No, ghiayef.

No, I was originally comparing two scenes in one episode of a TV show to a four-panel comic. But in retrospect, I only really needed to compare the first of those two scenes to the four-panel comic. The rest of Troy’s arc is an added bonus, but only the first scene of it is needed to establish the Good Will Hunting comparison.

The most important thing is to keep building. Once you stop the knowledge is gone

Hear, hear.

The parent comment would be pronounced “ghee A eff”. /g/ is the hard g of “gift”, not the soft g of “gin” (which is /dʒ/). (second word pronounced like “hey” or “say” without their first letters, or “eight” without its last.)

/gi eɪ̯ ɛf/

What is this abomination? /gi/‽

Is that an actual gif or one of those audio-less videos that many gif services have taken to using lately, due to their higher quality and smaller file sizes? (RIP gfycat)

Yes, and so is this comic. I just think Community did it much better.

Yeah, this comic is just a worse version of Troy’s plot from English as a Second Language.

edit: the whole arc, starting in ESL, ending in Introduction to Finality

Establish national standards for high-speed rail, in a way that is classic-compatible, so that trains can run slowly on legacy lines

Queensland doesn’t run standard gauge, so that’s extra hard up here.

It’s so frustrating to me that even relatively new projects like Cross-River Rail didn’t build dual-gauge so they could be compatible with a future high speed project.

Yeah I’m not sure how I feel about the expensive tunnel + bridges route. Maybe getting that out of the way early could make it easier to keep going, giving a sort of “the hard part has already been done” argument in favour of continuing. On the other hand, the high pricetag could give opponents something to point at to say “stop this here”.

I do wonder about that “relatively short distance” bit. You’re definitely right about the large number of commuters, but considering 60% of it is going to be tunnels, and a further 20% via bridges and viaducts, that seems likely to be much more expensive per kilometre than some other routes might be. Someone else suggested Sydney to Canberra, which would have added prestige factor and be connecting different states/territories, demonstrating more clearly the need for federal involvement. I imagine it would have a much lower per-kilometre cost, too. Starting with Sydney to Wollongong (on the way to Canberra) might achieve a fairly similar level of demand and time savings to Newy.

I would suggest quite the opposite. Privatised transportation systems have proven themselves to be absolute abject failures. The UK is currently moving back towards nationalised railway after decades of failure under privatisation. My city of Brisbane, Australia has one private railway, and it’s extortionately expensive at 45 times the price of our regular public transport…and they have literally not allowed any other public transport along that route to be run.

Private businesses necessarily need to make a profit. But public transport is a public good (in the informal sense), and it’s practically an economic public good. It shouldn’t be run for profit, but for the benefit of society. That means sometimes being unprofitable.

A friendly reminder that cars are still highly destructive, whether powered by petrol, battery, or hydrogen, and whether driven by a human or automation. The only real environmentally, economically, and socially responsible solution is to drastically reduce the amount of trips made by car, by introducing road diets and modal filters, by having mixed-use medium or higher density zoning, by building high quality safe separated bike paths, and good quality, frequent, affordable public transport.

Also, keep your pets on your property. If there’s no way to keep them from leaving your yard, keep them inside. It’s better for them (they live longer on average, even if you control for the increased likelihood of getting run over) and for the environment.

Ouch! I hope it recovered ok!

Ah right, I missed that.

Thanks for sharing! Yeah, it was hearing an American/British historian explain this version of red rover that got me wondering about it, since that’s different from what I knew.

I haven’t thought about this game in over 40 years!

Yeah same (ok, not quite 40 years, but 20 for sure), until a YouTube video about folklore (of all things!) had the presenter talk about what “red rover” was for them, and it was very different from what I knew.

Did it involve one person trying to run and avoid the catching team, who tries to tackle them, or the runner trying to forcefully break through a line?

Also, love the name Vic Kick. I assume that’s a precursor to the Auskick I did for a bit as a kid?

Hey, wondering why you deleted your reply. If it’s cos you realised this was the Australian community and you’re not Aussie, don’t worry! You wouldn’t be the first non-aussie to answer, and I actually really value the international perspective on this question (since seeing an international answer to the question on another site was the reason I came here to ask it).

Not being able to provide feedback is pretty shit.

But I just haven’t noticed any of the problems I’ve seen anyone reporting about the redesign. I’m honestly finding it so much better than the old design. The worst thing is the more niche parts of the site which are still awkwardly on the old design, like river/creek levels.

You want to bookmark a particular weather map? It’s…trivial. And the map experience is so much nicer now, since it feels like a real modern map with satellite overlays, instead of the awkward static pages that it felt like before. No more need to deal with arcane things like “64 km” vs “128 km” radars (wtf even is that measuring?) and move north or south in predefined increments, you can move around exactly how you would in any mapping app.

The capital city centres are linked from the home page, and you can find your own suburb with a simple search. Any of those can be bookmarked on their own. Here’s Brisbane. And here’s St Lucia, a suburb of Brisbane.