PeteSig 🇨🇴 🇸🇩 🇦🇺
@padreilpadrone.bsky.social
Bicycle rider, environmentalist, teacher, geographer, economist, sea-person and outback traveller.
Yeah, by ‘complicated’ I meant having to have separate travel insurance for health cover in other provinces. The only time I buy travel insurance is for international travel.
Except for NZ where their ACC* covers us for any accident injury health needs.
* Accident Compensation Commission
Except for NZ where their ACC* covers us for any accident injury health needs.
* Accident Compensation Commission
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yeah, by ‘complicated’ I meant having to have separate travel insurance for health cover in other provinces. The only time I buy travel insurance is for international travel.
Except for NZ where their ACC* covers us for any accident injury health needs.
* Accident Compensation Commission
Except for NZ where their ACC* covers us for any accident injury health needs.
* Accident Compensation Commission
Sounds complicated. I love our universal Medicare. Except I reckon the private hospitals/insurance added on is a waste of time, money & resources.
Re. train gauges change and your surprise. We have not needed to do that between Melbourne & Sydney since 1962 🤔
Re. train gauges change and your surprise. We have not needed to do that between Melbourne & Sydney since 1962 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Sounds complicated. I love our universal Medicare. Except I reckon the private hospitals/insurance added on is a waste of time, money & resources.
Re. train gauges change and your surprise. We have not needed to do that between Melbourne & Sydney since 1962 🤔
Re. train gauges change and your surprise. We have not needed to do that between Melbourne & Sydney since 1962 🤔
Australia may have had different railway gauges in different states(still does largely) as a legacy of Victorian-era colonies. However we did not have any state-based restrictive trade rules. Specifically outlawed in our Constitution.
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Australia may have had different railway gauges in different states(still does largely) as a legacy of Victorian-era colonies. However we did not have any state-based restrictive trade rules. Specifically outlawed in our Constitution.
Your Green vote will still most likely result in a vote for one of the majors, because of preference distributions (most likely the Lying Nasty Party or the Miners’ Party in that region).
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Your Green vote will still most likely result in a vote for one of the majors, because of preference distributions (most likely the Lying Nasty Party or the Miners’ Party in that region).
Currently planning to lodge a blank paper at the next election, at least for the House of Reps, as I do NOT want to give ANY preferences to the major parties, nor to nut-job right-wing ferals 🤬
I may give a marked ballot for the Senate.
I may give a marked ballot for the Senate.
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Currently planning to lodge a blank paper at the next election, at least for the House of Reps, as I do NOT want to give ANY preferences to the major parties, nor to nut-job right-wing ferals 🤬
I may give a marked ballot for the Senate.
I may give a marked ballot for the Senate.
"A childhood friend of Lakanwal saying he suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit caused"
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"A childhood friend of Lakanwal saying he suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit caused"
My EV has been to the snow once so far. I had to fit chains (RWD) and even then I used the snow-mode, which slowed accelerator response and restricted speed to about 40kmh.
What I see there is a loony driver revving and spinning 🙄
What I see there is a loony driver revving and spinning 🙄
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My EV has been to the snow once so far. I had to fit chains (RWD) and even then I used the snow-mode, which slowed accelerator response and restricted speed to about 40kmh.
What I see there is a loony driver revving and spinning 🙄
What I see there is a loony driver revving and spinning 🙄
I know stuff-all about Cybertrucks and very little about 4WDs generally, but what I see in that video is a vehicle with suburban tyres, not off-road tyres. It certainly has AWD, but no idea about the mode of operation.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I know stuff-all about Cybertrucks and very little about 4WDs generally, but what I see in that video is a vehicle with suburban tyres, not off-road tyres. It certainly has AWD, but no idea about the mode of operation.
Happening right now!
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Three Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsule
Three Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbit...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Happening right now!
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Not defending any SwastiKar, but this situation is not really the car's fault:
1. Suburban tyres = FAIL.
2. No snow chains = double FAIL.
1. Suburban tyres = FAIL.
2. No snow chains = double FAIL.
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Not defending any SwastiKar, but this situation is not really the car's fault:
1. Suburban tyres = FAIL.
2. No snow chains = double FAIL.
1. Suburban tyres = FAIL.
2. No snow chains = double FAIL.
The Climate Council's assessment of what this legal change means:
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Climate Council's assessment of what this legal change means:
An expansionist colonial gangster-mob who has as their objective an ethno-state across the whole Middle East.
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
An expansionist colonial gangster-mob who has as their objective an ethno-state across the whole Middle East.
She then danced about on the nature-strip trying to get the spider off herself. GREAT entertainment for the people in the 2-3 cars stopped behind us 🤪
Worrying thing is - WHAT would she have done if we were driving along at 80 kmh? 🤔😱
Worrying thing is - WHAT would she have done if we were driving along at 80 kmh? 🤔😱
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
She then danced about on the nature-strip trying to get the spider off herself. GREAT entertainment for the people in the 2-3 cars stopped behind us 🤪
Worrying thing is - WHAT would she have done if we were driving along at 80 kmh? 🤔😱
Worrying thing is - WHAT would she have done if we were driving along at 80 kmh? 🤔😱
The staggering thing was the follow-through. My wife screamed, threw the door open and jumped out of the car. Thankfully we were stopped at a 'stop-sign'. I look about, bemused, saw the spider scrabbling on the car seat, and promptly flicked it out the door.... straight into my wife's chest! 🤣
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The staggering thing was the follow-through. My wife screamed, threw the door open and jumped out of the car. Thankfully we were stopped at a 'stop-sign'. I look about, bemused, saw the spider scrabbling on the car seat, and promptly flicked it out the door.... straight into my wife's chest! 🤣