Another beuuuutiful day in Melbourne folks 🌞
Finally watching the Four Corners piece on Woolworths and Coles, and nice to hear the farmer talking about how much of a hold both stores have on the farming community. I come from a farming (beef and bananas) family myself and I’ve seen first hand the damage they do by being the only option for farmers to sell their produce.
Also howling at the CEOs, they really don’t give a single fuck, and they aren’t even hiding it.
My old mans doing the whole “hobby farm” retirement things. I say retirement but he’ll still be trying to install shit as they lower him into the ground. Anyway. So went to a lot of stock yards and stuff to buy his like 2 cows and 3 sheep or whatever. Said farmers were selling livestock below cost and in some cases animals who couldn’t be sold were killed rather than continue to basically starve them, cause the cost of feed was soring.
As much as Woolies and Coles are to blame (and lets be VERY clear: They are!) Why were the media not calling this shit out?! Is it not the responsibility for journalists to investigate this shit? If “Cattle killed because cant be sold for next to nothing whilst Coles beef prices skyrocket” was the headline of the age, questions would be asked without the need for a royal bloody commission or whatever.
This is exactly the scenario described by John Steinbeck in Grapes of Wrath.
Why were the media not calling this shit out?
The accepted reason for modern poverty/need is the housing crisis. That is all the media talks about because that is what press releases are about.
The real stories are plummeting real wages, the giving away of our wealth to mining companies, the cost of education, the loss of employment rights, the destruction of the public service .
**The loss of good news reporting ( I miss you Ranald McDonald ) **
These losses have been decades in the making.
Why the media are not calling this out - the main commercial media tv, web, newspapers have colesworth as a major advertiser. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. ABC is the only one that has the freedom to report on it, and unfortunately a lot of people don’t watch/read ABC so remain blissfully unaware.
people don’t watch/read ABC so remain blissfully unaware.
Do they really not? I just assumed heaps more did after the whole anti-Murdoch pushback around the last 2 elections (US and Aus). But dont ask me what I’m basing that assumption off.
I don’t have any numbers either, just anecdotal. Guess it depends on the demographic. Lots of younger people don’t, and then there’s the subgroup that think it’s too intellectual or lefty or biased. I actually think it’s probably the most neutral we have, because it’s not at the mercy of commercial interests or a very politically powerful billionaire.
I think it’s more to do with the consumer is everyone, the farmer purchasing feed is not.
You’re right in that it should be a huge discussion point, but at the end of the day everyone has to go shopping for groceries, so that’s the story we’re going to focus on.
The farming lobby has had no problem diverting attention away from farming practices that have been destroying the environment the past 100 years. iow, they know how to get a story across.
I think the exact problem here is that it’s market gardeners who have problems with supermarkets and market gardeners are family businesses and have little power and voice.
A lot of the problem with the media is that reader’s don’t seem to care. I have seen news articles about this issue, but if people aren’t interested in reading them the media outlets are not going to put a lot of effort into continuing to follow the issue - and with online media outlets the norm they get very clear feedback about the issues that actually interest people.
People don’t seem to care much about issues which don’t directly effect them and unless a story is novel and entertaining they don’t want to keep following it. If people in general put even a fraction of the time and energy into social justice issues as they do into things like following true crime stories, reality tv or Taylor Swift concerts the world would be a very different place.
The Weekly times runs articles like this, but mostly behind paywalls.
this year’s first chili harvest
spoiler
They’re beautiful. I appreciate that this is a video for some reason.
it’s a video because that was the button that was pressed in a hurry 🤡
I will be making chili cheese bread later this week, I have lactose free cheddar and it will be yummy
Released from hospital, referrals to specialists, on and on it goes. Back to hanging in there and trying to cope with pain while I wait. I’m feeling like hell and very wobbly.
Still trying to get a quick stick vacuum in while Moobeans isn’t here to get stressed or breathe floating dust. I also broke out the scented carpet stain remover to clean away the last of the stubborn vom spots so hopefully the smell is gone by the time she’s back.
rest now, take care, lots of hugs for you both
Thanks. I’ve done a couple of things and should have help tomorrow
The battery life on this ThinkPhone is spectacular. Also, I’ve been using gesture navigation instead of the 3 buttons for the first time and it’s kinda awesome. Took a little bit to get used to but now I can’t see me going back.
You get used to gesture navigation surprisingly fast. I had to turn it on my old phone I use for emulators as well because I got so used to it.
I’m going to keep an eye on these ThinkPhones, they’re an interesting concept
For someone out of the loop, what’s the difference between these and your regular phone?
They’re just mid-spec Android phones, but Lenovo owns Motorola so they may have some of the durability of the Thinkpad laptops from which they get their name
Anyone here done speed dating? The thought of it is terrifying but I don’t now how else to meet singles. Apps fucking suck.
Oiche mhaith
I am being very clever and leaving the midnight party pie for a few minutes to cool down.
I’m tempted to leave it for a few more minutes after that because I know how this ends.
My old trick was to remove the top before cooking, add cheese and a piece of salami.
Great teenage stoner food lol
w00t, I just cleared level 49 of Bubble Town classic
level 50 crashes the system but we’ll see if I can do it this time
I went and had a go at it when I saw this comment. I got to level 6 and it crashed!
just another brainless time wasting match three game
but it’s free :)
Try Family Island. It’s free, the graphics are good and it is not a match 3.
once I do level 50 I’ll try it :)
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Morning chef! May I have something colourful for breakfast to celebrate this bright sunny day?
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Ooh yum. Thanks
Ham and cheese toastie with chutney and a very large flat white plz chef
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Ta muchly 😊
Wingding soufflé please.
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Delicious. Thank you chef. Did you study in France?
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You give me pain.
Tuna onigiri please
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Arigato gozaimasu 🙇♂️
Coffee and a croissant, thanks bacon.
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I had a dream that I was dreaming. Woke up in the dream to sleep paralysis.
Then woke up properly.
Fuck that was weird.
How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
If it is, then the person dreaming must be a masochist lol
You wrote this while awake.
I hope.
I have something similar when I sleep in. I have a super realistic dream where I can’t tell I’m dreaming, realise something’s off, and wake up. Then I decide to sleep again to calm myself down and it starts again.
I swear it can get a couple of layers deep in a dream sometimes as well.
It’s ten hours late, but you deserve one of these anyway:
One neighbour with the mower.
Another with the pressure washer.
A third one with the whipper snipper.
Fourth one is eyeing them, and about to join in.
Sometimes I wish we had looser gun laws.
Wouldn’t the gun be just as noisy?
For a few seconds, sure. Then peace and quiet, until the sirens I suppose.
My go-to mantra is “it’s not worth the jail time.”.
Do you like vintage jazz? I can recommend Sing Sing Sing for out-noising noisy neighbours.
I’ve got ear buds in and got some chill house music going. I was only musing on the violence. They’ll be quiet in an hour.
Huh… I’ve done all three of those today.
I’ll be doing two of these three on Saturday, maybe I should consider body armour?
Weekends are fine and kind of expected. I guess it’s my own fault for working from home today. Oh well.
I sometimes have to do this stuff during the week if I’m working on a weekend. I guess there’s no one time that suits everyone! Always make sure I don’t start until 10am at the earliest.
We have much yard and being on a corner, two frontages, but I still just try and get it all done as quickly as I can because A) consideration for my neighbours and 2) I just hate doing it!
Hey I get it. All neighbours in question are retired and have plenty of time. I guess when every day is a weekend, time goes out the window.
OHH see now THAT’S DIFFERENT!
It’s like when you’re at the post office on a saturday and it’s totally packed with retirees lined up out the door to pay their bills and I’m internally screaming COULDN’T YOU HAVE DONE THIS DURING THE WEEK?!?! 🫠
Want a hand with the gun shopping? 😁
I’m sure we can get a good deal if we’re buying bulk.
Stay strapped or get clapped👏🔫
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Found out yesterday morning that was going to be my last working day. Cue frantic tying up of loose ends and organising a handover. And that was it. Handed over my laptop. Now on gardening leave for 4 weeks. Emails and Teams already cut off. I’m not upset at this situation, just in shock that it was all so sudden.
Thinking of doing a short trip somewhere during this time. Otherwise there will be a lot of catching up on sleep, time for cooking, relaxing and preparing for what’s next.
Good luck for the future.
I think I’ve come up with a food idea, unusual as it may be.
I think later on in the week I’m going to make a fish burger with cheese and tartar sauce and also add bacon to it.
It was originally going to be beef burgers but I don’t think I can be bothered cooking burger patties on the pan and cleaning it up afterwards.
When you say fish burger what do you mean? You could just use a frozen fish filet and then you’d have a filet-o-fish minus the bacon. I do this all the time. A fish burger patty would work too but I still wouldn’t add the bacon only because it will take away the delicate fish taste.
I was going to cook some crumbed fish fillets in the oven, normally I’d add the smokey cheese , some lettuce or greens and lots of tartare sauce in a bun or bread.
But I’m also craving bacon this time which brought me to this idea.
Edit: Also maybe a fried egg too!
Go for it!
Will do, after I get paid this week I’ll be all over it!
Many loud sky explosions, and everything has suddenly become very wet. I think the predicted storm might be here.
Edit: And now ther are chunks of ice falling everywhere.
Looks like Melton will get hammered, again too. Might rain here in Thornbury - I did water the garden but refrained from washing the windows just in case.
Nothing here yet. I think Gisborne and Sunbury might cop it.
Was just reading the other site. Did you know Australia used to have a Aircraft Carrier? Not only did we have one, it was extremely effective with 2 allied vessel kills to its name. Thats right. Allied vessels. HMAS Melbourne over the years took out both Aussie HMAS Voyager and the American USS Frank E. Evans. People died and that part honestly isnt funny. But if I had a dollar for every time the Melbourne sunk an allied vessel I’d have 2 dollars, which isn’t a lot but its strange it happened twice!
Wait till you read about how we went to war with the emus.
