Well, I’m old enough to seem old to a 12 year old.

This is how every generation communicates until they’re old enough to learn how to communicate.

Almost certainly misleading, but the underlying truth is that shits fucked

Yeah. I was having a chuckle about those cheap Mexican electric trucks. I genuinely expect the US will be swamped with them in decades to come after any of a dozen predictable calamities have befallen the hapless US.

Hmm… not really.

I mean sure Trump trying to align himself with this type of machismo is as pathetic as it always is.

… and yes the 300 spartans died while the persians did not die, so they were victorious in that sense.

However, the movie does try to push the narrative that those 300 spartans won an important victory because their death united the armies of the city states of greece to defend against the oncoming persian army.

Everything I said applies to voters just the same. This type of thing only speaks to the people who already agree. Anyone who is ambivalent isn’t going to be motivated by witty snarky whiny voice.

That’s true, there’s usually a time limit for statements from the public.

However, when you’re making a statement your primary objective is for your points to be received by your audience. Talking faster does not support that objective.

I don’t agree that witty snarky is the right way to get virality or traction, it’s too easy for the minds you’re trying to reach to disregard. Greta Thunberg demonstrated what a young female orator stating the obvious can achieve.

Of course it’s great that she’s taken the effort to take a stand for something she believes in, while most people are just moaning about it on line, but while the style of delivery is shareable it’s not really how one communicates with the public or with public officials.

The only people who will think this is a “good speech” are the people who already believe what she does, when she’s really trying to reach everyone else.

For that reason the snarky witty basis isn’t really helpful. She also needs to reduce her pace by about two thirds.

There’s no way anyone would think moving to the US is an advantage.

Moving a company headquarters is a 5 year plan.

It’s extraordinarily unlikely Trump will be alive in 5 years.

No one is going to continue these stupid tariffs after he’s gone.

I think most western countries could say that about each other.

Yes, there are shitty landlords in Australia. However, I’ve never encountered mould or a landlord that wouldn’t make appropriate repairs.

I’m sure there are shitty landlords in Canada, and every other country.

Some 35 years ago my 3rd grade teacher explained to us little Aussie battlers… That through history we have usually had a chance to observe what hasn’t worked in the US and improve our own implementation.

Sounds like something the guy who pays the water bill would say.

Yeah, it’s hard to escape that opinion in my own mind.

I try to avoid sweeping generalisations like “american cars are shit” but it just seems to be born out so repetitively that it seems like a truism.

Jeep used to have a certain design aesthetic for their short wheel base models which has been great for decades. But reliability has never matched it and they haven’t been able to transfer it to their other models like the cherokee.

In the Australian offroad scene you never see anything american. The guys building the most capable machines are starting with toyotas and nissans.

Other things have changed. Tiles, lighting, and so on.

My guess is that the prompt is something like:

change the finish on the shower head assembly to silver, update the lighting and shading to emphasise the new finish.

So, halve the water pressure / output in each head.

The bizarre part is that people are looking at this and thinking “yes this improves these photos” or whatever.

It might make the photos more pleasing to someone who is sexually aroused by looking at photos of rooms in houses.

However, it significantly reduces the value of the photos to someone who’s trying to buy a real actual house.

Self-own here guy. Honestly, if this is the best example of use of ABS data you can find, then the census is indeed a huge waste of money.

You’re referencing an obscure line item in school funding:

Rural School Size Adjustment Factor (Reference 4)

This funding line supports small rural schools that require additional resources to reduce rural and urban school disparities.

Not surprisingly, the amount of funding is calculated by enrolments, as I’ve been saying:

Allocation = Primary enrolments × Primary per student rate + Secondary enrolments × Secondary per student rate

The only use of ABS data is to determine whether a population centre is greater than 20,000 people:

Outside provincial locations with more than 20,000 population, as defined by the ABS Urban Centres and Localities (UCL). Using ABS 2021, campuses in Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton-Mooroopna, Warrnambool, Albury-Wodonga, Mildura, Traralgon, Bacchus Marsh, Ocean Grove-Barwon Heads and Torquay-Jan Juc are ineligible.

This really is the antithesis of “census driven funding” that you’re trying to illustrate. They’re not counting 3 year olds, or newly weds, or nubile virgins.

The classification of population centre sizes could easily be determined without the census.

I mean the score from wonder woman was fucking amazing, but gadot wasn’t particularly special.

Compared to… Kids that read books? Sure ok, thatseems obvious.

Oh man.

What if the school had some data like… Oh I don’t know… The number of enrolments of 4 year olds for the last n years. That would certainly be an interesting data point.

It just doesn’t make any sense to me at all to suggest that people are making these decisions with census data.

State education departments don’t have surplus funds. There are no schools sitting empty because someone is waiting for the census to tell them there are no students in the area. Likewise there are no schools being built because the census says there are some 3 year olds I’m the area.

Education departments allocate their scarce resources based on enrolments. That’s it.

Seriously, this is truly the dumbest example.

LOL.

I genuinely wonder what the people of 2100 will be thinking about their ancestors who opted to have their names retained in this way.