Yeah, that is very silly. The usual convention when you have a tie for a ranking is to skip the appropriate number of rankings afterwards. Probably deliberate so that more countries’ media picks up the story because their country has a high ranking.

Also, hats off to Henley & Partners for somehow convincing the media that a very straightforward ranking needs to be a brand-named ‘index’. They don’t even compile the data! They just take it from IATA.

Full rankings and more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_Passport_Index

Should just be able to do it with one rule of Disallow: /c/*@*, I think?

I forgot that federated posts are just under /post/* like local ones are. You’d have to block each federated post individually. Not sure if you can do that on each individual page? Certainly adding every federated post to the top-level robots.txt isn’t feasible.

Maybe they were comparing the physical area? Which seems the most useless comparison…

Yeah, that’s all I can think of too, but they didn’t mention it anywhere in the article.

New SA battery storage project approved near Mount Gambier will be three times the size of ‘Tesla battery’

Pacific Green says the Limestone Coast Energy Park, which will have a capacity of 1,500 megawatt hours …

The latter battery, colloquially known as the “Tesla battery”, can store up to 193 megawatt hours (MWh) and was once the world’s biggest.

1500 / 193 = 7.77

So while that is ‘more than three’, why doesn’t it say ‘more than seven’? Am I missing something? When they say ‘size’ do they not mean capacity?

Chas was still doing the Planet Extra Podcast while he was on break 😆

I highly recommend it, if too much detail is never enough: https://planetamericapodcast.libsyn.com/

🤮 What a fucking embarrassment that we still officially have a monarchy.

Fucking Setka. As always, folks, power corrupts. Unions need to be under the control of an active and engaged rank and file base.

It’s a developing story, but at least two are dead - the shooter and an attendee.

Yeah, fair enough. I don’t have any first-hand experience, but advice I’ve heard is that if you can get just one other committed person on board, you’re halfway there.

If you’ve got a local Food Not Bombs group, that’s a good place to find people that are into cooperation. There’s other community groups around that might have people who are interested or that are willing to provide infrastructure of some kind - men’s sheds come to mind. Otherwise, it’s worth a try posting on local Facebook groups.

There’s probably a guide or blog written around getting something like this set up. I should have a dig around.

Without knowing about how things are set up in your local co-op, maybe you could investigate setting up a two-stream system of ‘budget’ and ‘organic’. Or you could just set up an entirely separate co-op.

I’m thinking a Bundy Rum and Cola premix: https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_28730/bundaberg-u-p-rum-cola-cans-375ml

Death, incapacitation, and unforced resignation don’t count 😆

Image uploads are working, just not the thumbnail and embedding. If you click through on the link it takes you to the image.

Yeah, Chaos would be more bottom-right.

Craftworld Eldar are probably the best fit for the bottom-left, amongst the major factions.

Whey powder and aquafaba are also useful as substitutes.

There’s no place in the Labor caucus for someone who acts in accordance with their principles!

🎵 … is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo? 🎵

The Greens have always been against prohibition more broadly, but they can articulate their reasoning better than I can: https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/greens-secure-amendments-vaping-legislation-and-will-support-passage-through

Yeah, I don’t see why they shouldn’t be treated exactly like cigarettes.

From October that’ll pretty much be the case, except only purchasable at a pharmacy. I can’t see why they shouldn’t be sold at servos, etc., but I don’t think it’s a massive problem in terms of personal freedoms. It’ll give pharmacies a cash boost, and maybe even cause expansion of their opening hours in some cases, which could be helpful.

In any case, I think that the deal the Greens got is probably the best one Labor were ever going to give.

Here’s a good article of ‘panda diplomacy’ for anyone interested: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-09/what-is-china-panda-diplomacy/103185260