She is nothing so complicated. She's merely a relic of the old white, stupid and racist class that was fairly commonplace 50 years ago.

She was screaming into the wind about "Asians" before the US president tried his thing as a Democrat 25 years ago (which nobody seems to talk about). She pre dates tea parties and Maga by decades.

I'm happy to make it - you got a post ready to christen it? Go post in it so I can make you a mod.

Happy to help you with setting it up, but it's pretty self explanatory.

There'll be a window where rates come down and houses are still low (at least compared to now). I'm hoping we are ready to buy a house in that window.

It's the downside of the global economy. Facebook will be headquartered somewhere with low corporate tax.

'Oh yes, we made a Billion dollars revenue in Australia, but after we pay all our licensing fees and stuff to our parent company, it turns out we didn't make any profits 🤷'

Many companies so this. I'd love to see a study on how much tax revenue we lose to this practice, then compare that figure to the sorts of stuff we could buy with it like free universities etc.

On interest rates, the government doesn't control that. The Reserve Bank is independent to the government. Rates are tied to inflation though - which the government can influence somewhat. It's a tangle, but as someone wanting house prices to come down, I'm not against the rate rises.

I think he cooperated and stuff. Also on the abuse scale he was just starting to dip his toes in/caught out at the start of his descent.

It makes more sense for the police to sweep him up at this stage where has only a few incriminating files than to let him go deeper and potentially put kids in physical danger. He was a literal celebrity to kids and had access to them through school visits.

But the trade off is a pretty weak prison sentence. He'll still be paying for this for life, though.

This is posted to /C/Australia. You'd be pretty hard pressed to find an Australian anywhere who doesn't know what the Melbourne cup is.

Didn't this happen six months ago? It was pretty big news in Perth.

Ahh - he pleaded guilty in May - this is about the outcome of the trial.

Anyway - way to speed-run destroying his life/career. 🤦‍♂️

Huh. You are correct. BOM isn't backing me up. I'm left to fall-back on "Trust Me Bro", which is rather problematic. Especially because I checked back at the Yandicoogina camp (where I actually was) records and even they don't back me up! 😱

I was only up there for three days one summer, but yes - it hit 50 two of those days - peaking at 53. However - it turns out that was not the official temperature. The proper BOM station is in a little enclosure out of the elements, measuring ambient temperatures. The thermometer outside the mess however was reflective of what we were living with - with heat radiating off the ground. I was assured that this was normal (50+) and to get used to it. Being a computer nerd from the city visiting for a few days, I had no reason to doubt this was typical. Nobody was complaining about the heat, though. Apparently, it's way worse in the pit - but I didn't need to experience that.

The mod log is right there at the bottom of the page. Go ahead and read every single post I have removed in the history of Aussie.Zone. Point me to anything you believe has been removed ever that you believe should not have been.

I dare you. I double-dare you.

Nobody has ever questioned a removed post in the history of the site. And only one banned user decision was ever questioned (this was two years ago), and those questions were answered and agreed with publicly when I showed the comments that lead to the (non-permanent) ban. Whatever you have been told and whatever misguided impressions you have of Lemmy in general, they do not hold true at Aussie.Zone.

I have no clue what the law is in WA, let alone NSW. I only know the tech side. This software works by essentially taking a clone of the files on your phone and then brute-forcing it offline. If your phone is off, its contents are all encrypted and can't be accessed. At least today.

If you are the suspect of something big like murder etc, they'll keep your phone and probably will get into it eventually (like, years from now). And they'll persist that long. But, I doubt they'll commit those sorts of resources for a roadside stop.

This software doesn't work if your phone is off.

That isn't to say that there won't be a future version in a decade that can hack today's encrypted phones.

You're clearly not a FIFO worker. The whole Pilbara and parts of northern SA get over 50° every summer. Sometimes for weeks at a time.

I did say not in the cities. But also: most cities get above 40° every year. BOM will back that up. Look up Newman if you want a sample town.