We need to have local manufacturing of Solar Panels and Home Batteries.

Not do economic or political reasons; purely for environmental reasons.

The problem is that environmentalism is disrupting manufacturing.

After this he joined DOGI and went to the Library of Congress.

This explains the cartoon I saw yesterday. It featured a whole lotta red-hats complaining about the migratory birds who were illegally entering the US. It was inferred that a bunch of these idiots were culling them.

I reckon that the next phone I get will be a Linux Phone.

I will keep my iPhone mini for those things where I need an Android or iPhone (banking, government, etc), but my daily driver will be something that I have complete control over.

Time to watch Glass Onion again.

Different vehicles for different purposes.

My brother had a V8 VB commodore and his mate had a L6 VC commodore. The big V8 was much more economical on the highways, while the inline 6 was much better when stuck in traffic.

I used to have an L4 Grand Vitara and an A V6 Alfa Romeo. They had the same economy.

My mate recently purchased a V8 petrol Y62 Patrol for towing his camper instead of a L4 diesel LC250 Prado to tow his camper. He reasoned that the cheaper upfront cost would offset the increased fuel bill.

What he found was it was more economical when touring, but it was also cheaper around town as well, as long as he used his right foot and his brain to control the accelerator and didn’t use his testicles to control the accelerator.

As a Jimny owner and driver, you don’t need a giant 4WD, even if you do go OffRoad.

I do struggle occasionally when arseholes in giant light-trucks have chewed up the track before me and left huge, impassable ruts.

ICE Cars are getting bigger (and heavier). EVs are significantly heavier again.

The combination of passive safety systems (like impact bars, SRS and crumple-zones) improve your chances of survivability when interacting with a larger vehicle at the expense of weight.

The problem as that this has resulted in a rat-race of bigger and bigger (and less manageable) vehicles.

To deal with such large vehicles, Driver Assistance Systems need to be integrated, which adds more weight and increases driver complacency.

Not to mention heavy!

My little Jimny has a (comparatively) high grille and it will do some nasty damage to anyone who I neglect to see, but it only has 1200kg of mass. Still enough make people have a bad day and not the most ergonomic thing to lean against when it is moving. The Driver Assistance Systems are not great, but enough to stop me from making too many stupid mistakes.

These huge American behemoths weigh 3-4 times as much, have even worse visibility and the nose is shaped like a giant tenderising mallet. The driver assistance systems are just as bad, but meet a checklist of features that give the drivers as false sense of complacency and ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from AMCAP.

Anyone else notice the price of fuel since the Election?

It was about $1.70/l before the Coalition announced their 12 month excise discount of 25c. Then overnight fuel went up to $2/l.

Now that the Coalition has well-and-truely lost, fuel is back down to $1.60/l.

Hobbyist arsehole vs Professional arsehole.

I wonder how much of her denial was Denial and how much was avoiding guilt.

Driver Assistance Systems are there to assist a competent driver, not to empower an incompetent driver. If the second party is using these features as a crutch to compensate, or excuse their shitty driving, they need to be charged with reckless driving and needs to have the book thrown at them.

I assume Climate Corp would be like Park Rangers or Environmental cleanup.

When we were younger National Parks used to recruit students during school holidays to perform works around the parks. We used to get food and accommodation and would maintain the public facilities, clear overgrown bushland and perform basic maintenance on infrastructure.

Nowadays, due to Economic Rationalism, they pay top-dollar for professional contractors to perform the work, or in most cases, just don’t perform the work.

The more the Liberal Party and Gina’s and Rupert’s Right Wing media waffle on about the Mythical Culture war, the more people think that it is actually a thing.

Zuck’s and Elon’s Right Wing “new” media need to Fuck Off too.

This will make it so much more likely for a ALP/The Greens 2TP election in the future.

The Greens and Labour also hope the Right-Wing Parties also continue following Gina’s instructions. It will make it so much easier to acquire more seats in the next election.

The Coalition probably used these models to predict what the Electorate wanted.

This would explain why their policies were so Tone-Deaf.

I’m pretty sure that all the other parties would welcome the Liberals leaning into the mythical Culture Wars.

It would make it so much easier to eradicate them from our political landscape.

It is almost as if they won’t let people in the Liberal Party unless they have run some sort of Scam, and gotten off.

Zahid Safi still managed to get double the votes of Rhonda Garad in Bruce, despite the exposé in The Age.

It used to be a huge problem in QLD in the 1980s.

Wait, that was when Dutton was a cop, wasn’t it!?