CCS should be SCC (State Capture by Carbon worshippers)
Just heard Madeleine King on abc AM.
This is fucked.
If we absolutely must jeopardise our precious artesian basin (the life source of the australian interior) to get some gas out of beetaloo, I'd much rather reimbursement in sweet cash (like taxes), rather than the possibility of maybe potentially getting slightly cheaper gas to burn later on.
Further money thrown to Chevron for CCS, a company that consistantly misses all of its targets, and a tech that isn't ready.
Why not invest in proven policys/tech to reduce emissions? Why not give money to government owned research departments? Or at that very least, not be actively sabotaging CSIRO?
Agree with all the positives. I think disagreements could be solved the same way any group solves disagreements (i.e. not always very well) - so yep the framework would have to very well defined. And yeah fairly sure a constitutional change would be needed, but that's semantics as are the rest of those issues. I think the real crux of the issue is the change from elected person to elected group.
I don't think there's much of a difference between multi-electorate seats and what we have now, surely thats just a case of bigger electorates? Multi-representative seats are not a foreign concept either, i believe that's how it works down in Tassie with their hare-clarke system.
Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock say they would split official duties and make joint decisions if elected to the seat of Higgins
These two potential candidates want to try become the first job-sharing parliamentarians. I can see the benefits of opening up possibilities for people with kids/dependents. I think a broader range of perspectives in parliament would be great. And these people would be there to do the job, rather than career politic-ing. The linked article mentions how they'd both have to be sworn in as MP's, essentially giving their electorate 2 votes, but I don't think that'd necessarily be the case. However, you would have the power of two people's voices when lobbying.
But I'm also wary of how much easier it would be shirk responsibility to "the other person". Assuming it would work as a shared office rather than a representative person, would a line be drawn between 2 people and a group of people?
Delving into the speculative fantasy, suddenly the 2 mums with kids at home who couldn't commit to full-time parliamenting were pioneers for rotational council representatives, getting rid of politicians altogether.
I'm a big fan of stremio, just wondering if there's been development of an open source desktop app. I'd like to avoid the ads and the login component. https://blog.stremio.com/announcing-stremio-core-embracing-open-source-and-rust/
Have a look at Perplexity.ai for replacing Chatgpt. It provides sources for the information it gives you.
Thanks for that, i expected something a bit more lightweight, but i suppose its a fairly niche use case.
Will put out some feelers for a code
I'm trying to learn to play some folk tunes on mandolin. I'm looking for some software that will let me loop sections and change tempo (without changing pitch). To help learn by ear, i want repetition and then slowly build up speed.
I thought Audacity would do it but it looks like it is lacking the real-time component (or at least seems to be in its infancy) unless there's something i'm missing?
That sounds great! I hadn't even considered capturing human waste. Do you rely on that entirely? or are you hooked into the mains?
A potential solution could be having a larger central community plant taking the scraps from several households. But again it won't be enough to provide cooking power for all, maybe it could give back some other type of community benefit.
Spitballing here but that slurry could go to community gardens.
I've looked at these before, really cool idea. I think one issue is the amount of waste needed. How does the author get 2kg a day? I reckon my house (of 4 people) chuck about 4kg a week into the compost.
A good way to supplement it would be with yer chook droppings, but still not enough to cook for a household.
The Australien Labor Party has made an ad and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
Getting a ridiculous amount of avo's on the tree this year. In a rental so i'm not knowledgable about this. What's a good way to make the most of the season? Theyre staying green on the tree, and taking 1-2 weeks to ripen once picked atm. How long will they stay like this? I presume they start dropping off eventually, is that likely to happen all at once? Do they freeze well?
I've had my aeropress for around 5 years, and i reckon i'm about half way through the pack of paper filters that came with it. I use them until they get a hole in them (or hopefully just before), which is maybe 5-8 times.
Problems at two long-running Norwegian carbon capture and storage projects are highlighting worrying challenges for the future, report finds.
Oil & gas companies (in Aus anyways) have been lobbying governments to throw money at developing this technology. Pointing towards these sites as success stories.
While i can see the benefits of carbon capture, i reckon the millions could be much better spent on proven technologies to eliminate carbon generation in the first place.
Somebody told me once that bicycles are the most efficient transfers of energy possible, from the calorific content (of food) to work done (km travelled). I'd like to see a similar style of energy analysis