u/VastOption8705

I make 160k a year but if I take a local job , I’ll make 100k.

The problem is that the travel hours are brutal and I miss out on so much family time.

I wake up at 5:30, to get ready so that I can be at the office by 8:30. I get home back around 7pm.

Then if there’s any work related dinners or client dinners whatever, that makes it home at 8:30pm.

Also basically I leave home when it’s dark and get back home when it’s dark in winter.

If I take the local job, I’ll take a 60k pay cut before tax, but I can leave home at 8 in the morning and also be home at 6:30pm. Also no client dinners.

Free nice dinners are a luxury, but it gets old.

If I take a 60k pay cut… my borrowing power also goes down heaps.

NSW Ambulance has confirmed several people have been injured as a result of a car hitting a crowd of people in Newcastle this morning.

Paramedics and police are at the scene with 10 ambulances and three helicopters treating a number of people.

The amount of candidates for one nation that have allegedly done dodgy things or have said things that marginalized things is crazy.

People would gladly want former criminals and people who are extremely religious instead of people who think long term? I don’t get this.

2017- One Nation picks former Hells Angel bikie as Logan candidate

2025- One Nation rehires convicted rapist to run federal election campaign

Bruce Preece has been accused of domestic abuse, including a charge of breaching an intervention order.

Another candidate, Tyler Green, has made more than a dozen antisemitic, racist or homophobic posts on social media over the past six years.

One nation accuses labor of being antisemitic yet they choose a antisemitic candidate themselves?

Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later.

Affected fridges “suddenly lost power and stopped functioning immediately after” trying to issue a firmware update through SmartThings, Samsung’s smart home platform, per Star News Korea.

So, renewables are overwhelming the networks which is great, so we either use it or store it?

We’re letting AI data centres chew up more and more energy. AEMO predicts energy use by data centres will increase from its current 3 per cent of operational demand to approximately 13 per cent.

The proposed Mamre Road Data Centre Campus in Western Sydney is planned to have a 1.2 gigawatt capacity, consuming over 25 per cent more power than the Tomago Aluminium Smelter.

We are ALSO, letting Anthropic build a data centre in QLD that chews up the same amount of power as 1.5 million households.

This is absolutely insane. We WILL have more expensive power bills because of this. Let’s be honest, they possibly wont pay 30% tax rates as well.

In other countries power bills have gone up due to AI data centres. What’s to say it won’t happen here?

Renewables was meant to be FREE power for the people not subsidied power for the large corporations.

The corporate watchdog has issued a warning against price comparison websites for allegedly misleading consumers.

ASIC has launched multiple court actions regarding the range of products offered and sites promoting multiple leads from a single brand.

The products that are listed by many comparison sites are selected and ordered based on what the product providers pay to the comparison sites, and they may not give you a full view of the market," Mr Kirkland said.

It seems crazy but somehow Apple is able to support updates for the iPhone 12 which was 6 years ago.

Windows was able to support security updates for devices released many years ago.

Now to android… Many mid-range Android phones stop receiving official software updates after two to three years

Anecdotally I know many schools have went with Apple iPads or iPhones for this exact reason. Expecting updates for 6 years to come.

It’s a STUPID amount of ewaste the way Google and other android phone companies do it.

In the US and other places, they seem to have more of a celebrity culture.

Maybe it’s just my friend circle and workplace but I haven’t seen much people talk about celebrities at all.

Labor does a lot of good, but I really hate this garbage where donors or industries have given lots of money seem to get these benefits.

Labor won the election on vowing to get rid of corruption and having integrity. They voweled to have a strong NACC.

Many things they've done seems to show they're actually not that serious about integrity.

1. Gambling, lets get this straight, there were MANY recommendations to straight up BAN gambling ads. But no, Labor decides not to, they also coincidentally have also received many donations.
2. Catherine king recently accepted Qantas platinum. This really doesn't pass the pub test, especially given the pro Qantas actions. ALSO not making Qantas pay back that 2.7B during covid.
3. NACC seemingly is not fully doing it's job.
4. Paid access to the PM and other ministers, I think that doesn't pass the pub test.

To me, it feels like Labor is actually not that serious on integrity and transparency at all. The way they have responded to some criticism regarding these issues is quite defensive too.

The thing that I'm most incensed/irritated about is the paid access to the PM and other ministers. Like HOW is that okay?

I was charged 800 bucks over a month on my etoll AND also received 2 traffic fines. What can I do about it?

The tricky part is the guy used a white car (same colour) also same brand of car

I have very basic black and white plates, so that’s why it was easy to copy.

The nasdaq is trading high. Stock P/E ratios are high.

Bond markets are going ballistic and are above 5% for the US. They’re also high globally.

There also the pretext of war in Iran and high oil costs.

The federal net interest payment on the U.S.'s now-$40 trillion national debt reached 18.5% of revenue.

Question: is this just a pre GFC thing or a pre decade of stagnant stocks and high interest rates?