ephemeral_gibbon

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ephemeral_gibbon ,

In this case it's because if you raised them no-one would want to buy them. The egg laying breeds are a lot tougher and have a lot less meet than the ones bred for meat. They also cost more per amount of meat in the end.

The simple fact is that people don't want to buy that, so it'd just be wasteful to grow them out.

ephemeral_gibbon ,

Ah yes, let's take the low life area and make it 0 life

ephemeral_gibbon ,

If they aren't absolutely essential for some important societal function the aircraft should just be grounded rather than be allowed to fly on leaded. No one's toy or joy ride should be giving thousands of people lead poisoning

ephemeral_gibbon ,

But ranked choice is easy to implement and in practice if everyone would put a candidate second they aren't likely to be knocked out in the first round. There are very limited practical examples where it doesn't provide the optimal outcome.

It also seems to have some level of support and momentum in the US and it seems to me like it'd be better not to get caught in the weeds fighting over which new voting system should be implemented there.

ephemeral_gibbon ,

Fining the shit out of them for their many many environmental breaches. Then when they're bankrupt, re-nationalise them for cheap.

ephemeral_gibbon ,

Buying the shares is cheap if the company is worth nothing /goes bankrupt from fines for their environmental breaches

ephemeral_gibbon ,

Get a newspaper, roll/scrunch up a bit, light it on fire and hold it beneath the nest. Then when they try to fly out their wings immediately singe and they drop to the ground. Then you can step on them with boots. I don't know yellow jackets but that's what I use in Australia for paper wasps (which are very aggressive).

ephemeral_gibbon ,

If it's just passing the fire over the nest it shouldn't catch the wood on fire, but it could damage the paint. You don't need the heat under the nest for long though, just long enough to burn the wings of the adult wasps

ephemeral_gibbon ,

No, it's the privatised sewage companies that have cut costs to the point their infrastructure is crumbling

ephemeral_gibbon ,

Renewables are cheaper and faster to build. In Australia with the renewable resources we have nuclear just doesn't make sense to start building today.

ephemeral_gibbon ,

Yep, I was talking to my grandpa about what invention his parents thought was the most significant in their lifetime, and they had said the radio. They had lived through both world wars which had brought about many many inventions and that was the one they thought was most significant.

Up to that time news was incredibly slow and you couldn't put what was going on on the other side of the country without a massive delay, let alone the world.

Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls ( reneweconomy.com.au )

National leader David Littleproud has reportedly threatened to tear up contracts for wind and solar farm developments, in the latest broadside against large scale renewable energy from the federal Coalition....

ephemeral_gibbon ,

It's a damn gold plated skeleton though. A skeleton of transmission and storage is cheaper and a really good complement to renewables

ephemeral_gibbon ,

That and incentivise smart devices like water heaters that run when power is cheap, which is effectively a rudimentary battery

ephemeral_gibbon ,

It still takes upfront investment. that's easy if you're wealthy but a lot harder if you're pay check to pay check + there's no reason landlords would do it. part of it is the high resolution pricing data, but we need more than just that

ephemeral_gibbon ,

Huh, when I initially read "petty bourgeois" I thought you'd got the term wrong, but when I looked it up to check its a common anglicisation of "petite bourgeois".

I find the latter more intuitive, as it's "little bourgeois", but both are right.

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ ( www.vice.com )

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government's vape reform.

ephemeral_gibbon ,

Sort of, but honestly the vapes have created a new generation of smokers and they should have banned them much sooner (unless you have a prescription and actual plan to use them to quit smoking). They were much easier for new people to get into and we went from smoking dying out to a sizeable number of young smokers.

The tobacco companies have done very well out of vaping

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