Spot on! 🧅

1991! Mother of Pearl!
He was barking. I didn't think about him for years. Then he came up as being a mentor to Abbot, and his weird Christofascist ideas surfaced again

I used to see ol' Bob after the wrestling on Sunday morning TV in, I guess, the late 60s. "Point of View" it was called. Point of Head more like. Even at that age I didn't know why but I knew there was something off

Respect!

Enjoy! I always liked the Tableland: Lakes Eacham and Barrine, plus the Waterfall Trail

I feel your pain! I owned an old house out in the bush for quite a few years, and there was a cleared area of about a hectare/ 2.5 acres round it as bushfire defence. We mowed it with a couple of old petrol push mowers all that time. Kept me fit but I did get tired of it

Did you dress the part?

I thought we were the only ones that get out at Mascot station and walk in to the Domestic Terminals.
We also go to Wolli Creek and walk in to International.

Yes, I think the race is over too for all those reasons and more. But I'm no expert, just interested, which will keep me watching.

It'll be interesting to see how it pans out over the next few years. I guess I'll find out then if I've got the wrong end of the stick...

I've always liked the idea of swap n go batteries, but can you imagine getting eleventy-7 car companies to agree on a standard format?
I lived through VHS v Beta and the era of serial, parallel, PS/2 & wtf else in computers so I might just be old and tired...

In specific use cases in industry, yes. In light and medium road transport, EVs have already taken the field. Hydrogen needs specific, extensive infrastructure, none of which is in place. EV charging infrastructure lags EV uptake but the electricity network to support it is all around us already

I can understand that as a motivation, the job already looks simplified by onboard diagnostics etc. But why hydrogen, when all the spin couldn't hide that it isn't competitive ?

The 730 Report was more performatively clueless & irritating than the article I thought.
I definitely don't say the charging's fine, disappointingly backward are the words I most use.

I keep wondering why the hydrogen car fantasy is a thing with mechanics.

I remember that term now, thanks.

I've recently had someone with a fairly senior legal job in Qantas earnestly tell me not to buy an EV bc I'll have to replace the batteries in a couple of years. This BS will not die.
I've also had a few people say their mechanic has said to wait for the hydrogen cars that are just around the corner

I'm old enough to remember that there was a bit of battery power applied to the odd racehorse back in the day.
One more reason I loathe horseracing

Oh yeah. I worked in the Australian doping control lab in the 2000s. It's a long term problem. We'd be given Customs seizures to check. Often the preps were impure biochemically, but also they would grow bugs the minute you add water. Whether they actually worked was often the least problematic bit

Pharma companies mostly created them in the first place, but then the peptides didn't work at all as predicted, didn't work in vivo, worked but with bad adverse effects, etm, and were abandoned. But that doesn't stop the grifters picking up and flogging them

My money is on always stupid, often wilfully so. I'm reading a pre-COVID book called Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright, about plagues and epidemics. It's so depressingly familiar, especially the chapter on the 1918 flu.

Yes, there's that contemporary engraving with little cows' heads popping out all over people's bodies

Is *not* something that comes up.
Bugrit! Can't even blame octocarrot

I recognised it as a crude hit piece in the first few sentences when he criticised the handling of the car (did he identify the make / model? I didn't finish it). I've been looking at reviews bc I have to replace my old car, and poor driving experience is something that comes up

It looks like the pork brawn slice from a trad pork banh mi, left in the sun for a week.
Eeyurgh

They're just as welcome in a street library! Thirty year old manuals, textbooks and travel guides all get lovingly curated to the paper recycling

I have already heard Hungary's new government referred to as The New Management. I understand it wasn't a @cstross.bsky.social reference but it could be.

Would there be a single person in government atm who has any idea what Linux is?
Leaving aside the usual craven grovelling after anything American

I'm happy to pay my money and get my old i30 checked. I'm no mechanic myself.
We really are hopeless in this country when it comes to consistency in regulations, aren't we?

Yes, for older cars like mine. New cars don't have to do it. You'd use the system to just collect the odometer reading off newer cars.
I'd be fine with, say, self reporting the odometer one year, and a formal read every second year and at sale. Try to keep it simple