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Agreed, they will cover all medical stuff, as well as physio and whatever he needs to recover physically.

They won't cover his car or wages.

I don't think this is as funny as you seem to think it is. The woman you are laughing at was a real person with an actual life and it was abruptly destroyed by this guy who was a ticking time bomb that night. He exploded onto this car, seriously impacting the lives of many people.

All her family and friends are dealing with the loss of their loved one. And like I said: There's an Uber Driver (not) in this story recovering from serious injuries who has lost his livelihood in the process as well. He may eventually get some sort of compensation, but is going to be poverty-stricken in the short-to-medium term. People who Drive Uber don't tend to be affluent in the first place. Uber as a company is famously scummy to it's ~~employees~~ partners and are unlikely to be offering anything like worker's compensation.

Middle-income tech nerd criticises Gina Rinehart for:

1. Being completely out of touch with Australians.
2. Constantly releasing media statements on issues like we should care what she thinks (and the media for publishing them).
3. Being on the wrong side of history on just about every topic.
4. Her awful poetry. Seriously, mine is better and I don't write poetry.
5. Complaining that paying people in Australia more money than she pays workers in African nations is an issue, while choosing to live in Australia and being a parasite on us.
6. For defending a dude who did do some amazing heroic stuff as well as well as committing war crimes, domestic abuse, bullying and generally being a jerk.

My client is spending waaaaaaay more money on Microsoft Online than it ever used to on software licenses. Every single user in the business is costing 🇦🇺$30 per month alone just for their Office suite. That's before you get to the Azure stuff. Some hosted apps cost over 🇦🇺$1k/month to host in Azure.

Before you go too strongly after Microsoft for charging so much, this is cheaper than what we used to pay for running our own SharePoint, Exchange etc farms as well as the infrastructure required to host websites/database etc. All that has been outsourced to Microsoft Online and saves significant money.

Microsoft is doing very well out of its own cloud fees and can cope with AWS, Google and all the smaller private cloud operations getting some of that action.

1982 Commonwealth games were fantastic. I loved Matilda and looked out for her for years after every time we drove past on the highway. 1982 more than offsets 2001.

I had to Google Goodwill Games. I have no memory of them at all.

"While concerning, this case does remind us that there are many layers of protection built into the electoral system to ensure it is secure."

"The system ensured there was accountability, although it seems likely there was some kind of failure to identify immediately that the container had not been delivered to the counting centre."

My confidence in the AEC remains strong. It is a little concerning that the container wasn't noticed immediately, but it doesn't appear to be anything malicious. Just an oversight on both sides for a scenario that will undoubtedly be corrected.

I think they'd have made a point of saying that the temporary staffer was facing further consequences or wouldn't be a part of future elections if there was more to this. The fact they haven't and that the case was sealed/intact leads me to believe it was an innocent mistake.

Damn, a movie she couldn't finish still got 2 hobbits. 1 hobbit must truly be awful.

Look at me! I can play Piano!

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The hubris of claiming ownership of most of the galaxy because it's above our little piece of rock aside, I liked the thought exercise.

I am now imagining that Earth falls under the night sky of some distant planet and we fall under their dominion as a result. They just haven't gotten around to implementing their rule over us because of some stupid thing like spiders on our planet make it too difficult to impose. Or the Star Trek Whale thing. 😆

Paraphrasing here, but it was something like: "Gets the most votes ever. 'Have the Greens lost their way?'"

Kudos to whoever at the AEC drew up this seat. They hit the demographics perfectly for a balanced slice of the populace. This was a super close one, hopefully it stays as a swing seat. Trish Cook has just claimed victory of it, but she's only ahead by 634 votes with 81.9% counted. She isn't really a certainty, though is probable winner.

I'm a little sad that Mia Davies didn't get a better showing. I suppose the voters of the Hills of Perth see themselves more a part of suburbia than a rural seat. Mia was leader of the State Opposition after the 2022 election when the State National Party actually got more seats than the Liberals and were the senior coalition partner for a term. Mia stepped down over the National Party's decision to side with the Liberal on the question of the Voice to Parliament. She vocally supported the Voice and did not agree with the party's stance. She may have actually done better as an Independent candidate, her profile is more than large enough to get consideration in her own right.

If she ran as an independent in my seat, I'd seriously consider her. She's got experience, credibility and integrity. She's historically been a too conservative for my tastes, but I don't know how much of that is her and how much is her party.

I saw the ONP vote - Sadly, it was upwards of 15% in some seats. If they head right, they'll be getting some of that action.

Personally, I think most of the population is to be found in the other direction. It might take them another decade or so to admit they're wrong. Or perhaps a new political movement will pop up in that time and supplant them? Who can say? I doubt however a strong move to the right will lead them to government.