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"So you like trains huh?"
"Yea"
"What kind?"
"All kinds. Steam, diesel, maglev..."
"Top speed of a Shinkansen?"
"320 km/h"
"Gauge width of standard rail?"
"1,435mm"
"Well well well, at least we know that if anything happens to us, you're here to step up to control the train"
"wait.. do you promise?"
"promise what?"
"that I get to control the train if something happens to you guys"
yung@gzcl3000
"Im not suffering from autism. I am loving it"
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@chasedownleads
Guess who owns the game production company?
Rogue Duck Interactive@rogueducknet
Run a cozy Japanese Vending Machine business! 🌸 (40% off on Steam)
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@SpachusAus Give up the AI generated posts. It's so easy to tell, and totally erodes your brand as a trustworthy source of data
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Feels like everyone’s glitching right now… but it’s not random 👇
• High rates + cost of living = pressure
• Uncertainty around “what’s next” = panic
• Social media amplifies the loudest fear
• Herd mentality kicks in fast
It’s not chaos — it’s everyone reacting to the same stress signal
We’re likely in:
Stress → Overreaction
That’s where things usually get interesting.
#PropertyMarket #InterestRates #Australia #Economy
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The New York Times? The brain games website?
Mike Solana@micsolana
the new york times politely discussed the assassination of a businessman with hasan piker, who made the case, in the new york times, for assassination. this is not a small thing. this is an insane, unacceptable thing that every liberal needs to denounce.
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@respeculator Here is a re-jigged model covering petrol and diesel prices.
Fuel prices are WA monthly avgs from fuel watch.
I've changed COGS + retail margin to a variable component rather than nominal. (Jan is calc'd to get $65/bbl oil)
This lands us at ~$130/bbl.
Seems reasonable.
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@Nadposting Thx 🙏.. How to you calc diesel and jet fuel margins into the mix? Singapore Jet fuel is >US$200/bbl I believe..
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My 2c on paper vs physical barrels:
If you start with January fuel prices, take the tax/excise and implied refining margins away, the delta to oil px is your cost of sales.
Take March fuel prices and remove all those taxes/costs, you arrive at valuation of a barrel of oil.
Respeculator@respeculator
If you assume Jan & Feb refining margins were the same as 4Q25 (~US$12/bbl) given middle east issues started 28th Feb... then March refining margins at $VEA.AX were around ~US$42/bbl....
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@teagueinvest @respeculator They deferred planned maintenance that was supposed to occur, could be slight curtailment as a result?
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@respeculator production up 10% pcp due to lost time last year though... no higher output (could be a good thing not blowing up the plant!) - begs the question... why arent they getting more output, if not now, then when... and why not now...
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@DinoOmero @Potstirrer111 A) You bought a 3 bed, so not a perfect comparison
B) Effective tax rates on income and consumption (GST) are far higher today so we need to account for that too.
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@Potstirrer111 in my area ''north of melbourne 23kms out'' brand new 2 bed $550k, average income per couple $200k,, so u do the math
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Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London" is heralded as this tribute to the struggles of the homeless
I had a different takeaway. I could feel the contempt Orwell had for what he called the "Tramp mentality". He distinguished himself from their petty theft, lying & laziness
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When I bought Camp of the Saints on Amazon, these were my suggested items:
Vauban Books@VaubanBooks
Our statement on Amazon's suppression of The Camp of the Saints in the United States:
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A character like Albanese is exactly who Orwell was writing about. A couple of recent doublethinks:
- There's no fuel problem, but make sure tyres are pumped up.
- There's no fuel problem, but here's a big press conference about how we secured 1 day's worth.
Make it make sense
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@LeeRespecter Not to mention the cliché examples of Australian popular culture woven in.
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The story beyond the story here is that this piece was obviously written largely by AI. It has all the usual tells, contrast formulations (“it’s not x, it’s y”), the empty emphases (“that matters”), the overly literary, overwritten symmetry (“stretch to include me, or snap back to exclude me”), and of course the triplets.
There is no way the editor did not pick up on this. So why would they still print it? Consider who the author is, look at the subject matter, and then you can probably figure out why they didn’t go back and say: “this is clearly written by AI, and we aren’t going to print it.”
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou
Actual article in the mainstream Australian press today. Denise Sivasubramaniam: “My brown skin has learnt to crawl whenever “Australian values” enter the political conversation.”
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@Emilie_Dye @econoadabsurdam The limit doesn't have to be arbitrary, it could be tied to rental vacancy rates, for instance.
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@econoadabsurdam There isn't infinite demand to move to Australia, but I agree that we shouldn't put arbitrary limits on the number of migrants coming in. Let the market for human capital function freely!
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@ShitValueFund What would the motive be for them to sabotage it?
I can see the motive for Iran to do it, I suppose. More pressure from Aus on US to end the war/blockade now.
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Bet my left nut it's mossad who did it.
Breaking911@Breaking911
A massive fire has broken out at the Viva Energy refinery, one of only two operational refineries in Australia, which processes about 120,000 barrels of oil per day.
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@ShitValueFund This ignores the additional demand of gas to coal switching. Don't forget that we are in shoulder season, if the switching is necessary (due to gas tightness) deeper into this year, or even towards the next northern winter, we're gonna see resilient thermal prices
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Never saw the appeal of buying Coal instead of O&G with the war. Now coal prices back to $135 a tonne and diesel price has doubled (eating most of the margin gains in recent months).
Meanwhile - oil will have sustained demand long after the war is over - to replenish reserves.
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@SimonCotter62 And if we applied the same laws as 200 years ago to modern day criminals people would be hung in the town square....
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I just want to say this- if we apply the same attitudes re smith to our soldiers in the light horse at beersheba, the light horse would be up for war crimes.
Im sorry. The world is nuts
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