What affordability crisis? The members those unions are not aware of any affordability crisis.

That’s… not all hand written is it? No one who is good at computers can write that well. We got into this BECAUSE we couldn’t write well, right?

And unfortunately, that’s good enough for 95% of the population…

“hmmm sounds good but it would cost more money soooo…No” - The gubbermint, probably

But for real, they’ve been doing all this in Europe and north America for decades. Very frustrating as a carpenter interested in building science to see all this online but most people in Australia not wanting to spend the money and even if they did, there’s almost no one supplying the appropriate materials. It’s only recently that uPCV windows have become locally available, before that you had to ship them over form Poland yourself. This would kick start the shit out of the passive house industry.

This sounds petty but I like talking illicit substances on occasion. Generally, these are only paid for in cash, I know some people take bank transfers but I don’t want a paper trail leading in either direction.

IRC as in Internet relay chat? I haven’t used it but how would it help me get around my loe data cap? I’m trying Robinhood some data not find obscure downloads. Even if someone provided me with some direct download links I still need to spend the data getting it onto my system.

Yeah that is true but we’ve grandfathered into a plan that is faster than it should be for the money but is limited to 500gb a month. I could get unlimited but it’d cost an extra $20 a month. This has never been a problem until I started building a plex library rather than just streaming. I managed to blow though that in two weeks just messing around.

Yeah I just looked up the policy and they specifically list downloading cars as something you shouldn’t do. I feel like they’re big enough that even if I downloaded 50gb a week it would be a drop in the ocean in their network. I’ve only got a 500gb limit at home right now so any amount helps. I just suppose it depends if they have alerts on for excess data usage by individuals… which they probably do.

There’s a difference between what is fair and what is common sense. If I had a daughter I would love to tell her she should go wherever she wants, whenever she wants, alone or drunk.

In practice I’m sure I’ll temper that message with some sad but realistic advice about having a friend on the phone while in the cab and never accepting drinks from strangers.

Motorcycle riders choose to put themselves in a much much more vulnerable state, so they have to be more aware and more vigilant. In an ideal world everyone is paying attention and awake and sober on the road, reality is different and I won’t be betting my life on everyone around me driving correctly while riding a petrol tank strapped to a motor.

Spirited away is a fantastic movie.

I watched that with my girlfriend who had never seen it. After hyping it up I had a real “just wait it gets funny” feeling the whole time. Not as good as I remember.

Yes I recall in one of the books a female inquisitor who has slain countless foes is absolutely upended by a guardsmen being genuinely friendly to her.  Heresy Confirmed!

The click bait is strong with this one.

Thats some good info, I had a sneaking suspicion that the server stuff might suck the juice. Currently trawling marktplace for a new i3 or i5 or someone’s older gaming rig I can strip down

My provider uses CGNAT in AUS and I’m on fiber then copper connection. Luckily they just had a option on their account page to turn it off.

Are you testing my knowledge or are you just ignorant? Almost all companies involved in manufacturing have been making items more disposable or harder to repair for years (see phone, cars, computers, TV’s and almost everything else you can buy) to encourage people to buy new and bring the profits back to base.

A farm equipment company can’t afford to be known for disposable equipment. Instead, they tried to make it impossible to work on the equipment without special computer equipment, so you’d have to book a technician to do something as simple as an oil change.

Nice. Finally a win for the common fucking sense group.

Classic pushing the carbon burden onto the consumer. Imagine if they just had a rail line too and from the airport? $22 for a one way bus ride that I have to take a $5 train ride to get to is not a great deal.

Not sure where you’re based but in my country you can buy a prepaid Visa cards that work the same as a normal debit card. Just get someone else to buy it for you using cash, use it to buy crypto.

You don’t have to close it but when then calculate what you can repay, they assume you may max out all other lines of credit as well and have to repay that too, so closing a credit card (especially a large one) can add 10’s of thousands of dollars to your borrow limit.