I guess I'm not shocked that tourists are dying in the heat in Death Valley. After all, ill-prepared tourists end up dead in all sorts of wilderness situations. But this sentence really got my attention:
"The extreme heat in the valley has made rescuing visitors difficult. Heat causes air to thin and the park service says often helicopters cannot be deployed."
The systems that would normally rescue you when you get into trouble can no longer be relied on...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/death-valley-visitor-dies-extreme-heat-california

@mayaisloading giving your passwords a complex

OFFICER: The victims were dismembered and sacrificed on an altar made of antlers

DETECTIVE: Dear god

OFFICER: Most likely yes

Telstra Corporation donated $102,500 in 2021-22. That was $37,500 to Labor and $65,000 to the Coalition. {370} #auspol (https://politicalgadgets.com/PoliticalDonations/) #auspol

Buried in Excel spreadsheets today.
#GreenLineFever

@peterrelph2 @CarringBush2020 @AaronDodd

I'm torn on this one. Personally, I don't see the reason to approve a single new gas or coal mine, so I'm with Bandt on that.

But he does seem to have got himself wedged.

He is, for better or worse, a politician, and if he wants to achieve outcomes, he needs to achieve them politically, and sometimes that involves compromise on principles - letting good succeed where perfect will fail, so that progress towards perfect can continue, instead of stalling waiting for an opportunity for perfect.

#auspol

@juglugs thankfully when they introduced surround sound in the 70s they didn't call it the feelies!

So Australia's now got a supermarket duopoly. Coles and Woolies, with IGA, Aldi and Costco fighting over the crumbs.

In turn, this has given the big two the market power to squeeze supply chains, including farmers, workers, and suppliers. In many product categories, the big supermarkets now only stock their store brand and one other brand.

It didn't have to turn out this way. We used to have many grocery store chains in this country. But for the most part, the toothless ACCC just waived through the takeovers by the big supermarket chains.

Among many others, there used to be:

SSW: https://youtu.be/zqrX2EhYTUM
Tuckerbag: https://youtu.be/LQSKbRNtb5Q
Foodtown: https://youtu.be/-KNLd-V0DVs
Festival: https://youtu.be/H0cs-T8RLhA
Franklin's: https://youtu.be/CETBdaP7vIA
BiLo: https://youtu.be/CzDKJq9yWjs
Safeway: https://youtu.be/e1HAO5zdB5w
Roelf Voss: https://youtu.be/8V-WTXkOTGM
Rite-Way: https://youtu.be/Glm7z26xVXQ
Action: https://youtu.be/YVY9KPrkq8Q
Arrow: https://youtu.be/-G_LvjHGzNk

Who's interests have really been served by this consolidation?

And, unlike the EU or the US, we don't have a regulator with strong anti-trust powers to break up the big two. Is it time for a rethink?

#auspol #politics #australia #coles #woolworths #aldi #shopping #supermarkets #ausbiz #competition #policy #economy #economics #business #sydney #melbourne

Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

Had a bittersweet #aviation moment today. Was flying to Rochelle, IL (KRPJ) for breakfast. In route found out the winds were too high so I diverted to Madison (KMSN) to have breakfast at The Jet Room. Got to park right out in front of the restaurant.

After I was seated, I heard a kid behind me get all excited that the #pilot who had just landed was sitting near them in the restaurant. But then I heard them ask their mom "Girls can fly airplanes too?".

While I was thrilled the just my simple visibility caused so much excitement for this child, I was also sad. It's depressing that thanks to only 7% of pilots being female, this kid didn't even know it was a possibility. Well, one life changed for the better, I hope.

Government funding for the state’s private and Catholic school students increased at a faster rate than for children enrolled in NSW public schools over the past decade.

A new Productivity Commission report found federal and state money going to:
- NSW non-government schools grew by 27.2%
- public school students increased by 23.9%
over the 10 years to 2021.

#auspol #education
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/funding-for-private-schools-grows-faster-than-for-state-schools-20230206-p5cic7.html

Genocidal Russia is the Nazi Germany of today – not the Soviet Union of the past.

Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia were both criminal totalitarian regimes. The Russian terrorist state of today inherits the worst of both.

Policy-makers need to abandon the false notion Russia is a peer power (as the USSR was, to a limited extent) and think about Russians as Nazis.

1/2

There is no labor shortage for jobs that pay workers fairly. Isn’t it funny how that works?

RT @Groundwork@twitter.com

In the last two years, Moderna made $19 billion in profits. Its CEO is worth an estimated $6.1 billion.

Profiteering during a public health crisis is wildly unacceptable & it's time to hold them accountable.
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1612858617631313945

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Groundwork/status/1613638195274555402

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer

Turn the damn phone sideways.... and get off my lawn while you're about it.

The year is 2023, and I still have to explain to software development managers that when the schedule is slipping, hiring more developers and cutting corners on testing will make the schedule slip even more. This has been development management 101 for nigh-on 50 years.

People that help cover up systemic child sexual abuse are not “colourful” or “controversial” characters, they are criminal accomplices to grave crimes against vulnerable children.

Three multibillionaires now own more wealth than the bottom half of America – 160 million Americans.

Don’t tell us we can’t afford a wealth tax on the super-rich.

The Libs have been waging war on our youth since forever - through locking them out of the housing market, lack of job security, and outrageous uni costs. Now they wonder why they don't vote for them?? #auspoI
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victorian-liberals-to-seek-out-younger-voters-as-their-base-shrinks-fast-20221224-p5c8ny.html?btis