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lmao Marshall’s batteries was at Canterbury Rd there at Cooks River for years, and there were heaps of industrial places along the river.

I remember seeing trucks coming down to collect all the dead fish that were stinking the place out. Who knows what caused that.

The “Sugarworks” sounds so tame and nice. But it was sugarmills originally and they closed in 1854. What was it since then? It was used as a butter factory by Foley Bros and from 1900 until 1908 by Denham Bros as the Canterbury Bacon Factory. Huttons owned it from 1908-1982. It was a slaughterhouse up until 1950, then used for producing smallgoods. I suppose “Old Sugarmill” sounds a lot better than “Old Slaughterhouse” for apartments. (Interestingly, wikipedia and it’s source is incorrect on Huttons. I suspect a transposition error of 1980 instead of 1908)

Pollution of the river has been going on for a lot longer than that.

There’s shit in that river bed that is a lot worse than shit. And you could never get it out of the river bed.

Do NOT swim in it, and do NOT fish in it.

Sigh, first we had some religious whacko’s wrecking indigenous art, now these whackos from the Cult of the Self.

Can’t we just leave other people’s shit alone, and all just get along ?

It can work until they capture the regulator, and then become as one.

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

"And the child shall be born on the winter solstice.

They shall be named landsharkkidd"

I smell an epic trilogy coming on…

Bruh! How’s he hanging on to the wall?

if need be

Yeah. After thinking some more, that might be the best approach for now.

I’m not totally against gambling, and in general I’m against banning things that are legal, within society norms etc.

Maybe it won’t turn out to be a big deal. So wait and see is probably the way to go.

Something I stumbled upon the other day that caught my eye. Retrofitting removable double glazing!

“Up to 40% of a home’s heating energy” can be lost through windows.

This youtube vid outlines how to do it. You could probably find the bits and pieces at Bunnings, ebay etc. I guess shipping costs for a big piece of clear acrylic would probably start to get expensive, but maybe it can be ordered somewhere, and pick up yourself.

The other temporary one, which is even simpler though not as elegant is bubble wrap. Basically, you can just spray water on your window and the bubble wrap will stick! The downside on is you don’t have a view out your window, and if you want to open a window, you need to pull it down, then reapply it again when you close the window.

The best thing about these it that they might be useful for anyone renting. Also if you’re in units etc where you can’t get fully double glazed windows because the body corporate won’t allow anything different. You could still apply this on the inside cheaply and easily with most of the same benefits of getting fully double glazed windows installed.

I was having a look through one of their daily threads, and there was a bunch of active /r/melbourne people that were basically saying they had migrated to lemmy. They were contacting each other on reddit (PM I guess) and then just joining up.

Mass migration lol. So they 3 times more subscribers and seems like these were the core of /r/melbourne.

FIRST POST!!

Ahh dammit! I’m too late!

But I too like it a bit slower. And the lack of trolls and bots is nice too. They haven’t made it here. Yet.

Well spotted. I was trying to work out what to add for SA, and then I wondered “What’s more ignored than saying somebody is forgotten?”. So I left SA out XD

No offence to SAers -or the various other states above- it’s just a jab at how the various governments treat us.

For real! And get some proper insulation - both weather/temperature and noise.

It’s easy to live in denser housing when you don’t alternately bake or freeze, and you can’t hear every neighbour in all 6 directions.

NSW will give their share straight to property developers.

Vic will give their share as a negative gearing special rebate.

Qld will give their share as a first home buyers deposit. It will instantly raise the prices of all real estate by that same amount, ensuring that you can never be a first home buyer.

Tassie will probably spend theirs on a footy stadium, with a granny flat in the carpark to make sure it qualifies

ACT gets 1.5 billion of this to go to housing on submarines.

For some reason, WA won’t get anything.

And NT is forgotten altogether.

Loved Al and Luke 🤣

I know Joe Mazzula copped a lot of criticism last year, some fair, some unfair, but I find him hysterical in his press conferences.

Also when they do those interviews during a match, he’s so straight and like 3 word answers, he cracks me up. It’s like “I don’t wanna be doing this, so this is gonna be over NOW”

Lodion, thanks for your efforts. Must have been a long week for you.

Hope you get to have some down time (but not the aussie.zone servers)

🍻

Sorry, bro, just couldn’t resist the dad joke.

No harm intended :D

Perhaps only half?

XD

I hang around on various sports sites, communities, discussion boards etc.

One thing that bugs the hell out of me is the insidious insertion of betting into sports discussions. These range from “Put $500 on X to score”, “Need this team to lose for my multi”, to the more subtle “Who is your favourite this season for MVP/Brownlow/DallyM?” Which of course sends a bunch of people to gambling sites to quote the odds, tell you which gambling site gives you the best odds and tell you how much they put on.

Half the time I can’t tell if they are astroturfing for betting companies.

Irrespective of the laws, could we take a more proactive stance on discouraging gambling, eg on a community based lemmy server?

Ohhhh. It’s at a former coal site.

I couldn’t work out the reason behind adding a battery to a coal power station, when the coalies claim that coal was needed for when renewables+battery wouldn’t work.