Gonna have to empty the rubbish bins to make room for more busted umbrellas 🤣

BigW toy sale!

I've got my eye on an expensive (for me) electronic gadget that I probably don't really need, but that's hanging on the Amazon Prime Day sales which are apparently July 8 to July 14, 2025.

I always assumed stickers were there for marketing/branding purposes.

It always made me laugh because:
a) I coudn't tell you the name of any of those brands, so that doesn't work.
b) I buy whatever fruit is at the shop. I can't go searching for XYZ brand of apples lol

Happy EOFY!

Also, weather could be wild tomorrow/Wed. Be careful out there.

Can you show an example of one from 3 years ago?

Because my experience was that most ROMs were based on AOSP/ LineageOS , which supports very few Samsung phones, and no flagships since the 2018 S10.

And even of those, many didn't support IMS/VoLTE/VoWiFi which made them useless in any geos that didn't have 3G fallback for voice. You can't make or receive phone calls.

And the sub that got me to post says "The golden unicorn of homes that could solve the housing crisis"

No. No single thing will.

You will need to add on the price for a new battery replacement on a 3 year old Sammy lol

Oh, another silver bullet?

They are a part of a solution. Multiple policies are required on both the demand side and the supply side.

The best info I've seen are a couple of studies out of Europe that showed ICE (gas/petrol) cars were at least 10 to 20 times more likely to catch on fire than EVs.

And the info I've seen on hybrid cars said they were at least twice as likely to catch fire as ICE cars.

A simple search provides this.

Most storage types are subject to bitrot.

DVDs appear to be the cheapest form of long lived media. Some are rated for 50 years, and life can be from 30 to 100 years

M-Disc is a newer optical format that claims 1000 years, but is pretty pricey.

My favourite avocado story I heard was that avocados relied on megafauna to distribute their seeds.

Yep, they were big enough to eat them and poop the seeds out 😆

Put them closer together, then go out and press them in the mud somewhere and you'll start a panic that dinosaurs aren't extinct!

"I do not consent and I am travelling"

Anybody that cares about this has already made their choices long ago.

Along those lines, I think this Jamaican Mackeral & Rice recipe, which uses an all purpose seasoning (AllSpice?), would go well with just switching the beans in for the mackerel.

You could substitute or skip any of the ingredients you don't have handy. I think I used some diced tomatoes instead of using up all my tomato sauce, a little cinammon and nutmeg for the pimento berries, and instead of the scotch bonnet, I just used some hot sauce.

Simple, tasty, fast & pretty darn cheap too!

I have mixed feelings about this.

There is probably a lot of truth to what Stan says, and perhaps a lot of wisdom in the quotes he has chosen.

But most people simply cannot devote the time to contemplate such matters. They're spending all their time simply trying to battle the lower rungs of Maslow's hierarchy

It does kinda remind me of something I was thinking the other day. People spend hours at the gym/exercising/sport working on their physical wellbeing, but do they spend any time on improving their mind? Or, perhaps beyond that, on challenging or improving their 'spiritual' understanding? It seemed to me that, at a surface level, there seems to be a big imbalance to the physical. And maybe I also should think and plan to balance more on the other two. If I could spend less time on the bottom tiers of Maslow's hierarchy, maybe I'd have more time to spend at the top?

Anyways, I'm glad Stan seems to be finding some peace.

They have been named:

• fuck
• THE FUCK?
• FUCK ME! OH FUCK! OH FUCK YOU, YOU LITTLE CUNT!

and....

• beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

These are the scientific names, and may be quite difficult for anyone not Australian to understand or pronounce.

I'm for lab grown meat, but as we transition to it, somebody will have to get rid of all those extra cows, pigs, chickens etc, and I will make the sacrifice and volunteer to help do it, one steak, chop, sausage and wing at a time.

It feels like this guy, Ben Roberts-Smith and Salim Mehajer are all in some sort of weird contest that the rest of us don't know about.

Well, if they want access to my power and data, before I would even consider it, I would have to charge a fee.

Perhaps I would call it a Daily Supply Charge.