u/radmgrey

Scrolling through the comments in posts on Facebook and TikTok discussing whether QLD should adopt DLS gave me a headache. Some of the absolute rubbish I saw:

• One woman claiming she lived through the trial in early 90’s while living in Rockhampton and couldn’t get the kids to sleep because the sun was still up at 10pm. It took me about 3 seconds to google the latest sunset time for Rockhampton and it is 6:49pm in mid January - meaning the latest sunset during the trial was 7:49pm, not 10pm or later.

• A dude saying it’s unfair to the farmers because they work by the sun. If farmers work by the sun, why would it matter what time it is anyway? They can still work by the sun like they did before.

• Someone saying it would cause a crisis in North Queensland because of the humidity in the afternoon. Last time I checked, DLS has exactly 0 impacts on the weather. You will still experience the exact same humidity levels you experience today if DLS was implemented.

• An insane amount of people saying “just wake up earlier if you want more sunlight at the end of the day”. Doesn’t this work both ways? Couldn’t QLD just get daylight savings and those same people suggesting everyone wakes up earlier just wake up later and they wouldn’t be impacted? It’s literally exactly the same argument.

• A bloke claiming it’s unfair for tradies to expect them to work an extra hour in the arvo sun. What?? DLS would mean outdoor workers are in the afternoon sun for an hour LESS. Typical tradie hours in QLD are tools down at 2:30pm, so if it was DLS tools down would realistically be at 1:30pm during summer months.

Idk man I’m all for people saying they don’t like DLS, but the reasons people were giving just made no sense. Most comments were from people of an older age too, which makes me think this is some sort of generational thing. Interestingly, retirees would be the least impacted by DLS too but many of the comments were from people clearly over the age of 70 (whether they are retired or not is unknown though I guess).

Has anyone else noticed the hysteria and borderline fear mongering over DLS that comes from Queensland? What happened here compared to other states?

SEQ in storm season is off its head. It’s one of the things that shocked me most after moving up here from down south. The thunderstorms are absolute monsters in this part of Australia, and I get excited for it every year.

Obviously, I don’t love the destruction that comes with them. Lots of heartache involved every year for those directly impacted. Heaps of hail damage around Brisbane last year, including my own car. However, i’m a bit of a weather nerd so I just love seeing nature put on a show. From memory, October is when the storms really start getting nasty?

As the years have gone by, I have noticed that Brisbane’s Ekka holiday is the worst day of the year for general traffic - particularly in the afternoon. All Gold Coasters are still commuting to and from work while Brisbane folk flood down for a day out. The mix is diabolical every single year.

The section between the Centenary bridge and the Ipswich motorway M7 exit (outbound). I don’t think I have EVER been able to get over 80km/hr despite it being a 100 zone and I have lived here for 5 years now. The right lane is always, and I mean ALWAYS being held up by people sitting at 80 with an enormous line of frustrated people behind them.

My theory is people do this because the right lane exits to the Ipswich Motorway. But what baffles me is the left lane (turns into the middle lane after Mount Ommaney) also exits to the Ipswich motorway? Sure, the left lane eventually exits at Wacol, but how hard is it to simply change lanes once you’re on the Ipswich motorway? That’s what I do.

All those tens of millions of dollars wasted on a second exit lane just for everybody to pretend it doesn’t even exist.

Extended trade for retail in party suburbs was rejected.. shocker

Can someone please explain to me like I’m 5 years old why Queensland state governments insist on maintaining this city/region as a retirement village? I grew up in a NSW rural town 7-8 hours away from any cities and our supermarkets stayed open later than Brisbane (Australia’s third largest city by the way - it’s easy enough to forget given how we operate as a “city”).

I have been here for many years now and I have noticed there is an intense stubbornness from seemingly both major parties at the state level on this issue. I understand that shopping hours aren’t a particularly huge deal to most, but I don’t get why this state is so reluctant to make a seemingly very normal move to extend trading hours for a region that is home to millions of people.

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I hate how we sit in middle lanes when being overtaken on the left and/or there’s nobody to the left of us. We really do drive like losers here in Australia - sorry, it’s the truth.

I was born and raised here but I’m well travelled and I think that’s the problem. Driving in Europe a few times will really open your eyes to how stupid the average Australian is behind the wheel. We just suck at getting even the simplest stuff right.

The M1 between Brisbane and GC gets me every time. Why are the slowest vehicles always stubbornly sitting in the third lane of a four lane motorway? WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING THERE? I understand it’s legal to do it but it’s legal to do a lot of things, that doesn’t mean you SHOULD do it. There should be some element of common sense applied, especially in public spaces like roads, public transport, shopping centres etc.

So I’m hanging around Perisher today expecting some snow as it shows on the forecast, but nothing except rain. Will the weather apps just say snow if rain is expected and the temperature reaches a certain threshold? Or is there a bit more thought that goes into it than that?

Hoping to catch a little bit of snow before I leave but I’m not sure it’s going to happen. My car was saying 1 degree so I’m sure it was getting close to snowing. Is it more likely to snow overnight?

Hey everyone!

I’m doing a road trip down south next week and I’m feeling keen to check out Thredbo. The weather forecasts some snow on maybe Tuesday and Wednesday which would be pretty cool to see (no dramas if it doesn’t - just being in the alpine region is cool enough for me).

I gotta say though, driving in snowy conditions is something I have never done before. I am well out of my depth. I see a lot of talk online about potentially needing chains. I drive a 2021 Nissan navara with brand new mud tyres. Are chains something I need to concern myself with so early in the season? My only plan is to drive to Thredbo and walk around from there. Is there anything else I need to know regarding driving in icy conditions? I’ll take it slow.

Any advice in general is welcome. Thanks!

Been on finasteride + minoxidil for almost two years now. First year and a half was awesome - all shedding completely stopped and hair was looking great. I stopped even thinking about my hair.

Fast forward to January 2026 (1.5 years into treatment), the shedding returned. Seemingly out of nowhere. I’m talking the kind of shedding I experienced before I was even taking fin + min). Visited my derm in February and he suggested it was temporary as the new hair I gained upon starting treatment may have reached the end of its life cycle.

It’s now mid May and the shedding hasn’t slowed down at all. This is month 5 and will be heading into month 6 come June. My hair is the worst it has ever looked (yes, even worse than before I started meds - scary times). At what point do I decide to let go of the idea that this is temporary? It’s difficult to wrap my head around how well I responded initially to all of a sudden losing all my gains plus some in a matter of months. 28M and NW 2-3 btw