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I wonder what people who constantly chop and change lanes in heavy traffic do with all that time they save getting to work? On our normal Beaudesert Road commute we can watch someone change lanes literally dozens of times between Chambers Flats and Annerley. And then despite not changing lanes at all we're normally within a few car lengths of them by the other end of the journey... but obviously it must pay off sometimes otherwise they wouldn't do it it, right? On those occasions when they arrive at work MINUTES ahead of schedule, they must get some truly productive shit done.
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I reckon it's a special enough occasion that the entire word should be in CAPS.
On the downside, I'm on call for it 😥
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I use hysteresis daily... Refrigeration.
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It is Wednesday my dudes
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When an ice machine finishes making ice (production cycle), the process of taking it off the evaporator plate and putting it in the storage bin is called a harvest.
There's your fact for the day!
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Waiting for an ice machine to do a clean cycle, then 3 consecutive harvests so I can get out of here.
That's an hour or so of standing around doing nothing to look forward to, zzz
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AFL, the Brisbane Bears beat the Sydney Swans by like 60 points in Melbourne over the weekend. Some old bloke told the players to "shake the kids hand" when they were getting medals, so he's a legend somehow. Also Chris Faygen(sp?) is the oldest coach to win a final thingo, and the only one to win it without ever being a player himself. That should be enough talking points to get you through until lunch time.
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Lions win over the weekend got all the work lads on a high. I probably should have watched it heh
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How am I only just discovering pork knuckle? I'm like a million years old and only just tried it. This is amazing! It's a turning point in my life. Everything will now be classed as occurring before the discovery of pork knuckle, and after.
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Brisbane in the first half, shit the bed at half time in classic Lions fashion, then an overall loss by end game
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If it's just posting shit on social media I reckon I might be qualified to give it a whirl
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Uh oh, saw the advertising kick off on Facebook...
Ticket sale posts inbound.
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The irony of an American lecturing another country on finding an alternative to shooting.
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Took 30 minutes to drive the last 10 minutes of our commute today... Motorbike crash on the Logan, car crash on the main road to Greenbank, then a car and a motorbike a bit further down.
And should we have tried to come in from Springfield, there was a crash that way too.
I dunno man, seems easier to just cruise along and get home safe rather than driving like a fuck stick trying to shave a few seconds off your commute and risking injury and death.
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Yeah, I don't reckon I need to listen to a 4 hour podcast for the answer.
www.theguardian.com
> The Queensland government is in talks with Star which reportedly needs $300m in short-term funding to continue operating Queen’s Wharf precinct in Brisbane’s CBD. Sucked in. I hate casinos. I hate gambling in general. Having said that... How do they get in financial trouble?? You're literally stealing money from people on a grand scale. Some punters are losing their homes because of how much money they pour in. Crooks are laundering money by losing a huge percentage of their cash there. International visitors turn up and drop tens (hundreds?) of thousands in a night. > “The worst case scenario would be that they have to close their doors not long after opening them,” the premier, Steven Miles, said on Wednesday. IMO the BEST case scenario is that they close their doors, and the space is used for something better than gambling.
Driving, gymnastics, break dancing (ESPECIALLY break dancing)... Anything that can't be timed or measured or otherwise objectively decided should be removed from competition. How do you quantify "style"? How do you ensure there is not biase from judges based on their knowledge of the competitor, be it country they are representing, or personal connections, or racial / religious opinion? How do you fairly compensate for what your personal opinion considers "worth" more when it comes to a trick or routine compared to another? Swimming, running, jumping, throwing things a distance are all things that can be measured and ruled against a standard that every competitor uses. It's fair and it's removed from any bias. The Olympics are supposed to be about competition between athletes and shouldn't be affected by popularity or politics, which anything with an interpretive aspect to the result will suffer from. So yeah, remove the feels sports and limit the Olympics to reals sports.
www.drive.com.au
10 years / 250,000k just announced by MG in Australia - including electric vehicles (and thus batteries)... Not bad considering the anti-EV crowd are always declaring battery packs to have a 3 year lifespan! > MG has introduced the longest factory warranty ever offered by a new-car maker in Australia – 10 years or 250,000km, whichever comes first – five years after rolling out seven years of coverage across its line-up. > And unlike Mitsubishi – which in October 2020 became the first brand to market a 10-year warranty, but with only a 200,000km distance limit – there is no mention of a requirement for customers to have their car serviced within the MG dealer network to access the full decade of coverage. > While MG’s new 10-year warranty is longer in time – compared to its previous seven-year offer – it now has a distance cap of 250,000km, rather than unlimited. > In effect from today (1 August 2024) for all newly-registered petrol, hybrid and electric MG models, the new warranty applies to vehicles not deemed to be "commercial use" – such as Ubers, taxis, food delivery couriers and driving schools.
> Remarkable video shows a driver's wild rampage from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. > A number of vehicles were smashed including an ambulance, with the accused live streaming himself hooning through South Bank. The story said he dumped the ute *and his dogs* before stealing a truck... Anyone know if the puppies are ok? 😬
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> Callum feels the familiar vibration of his mobile phone. Another text from Sportsbet. ... > Callum hasn't placed a wager for more than a year. Sportsbet is still trying to lure him back into action with an almost daily stream of text messages. ... I actually had the opposite experience to the complains in this article.. I'm not really a gambler, but I did fire up SportsBet for my first ever bet in my life during State of Origin. I put in $50 and lost $10 on Queensland. Then I found the horse bit and selected some random horses and apparently I'd won $100 so I took out my original $50, then threw away the rest on random horses and greyhounds, and Queensland at State of Origin again. Outcome? Zero dollars lost, and a couple of games worth of funsies thinking I was going to become a tenionaire with my 1.xx odds win. Sportsbet sent me one SMS, and I replied STOP. Sportsbet sent me one email, and I hit unsubscribe. I haven't received any communication since - no sms, no email, no push notifications, no anything. Not sure I'm fully on board with people claiming its all SportsBets fault they're gambling and being preyed upon IN THIS SPECIFIC WAY. I do say their constant spam during any sports match of any kind on free to air television is an absolute disgrace though.
What a pair of clowns (ALP and LNP)... Also I really hate TikTok. > There are currently no rules at either the state or federal level to stop political parties and candidates from using AI-generated material in election campaigns. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-22/qld-premier-slams-opposition-for-ai-generated-tiktok/104126936 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/labor-questioned-over-ai-generated-tiktok-of-peter-dutton/104131228
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Bit of an update to an earlier article --> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-21/qld-daisy-hill-hit-and-run-appeal/104123370 > A woman charged over the alleged hit-and-run murder of a young mother south of Brisbane has been remanded in custody after a brief court hearing. > Police allege 23-year-old Kiesha Thompson was deliberately struck by an SUV just before 9am on Friday in the Logan suburb of Daisy Hill, south of Brisbane. > The alleged driver — 24-year-old Larissa Rita Mae-Leigh Sant — has been charged with one count of murder. > Police said the women were known to each other but their relationship was unclear.
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> A teenager has admitted to being behind the wheel of a speeding stolen car and causing a crash which killed three people on the Fraser Coast last year. > The boy, who cannot be named, was due to appear in person in the Childrens Court of Queensland on Tuesday morning, but he refused to travel to Brisbane from the detention centre. > Instead, he appeared via video link, and Judge Deborah Richards told him the defiant behaviour was "**a pretty stupid thing to do**". Seems a bit of an understatement...
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Dunno how he managed to do that - fell asleep maybe? Made for an interesting commute to work today with that closed off. Archive link: https://archive.md/4K3TZ Original text: > A man was killed when he hit a barrier and rolled his ute on a Brisbane road. > The 32-year-old man, from Orange in NSW, was driving through the Granard Rd exit of the Ipswich Mwy in Rocklea about 3.20am on Thursday when he crashed. > Paramedics were called but the man was declared dead at the scene. > No one else was in the car and no other cars are believed to have been involved in the crash. > A forensic crash investigation is underway. > The Granard Rd exit on the Ipswich Mwy was closed amid the investigation.
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> In short: > * Live sheep exports by sea will be phased out over the next four years, after laws banning the trade passed parliament on Monday. > * Earlier in the day, opponents met with the prime minister to request a Senate inquiry into the legislation. > What's next? > * WA Premier Roger Cook says he will continue to negotiate for additional support for farmers affected by the laws. Sky News and other similar conservative whinge rags are already posting the anti-Labor and anti-Greens headline as a response. Personally I think its great news. Keep the value add in Australia (processing), and remove the cruelty of long ship travel followed by questionable processing practices in other countries.
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> In short: > * Queensland's LNP opposition wants to increase the cap on poker machines that can operate at clubs with more than two premises. > * The gaming machine cap for a club licensee with three or more sites is 500, but the LNP wants to lift that to 700. > What's next? > * The LNP is taking the policy to the looming October state election, arguing that the proposal would benefit smaller clubs facing closure. ... Don't these statements contradict each other? -> Applies only to businesses with **more than two** premises -> benefits "smaller clubs" ??? Also I love the related stories: 
You never see a song called "Northside Rocks", that's all I'm saying 😎
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> This year’s series was the first to be played across three games, in a milestone acknowledged by Maroons captain Ali Brigginshaw after the match. “We’ve wanted this for so many years, and finally, for both teams, we’ve been able to achieve it,” she said. First ever decider, and a sell out crowd to boot Women's footy is on the up and up.
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> Mayor Adrian Schrinner says property owners would now need appropriate planning approvals, body corporate support and a 24-7 property manager for short-term rentals Hard to argue tbh.... Is there a negative to something like this I'm not aware of? Personally I think Airbnb is the stupidest thing going. You pay more than hotel rates, to live in a house you have to clean and tidy yourself and then pay cleaning fees on top, and its often a hassle if anything goes wrong as there's no responsible party you can approach - Airbnb shrug their shoulders, and the host just hides behind a mobile number they can conveniently turn off. Have used them a couple of times in the past purely because we had pets and I hated it.
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tl;dr - fuck "reality" tv > In the reality TV production process, after the casting of villains and the baiting for villainous behaviour, comes the editing. > It's in the post-production suite that a villain edit can truly come to life. ... > The editor says there are a few techniques to achieve these characterisations. The simplest one is being selective in what gets included. ... > The second technique editors use is amplification — finding a moment amongst what the editor calls the "boring crap" that can be boosted into a storyline. > In the show, it's spun as a major conflict. ... > And then, the drama is further enhanced with a technique called "frankenbiting". > Like Frankenstein creating his monster, editors will mix together unrelated elements from the footage to make their own beast. ... > When the show finally goes to air, the final phase of a villain edit begins: controlling the narrative. > Now, program makers try to ensure that no narratives that contradict the edit make it into the media. > "They would remind me in a very threatening way before every single media interview that I had signed a [non-disclosure agreement]," Olivia says. This becomes a problem for Olivia, because when the show goes to air, the backlash is swift.
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> Cheaper electricity, less emissions and ready by 2035 are some of the Coalition’s core promises on nuclear energy, but are they backed by evidence? tl;dr - no
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> In short: Queensland has a range of roadside cameras to detect offences such as speeding, mobile phone use, and not wearing a seatbelt. > The government has significantly revised how much it expects to make from cameras with revenue in 2023-24 tipped to fall $94 million short. > What's next? The cameras are now projected to make $409 million in 2023-24, followed by $465.8 million in 2024-25. Brace yourself for a reduction in tolerance. Government relies on that speed camera income so if there's a shortfall they'll stop dropping the percent tolerances until we hit the 1kph over fines they hand out in Victoria.
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> Broader adoption of keeping cats safe at home would have large benefits for cat welfare, human health, local wildlife and even the economy. So, should cat owners be required to keep their pets contained to their property? The answer to the question is obviously "yes".
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