Matthew Spillane

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Retired Naval Operations Analyst.
Lapsed Mathematician.
Fading Ranga.
Inner West Sydney
We’ve been playing 20 questions in the car and every time it’s my turn the kids start with “is he alive?” and if I say No they yell “THE UNITED HEALTHCARE CEO” and we all laugh. Great game.

Completely perfect textbook example showing that we have been tricked into believing that streets are for cars and not for people.

If you want to know how we got here, read this: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking”

Vox

Me to #InnerWestCouncil: There’s no pedestrian crossings on the busy roads surrounding your new shopping centre extension. Are you going to install one?

#InnerWestCouncil: There aren’t enough pedestrians crossing these roads to justify it.

Me: 

The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies.
Used Car Prices in Australia - Weekly Update 8th May 2023

Used car prices were down the past week (-3.3%) with ex-lease vehicles (-7.6%) seeing the largest decrease

Datium Insights
The only take you need on the labor government's feral budgie. It's time to stop complaining you're upsetting a few people. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/10/no-complaining-everyone-is-a-winner-with-this-labor-budget
No complaining! Everyone is a winner with this Labor budget!

Oh you’d prefer the Morrison government would you??!

The Guardian
Good to read Gray Colony’s take that RBA raising interest rates is good because it forces people to wear ties with suit jackets, or something
At least the ALP’s budget reduced funding to high-fee private schools….oh wait
They can’t do anything until they get into govt twice, apparently
Good to see #NRL mud baths again just like the 80s