doesn’t read that he’s changed his mind about Trump, be just doesn’t agree with this particular thing.

Ueah, notoce the lack of giant fans, unlike car tunnels, that need then to try and get rid of the toxic pollution.

Australia has e-cargo trikes deliveing mail in many places. Pretty cool ! Theyre out of Switzerland

https://www.justbikes.com.au/news-and-reviews/aus-post-expands-electric-trike-fleet/787992

Many stops and 100 yr old alignment, we don’t take public transit seriously in most of Australia and particularly in Queensland. It can take longer as there is only a service ever 30mins.

One time it was pouring rain, I had to stand on the seat at Eagle Junction Station becase the cover where you wait is like a bus shelter and it was blowing in.

It also shares the line with freight in parts, and our spangly new inland rail freight line will end in suburban Brisbane where they’ll the offload to trucks to transport it 50km to/from the sea port and it does’t extend to the next biggst freight port a few 100km up the state at Gladstone. Many of us seem to think this is a marvelous idea.

Was watching a video of the new metro line in Vietnam and sighed :(

I used to live on the Gold Coast and caught the train all the time as well as the tram on the Gold Coast (was car free living there) My mother asked one time how long it took to come up and see her, I said I don’t know, i was engrossed in my book. She refused to catch the train :)

Another balls up, instead if going to the airport on the Gold Coast they’ve decided to turn Burleigh Heads into a giant bus stop and use buses and Trams.

A decent argument was to be had over should it be extending heavy rail (my pick) l, or light rail to the Gold Coast airport, the new government chose buses …wtf ?

Going to be interesting for the Olympics :)

Speaking of planners, i follow

@drtcombs@triangletoot.party

on Mastodon (a transportation expert who cycles and cycles with her kid) and she put me onto this book

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1907724/s/killed-by-a-traffic-engineer

Thanks for that… Done

Three million?! Who the hell has that much?

80,000 rich Australians, mostly its via an SMSF and they dump.assents in ther to avoid …paying tax , whihc is the entire point of this.

Personally i think the Greens $2Million cap thats indexed is a better idea but Im sure Albo will die on that cross with his hatred of The Greens as he’s now trying to work with the LNP to get it through the Senate instead.

The irony if the endless artickes in the AfR decrying how unfair it all is.

Running alongside articles about how terrible it is there hasn’t been tax reform for 24 years

It’s the same whenever the possibility of death taxes are raised, I am always bemused how the average person is outraged by this, as though a high tax on say >$10Million inheritance is some sort of outrage but inherited dynastic wealth that leads to vast inequality and political manipulation isn’t. Let alone it was often made off the back of generous tax subsidies in the first place, like large super balances.

Gaza , Ukraine both seem popular places to kill kids.

Driveways also seem popular.

Same with Boost, I just don’t use my piefed account becase no Boost support…

People have fogotten what heaphones are for on phones.

I thought it was a ghetto way of hoping a dropped grenade from a drone might bounce off.

Love scooters, myboarter and I jave one. Defintly need to be kept off sidewalks, mixed with bikes and used much more but then I hate cars , sooo…

Support the artists ? Buying from Apple (or Amazon etc) sees you supporting Apple, supporting the publisher, the RIAA. The Artist is at the end of a long chain of grifters and middle men taking their pound of flesh… I’d love to support the artists, if I could donate directly to them. The ones who aren’t, like Taylor Swift don’t need more supoort.

I think thays a good compromise. if you then have an issie with a particular user you can block them individually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-NC_vQqf3E

Not sure I agree with this as any solution, tokeninstic at best, the asshats who can afford $100k+ for a ute won’t give a shit about increased parking fees, well enough of a shit to complain but not enough to stop them. Just ban them.

I…don’t even understand what they wrote, fuck I’m old :(

I don’t log in to YT to watch any videos, I alao use Newpipe and Stube sans account. Grouping them in Tabs to get to is great for me.