And when Bill Shorten proposed to change the tax system to slow down speculative capital gains that are driving house prices, the people voted for Robodebt Scotty Morrison.

In Australia, we have followed the British housing tradition and have really bad insulation too! We are working on fixing it but there is so much to retrofit.

Sadly that was not the advice that they got.

On the other hand, using a heat pump for replacing a hot water heater is definitely a good thing. Using a heat pump on an old water radiator system may not work well. Friends had to replace a gas heater for their water radiator system and were told that there wasn’t a heat pump unit hot enough for the retrofit.

I’m starting to think that social media sites of a certain size are more like common carriers (in the telecommunications sense) than news or discussion sites. As such they should be bound to deliver clear moderation and ensure that everyone able to be connected and communicate with in the clear rules. Ie. screw the algorithm and weird owner interference.

Amazing nothing has changed but rich are richer and the poor are poorer.

What you are saying is a reasonable take on all points. I do think that there are those people who sign on to an idea or cause and can never shake it. Similar to a gambling addiction or conspiracy beliefs like Flat Earthers. Being called a slave by his conservative mates isn’t enough to break through, I hate to think how much pain is required before his reality shifts.

Always thought that Cessnas with machine gunners was the way to go. Low tech but so are those drones.

True, they can be hard to find.

They were very popular in the day!

That’s the same as writing tests for software code after writing the code. A mystery without end or reliability.

It could be worse. He could also be a TV evangelical pedophile.

And for those of us who predate VHS it was books! I was hooked on the Lord of the Rings!

Another name for leaf blowers is air brooms and air brooms are useful for big jobs. They now come as battery powered which is better on two fronts as they are quieter but more importantly they are not using 2 stroke motors. Apparently the 2 stroke is the most polluting of internal combustion engines whose design hasn’t really improved since they were first invented.

It’s more about metabolic health rather than weight loss or gain. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of cellular biology and not having enough or poorly functioning mitochondria leads to all sorts of problems like inflammation and metabolic disorders like diabetes. A well functioning mitochondria should give more energy and better performance as well as better health.

From what I’ve read it is claimed to regenerate mitochondria, be quite quick to do so you save time but other forms of exercise achieve different results like burning fat, cardio etc.

There are a number of articles and these are a couple.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2123825-best-anti-ageing-exercise-is-high-intensity-interval-training/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg99999441-500-the-power-of-hiit/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents

Try High Intensity Interval Training. Really intensive short workouts of a few minutes seem to regenerate mitochondria.

In Australia it stems from the use pays ethos. Universities have to raise funds and then do research based on what the funders want. Pretty stultifying to be a researcher.

It’s easy to pile on however his point about how serious it is being arraigned in court and how he strives to make sure that kids understand and don’t end up making those types of mistakes.

Love to read @randahl@mastondon.social. Always interesting.

Lucky boy that the Singapore health system is so good. I haven’t heard this sort of story since Covid vaccines had been introduced. Sounds like Covid vaccines are still the gold standard.

Wow, someone mentioned climate change in an article about wildfires! Wonders will never cease!

Isn’t Firefox an alternative? Works today.

I imagine Putin is happy to have his share. The main question is whether it’s to his bank account or to the Kremlin’s to help pay for the war.

We call it preferential voting in Australia and have been doing it for a century. Works well and balances out the extremes of first past the post winner takes all with a small number of votes.

They call this preferential voting in Australia and it’s been in use for a century and it works well.

Sounds like a win for Canada!

So now there is only one old guy running and who has been found to be a rapist, a fraud and an adulterer.

Normally I would agree however this doesn’t appear to be a Microsoft update but a CrowdStrike update. Given that everyone is worried about ransomware etc.

How many systems in the world’s military went down, you know in war machines of Russia and Israel and Ukraine?

It’s pretty obvious that if you are a blinkered radical, then everything is about you and your cult.

It’s always a worry about where there is a better option however, sooner rather than later something has to happen. Is this really NIMBYs pushing back?

Applying the razor to this, it’s more likely that a candidate who is extremely divisive and talks about persecuting and executing opponents as payback really just attracted karma.

Good chance Kara-Mira has a fatal condition.

Looks like a lot of banged legs walking through that collection. The lot appears to be designed for those big machines too. More hectares of carpark or fewer spaces.

What a surprise. I don’t think that you have to grow up with him to know that!

Wow, activists! Well done!

When it comes to faxes, doctors and lawyers seem to be the main supporters in Australia. They have secure messaging available but cling to the insecure and antiquated fax. I’ve integrated fax into medical practice management apps and they thought it was such a step forward (after a while).

Surprising as new hardware hasn’t had a floppy disk drive for years and old equipment is probably running a non supported operating system which is totally vulnerable.