Presumably, the list of stores not closing is smaller? 1-2 stores in Melbourne and Sydney?

I see Bourke Street is spared for now.

Tiktok is not the whole Internet. Not being a tiktok user, I missed this.

Still I love the randomness of the algorithm sometimes.

I'm just out of touch. I look at the JJJ Countdown each year and rarely recognise any of them. I even listen to them often, but it's pretty rare I'll pick up someone new I want more of.

I don't blame the acts. I'm simply not in that demographic any longer. I listen to plenty of Australian music, but almost all of it is 20-40 years old.

It's a bit difficult to tell, but I think it's legit. I know that road, the parts where he isn't pedaling are downhill stretches.

I could be wrong, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I wasn't trying to generalise eBikes, though I can see how it could be read that way - sorry.

As a daily commuter, I see people flying along even faster than me sometimes, who clearly are not good on two wheels. It's absolutely a subset of eBike/eScooter riders.

Look at this bloke:

1. He isn't wearing a helmet.
2. Every time he's pedaling, he's zig-zagging. Yes, you'll always get a bit of that, but he's not syncing his arms with the pedals to smooth the line.
3. He cruises right in front of traffic - because he'd have stepped out there as a pedestrian and isn't treating the bike differently.
4. He's defaulting to the footpath because he's used to that, not realising that sticking to the road is more efficient.
5. He then rides straight into the middle of the road trying to cross back, he probably always intended to stop in the middle as he did, because that's how he'd cross as a pedestrian - but again that's not how cyclists move and the honking car agrees.
6. He tries to overtake on a bloody roundabout where there clearly isn't enough road for that.
7. Finally when he catches up, he takes his eyes off the damn road like a pedestrian.

When people ask me about getting an eBike, I advise them to get back on a normal bike for a few weeks first, because you do won't suddenly be a competent cyclist on your new eBike. And starting out at 30+ km/h is too fast to learn those lessons.

I was peripherally a part of AWC as it was getting started - from the original Karakamia and Paruna sanctuaries around Perth into the new conservancy. I knew the founder, Martin Copley. I spent the first season setting up Mornington Station as AWC took it over in 2003.

It's a great organisation. Very lean on admin budgets, heavily invested in the actual conservative side. Even seeing how big it has gotten in the 20+ years since I was involved, I'm impressed by the 5% target.

The very fact that they're not that well-known even now is a plus as far as I'm concerned. It tells me that they're spending their donation money on conservation and not on advertising.

I think this but of context is also important:

His mother says he was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and could become "fixated on certain things". He'd been living with her rent-free in a rural town west of Brisbane because he was depressed, withdrawn and "in debt up to his eyeballs".

She believes he met a man online playing "live-action war games", who convinced him to fight for Russia as a solution to his problems.

"He was just a desperate guy trying to get some money," she said.

"They got him at the right time when he was weak and vulnerable. They said everything magical, and it worked."

Coupled with how he was treated - getting injured in training and subsequently sent into the meat grinder while not being able to even run, tells a tale all by itself.

His value was in propoganda - never as a soldier. He had served his usefulness before he reached the front lines.

The stations selected under the scheme include Bassendean, Carlisle-Oats Street, Claisebrook, Cottesloe, Glendalough, Morley, Mosman Park and Swanbourne.

Only three of these suburbs are "Western". Not that I'm against these buildings, I think they're a great idea if you can get them past the NIMBYs. Singling out Western suburbs feels like bait though.

In the 80's it was just a political slogan. It wasn't a cult.

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.