@goblin @tombruzzo youtube.com/watch?v=QBR1oJxtti0So cool to find this randomly on my yt feed

@tombruzzo How do we watch!

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I absolutely positively love this!! Gosh, I hope more and more places adopt stuff like this and it becomes more societally normalized. It can help soo many people!

Thank you for sharing this good news! :)

Definitely not a real road sign, see the dirt piles at the bottom? They would be the same size for each post if it was a real regulation road sign.

It doesn't need to be a road sign; it's a sign of the times.

After the collapse of events around the Adelaide Writers’ Week controversy, are you concerned that intervening in an artist’s visa in this context sets a precedent where coordinated lobbying campaigns can effectively veto who performs in Australia?

This is the crux of the issue.

The 'good character assessment' the Minister has is bad enough, if we're now 'slow rolling' as a visa denial policy due to pressure campaigns then the visa system has been made a farce.

As uncomfortable for some, as some people that may come to Australia are, that can't rule them out of entering and exiting for their own interests. The visa rules need to be clearly defined and actively adhered to by both applicant and government. This is key to having an open and free society like Australia's. Sooner or later we will all feel the negative effects of arbitrary politically motivated attacks like these.

The Labor Government wouldn't understand social cohesion if it slapped 'em on the bum.

Hmm. I don't see this.

downstairs, in me basement.

northern hemisphere, pnw-ish

Geez yeah complete opposite of what we've got. Was 42C yesterday Forecast to be 37C today, then 45C, 42C, 34C, 39C, 39C for rest of week.

Right. I didn't know the whole concrete thing was still a thing over there. I remember learning about it by watching Pom Poko. At least that's where I think I found out about it.

Gross.

Not that guy, but it's -24C here in the Midwest US.

Pretty hot in Melbourne...

It's almost midnight and the temp is still 30C.

I live in Japan. They are brutal with trees here. After a certain height chop chop. Trees are only in the wealthiest parts of the city because of the upkeep laws. In the hood it's all concrete

Where are you?

I guess I don't appreciate the tress we have enough. It feels like there's not enough trees in this city, and afaik it's the only 'city in a park' so to speak. Where are you from and does it not have tree on the street?

this is why we need portal tech. It's cold as fuck here, I could just zip on over for a bit of sun and leave it open to chill things out for a bit.

I love that your city has trees in the street

Really need to get my eyes checked and some reading glasses. Thanks.

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But I mean, most professional sports are done in winter. Cricket is done in summer cos it's mostly standing around. The same is true of most athletics sports. The throws and jumps spend far more time standing around than actually competing. Heck, even the shorter runs that's relatively true of. It's only the middle distance runs where colder weather is gonna make an appreciable difference to performance. (And longer non-track runs...but those are usually done at colder times of year.) Swimming, of course, is done in the water, so being a summer sport is way better.

Cycling's a rather niche sport in this country, but yeah it's probably one that would benefit from being done in late autumn or even winter, rather than in summer. But to be fair, it's kind of an all-year sport in this country. The Tour Down Under is on now with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race soon to follow, but there are crit races most weeks of the year, but there are other events all around. Grafton to Inverell is in March, the Brisbane Cycling Festival (including its flagship Tour de Brisbane) is in April, and Melbourne's Around the Bay is in October.

Triathlons are mostly a summer affair, but I think that's basically because of the swim.

It boggles my mind that we persist with scheduling various outdoor sports seasons during the hottest part of the year in some of the hottest places on the planet. The worst part is we install this madness in children.