ajWasThere 🏳️‍🌈

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@Matt_Camenzuli Fuck off, content bot.

“Australians used to be happy” the driver said, as he drove me along one of our shiny new Sydney motorways. I was in his Taxi today - one of the seventeen he currently owns. He used to have thirty. Times are getting much tougher. All his diesel cars are currently parked - because it does not make financial sense to operate them. Diesel is way too expensive. Like almost everything else here today. He came to Australia from India 20 years ago. He studied, he worked in corporate Australia, and then he built his Taxi business. He assimilated and worked hard building his business. He was recently fined $3500 for missing a quarterly tax return for one of his cars. It was an oversight and it was his first time – so it was waived. But it got him wondering – “whose side is this government on?” I often wonder the same thing. People came here to build a life, to better themselves, and provide a better life for their children. They worked to fit in, and now, like so many others, my Taxi driving friend today wonders how on earth this immigration system benefits Australia and Australians. Open flood gates in an economic crisis, an energy crisis, and now a fuel crisis impacts us all. But I felt the pain in my driver’s voice today when he explained the total injustice he felt, a man who has performed exactly as he was asked to when coming to Australia. Getting through a very difficult criteria, being educated and working. He spoke of people - that he certainly thought would not have passed the bar he did - come flying in at a rapid pace without being asked to change in any way to fit in. He told me that he thinks that is wrong. He thought their behaviour makes it hard for those who came decades ago and did the right thing. Those that contribute. Those that pay taxes, and speak the language - well. I think he is right. The man had impeccable English. His Taxi – the flagship – was absolutely immaculate, and there was one of those very nice plastic wrapped Lotus Biscoff Biscuits waiting in the door handle and a bottle of water in the centre console. It was one of the most comfortable Taxi rides I have ever had. Just as we arrived at the destination, he turned to me and said, “you know, when you go into business you want to grow – and it is just so hard right now, the government is in the way at every turn, everything is just so hard – surely they are not that stupid…” I of course agreed with him. But the worst part for him is that as things get worse. It is the Taxi industry that cops it first and hardest. People in Australia are just not happy anymore, especially the ones that take the risks, that provide the services that we just take for granted. Even migrants. It seems like much of our problem today stems from an immigration system that is very different to the one that helped build Australia. It makes it hard - not only for those of us that have been here for generations - but harder still for those who came relatively recently and did the right thing and continue to do the right thing. Immigration must be cut back significantly. It is making most of us terribly unhappy, and that is just un-Australian. I just want Australia back.

@JASeagal Here it is, you wanted to take a single tweet out of context after you posted like 20 times. Pretty pathetic. You said I am free to do what I want, but apparently if I do what I want you will broadcast it to your followers so they abuse me. Get fucked dickhead.

"I'm going to buy a rainbow poppy just to own the veteran who wants to commemorate all fallen diggers equally." Fools and their money, eh?

@JASeagal @trump_isAfraud @_Slippo @Matt_Camenzuli @toner_mcsmooth Anyone who dares to consider wearing a poppy with a rainbow on it. I am going to buy one of these now thanks to your reaction. It seems like your hate has consequences.

@ajWasThere @trump_isAfraud @_Slippo @Matt_Camenzuli @toner_mcsmooth Who am I "screaming" at exactly? And you can choose to do what you like, but it doesn't make you immune from criticism from that choice. You aren't special.

They're coming for Anzac day. No bloody way.

@RyanJones6980 @Rexdinasaur @shoebil57672266 @LofayPeter About 10 years ago, solar and wind provided less than 10% Increasing to 50% in 10 years suggests that if we do nothing else, we will reach 100% in 10 years.

@ajWasThere @Rexdinasaur @shoebil57672266 @LofayPeter We don’t produce enough electricity to electrify our transport. We have spent more than $40bn to build more than double the national energy demand in renewables and it only supplies 50%. It’s not lack of investment, it’s investment in the wrong place.

We knew it all along but allowed it happen With only 30 days of reserves, and near-total dependence on imports, restrictions on oil availability would bring us to our knees. Security only comes from self sufficiency not begging for handouts or 30 days more in reserve #Auspol2026

@JASeagal @trump_isAfraud @_Slippo @Matt_Camenzuli @toner_mcsmooth Why are you so triggered by what other choose to do. Nobody is forcing you to wear any of these things yet others choose to hurt nobody. Yet you will scream at anybody who dares to do anything different to your opinion.

@trump_isAfraud @_Slippo @ajWasThere @Matt_Camenzuli @toner_mcsmooth Look at this too 👇 x.com/i/status/20446…

@maizrapaz @tillathenun Smart devices are computers. Do you really think that if you don't call a computer a smart device that makes it different?

@ajWasThere @tillathenun At no point have I mentioned computers. I have mentioned SMART devices that recognise what electricity is being used and can be remotely controlled to limit usage.

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@CashdoesntLIE @EnergyWrapAU This is because we don't have enough alternative storage yet, like pumped hydro and batteries. All things people like you oppose.

@ajWasThere @EnergyWrapAU 🤦‍♂️Is that why AEMO forces Origin to keep a gas unit online almost every single day to provide stability and on demand response because of the intermittency of solar & wind ? aemo.com.au/market-notices…

As is bound to happen the wind disappeared from SA during yesterday’s peak demand period. Did batteries reduce the peak or did they just take advantage of it? Imports from cheap VIC brown coal couldn’t reduce prices - that resource was maxed out. Gas generators made more total $ than batteries because they output a LOT more MWh. SA gas peaker plant is increasing output over time, as are imports from VIC. SA will always need 100% capacity in electricity supply that’s not weather dependent. A system with massive excess capacity that’s under-utilised obviously costs more than an equivalent system with just the necessary excess capacity.

@quanyum94 @ausstockchick This is the price of Australia drilled oil.

@ajWasThere @ausstockchick It will never get to that. You’re being a real dickhead

Sales of second hand electric vehicles more than doubled last month! Nothing like a fuel crisis to incentivise people to buy EVs. #EVs

@conpaul503 @renew_economy Because recycling essentially sand is not profitable.

@ajWasThere @renew_economy Yes the recycling claim is part of the “ circular supply chain “ claims made by several RE advocates and is included in the sales pitch. The simple fact is that recycling at scale is not happening, and appears economically unviable.

#PV industry hits back at #Coalition claims solar panels are made up of toxic materials that “will not recycle” and that reusing and recycling #panels is an economic dead end.. reneweconomy.com.au/this-is-a-6-5-…

@quanyum94 @ausstockchick You can have Australian $9 a litre fuel if you like .

@ajWasThere @ausstockchick Plent of fuel available but seems your Left wing terrorist tendencies eants to shut down our fuel which is typical of the free loading tax payer embezzling Left

@conpaul503 @renew_economy No it's not. I have never thought my panels will be recycled.

@ajWasThere @renew_economy Regardless, the claim that solar panels are being recycled is part of the sales pitch for them. At the moment it appears that putting end of life panels into landfills , currently costs less than recycling.

@Matt_Camenzuli I don't trust you. You seem to have popped up out of fuckiong nowhere spouting divisive bullshit.

I don't believe this is an accident. The timing is too cute. We are being pushed toward war. The establishment in the West sucks. I don't trust it. Do you?

@OMGTheMess Did a full charge on my car cost me a whole $3.50 shocking when you can't charge for free on solar!

Popped into my local Louis Vuitton service station Only cost one arm and one leg

@Matt_Camenzuli Buy an EV then you can work in the office!

Australia's economy is on the verge of total collapse. Forced work from home will be the knock-out blow. If business found it so brilliant, they wouldn't have brought everyone back to the office. If the government wants to tell me how to manage my teams, it should pay them.

@quanyum94 @ausstockchick In 30 days, right, that's what you are saying, have fun with that. Energy security was a significant factor in my purchase. CO2 not that much although I do charge it from solar. But that is more because its free.

@ajWasThere @ausstockchick Since when do we not have fuel?? I think the dickhead is you who bought an EV that produces the same amount of CO2 as a petrol car, or you paid many many thousands of $ to go of grid??🤣🤣🤣

@MarkFra55637325 @ausstockchick I have plenty of electricity. How is that petrol supply?

@ausstockchick Charged by power stations that burn fuel to create electricity. 15%+ efficiency loss. Smart....real f'in smart.

@quanyum94 @ausstockchick Yeah, but I have fuel, and you dickheads don't!

@ausstockchick An EV produces the same co2 as a letr car when the power OTR the ev comes from coal power stations

@AvidCommentator One Nation Voters are racist.

I dont think the Australian political class realizes the damage they are doing to undermine our society with their commentary. Claiming One Nation voters are motivated by racism or that racist "dogwhistling" is being done by the Coaliton for votes helps no one. One Nation holds the vote of 28% of the electorate, 26% of migrants and getting on for 1 in 5 individuals who do not speak English at home. Accusing great swathes of the population of being intricably linked to racism is a deeply concerning as it is counter-productive. Equally so for making the claim that the Coalition is "dogwhistling", that somehow the block of voters who are deeply racist is so large that it can make this major difference politically. Some of the followers of these people have a go at people like myself for using facts to point out what is mostly already blatantly obvious. Perhaps look at some of your leaders for the ones who are truly undermining social cohesion.

@LofayPeter @shoebil57672266 @Rexdinasaur No, It is clear I am correct. If we used Australian-produced electricity to power our transport, we would have minimal issues right now. You like us being dependent on others.

@ajWasThere @shoebil57672266 @Rexdinasaur You’re an idiot