We can only hope that the same thing happens to Dutton on Saturday.
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Salvo@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction to when a dictator says he wants to take over your country.English212·21 hours agoI live in a safe Australian LNP seat, the odds are that on Saturday night, our neighbours and I are (very likely) going to continue having a Right-Wing member of Parliament.
That does still mean that even though they are voting for our local MP, they are also voting for a former 1980s Queensland Cop with a suspiciously large amount of money as PM.
I would be happy if every (Australian) Coalition candidate and all the Right-Wing independent candidates received Zero votes this election, otherwise there are too many Australian Fuckwits.
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction to when a dictator says he wants to take over your country.English5·22 hours agoI’ve edited my original post.
Now we both look like Goofs!
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction to when a dictator says he wants to take over your country.English7·22 hours agoNo worries. I’m the silly bugger that mistyped. I’m trying to think of a way to blame AutoCorrect…
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction to when a dictator says he wants to take over your country.English8·22 hours agoSorry I meant 5 million individuals, not $5m
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What happened in Canada is the appropriate reaction to when a dictator says he wants to take over your country.English1613·22 hours agoI disagree. It should have been a complete landslide.
The fact that Pierre Poilievre received any votes at all suggests that almost 5 Million Canadian Voters are still fuckheads.
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•"You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign used unlicensed fontEnglish42·6 days agoAs evil as Graham Lineham is, I do need to post the parody of these forwarders that was in The IT Crowd.
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Europe@feddit.org•New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe MandatesEnglish1·10 days agoIt depends on what the roads were built for.
If they are built to handle 1500kg passenger cars, 3500kg behemoth SUVs and Pickups can really do some damage, especially at speed.
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Europe@feddit.org•New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe MandatesEnglish2·10 days agoPassenger cars are getting heavier Light trucks (SUVs) are now being driven in lieu of compact station-wagons.
Vehicle classes are also getting larger and heavier. Subcompacts that used to weigh less than 1000kg are now about 1500kg and EV variants are over 2000kg!
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Europe@feddit.org•New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe MandatesEnglish2·10 days agoSo is over-inflation. Always inflate to the correct pressure as per the placard. If you are driving in unusual conditions,
My little Jimny weighs bugger-all but needs Light Truck tyres. On-road pressure is a very light 26 PSI. If I am driving through Sand, Mud or Snow I will deflate to an appropriate pressure and drive slowly. If I am driving over rocky terrain, I will also deflate to an appropriate pressure for better adhesion.
As soon as I hit the Tarmac again, I will reinflate back to 26. If I am carrying more weight or towing, I will inflate the rear tyres to 29.
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Europe@feddit.org•New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe MandatesEnglish324·11 days agoThe three biggest things that kill a tyre are;
- shitty roads
- aggressive driving
- heavy vehicles (like EVs and oversized SUVs)
That said, cheaper tyres are typically made of cheaper compounds that age poorly.
Fun fact; osteo-archeologist and palaeontologist students used to be given thylacine skulls to identify as a hazing ritual. They would usually be misidentified as Canine (fox or domestic dog).
They do have different teeth to Foxes and they are smaller than Wolves but the similarity with Domestic Dogs and Dingos are uncanny!
Convergent evolution at its finest!
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Light switches should be glow in the darkEnglish11·14 days agoI have a Tent with built in LED lighting and the switch is illuminated, so you can find it at 3:00AM when you go for a wee. It uses 5V over a USB-A plug. Quite nifty!
The problem is that it does not adhere to the USB spec so after a minute, the power bank decides that nothing is connected and stops supplying power (as a safety feature). You then have to wake up the power bank back up to can find the light switch, which you can’t do without lights on.
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Cars - For Car Enthusiasts@lemmy.world•Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows WhyEnglish1·14 days agoI do have to admit that their normal cars (that are built in China) are actually very well built.
The problems with the Cybertruck are;
- a complete fuck-knuckle had complete creative control and did not leave it to his engineers.
- like all^^ US manufactured vehicles, it is a piece of Shit.
^^ (the greater majority of)
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Cars - For Car Enthusiasts@lemmy.world•Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows WhyEnglish1·14 days agoMost modern monocoque vehicles are held together with 2-part adhesive which (when correctly applied) is stronger than welds.
The reason is that most vehicles are composite of different metals and alloys, fire to different components requiring different properties, and if they are directly connected, the different metals would result in galvanic corrosion.
The problem is when the surfaces aren’t suitably prepared prior to the adhesive being applied, or the adhesive is not correctly applied which may happen during manufacturing because the workers are laughing so hard that anyone would purchase one of these hideous monstrosities.
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Apple@lemmy.zip•Apple says all Mac minis with Intel are now ‘vintage’ or ‘obsolete’English16·14 days agoI have a Black Mac Mini as my primary desktop device. It has always been flakey.
When I tried to trade it in on an M1 MacMini, they didn’t even offer me a Gift Card!?
I’m currently in the process of migrating everything to Linux, where possible.
Anyone who uses gMail knows (or should know) that their data is being used for commercial purposes. Any business that uses Google.Business or MS Office should also be aware that they are giving away all their corporate secrets, regardless of any “Opt-In”/“Opt-Out” broken promises.
If they get Apple Intelligence into a functional form, (and not an embarrassing hilarious punchline in an anecdote), the will be profiting of my data.
They can claim that it is Opt-In only (until a bug the next software update ‘accidentally’ changes my Opt-out status) and they can Anonymize my data, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they inferred that hey wouldn’t use my data.
At least their user abuse is still less than Mozilla and Google threw out the “Don’t be Evil” motto decades ago…
Salvo@aussie.zoneto Just Post@lemmy.world•We should just start refering to any tarrifs now as "trump tax".English1·15 days agoOur social circle used to invoke Edwin Fullerton Borrie in reference to a Turd, simply because the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Borrie_Wetlands were adjacent to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Treatment_Plant
I was thinking about that, but that would require Me getting back on Twitter and riling the Orange Clown up about his Australian puppets.
I’m not willing to jump on that grenade because I no longe have a Twitter account and I don’t want anything to do with him.