George Whitefield

People keep going on about things impacting the next Australian election but it's just going to come down to interest rates. They go up we get a Labor minority. They go down we get a Labor majority.

@hillfolkAU Where is the chart from?

When you don't build enough homes, the prices that increase the fastest are the cheapest 10% of homes!

Long discussion - fuel reserves Australia's fuel reserves have fallen to around 26-29 days depending on fuel type, and that's after the government this week reduced the mandatory stockholding requirement, freeing up several days of supply that had previously been locked in reserve. Before the current crisis they sat at around 30-36 days, roughly a third of the IEA's 90-day requirement, which Australia has failed to meet since 2012. The gap isn't an accident. Before July 2023 there was no legal obligation to hold minimum reserves. As refineries closed and supply chains shifted to imported fuel, the system moved toward just-in-time logistics and storage depots were progressively rationalised. The government legislated a Minimum Stockholding Obligation in 2021, which took effect in July 2023. But the MSO only requires 24-27 days, it was never designed to close the IEA gap, just to stop the bleeding. The IEA obligation sits with the federal government, not industry, and there's no domestic law that actually enforces it. So when China restricts jet fuel exports and Iranian conflict disrupts regional supply simultaneously, Australia is running a 26-29 day domestic buffer with a just-in-time airport supply chain and 13 years of accepted non-compliance behind it. The current crisis didn't create this vulnerability. It just made it visible. There's a harder question underneath all this. Every time the government reduces the MSO to free up supply, it isn't creating fuel, it's reclassifying mandatory reserve as available for sale. If new shipments don't arrive, the government faces a binary choice: keep cutting the MSO floor to maintain supply at the bowser, or let shortages become visible. Each reduction shrinks the buffer further. The fact that Australia had to start cutting into its mandatory minimum almost immediately tells you something the official figures don't: the usable buffer above the MSO floor was already essentially gone before this crisis started. #auspol #ausbiz #ausecon

@david_perell Consider using 'How to write slop well' combined with "Game the algorithm before it games you".

The state of the Internet in a nutshell: For 2.5 years, whenever I published a video on YouTube, I'd come up with a bespoke title / thumbnail that accurately described what the conversation was about. Then, during the summer, my view count fell. Nothing worked until I found a formula: "How to Write ________ Well." Always the same text. Throw an adverb in the middle, then share a quote from the interview in the thumbnail. People are 0.5% - 1% more likely to click on that title format, so the channel has exploded in growth. This title format is worse for my viewers and soul-deadening for me, but it's leading to so many more views that I'd be crazy not to follow it — and people are significantly more likely to click on videos with the formulaic title. This isn't just a story about YouTube. So much of the Internet works like this now.

@kareem_carr So much for their AI image policy.

This is a real figure taken from a research article in a Nature journal. This is insane.

@purplepingers They probably know better than to listen to the AFR.

I remember my union tried to get members to campaign for Labor this election on the basis of Peter Dutton promising to cut our jobs - I wonder what our officials think about that now

@ThreetothePower The base load for the period shown in that chart appears to be approximately -600MW. The areas you have circled have nothing to do with baseload.

Literally right here, is this guy retarded?

@Phase667 @ObamaGarak You are confusing offshore processing and mandatory detention. Howard introduced offshore processing as part of his "pacific solution" in 2001. Rudd ended it, Gillard restored it, and Abbott turbocharged it

@ObamaGarak Offshore processing became under Keating for illegal arrivals as part of a 1992 bill. Howard then builds off that existing legislation abc.net.au/news/2011-11-1…

I hope this helps him realise that there is no escaping the inevitable. Life is for living, not for running away from that which you cannot escape.

@BenPhillips_ANU For a population of 27 million a change in average household size from 2.55 to 2.5 is approximately 200k houses. We could double the vacancy rate by getting the average household size back to 2.55.

For mine the RBA makes too much out of the persons per dwelling chart. All of the decline in 80s/90s is fewer kids (<20) which matters little for dwelling demand. Implies something for bedrooms not dwellings.

@genericmainer @lauriewired It's just Gatorade

@lauriewired Forbidden reactor juice

All US Nuclear Reactor Incidents are public and posted online by the NRC. My Favorites: “The reactor cavity is full of water. [Individual] ingested some amount of cavity water.” (Michigan, 4 days ago) “Unit 2 power is being reduced from 100% in response to the influx of jellyfish.” (Florida, 2011) Radioactive AMC Theater Exit Sign Missing (New York, 2025)

@AntipodeanMacro How does it look adjusted for WPI?

...and in real terms.

Renters in Australia have had it RELATIVELY easy in terms of rent increases in recent years, both in nominal terms...

@intogreyx Who proposed it?

The Knesset, in a preliminary reading of a bill to annex the West Bank, has approved the proposal. Likud members have publicly stated that they were told by Netanyahu to vote against the proposal. Some refused and voted for it. It passed with 25 in favor, and 24 against. Let me also clarify the procedure here. In Israel, a bill can be proposed by the government, individual members of the Knesset, or Knesset committees. If proposed by individual members, there is a preliminary reading to get initial approval in principle of the idea. Basically a “go-ahead.” It then moves on to the committee stage, then a first reading in the Knesset, a second reading in the Knesset, a third reading in the Knesset, and finally signed by Israel’s leadership. This bill has just passed the preliminary stage, and there’s much more to go.

@PhillipAdams_1 Piss off with your disgusting Holocaust denialism.

7000 Jews died in the Warsaw ghetto. 68,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza.

@DavidPocock @sbasfordcanales Percentage of GDP? You should ask CSIRO for some lessons on data interpretation.

The CSIRO, the agency that gave the world Wi-Fi, among other world-leading research, has never been more important to Australia’s future. Successive governments have failed to invest. We need to turn that around and value the science and scientists that are key to our future. theguardian.com/australia-news…

@DrewPavlou All you do is post slop.

Reform Twitter payments so people get paid for value rather than slop. Each week, all verified users get 1000 tokens. Tokens expire at the end of each week - verified users decide to donate their finite tokens to posts they like. You can create weekly leaderboards in different fields of endeavour based on posts with the most amount of tokens. People can be paid based on the amount of tokens their posts accrue, rather than just total view count.

@slackbastard Lots of people who don't pay much attention to political issues need to hear it. They don't seem to be on this platform anymore though.

@matt_barrie Unis are publicly owned genius.

Any university with a minority of domestic students should lose their tax free status

@DrewPavlou Don't act like you adhere to a political belief system. Attention seeking is your guiding light.

I watched the leftist intelligentsia go all in on blood and soil nationalism post-October 7. I watched them brag that race massacres against “white European settlers” were exactly what they meant by “decolonisation” and I watched them rant for two years about the need to kill white people in “white settler colonies” across the world. I thought to myself: Okay, these people want to kill me and my loved ones. So we are simply fundamentally opposed.” As a result I went from being a blank slatist supporter of multiculturalism to a supporter of national conservatism. I now want every Western country to follow Israel’s approach to collective rights: Maintaining a demographic majority as a matter of law and top national priority, so as to never allow yourself to ever become a minority in your own country. Thanks leftist decolonisation thinkers for helping me see the light.

@latikambourke @thenightlyau @sussanley @AlboMP The food on the plane was that bad huh?

My Exclusive is the splash in @thenightlyau @sussanley says @AlboMP crossed a line by wading into UK politics, a charge the PM attempted to defend but was undone by revelations that his neutral civil servants had to quit the final leg of his UK tour because it was a political event. Read here: latika.me/PMandC

@sandylanceley insidestategovernment.com.au/victorian-camp…

This is banana republic stuff The Victorian premier is off sucking up to a totalitarian regime whilst her treasurer back home is planning cuts to 000