They need to ban CoPilot, OpenAI, Apple Intelligence and all the other remora swimming around trying to get some tidbits of data.

The major parties won’t be happy about that!

My front sprinklers are on the fritz. I had to water half of my front yard by hand! Oh well. I had to do the naturestrip anyway.

I’m out watering the garden at the moment.

Well, I am relocating and timing the sprinklers as necessary, patting the dog, listening to birdsong and drinking my morning coffee.

It’s Sunday and I am a Home Owner.

Avo Toast with accompaniments please chef.

There are other ways to source your hardware and tools. Discount Stores and Home/Mitre 10/Total Tools/Sydney Tools/etc are still around.

Wholesale material suppliers are often willing to sell Retail as long as you don’t waste their staffs time. The One True Monopsony (Amazon) also sell most of the stuff from Bunnings, cheaper.

Also AliExpress and Temu have most of the small consumables at a much competitive price. Just remember that some of it will be eWaste in a few months, but that goes for any electronics purchased from anywhere.

The main benefit of Bunnings is that they are open long hours and have lowest-common-denominator products that aren’t too overpriced Also, you buy a sausage made of sawdust and beef fat on the way out (very tasty, although not very healthy.)

Sorry. I am old and they will always be “Safeway” to me. I know that they are called Woolworths, but I can’t get that name into my head.

Yes they are; Because they small businesses, which actually pay their employees a living wage and don’t have the buying power of the big supermarkets.

Even then, all the IGA locals around me and larger IGAs on surrounding towns are still cheaper than Safeway and Coles.

It is very Not-The-Onion, though. It is very believable from a company from the state that bought us Joh Bielke-Peterson and Spud

I’m cleaning pigeon guano off solar panels and gutters tomorrow morning on the 2-storey roof. I don’t want to fall off.

Hopefully Sunday will be in solar-powered, air-conditioned comfort tomorrow at home, rather than solar-powered air-conditioned comfort of the local Trauma ward.

None of the above (unless absolutely necessary)

I can get almost everything I need from Aldi and IGA.

As a customer that has their own UniFi Security Gateway and also ran services from home during the old BigPond Cable days, everything that Nath has said is correct.

Back in the 90’s BigPond used to do everything possible to prevent us from running our own unmetered file sharing network. We had a set of relays and proxies which meant that we were able to share files with other BigPond users, bypassing the billing system. I am sure that the Management at BigPond Cable hated this while the Technicians (who also had BigPond Cable) enabled it.

‘“XXXX”, its Australian of “PISS”.’

That said, it is also appropriate that BCF sell both Great Northern and personal watercraft because it is “Making love in a Canoe” beer.

I hear stories of people wheeling entire shopping trolleys of Lego out the front entry, ignoring the greeters/staff members.

They typically wheel the entire trolley straight to their Drug Dealer where they trade it for their recreation of choice.

The Drug Dealers then put them on BrickLink.

Do you mean that the news agency’s should anonymise photos of Nazis or that someone should use an industrial press to change their appearance?

Kneecap a Nazi, Face-plant a Fascist.

You may want to check your telcos agreement on that.

As far as the Telcos are concerned, we all need to happy little consumers of media.

We aren’t allowed to generate and publish any media of our own.

The Governments agree with them.

The fact that it improves routing efficiently and that Optus does not support it explains all you need to know about Optus.

If it was Nappies and Baby Formula, there would have been prosecutions and security guards wrestling single mothers to the ground.

It is anything like my local Big W, since it was Pokémon Cards and Bathers, it was probably employees supplementing their minimum wage of their 7.5 hour shifts.

Pay your employees a living wage!

I’m waiting for someone to do the same for the “All-Natural” stevia; in almost all “Sugar Free” and “No Sugar” products that aren’t still using Aspartame or Sucralose.

As bad as Sugar is for us, (and as terrible as Fructose is for us), I am confident that Stevia is worse.

If there is already a nationalised system than works, that is fantastic, it shouldn’t be privatised.

Private businesses aren’t charities, but there are benefits that a legitimately free market (not a monopoly, duopoly or cartel) can provide customers. Competition can result in dynamic improvements in value and also in service quality. A nationalised company with no competition can stagnate and be just as destructive as a commercial monopoly.