Thankyou Sandy.

Is it blocking some rich wankers view?

IDK. It’s behind the historic coal loader dock (very tall concrete structure) so you can’t see it from immediately next to it.

I have to wonder about what’s happened in the lead up, there must have been some sort of negotiation or demand?

Sounds like it. According to the NSW gov’s press release:

The owners have previously been issued two Unsafe Vessel Notices (UVN) under section 46 of the Marine Safety Act requiring the owners to make in situ repairs to the vessel and to secure a dry dock for major works to repair the vessel’s hull.

In situ repairs and maintenance have been going on for years (the non-cosmetic repairs I mention in the article). The last I heard dry-docking was planned for later this year, but the only dry-dock big enough is run by the navy and they have other priorities too.

“Major works to repair” in drydock is interesting wording. Major works to make the ship pretty in drydock is definitely true (lots of cleaning back, priming and painting). We all want the drydock.

You had me going. Goddammit it xD

meetings with you […] you don’t acknowledge […] you ignored these.

you don’t own […] safety of YOUR ship

normal person

I’m a volunteer at a museum. To answer most of these points you will need to contact the charity foundation, and make sure you don’t mix my words and theirs (eg writing a letter to a minister is something I have done, having meetings with maritime is something they have done). In the background I am trying to encourage them to comment on these items too.

I believe one of the charity board did an interview with ABC radio, but I can’t find anything about it online :| I will ask around.

Thankyou. It will be interesting to see if they feel they need to back up their claims at all with any references to evidence.

https://maritimemuseum.com.au/learn/collections/vessels/

HMAS Diamantina? Looks absolutely gorgeous. Very jealous of the drydock.

Being in an actual dry dock has given them an inertia that has so far overcome being prime southbank real estate

The MV Cape Don is one of the largest historic vessels in Australia, so the choice of drydocks is limited. Todo: build an earth bank around the ship to make our own drydock!

Thankyou.

I love that comparison. Although I’m going to advise against setting the toilets on fire.

What should happen to it then?

It’s ok, they’re licked clean between use. What sort of barbarians do you take us for?

I’ll reiterate that this place has been a safe space. Much nicer than reddit, a much happier place I’d rather be. Thankyou, every ounce has been appreciated even if you think it not :)

+1

Tiny filters are a scam in the soldering world too. A few mm thick sheet of carbon impregnated open-cell foam isn’t going to have even a 50% impact on the fumes. Proper rated fume filtration systems are between the size of a large dog and a washing machine; and cost crazy amounts of money.

Plumbing it outside is cheap, extremely effective, small and if something breaks you can tell immediately.

Tried my local cafe a month back. $7 hot chocolate. Didn’t have luck seeing someone to strike up a conversation with, everyone looked stressed.

Meanwhile at where I volunteer: free hot chocolate, free tea, free instant if that’s your thing. And nice people to chat to. (Actually I think I bought the last bottle of milk, but that’s still only $3ish).

Maybe I have to be more picky about the cafe or time of day?

Blue Mountains food security fair yesterday was mostly good. Came away with plants (ouch my wallet), a jar of chocolate honey and wish I bought a book on weeds. Was smaller than I thought. Talks I chose were fun.

97% goes towards paying suppliers, staff, utilities and covering other operating costs.

I’m looking at the Woolworths 2026 Annual report and I do not know how you got those numbers. These reports are beautifully formatted cryptic messes designed to hide stuff, not to properly inform debate on government ownership or how the books would change under government operation.

Their raw revenue was 72 billion, then they claim most of that is spent on these vague categories:

• Cost of sales
• Branch expenses
• Administration expenses
• Other expenses

Some of these things contain some components of suppliers, staff and utilities. But there is a lot going other places.

“Profit” is a very dangerous term because it’s intentionally gamed in the reporting by all companies to reduce tax liability. Woolworths claims they are only left with 1 billion in profit after they do their sums, but, under government control you’d realise that this number is really misleading. Eg checkout these things in their report:

• 3 billion of asset depreciation
• ~1 billion of shareholder dividends (remember that’s not “profit”!)
• ~1 billion for underpaid staff rumeneration (it’s cheaper to pay them right in the first place and not have to do court costs, dear god)
• (probably a lot more interesting stuff I’ve missed, on a train RN)

I’m going to say their headline tiny profitability is not what you think it is, and that they’re not poor Woolies struggling with borderline profitability because of big employee and big supplier. For more fun on creative book keeping: checkout airlines. Some of them intentionally teeter themselves to reported non-profitability when it suits them.

My family is scared of driving a smaller car because all the other cars are bigger now. I would not be surprised if fear is the core motivating psychology.

I feel torn. I also want to troll my friends. A bad UX is what they deserve, especially that friend who works in the printer industry and complains all the time about how badly documented many minecraft mods are.

One of the ways to get my portal to work was to hold exactly 7 items in your current hand. This is also how I want Firefox’s new UI to work.

nobody can know about this

Omni Owl works as a private contractor for shady intermediaries. Omni Owl’s job is to steal your Yubikeys. Omni Owl also steals your dinner afterwards, even through window glass.

EDIT: Also thankyou for the drawing, it’s awesome :)

I used to play a bit of Luanti, but it was hard to convince my friends to join. This is a compromise they are willing to do though.

Its not server-side modding (Minecraft has obviously had that for ages), its a full LUA interpreter with an in-game interface for clients to write scripts, and upload them to the server on the fly.

Nope. It’s server side modding. The clients don’t get to execute arbitrary lua on the server (unless they are hosting or opped) and only someone with access to the server filesystem can upload scripts.

From a friend:

An Owl but it’s a wearing nightvision goggles

EDIT: Awww too late.