ralphyh.bsky.social
Teacher, chef, industrial abseiler, journalist, restauranteur, landscaper, facility maintenance, comm towers. Finally settled on teaching the world to secondary students by whichever way works for them. Living in temperate, lush rainforest.
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Whiteboard marker will reactivate the permanent marker, then just wipe it off.
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Freud would say they have small penis syndrome, hence the need to show ostentatious wealth and put their name up on buildings. Explains it all.
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That's an insult to oranges!
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You didn't watch the 3rd episode I'm presuming. The 'sandwich' is the message. Misogyny is the whole point.
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How about just do your job and do it now?
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Oh your right. For 20 yrs I've described them as 2 cheeks of the same arse, but in retrospect, some arses are actually quite nice. So I'm changing to your description of our Canberra clusterfuck, aka, the 2 party system.
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Or Fargo?
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Home batteries first. These are behind the meter, so much more cost efficient. Community battery sounds good, but it's more expensive, incurs grid fees and needs more poles and wires upgrade. Far better to subsidise home batteries than $150 gimmick.
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You need to add the price of gas to that graph.
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Hi Ian. The oceans already consist of 97% of Earth's water. Yes, I suppose there might be some dilution, but we don't expect all glacial ice to melt. Fish more like to die from acidification, but I'll look into that.
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I grew up using nuclear. No bias against it. Simple economics renders it useless. It's just the libs playing politics. The science has pointed towards solar and batteries for 5 years now.
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Go check how much the French are over budget for Hinkley C. Then check how much UK spends every yr on the temporary storage of nuclear waste and decontamination of closed plants.
Nuclear is as welcome as a fart in a space suit in Australia.
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That's of zero relevance to Australia. We have vast spaces with amazing solar potential. We have limited water. We have rigorous and lengthy planning, safety and environmental requirements. We have construction unions. Just not gonna happen here.
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Maybe, particularly as the gentailers scramble to build huge battery resources before we do. But... prices have been falling 10 to 15% a year for some time now. Healthy competition, emerging technologies, and standards catching up (V2G). Batteries will knock nuclear on its bum before it gets up.
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But that would hurt the shareholders of the companies producing and selling electricity. Silent Lib - Labor pact not to hurt the money tree.
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Water availability in an uncertain future climate and on the driest continent on Earth, is only one of the many reasons why nuclear is an extremely bad choice of electron maker for Australia.
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That just makes nuclear eye-wateringly expensive rather than ridiculously so. Then everything has to be stainless steel, there's no available coastal land, no HV lines, room for contain ment ponds etc.
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I've been in CFMEU, AEU and IEUVICTAS. Not all unions are recommended.
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Food staples should be seen as a human right and strategic asset. We need a mind shift.
Let's a put a max profit margin on non luxury food items.
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It does seem that the umpires get on a roll. They have been particularly shit towards the Tiges in recent years. I have a theory that the first game or two sets the agenda, and if I'm correct.. then Tiges will have a better yr with the sausage men this year. Let's see.
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Yes it is. US sponsored genocide.
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You know it's on when even newscorp lays into him.
Wait, isn't civil war inevitable anyway? Don't know why he's so worked up.
www.news.com.au/world/north-...
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Yip, tuck frump.
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I don't think he really cares about this. He's after 2 things, 1 - scrape a few of the troglodyte votes off the bottom. 2 - make Albanese refute it so he has an attack angle.
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That's aged extremely well!
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Yip, I've left every US owned platform I possibly could. Toxic. Life's too short for that shit.
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Including teachers?
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1956, the soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. If we had stopped them then, they wouldn't have invaded Czech in the next decade. If we let them have Ukraine...
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Please! Start a petition. 3 yr terms are mind-numbingly stupid. It's like taking all your long-term strategic plans, tying them in a chaff bag and chucking them off a bridge. I'd go for 5 yrs.
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Why leave out Macca's? Franchises' are locally owned, but licence fees go back to US.
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Red Bull is Austrian. Should target Jim Beam, Jack Daniels and bourbon which are truly awful drinks anyway. They are an affront to whisky.
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Today in Melbourne, Australia.
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True, but if you want to change minds, then in my view the best way is to quote $s "CSIRO has found the cost of electricity generated from nuclear reactors by 2040 would be about $145-$238 per MWh, compared to $22-$53 for solar, and $45-$78 for wind." (2024).
Nuclear = higher taxes, for your kids.
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Russian operation. Very clever.