A lot of us love watching people build or renovate their dream and "forever" homes on reality shows...
But what does a Grand Designs home being up for sale two months after going to air tell us about how professional you have to be to pull off a tv-ready reno?
A lot of us love watching people build or renovate their dream and "forever" homes on reality shows...
But what does a Grand Designs home being up for sale two months after going to air tell us about how professional you have to be to pull off a tv-ready reno?
Nine Inch Noize is great. I wish we got some Fragile cuts getting this treatment, but I understand why we didn't.
the best dinosaur is clearly Iguanodon, because of all the dinosaurs it most resembled a middle-aged Sicilian-American dock-worker with a switchblade
🙏 I should do some non-political ones, def
It doesn't pay, but I do miss the cartooning life. The material these days *long drag of cigarette* madone
Outing myself here as a Foster-Wallace completist but I always thought Infinite Jest would be a lot more readable with footnotes rather than endnotes (like in the short story compilation Oblivion).
I know we're not allowed to like that book anymore because of its alleged audience, but still,
Someone once replied to a story of mine at The Age with, inexplicably, "Go to Axminster, Devon".
And I don't know why, but I think about that more often than you'd probably imagine.
Why is the RBA advertising at all?
Okay but the funniest thing here, aside from the US doing a Tudors speedrun apparently, is that the Pope *actually* won in a landslide, given he needs a super majority to get the big white puff
Australian governments love to create a system and then not regulate it. We love even more to create a regulation and not police it.
The problem with the NDIS - and there is a problem - is the same one Australia always faces. If you let small businesses exploit the public purse, they'll exploit it mercilessly (remember pink batts or any one of a 100 such programs). The key is in the system design, not the auditing of it.
Also I agree with @thehighsign.bsky.social, it's not a spoiler, it's the premise.
In fact it's not just imaginably inevitable, it's there, almost every day. It's weird that the most discussed and despised part of this film is the thing that almost anyone outside of the US can see would be inevitable. The film is flawed, but you clearly need it.
Whatever else The Drama gets wrong, it's interesting that US reviewers/viewers see the idea of a school shooting as a third rail of discourse about depressed teenagers. You have guns readily accessible and you have teenagers, it's almost inevitable bullied teens realise they can shoot people.
I fear 2/3 of the @slate.com Political Gabfest not understanding and bailing on the Secret Agent may make me not trust their views on anything ever again, and there have been a lot of red flags I've let fly
Head for the hills/beaches/plains!
There are a number of affordable regional towns with good employment, connections and investment returns that could be our sensible housing future as we continue to see ballooning capital prices, even in high interest periods.
www.theage.com.au/property/new...
Hahaha nice! I have had so many people reach out and say "omg, that's me/my partner!"
I'm glad it was a real phenomenon and not one of those weird trends you just see when you think you've found a story!
The secret to the energy transition might not be the altruistic good of getting your energy without hurting the environment... But how much cash you can hack away from your provider.
Suburban solar dads swapping tips and tricks are leading a consumer movement to go green.
The secret to the energy transition might not be the altruistic good of getting your energy without hurting the environment... But how much cash you can hack away from your provider.
Suburban solar dads swapping tips and tricks are leading a consumer movement to go green.
Look, I'm not a prescriptivist, but this war has driven me up the wall for the use of "decimated".
"Devastated" is right there, you war-mongering, economy destroying buffoon.
You can't decimate a bridge. Taking 10% off a bridge makes it not a bridge.
Like, animal leather is both frequently poorly labelled, produced in open air tanneries, of questionable production animal origins, etc etc. It's one of those products that people accept comes from a dead animal, and that is its caveat with most else unquestioned.
Vegan leather on the other hand...
There's a big "citation needed" on this one from my old work. Love their stuff as a rule, but I never hear the end of people saying how much of what is labelled vegan leather isn't sustainable. We rarely talk about the origins of widely used animal leathers theconversation.com/vegan-leathe...
Pretty persistently frustrating that enviro opposition to data centres get clumsily dismissed as "NIMBY" when, as you can see here, it's well-evidenced and packed to the brim with real-world examples of material harm.
And GP goes further than most in pointing out the end-goals of the system:
But the gas industry’s peak representative body, Australian Energy Producers, said a 25% levy against its exports would come at the “worst possible time for Australia’s economy and energy security”. “Imposing higher taxes on Australian gas producers would stop investment in new gas supply, leading to gas shortfalls, higher energy prices, and the closure of Australian industries that rely on reliable and affordable gas,” AEP’s chief executive officer, Samantha McCulloch, said.
Chart showing in 2023-24 9,951PJ of gas was exported or used in LNG plants to convert gas to LNG 1,034PJ was used in Australia
The Gas industry now saying a 25% export tax would "stop investment in new gas supply, leading to gas shortfalls"
Bullshit.
Utter bullshit.
83% of Australia's gas is exported.
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE
The RBA will be hoping a rate hike will help cool inflation, but people are already factoring in cost-of-living pressures (at least those they can control).
Offset account balances were at record highs, and excess mortgage repayments at their highest rate since 2021, in the December quarter.
Jonah Peretti stop consistently being the biggest disappointment in new media for almost a decade challenge (level impossible)
The Chalamet ballet/opera discourse lasting this long when it's such an obvious case of wilfull misunderstanding for an invitation to comment is, along with the Jim Carrey nonsense, both depressing and maybe an indication everyone is burnt out on arguing about real things.
You turn up at an auction.
Bids go above the price guide, but it still passes in.
A day or so later, you see it relisted for private sale at a higher price than the guide.
New data shows almost 40% of properties that are passed in and relisted are listed at a higher price than the guide.
Auction clearance rates usually bounce back in February after winding down in December... But they're below the seasonal average.
Interest rates, affordability and, soon, fears and flows on from global conflict could set the tone for the property market this year.