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@CSI_Starbase Thanks Zack. Looking forward to watching later this evening. Really enjoyed part 1. Appreciate your hard work, dedication and the uh, uniqueness of your format.

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I initially thought this was incredibly stupid for the obvious reasons, but I've changed my mind. Two real benefits: 1) No surprises for the vendor - they can remediate issues or price accordingly. 2) Saves everyone the drama of contracts collapsing late because of inspection shocks. Plus, if done right, it puts more pressure on builders to stand behind their work. It streamlines the process and boosts transparency, hopefully resulting in fewer abandoned deals. The key takeaway by far is, this doesn't replace a buyer's own independent inspection. Anyone silly enough to think it does should probably stick to renting.

Two things: 1. The number of people who would trust a report provided by a seller is scary. 2. Trying to save $500 on a ~$1m purchase by not doing your own due diligence is an extraordinarily bad bet. Which inspector is a seller going to choose? The hard-arse, or the lazy one?

Yeah.... they definitely over-promised and under-delivered, but I still feel that many people got a vastly improved service sooner than they would have otherwise had with a full FTTP roll out. Was it worth the extra cost? I think so based on my experience, though I do wish it had of been managed better.

@Kevin486DX266 @TheNoisyTrunk Libs promised everyone would have fttn by end of 2016 with most having over 50mbps by 2019 and for $29B. The funding was the same for a full fibre and same timeline. All the fttn work is wasted as doesn't get used for fttp upgrade.

We were reminded today about #NBN. And how the liberals fucked it up. NEVER FORGET. When the liberals took over what was an advanced scheme to give us all fast broadband, what did they do? They prayed. AGNOSTIC. Most of us now have reliable, fast broadband. Labor started it. The liberals fucked it, labor fixed it. Memory lane, with the ultra dim Mitch Fifield "Technology agnostic" which for the rest of us, means, Band-Aids and superglue. Do you remember the nonsense of fibre to the node, copper to the house? That really happened, and the Liberal goons called that technology agnostic. They are incompetent, and now, and now they are Angus and incompetent.

@topnobau @thejackbeyer @AstroForge Aussie here - happens plenty, but not nearly as much as in America since it's harder for the thieving c%&ts to flog them off thanks to stronger scrap industry regs. Hoping AstroForge ramps up supply soon, before Jack loses his cats for a third time!

@thejackbeyer @AstroForge No offence, I live in Australia and I've never even heard of such a theft locally...

I work at @AstroForge, where we are going to mine Platinum from m-type asteroids. My catalytic converters have been stolen twice now because platinum is so valuable. Sorta feels like the universe is sending a message.

I own a regular sedan... sorry to burst your bubble. Do you have anything substantive or just insults? I thought you were capable of reasonable argument? You think my opinion is bad? Tell me why. Say something like: Whilst personal responsibility and pedestrian education is important, harm minimisation should be the ultimate goal. Or say you don't think a reduction in speed really impacts anyone compared to the benefits. They are all valid points to be argued. Be a bit snarky if you like, but this straight up immature rubbish is beneath you (or so I thought reading your posts).

@Kevin486DX266 Total and utter rubbish. Hope your small dick truck rusts out from the salt water.

Ah yes, it's the pedestrians' fault that they get hit by cars. Go walk into the sea, mate, and take your small dick truck with you.

60 as the default, like it used to be. 50 on narrow streets or mixed traffic areas. 50 is slow enough. 40 for school zones where risk exists (not divided roads with side streets). The hand wringers are now pushing for 30 zones because people can't watch where they are walking and will blindly step out in front of cars. The lack of respect for peoples time and prioritisation of people who can't take responsibility for their own safety, needs to end.

I agree. Residential streets should have a default speed limit of 40 km/h. Arterial roads can have a higher speed limit but 40 is plenty fast enough for suburban residential streets. drive.com.au/caradvice/opin…

@exQUIZitely To be avoided on vintage gear - excess wear for little benefit. I was devastated when the 2GB spinner in my 586 started telling me it was done. Got DOS / games safely on to a CF card, but it's not the same. Retro builds must have disk noise. Will find another spinner I think.

Some of you will be old enough to remember this. Defragging - and it actually did serve a purpose. It was essential for optimizing slow, mechanical hard drives by rearranging scattered data into contiguous blocks. By doing so increased data load times (since the physical head of the hard drive didn't have to move that much). However, what I remember most was the almost hypnotical satisfaction of seeing all those little blocks flashing, being organized, and just "knowing" that it was good for my computer. In times when you fiddled around with autoxec.bat and config.sys, when every little Kilobyte of RAM mattered, and when hard drives were measured in Megabytes, not Terrabytes, the weekly routine of defragging almost felt like cleaning up your room.

Climate alarmists lack the critical thinking skills to see that destroying our economy whilst other countries manufacture all the shit we take for granted, using poor environmental practices, is a net negative for the environment. If you people really cared, we'd have nuclear powered, clean manufacturing.

Terrifying to think that today's heat will be a regular part of our kid's and grandkid's futures. As Labor - opens another new fossil fuel project - logs another native forest - legacy media/ABC refuses to play its vital role - and Australians vote for all of it! ☹️ #auspol

The date isn't changing - you've been losing steam every year since people saw through 'the voice'. Polls are hardening the other way for good reason. The perpetual victim complex isn't reconciliation, it's just endless agitation. People like you don't actually want progress, you just want a cause to to get on your high horse over. If the date flips, you'll just find something else to sook about, because real, useful work doesn't feel as good as attending a rally.

The date IS changing. We aren’t there yet, but it’s happening; thru organising, education & connection it’s happening right now. Biggest rallies ever, allies proud to stand with First Nations mobs & more Blak excellence across this country every day. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

@colonelhogans @The_Nationals @OneNationAus @SimonBanksHB No, they voted for the rights of the 1 million Australians who hold a firearms license and have done nothing wrong. The existing laws covered this, but the systems failed. Understanding why the system failed and correcting it would improve community safety, unlike the new laws.

DESPERATE TO KEEP FARMERS VOTES! Today @the_nationals and @OneNationAus voted To allow a person like the father who lawfully had the guns he and his son used In the Bondi massacre To keep them Sickening @SimonBanksHB

@TonyShepherd4 Australia's gun laws have worked well for decades. Misuse of legally held firearms is rare - the stats prove it. Scapegoating firearms license holders is easy politics, not real solutions. Fix the failed systems. They should never have had access to firearms under current laws.

The man is a moron, trying to address his irrelevancy by promoting guns. The father and son at Bondi were Muslim, yes, but imagine if they didn't have guns...

Albanese does have a much harder task because of who the perpetrators were. No matter which way he turns, he's offending someone, especially in his own camp. He lacks the spine to call things as they are and to say what needs to be said. You can name the specific ideological driver without vilifying the peaceful majority, just like he does with tiny supremacist fringes in broader populations. Then there is the ridiculous (but disgustingly popular) notion of the overarching silent hand, pulling strings. If he showed too much compassion, he'd cop accusations. A real leader would show genuine compassion and express clear condemnation of problematic extremist groups, without obsessing over the political lens, especially fringe beliefs. To be fair to Albanese, he's walking one hell of a tightrope, but he must filter the noise and do better.

Whether or not you agree with their policies, Minns, Howard and Ardern stepped up to the plate and led after the respective tragedies. Albo did not. This is my abiding impression of Albo. He is a political operative, not a leader. afr.com/politics/feder…

I am in awe of the Starship program and religiously consume all related content created by yourself, Scott, NSF, Marcus, Zack, RGV Ariel, LabPadre and others. Objectively, Starship had a rough year in 2025 - falling short of their goals with three vehicles lost in flight and two more during ground tests. What they did achieve was still awesome, but mostly refinement of concepts they'd already proven in 2024. If you're looking for a special award just for Starship (to keep us obsessive fans happy), SpaceX demonstrated remarkable resilience and adaptability - from responses to the failed flights to bouncing back from the Masseys explosion (adapting the OLM for ship static fires) and the almost surreal way B19 rose almost overnight after B18 went pop! Looking forward to you having no shortage of accolades for them next year. I feel 2026 will be the defining year for the program.

We had SO MANY write-ins for "Starship" to win the top award for most inspirational, innovative and important mission of 2025... So... tell me, what specific thing did Starship do in 2025 that makes it deserve an Astro Award, let alone the TOP award of the year?

Please help me understand how you can post this despite the horrors committed by Hamas and their supporters on 7th October, 2023? We saw militants and civilians crossing the border, massacring families, raping, mutilating, burning people alive, parading naked and dead bodies through the streets while crowds cheered and abused them. They took child hostages, then murdered them (those poor little boys and their mother stick in my mind). That level of barbarity, celebrated by parts of society, fills me with revulsion and justifies Israel's determination to destroy Hamas completely. Of course, innocent civilians and children who had nothing to do with the attack are suffering terribly now. That's heartbreaking, must be minimised wherever possible, and any callousness is inexcusable. But when a society elects and continues to back a leadership that embeds among civilians and sets out to murder innocent people in horrific ways, civilians inevitably pay a heavy price.

Tens & tens & tens of thousands of Palestinian dead, murdered by Israel, & not one, not one fucking acknowledgment from any Australian government, let alone a minute’s silence in the midst of new year celebrations. This country is absolutely fucked.

@taipan168 Might be best to avoid getting hit by cars all together... If data suggests these vehicles are for some reason more likely to collide with a pedestrian, that should be thoroughly investigated and understood. Otherwise, everyone just needs to pay more attention on the road.

People weren't killed by their earpods or headphones. They were killed by vehicles, and the pedestrian fatality rate from larger vehicles is higher than for smaller ones.

I don't own a large SUV nor do I wish to, but people who need or want one, should be free to. Our roads and parking spaces should be made to accommodate all vehicle types. Pedestrians need to take more responsibility for their own safety, and all motorists need to be more aware of their surroundings. Avoiding collisions, not simply mitigating the impact (by banning certain vehicles or lowering speed limits) should be the goal.

Yes these obese American utility trucks are non-compliant with most parking spaces and, by statistical analysis, are a lethal risk to pedestrians, cyclists and other road users. They need to be banned from Australia’s urban roads with asset write-off tax concessions removed. 👇

@MRobertsQLD Senator, with respect self-defence is NOT a genuine reason for firearm ownership in Australia, and never has been. We're fighting to protect sporting, recreational, hunting, and primary production rights for law-abiding licence holders. Bringing in self-defence arguments only harms our case and gives the anti-gun crowd more fuel. Disappointed in this coming from One Nation at such a perilous time for firearms licence holders. @PaulineHansonOz - FYI.

Some dangers in a guns buyback: 1. The big issue is that the real threat still exists & is NOT being addressed - radical Islam 2. It disarms honest & responsible citizens to give criminals a monopoly on gun possession & use 3. Stops self-defence & basic rights Your thoughts?

How is that even relevant to your original statement about hate speech laws? The father should have had zero guns because an immediate family member was flagged as a risk. No ifs, buts, or maybes. ASIO and the NSW police did not do their jobs. We don't need more laws curtailing firearms ownership for persons that continue to maintain 'fit and proper' person status, nor do we need to excessively police speech when suitable laws already exist to police the sort of true hatred expressed by extremists.

@Roseella01 So you are completely comfortbale with the father legally having six guns under existing laws?

Simple question Has anyone And I mean anyone in the LNP Apologised for their 20+ year history of opposing Racial Hatred Laws Laws supported all that time by the Jewish community That some LNPers now say are necessary?