I have a motherboard in a state where it won't boot unless you pull and reinsert the cmos battery. After this it will boot exactly once.

It will also boot without issue if you don't have a cmos battery at all. This is obviously not ideal.

I wonder if these issues are related? I purchased the motherboard second hand in this state about a year ago. So it is far too early for this update, but it remains a mystery.

I own my house outright. I own a vacant block of land outright. Soon there will be a house on that block of land, which I am on track to own outright within five years.

I support housing reforms and don't think they should grandfather anything in. Landlord should not be a protected class and housing should not be an investment.

I know what it's like to be incredibly poor and the class mobility that let me go from growing up in poverty to relative wealth no longer exists. It needs to be fixed.

The government said it would work with states and territories to pause further changes to the National Construction Code. It would then consult on ways to streamline the code, including the use of artificial intelligence to help tradies, small business and households in using the three-volume, 2000-page code.

No fuck, don't strap AI to this shit.

“Chief executive [of the Property Council of Australia] Mike Zorbas described the announcements as “sensible” and a “win” for housing supply.

“Let’s also put AI to work turbocharging housing delivery. A smart rollout of AI into planning and assessment systems will give decision-makers the clarity they need and save valuable time in delivering new homes,” he said..

Oi, I said no! Fuck.

So this is a property investment lobby group pushing for a freeze to further improvements to the national construction code and calling for the implementation of AI to weaken environmental protection.

Fuck off knob.

But former industry minister Ed Husic said this week he was concerned about a pause to the code.

Husic said the former Coalition government had frozen new homebuilding regulations, only to rush through a mass of changes in a short period of time. “People who’ve lived in older homes with regulations that weren’t as strong understand why livability is such an issue.”

This guy gets it though.

Given the age of consent is 16, it's a bit stupid to include 17 year olds as children.

Fuck suffering. The system should be focused first on rehabilitation and second on seperating the person from society so they can't harm others.

The infliction of suffering does nothing to help society at all. It just creates horribly broken people in prisons and encouraging hate outside.

If someone can't be rehabilitated I see no issue in providing a comfortable isolated environment for them. Hell, give them whatever drugs they want too, who cares, just keep them away from society.

Gyroscope?

This article is literally "some architect built a tiny home, could million dollar tiny homes on million dollar land parcels be the answer to housing?!".

The answer is no.

Why the hell can't politicians think past next week?

Some of them can, that's why it got built even though it wouldn't be that much help with covid.

My sister worked at a sorting facility. It is shutting down permanently at the end of the year.

Not a good sign :(

Tofu is pretty good when prepared well. Very low chance of contracting some fucked disease too.

But what about capital gains concessions? That can't be ignored, otherwise institutional and large investors will be relatively untouched.

It was about 105f in Perth yesterday. It reached 115f at my friend's place a bit to the northeast.

Didn't read

Ugh, no.

The liberal party are terrible, I don't want them to start claiming they're in support of net zero. Because that's all it would be, a claim. They would continue to push for more emissions and continue their anti science bullshit, just not publically.

I never want to see these fucks in power again.

I wonder where these were published. Any reputable journal should have rejected them outright since the authors are speaking outside their areas of expertise.

No way, any reputable journal would use a process of double blind peer review. The background of the researcher should have no bearing on the decision to publish.

The papers should have been rejected for being shit.

100% this. The headline was deceptive and used the wrong figure. I have no issue with the study itself.

They were protesting outside the US consulate

That's absurd. Reporting super details to the government for 80,000 Australians would not be a significant ongoing cost for any competent provider.

There would be an initial cost to develop the reports, the ongoing cost would be minimal as it would be spread across the existing costs to maintain their reporting infrastructure.

If somehow this is true for some super providers, you should avoid those providers as they are already operating with incredible inefficiency.

I do wonder how it would work for those in defined benefit schemes, but I doubt any of those are above the $3m threshold.

He should be fine, his Australian girlfriend should help him out with the normal stuff here.

One thing that might be useful, when visiting the US many Americans would express concern about Australian spiders. I explained that it wasn't really much of an issue, you just make sure to check for spiders before putting your hands in places, putting on shoes, etc.

The shoes thing seemed particularly outrageous to them. It's pretty simple though, you just look at your shoes before putting them on. Any spiders in there? Any sign of webs? Don't put them on. Easy!

The constant chase of productivity increases can make sense, but only if you're not trying to increase output at the same rate.

We should be trying to reduce the total amount of work done, while increasing the quality of life of all Australians. If that is the goal then productivity increases are a win for everyone.