When we built out house, we didn’t want gas; we didn’t want mains power either but the only way you can go legally off-grid is if you have a petrol-powered backup power supply (IE Generator).

Due to noise restrictions, you are not allowed to have a generator within a distance of permanent dwelling, which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia, even though modern petrol generators are almost silent.

We planned with the builder for No Gas; that was a shmozzle too! The site supervisors claimed it was “Impossible” and installed a gas line anyway. When all the plumbing and wires were stolen by copper thieves, they reinstalled it! They even claimed that Electric hot water was a stupid idea (until their CEO pointed out that he had Electric Hot Water and didn’t have any problem)

This was only 7 years ago.

Nowadays, heat pumps are ubiquitous in new houses and gasless builds are encouraged.

Thankyou. I didn’t even realise!

If I were the Democrats, I would be campaigning on a platform of “Any Public Assets sold during this presidency will be compulsorily acquired by Eminent Domain and returned to the Public when they regain power.

This will reinstate public faith in the Party and also devalue this presidency’s fundraising grifts.

China has already successfully destroyed manufacturing in most Pacific “first world” countries by undercutting us.

The fact that US, Australian, Japanese, Korean and New Zealand manufacturers were so ready to outsource to China in the first place, just to save a few cents in the dollar is how they got us.

I was just quoting Jim Green, as per the Wikipedia entry for the Lowy Institute.

Some of their “polls” have been very biased, especially the recent one saying that Australians trust the NZ PM, even though no Australian has ever heard of him.

Just an anecdote. I agree with you that it is probably some sort of pinniped (seal or sea-lion)

Especially when it is published by the this "disgraceful propaganda campaign".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowy_Institute

One of the tests they have for Palaeontology students is give them a Sea-lion skull, grey wolf skull, red fox skull and cast of a Thylacine skull.

Most of the time, they can differentiate the sea-lion or the Wolf, (both Canids), but cant differentiate the Fox from the Tassie Tiger.

The only workforce that can be reduced by LLMs are those that just send emails back and forth and don’t actually do any real work.

The fact that Executives and Middle-managers are also the highest paid part of the workforce, maybe it can reduce payroll after all.

Driver assistance systems should never be called “Self Driving”. The only electric or hybrid vehicle that could even remotely considered “Self-Driving” is a Train, Tram or Bus, and even then, they all atill have drivers.

The Shit Lite Party proving that they can be just as evil as (what is left of) the Shit Party.

There won’t be a long term.

Anyone claiming that Biden was senile needs to look at the current incumbent. Anyone claiming that Harris was overly emotional, needs to look at the current incumbent.

The only way out of this is to completely destroy the GOP, just like we have completely destroyed the Australian Coalition last month.. Only then can things be turned around.