sorry i will try to be more positive even though i am so god damn furious right now 😃
Just putting this here because I found this useful:
that’s just the tates
Most of them I want gone
Same, I'm down to just Youtube and Iphone as the two things I could not replace...but how would the rest of Australia do
How would corporate Australia handle it if Trump did some truly insane things like an export tax on all Microsoft products +100% or banning American software in Australia?
He's saying he wants to make Canada the 51st state of America so I'm not sure where the stupidity of him ends
How quickly would we go as a nation from Yeah Fuck Trump! to nooo don't take my facebook!
dw buddy i understand what you were trying to say, natowave ain’t quite the same without the americans
it’s one of the things that sucks about a democracy, my fellow aussies are about to vote in an potato, i won’t be but unfortunately we get dragged along with the crowd :(
some great nato videos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5rIFci5vs and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iAkolDpQNfs
I expect Trump to pull out of NATO by end of his term
Hopefully the next American president can set things right again but it will be more difficult from now on :\
https://www.ft.com/content/0d474498-4d9b-4c1b-8502-71248c720c04
European gas prices hit a two-year high on Monday as colder weather boosted demand, accelerating withdrawals from the region’s fast-depleting storage facilities.
I think the 'long, hard' is an exaggeration (my wife agrees) but afaik cold weather is definitely correlated to higher gas prices
Dec 30, 2024, 10:30 AM CST
Northwest Europe is bracing itself for what is expected to be later this week the coldest snap so far this winter, hours ahead of the expiry of the deal for Russian gas transit via Ukraine to central Europe.
Temperatures in the UK, France, and Germany are expected to plunge at the end of this week, which would raise gas demand for heating and electricity generation.
This happens as Europe is burning through its natural gas in storage at the fastest pace in years.
Temperatures in the big European capitals London, Berlin, and Paris are all expected to plummet below freezing and below the average for the past 30 years, according to weather forecasts cited by Bloomberg.
It certainly seems unusually higher for January compared to the rest of 2024?
Conditions are also cold in northern Europe, meaning that European gas storage stood at 47% full at the start of this week, 5% below the 5-year average and 20% lower than in 2024, according to analysts at UBS, in a note.
In week 6 of 2025, European gas imports rose and exceeded 2024 weekly import levels. This was driven by higher liquified natural gas (LNG) imports
https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports
Unless someone has other ideas of what is suddenly consuming a whole lot of LNG I guess chilly weather it is
I’m no expert on this topic, but I’ve previously read that when a thing is made free people stop valuing it.
I read that as well and had trouble finding it but this sounds about right:
Why not make the fares free in Queensland? One reason can be found in the experience of the Miami Beach Transportation Association in the United States. The Association launched free shuttle buses along the coastline. However, the lack of fares led to a diminished sense of responsibility for the upkeep and care of the transit system, ultimately negatively affecting both driver satisfaction and passenger experience. Whilst passenger numbers initially surged, studies show problem riders resulted in raised personal security concerns as transit crime increased. Examples include increased assault, damage, and theft for users, becoming a deterrent for both new and existing riders. An attempt to resolve these issues was introducing a $0.25 flat fare, leading problem riders to avoid the service. Consequently, these negative factors began to rapidly decline, such as vandalism decreasing by 90% whilst passenger numbers remained steady.
sorry it's reddit I know but too good not to share
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ipx2gi/revised_unitedposter_from_earlier_added_some/
original with comparison to the original original one from 1943: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ipmvdo/european_unity_is_now_more_needed_than_ever_so_i/
reverting main back to master
the other feature is low to no heat, so these things are like tank drop bears
everything behind cloudflare these days 😡