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Two tomato plants far exceeded what we needed. We sacrificed the remainder to the possums and birds.

I will never stop saying "shiver me timbers"

How fast do download speeds in Mildura get?

Japan has pretty strict gun control, don't they?

...And now with even more people lining up for those jobs because others have been taken by automation. That and in order to make a living you need to do at least two jobs per household.

This doesn't allow for any time or energy to skill up into anything else and forces a positive feedback loop in keeping people in this bracket.

Edit: I've just read through some of your other comments and I want to say something about post scarcity. We can definitely approximate what will happen in the distant future by looking at current and past trends. Human nature is the constant.

We can look at how many unskilled jobs are created as a result of automation. From what I can see, the number of unskilled jobs created from automation is in the negative, meaning that less unskilled jobs are created from automation.

What systems are put in place for those without jobs? The trend is abandonment or exploitation. We're currently in a glut of job seekers far exceeding jobs available both in skilled and unskilled areas.

But I digress... This was originally about an automated lawnmower being mildly interesting, which it is.

Thank you so much. I hope you and your wife's IVF journey was more successful than mine.

Agree - human health. I guess I was thinking about my surgery costs for endometriosis on top of IVF and how it wasn't covered by Medicare at all. Medicare coverage has huge gaps and I hate how the government whittles away at it rather than expanding it.

I'm late to this conversation but I've gone 5 rounds of IVF and it's cost us most of our savings. IVF didn't work for us and we're looking at egg donors. Did you know it's illegal to pay someone or receive money for being a surrogate or egg donor? We're having to look overseas because hardly anyone here will do it for free (understandably).

Clearly, the government isn't interested in anything remotely related to female health.

But there's no UBI to allow the person without a job to skil upl into something else that a robot can't do.

But all the lobbying has already happened - for decades - and nothing has changed. Fossil fuel companies have poured in billions over the course of decades, and still are, to counter lobby and spread misinformation to keep the status quo.

You're only seeing the 'performative' protesting in the media and not the lobbying because it's easy to report on, but in reality this movement is on its last legs. It is THAT level of desperation now.

Do you think they'd still be protesting if the government actually implemented the policies brought forward by climate scientists decades ago?

That's right! They're better off spending it on lobbying so they end up getting more money!

My vote is for "Yes" by A.B. Original, DJ Total Eclipse and Marlon.

The lyric "I never swore allegiance to the crown" sends chills down my spine.

Woke up to the sound of some nutter with his hand on the horn speeding down my 40km/h residential street. Somebody obviously got up on the wrong side of the bed and is dragging the rest of us down with them! 😤

That project was an absolute disaster. Builder lost millions and then substituted everything out for cheaper products. I swear, there's stuff there that's not to code.

The biggest travesty of all? Closing off the completely accessible underground pedestrian tunnel, forcing you to wait at the traffic lights.

Storm in a teacup. Move along, nothing to see here.

To The Moon; Once you go through the experience of the story, there's really no need to replay again.

I wear a capelet in winter and it doesn't work well with my backpack. I suppose I could design a front wearing pack to carry my laptop.

I've worked on both private and public school projects. The budget disparity is depressing.

$30mil for a creative arts precinct including new full sized theatre that can be publically rented out vs $5mil to upgrade the entire school to meet the growing population of the area and everything had to be done on the cheap, and even then things had to be even cheaper still.

Private schools should absolutely not get any funding. Give more to public schools so that education is available to everyone regardless of status.

Yes! That's the one. With the talking backpacks etc.

Excessive government regulations? Please. Those regulations are shit as that result in mould ridden dog boxes that can barely be considered liveable.

Material costs are rising because we barely manufacture our own here. It's all imported and we're girt by sea. Of course it'll be expensive. Bring manufacturing back en masse and we might see some relief on that part.

This is why there needs to be a cap on company size and redistribution. We don't want another Dutch East India.

At this stage, ColesWorth are just two behemoths akin to Testuo's evolution in Akira gasping out the words "feed me" as shareholder parasites gorge on their innards. Kill it with fire.