My dad had almost exactly that car, which was also almost exactly that low. (Those are OEM wheels but not from the statesman - VS Calais “International”, I think

It had an amazing start up sound sequence of:
- Click! (some solenoid)
- GM fuel pump whine
- WOOF as the 5.0 jumped to life

Bought my (then) 16 year old an iPod last year. Bought their music on Soundcloud and band camp.

It was 1% about $major_platform and 99% about their own mental health. Along with many other supports: epic success!

But Caroline, surely AI will fix that! 🤣

My favourite! I had several pairs but the they had a fault where one would slowly get quieter and quieter. It was the weirdest thing. But I only ever paid for the first pair because I got an “extended warranty” and just kept rolling them over.

Jabra don’t sell earbuds here any more 🤷‍♂️

Omg the Toyota one is SPOT ON

The mining companies do have a very outsized influence on public debate, but the majority of the population lives in urban areas, so the “mining jobs keep Australia going” line doesn’t land as hard as you might think.

The state where I live charges mining companies royalties which it funnels into general revenue, which partly subsidises home solar and battery systems (and also very cheap public transit). I’m waiting on my battery install to happen in late January - demand is HIGH right now.

Hello! Australian here. I am NOT an expert but energy policy here complex. We produce oil and gas but the policy settings favour export to such a degree that Australian-produced gas is priced domestically at the export price. So many people are switching their gas stoves and hot water to electric.

I would stay home to avoid other people not wearing shoes in public.

Point of order, sir - thats a 9-5.

This also is (well?) known in certain very nerdy Lean and Agile software development circles, who borrowed it from manufacturing, but it’s hard to get it into the wider organisation.

I keep saying that "improving productivity in front of a bottleneck cannot increase output, although it may decrease it". A hard won insight from manufacturing which people for some reason resist applying to service and administrative jobs.