While I agree with you, she’s in far better shape now than she has been for years. During a 50-day stay in hospital, she gained 7kg and grew 3.4cm. One presumes that recovery is continuing.

She certainly is not dead.

In the news today: It’s official. Pauline Hanson is a racist.
I nearly made a post about it - but I decided it wasn’t actually news to anyone.

Wait. Hear him out. If he’s offering beers, I might be interested!

I was saying they’re not likely to axe those seats. Sorry. 😀

The back seats serve a purpose: You can buy a ute through your business as it is clearly a work vehicle. If you want your business to effectively pay for your family car, you make a ute that can drive your family around.

That’s why tradies buy these. They don’t need the dual cab for work, they need the tray to justify buying the family vehicle through their business and expensing/depreciating it.

Those first two videos are a bit extreme - I obviously wouldn’t have attempted either of those in the Outlander. I doubt I’d have attempted it in the Teslas, either. Those were big risks with minimal rewards in both examples. Thought the second was obviously a planned “Is this possible?” crossing.

I’m equal parts impressed and horrified. I know enough about electrics to be horrified at what water can do if it gets in your motor. Would the vehicle be covered under warranty if you inundated your motor doing this?

Lap around the sun day! Yay!

“Start > CMD > Type ‘Net Statistics Workstation’”
“Read the line where is says ‘Statistics since’ and a date”
“Oh, it’s three weeks ago? It appears the reboot failed. That happens sometimes. Let’s go ahead and reboot it again”

Yeah well, the protester didn’t want to miss out on the show. There’s no point in protesting during the first song and getting escorted out. Palestine is super important and all - but not worth missing out on the whole gig!
(I’m probably being nasty, but I suspect there’s a kernel of truth in this)

I don’t know where she got the idea that Radiohead weren’t huge before 1997. That was the year Ok Computer was released, and that’s about as big as Radiohead got.

They didn’t. The kid is fine.

This case is interesting, as the kid was off the radar. She was homeschooled, and part of the reason it’s newsworthy is that the dance instructors didn’t really have a channel to report their concerns to Child Protection like a teacher would.

The case is still unfolding, as the parents are still in court and more details are released.

It’s not a dig at the Shark, specifically. It’s my lack of familiarity with electric vehicles in general. I’ve never seen an electric vehicle drive through water.

The depth of the water was about the height of the wheels. Which I’m guessing is past 400mm. I probably wouldn’t have taken the car along that road to that crossing if I’d known about it ahead of getting there. I was already calculating the odds of getting across and what I’d do if I got bogged down in the water etc.

This is all true, but there’s more:

• Our election campaigns are six weeks by definition. No political ads filling the airwaves the rest of the time.
• We have preferential voting. You don’t have to choose only between the shit and shit-lite parties. You can vote for someone else, and still put shit-lite as your preferred option if the independent you voted first for didn’t get in.
• The electoral commission will help pay for your campaigning if you secured 5% of the vote. Evens the field a bit for not-rich people to run.
• Political signs on houses are pretty rare. Maybe a couple of diehard fans.
• Nobody gets real angry at you if you vote for someone different.

On the other side, I gladly take my Outlander off the beaten track. I took it through a river crossing last month that I probably shouldn’t have. It handled it like a champion, though.

I don’t know whether I’d take one of these through that same crossing.

Ok, so I’m old. I only know the first five acts on this list. And Blink 182 is probably the only act I’d pay to go see.

But they’re sooooo good! And they’re not even that bad for you - depending on the brand/variety you get.

I deal with the Debian ecosystem (raspbian) regularly at home and while I’ve been doing it for 20+ years, I’m just more comfortable in the RedHat world. So, my laptop/tablet run Fedora. It’s one of the less popular distros for some reason, but it’s so comfy!

The biggest problem we faced in 2020 was that the federal government of the day dropped the ball. One of the federal government’s primary duties is border control. The borders should have closed and national quarantine facilities engaged to control and protect repatriated citizens.

This ended up being left to the State Governments. And in fairness, the premiers stepped in and filled that void as best they could. It was heartening - party politics took a back seat to addressing issues that faced everyone. Internally, the states had a real mixed bag of responses - and their varying levels of success should be case studies on how to approach this in the future. Melbourne locked down, and while that was no fun for anyone, the death rates of Melbourne are a tiny fraction of any comparable city in the USA.

WA just shut the whole border. This had its challenges, but from within we cruised through 2020 and 2021 as though there was no pandemic. A couple of short, sharp semi-lockdowns in there when the odd minor outbreak threatened is all.

NSW dabbled a bit with locking down, but opened up again too quickly. We saw the effects that had on case numbers.

It isn’t that the public doesn’t trust the measures employed - it’s that they were a patchwork of different measures and they had varying degrees of success. Hopefully, the next time this happens, the federal government will learn from 2020 and step in with a nation-wide response that we can all get behind.

What happens if you’re a carer and not the sick one? Do you take your kid to get the medical cert?
Relevant here, as I took the day yesterday looking after a sick kid. Getting to a doctor would have been a challenge as he was in no shape to ride and my wife had the car.

This is rather good. So much so, that I googled it looking for what these lyrics were from. Since I couldn’t place the song.

Colour me impressed:
No results found for “i’ll never be the muse that inspires that rush”.