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I think it's likely he would keep it, but fail to provide it enough funding to actually do anything of value. Possibly also limit its remit so it's incapable of providing the best recommendations.

Long term, I'd love to see us build high-speed rail all the way from the Sunshine Coast to Geelong, via the east coast capitals. But starting with smaller routes from major satellite cities into their capitals, like Newcastle–Sydney, is a fantastic way to build up local expertise before tackling the longer routes like Sydney–Canberra and Canberra–Melbourne.

I just really wish we were doing a better job at preparing for it. Like the soon-to-open Cross River Rail in Brisbane should have been designed wide enough to install dual-gauge rails with standard gauge, even if those additional rails weren't themselves installed yet. But they haven't been, and so when we come to eventually do the Brisbane–Gold Coast link it's gonna be way more expensive than if we'd planned ahead.

A century or so of oppressed masses and greedy elites did it.

True, and that's important context if you're trying to get a deeper understanding of how Julius Caesar came to have the power he held before his assassination.

But there's enough of a problem you can see even if you just start at Julius, which is what I was concentrating on in my previous comment. The parallels to Trump are terrifyingly on the nose.

Oh yes! Nice one! I've heard that small native shrubs and stuff are meant to be especially good for our smaller natural wildlife, and the trend towards large trees with nothing but grass surrounding them is why shitty bullies like noisy miners are so common. More local planted plants in people's back yards is great!

Huh?

I don't speak Spanish, but just looking at the alternative options Google Translate provides when you only input a single word, it's possible that "tóxico" might be a clearer translation of "poisonous".

My local cafes and restaurants did really well

This is what shits me about politicians and business leaders calling for RTO on the basis that CBD businesses are suffering. Yeah? That's sad, but it's life. Other businesses are benefitting. Why should the CBD ones be artificially propped up when what people want is to work from home where they can support local suburban cafes and restaurants.

It literally was though. Not a military intelligence tool, but a big business intelligence one.

Niantic was founded by Google and their first product, Field Trip, and their first game, Ingress (a much better-designed game than Pokémon Go, btw) were pretty obviously about gaining geolocation data for Google to improve their products like Maps and Shopping.

It's a bizarre and (afaik) unfounded conspiracy theory, but I don't think this reasoning works as a refutation. It's still very possible that the experiment got out, and even if not they still needed policies to protect all the people they didn't want to be affected because the targeting isn't perfect.

Honestly I'm a light hobbyist myself. My exposure to history is primarily via YouTube channels like the excellent Historia Civilis (their series on Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Roman Republic is stunning) and via games like Age of Empires.

It is. He's the head of the West Brisbane BUG and is involved with Space4Cycling BNE. He's a good dude.