Well, the dip in supply hasn’t started yet, we’re still receiving deliveries that we’re en route before Trump shat himself.
3 weeks ago here in regional WA every farmer tried to order 5,000 litres of diesel. This surge in demand caused the current shortage.
So right now, its a surge in demand, but in a month it will indeed be a dip in supply.
This generally doesn’t work in suburbia.
Its called a meadow yard or some such.
Theres one on my street, been like it for a decade or so. Its just weeds and Kikuyu from the neighbours.
A residential block is always going to need to be manicured to keep undesirable plants out.
I’m glad the regulator is at least taking an interest.
Sadly this is just how large corporations work in 2026. Say what you will about booking dot com, but all of these middle man companies are the same.
Like if you’re an uber driver or door dasher or airbnb host, the company is always gushing with platitudes about how you’re a valued partner, until something goes wrong. At that point there’s no one to talk to and you very quickly discover that they hold all the cards. As in: if you build a business “partnered” with a much larger corporation, you are entirely at their mercy in any kind of dispute.
They will not seek a balanced, fair, or reasonable outcome because they know that you don’t have any choice but to accept what they offer.
Ay?
People always say this about LO.
I have a small finance consultancy, and we’re a LO shop all day every day.
Its fine.
Any crisis will.
Yeah reading the specs its just amazing.
200 rounds per minute of air burst shells designed to target troops behind cover. Kinda terrifying really.
All 35 tonnes can travel at 100km/h.
Looks great too. Reminiscent of the troop carriers from the alien universe.
What do you want the govt to do without waiting ?
experts have told SBS News that the current economic crisis differs from the pandemic in numerous ways.
saved you a click.
This is a crisis, that was a crisis. That’s as far as the similarity goes really.
You can rephrase it how you like but ultimately it harms everyone.
We haven’t had a recession in decades, but it gets pretty brutal.
Yes some rich people’s yacht money gets deferred, but also young single parents lose their jobs and can’t find somewhere to live.
The poorest among us always bear the brunt of an economic downturn.
I’m so fucking angry that the government won’t fucking call out Trump’s idiocy here.
Us “middle powers” need to be standing together and stating the obvious - Trump has fucked everyone by recklessly starting a forever war with no plan to mitigate the inevitable consequences.
Everyone is terrified of upsetting this man child lest he tariff us or some such. We’re all going to bear the stupid-tariff for the next decade now.
If Australia, and those ideologically aligned with us like UK, Canada, France, and Germany, agreed to tax services provided by the magnificent 7 (google, microsoft, nvidia, openai, meta, amazon) until Trump is no longer in office, he’d be gone in a month.
I’m so sick of everyone pretending like Grandpa is still ok to drive to the shops because no one wants to deal with the consequences of taking his license.
ABC News Daily hosted David Byrne, professor of economics, who talked about this.
He didn’t go into a lot of detail but basically, it’s because fuel watch allows retailers to monitor each other’s prices.
Basically, fuel retailers can always increase their margins by fluctuating their prices. Cheap today more expensive tomorrow.
When Fuel Watch was introduced (only exists in WA), you couldn’t just fluctuate your prices irrespective of what everyone else was doing because if your price was significantly higher than everyone elses you wouldn’t have any customers. So retailers had to fluctuate their prices in concert with other retailers.
Finally, if every retailer is going to have a high point and a low point each week, it feels sensible that right before the weekend would be the highpoint, because that’s when everyone is gearing up for their weekend plans. Then high over the weekend when people are doing things, high on Monday when everyone is back from a weekend away, then cheap fuel Tuesday to gather up some customers, and so on.
Its almost always that they’ve been following specific workflows or processes for the last n years and find that particular workflow isn’t directly supported in LO.
This is so pathetic. What an embarrassment.
Trump will be remembered for his many crimes and ethical bankruptcy. Inevitably after he’s gone, there will be no incentive to cover for him, and the incentive will be to blame him for the terrible state in which he will leave the US economy and international relations.
Anyone with a pulse knows that he is a child rapist. Anyone with above-room-temperature IQ knows that he was deeply involved in Epstein’s operation, acquiring, grooming, and warehousing girls. Any genuine investigation will produce evidence of that.
He’s also single-handedly destabilised the global economy. The trillions of dollars his dumb ideas have cost everyone in productivity are just breathtaking.
Operation Epstein Fury is probably the USA’s biggest and most costly unforced strategic error in history. The consequences will resound through the coming decades.
The culmination of this context is that he has accelerated China’s rise to dominance and the USA’s collapse into irrelevance. As an Australian, just 2 years ago I was keen for us to cosy up to the US in the hope that the yanks would help us push back on China’s expansion of influence in the region. Honestly, now I feel more comfortable with China than I do with the US.
I read another commenter in another thread recently call it Damnatio Memoriae, a process often revealed in archaeology and / or ancient history whereby successors or the populace try to scrub a ruler from history.
Well I guess killing the messenger is a message in itself, isn’t it.
Life was a lot cheaper in the feudal era. If you weren’t of the land owning ruling class then you were subservient to them and disposable. You could die any day from a simple bacterial infection, and lords were whelping a dozen bastards a year on their servant girls.
If want to pick a fight then killing the messenger is a pretty clear way to do so.
My situation is similar.
My partner just treats me so poorly I’ve long since lost a romantic attachment to her.
However, we have 2 young children, and my partners employment prospects aren’t great. We can’t afford 2 houses. As in we would share custody and i would pay her whatever was required, but no matter how you slice it the same income has to pay for 2 houses instead of one.
For the time being i just have to carry on.
Yes, my kids dont see a “happy loving relationship” but they dont really see an abusive one, just a miserable one maybe.
IDK if we’re super “successful” co-parents but we are at least an effective team i think.
I don’t understand the question.
Rehabilitation has better outcomes than punishment. Amazing.
What instance are they from?
I haven’t noticed, and I feel like I would notice.
My instance is more discerning with federation.
Yeah I still wonder about the TP thing. Kinda fascinating really.
Like there’s always just “enough” but it only takes 1 day for everyone to buy everything thats available on that day to create this illusion of scarcity so everyone bought everything they could get their hands on for the next year.
Weirdly my mrs has been a TP horder since forever so we already had a 2 year supply at the start. We have bidet sprays in both toilets so we dont use that much anyway.