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It actually sounds like the van's panels (I'm guessing especially the large roof panel) can provide non-trivial power:

"Even if I'm stuck somewhere we just have to wait a couple of hours and it'll self charge and bring me home." (emphasis added)

No doubt the huge array of panels on his roof can give it a lot more juice though!

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Stealing Solar424's comment:

"TOMATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Kaela said calmly

MHLoppy2 ,
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It's hard to compete in a niche where there's already a well-established incumbent (OzBargain). Almost everything submitted there is just links to the site anyway, which seems superfluous.

We sat down with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and asked her your questions ( www.abc.net.au )

Ahead of her first sit-down TV interview since becoming premier, the ABC asked voters in Croydon, Werribee, Geelong, Mildura and Ms Allan's hometown of Bendigo what issues they thought were most pressing, and if they had any questions for the premier.

[Satire] Australia Day to be moved to Scott Morrison’s resignation day ( chaser.com.au )

In calendar news, Australia Day is officially changing date after this year and will no longer be celebrated on January 26th. With a new date of January 20th chosen instead in order to celebrate the day that Scott Morrison announced his departure from politics....

Senior Coalition figures have opened up about their nine years in power. You won't believe some of the things they told us ( www.abc.net.au )

Over months of filming and 60 on-camera interviews for the ABC's landmark political docuseries Nemesis, the free character assessments between former Coalition colleagues fly thick and fast. But as well as the blue language and invective, there are also moments of remorse and regret....

MHLoppy2 OP ,
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Did you actually read through the article, or are you just assuming the contents based on the (admittedly mildly clickbait-y) title?

MHLoppy2 OP ,
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Yeah the titles from ABC News are generally....... not my personal choice these days, but I guess they feel the need to play whatever the title game is.

MHLoppy2 OP , (edited )
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Covid, yes, but not widespread lockdowns (and some other stuff from the "early covid" period) which is basically what the article is reflecting on. For example, I hadn't really thought about how it could affect child social development due to significantly reduced social exposure.

This isn't really a "covid is over" piece. 'It's still a serious human pathogen' wouldn't be a sub-heading if it was.

As Aussie as vanilla slice: how the delicate European dessert became the snot block of Aussie bakeries ( theconversation.com )

[Victorian premier Jeff] Kennett’s press release promoting the event declared this “important Australian culinary delicacy has tantalised Australians since white settlement” and “the pursuit of the best vanilla slice and the best vanilla slice baker in Australia should be of great national interest”....

MHLoppy2 ,
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Good stuff, sometimes aggressive measures need to be taken to look out for the interest of the shareholders. Plus the fuel discount is a perfectly timed Christmas gift, exactly what Australia needs in a cost of living crisis. Bravo Woolies, very proud to have my superannuation invested in a company that cares!

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It’s a mixed bag (haha). Sometimes they do a decent job, sometimes not so much.

New migration strategy aims to reduce Australian arrivals to 'sustainable level' ( www.abc.net.au )

Temporary migration has jumped sharply over the past year — largely driven by foreign students — leading to a record intake. This was previously described as a post-COVID 19 influx of returning foreign students, but the ABC understands the government believes this is more than a one-off surge....

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It’s funny when the two of us more-or-less agree on the summary. Nonetheless, whoever reads both often ends up just basically reading the original lol.

NZ has already held a supermarket study. Did it disrupt their duopoly? ( www.abc.net.au )

While a new [Senate] inquiry looks set to examine [Coles and Woolworths’] profit margins, New Zealand offers a lesson in just how difficult it is to disrupt a duopoly. [They have] no Aldi or IGA, and the duopoly there has also faced allegations of price gouging....

MHLoppy2 ,
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I agree it’s a useful insight, but it’s the only sentence in the entire article that isn’t instead discussing the merits of lump sum vs regular payment. Saying that “it’s the takeaway” from the linked article is insanity.

The Wikipedia page for Hitler includes the sentence:

The stock market in the United States crashed on 24 October 1929.

That doesn’t make it the takeaway of the article!! If you want to make a case for something, bring the right evidence. As the researchers themselves have said, this study can’t just be generalized to high-income countries.

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In this experiment, external funding is paying for the handouts.

In a self-contained system, the same system/community providing the handouts would be generating the revenue for them (e.g., via taxation). Think of existing social welfare where “the system” generates the revenue that pays for the welfare programs.

League of Geeks games studio lays off half its workforce, 'indefinitely pauses' production on Jumplight Odyssey ( www.abc.net.au )

One of Australia’s largest video game developers has made half of its workforce redundant, citing issues such as rising cost-of-living and recession fears scaring off investors. The development team of the cancelled early access game Jumplight Odyssey will be put into the game in its final update and half of any future sales...

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Holy shit, half, and they nearly shut down. I hope that’s not just going to be a death-spiral for them, where losing that many staff ends up killing the company anyway :(

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I try 🫠

A few months ago BlackRock launched low-cost ETFs for global infrastructure and property ( www.investordaily.com.au )

I haven’t seen much discussion about this, but noticed them when perusing some PDS’s. The headliner is that they both have fees of 0.15%, lower than everyone else’s equivalent offerings in the Australian market:...

MHLoppy2 OP ,
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The hedging cost should be part of the fee?

MHLoppy2 OP ,
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Based on my recollection of the PDS (remember that I read these 4 months ago), the cost of hedging is built into the fee shown in my table.

Afaik they're not currently offering an unhedged version of these ones. The cost of hedging is pretty small in absolute terms though, for Blackrock's other stuff I think it's around 0.03% difference between the hedged/unhedged.

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