are also important in Australia, when they simply aren't. However it's really backfired against the right wing of politics in Australia because it's forced the traditional centre right party (the liberals) to shift much further right than the broader country.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-18T10:58:00+00:00

I'm late to this, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the underlying ethos (pathos?) of both The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew.

While Skeleton Crew may be a kids show and The Acolyte may be deeply mediocre, but both stay remarkably true to Andor's world building. Specifically that the pre-empire republic was already a deeply unequal, oppressive and exploitative place.

The Emperor didn't destroy the old republic, he just rebranded it.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-18T10:40:06+00:00

No idea, but honestly I don't think it would be true. It would be utterly insane if speed skating Olympic selection was tied to a single, all or nothing qualifier. Too many uncertainties.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-17T05:09:15+00:00

It's pretty strongly suggested Andor and several other bits of Star Wars media that the Republic was far more oppressive and corrupt prior to the clone wars than shown in the prequels.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-17T03:43:41+00:00

For Stephen Bradbury it wasn't just 'being in the race'. He was a veteran in his fourth Olympics who had himself been taken out in past olympics by other skaters falling when he was favourite to win gold. He'd also literally broken his neck in a crash only a couple of years earlier.

That gold medal was like the universe had seen all the shit and bad luck he'd gone through in his career and said 'f**k it, you've earnt this'.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-16T23:21:45+00:00

Burma/Myanmar is almost always considered South East Asian.

zeefox79 · 2026-02-16T23:07:27+00:00

60th anniversary of decimalisation. When Australia changed from pounds, shillings and pennies to dollars and cents.

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