It’s ridiculous. We are absolutely in the drivers seat to be a world leader in renewable energy and out of touch politicians want us to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in nuclear power stations like it’s the 1950s and we don’t have any other alternative.

Like every other government project there will a cost blowout, and it will overrun so by 2040 we’ll have a handful of half built nuclear reactors and the budget will be a couple hundred billion in the red.

We don’t have the expertise to build or run nuclear power stations, so we would have to import all of that knowledge and expertise until we can skill up. More money.

We have the landmass and the coastline to support solar, wind and wave generation. It will be far less complex, cheaper to build/maintain, we’ll be able to diversify energy sources and there is no toxic byproduct.

The Liberals fucked the NBN, fingers crossed they don’t fuck our energy future as well.

Because he doesn’t care about religion, he’s just using them to get what he wants.

The media: the world is going to end, covid, expensive housing, war, climate change, death, destruction, doom.

Also the media: Australians are having fewer kids, mystery deepens.

Op was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

You’re kidding right? The company made $89.5 billion revenue in the quarter to September 2023. If they’re on the decline it will probably take a few hundred years to show.

They could lose billions behind the couch each year and it would be a rounding error on their bottom line.

Who is unsuspecting? I choose to use a iPhone because:

It is a closed ecosystem, a billion apps is enough for me. I wanted to be able to update the phone for many years I didn’t want to have preinstalled 3rd party bloatware I wanted a device that was less prone to malware

Android is a great OS, and it is better in some areas than iOS, but nothing particularly important to me.

Only Americans are concerned about green and blue bubbles. If it’s so upsetting to you, use WhatsApp. Don’t blame Apple because Google couldn’t standardise on a single messaging app for more than 5 minutes.

Using Google devices and pointing at Apple and saying “they’re evil, don’t use them” is laughable. They’re all bad companies, no organisation should be worth trillions.

Unfortunately the police have proven time and again that they aren’t good at preventing a crime, they’re only good at cleaning up after a crime has been committed.

…just kill them. /s

The UN is a corrupt, toothless, incompetent waste of money. Its situations like these they should be leading the way in negotiating cease fires, taking legal action to protect the weak and oppressed, and if necessary, stopping them by force.

If the UN did it’s fucken job, dictators like Putin wouldn’t exist.

Tell me you’re not a parent without telling me you’re not a parent.

Draconian? My kids wear a school polo over regular blue shorts and sneakers, public school isn’t like Hogwarts.

I’d much rather get them to wear that than fuck around making sure their favourite shirt is washed or having to buy some name brand shirt because the cool kids all have one.

The flip side of the coin is, if parents buy cheaper uniforms they don’t have to buy more expensive, name brand clothes for their children. The school also avoids situations where kids with wealthy parents bully kids from poorer families.

There is probably also an argument for it helping to build school or team spirit, unity etc etc

At least he’s honest

I’m stunned that someone like Prigozhin could’ve got to the position he held and thought he was just going to sail off into the sunset after he called off his Moscow Mutiny March. I live in Australia and understand the Russian political machinations about as well as most first graders, but I could’ve told you his time on earth was only going to be slightly longer than Jeffrey Epstein’s once the Belorussian deal was brokered.

Putin was never going to forgive him for what he did, and the only surprise was that it was a bomb on a plane and not plutonium in his vodka.

I love this shit. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they stick to dogma they become irrelevant, if they water their rules down to “allow” same-sex couples they appear hypocritical, and irrelevant. Either way they lose, which is better all round for society.

Unfortunately it’s the nature of dictators. When they start to feel under pressure because of the economy etc they point over there and say “that country is the reason we are struggling, we should take their stuff, everything will be better if we do.”

Unfortunately this the sort of thing the UN should be dealing with, but they can’t because of bureaucracy / corruption / incompetence, take your pick.

I Imagine they’ll use whatever connections are provided to them by their AI overlords.

The VPn may be necessary if their IP address ranges are being blocked, or it could be to get around an API limit?

I wouldn’t be surprised if they are doing it to block AI from hoovering up all of their data.

Heal from what? They were skiing, not ploughing.

True, but we don’t have any practical alternatives for them.

So stop making any technological advancement because of the potential impact of e-waste? Not saying it’s a bad thing but it will have have its own environmental implications. No new energy development, we have to rely on existing oil and nuclear technology rather than investing in making renewable energy sources cheaper and more efficient.