1st Friday in Feb, gets rid of the issue with a large group being unhappy with the date, and gets rid of one more potential midweek holiday, who wants to celebrate with work the next day? Part timers, contractors, casuals and hospo workers are always gonna risk a work day the next day, but we can at least solve it for full timers.

Morrison was worse than Abbott. I’m not saying Abbott was good, effective or competent in any way, but Morrison was worse. It’s wild how the Coalition flip flopping resulted in them flopping to that incompetent wanker.

Look, albo is a significant improvement on the bunch of conservative idiots and psychopaths we had over the preceding 10 odd years, but he’s still doing some pretty shit stuff … also it saddens me that Scott Morrison gets to say he was our prime minister and will draw a prime ministerial pension. Such a fuckin buttpipe …

I wonder if Netanyahu paid the 1 billion or if he just said to take it off the next repayment Trump needs to make …

News agencies probably need to stop referring it to a ceasefire given the severe lack of fire ceasing

Man this guys a beast, english seagulls are fucking huge

They put stickers on things that are asbestos/contain asbestos so that you don’t cut them without proper protections. If there is an asbestos moulding or panel just sitting there and has no obvious cracks, wear or crumbling then the odds of you breathing in anything that might attach to your lungs is very slim. If it’s crumbling or visibly degrading then there’s a problem and your university needs to do something about it.

Asbestos doesn’t disperse harmful particles or offgas anything if it’s sealed (ie like a smooth finished surface) and just sitting there.

Willy wag tail

If only Wallace had won the DNC endorsement for president instead of Truman, we’d be living in a very different world.

Once polar ice caps melt they can just go north and sail straight through the bering strait, easy peasy, even easier if Alaska comes for the ride /s

I once watched a guy who was working a Macca’s kitchen with me manage to get 11 in a row when we were doing breakfast

It’s wild that this number of people, who are at best willfully ignorant and at worst wildly corrupt, have managed to congregate in the highest offices of one of the most powerful countries on the planet. It’s difficult to believe that Hanlon’s Razor might apply to this group of people given they seem so adamantly opposed to helping the people they apparently serve and represent and so driven to pursue the anguish of minorities. They are almost comically evil we need to resort to fantasy to describe them: dragons hording a pile of wealth; ghouls sucking the life out of everything around them; liches that wont fucking die already.

Nah that’s incorrect, the American system costs the government more per capita than Australia’s with significantly worse outcomes for end users.

Yeah when you explicitly define your freedoms you put a hard limit on freedom. Land of the Free? More like Land of the Enslaved. You should be defining your restrictions so you have infinite freedoms.

I mean this is a pretty easy task, how are they fucking it up so badly?! You look at countries with affordable effective health care, then copy their work. It’s not like they’ve copyrighted their legislation. Hell most of them will probably help you implement what they’ve done and tell you all about the pain points if you ask nicely.

You could also try update the NVIDIA drivers manually from terminal, switching between the closed and open versions of the latest driver can make a big difference. That might resolve your additional drivers access issue. I have found that GUI sometimes takes a long time to open …

Next time you see an error on it run ‘journalctl -r’ in a terminal and see if you can spot anything specific wiggling out. Should be a good start to working out where the errors might be stemming from.

That said there seems to be a few different issues with that machine so its difficult to see how they might be related …maybe a hard disk with bad sectors or trashed ram? You could try reseating the ram module(s) and HDD connections?

Holy moly, that’s a lot of issues. Seems like there’s something else going on with that laptop given mint won’t even boot …

I like that we finally conquered and absorbed South Australia as far as Risk is concerned

When are we supposed to see loopers turning up?