Yep. He's not the PM anymore, but he's still the MP for Cook: https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian_Search_Results?q=&ele=Cook

I've personally been trying to cut back on plastic where I can.

One thing I've been avoiding is plastic wrapped fruit and veg, opting for the loose ones wherever possible.

At some point I want to start logging our garbage and see what we can cut out to reduce the waste. That's definitely on my nerdier side, and thankfully shouldn't be too hard for just the two of us.

So basically with all the solar panels putting extra power into the grid, they’re already coordinating thousands of distributed systems and this is about balancing those against the actual demand.

With some banks, you can just put a transaction limit on the card and still keep the higher credit limit in case you need it later.

For example, via the commbank app I can implement a transaction limit or apply a spending cap (basically drop the credit limit temporarily with no paperwork). I can also block certain types of transactions such as online international, in person international, cash advances, and gambling.

If the government can hold off from selling nbn co as a whole, hopefully we can see wholesale prices stabilise for a while once they reach the FTTP-everywhere point.

Though with our luck, they'll probably sell it to the lowest bidder sometime shortly after that.

Root blame is probably Telstra doing some corrupt dealings with the Liberals so they could sell their copper network to nbn co.

nbn co never would have needed to buy the copper network if they were simply replacing it entirely.

I worked in the service activations and assurance side of nbn co right when FTTN was starting to roll out. Install issues suddenly stopped being "delayed because no one was home" or "lead-in conduit needs replacing" and suddenly had about a dozen different reasons.

For the entire time I worked there, fault volumes for the FTTN network were consistently 10x worse than FTTP. For example, there might be 0.02 faults per 100 active FTTP premises, and 0.2 faults per 100 active FTTN premises.

Edit: though with some more thought on the original point, I think it was majority just the Liberals wanting to do something different in classic oppositional politics.

With APAC concerts only happening in Japan, Singapore, and Australia, basically half the region wants to come to Australia for this. I even found an article from India about how to buy the tickets for Australian shows (since Taylor apparently never goes to India).

Hopefully this makes it a little easier for her fans to get tickets tomorrow.

Same here. Aside from one of the injections (brief stinging/pinching pain in the roof of my mouth), the entire process was painless and I didn’t even need painkillers afterwards.

That said, I can see how there’s a lot of room for different experiences between countries, different orthodontists/dentists, and even between individual patients depending on which tooth and how bad the decay was.

I recognised a location from one of the crash compilations once. I just had to send it to a friend, as it was the exact same circumstances (including the intersection) as an accident he was in 5 years earlier. There are a couple of give way signs in North Kellyville that people love to fly through.

A month or two ago I sent one to my family because there some footage from a town up near where they live.

Then there's the occasional road I recognise, but generally because it's a major road in Sydney like Victoria Road or Warringah Road. Or the time that someone did a u-turn on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Mine was more towards the end. When my previous employer started talking about people coming back to the office, I started job hunting.

I found a fully remote role that paid an extra 30%. Within a year of working for them, they have me a promotion that was another 25% on top.

In the middle of all that I met my now-fiancée.

So just in the last two years, everything has gotten better.

Tumblr CEO David Karp reported to Yahoo’s Simon Khalaf, founder of the analytics platform Flurry (also acquired by Yahoo). In an anecdote from an unnamed former employee, Khalaf walked into one team meeting about Tumblr saying the popular blogging platform was “going to be the new PDF.”

“It didn’t make any sense,” the employee recounted. “We’d walk away scratching our heads.”

I’m with them on this. That makes zero sense.

While I'm generally not one for this sort of thing, I feel like comparing him to someone with cerebral palsy (the origin of "spaz") is a bit harsh.

At least most of them try to be nice people.