In Australia any lab technician positions 4 year degree and start at AUD$65k, Max out at $80k or so. Equivalent engineering degrees max out at $120k for plebs.

Perun (youtuber) sums it up- for many militaries there is no organisational experience in actual conflict, outside the pomp and ceremony it’s hard to tell what substance exists

When were we working together???

We lost 2 months of local Windows servers in a smash and grab ransomware. we were lucky that our PROD servers were Linux. And this was a place with an active Windows 10 upgrade plan, gateways and air gapping for non-compliant systems. Our luck/planning was the backups system allow for two months of roll back to remove the malware. For the sysadmins, the character limit on the file paths meant we lost a bit of deep dive information 8/10 folders deep. (Over 64 characters or something like that.)

And keep a copy off site

100%. Send emails to your personal address, CYA.

To your question, I couldn’t afford to live where I work (near the brighton end of the SE industrial zone), and the hub-and-spoke melbourne train network means my PT commute would be somewhere between 2 to 2.5 hours one way, with me getting to work two hours after my start time.

We operate 24 hours a day, for back shifts there is literally no public transport option available at the 10-11pm shift change due to the end of service (and making the start time earlier would just mean shift change at 4am, same problem.)

Changing workplaces in the industrial/ag sector is another important factor. For example, my last job, I was driving 40 minutes in the opposite direction to my current commute, it wouldn’t be tenable to sell and buy housing every time there is a job change, the stamp duty alone would be a waste of money. For my colleagues, I recruited a couple last year from a company that wound up, they went from a 20 minute drive in one direction to a 40 minute drive in the other direction, Many travel radially across the city to get here, and large industrial/manufacturing plants are typically NIMBYed in development or if the sprawl grows around it, suddenly there’s noise and activity restrictions.

I could get work locally outside my area of expertise, but I’d be stunting my career and dropping about $50 grand a year in earning potential.

I 100% support public transport and personal mobility, but also recognise the limitations.

I live 42 km from work, and I have school drop off’s and pickups on the way. I can’t live where I work, and the kids education opportunities means I can’t have them educated where Iive.

Bikes and public transport are welcome but won’t help my situation.

Usually straight after the bushfires

Also, three movies

Face/Off

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Paddington 2

100%

You know she did a good job if it’s remembered 30 years later

Storks

Inside out

Idiocracy

Popstar: Never stop never stopping.

Screamers (camp sci-fi horror)

Along with the rest mentioned here.

Recommendation depends on the audience

What the hell is a Redux, anyway?

Apocalypse Now is a great 2 for 1 movie deal

Sounds like we need a royal commission with all the trimmings then. The recommendations will be strongly considered.

“In this case, Eagle Street scored highly. This was mainly due to it having the highest parking fee (A$30-$75 for three hours) of the three restaurant precincts. Even in Caxton Street, which has the cheapest parking ($11 for three hours), more than one in three customers travelled by public transport.”

Also, water is wet.

Lovely unbiased article

Don’t worry, the daddy daughter dance at the chastity ball is 100% normal and cool

I’m sorry about your dog. I’m just a first aider but from what I’ve read in case reports it sounds very similar to Crush Syndrome

Basically the tissue is dying or has died and the fresh blood flow overwhelms the kidneys and immune system causing renal failure

Rent to keep has been going for 25 years. No excuse.

The elderly these days were early to middle aged when the internet became a thing. In the 80s and 90s there was Skase, 419, fucking beanie babies as an example. Ignorance is not an excuse.