BadlyDrawnRhino

If keeping these companies running is so important to public interest, why aren’t they receiving public funding rather than relying on money given to them by shady third parties with their own political interests?

I also fail to see how these particular networks owned by international multinational corporations are really any better than any other international multinational corporation like Meta. There is just as much misinformation on Channel 7, for example, as there is on Facebook, and the fact that often that misinformation is communicated as news, therefore making it seem more trustworthy, makes it a lot worse.

Thanks for this, I’m going to try this out on my way home. My main use for Gmaps is to determine the quickest way to and from work during peak hour, so keen to see how Magic Earth’s traffic data compares.

Trebuchets aren’t really a tool for defence. They have tremendous range and aren’t exactly speedy to load, aim, and launch.

Unless you meant defence in the same way that a country’s military operations are known as “defence forces” regardless of intent, in which case carry on.

I’m not fundamentally opposed to nuclear. The country’s power needs are only going to keep growing, and I could see an argument for having multiple options for sourcing that power. It’s a very expensive argument though, and one that’s hard to swallow when all the experts are saying renewable is the way to go, and I haven’t seen any projections that show that we’d necessarily need anything other than renewables in the foreseeable future.

The thing I’m strongly opposed to with regards to nuclear is rerouting funding away from renewables to pay for it. It’s an expensive technology that won’t be ready for decades, so I just don’t see the need to pivot to it. If we’d started the transition to nuclear three decades ago things would be different, but the LNP was strongly opposed to the technology back then, funnily enough.

And it’s absolutely absurd to then announce a cap on renewables spending as part of their plan to get to net zero by 2050.

The whole thing is a farce, and the LNP hasn’t given any good reasons why nuclear is the way forward over renewables. They haven’t said much of anything other than shout about it being the better option, but then that’s been the LNP’s go-to political strategy for as long as I’ve been old enough to vote so no surprise there.

I think PwC should have had to return whatever they’d charged the government for consultancy, as well as a massive fine on top of that. Governments around the world need to start giving penalties to corporations that actually deter them from doing the wrong thing.

I think those quotes at the bottom are a really great summary of the problem with the Coalition’s nuclear plan:

“As I said, from an engineering point of view nuclear power is an excellent form of energy,” Dr Finkel said.

“What we can’t do is say, ‘Oh, nuclear is easy, therefore let’s stop all the wind and jump on to nuclear.’

“It just can’t possibly happen in the time-frame that we need. But that doesn’t mean we should rule it out because there’s that long term benefit.”

I could see the merits of beginning to invest in nuclear now, given the time required to get it up and running, but only so long as the shift to renewables isn’t interrupted. Unfortunately, I think the LNP see this as a way to seem like they give a shit about climate change, but really it’s just a way to buy them another decade or two to line their pockets with coal.

Doubt it’ll go to court, he’ll probably just make a public pseudo-apology and that’ll be that. But if it did go to court, I imagine the defence will argue that by not explicitly condoning, and in some instances fully supporting the protests, they were “encouraging” any criminal damage that may have occurred. I would hope that argument wouldn’t work, but a lot has happened in the last six months that I previously would have hoped would never happen so who knows at this point.

Yeah, replying “Get fucked” to a response that brings up a lot of good counter-arguments to your original point will certainly make it look like you were bringing up immigration in good-faith.

Nuclear isn’t green energy though. It’s greener than coal, but it still involves mining and the waste produced by the process isn’t exactly environmentally friendly.

Nuclear is absolutely a viable option in other countries, but we have better alternatives in Australia. There are only a few reasons the Coalition has latched onto nuclear energy after decades of campaigning against; it still involves mining for their donors, it’ll take awhile to rollout which means mining coal stays viable for longer, and it’s another thing they can argue over with other parties, further prolonging the rollout of actual renewable energy.

Is that a slur? It has a racial component, sure, but I hardly think it is actually a racist comment, and definitely not a slur. And to label it as “racially motivated harassment” is laughable.

If this is actually what Kerr said, it’s pretty indicative of the systemic issues that have been popping up in the UK for awhile now. They’ve been travelling further and further down the fascist highway since Brexit.

The first tweet is almost satirical, so if it had stopped there I might have bought it being “taken out of context”.

I’m curious to know what possible context would make those tweets okay.

supposed to work synergistically with renewable energy

Well, there’s your problem. They don’t want something to work alongside renewables. They want to delay renewables for as long as they possibly can to keep the mining gravy train chugging along for as long as possible.

I think we do need to keep developing new technologies, because there are always going to be situations where renewables aren’t ideal, but that’s not the “problem” that SMRs in Australia are supposed to be solving.

It isn’t lying if he didn’t actually talk to any indigenous people.

Bit disappointing that it’s being developed by a small Spanish studio rather than someone Brisbane- or even Australia-based.

Already got a message from NAB yesterday that our mortgage repayments are going up yet again, so unless they’re backtracking on that after today’s decision, I feel like many people are in fact not breathing a sigh of relief.