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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it's huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it's not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).

Once the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn't know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to "higher priority" stores.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The two people declined to name the Chinese manufacturers of the inverters and batteries with extra communication devices, nor say how many they had found in total.

Without this information I don't think it's possible to determine if this is actually a threat or if someone just wants their department funded.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (11 children)

I'm curious if it's actually preference or if it's supply side. From casual browsing Toyota looks to have completely eliminated their small cars (e.g. Echo) and their smaller cars (e.g. Yaris) are getting bigger and more SUV-like. Volvo stopped selling their station wagons in favour of SUVs and I can't think of any station wagons left on the market. Most of the EVs in the Australian market seem to be SUV-like, especially the MGs which have dominated the "remotely affordable" category for a while.

It's possible the manufacturers are just responding to consumer demands, but I'd like to see some evidence of who's driving the change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is there any technical or policy reason that they need a new leader? Or did Adam Bandt just step down? Presumably most of the parties that have no MPs still have a leader.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (24 children)

How many children died because Bill Gates lobbied for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine to be patented?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Does it use Fabric or Neoforged?

More seriously this looks like a really neat way to build TUIs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I want a small EV

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Some of this is the fault of the design of Word. Even modern versions have direct formatting in the Home tab, to the left (chronologically "before" for people used to left-to-right paradigms) of the styles box. The styles box itself becomes rapidly less accessible if the window is not full sized.

If they moved direct formatting to a formatting tab, had a more focused concept of styles, and possibly repurposed some of the direct formatting buttons for quick style application, people would use them a lot more reliably without any training.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Material from breaches shows that during a portion of this period, she used the same password across multiple email addresses and online accounts, in contravention of well-established best practices for online security. (There is no indication that she used the password on government accounts.)

This is... not interesting

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's disappointing to see that an article with such a flaky premise is written by the political editor of Crikey.

The shift from purely environmental policy to a broad progressive platform that he ascribes to Adam Bandt was complete when Di Natale was party leader, possibly before but I'm not doing the research that this editor should have done to check.

Marginally more controversially, while I think Labor was probably successful at painting the Greens as "obstructive" over the HAFF, they did exactly what they should have; they voted against bad policy, negotiated with the government and got a hell of a lot better policy passed. What else could the job of a minor party possibly be?

Most controversially, I don't think the author is even wrong about the misalignment between who traditionally votes Greens and who their policies have the biggest impact on. But, the idea that they should therefore tailor policies to benefit their voters instead of, you know, maintaining anything resembling ideological integrity, is a gross "realpolitik"-style attitude that our political landscape could do without.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Tape the cord to the top

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've seen Ender v3s being discussed in forums as hobby killers a few times. Most notable printers will probably take less fiddling.

Prusa works hard on their reliability not least because they dogfood their printers constantly, using print farms to produce printer parts.

Bambu printers are reliable appliances with a ticking clock.

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