Maybe fare compensation is where you get your public transport fares covered by your employer if you have to go into the office?

I only watched the first 10 reasons, but the first was enough for me. I don't have to, the law explicitly says you can cycle on the road. Beyond that, my reasons are my own. I'm glad he laid it out for viewers, but I don't think many motorists will sit through all the reasons, either.

Bikes were on roads before motor vehicles. Bikes will be on roads after people stop owning private motor vehicles. The idea that cars own the roads is not one I subscribe to.

Like most cyclists, I am also a motorist. The idea that we are two totally combative and distinct classes of road users is also not one I subscribe to. I think we'd all be better road users if non-cyclists were convinced to use the roads as the "other" side more frequently.

Ok it exists (!ausfit@aussie.zone). Go make a post in it so I can mod you. I'm still at work (only 4:15 here), so I can't do up a banner/icon yet.

Ahh, here's the post I hadn't seen yet because I was at work.

I'll throw my suggestion in here as well, but you kids may not remember the reference:
LifeBeInIt

Being clear: nobody is getting their debt "wiped out". This isn't a debt forgiveness that you missed out on by already having paid your loan off. The HECS indexation last year resulted in unfair loan interest of 7.1% being applied to debts for 2023. HECS was never intended to do that to people. The "wipe out" is an adjustment of this interest only for last year.

Uber did that to me, too! In the early days, drivers used to offer you minties. I ended up buying them for myself for a while there.

Most of the vitriol I see is directed at US police. Being an Australian instance, we don't get that so much.

Why on earth would we have no empathy for them? I cannot imagine what it takes to hold and comfort a 10 year old child dying in my arms who has been stabbed by their parent. With two kids around that age myself, I'd be a complete wreck! And he's attended up to 20 domestic violence calls in a night! For years!

Nothing but respect for someone who can do that.

I've never really thought before about how much money it takes to have an airline before other than "loads". Bonza has/had 6x Boeing 737s. Assuming a discount purchase price of about $80 million each, you can get an airline off the ground for under a billion dollars. I think that's less than I would have assumed.

I wonder now what it really costs per seat to operate? Let's simplify economy airline tickets to $100 per hour of flight time. Let's also assume that a plane spends a quarter of the time on the ground. So, 18 hours in the air at $100 per hour times 200 seats means a plane is generating $360k revenue per day.

I have no idea what running costs are - flight crew of 10? Lets double that to 20 for maintenance/customer service etc. Fuel? Maintenance? Airport fees? No idea what these add up to, but if you have over $2 Million dollars coming in per day as revenue, I have to assume I'm missing stuff here. Because I would not have thought an airline this small would have running costs that high. There's probably a good reason why I'm not running an airline!

I'd love to see what these numbers actually are.

4x Aldi Weet bix and coffee. I eat exactly the same breakfast every day.

This was great. My biggest hesitation with all these protests about domestic violence and spending a Billion dollars combating it was that I didn't know what was possible to do about it. Other than de-normalising violence, I couldn't see what the point was. You can't exactly pass a law saying it's illegal to assault and kill people - it's already illegal.

So, I disagree with this guy on one point: We don't all know what immediately needs to be done. I had no clue, at least.

I love that when he was challenged, he had a list of things that needed to happen. Now. And he seems to only just be getting started. I'm sold - we need to listen to the people in the trenches who are facing domestic violence. They're the ones who know what needs to be done.

Parenting subs can be weird. Someone didn't like what a pediatrician told them about their kid. Proceeds to get support and validation from the sub. I piped in and said something like it might be smarter to follow the advice of an actual doctor over a bunch of randoms on the Internet. Even getting a second doctor's opinion.

Was my most downvoted comment in 12 years of using Reddit.

It's a myth that house prices always go up. There are plenty of apartments in Melbourne CBD around $400k, which is what they cost ten years ago.

Yes, nice big 4 bedroom two bathroom houses in nice suburbs have massively increased in value. But the bottom end hasn't moved nearly so much, because the buying power of the bottom end purchasers hasn't increased by that much.

Well, for a start - Telstra still honours the CSG. You could argue that Telstra today is better than Telecom of the 90's. But, it's impossible to say how much Telecom would have evolved and improved with the same technology advancements that have come along. I seriously doubt that Telecom would have jumped into the Internet space as quickly as Telstra did. Even Telstra was a bit late to the Internet Provider party.

Why do “we” (the voting public) keep falling for this shit?

It's not so much the things that are privatised, it's what that privatisation pays for. Recent WA privatisations are paying for Metronet - which is a massive uplift to the Perth's public transport network, providing new lines, stations and trains. Hundreds of thousands of people are benefiting from that.

This is all super fascinating from a macro view. Originally telephony services (landlines) were provided by a government utility. That utility was privatised in the late-20th century with certain guarantees that they will continue to provide a certain standard of telephony services.

Along come all these mobile carriers, who are providing a private service without the same level of assurance they will meet those requirements. You probably don’t notice, but when you sign up to a mobile or VoIP telephony service, you’ll routinely agree to waive those guarantees (do a quick google of “csg waiver”). In short: Most non-Telstra carriers won’t/don’t actually guarantee you can reach 000, or meet the government CSG. Only that they’ll try their best.

It looks like the government is considering stepping in and putting an end to that practice. It’ll be a huge shake up to the telco industry.

I can't quite picture myself shoving handfuls of dead cow into my face. I'm sure I'd have at least used cutlery for the meat.

Google showed me this picture today. It was taken at 2pm at home on 29/04/2014 (exactly 10 years ago).

I obviously prepared this "food" and felt the need to photograph it. I don't remember why. I suspect by the lack of vegetables it was some sort of special occasion like the family being away and me reverting to bachelor cooking.

For Android:
Power+Volume up > Lockdown.
Takes a fraction of a second.

I assume iPhone has something similar.

Inconceivable!

Not in WA. We mostly sailed through the whole Covid thing business as usual. There's more work from home than there was before 2020, but I don't know any company that has all its employees remote.

My employer has a few people working from home, but it's usually because they're working for customers in different states. It's certainly not normal and not assured to always be remote.