Research by Green Music Australia has found one in every three tents taken to a music festival is left behind.

Holy crap. That would never occur to me - to leave a tent behind. I can’t even

Hobson’s bay and Mooney valley (and probably other) libraries are extending their hours tomorrow to provide an air-conditioned spot for people. If anyone needs it.

Haircut. Wine. Footy. Sleep…

I believe (I am connected to people at the conference) it was named as lack of confidence they were coming for a conference and not intending to stay beyond the visa. A number weren’t just attendees but speakers. It’s bananas

Yeah it was mighty.

Oh no! Not even the six cylinder full Torrie UC? Not awesome. I have done a lot of miles in an old sandman and that was made for highways

wow! I’ve done Melbourne - Townsville in two days but that was with two drivers. And I thought that was bonkers

Oh well… anyway…

oh, yes its literally called Medicare. Since the mid 1980s

Yes we have a good broad based system. A trip to the ER costs nothing. Many doctors visits are at least partially covered. I had to have overnight tests done which required a (public) hospital stay - no out of pocket. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty great compared to, say, the US. Conservative side of government would love to dismantle it and both sides chip away at it.

I had not realised the subtleties of how preferences in senate votes work now. I vaguely remember reading about it when they brought it in but then promptly forgot . It’s so much less of a hassle now

I have been voting for 30 years and consider myself very aware of the system but this taught me heaps. Thanks!

Am seriously considering just deleting my news apps until it’s over. I am in a safe seat. I know how to get local info so I can decide who’s a climate/progressive independent and who’s a cooker. I don’t think I can handle hearing how more gas exploration and firing 40 thousand people is the way forward.

I have heard a few direct quotes where he seems to conflate working from home with ‘not working’.

Looks like Ingham and Cardwell got badly hit last night. Going to be a touch day in Townsville too. The serewarge system is at capacity and there’s a high tide at midday. They had massive gusts all night apparently too.

Stay safe NQ peeps

💜 yes that makes me happy too

What?!? What about the Torres Strait Islander flag? Australia has three official flags. What a tosspot

Yeah there are a couple of metrics. The main two are the median salary of all adults which includes a lot of people not in the workforce (zero wage) and then the median salary for anyone “employed” (working any hours) which would be higher.

Dunno what the latest number are but at a guess mid 50s looks like the total median and 80ish is the median of job holders

(.median is used because mean is skewed by outliers like billionaires. Median means half of the people measured are below and half above)

Cory Doctorow’s original article is good reading - https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

EDIT: corrected the link

Can you not share articles? It’s an open forum, share whatever is relevant and interesting.