Foxes are also introduced, so I'd say cats everywhere are "better" because there's half a chance their numbers can be reduced through requirements for owners to contain them.
Also, cats can be baited too if required. And, IMO, it is at the point where it's required.
"There's a possibility that some other factor may play a part in offsetting one of the negative impacts of free-range cats... therefore, all other positives of containing pets may be completely ignored"
- You, 2024
That's a whole heap of words to say "maybe". On the other side of the world.
If you're happy being a selfish piece of shit, feel free to leave your cat roam. When Mittens gets hit by a car / contracts feline aids / otherwise meets a premature death, you can rest easy knowing that akshually it was probably pesticides.
Maybe I'm wrong
You totally are, but at least now you know
Good news, they also kill native bush rats!
.... Wait that's bad news.
The factual answer
The animals they catch are weakened from pesticides.
Citation needed
On desktop you get a preview of the article, which I've now included in the heading since I'm guessing it doesn't display on mobile / in apps.
Broader adoption of keeping cats safe at home would have large benefits for cat welfare, human health, local wildlife and even the economy. So, should cat owners be required to keep their pets contained to their property?
> Broader adoption of keeping cats safe at home would have large benefits for cat welfare, human health, local wildlife and even the economy. So, should cat owners be required to keep their pets contained to their property?
The answer to the question is obviously "yes".
Lamington Day
Cause Lemmyington.
This probably works better with a New Zealand accent... which I don't have, but like to imitate when I'm drunk.
"Choice bro, put your jandals in the chilly bin" - me, doing champagne comedy sketches
That's paid though, right? I don't use Word, and if I wanted to I'd need to buy it. Firefox is free and accessible to everyone.
What, and open USDM to international competition??
How do you use Xitter for porn??
What's the point of a rebate? It's just going to double the impact of price rises next year.
I guess it might give a break (and swing enough votes) long enough to push through more serious long term change.
If it's not being followed up with anything long term it's a complete waste.
I ain't sending myself broke trying to match the libraries of a Spotify and YouTube Music, that's just silly
Unless Toyota didn't install brakes, or released the car with adaptive cruise control that had faulty firmware that caused the car to accelerate straight in to the back of someone. Or some other aspect they had full control over versus you as a consumer.
A bunch of contrary cookers working individually to fuck up a common goal
So uhm.... at what age does it stop being so easy to turn on? I'm actually looking forward to that cause right now shits embarrassing.
Actually, just fired up Subsonic again for fun. Man it hasnt changed in years, but the server software still works perfectly on my test box here at work that has ~5k tracks. The OG Android app hasnt been updated since 2018 yet works flawlessly. Maybe I will just end up hosting the damn tunes myself again.
I've had YouTube Music since it was Google Music, but the price has recently doubled and at the same time I've started noticing my "Radio" keeps playing the same dozen songs over and over again. Started to feel like I was listening to Triple M.
Yesterday was the final straw as every song played on repeat until you manually skipped which is just... wtf? How does that even happen?
I have jumped on to Spotify for the minute, but find it is too heavily focused on "pop" music - it seems to choose songs that are broadly more popular, but aren't really the same as what I'm choosing to play. I somehow always end up back with top 50 chart artists in the queue, even if I started on like bluegrass or hillbilly or something. Also if I select a song or artist and choose "Radio", it always the same 50 songs and then just stops which doesn't seem like what "Radio" should be at all.
What other options are there that are accessible from Australia, and preferably have a decent amount of Australian local content? I have zero interests in podcasts being jammed in, I just want music. And preferably music that I can just say "play stuff that sounds like this" and it'll go on a deep dive to focus on things I haven't heard before.
Critical:
- No ads
- Able to actually choose the music and skip and what not, so not Sirius or similar
- Good catalogue of Australian artists
- Android and Desktop clients
- "Family" plan or similar for 2 people
Budget not really an issue.
Qantas is investigating reports of customers having access to other passengers' information on their app.
> Qantas is investigating reports of customers having access to other passengers' information on their app.
> In a statement issued this morning, the airline said it would provide more information as soon as possible.
> "Qantas is investigating reports of an issue impacting the Qantas app this morning," a spokesperson for their airline said.
> The scale of the issue has not yet been confirmed.
Luckily I can't afford to travel anywhere so this won't affect me, but probably will others.
Telcos will be forced to share real-time network information during outages and set up a body to take charge of Australia's triple-0 system, in the wake of last year's Optus outage.
> The report found a key cause of the outage was a problem with Optus's 3G network.
> During the outage, Optus's 4G and 5G towers shut down, meaning emergency calls were diverted to other network's towers β known as camping on.
> But the network's 3G base towers did not shut down, so those calls got lost along the way.
> "Some devices β¦ attempted to make emergency calls via those [3G] towers (rather than look to camp on to another network), even though no mobile service was being supplied by the Optus network," the report said.
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> The recommendations include:
> * Obligate telcos to shut down their towers during outages, allowing triple-0 calls to be carried by other networks > * Establish a "Triple Zero custodian" whose sole responsible is to make sure the system is working > * Force telcos to share real-time information about outages with emergency services organisations and authorities > * Force telcos to file a timely post-mortem on major outages to the regulator and the government β including what caused it and steps being taken to resolve it, with a clear and detailed timeline > * Review the government's contract with Telstra to run the triple-0 system, with any changes to be made within a year > * Introduce an industry-wide approach to responding to consumers affected by large-scale outages > * Establish an agreement between telcos requiring them to help each to manage and resolve outages > * Review all legislation and regulation relating to triple-0
To understand why 30-somethings feel like they're struggling financially, the ABC analysed five factors β housing, healthcare, debt, tax, and income. The data reveals this generation is caught in an economic perfect storm.
Feels bad man
A man in his 50s has been taken to Liverpool Hospital with stab wounds and three others are being treated at the scene, NSW Ambulance says.
> A man is in custody after at least four people were injured in an alleged stabbing incident at a church in Sydney's south-west on Monday night.
Molly the magpie, whose viral fame led to his rescuers signing a book deal, will be reunited with his best friend, Peggy the staffy β but conditions apply.
> In short? Authorities say Molly the magpie will be returned to its original carers on the condition they make no commercial gain from the bird.
> The couple, who have had the bird for four years, run a popular Instagram account and have signed a book deal.
> What's next? The environment department will work with the couple to ensure the magpie is properly cared for.
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> The department said in a statement that independent expert veterinary advice had shown that Molly was highly habituated and may have developmental issues, meaning he can never be rehabilitated or returned to the wild.
Good news they've put the condition on in this particular instance, but you can guarantee other Instatockers who want their five minutes of fame will be out there collecting whatever they can get their selfish mitts on to try and be the next big thing.
Polestar follows Tesla out the door of Australiaβs main car lobby, saying its campaign against vehicle emission standards cannot be supported.
> Tesla announced it had quit the FCAI on Thursday and Polestar followed it up on Friday, saying the FCAI campaign β driven largely by Japanese car makers led by Toyota β is intolerable.
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> Tesla and now Polestarβs announcement that they intend to leave the FCAI adds to mounting pressure on CEO Tony Webber who last month came under fire for threatening to run a 2010 anti mining tax style fear campaign against the governmentβs New Vehicle Efficiency Standard.
> The fossil car lobby group CEO claimed that the NVES would cost the entire car-buying public $38 billion in the first five years, which led to the AFR running a story titled βLaborβs new EV-boosting rules will cost $38b, auto group saysβ followed by Coalition leader Peter Dutton and Nationals Senator Matt Canavan parroting claims that the NVES would see the price of popular vehicles increase by up to $25,000. Claims that have been widely rejected including by the Electric Vehicle Council.
Queensland's real estate lobby says people are too afraid to point out that unions are driving up the cost of housing, but an economist says that while wage growth is a contributing factor, so too are growingΒ material costs, labour shortages and excessive government regulations.
> In short: The Real Estate Institute of Queensland says high-paying government projects are pushing up the cost of construction.
>An economist says growing wages are a contributing factor, but growing material costs, labour shortages, and excessive government regulations are in the way of development.
> What's next?: The government has vowed to build 55,000 social houses by the year 2046.
Crazy how the wealthiest people in society are all those over paid tradies
I bought a torch that has a 365nm UV light, which I believe is UV-A?
When doing a poke around my house to see what I could see with UV, I noticed that my freshwater fish tanks looked "cloudy" / "milky" under UV, yet they are crystal clear under normal light.
I checked tap water and bottled water with the same torch and they do not react and look perfectly clear under both UV and normal light
I also have an auto top off for one of the tanks which is full of ~50L of a mix of RO water and tap water treated with dechlorinator and this also does not react.
I have 3 tanks inside of various volumes (700L, 150L, 20L) and various stocking levels which all show the water as a pale flourescent green colour under UV. The colour is uniform and completely spread out through the water volume, not concentrated on any area or in layers or whatever.
The currently empty 20L tank reacted the least, leading me to believe that it may be some sort of organic material that is causing the UV light to react so much?
Optus reveals more than 2,500 people tried and failed to call triple-0 from their mobiles during last November's network outage, after previously telling a Senate inquiry just 228 people were affected.
> * In short: Optus says close to 2,700 customers tried and failed to call emergency services from their mobile phones during the November 2023 network outage. > * This number is more than 10 times higher than what the telco previously told the Senate. > * Whatβs next? Optus says it is writing to each customer individually to apologise, and the federal government is conducting a post-incident review.
Some real estate dickhead just rang my mobile (which is not advertised anywhere) saying they were "just in the area" and wanted to do an appraisal on a house we own in <suburb name>.
It's an agency we don't use for any purpose, have never used for any purpose, and have never approached for any reason.
Is there some sort of legal issue with some smarmy sales knob looking up property owner details and cold calling them?
Makes me feel all gross that their grubby mitts are pawing through my deets somewhere in the hope of being able to stick a tongue up my bum and get a taste of some back door cash.
The Queensland premier says supermarkets have agreed to share "information and analysis on prices" to provide more transparency on soaring grocery prices and alleged price-gouging.
I'm sure this will go nowhere, but it would be nice if it did. It would surely flow on to other states given right?
I worked at Franklins way back in the day and their profit margins ran at about 5%. It would be interesting to know if the profit margin has increased significantly or not.
This is probably the most important part, IMO:
> Queensland Fruit and Vegetable Growers association chief executive Rachel Chambers said farmers fear retribution if they make a complaint to supermarkets.
> "Growers don't trust the system that is in place that they can escalate these behaviours to," Ms Chambers said.
> "They are fearful of commercial retribution, which is their entire business, their life and livelihood, so the process is broken."
An example business I was looking up just now... In Google Maps and the first page of Google Search etc it shows then as having 4.5 star review average over 693 reviews.... But if you click and get the sidebar pop up, it shows reviews from the web which are far less flattering.
This seems to be super common. Google reviews are always glowing, but other sites are far less favourable. What's the most likely reason for this?
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Google results are more realistic because Google prompts for reviews more frequently and thus more people are likely to leave a review which gives a more realistic result? Whereas the only people going to TrueLocal and Product Review are the very unhappy customers?
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Or that Google is completely gamed by SEO "experts" who spam fake reviews for cents and thus make Google Reviews completely bollocks by overpowering any genuine reviews with paid glowing testimonials?
If its the latter, I feel Google needs to solve this cause at the moment I have zero faith in their review system.
(I've blanked the name just because that's not really the point of this post.)
Scientists says bludgeoning the invasive pests with a golf club or running them over with a car isn't just cruel β it's also potentially dangerous.
> The cool-and-freeze method involves placing cane toads in a fridge for 24 hours, which puts them in a state of torpor, before transferring them to the freezer to finish them off.
> She said this was more humane than other methods of killing cane toads, such as bashing them with cricket bats or crushing them under cars.
> "Our learning and our knowledge have evolved since the days of cane toad golf," Ms Tomsett said.
> "It's important to treat all animals humanely. Cane toads have to be removed, and it's not their fault they're here."
When the Bureau of Meteorology declared an El NiΓ±o, there were warnings of a hot and dry summer. But for thousands of Australians, that's not been the case at all. Why not?
> When the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) declared an El NiΓ±o event in September, there were warnings of a hot and dry summer.
> But for thousands of Queenslanders especially β from the storm-ravaged south-east to the flooded Far North β that's not been the case at all.
As a Brisbanite, I can definitely vouch for this one. It's literally raining right this second, and our backyard is already a swamp...
tl;dr:
> Over the past month, while Queensland faced record-breaking rainfall, South Australia and Western Queensland sweated through heatwave conditions as bushfires burned in the west.
> Dr Brown attributed the variation of El NiΓ±o experiences across the country to an average of hot and dry conditions and not a totality.
> "When we talk about dry conditions from an El NiΓ±o, it's not dry everywhere β it's dry on average," Dr Brown said.
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Keen for recommendations of similar bands. Dunno what they specific genre is, but I do like when the guitars fanging have a bit of a melody laid over the top.
Twelve Australians were among more than 370 people who escaped a burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
> Twelve Australians were among more than 370 people who escaped a burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
> Five of the six crew on board the Coast Guard plane died in the incident.
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> Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed that five of the Coast Guard aircraft's crew had died, while the 39-year-old captain of the plane escaped but was injured.
Imagine being that guy :-\
Sydney remains the most expensive city in the country to buy a property with the average home in Greater Sydney now worth almost $1.13 million.
Good news everyone! House prices are becoming unaffordable at a slightly lower rate than previous!
> Australian house and apartment values bounced back in 2023, increasing by 8.1 per cent nationally over 2023, according to new data.
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> While the 2023 results represent a significant increase in home values across Australia compared to 2022, they pale in comparison to the 24.5 per cent surge recorded in 2021.
If these trends continue, I'm only 75 years away from affording my own house π
Kristy Holmes always knew she could use her electric car for βgood thingsβ, but when storms caused a blackout, it proved life-saving
