Surprised that the religious right haven't put them in their sites.
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Pears said the energy rating stickers “have a lot of credibility with people” and is “relied upon” by consumers.
Really?
I've never really bothered much with appliance ratings.
Any time I see star ratings on anything that the govt has been involved with I automatically assume it's a load of bullshit that was guided by industry with their wants put well ahead of consumer needs. At best star ratings just dumb down actual metrics.
See:
The absolute joke that is food rating stars.
Home energy star ratings. Why not just state use the passivhouse standard? Or just state energy used and air tightness in changes per hour etc.
Vehicle star ratings where fucking human crusher 4wds still somehow gets 5 stars for vulnerable road user protection because it has some sensors in it.
Pipe dream:
Tax income generated from accumulated wealth the same as income generated from actual work. I.e. a rate somewhere in between the two. No more CGT discounts.
End negative gearing for existing structures.
No more tax breaks for commercial vehicles
Curtail corporations from off shoring profits to tax havens.
Tax on exported gas
UBI
The council removed the everyone's old larger general waste wheely bins when they rolled the new system out. Old system was 1 large general waste collected weekly. 1 large recycle bin collected fortnightly.
Now we have 1 half size waste bin collected fortnightly. Same recycle bin collected fortnightly. Large FOGO bin collected weekly. Unless I've done gardening there is usually only a tiny volume of food scraps in mine.
Part of the intent is to encourage everyone to produce less waste by making it harder to get rid of. The other is of course to get the methane generating FOGO separated so it does not end up in landfill.
Oh and the council saves money on disposal by having this system in place. Savings were not directly passed on to rate payer's though. I guess they are indirectly via not raising annual rates by as much.
The council I live in introduced them a couple of years ago.
There was quite a lot of complaining on social media. In conjunction with a weekly FOGO they changed the weekly general waste bin to one half the size and only collected it every 2 weeks. As a result lot of households struggled to get rid of all their rubbish.
Anecdotally: It's seemingly settling down now but a first there was a lot more litter in the streets from overflowing bins, both people's waste bins and bins in parks. A number of degenerates took to burning their plastic waste in combustion heaters / backyard pits. Which is highly inappropriate given we are less than 10km from the CBD and most blocks are sub 500 sqm . some are still doing this in winter. I wish there would be massive fines for this.
The council has been giving notices to people who put plastic etc in their FOGO bin. Unsure if they have cameras in the truck or if it's random inspections. Apparently they will stop collections for repeat offenders.
The council will supply larger and multiple waste bins for households who are willing to pay extra. I think they might have got less backlash if it had been opt in at first for a discount rather than this method.
Personally I think FOGO are pretty good if you have a suburban garden. Means you can do a little bit of pruning here and there and put the cuttings in the FOGO. Previously you would need to collect it all up then order a big green waste skip.
Since my work "upgraded" to windows 11 the task bar is the bane of my existence.
We all run a laptop docked with two monitors. In windows 10 I would set a monitor as primary, drag the task bar to the laptop screen. That would result in the most real estate for the software I use with out clutter.
Can't fucking do this is 11. It's either primary or all monitors for task bar. Someone suggested auto hide the task bar. Holy shit even that has been fucking ruined in 11. It turns off randomly and frequently. Plus notifications seem to over ride the hiding.