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[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ha! It'd make a great pursuit car, but I expect maintenance costs and risk of repair after rough treatment excludes it from that role.

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 11 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Val Kilmer died.
We knew it was coming, but all the same this is a sad thing.

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Take a look at Softmaker Office. It's not free, but it's loads cheaper than Microsoft. Home version is $50/year or $5/month. They have a free trial so you can have a play with it and see whether it'll break your spreadsheet.

I've only used it a little (I have MS Office through work stuff), but I found it to be very usable.

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

About Catfishing?

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Basic I know, but search for stuff you're interested in. I get Aviation and Naval history, Some Marvel, whatever is going on at DashCams Australia, British Panel shows/Taskmaster and maybe some Star Wars/Trek stuff mostly.

What you don't click on matters as much as what you do. Oh, I always mark Shorts as "Not Interested", even if I would actually be interested. I despise short-form videos and would disable them entirely if I could. I can kill them for 30 days at a time on my iPad.

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On paper, Wills is a blue-ribbon Labor seat - Bob Hawke's old seat.
But a third of voters there went Green in 2022. He should be getting out and meeting people/listening to them. They can't take this seat for granted any more.

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

My old dentist in Melbourne was Brunswick Family Dentist. Had my wisdom teeth yanked there. I would go back to them if I moved back to Melbourne, even if they were a trek to get to.

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[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We may have actually exported it to the rest of the world! In 1970, we had the Hutt River Province secede from the nation of Australia. To be fair to old Prince Leonard - he had valid grievances and was not just a nutter. The Australian Government was imposing wheat quotas on him when he was just about to harvest, and frankly didn't exactly offer him much in the way of services.

According to my 2-minutes of Wikipedia research (which makes me an expert on this topic, don't you know?), the Soverign Citizen Movement appeared in the USA in the "early 1970's". Which sounds to me like it may have drawn inspiration from the waves that Prince Leonard was making in Western Australia.

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So I had a brief look at the Labor policies, and to be frank, it all looks reasonable. I didn't see anything there where I thought "that's an awful position".

So I re-visited the Liberal version. Maybe they all sound fine at first. Oh wow the Liberal one is awful. It's all 'Labor bad' and 'Under Labor...' and 'fix the mess of Labor'. Why are they the only party of the three to trash talk their opponents?

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Anecdotal, I realise - but this is the first time I've ever heard of any school in Australia school dropping swimming lessons. To hear that it is one-in-four is not just surprising, it's downright difficult to believe. From looking on the Royal Lifesaving website, I haven't found this report. I have found something that appears to refute the news article however.

I think I'm going to need a source on this one.

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