Ian Donaldson

Processes that deal with people should be people processes. By which I mean they should be imbued with common sense, capable of empathy, willing to compromise and neither condescend nor patronise.

@AvidCommentator Smashed again you mean: abc.net.au/news/2025-10-1…

The main conclusion I have come to assessing the capital gains tax regimes of 8 nations vs Australia's new proposed system.... Australia is going to get smashed by the Laffer curve.

@allie__voss In Australia you can still go anywhere in the domestic terminal and you don’t need a boarding pass to clear security. But you can’t go to an international gate and never could.

@allie__voss It’s not just because of security but also because USA unusually has no outbound immigration. In other countries, even if there was no security you’d be unable to go to the gate for an international flight without a ticket and passport.

As someone who never experienced airports before 9/11...was there truly NO security? Like you could just walk wherever like a train station?

@Socretestruth @planesupnorth @Realneo101 Fill in the blank: Qantas, the spirit of ___________

@planesupnorth @Realneo101 Which airline has “Australia” on it?

Why isn't this the front page of the New York Times?

@MamaCranky @taipan168 They don't make routine airport or terminal-wide announcements. They certainly make gate announcements, and so good microphone technique is still important.

@taipan168 Changi doesn’t make announcements anymore. Too big too many flights

Sounds like our mate Bruno might need some new hearing aids.

@vorganicpotato2 @DanFriedman81 440 for PAL and 425 for NTSC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc

@enyfule @DanFriedman81 It’s actually a regular composite signal frequency modulated into a disc, so for ntsc that’s 480 (viewable) lines and interlaced (or 525 lines including VBI) It’s essentially the full resolution of the analog signal, just with a bit more noise bc of the modulation

In the 90s, Criterion originally published on Laserdisc, and almost nobody bought Laserdiscs and the studios didn’t care about it, so Criterion got licenses to do laserdiscs of all kinds of big popular movies. Laserdiscs, by the way, were movies on optical media before DVD compression, so they were the size of a vinyl record and only held about half an hour of 320x240 video. A movie came on two dual-sided discs and you had to flip it and then change it several times during the movie. There were Criterion Laserdisc editions of Ghostbusters, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dr. No and Pulp Fiction. When DVDs became huge sellers, studios stopped licensing their major mainstream catalog titles to a third party boutique home video publisher, so Criterion focused more on restorations of older and obscure titles and foreign films. A few directors who were Criterion fans like Michael Bay and Wes Anderson got their stuff licensed to Criterion, but otherwise, the studios were releasing their own DVDs and BluRays. Even movies Criterion had released on DVD in the late 90s or early 2000s like Silence of the Lambs and Robocop got their rights yanked by the studios and Criterion had to stop printing those movies. Now that relatively few people buy home video again, Criterion is able to get the rights to mainstream movies again. So doing Criterion editions of movies like Kpop Demon Hunters is actually something old, not something new.

@enyfule Thoughts and prayers.

Local grifter can't do maths.

@Nirgal451 You have two buckets that each hold 10L. Into the first bucket you add 10L of water. The bucket is now full. The second bucket has a hole that leaks 1L/minute. You fill it at 2L/minute. After 10 minutes, this bucket is also full. The net amount of water you have is 20L.

For the dummies like Drew. “Permanent” and “temporary” mean different things.

Fixed itself up after a delay notification though.

@Flighty I think you might have a DST bug.

It makes zero sense that Iran would fund two low level low impact attacks on Jewish institutions in Australia. For what purpose? How does upsetting a handful of Jews and weaponising antisemitism advance Iran’s global interests. Wong and Albo must think we’re fucking mushrooms.

@NatashaTheRobot “Designed by Apple in California” — I remember trying to use iCloud file/photo syncing in on crappy Australian internet in the late 2010s and it would just fail silently, give up or otherwise refuse to work properly. Just an assumption that wifi was fast and reliable.

One thing that really stood out to me this time when watching the #WWDC25 keynote - after living in India for the past ~5 years and being nomadic for many years before that, and having my own business - was how much of the Apple technology is focused on a generic "American" lifestyle of driving your kids around, shopping for random things you see, Uber Eats etc... It was super hard to relate. It actually reminded me of when I worked at Google, and made me wonder whether Apple employees are only building for themselves / their Apple lifestyle.

@MinjuFox @ChozangNoyb @razibkhan So that’s the irony. If the parents/grandparents mother tongue is Hokkien etc and the kids are being taught Mandarin at school, the language spoken at home will be neither. English becomes the default.

@enyfule @ChozangNoyb @razibkhan But English grew more than mandarin

@ChozangNoyb @razibkhan en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Man…

@razibkhan Why did Chinese dialects go from 60 % to 9% in just 40 years?

@nonestlex Appreciate the point you’re trying to make but this is also Singapore 1950.

This is what happens when you create a low-tax, business friendly environment: societies PROGRESS. For the last 70 years, the West has done the opposite, and our cities are falling apart. Melbourne is full of crack heads and violent 'machetes'. We are falling behind. Fast.

@dhh *free rein

Is no one left at Apple to check the work before it goes out the door? It's like every junior PM or ad manager has just been given free reigns to do whatever. I remember an Apple that sweat the ads as much as the packaging as much as the product.

@Commsday @nonestlex straitstimes.com/singapore/nigh…

@nonestlex Clearly you haven't been to Orchard Towers!

I can do the same job in Singapore for triple the salary, whilst paying half the tax. No machete gangs, no transgenders, and a business-friendly government. No wonder Australia’s most educated are fleeing in droves.

@flightradar24 Fast for a turboprop.

Question: How long does it take to fly a Dash 8-400 from Victoria, Canada to Honolulu, USA? Answer: 8 hours.

@ShorinScythe @DelusionPosting *klatch

@DelusionPosting Clearly we need to release the extended edition where a coffee clutch gathers and discusses makeup tips for half an hour. I can't beleive they forgot that part of the story...