I understand the paper solution, and I'm all on-board with it. But I'd still whip that up as a spreadsheet and print it out. Not because I couldn't make such a chart by hand, just that it would never occur to me.
I'm a little impressed. 👍
Headline is misleading. The "In the eyes of those in power, aeroplanes are more important than human lives." portion is a quote from a single unverified commenter online. Please correct the title.
Are people going through keyboards/mice like some sort of consumables?
I'm looking at reviews for a mouse, and something supposedly good about it is that it lasted some person four whole years. I've been using the mouse on my work PC for 15 years, it was the first Bluetooth mouse I purchased. I've been using this keyboard for 10 years, and the only reason I bought it was that I was no longer typing on my laptop keyboard. Side note: I would love to buy another one just like this one for home, but it doesn't exist any more.
10 years with no signs of slowing in the next decade sounds right to me. 15 years for the mouse and the only reason I'm considering replacing it is I'd like one that can switch between multiple devices and maybe do away with AA batteries. Do people really go through peripherals quickly?
It doesn't sound like someone who is on the same team as you. 😞
That actually sounds really wholesome. Plus I like baking. I'll give is a shot. As a rule, I avoid reality TV because it's awful.
The spreadsheet of gifts has already started on this end. I need to get up to three gifts for each person (One from wife and I, then 1-2 from the kids). There are two Christmas parties this year, and the in-law side is going to be so big this year, the adults are doing a secret santa to reduce the gift load at least amongst ourselves.
That leaves me buying 25-35ish gifts just for the extended family. Not including the four of us. Experience has taught me that leaving the shopping to the last week before Christmas is a terrible plan. Oh! And the final week of November has a kids' birthday, Sister's birthday, Niece's birthday, Father-in-law's birthday and our Wedding Anniversary. Gotta get through all that before I really start stressing about Christmas.
The only real reality TV shows are on the sports channel. Everything else is edited/scripted. 😀
I nearly bought one in 2007. It was between a Mazda 6 and a Pulsar. In the end, I went with the Pulsar because it was $2k cheaper, and all other things about the cars were pretty equal.
My life circumstances changed over the next decade (had a family), and the Pulsar was a bit small for us by the end. I ended up wishing I'd gone with the Mazda.
I think you made the right choice.
Or you drive serious km. It's designed for people who need a car for their job.
Take a kid. Then you are a parent or uncle and they'll think you're cool, again. They'll even let you buy PlayStation games without judgement if you have a kid in tow!
Prominent members of Australia's neo-Nazi network have also launched a series of targeted harassment campaigns at police officers.
Sewell said on a livestream that his followers had identified a Victoria police officer who, in recent demonstrations, attempted to remove a mask from a neo-Nazi protester.
He boasted that he had uncovered personal information on the officer, saying members of his group had saved wedding photos and images of the officer's family.
They may be adept at skirting the edges of the law, and staying out of prison. But there is no collusion with police. Quite the opposite, in fact. These guys will be under close scrutiny from police, and they in-turn are trying to doxx the police officers who they are at-odds with.
Do it today. Petrol usually goes up on Friday. Plus, you'll enjoy your day off more if you know you don't need to waste a pile of it doing the shopping.
And who started those controversies?
Frankly, Nestle. If not directly, then by having insufficient controls on the suppliers and distributors they use in assorted parts of the world. I've never seen any cases where Nestle products in Australia were not fine, but their track record in the developing world is inconsistent at best.
So many controversies and opinions out there and so many have been debunked yet debunking doesn’t seem to make a difference.
Many of the scandals on that page are confirmed. I don't know of any that are debunked - you'd think they'd remove anything like that from the list. The whole 'Our formula is better for your baby than breastfeeding' campaign has to be one of the worst lies ever told in marketing, and that message is still strong in parts of the world. The Baby formula scandal in China is very real, and affects us in Australia as there is a whole market of buying (trusted) formula here and shipping it along with original Australian chemist receipts to China. Actually, I don't know if that's still going on today (it's been a while since I shopped int he baby aisle), but it really affected local formula supplies/prices when my kids were babies.
Surprisingly, it wasn't (entirely). It was one of the questions asked to the money editor this week. In context, it wasn't even a bad question.
They just picked the question most likely to generate clicks.
The answer is in the article:
If you’re getting income support payments such as the age pension and own a cryptocurrency, you need to let Services Australia know within 14 days if there is a significant change in the asset value.
Further if you are trading crypto with the intent to make a profit, you may be considered as self-employed (still working) and this could affect your pension.
Frankly, I'm impressed that the ATO is across Crypto enough to have such policies regarding it.
We do use Medibank. In a family of four, I've maxed out my Physio for the year (first time), my kid has spent a chunk on orthodontics, my wife got glasses and osteo care. It's borderline on whether we use enough to justify our premiums - probably not this year. But we did have one year with a few surgeries that made me happy the insurance was there.
Edit: oh! And our dental visits, I forgot!
If it were just me, my own use of private insurance would not have justified the premium I've been paying all these years. But I'm probably close to breaking even over the past 15 years or so with my wife and kids added to the mix.
It sounds fun, but my wife has never taken me along.
Yes, she hates bra shopping.
Aren't we responding with 'Enough about the bloody US election, already'? I was sick of the whole circus several weeks ago. Now, it's supposedly over and we're still getting articles about the whole stupid thing. I stay out of /All because it's full of US politics.
This much noise about any other election, even our own, would be thought of as weird. But the Internet goes on and on and on about the US one. Yes, there are some ramifications for the rest of the world on how they vote. No, I'd have no problem with a few articles discussing it. But this wall-to-wall saturation for six months has left me feeling utterly sick of the whole thing.
As to AUKUS, I don't even know what it gives us that our alliances of the past half-century already provide. It's not like those relationships are in danger, no matter who sits in the White House/No. 10 Downing/Canberra.
Squarkly Bear! That was my local shops for my first 2 years in Melbourne. Before I was gentrified out to Preston.
Great question, because Guardian links with amp remove that annoying popup begging for subscription while telling me I'm one of their most prolific readers, having read 80 articles this year.
Dancing in the Storm (album)
I have this album playing in the background at work right now. It's probably about the last physical CD I bought. I bought it at one of their gigs at the Corner Hotel about 15 years ago. I think a couple of them even autographed it.
If you remember these guys from the 80's/90's, you'll remember them as a fairly energetic rock band. This CD is something of a greatest hits, but acoustic version. It is basically just the guys sitting around in one of their houses, chilling and playing their songs unplugged. You can really picture a bunch of muso mates sitting around in a circle and jamming for fun with big grins on their faces.
You get a new appreciation of their talent as their songs are stripped right back and re-assembled. I love it! I'd love the perspective of someone who doesn't know their music.
Police allege a women charged with the theft of 63,000 limited edition Bluey coins earlier this year was the getaway driver. The 27-year-old Western Sydney woman is the third person to be arrested for the theft as 40,000 of the missing coins were discovered.
I still don't think you can get any dollarbucks for yourself!
A 17-year-old girl was so severely malnourished doctors feared she was at risk of a heart attack, but her father claimed she was "the healthiest child he knew", the Perth District Court is told.
For reference, my kids both reached 30kg when they were seven!
Reece Joshua Sturgeon broke into the outback facility and remained there for two days, wearing a uniform, eating in the kitchen and telling Defence Force personnel he was on a "special mission".
Investors with 10 or more properties to their name have more debt than smaller-scale investors but use negative gearing and capital gains discounts to keep buying, tax office data shows.
And as the article says - this data is only from individual tax returns. It doesn't cover companies.
Our US friends see the Olympic Medal table differently
I stumbled across a sports article from a US publication and thought it interesting that it showed the USA leading the medals table.
Instead of the regular table that gives weight to Gold, silver and bronze, they just see total medals.
I sorta like it. Celebrating all medal winners equally is nice. It feels a little like fudging the numbers, though.
A Perth woman collapses in a court dock after being sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to murder her husband who had been diagnosed with dementia.
Super sad case. She tried to kill him to ease his suffering. If he'd been on the record supporting her decision, I think the sentence would have been very different. And she lost him to natural causes anyway. 😞
Kids are free at the footy rounds 16-19
Kids Go Free: Kids aged 14 years old and under will have free entry to games across Rounds 16 to 19
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/11231353
> If you have a kid/grandkid who loves footy, this is the time of year to take them. A single adult can take three kids to a game for the price of one ticket. > > For me today, the adult ticket was $58. With two kids, that worked out at less than $20 a ticket. > > Take your own snacks. Prices at the footy are actually offensive.
Kids are free at the footy rounds 16-19
Kids Go Free: Kids aged 14 years old and under will have free entry to games across Rounds 16 to 19
If you have a kid/grandkid who loves footy, this is the time of year to take them. A single adult can take three kids to a game for the price of one ticket.
For me today, the adult ticket was $58. With two kids, that worked out at less than $20 a ticket.
Take your own snacks. Prices at the footy are actually offensive.
The gunman who shot and killed a mother and her teenage daughter in Perth's affluent western suburbs did so because he thought his ex-partner was at the property.
Troye Sivan's Rush wins Song of the Year at this year's APRA Music Awards
From Dean Lewis to Taylor Swift – here are the big winners at this year's APRA Awards.
WA's teacher union rejects a second pay and conditions offer from the state government, stoking concerns of interruptions at schools as the union threatens to forge on with a potential strike on Tuesday next week.
Just when you thought you'd made it through the holidays. 😀
I think a half-day strike is just as bad for parents than a full one. We still need to arrange for the kids to be taken care of until 12:30. Apparently we can send them in anyway, but they won't be in class and it isn't exactly supporting the teachers to do that.
I hope there is progress in the negotiations and the strike gets called off.
The 28-minute episode doesn't disappoint with a special wedding and an answer to whether the Heelers sell up and move. But look a little closer and The Sign is full of other hidden treats too. Here's nine you might've missed. Spoilers ahead.
I just sort of assume everyone has watched the episode by now. If you haven't, I recommend doing so before you get to the end of this article.
Data shows Melbourne residents are buying and driving cars at a higher rate since COVID, even though more people are working from home. Here's why.
A mere 57 mega polluters produce 80 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, new analysis shows
Just 57 mega polluters are responsible for the bulk of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and most big fossil fuel players have increased, rather than decreased, their output since the Paris Agreement in 2015, a staggering new report finds.
On the one hand, it makes it really hard to stay motivated with the teeny contribution I make to reducing emissions. On the other, think of how much of a difference these 57 companies could make if they actually reached net-zero targets.
To understand why 30-somethings feel like they're struggling financially, the ABC analysed five factors — housing, healthcare, debt, tax, and income. The data reveals this generation is caught in an economic perfect storm.
I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.
A portion of a major bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it, sending multiple vehicles into the water.
Ok, so here's my newest phobia. Happily driving along a bridge I've crossed over a thousand times before, only tonight I'm suddenly in the dark waters below!
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Attached: 1 image Seen on Reddit. This is AMAZING and I love the creativity and style. The very idea that a high-viz jacket/vest could actually look good is so foreign, and yet here we are! #cycling #fuckcars #nocars #solarpunk #bikes #creative
Reddit > Mastodon > Lemmy because why not? 😁