Nick Barker-Hodgins

BOM website being somewhat useless

Is there any update to when the BOM is going to fix it's warning and alerts? Notification of 2 warnings in VICTORIA which are:
- Marine Wind Warning for NSW
- a cancelled wind warning for Victoria

No mention of extreme heat (40) forecast is also interesting, but less problematic.

#auspol

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This is insane I am just trying to put in a request for time off

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Yeah, the F up with the NSW Gov there was horrendous.
Collectively, it really devalues the award in my eyes when he gets awarded it.

But that's the best I could really come up with to justify it... was a bit of a shock to me.

With the pandemic, the most favourable way I could put it was that he recognised his government didn't have the capability so formed the joint sitting to give the states the power to deal with it. So an effective handball considering it's key impacts was to health (a mainly state item)...

Yes sadly, and I won't purchase them. Give me Yakuza physically and I know they'd likely convert me and I'd buy the entire backlog, but 'm in the minority here sadly, and that plenty of people don't care about physical media. So the flexibility is there. Theres enough games so it's a filter for me.

I'm assuming that there will also be 32GB (and potentially 128GB) versions as well, similar to switch. But in the early stages they havent diversified the production line yet.
But yes fully agree that the cheaper smaller options need to hit production/availability quickly into the lifecycle.

Sadly I don't think it ever left. It just didn't have the means to communicate, socialise and unionise effectively.

Test 123?

Literally didn't finish it because of it (and got distracted by a different game from memory)

I can't see the issue with them. While I won't bother buying them, the choice they offer to get games out that otherwise would never get a pseudo-pysical release is not necessarily a bad thing.
However, if a game should have been on the cart and uses this instead, it's an instant pass from me.

Source: Strong Growth, Low Pollution - Modelling a carbon price (2011)

The quote ignores that without action emissions would continue to rise unabated (as they did once Libs got back in and the 'tax' got repealed). While the ETS would have completely halted growth in emissions without any further direct investment.

Quickly re-checked the referenced 2011 Modelling Report. It was forecasting a 40% reduction minimum under the ETS (or an 80% reduction if it was synced in with global ETS schemes, but I'd take that higher figure with a grain of salt considering the assumptions are harder to justify).

That's a Green's attribution that I don't believe is true to the report. It's been a about a decade since I read the 2008 & 2011 modelling reports, but from memory they don't actually state that.
Will have to recheck them.

ah was going to ask about that, surprised I didn't see them listed with framerate as an item.

I'm sorry but I fail to see any attributed quote there that states the ETS wouldn't have worked apart from Robb who had questions on it (and isn't an expert).

Have you got a quote for that? I'm yet to see anyone with suitable expertise that's advised that. Would be keen to read up on it.

Also you realise that the graph you've linked actually shows drops in CO2 emissions in the years Labour's in gov federally, and greens didn't block legislation (i.e. the ETS)?

Noting that CO2 emissions are a lagging output following policy implementation, the fact that they've enabled the Covid drop to continue through as the new normal is a massive achievement. State Labour Govs in SA & Vic (& previously QLD) in particular have enabled us to get to 40% renewables.

More guaranteed funding is always good, but not sure the additional funding that was secured was actually a net benefit vs. the delay in any realised benefits from the bulk of the funding, and the impacts to planned works.

The delay impacted supply chains and planned works, such that housing that was ready to start years ago is now only just getting re-announced (new press releases only happened this week down in Geelong for example). It feels like it equated to 2-3 years of lost progress in addressing the issue.

Yeah totally agree, the greens have the potential to do good in the environmental space, but I think delaying the housing bill and the impacts that had to the country are something that they need to learn from.

This is true, but also need to consider that not all senate seats were up for election, and there was a net gain of ~5 seats to labour, with Greens not gaining a single new seat vs. the existing senate to my recollection (still 11?). So there is a voter mandate for reduced senate obstructionism.

Where did you pull that from emissions are actively trending downward and are ahead of projections for our Kyoto targets?

That said the article and attributed quotes themselves aren't anything really to worry about. Constructively working with government is their role after all.

It can be very easily argued that most failings of the gov. on climate are directly attributable to the greens blocking environmental legislation in lockstep with the liberals over the last 10 years... This is the exact opposite attitude the greens need to survive.

Ah gotchya, missread 'Daniels' as Daniel and a first name, and couldnt figure out which seat was still in play with a Daniel as a candidiate 😂

A few 'called' seats have had surprisingly strong preference flows away from lib candidates when traditionally they've favoured them (older generation voters typically), so a lot were called as probably safe expecting traditional trends to continue. However, I think Zoe's going to just fall short.