Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped
  • min0nim min0nim 9mo ago 75%

    Fuck around and find out that stocking shelves for a one day event with cheap plastic crap that isn’t selling well is a bad idea?

    ‘Help help, I’m being repressed!’

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  • Swedish company Northvolt develops new state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery produced with locally sourced materials, entirely independent of traditional battery value chains
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    Great and all, but this is a literal press release. It could be PR spruiking, it could be pump’n’dump play, it could be friggin genuinely great. No way to know from a press release.

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  • Brazil hits nearly 60°C
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    Three men walk into a bar. The American says, “actually that’s only 1 3/23 men in FreedomTM units”.

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    Slow cooker meats?
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    Corned beef is pretty good value. Cook low for about 6-7 hours with onion, carrot, celery and pepper. Colesworth also sell ‘gravy beef’ and ‘chuck beef’. These are usually cheaper and very tasty when slow cooked. Perfect for stews/etc. 6-7 hours on low in a stock works great.

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  • Is double brick housing good or bad? | Particle
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    It’s mass that holds heat. Rammed earth is great if you don’t let it get too hot (so needs shading), or if it’s insulated (the best way).

    For almost all of Australia bar the tropical north, the best construction is insulated mass - ie cladding (lightweight or not), then a cavity, then loads of insulation and a Vapor membrane, then masonry.

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  • Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    This is one area where Apple has it pretty right. A Mac will do somethings when ‘asleep’ like download emails and texts. It also can broadcast its location if the ‘Find Me’ function is on. If it’s plugged into power then backups will also run, and background app updates will happen. It does this in a low power mode, so it won’t get hot enough to need fans. It’s worked flawlessly for 20 years. Meanwhile all our PCs are set to ‘never sleep’ and just get shutdown when not in use. I never trust a PC laptop to wake successfully from sleep just by closing the lid.

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  • 'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    It’s not even quite that - the article suggested they raised the commercial equivalent of the 12% through competitive auction. These allow the bidders a set price over 20 years.

    So it’s cheaper than buying in fossil fuels, the suppliers get certainty, and they achieve close to complete decarbonisation using private investment.

    How good is that?

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  • X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 75%

    I’m not being facetious or unkind here, but for many 10’s of thousands of years we have been developing meaningful social circles by seeing people in person. Just give it a go!

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  • X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    It’s a big WHOOOSH, but I actually do respect all the people getting as far as reading ‘https://twit…’… and saying ‘fuck that’.

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  • X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 33%

    No. Hydrogen peroxide is the best disinfectant. Beats sunlight by a long long margin.

    Bleaching Nazis on the internet is basically what OP is calling for, and by your own analogy, they’re right.

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  • X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    Dude. It’s an app, not your wife.

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  • X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    The whole premise of ads on Twitter is that they’re targeted.

    IBM don’t sell consumer crap. They sell smoke and mirrors to major governments and industry. They’re chasing jobs worth millions per pop. They want ads to target the people making those decisions.

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  • El Niño is laying the foundations for unprecedented global temperatures next year
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    This is literally the “This is fine” meme.

    It’s entirely possible to drink lemonade on 40deg days while not being complacent. The impact of climate change isn’t ‘one day I’ll be dead’. It’s an ‘it’s going to get worse before it gets worse’ situation. It’s a future where you might not even be able to get lemonade or Bundy rum with caps you can’t put back on the bottle.

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  • Defence whistleblower could plead guilty after appeal rejected
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    Mate, come on, that’s not fair at all. Get your head out of your arse.

    ABC have been covering this heaps. They broke the Afghan files story in the first place. Adele Furgheson has literally been writing articles about whistleblowers and David McBride for weeks in the lead up to this. Latest one from looking at the ABC website here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-18/david-mcbride-guilty-plea-whistleblower-protection/103120544

    Fairfax is also literally the news link at the top of the OP post here!

    There are always excellent reports coming from the ABC & Fairfax with a quality of investigative work that FJ doesn’t even come close to matching. ABC & Fairfax may have their faults, but this is not one of them.

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  • Whistleblower David McBride pleads guilty after court rules to withhold evidence over ‘security’ risk
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    This must be insanely frustrating. Only more the reason to have a decent suite of whistleblower protection laws.

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  • Touching Young Sheldon finale to end with mass school shooting
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    It’s not the onion, it’s The Chaser who are based in Australia. And I guarantee they don’t give a shit.

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  • Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    The good old Google way. I’ve no idea why so many people are so willing to hand over everything to them. Say what you like about Apple, but at least they’re not selling your personal info.

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  • X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns
  • min0nim min0nim 11mo ago 100%

    Weird take, what’s your beef? They most certainly do slap on huge fines, and are much more aggressive about enforcing privacy requirements than the US/etal.

    This is kinda like cursing the worlds fastest sprinter for just not running fast enough.

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  • That damn Melbourne community has posts with 400+ comments. Honestly, what is going on here? It's the middle of winter, so I know we're all still surfing and drinking in the beer gardens while they have nothing to do but chatter while they freeze their nuts off, but still...put some damn effort in people.

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    Browsing through the federated list of communities, it's interesting to see the local Aussie Zone ones so active compared to most. I'm sure we're not seeing every thing, but I imagine that most of the more active communities will be federated here. Big props to Lodion for getting things off the ground. What a legend! And good on everyone here for getting on board so quickly. You're all bloody legends too!

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    I’ve been in Sydney for 12 years now and we’re up the Blue Mountains all the time. I’ve been putting off the Lockeys Pylon walk because there’s just so much else to see and do, but yesterday was the day. And it was a beautiful perfect sunny winter day. So little haze that you could see the CBD towers. And I do love this side of the Grose Valley. Heaps of flowers out, with new wattle just coming in too. The walk was great, but I think Dr Dark’s cave is my favourite spot in that area. Where’s your pick in the Blueys? ![](https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/32da0e85-e3a9-4ad6-b136-e06d44aa965f.jpeg)

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    What good are interest rate rises to fight inflation when these mugs slap 20% on to your home & small business power bill?

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    I mean, other than procrastinating at work.

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    Sydney Community?

    If we're going to have a Melbourne community, can we have a Sydney one too? It will be just like the Melbourne one only insufferably smug and better for it.

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