• kurmudgeon@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    And I hope everybody in Australia blames the right people for this. Yes, this is a very fucking stupid decision by a very fucking stupid president of the United States, but it’s all those red hat wearing motherfuckers in the United States that put him in power. In this particular instance, general Americans are the fucking idiots that are responsible for this shit.

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      Everything you said is true, but I hope more people are seeing the US as the canary we are in the realm of right wing politics. The cancer is spreading and getting more control around the world. Everyone should look at how the US has fallen under the Trump regime and what not to do. That’s not to say that the US was doing great things outside of Trump, but this is certainly worse for the citizens of the US and the cascading effects are clearly having a negative effect on much of the rest of the world.

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      18 minutes ago

      Also the “red hat” motherfuckers in australia that kept australia so dependant on fossil fuels when it has some of the best natural resources for wind and solar power.

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    “The prime minister sought to assure Australians it was still business as normal but said workers should consider taking public transport to conserve fuel supplies for those who didn’t have the option.”

    Is he really this stupid???

    I’m in the usa, and I even know there are already extensive fuel shortages in Australia. Mostly due to Australia’s refusal to keep the required 90 strategic reserve or have any refineries.

    PS: Yes I know this is all trump’s fault, but Australia and New Zealand seem to have just refused to prepare for the inevitable.

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      South Africa dodged a similar problem, our last president sold our 90 day reserve to his Dubai buddies below market rate. Fortunately our new multiparty government has competent people in place that fixed that before this crisis. Thus our fuel price is “only” going up by 15%, rather than tracking the oil price. It will go up more eventually, but some buffer is being provided for to soften the blow.

      I am very surprised that australia and new Zeeland did not have bigger reserves, given they are on the end of a long supply chain and conflict in indonesia and china can cut off supply for a long time, not the mention a middle east crisis.

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    3 hours ago

    is public transportation actually good in Australia? as in, you can actually do your daily living with it? (work, school, shopping, etc)?

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      IIRC, Melbourne is one of the very few cities in the world that didn’t demolish its streetcar network in the 1950s, so there’s that.

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      Australia is big, but Sydney, when I was there a million years ago had very good public transportation with a single card that got you access to buses, ferries etc…

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        …good to know!

        I used to be an avid user/defender of public transportation (in Canada). Used it for 15 years (11 of which I actually had a car but did not use for daily commute)

        But then it was ruined… literally a 13 Km commute (less than 10 miles if you are American) would mean 1.5 hours in a bus EACH WAY, vs 45 mins by car (which is still a travesty for such a short commute)

        Now I am lucky to work from home most of the time and commute with an eScooter when the weather allows me to

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            2 hours ago

            no, Ottawa area… buses were terrible leading up to the LRT opening and after the LRT opening was a disaster (one that they are still recovering from) the buses became unusable

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              Ah, I didn’t use the buses on my visit to Ottawa. We did use the VIA Rail from Montreal and made sure to have a Beavertail before we left your fine city though.

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    2 hours ago

    This title is bullshit. Not a fair summation of what was said at all.