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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Carmichael coal mine in Queensland. Queensland has a payroll tax, I don’t believe this is can be offset against losses, see here for more info https://qro.qld.gov.au/payroll-tax/ GST is payable on goods they use and se
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Is cost of electricity to the commercial, industrial, and retail residential customer an important factor?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
> Ah, so you are taking the anti capitalist stance. How did you get that from anything I’ve written here, or anything I’ve written anywhere ever ?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Did you read any of that page? Have you reviewed any of the plans offered by the energy retailers? 1. The plans are optional 2. Only available in New South Wales, South Australia, and South East Queensland 3. You must have a smart meter 4
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
And all the people who rely on that energy? What about them? Some of that coal is coking coal, used to make steel. What of it?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
So you’ve audited the code of these apps, apps published by active criminals, and confirmed in a via reproducible build that none of these apps are a vector for VPN access, nor try to take advantage of vulnerabilities in any of the other so
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
No! Surely not? Where did you read that?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Explain why hyper competitiveness should mean lower trust? Doesn’t competition imply rule and order? The other direction is merely organised crime, which tends to have very few big players.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Your argument seems to boil down to: What we’re doing isn’t working, so let’s do more of it . There’s a cost of living crisis in this country effecting the majority of Australians. So let’s make energy more scares, more expensive. I’m with
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Why? Why should Australians continue to tolerate a government that gives half our gas exports away, and exports at least as much coal as it uses. But not build any modern tech coal and gas for cheap reliable base load and load following pow
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
> in my city we literally can't buy any more grid scale solar. Ok. That’s not the argument I was making though. And neither is the rest of your comment a reply to anything I wrote. Of course in the absence of the full suite of optio
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Yeah nah. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/yeah-nah_adv
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
So their business model is to profit off pirated content, and that’s why you trust them ?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Very convincing argument. Thank you for your contribution.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
No it hasn’t. What it has done is resulted in ridiculously high electricity prices, such that manufacturing anything in this country has become progressively less viable. The Net Zero story sold to Australians is, and always was always will
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Since all we’re doing is opinions, and all opinions are equal. It’s a scam. All that money we’re coughing up for rooftop solar and batteries at home would be better spent investing in grid scale electricity generation, of any technology. Th
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Similarly here in Australia. Electricity prices keep increasing, daily supply charge keeps increasing (this ones supposed to pay for the transmission network), while the solar feed-in tariff keeps decreasing. With the added stupidity that,
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
So all of these free (or paid apps? I don’t know, I don’t use any) that offer access to pirated content… They’re all above board? Not doing anything nefarious? That’s obviously not an argument anyone would intentionally make.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Yes, I realise this. But if the lifts aren’t coping with the foot traffic during normal operation, I’d also not want to have to use stairs.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
The propagandised idea that living in China means living under an oppressive communist regime, runs counter to the countries wild success at pretty much everything it does.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
When the revolution comes, the BBC will be the first against the paywall.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
> making decisions that determine the next 5-10 years of action based on the current law is a recipe for disaster. How else can one make business decisions? Or any long term decision, financial or otherwise. If you are correct, which I
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
That sounds entirely reasonable.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Because short term stays put more load on the building systems, like the lifts, than perhaps the building was designed for. Regular tenants don’t come and go at anywhere near the rate short stay guests do.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
I prefer my tea brewed with SLAP, or more recently SLAP2.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Or retail at $15 per pack of twenty over-under the counter at your nearest “ convenience ” store, if it hasn’t been fire bomber over night in Melbourne, thought that seems to have eased off a bit since they arrested that guy. https:/&
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Or, the building / owners corp / code / city could simply ban short stay accommodation where it was never attended. I would not want to be in that building if an evacuation alarm sounded.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Don’t all those apps also expose you to VPN services using your connection as a gateway, or enrol you in a botnet, or exfiltrate your watch history to this weeks popular bad-actor, or expose everything on your local network to the internet?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Yep, same. I still pirate media from time to time, but it’s become increasingly infrequent that each time I think to do it I end up putting it off for months because I’d rather gargle broken glass, or watch politicians give state their opin
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
I recently realised even the build in iOS Private Relay gets around the Australian Government site blocks.

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