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Meanjin
@abcfeeds If they can throw bombs then we can throw words.
@Qldaah There’s more donations from the flood gate construction companies
@abcfeeds THIS. IS. NOT. NEWSWORTHY.
@abcfeeds Lets be fair, they were probably going to use a taxpayer handout to do it anyway.
Might as well have us pick the contractors to do it and make the shareholders miss out

@abcfeeds Smells a little of socialism?

Or just desperationism for a few votes?

@atpfm @siracusa Re Ep. 681 MacBook Neo.
Don’t forget corporate users.
NONE of our field sales team require anything more powerful than a phone.
These will be amazing for us.
(Just need to see how it copes with Teams.app and PowerPoint)

@abcfeeds I also note that the @abcfeeds ‘journalist’ didn’t put that fact to the regulator in the ‘interview’

By ‘interview’ I of course mean slavishly re-publishing the PR release.

@abcfeeds This is ridiculous. It is not designed to save anyone any money. Says so right in the article.

“While the three-hour block is free, prices at other times are adjusted so the typical annual bill stays about the same. Households that run appliances during those free hours, however, could save money.”

The bill remains the same.

Time of use tariffs are designed to gouge money by having a higher rate at *checks notes* the time when most families are either getting ready for the day or cooking the evening meal.

Apparently it hasn’t been enough to shift high use to the time of day when *checks notes* noone is home.

Not sure why not… 🤔

@flargh “All in all…”