It actually sounds like the van’s panels (I’m guessing especially the large roof panel) can provide non-trivial power:

“Even if I’m stuck somewhere we just have to wait a couple of hours and it’ll self charge and bring me home.” (emphasis added)

No doubt the huge array of panels on his roof can give it a lot more juice though!

Covid, yes, but not widespread lockdowns (and some other stuff from the “early covid” period) which is basically what the article is reflecting on. For example, I hadn’t really thought about how it could affect child social development due to significantly reduced social exposure.

This isn’t really a “covid is over” piece. ‘It’s still a serious human pathogen’ wouldn’t be a sub-heading if it was.

I try 🫠

I’ve never seen the stats before and 8% seems really high?? Is there some subset of Australia that tips all the time that I rarely see?

Edit: nvm, the stat is confusing as other commenter pointed out.

The number of payments with tips has remained stable throughout the last year with 0.52% of payments throughout the hospitality sector including a tip in August 2023, according to Lightspeed.

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I really enjoyed Scienceworks and the Melbourne Aquarium as a kid. Not sure I’d go far as to call them must-see, but worth checking out if your crew is keen on them!

I guess there’s going to be some interpretation about what a high vs low result really is (like how a 6/10 rated game or movie is “low”). I personally thought the raw results would have been lower based on some of the doomposting elsewhere in the thread.

I know you’re joking, but thankfully they were done away with: https://www.aapnews.com.au/news/australia-permanently-cancels-kyoto-carryover-credits (not the best source but the most important part is at the start)

Thanks for your valuable contribution to !environment@aussie.zone 🫠

The list of options participants were given:

• Eat less meat (50% reduction)
• Stop eating meat
• Avoid food products imported by plane
• Use public transport
• Recycle things more
• Buy fewer new things
• More energy from renewable sources

Some of it is a bit less actionable then “eat less meat”, but they’re still pretty concrete.

If you believe the study enough to mock the outcome, then yes, apparently they’ll take other actions:

“They are very happy to get more energy from renewable resources, to recycle things more, to buy fewer new things — which all do have an impact.”

Honestly I was pretty content with the fees involved when I used it for Euros a couple years back. Afaik the fees aren’t trivial but at least they’re not steep (unlike e.g., using PayPal to do the same thing) - I didn’t really feel robbed but it’ll depend on what your expectations are!

I’ve used Wise (formerly TransferWise) for international transfers a couple of times. They use “mid market” exchange rates so tend to be on the cheaper side as far as total loss of value on a transfer (fees + exchange rate losses).

Admittedly it’s been a couple of years since I last looked around at these services though!

Regarding Fedia.io, it’s currently inaccessible as I’m working with developers to debug the problems and sadly symfony exposes way too much in debug mode

https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/111235710730201071