The ABC's had budget cuts too. The editor is probably the work experience kid and the writer had to churn this article out in 2 hours to meet their KPIs.

Inciting violence!!!!

Better to just revoke their citizenship and deport them. Make the X Canadians into ex-Canadians.

Not really, but it is a bit stressful. I figure in the end either the markets will act like they always do and go up in the longer term, or the entire world is about to end in which case it won't really matter what investment choices I make!

Based on the sort of questions people ask in the Super/retirement groups I'm in I think its highly likely to be real. I'm not sure that putting all your retirement money into crypto is actually a worse strategy than the more common strategy of taking all your money out of the market every time it drops and buying back in when it goes up.

Even basic recycling of things like plastics is not done well.

Government using contractors as part of the system is fine, but not having a system at all seems to be the problem. Government should at the very least be setting up effective frameworks for management, recycling and disposal of all types of waste. Instead they set up a few guidelines and leave it to "market forces" and wonder why we end up with dodgy systems geared towards profit for company owners at the expense of the health and safety of the general public and the workers involved in the industry.

In the past decade or so in Victoria alone there have been: warehouses full of soft plastic being stockpiled, warehouses full of contaminated "mixed recycling" being stockpiled, warehouses full of toxic chemicals stockpiled and being stored incorrectly, a massive property being used as an illegal dump for huge volumes of toxic waste being secretly buried, an old landfill site leaking dangerous levels of methane into houses in a nearby housing estate

These are just the ones that were big enough to be in the media that I can remember off the top of my head. This is what "market forces" and weak regulations get us

I have about three possums per square metre where I am. I hear them carousing across the roof nightly, one lives (and raises baby possums) in the blocked off chimney in the bedroom, and I regualrly hear them disputing territory in the back yard. I recently lost a staring competition with a possum sitting on the fence outside my kitchen window. I've also had a possum come inside the house on three separate occasions.

I like possums in general, but I'd be very happy to have a few less of them around, I'm completely outnumbered and the garden suffers from their nibbling as well.

Assignment done, with 40 minutes to spare! It actually came together better than I expected, but I found this one to be a bit unclear exactly what they were after so I'm not sure what mark I'll end up with. If I covered the content they were after I think I'll have done pretty well, but I might have also missed the mark and focused on the wrong things. Time will tell.

Less than 3 hours to finish my assignment and my brain still wants to procrastinate!

I really need to finish my assignment but I'm sitting here wasting time on my tablet instead. My brain really does not want to focus on this one.

Poor bot suffered death by Lemmy upgrade.

Miss Meow has seen the photo additions and is not impressed. She has requested to look scary with big teeth instead.

I can't seem to make a post with both an URL and a separate picture. I'm sure I've done it before, not sure why I can't do it now.