@ValorWealth Oh interesting - unreliable on price or something to do with delivery?
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Gareth Brown
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Gareth Brown
@forager_gareth
Father of three, decent husband, value investor and sceptic (skeptic?).
Sydney, Vienna etc Katılım Temmuz 2016
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@forager_gareth Agree. As an international pilot it is indispensable. (Just need to be careful with big transactions, can sometimes be unreliable)
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My advice, get Wise. Use it for travel needs, use it for overseas-sourced purchases (even if "priced" in AUD, as you'll often get stung for conversion anyway).
As both a proselytising user and a shareholder, I'm biased. But not for no reason.
Scott Phillips@TMFScottP
Absolute highway robbery from Amex on credit card currency conversion fees.
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If you're like me, you'll check vs the mid point pricing the first 5-10 times you use Wise. But then you'll realise you don't need to bother. Because here's a business that's not out to skin you and actually lives by scale economies shared principles.
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Ironically, the reasons given for building AUKUS content in Australia, despite the additional cost, revolve around sovereignty, security and capability, although we all know these are secondary reasons at best. But maybe that reasoning could be applied where it actually matters?
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Plenty of hindsight bias here, but there's clearly no point Australia investing hundreds of billions on nuclear submarines if the country can be brought to its knees easily because of its lack of energy independence.
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Thought this might be of interest @rorysutherland. Vodafone in Australia has notoriously poor coverage in rural and remote areas.
So they've turn it into a clever campaign.
youtube.com/watch?v=UD7PQh…
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Computershare: Hey, you know that shareholding you've had for 20 continuous years, where you reported the TFN back when Howard was PM and we have your phone number, address and email on file? Yeah, we need you to log in and tell us you're not American.
Me: .......
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Moon base being built for cost of 7 months running NDIS
Kalshi@Kalshi
JUST IN: NASA announces $20 billion plan to build permanent moon base
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I swear there are a few thousand fax machines in the UK still operating for the sole purpose of making Companies House disclosures non-machine readable and, ideally, illegible to human eyes.
afr.com/wealth/investi…
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@10footinvestor 😄
That's typically why you get a Torana with a front bench seat
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@forager_gareth what about all the babies that are never conceived because the back seat is full of safety seats
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Unintended consequences strikes again.
For a few years after my younger twin brothers came along, my older brother and I used to fight over who got to sit on the car floor, until the folks saved enough for a used Torana with a bench seat.
Pretty sure they're onto something here
Sam Ashworth-Hayes@SAshworthHayes
In the United States car seat laws mandating use until age 8 save 57 lives each year at the cost of about 8,000 births.
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@JeremiahDJohns Kangaroos polling tougher than chimpanzees is the funniest one
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Can't decide which is crazier - the guy who thinks he could beat a grizzly bear, or the guy who thinks he'd lose a fight to a rat.
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@AlboMP What about some laws about governments letting the entire petroleum value chain moving overseas? Hello?
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We've just introduced laws to crack down on petrol price gouging with huge fines.
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@AvidCommentator Although the short term demands of parenting are also high, no other cohort has as clear an incentive to be voting based on their intuition about the long term direction of the country.
Pretty damning on that front, especially for the Libs. Also unsurprising.
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This is quite interesting, One Nation leads in the primary vote for voters with children under the age of 18.
Meanwhile, the Coalition is receiving just 16% of the primary vote of this cohort.
Not exactly the "party of aspiration" are they.
Chart: Sky News
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Some elite trolling here from Primo, adding the "Now Resealable" signage while keeping the largely non-unsealable peel. Top notch innovation.
Gareth Brown@forager_gareth
In Europe, this would be where you open your ham. In Australia, this is a fun trick they play on you before you pull out a knife.
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@Igwah We still buy it clearly, although freshly cut from the deli is miles better.
Frank Lowy started out slinging smallgoods from his deli in Blacktown, maybe it's an overlooked gold mine.
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@forager_gareth Met the guy that ran marketing for primo in the Maldives a decade ago. Bro was loaded with a house in Vaclause (sp?). The innovation is working - just not for the customer.
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@Mangan150 @archi_tradition Český Krumlov. Was an amazing little town 20 years ago. Now overrun with tourists. Go out-of-season if you're still keen
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@archi_tradition What city is in the photo?
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What are the best small cities in Europe you’ve visited?
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