PROPOSAL - instead of banning the traditional Sikh dagger legalise all traditional ethnic daggers BUT you are only allowed to carry the traditional ethnic dagger of your own ethnicity
@farmercate2@DavidPocock If we can halve diesel use we double the time it takes to burn through our reserves. Given the current geopolitical situation this should be a no-brainer across the political spectrum. Outback cattle trucks have no alternative, so electrifying mines give them security.
@Weather_West There are multiple political parties in numerous advanced economies which put burn-all-the-coal firmly on their political agenda. That is why it was premature to retire this scenario. It doesn't matter if renewables are the rational choice if irrational parties win office.
@bouta_nt The very first snake my ex-fieldie from NZ ever saw in the wild was a carpet python that was hiding under the core tray he picked up. I've never seen a grown man jump so high.
Aaron was my teammate in Afghanistan on my first deployment. I didn’t know anything. He taught me, and taunted me as any good NCO does.
He earned multiple valor awards on that deployment and almost got killed several times. When he finally got out, we all breathed a sigh of relief.
Less than 100 days after exiting the Army, he died due to VA negligence in Nashville.
He deserved better. He deserved a long life.
I miss him.
25 May 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Alida Boas, was born at The Hague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August of 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
OTD in 2014 the Russian attack of Donetsk airport began, lasting 8 months and destroying the airport.
The EU punished me by approving Nordstream 2 a short while later. The message of appeasement was noted.
99% of electricity supply interuptions on Australia's NEM in FY2025 were due to faults on the distribution (95%) & transmission (4%) network.
Distributed local renewable generation paired with islanding capable storage is a great way to be resiliant to the vast majority outages.
@GavinBrx What a fucking load of shit. What do vehicle taxes have to do with buying a house? The same for super. In 34yrs what is the realised capital gain? It has to be the biggest load of shit I’ve seen posted.