Hanrahan

joined 1 year ago
[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Ueah, notoce the lack of giant fans, unlike car tunnels, that need then to try and get rid of the toxic pollution.

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Australia has e-cargo trikes deliveing mail in many places. Pretty cool ! Theyre out of Switzerland

https://www.justbikes.com.au/news-and-reviews/aus-post-expands-electric-trike-fleet/787992

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Many stops and 100 yr old alignment, we don't take public transit seriously in most of Australia and particularly in Queensland. It can take longer as there is only a service ever 30mins.

One time it was pouring rain, I had to stand on the seat at Eagle Junction Station becase the cover where you wait is like a bus shelter and it was blowing in.

It also shares the line with freight in parts, and our spangly new inland rail freight line will end in suburban Brisbane where they'll the offload to trucks to transport it 50km to/from the sea port and it does't extend to the next biggst freight port a few 100km up the state at Gladstone. Many of us seem to think this is a marvelous idea.

Was watching a video of the new metro line in Vietnam and sighed :(

I used to live on the Gold Coast and caught the train all the time as well as the tram on the Gold Coast (was car free living there) My mother asked one time how long it took to come up and see her, I said I don't know, i was engrossed in my book. She refused to catch the train :)

Another balls up, instead if going to the airport on the Gold Coast they've decided to turn Burleigh Heads into a giant bus stop and use buses and Trams.

A decent argument was to be had over should it be extending heavy rail (my pick) l, or light rail to the Gold Coast airport, the new government chose buses ..wtf ?

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Going to be interesting for the Olympics :)

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this some.sort of American polotical ploy I'm unaware of? accuse your opponent of being sane and sensible, is that a pejorative now ?

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Speaking of planners, i follow

@drtcombs@triangletoot.party

on Mastodon (a transportation expert who cycles and cycles with her kid) and she put me onto this book

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1907724/s/killed-by-a-traffic-engineer

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks for that.. Done

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Picking Up Speed (tamino.wordpress.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31033182

On the Berkeley data, the PLF10 model estimates the final value at 1.41 ± 0.10 °C and final warming rate at 0.38 ± 0.14 °C/decade (2σ confidence intervals).

If the globe continues to warm at that rate, then we’ll cross the 1.5 °C limit of the Paris Climate Accord before the year 2030.

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Three million?! Who the hell has that much?

80,000 rich Australians, mostly its via an SMSF and they dump.assents in ther to avoid ..paying tax , whihc is the entire point of this.

Personally i think the Greens $2Million cap thats indexed is a better idea but Im sure Albo will die on that cross with his hatred of The Greens as he's now trying to work with the LNP to get it through the Senate instead.

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

The irony if the endless artickes in the AfR decrying how unfair it all is.

Running alongside articles about how terrible it is there hasn't been tax reform for 24 years

It's the same whenever the possibility of death taxes are raised, I am always bemused how the average person is outraged by this, as though a high tax on say >$10Million inheritance is some sort of outrage but inherited dynastic wealth that leads to vast inequality and political manipulation isn't. Let alone it was often made off the back of generous tax subsidies in the first place, like large super balances.

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anddddd... He's back!

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Foolosh ? stupid

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

  1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

  2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

  3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

  4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

  5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gaza , Ukraine both seem popular places to kill kids.

Driveways also seem popular.

 

2024 was the warmest year since records began being kept 175 years ago. According to the World Meteorological Organization’s latest State of the Global Climate report:

  • Each of the past ten years set a new global temperature record.
  • Each of the past eight years set a new record for ocean heat content.
  • The 18 lowest Arctic sea-ice extents on record were all in the past 18 years.
  • The three lowest Antarctic ice extents were in the past three years.
  • The largest three-year loss of glacier mass on record occurred in the past three years.
  • The rate of sea level rise has doubled since satellite measurements began.[1]

There is no room for doubt: Earth is getting hotter. The question now is how hot will it get?

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