I bought a $37,000 (AUD) EV and its fantastic.
This isnt an outlier, a LOT of BEV’s and Hybrids are sub $60k here in australia.

Costs me between $0-34 to charge per week.
$0 if i charge on weekends with solar, $34 if i charge only during peak hours, or somewhere in between if i charge off-peak (during rhe night or middle of the day).

The tax rebates were for loans, not purchases. And they are being rolled back because they were to incentivise EV uptake, which is no longer neccessary.

As an aussie (WA):

All this love for Robinson and Torx and im just here with Posidrive…

Well i dont know about you guys but i am hopeful, theres plenty of material that wasnt covered in the first spaceballs, and thats not including the new disney sequels.
Wait till its out before i judge.

If you watch any of this youtube video you will find he repeatedly says that he is a stock trader and economist, and that he knows exactly where his expertise starts and ends. He knows very confidently that his past predictions have been highly accurate and successful, so he can see where this is heading.
But he also knows that he doesnt know how to implement the changes he wants to see. He knows his limitations and lack of skills as a politician, a taxation designer, lobbiest, etc. and that he isnt the right person for the job, which is why he is promoting Gabriel Zucman to design the taxation system, and is in contact with other figures to convince the politicians that vote on the laws.

What he does say is that he knows the problem, he knows the solution, he knows whats going to happen if we dont act. His whole goal is to get the message out to people and find the right voices to make the change, whether its the comman man who knows what to care about when voting, the people with power to change minds to talk to the politicians and law makers to make the change, and the economists to forge the right tax to actually effectively target the 1% before everything is taken from us.

So no, he doesnt have all the answers, but he just wants people to know there is a problem, what that problem is, how it will affect everyone and to not sit on your hands. I dont hold it against him that he doesnt have the whole package A to Z, he has gone above and beyond for a cause he is essentially committing his life to, even though he is (probably) wealthy enough to not give a shit.

And the ‘countdown clock’ animation for when its booting games or loading in levels. I wouldnt even mind if it randomly scrolled fallout ads while your playing ‘sugar bombs’, ‘radaway’, etc.

As a driver, other drivers completely failing to understand any roundabout indicating rules does my fucking nut in.

It isnt that hard, there are literally like 3 rules to know indicating during a roundabout:

1. indicate if taking first exit.
2. If its a standard 4-exit round about and you are going straight, you only have to indcate as you exit.
3. Indicate in direction of roundabout if you are passing more than one exit, then after passing the penultimate exit before you plan to leave the round about, change from indicating with the roundabout to indicating your going to exit the roundabout.

moniter their hours for their own welbeing.

From what i know of certain sectors this realistically means: “your working too many hours and should take it easier because we dont want you to burn out (but you definately NEED to put in at least 20hrs unpaid overtime each week or you will NOT be getting promoted or advancing your career at any pace.)”

But its not worth the air saying because its a farce, they dont give a single fuck about their employee health - only the bottom line.

“Government makes bad decision: affected constituents respond that they will be negatively impacted by said bad decision”

Essentially they have gone from halves to quarters, but kinda wishy-washy about it.

Fair enough then. They arent lining up on my screen but maybe it is just compression artifacts and the way the sync app is displaying them on my phone.

Also a big issue was not that they had to get support or help, but that there are time critical points of the year such as harvest that you need your machine running literally every hour of the day and even though they could easily physically fix or replace a part themselves the machine would lock out until a certified technician came out to plug their laptop in a certify genuine parts are used or fixes have been made.
Then the local certified repairman wasnt able to attend the service call for days and that was just not acceptable when an entire years income would be impacted by the speed they could harvest before potential damages which would affect profit margins.
So its not just the frustration of being locked out but the lack of sufficient manufacturer support.

The text characters, the letters are all slightly weirdly shaped, warped and sized, they dont site on the same baslines, and spacing is inconsistent. I dont think its compression artifacts but more that the text is AI generated as ‘images of letters’ thather than text itself.

A meme about font and you use AI to write the text for you? The fuck is this

Destabilised multiple countries and regions around the world for spice and goods trade.

In Australia they are called Rockmelon, because, you know… Also they can be very bland or delicious, especially if you get one from a small fruit & veg shop rather than supermarket where they are picking shit way too early so it lasts longer on the shelf.

aaaaAAAAAHHhhhh

Same here with en-au, and my fucking timezone.

Uh… Did he lose a lot of appetite and health improve after deworming himself?
Do conservatives keep banging on about ivermectin because they had an unusually high proportion of parasitic worm infected people?

“Why do you have curtains on your windows” is a little less dismissable than “Walls” for future.