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Japanese government are not worried about a diminishing workforce, they are worried about the future of the nation.

Sounds like they're going to start putting out baby bonuses, free childcare etc. Also sounds like they've started up an immigration program from China. Not sure if that's enough by itself.

Alarming figures coming out of Japan https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-28/japan-new-low-birth-rate-falls-to-record-low-demographics-worsen/103520202 Pretty much many families in Japan are only having 1 child and are waiting until later in life to do so. This is the effect of uber high...

Australia becoming a republic is an inevitably. As the nation develops the Commonwealth becomes less and less relevant. It is a matter of when, not if. Probably a few generations to go before it happens.

The most realistic way we get to net zero emissions by 2050 is with maybe 3-4 baseload nuclear power plants. Then we will be completely done with coal forever.

The ATC call is out there. The controller tells the Ryanair flight that theres a bomb on board reported "that can be activated over Vilnius". Super dodgy and then they ask the pilot what he wants to do - he obviously diverts to Belarus because hes been told the bomb can be activated above...

In the Bolivian version they were free to land their plane where they liked and weren't forced by a fighter jet to land somewhere they did not choose to. So not exactly the same by a long shot.

My wife has a friend in contact tracing at DHHS. She's never seen an outdoor transmission case in any of the cases she's investigated. The sensible thing for me would be to make wearing of face masks mandatory for indoor settings like the workplace and public transport. The most...

The 200m isn't the same in Victoria I believe. There's one place where speed cameras like to sit in my local area literally 50m past a 70km/h speed limit sign (previous zone 60km/h).

Pussy released on bail: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-16/porsche-driver-richard-pusey-gets-bail-eastern-freeway-crash/12774066

Not good enough that Vicroads has advice that contradicts the written law. That sounds like a legal nightmare.

Ah ok, fair enough. Still, VicRoads is the authority on road rules, the fact that they say it is enough.

There's a clear implication in the law that slowing to 40km/h may not be possible in some circumstances. Reducing speed, even if the vehicle does not get down to 40km/h, will still have safety benefits for law enforcement or emergency workers and will help drivers take evasive action if...

I don't see how a fine can stand on a freeway if you slow down in a gradual manner upon seeing emergency lights. The actual law itself implies attaining a speed of 40km/h isn't realistic in some instances on a high speed road and even acknowledges that sudden deceleration should be avoided...

Just reading the 40km/h law I see it has been changed on high speed roads that you must slow down gradually and avoid sudden braking. So common sense in terms of that it isn't absolutely essential you slow to 40 on a freeway when you see emergency vehicle lights but you must slow down gradually.

This makes sense, sitting around waiting for a tow truck on the freeway seemed an unnecessary risk. Should have either directed the driver to pull over to an off ramp or once he was pulled over get an officer to move the vehicle into a safe position. I would expect procedure has been revised...

Why would there be a trial for the reckless conduct charges? The outraging public decency charge - that seems very subjective and looks like something his lawyer will drive a nail through. I can't seem to find it in vic law anywhere. A trial for a couple fo reckless driving offences...

Well well well https://www.metabunk.org/threads/2020-beirut-explosions.11345/ Look at the photos of how the ammonium nitrate was stored. It was seized from a freighter ship that was not allowed to leave Beirut 6 years and stored in bags ever since. In other words, it was a ticking time...

No fireworks factories nearby though

Could this be the biggest non nuclear explosion ever? Seems bigger than the Tianjin ones that the communists tried to cover up.

Reported that a worker was welding a door shut at the fireworks factory which started a fire. That progressed to the ammonium nitrate storage (2770 tons!!) and ignited it. Couple of things, no way should that much ammonium nitrate be in storage near a residential area - or next to a fireworks...

Brown coal industry doesnt have much clout. Victoria could lead the way by replacing brown coal with nuclear. Hazelwood is gone. Yalloun gone latest 2030. A nuclear industry would totally revitalise the Latrobe Valley.

Hopefully it's all good by Aust Day weekend. Will head down there for the weekend if that's the case and spend plenty of $$$$

The stats on how many deaths coal has caused through health problems is frightening. Fukushima doesnt deter me at all. Despite the worse possible conditions possible thanks to a 1 in 10000 year earthquake very few died from the nuclear accident. A relatively small area was contaminated. In...

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Australia is perfectly set up for nuclear energy. Abundance of Uranium. Abundance of arid land to store processed waste. Geologically stable. If we are serious about zero carbon we need to commit to nuclear power right away. It takes 10 years to set up nuclear power, you can't just knock...

IS would claim responsibility for anything regardless of their actual involvement.

They're just republishing news from Donbass news sources. You're mistaking the concerns of East Ukraine with the concerns of Russia. If you did your due diligence you'll discover that the majority of donbass inhabintants have been internally displaced within Ukraine. What's left are a...

Some of you do really like posting Russian propaganda. Most of the population of Donbass has been displaced internally within Ukraine. There's little real support for the sepratists - just plenty of organised propaganda rallies and a few diehard communists left. Websites like stopfake.org have...

No that isn't the only evidence. Countless examples of video footage. Radar records from ATC. If what you say is true there would be thousands of witnesses speaking up saying I didn't see a plane because the streets of NYC are pretty busy at 8.30 in the morning. You have absolutely no...