Yes.
It is their plan for everywhere. The world is moving away from Coal. So, unlike other resources, they have a limited window when they can offload the stuff. The more coal they can burn/sell today, the less they “waste” later when Coal is no longer viable.

They’re still recovering from the loss of the asbestos industry. We still have so much of that stuff that they can’t exploit! What a waste!

As a kid who who was into computers in the 80’s - a period where that was social suicide, my music tastes were the least of my problems! 😆
The 80’s meant I was late to the party, but my music was mostly what my older siblings played and my sister loved The Carpenters.

She weighed 35kg at the end. I honestly can’t imagine an adult weighing less than a 10-year-old. 😞

Ha! I had this memorised at one point. It was one of the books I could recite if I were putting the kids to bed away from home.

Mine is 13 and hasn’t stopped. Trains occupy up about 50% of his mind. He wants to go back to Melbourne and ride on the trains.

At least it’s an inexpensive obsession. Some parents have to buy AFL or Pokemon cards.

Interesting to read this. He is basically saying he doesn’t think it’s possible for Labor to lose the election.

Even if the Liberal and National parties recover every seat lost in 2021, Labor would still be in office with its commanding majority from 2017.

That’s a fairly good point - and I think he’s also saying this is unlikely. Particularly when he gets to the seats near the Ellenbrook line later.

I don’t want Basil Zempilas to be member for Churchlands; I’d much rather see Sean L’Estrange return. Basil hasn’t been a good lord mayor, he relies entirely on his newsreader personality to come over as knowledgeable on matters, when in reality none of that was original content for him. He actually comes over as arrogant and completely out of touch, instead. His treatment of that women’s refuge house in East Perth in particular was awful - even if he was right about their contract being up. Zero empathy or sensitivity until it made the news. I find it hilarious that he attempted a run at party leadership without even holding a seat. You just know that he’ll try again if he wins.

If by some miracle Christine Tonkin retains the seat, it will really knock the Libs for six. It’s long past time that all parties stopped taking their “safe seats” for granted. I can’t see that happening though. I honestly can’t think of anything special she’s done for the electorate. I doubt the Labor party really thought she had a chance of winning when they put her forward. Still, she’s 69 this year - I suppose politics was a retirement hobby (She only joined the party in 2015) that turned into an accidental job. If It were me, I’d want to lose so I could retire on that parliamentary pension. 😀

Android
Boost: works fine.
Jerboa: wouldn’t load in the app, but I could save it and watch it locally.
Connect: Buggy with media in general. Even some jpeg files. Didn’t work.
Sync: works fine.
Voyager: Seems to work, but muted. Probably a setting to enable sound that I didn’t find.
Firefox: works fine.

Apple
Memmy: Didn’t work.
Mlem: Didn’t work.
Arctic: Didn’t work.
Avalon: Didn’t work.
Voyager: Didn’t work.
Safari: Didn’t work.
Firefox: Didn’t work.

For Apple, many of the apps (including browsers) loaded the iOS media player and that was what didn’t work.

I think I see what @[email protected] is saying. If I search up #perth from Mastodon, I get this:

Each link goes to Aussie.zone instead of the end news sites. If we didn’t appreciate federation, it’d look like a bunch of blog posts all to some random site being posted to /c/Perth.

I agree that it’s a Mastodon issue: the destination url is a part of the post. They could link to there instead of the Lemmy instance.

Wait, what? I guess that explains why Baku messaged me out of the blue last night. It must have been just before he deleted his account.

I’ve been too busy at work; I missed everything. Nobody reported anything though - I would have seen that.

Hrm, he’s nuked his account entirely this time, not simply marked it as deleted. That means that all the posts/messages he’s created over 18 months are deleted from the database. Which will include many daily threads.

Not sure what I think about that. I think I’ll go for a run and ponder stuff.

I guess if they pay you 3 salaries, you can do 3 roles. Sounds exhausting though!

It took me a while to figure out why this was even posted. Aldi sells hot cross buns year round these days.

You’ve always been able to buy summer and winter clothes at all times of the year. People do travel after all. If you’re off to Europe tomorrow and only have Australian summer wear, you’re in for a bad time.

It depends on the business. At the sorts of places I work, $3k for a reliable laptop is well worth it. The business loses more money in lost productivity by having its employees unable to work than saving a little money in the short-term.

Dell are weird. They work all ends of the market - with awful cheap laptops and really decent expensive models.

I think this hurts them, personally - as people who have been issued a garbage laptop come away thinking Dells are heavy and have terrible battery.

I promise there are good Dell laptops. Your job obviously hasn’t given you one.

We use HP Elitedesk micro PCs, they’re pretty great. We don’t use HP laptops - so whoever is making hardware decisions at work clearly agrees with you on the laptops.

My wife has an HP Elitebook from her work. No idea if it’s any good, but she hasn’t complained excessively about it.

You can choose to spend the time it takes to load a web page to see where the cheapest fuel is. Or you can not, loading web pages is hard. You can just rock up at a servo and pay whatever it costs.

This is how it works in WA. Remember that “failed experiment” fuelwatch? Well, that was a WA innovation that never went away. It was here first, and is still very popular. You can load the map and immediately see that the cheapest fuel within a few km of the city is Shell Highgate. It’s also super handy when you’re in a part of town that you aren’t familiar with/don’t know where the local servos are.

You know these prices are set until midnight, so you can plan your day. From late afternoon, the site will show tomorrow’s prices as well. So you can see whether the price is cheaper tomorrow or today. Maybe Highgate is out of your way? You can see the cheapest fuel that is on your way.

I have no idea why this system didn’t take on nationally. It is so much better than going “ooh - cheap fuel, I’ll fill up on the way home from the shops”, only to see it went up 10c in the next hour. I’m out of touch with Melbourne’s fuel prices these days, but a few years back Perth was consistently 20c/litre cheaper than Melbourne. Is that still the case?

Well, sort of but not really. Telecom had no 3G infrastructure - it didn’t exist yet when the carrier was privatised.

But, I agree with you in essence that Telecom would not have disabled 3G like this. I also do not think they’d have decommissioned the analogue phone network when they did. Which also affected rural customers at the time.

He had to be in the water long enough for the water police to be summoned. Unless they were in the area in the wee hours of the morning for some reason, that probably took at least 30 minutes.

I’m no Olympian, but even I can swim 1km in 30 minutes. Given it was dark and the search radius they would have had, it’s really impressive that they found him.

In solidarity with our US friends, I shall not install that app on my phone.

I was being cheeky. GIO and SGIO were initially government insurance services that were privatised in the 90’s.