With respect to AI it may be time to utter the famous words “Klaatu barada nikto”
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Old_IT_geek I voted Yes
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Ten dollars says Rupert, Gina and Clive are behind the Solar/Wind disinformation campaigns. All own substantial coal mines.
#auspolhttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/30/australians-value-batteries-and-evs-but-renewables-industry-must-earn-trust-of-regions-summit-told
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@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art @reading@fedigroups.social @bookstodon@fedigroups.social @books@lemmy.world @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin@fedigroups.social
The stainless steel rat by Harry Harrison
The answer is simple! Tell the gas companies accept 20% or we will lift it to 100% gas reservation.
Grow a spine Albo!
#auspol
It’s our gas and it’s time to tax it properly.
https://theconversation.com/industry-backlash-threatens-australias-gas-supply-fix-leaders-must-step-up-287580
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The thieving electricity companies want to increase the fixed line charges to make up for people installing solar and batteries.
This has to be stopped.
#auspolhttps://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/battery-owners-face-thousands-of-dollars-in-losses-under-new-scheme-20260422-p5zq3p.html
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@Susan60@aus.social @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone Didn’t we say that about Trump 1 and Trump 2??
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@Susan60@aus.social @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone Looks like Victoria will soon learn what a Poorlean led goverment is like.
I hope that will be a lesson for the rest of Australia.
E-safety commissioner has her eyes on your VPN!! No more secure banking or getting into the bbc to watch Dr Who.
Of course “won’t somebody think of the children” is the reason.
#auspolhttps://www.gadgetguy.com.au/social-media-vpn-crackdown-australia-age-restriction-esafety-effectiveness/
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@tubsta@social.bsdlab.au 7-30 and insiders should come with a “Tim Wilson or “Barnaby Joyce” warning at the beginning of the show.
Something like:
“This show may contain traces of nuts”
So the soccer is finished, the wedding is done. Now I can go watch Australia Wallabies vs Ireland at 8pm then the Tour De France starts tonight.
That my next three weeks sorted.
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@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone Droppie (if I may call you that). I am so sorry you are distrustful of the ABS. I used to work there and the people are as dedicated to your privacy as the AEC staff are to fair elections. But please take any measures you need to to keep safe and a paper form is a good idea.
All the best
Old It Geek
ABC 7:30 Report doing a hatchet job on electric vehicles ! Blatant ICE thinking.
plan you charges,
down load the app before you set off,
only charge to 80% if you don’t need the extra range.
Evie is one of the better ones which allows you to register your car so it automatically links to your account when you plug it in.
If you want fast charging go to Goulburn and the Tesla superchargers which would be well in range for him. Of course he would have to download the Tesla app.
#auspol
ABC 7-30 report has Tim Wilson on! Time for Netflix !!
#auspol
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Is this what Barnaby and Pooorlean want for Australia with their “mass deportations”??
#auspol
You can tell a lot about a bloke by how he treats his dog.
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@treleanor@aus.social just done a ride around the lake, stunning.
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@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone Harris farms has some great avocados at the moment if you need a fat ingestion
Domestic violence doesn’t exist, it’s assault and battery nothing less.
Any government in Australia not fully funding resources to address this problem needs to be hounded out of office. It’s the biggest single issue in the country and it’s getting worse!
If a man in the pub was assaulted the way a woman is assaulted at home the perpetrator would be behind bars before you could blink and the government would be rolling out new laws daily.
#auspol
Politicians pull your finger out now!
https://7news.com.au/news/i-knew-id-end-up-on-the-news-domestic-violence-survivors-warning-as-australia-confronts-another-week-of-alleged-killings-c-22585896
For any Australian science fiction lovers The Expanse seasons 1 to 3 is free on SBS. Hopefully they will also soon get seasons 4-5.
This is the best science fiction series ever made.
#expanse#sciencefiction
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@DropBear@theblower.au I beg to differ, the privatisation mindset is still firmly entrenched in both Labor, Liberals and the Productivity commission.
Telstra will get a slap on the wrist just like Optus and business as usual will recommence.
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@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone loved differential equations
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@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone Cadbury is owned by Mondelēz International.
You are literally paying Russia to kill Ukrainian children.
https://kyivindependent.com/we-pay-taxes-in-russia-that-helps-war-oreo-makers-confession-demands-action-on-russia-remainers/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=KyivIndependent/magazine/Latest+News
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@Susan60 War is the way Americans (USA) learn geography!!
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@MsDropbear42 Roomba with mop capability
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@MostlyHarmless Why do companies only pay tax on profits while employees have to pay tax on all income.
We should either tax employees like companies or
Tax companies like employees.
That’s simplifying the tax laws.
#auspol
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@Gh0stlyM0use@mastodon.social Someone should do Australia a favour and switch the channel on the tv in the prime ministers office. It seems to be glued to SkyNews.
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@Susan60 To be fair most USA Citizens have only ever seen a map of their state or the educated ones may have seen a map of their country.
Only the elites have seen a global map possibly once.
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@HardBeingGreen@theblower.au I think they are still wedded to their Thatcherite economic models. High wages + high employment = inflation
Happy Star Wars day ! May the 4th be with you.
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@emmadavidson The work done by Federal, State and Territory governments (politicians and public servants) was monumental! All of you do not receive enough credit for (not a complete list)
- Distributing masks and hand sanitizers
- Upgrading hospitals
- Contact tracing
- Wrangling the ancient dinosaur of the Centrelink 1970’s payment system to provide Jodseeker and Jobkeeper payments to tens of millions in only months.
- The constant information about the disease and the progress fighting it
- Securing and distributing the vaccine to 25 million people, 3 times.
- Returning the country back to normal. A monumental effort.
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@emmadavidson Thank you Emma for all your work during Covid.
Proposal for Australia. If staff are fired for AI then the company still has to pay PAYEE tax for the fired employees.
So according to Canavan there was nothing wrong with The Voice if it had been led by a white failed Catholic priest
#auspol
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@joannaholman@aus.social Shush don’t let the folks from 0verses know or we will be swamped
Happiness is knowing today’s bacon and egg roll with double expresso is not going to show up in my test results. I had the bloods done early this morning after fasting overnight.
How could they be vulnerable! The very same people in that room, both politicians and journalists have spent 25 years justifying people carrying guns in public places. Also justifying the deaths of American citizens killed by gun toting ICE officers.
They made their own bed !
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-26/trump-shooting-correspondent-dinner-washington/106608106
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@sister_ratched time to send the Israeli ambassador home on the same plane as the Russian ambassador.
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@bob This is called monopoly pricing. Moving people off variable costs that they can control onto fixed cost that are set by the supplier.
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Maybe we should hold politicians responsible for their actions ?
Israeli beating up a Christian nun in Israel. Why are we still supporting these bastards ? Albo??
#auspol
https://www.france24.com/en/anti-christian-aggressions-has-been-on-the-rise-in-jerusalem
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@HardBeingGreen@theblower.au The RBA wants two things, a recession and a cut in wages. Recession to increase unemployment and drive out a lot of small businesses. Reduced wages because that would increase productivity (reducing cost of inputs for the same outputs).
Al Jazeera is reporting that Albo let 40 Israeli defence force personnel into Australia to run the Sydney marathon. Only days after Israel gave two fingers to Australia over the death of our citizen.
Al Jazeera is not always reliable and no Australian media has reported this.
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/8/30/israeli-soldiers-participate-in-sydney-marathon-despite-protests
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@evanspw@aus.social @decryption@aus.social @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au @jamesh@aus.social we have a tram in the north.
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@weezmgk@mastodon.social Ads on SBS is another little thing to thank Tony Abbott for.
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@DropBear@theblower.au Get rid of PWC, Avanade, Deloittes, EY and any overseas (especially USA) based consultants. Stop USA study tours by Australian politicians and political advisors.
Publish all politicians diaries with no redactions.
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@connynasch @MostlyHarmless no company profit is the money left over from their income (revenue) after all the costs have been deducted (like resources, wages, electricity, rent, etc)
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@Kon@aus.social the coalition policy is aimed at young white Anglo Saxon males who drive oversized American Utes.
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@MsDropbear42@infosec.space I must have missed it, sorry