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I absolutely paid attention to these things, even spending more on more efficient appliances after figuring out the break even time on the price difference.

I consider the power usage of everything in my home. I'm down to 300w idle draw from more than 700w.

I'm pretty annoyed to find out the star scheme is bullshit :(

Your idea works great as described. The system has grown beyond that though. Capitalists receive these IOUs because they own a portion of a company that owns a thing that neither the company nor the capitalist has ever had anything to do with. They receive these IOUs in perpetuty, but they never provided any contribution to the creation of anything.

Then you stack this a billion times, with IOUs servicing IOUs, amplifying the amount of IOUs, and skimming IOUs at every point from people who actually do the work, just to increase the number of IOUs held by a handful of people, until those people who contribute nothing, now hold the majority of the worlds IOUs.

This is fucked.

It's pretty obvious, it's right there in the name, capitalism.

Shit sucks.

The constant chase of productivity increases can make sense, but only if you're not trying to increase output at the same rate.

We should be trying to reduce the total amount of work done, while increasing the quality of life of all Australians. If that is the goal then productivity increases are a win for everyone.

Tofu is pretty good when prepared well. Very low chance of contracting some fucked disease too.

When testing just remember, any positive at all, no matter how faint, means you are infectious.

He should be fine, his Australian girlfriend should help him out with the normal stuff here.

One thing that might be useful, when visiting the US many Americans would express concern about Australian spiders. I explained that it wasn't really much of an issue, you just make sure to check for spiders before putting your hands in places, putting on shoes, etc.

The shoes thing seemed particularly outrageous to them. It's pretty simple though, you just look at your shoes before putting them on. Any spiders in there? Any sign of webs? Don't put them on. Easy!