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The big take-away from this article for me is that police vehicles in NSW don't all have dashcams. I just thought those had been standard issue for at least 10 years.

I was discussing this just a couple of days ago. Greens have terrible marketing and are in desperate need of a rebrand. I'm curious though: Which of their policies are you opposed to? Because honestly: if breaking up bank cartels, restoring Internet privacy laws, promoting local manufacturing, science and research as well as improving the calibre of education are bad, then I guess I'm bad.

For me, my criticism of Greens comes mainly from putting stuff in policies that would be better suited to "dreams and aspirations". They have a tendency to put stuff in there that are unspecific or at least out of the realms of what government does. But for all of that, I struggle to point to anything on their policy stuff and say "that's an awful position". At least, even if I'm not totally on-board, I see where they're coming from. And that's another point. Their policies page overwhelms you with too much to actually go through in one sitting. But, look at the Liberal/Labor equivalent pages? Greens are super open about what they stand for and what they would like to achieve. Labor have a few bullet points and Libs have a marketing brochure.

Oh yeah!! Who called it in November 2024, baby?!

It's not clear from the video, but that billboard is a digital screen. It rotates between ads, so it never stays on any one ad for more than 10 seconds or so. It isn't staring at Woodside employees all day. I drove past that spot yesterday (that freeway in the video is the main artery to get around Perth), and saw three ads on that billboard in the time I was in front of it. I did not see his ad. I don't know if it is still in the rotation, of if he just had it on for the day he was filming. Also: It's either really neatly edited so that it's in the background most of the time he's in front of the billboard, or he's digitally altering it in the video to keep it in shot.

That said: West Australians are well aware that the state government works for the mining industry. As he said in the video, it's glaringly obvious everywhere you look in Perth. I think he may be missing something from his claims that mining doesn't contribute to state coffers though: it obviously does in some way. WA is rolling in money, posting big surpluses even through the pandemic years where every other government was broke. I don't know anywhere near enough on the how of that to refute anything he's saying though. Just that Teachers are not the reason WA posts a $5 Billion surplus.

In the cities we have local bakeries and instagrammabke gourmet pies. I'm always disappointed by country town bakery pies and sausage rolls. The black of competition makes them not try hard.

How interesting! In WA, it's mostly the opposite. I can't think of any Metro bakeries that I'd go out of my way to visit. But there are more than a few incredible country bakeries that are literal draw cards for tourists coming to town.

I chalk it up to footy and kids. Those pies are a treat at the footy for kids. Those kids grow up, and will get themselves one as a little nostalgia hit.

This is the closest feature request I have found, you could probably filter on username if/when that feature is implemented.

If that isn't quite what you are after, that GitHub is the place to make your request.

Dumb question, but why not just block them?

I killed my Facebook account in 2010. Then about 3 years ago, I tried to sign up a new, mostly anonymous account to use for marketplace and got denied.
Weird - but I didn't care enough to pursue it. I just stick with Gumtree.

Step one: Submit a bunch of bullshit answers to the classifications request form.
Step two: Trigger some algorithm that initially refuses classification.
Step three: Press release saying your game was banned in Australia.
Step four: Free Press!!
Step five: Get your classification when a human gets around to your title and have far higher interest in your game because of the press.

This whole episode fails the sniff test. I think Konami did this on purpose to intentionally rustle your jimmies.

There's something insulting about 39.4°. Just make it 40 already.

Edit: I take it back. According to BOM, it hit 40.1° at 13:43. Excellent - we did get a 40° day after all.

It's wild that a disease I got in the 90's was completely eradicated from the country 20 years later.

Measles sucks if you get it as an adult. Two miserable weeks of going from the bed to the bath and back again. I had spots everywhere on my body except my palms and eyeballs. And I mean everywhere. I still have scars all these later.

If your parents didn't vaccinate you or if (like in my case) the vaccine didn't exist when you were a kid, go get the MMR shot.