Ironic that Mao is discussed and the biggest culprits in the housing market are (allegedly) Chinese nationals.

Reportedly, in certain Chinese cultures, men (and young men) do not have access to women and you women unless they are a land owner. It doesn’t matter if the land they own is a single-room apartment that has room for half a single bed and never has any tenants, they own land so they get a root. This also explains all those huge ghost cities in China which are all unoccupied high-rises.

Sign up on the DoNotCall register.

https://www.donotcall.gov.au/

It will stop the honest ones from calling and when the dishonest ones do call, ask them for their business name and ABN and they disconnect very quickly.

It doesn’t make you immune to Political or Charity cold-calls, but if you mention that you will never vote or donate to someone who does cold calls, you get out on their internal DNC list very quickly.

It also doesn’t stop Scam/Illegal spam calls, but if you ask for their legal business name and ABN enough times, they soon get the picture and will disconnect the call.

Good luck. I hope you got your car running and managed to get out for your coffee.

My #Jimny is getting its 2-year service and I am hoping I don’t have any nasty surprises.

Spent the day in the local town, visiting cafés and parks, waiting for the Phonecall with quiet optimism.

Happy Birthday for yesterday.

January (and late December, early February) birthdays are unrewarding. “Sorry we didn’t get you a present, we re still broke from Christmas”.

Good luck with getting a redundancy and payout, as long as it doesn’t come at the cost of any mental health.

I’ve been working in the yard for the last nine days. My poor, abused and reconstructed shoulder is painful but today is a rest day.

Two days of working in the Garage after this and then back to they Yard…

The problem with short work weeks is that you have to squeeze in 6 days of work into 4 days.

Usually you only have to squeeze 6 days of work into 5…

Melbourne has some of the most potable tap-water in the world.

Instead of an advertising campaign, why don’t Metro invest in infrastructure of hydration stations?

Because the only vehicles on the market suitable for Australian conditions are off-road vehicles.

Just like how some people with sports models of road cars feel an obligation to defend their brand by taking off fast at traffic lights, some people with off-road vehicles feel an obligation to defend their brand by driving through floodwaters.

It is a way to overcome your buyers remorse and feel better about the 10’s of thousands of dollars that you owe the finance company.

In their defence, they were probably overworked and stressed from Summernats, and so used to getting unilateral right-of-way that they forget that Rhinos on Skateboards supersede their right-of-way.

Is there (currently) much Light Rail in Canberra?

That said, they are still Fucking Idiots, just like anyone who fails to give way to Trams.

As someone who once tried to flush my sinuses when I had a nasty cold, I can emphasise.

Merry Christmas to those who choose to spend the day by themselves and those who spend Christmas alone due to other reasons.

For those who struggle this time of year, just relax in your favourite comfy chair and favourite warm blankey and listen to the rain. You can make it through to Wednesday…

I got the lawns done (and the neighbours nature strips) trimmed just before it started raining. They are going to come back nice and thick this time for next week.

That is why it is so desirable to commercial interests. It is expensive and that means that powerful people with money need to invest in it and manage it and sell the power it produces to consumers.

Solar power can be generated on an industrial level as well, but also on a private level. Someone with the largest legal amount of solar power generation on their roof can be almost self sufficient. Some businesses don’t like that idea.

Considering the amount of money the Fossil fuel industry is throwing at Anti-Windmill astroturf, I’m sure it would be commercially difficult. Unfortunately, due to the amount of money the fossil fuel industry would throw at astroturfing an anti-solar oven campaign.

Do you mean the ones that were at train stations, and were targeted at people who were not at train stations, just before they closed all the train stations to repair the train lines?

Meanwhile, in the CBD; “WhY dOn’T oUr EmPlOyEeS wAnT tO cOmE iNtO tHe OfFiCe?”

The cheap TV section of JB HiFi and The Good Guys will be decimated. /s

Those ads and EULA-based privacy violations subsidise the cost of the hardware. The fact that the premium brands also extract as much user data as the cheap manufacturers is irrelevant.

There needs to be either an Industry code of conduct to prevent all user data mining or there needs to be legislation to ban all user data mining, regardless of subclauses of consent hidden in a compulsory click-through EULA.

If the road had a decent foundation to start with, potholes shouldn’t form at all.

If the foundation of the road has been compromised, patching a pothole will not prevent it from coming back.

Road construction tenders in the late 1990s, early 2000s were very competitive so there are a lot of roads built during this period that were built on a shoestring with no repair clauses. (ie. shit)

The alternative is where every single side street into an estate has its own traffic lights. Anyone travelling down the Highway or Main road needs to stop every two kms at a new traffic light.

The local councils and/or road authorities can force land developers to improve the main road, but they also need to dictate how the main road is improved.

I do agree that Optus’s technical team did wonders on the day to get the network back up and running.

The problem was that due to mismanagement with the administration and executive teams, the network was held together with spit and duct tape. It is a wonder it hadn’t crashed this bad previously!