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Megillah Gorilla posted:I have 2 accounts (no I don't know why) and know some people with three or four because it was easier to set up a new account than remember their login details. Every year when I need to log onto it to do my taxes need to reset my password due to forgetting it. It usually takes far longer to reset my password, then to lodge my taxes. Yay for not having enough money to have a complicated tax return!
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My friend got her rear end spanked by the bar manager at the Carlisle hotel Newtown, immediately after another girl in front of her did. Happy freedom day I guess.
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Oct 11, 2021 10:06
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Solemn Sloth posted:My name in Medicare is different to my name in myGov, like ones an initial and the others my full middle name or something so I can’t link Medicare up to it so I guess I’m never leaving the house again As a person with two middle names, whose middle names in official areas ranges between 1 middle initial or 2, or first middle name spelled out, or both, or some mix, life is a nightmare. Getting my passport made me want to unalive, my uni graduation came with a fight with my mother so huge BC I forgot to check that I will never do any more study. Somehow I managed to get my Medicare linked to my mygov after about 2 week ls, countless hours on hold, and 3 separate office visits with a folder full of my ID related poo poo. I lost my Medicare card in the process and honestly I'm so done I don't care. Pretty sure you can get your vax proof through My Health Record, or call up where you got it done and get it in physical form
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Oct 11, 2021 10:08
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Pubs all seemed busy as I shuffled between houses today. Hope people continue to get tested at any sign of symptoms.
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Oct 11, 2021 10:36
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birdstrike posted:lower mountains shops were 100% masks Legitimately good to hear!
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Oct 11, 2021 10:52
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Looking over the vaccinations stats and a question I have - It's appears to be that once a age group or area goes past 95% first vaccination dose, the totals are no longer updated for that age group / area. Is there a reason for that other than counting further is no longer relavent? Examples from here - https://www.smh.com.au/national/covid-19-global-vaccine-tracker-and-data-centre-20210128-p56xht.html 5 age groups are now over 95% first dose, in NSW 23 LGA's are 95% first dose Edit : Byron Bay now the only LGA in NSW with a below 50% full vacced rate
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Oct 11, 2021 11:41
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Edit : Byron Bay now the only LGA in NSW with a below 50% full vacced rate 2nd does is over 75% which is honestly more then I thought it would be. While not great, as other places around NSW get to 100% hopefully they'll start catching up a bit.
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Oct 11, 2021 11:52
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yoloer420 posted:The resources companies figured out how to convert coal into hydrogen, so now they're ready to greenwash coal mining and get even richer. Edit - because there's no loving hydrogen in coal, so the only thing they can possibly be talking about is using the coal for energy.
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Oct 11, 2021 12:03
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Senor Tron posted:Vaccine uptake has been quick since the supply issues were sorted, and that has been celebrated, with rates yet to plateau. Yet it's also being said that people who aren't yet vaccinated have had plenty of time and it's their fault for not being vaccinated when % targets are met. But the whole point of a % target is that it will be met when some aren't yet covered.
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Oct 11, 2021 12:14
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The Artificial Kid posted:What's the point of coal to hydrogen when solar electricity is cheaper? Coal is a bunch of hydrocarbons, so yeah there's shitloads of hydrogen in it. There are a bunch of hydrocarbon -> hydrogen processes..... 
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Oct 11, 2021 12:14
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norp posted:Coal is a bunch of hydrocarbons, so yeah there's shitloads of hydrogen in it. There are a bunch of hydrocarbon -> hydrogen processes..... I stand corrected, apparently coal is about 5% hydrogen. But I don't think that's where the bulk of the hydrogen is coming from in this scheme. Coal that is 95% wasted isn't going to be competitive against anything. Edit - holy poo poo apparently it is. "For each 160 tons of coal consumed, three tons of hydrogen are produced along with 100 tons of carbon dioxide." What the gently caress is wrong with these people Edit again - I've been doing some googling and figuring, and I can't get all the figures worked out because I don't know what percentage of the energy in coal comes from the carbon vs other constitutents, but it sort of looks like the energy content of the hydrogen released is less than half the energy of the coal that gets burnt in the process (based on the CO2 output). If they're going to burn coal just loving burn coal, don't pretend. This makes me so angry. The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Oct 11, 2021 12:17
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The Artificial Kid posted:What's the point of coal to hydrogen when solar electricity is cheaper? The process is called coal gasification and it results in the production of hydrogen (and some other pollutants). The links in the post of mine you quoted talk about this and Australia's involvement. They are indeed using the coal to produce hydrogen without electricity as a middleman. The Artificial Kid posted:Edit - holy poo poo apparently it is. "For each 160 tons of coal consumed, three tons of hydrogen are produced along with 100 tons of carbon dioxide." They call it blue hydrogen. The resources sector win be marketing it heavily as a new clean energy source which will save the planet. Edit: don't worry though, the CO2 is going to be pumped offshore and stored safely underground. In other news there is an effort to reclassify the great barrier reef to "totally fine" status. yoloer420 fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Oct 11, 2021 12:23
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The Artificial Kid posted:I stand corrected, apparently coal is about 5% hydrogen. But I don't think that's where the bulk of the hydrogen is coming from in this scheme. Coal that is 95% wasted isn't going to be competitive against anything. The point is it’s a way to funnel money to liberal/national/Labor party donors who have massive investment sunk into what should be obsolete coal infrastructure.
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Oct 11, 2021 12:24
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Why in the name of all things unholy isnt hydrogen being done with solar power to crack water?!?! The stupidity on display is mind blowing
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Oct 11, 2021 12:26
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Blue hydrogen is the biggest load of green washing bullshit since the oil industry convinced everyone you can solve the plastic problem by recycling
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Oct 11, 2021 12:31
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Why in the name of all things unholy isnt hydrogen being done with solar power to crack water?!?! For what it's worth this is the SA Labor strategy they are taking to the next election, that they want to get us to 200-300% renewables and use excess energy to generate hydrogen which can then be stored for use in a hydrogen power plant.
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Oct 11, 2021 13:04
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Senor Tron posted:For what it's worth this is the SA Labor strategy they are taking to the next election, that they want to get us to 200-300% renewables and use excess energy to generate hydrogen which can then be stored for use in a hydrogen power plant. Or for vehicles! Hydrogen is a great fuel, as long as it's produced in a non-hosed way.
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Oct 11, 2021 13:06
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Solemn Sloth posted:Blue hydrogen is the biggest load of green washing bullshit since the oil industry convinced everyone you can solve the plastic problem by recycling Every time someone has a go at me for not giving a poo poo about recyclying I can only laugh at them. Working offshore and carefully segregating waste and then watching all our carefully segregated waste all get dumped into the exact same bin (the stuff that wasn't incinerated aboard, or pulped and dumped into the sea) has made me very cynical about any of these programs.
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Oct 11, 2021 13:31
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So they're saying they consume 160 tonnes of coal, get 3 tonnes of hydrogen and release 100 tonnes of CO2, but what is happening to the rest of the coal? Because 100 tonnes of CO2 = ~27 tonnes of carbon. If the full 160 tonnes is being consumed in some sense that makes it no longer being useful for energy generation then the hydrogen production process is less than 10% efficient (before you even try to burn/fuel cell the hydrogen).
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Oct 11, 2021 13:35
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The Artificial Kid posted:So they're saying they consume 160 tonnes of coal, get 3 tonnes of hydrogen and release 100 tonnes of CO2, but what is happening to the rest of the coal? Because 100 tonnes of CO2 = ~27 tonnes of carbon. If the full 160 tonnes is being consumed in some sense that makes it no longer being useful for energy generation then the hydrogen production process is less than 10% efficient (before you even try to burn/fuel cell the hydrogen). The rest is: carbon monoxide, natural gas, water vapour, coal tar, ammonia, sulphur, and some other crap in lower quantities.
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yoloer420 posted:The rest is: carbon monoxide, natural gas, water vapour, coal tar, ammonia, sulphur, and some other crap in lower quantities. I mean coal tar, ammonia, sulphur are all pretty useful. Although large suspicions on what they will be doing with the Carbon monoxide and natural gas.
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yoloer420 posted:The rest is: carbon monoxide, natural gas, water vapour, coal tar, ammonia, sulphur, and some other crap in lower quantities. well if we start by pumping the carbon monoxide into the houses of those donors mentioned before they can start getting an immediate return on their investments. Everyone wins yay! Edit:getting
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Oct 11, 2021 15:13
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Capt.Whorebags posted:Yes it's all part of god's plan. Not really; Catholic opposition to IVF stems from the fact that a lot of excess embryos are created and are generally destroyed at the end of the process.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:40
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hooman posted:Every time someone has a go at me for not giving a poo poo about recyclying I can only laugh at them. I still do it because 10% of it does get recycled and might as well not make that number worse.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:57
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hooman posted:Every time someone has a go at me for not giving a poo poo about recyclying I can only laugh at them. The Chad Recycler vs. the Virgin Cynical Goon
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The main thing I get mad about with recycling and putting out rubbish in general is that it's unpaid labour for businesses that profit from my refuse and it should be illegal for me to have to take my own bins out without being compensated.
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Oct 11, 2021 21:22
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Flushing wet wipes to own society
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Oct 11, 2021 21:29
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Laserface posted:My friend got her rear end spanked by the bar manager at the Carlisle hotel Newtown, immediately after another girl in front of her did. Happy freedom day I guess. In Newtown they're generally ok at weeding out the creeps on the books. To bad the creep is often who's owns/runs the place. See also: Better Read than Dead and their unionisation effort.
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ColtMcAsskick posted:In Newtown they're generally ok at weeding out the creeps on the books. To bad the creep is often who's owns/runs the place. See also: Better Read than Dead and their unionisation effort. She's going to make a complaint today so hopefully it's dealt with swiftly.
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Oct 11, 2021 22:31
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It's starting to look like Victoria may have reached its lockdown peak. What happens in NSW over the next couple of weeks should give some idea of what Victoria can expect when it opens up in a couple of weeks.
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Oct 11, 2021 23:01
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What vax percentage was NSW at when they peaked? Timing feels about right
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Oct 11, 2021 23:08
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freebooter posted:What vax percentage was NSW at when they peaked? Timing feels about right I'm not sure. I seem to recall it was getting towards the targets. We were having regular mass vaccination events. Holy poo poo. NSW is under 400 cases today.
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Oct 11, 2021 23:14
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didn't NSW stop reporting cases receiving care at home? i thought the case numbers only reflected cases in hospital... or am i cooked
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alf_pogs posted:didn't NSW stop reporting cases receiving care at home? i thought the case numbers only reflected cases in hospital... or am i cooked Nah. NSW reports all new cases daily and it also reports all active cases as well as the hospital numbers. Active cases are under 7,000 now. 766 of those are in hospital. NSW peaked on 11 September and hit 80% first dose a few days later.
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JBP posted:I still do it because 10% of it does get recycled and might as well not make that number worse. This is a pretty good attitude to have imo. Given the choices you have as an individual in the system we've got at the moment, it's better to work with the recycling system than not. Ideally that won't be all you do, reducing the waste produced in the first place is a much better outcome whether it's not taking a plastic bag to put two tomatoes in, or planning your meals a bit better so you're throwing out food. Of course there's only so much you can do at an individual level, so if you've got time/energy to harass politicians to introduce product stewardship and banning lovely wasteful products/materials that's great too. JBP posted:The main thing I get mad about with recycling and putting out rubbish in general is that it's unpaid labour for businesses that profit from my refuse and it should be illegal for me to have to take my own bins out without being compensated. This is less the case now since China stopped accepting low quality waste streams (and similar policies dominoed through S/E asia). For a lot of plastics and kerbside paper collections they subsidise the service fees charged rather than being profitable in and of themselves. Turns out paying for low quality waste streams was built on lovely economics and slave labour  Metals are still good value though but make up a pretty small portion of most kerbside bins (depending on how many slabs a week you're buying)
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Lolie posted:Nah. NSW reports all new cases daily and it also reports all active cases as well as the hospital numbers. Active cases are under 7,000 now. 766 of those are in hospital. considering where they were even a month ago, that's really good news. i wasn't optimistic about the coming months but i'm happy to see number reduce a bit.
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Ethics_Gradient posted:Not really; Catholic opposition to IVF stems from the fact that a lot of excess embryos are created and are generally destroyed at the end of the process. "No you can't wear a rubber, but you also can't get IVF. Knock your wife up as God intended IMMEDIATELY, if you even can, loser!"
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alf_pogs posted:considering where they were even a month ago, that's really good news. i wasn't optimistic about the coming months but i'm happy to see number reduce a bit. We're due to hit 80% double dose next week. If the weather is nice that will be the real test. People will be interacting much more and under few restrictions. I really wish they had kept the pressers going in an effort to get another 5% of people vaccinated.
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Lolie posted:I really wish they had kept the pressers going in an effort to get another 5% of people vaccinated. Is vax supply meeting demand yet in NSW? I know where I am at the moment, rural QLD, there's still quite a few people who want to get vaxxed but are still having trouble getting bookings any time soon.
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Ethics_Gradient posted:Not really; Catholic opposition to IVF stems from the fact that a lot of excess embryos are created and are generally destroyed at the end of the process. True, but I have had this conversation with religious types and talked about donating unused embryos but any form of ART hit a brick wall of "God has other plans for you". I don't talk to those people anymore and it's a win-win.
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