It looks like there might be something wrong with Pictrs. I've refreshed the icon, but it isn't making a new thumbnail. I'm afraid I won't be able to look closer at this until tonight when I get home.
Good morning (It's still Morning in Perth so Nyer)!
Baku is right - the tram is in fact still there. What's happening here is your phone thinks it has the image cached, and so isn't loading it from the web server - instead displaying a local version of it. Only there's a problem with that local copy of the image. If you visit https://aussie.zone/c/melbourne in your browser you'll see that the tram is there.
What app do you have there? I thought I had all the main Android apps (Boost, Connect, Jerboa, Voyager and Sync), but none of them seem to match this screenshot. Whichever it is, you'll want to find a setting to clear the local cache. You can clear the cache from Android settings, but that will probably clear your account and make you log in again.
Bit drastic, but I suppose I could upload a new icon. Your phone would recognise that it doesn't have the new one in its cache and would load it. That would affect everyone though. Then again, maybe its time to upgrade from a W class to a Z class tram? 😀
This right here is one of the major reasons we left Melbourne. We were on our own there, without any family support.
To answer the question: One of us usually takes personal (carers) leave. Sometimes that isn't possible, so we ask grandparents or my sister to help us out (if safe/not contagious). What often happens is that one of us is sick also, having caught whatever pestilence the child(ren) introduced to the house anyway.
Don't send the kids to daycare if they're sick. You'll just be lumping this hassle on other families. I was always resentful of parents who did that.
I am typing this comment on a Pixel 7. I have had it for nearly two years and I have never experienced these symptoms.
The only app I can think of that doesn't load in under a second is Asphalt Legends - and that's because the app takes a week to load on anything.
I am very satisfied with this device, and doubt I'll be upgrading to Pixel 9. I have no reason to upgrade.
This makes more sense (expensive to run) than butterflies being stressed. Melbourne Zoo has a butterfly house as well, and it shows no sign of going away.
The butterflies themselves land on people and get photographed all the time. They don't seem to be shy at all.
I thought the tradition was that people were slapped across the face with a trout? Times have changed.
I never encountered them outside about a 500m radius of the zoo, but yes - they were very common in the zoo itself. In fact, I was surprised to find they were gone when I first visited the zoo after moving back to Perth about 7 years ago. I'm fairly certain they were still around in 2007.
The squirrels and the butterfly house being missing were the main things I remember from my first visit with the kids in 2017.
People always used to say that Perth never changes, but it really changed a great deal in those 10 years.
My grandfather was the Anzac. He served in both world wars. He passed away before I was born, though.
He was an absolute larrikin, there are loads of stories about him. He was famous in his hometown, is mentioned in its history etc.
I'd share highlights, but it'd probably doxx me. 😂
Hearing one of the kids on the hockey team introduce his great-grandma to my son. Totally wild. My great grandmother lived 1867-1952.
I didn't even really get the grandparent experience as a kid, let alone great-grandparents.
Did you honestly think from my comment that I didn't know who Yoko Ono was?
I was saying that whatever noises she makes, she isn't a singer. Therefore she doesn't qualify for a mention in the "worst band or singer" category.
Aww, from the headline I was thinking the ED was going to work from home a couple of days a week.
I try my hardest to avoid all things US politics, and I still feel saturated by it. I don't click on articles about it, I never click on Google or YouTube links about US politics.
Yet, somehow my feed is still regularly seeded with the stuff. I have no idea what the algorithms do to people who engage with that content, but it's got to be some next-level doom scrolling.
So, I've had this single annoying hair coming down over my eyes, brush the hair away, it doesn't go away or soon comes back.
Just now in front of the mirror, I found it. The thing was a massive eyebrow hair. I yanked it, and I kid you not - the hair was 4cm long! I'm entering my old-man eyebrow phase, and I don't like it.
Is there a band called Yoko Ono? I ask, because I'm fairly sure there isn't a singer.
When I got to Melbourne, you opened the door manually like a barbarian. They eventually upgraded the door motors to behave like this.
On Perth trains, you push the button to indicate that you want the door to open. Works either from inside or outside the train and the door opens when the train comes to a stop.
I love Vegemite on a crumpet. Perfect 10pm snack.
Both Dell and HP make great micro PCs. I've used both as my work PCs for years (~5 years for the Dell, ~3 years for the HP).
No hesitation recommending either as a file server/media box. Keep in mind they use 2.5" disks, though.
The problem with this is trust. If you could seamlessly migrate like this, there's nothing to stop someone faking a long post/comment on their own instance, making them look very legitimate and then migrating that account to a trusted/legitimate instance.
Then using that for spam/selling block chain etc.
People are the reason we can't have nice things.
Maybe it was and the studio execs took all the good bits out to cater to a "wider audience"?
Our US friends see the Olympic Medal table differently
I stumbled across a sports article from a US publication and thought it interesting that it showed the USA leading the medals table.
Instead of the regular table that gives weight to Gold, silver and bronze, they just see total medals.
I sorta like it. Celebrating all medal winners equally is nice. It feels a little like fudging the numbers, though.
A Perth woman collapses in a court dock after being sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to murder her husband who had been diagnosed with dementia.
Super sad case. She tried to kill him to ease his suffering. If he'd been on the record supporting her decision, I think the sentence would have been very different. And she lost him to natural causes anyway. 😞
Kids are free at the footy rounds 16-19
Kids Go Free: Kids aged 14 years old and under will have free entry to games across Rounds 16 to 19
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/11231353
> If you have a kid/grandkid who loves footy, this is the time of year to take them. A single adult can take three kids to a game for the price of one ticket. > > For me today, the adult ticket was $58. With two kids, that worked out at less than $20 a ticket. > > Take your own snacks. Prices at the footy are actually offensive.
Kids are free at the footy rounds 16-19
Kids Go Free: Kids aged 14 years old and under will have free entry to games across Rounds 16 to 19
If you have a kid/grandkid who loves footy, this is the time of year to take them. A single adult can take three kids to a game for the price of one ticket.
For me today, the adult ticket was $58. With two kids, that worked out at less than $20 a ticket.
Take your own snacks. Prices at the footy are actually offensive.
The gunman who shot and killed a mother and her teenage daughter in Perth's affluent western suburbs did so because he thought his ex-partner was at the property.
Troye Sivan's Rush wins Song of the Year at this year's APRA Music Awards
From Dean Lewis to Taylor Swift – here are the big winners at this year's APRA Awards.
WA's teacher union rejects a second pay and conditions offer from the state government, stoking concerns of interruptions at schools as the union threatens to forge on with a potential strike on Tuesday next week.
Just when you thought you'd made it through the holidays. 😀
I think a half-day strike is just as bad for parents than a full one. We still need to arrange for the kids to be taken care of until 12:30. Apparently we can send them in anyway, but they won't be in class and it isn't exactly supporting the teachers to do that.
I hope there is progress in the negotiations and the strike gets called off.
The 28-minute episode doesn't disappoint with a special wedding and an answer to whether the Heelers sell up and move. But look a little closer and The Sign is full of other hidden treats too. Here's nine you might've missed. Spoilers ahead.
I just sort of assume everyone has watched the episode by now. If you haven't, I recommend doing so before you get to the end of this article.
Data shows Melbourne residents are buying and driving cars at a higher rate since COVID, even though more people are working from home. Here's why.
A mere 57 mega polluters produce 80 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, new analysis shows
Just 57 mega polluters are responsible for the bulk of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and most big fossil fuel players have increased, rather than decreased, their output since the Paris Agreement in 2015, a staggering new report finds.
On the one hand, it makes it really hard to stay motivated with the teeny contribution I make to reducing emissions. On the other, think of how much of a difference these 57 companies could make if they actually reached net-zero targets.
To understand why 30-somethings feel like they're struggling financially, the ABC analysed five factors — housing, healthcare, debt, tax, and income. The data reveals this generation is caught in an economic perfect storm.
I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.
A portion of a major bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it, sending multiple vehicles into the water.
Ok, so here's my newest phobia. Happily driving along a bridge I've crossed over a thousand times before, only tonight I'm suddenly in the dark waters below!
Testing reposting from Mastodon
Attached: 1 image Seen on Reddit. This is AMAZING and I love the creativity and style. The very idea that a high-viz jacket/vest could actually look good is so foreign, and yet here we are! #cycling #fuckcars #nocars #solarpunk #bikes #creative
Reddit > Mastodon > Lemmy because why not? 😁
Australia's most painful creatures
As Aussies head to the beaches and parklands this summer, we asked a venom expert to rank the top 10 most painful creatures they might encounter.
Facebook profited from the decline of Australia's news organisations, but enforcing the News Media Bargaining Code will make a bad situation worse without solving the problem of who will pay for the news.
Try and get past the fact that this is sort-of about Facebook. Because it's more about the demise of news than it is about Facebook, specifically.
> news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said. > > "They were in the attention-attraction business. > > "In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be. > > "But now there are just much better places to be."
> The moment news moved online, and was "unbundled" from classifieds, sports results, movie listings, weather reports, celebrity gossip, and all the other reasons people bought newspapers or watched evening TV bulletins, the news business model was dead. > > News by itself was never profitable, Professor Bruns said. > > "Then advertising moved somewhere else. > > "This was always going to happen via Facebook or other platforms."
It's a really fascinating read. We can all agree that independent journalism is valuable in our society, but ultimately, most of us don't so much seek news out as much as we encounter news as we go about our day.
I'm sure the TL;DR bot is about to entirely miss the nuance of the article. I recommend reading the whole thing.
After a meeting lasting almost two and a half hours, Simon Kennedy defeats three other Liberal Party candidates to win preselection in former prime minister Scott Morrison's old seat of Cook.
That's right Cronulla, your likely next local member isn't actually local. But, he promises he will be real soon!
Good luck with that!
Having lived in super safe-seats and marginal seats, I promise it's far better to live in a seat that flips every election!
Tony was fired for remotely working two jobs
Tony found himself with too much time on his hands at work. What he did next challenges long-held notions of loyalty in the workplace.
I don't think this movement really got off the ground in WA, we never really had the lock-downs and remote working culture introduced through the pandemic that the Eastern states got. Still, this makes for fascinating reading.
WA's revised GST deal is set to cost the federal government $50 billion over a decade, not $39 billion as estimated, economists say, warning that it's not justified and should be changed.
I get that WA is financially far better off than 2017 projections.
What I don't really understand is why it is so unfair for WA to get back 70-75 cents per dollar its populace puts into GST.