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  • Short term:

    Free public transport.

    Free bikes for everyone.

    Begin emergency repairs on any old busses that can be pressed into service.

    Implement a priority system for who gets fuel:

    Tier 1: healthcare, emergency services

    Tier 2: food production & distribution

    Tier 3: essential infrastructure (power, water, telecoms)

    Everything else: on yer bike, son (or heavily rationed)

    Ration fertilizer. A lot of it is wasted, currently.

    Daily govt briefings - what's happening, what is being prioritised, what people should do. Maintain clear communication and transparency.

    Medium term (but start NOW):

    Electrify all busses.

    Trams. Melbourne is going to need a lot more of those.

    Repair neglected railways.

    Move freight by rail and ship as much as possible.

    Build cycling infrastructure. Secure places to park many many bikes next to train stations - big sheds.

    Remove regulatory barriers for local food production, farmers markets. Encourage urban gardening, local trade networks.

    Plant corn fucking everywhere - ethanol.

    Strategic reserves of critical medicines, etc.

    Diversify food production - for local needs, not for export market needs.

  • Like deer in the headlights.

  • It'd stop them launching ships to lay mines, or launching midget submarines and naval drones, which is a start. It might keep the Iranians too busy fighting on land to aim at ships. It'd basically be an open wound for USA though - completely unsustainable.

    Then there's the fantasy of naval escorts for tankers. Each tanker would require a couple of ships to shadow them (anti-air, anti-sub, anti-drone) for the entire length of the gulf (not just the strait) and in normal times 120 tankers pass through there every day. You'd need a fleet ~400 ships strong, running 24/7 (no repairs or rest). And it only takes one hit from an anti-ship missile and hundreds of sailors die. So that ain't happening.

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  • To do that they'd need to occupy 1000+ kms of extremely rugged coast. That's quite a commitment...

  • "this meeting could have been an email" --> "this app could have been a website"

  • Sometimes they mean "make the share market go down", while the share market is just a graph of rich people's feelings about the future.

  • The biggest similarity for me is that the govt will wait and wait, too scared to do anything that might "harm the economy". Until it's too late.

  • I remember when OpenAI was saying stuff like that.

  • I couldn't get past the second level :(

  • Knowing whether you have autism or not doesn't change who you are, it gives you knowledge you need to navigate the world better.

  • That link preview was generated by your phone. If you look at the sidebar column of https://piefed.zip/ you'll see the text "Why not try a different UI?" is there. That text is used as a meta tag when the page doesn't have any of it's own:

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  • They're not actually for free speech, or freedom in general. The people who brainwash their followers into this shit just use the phrase "free speech" as a tool.

  • I am employed by a tiny software dev shop that develops a few apps used in education. No AI at all, unless I proactively choose to and pay for it out of my own pocket.

  • All those things are on the 'Explore' menu.

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz

    NZ Fuel Reserves Monitor

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    Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org

    Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give - Kenneth Reitz

    kennethreitz.org /essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
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    Mt Cook carpark, New Zealand

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    7 LLM bots banned from PieFed.social in the last 24 hours - a new daily record

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    Managed PieFed hosting with elastio

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  • News @lemmy.world

    British tourist among 20 charged in Dubai over videos of Iranian missile strikes

    www.theguardian.com /world/2026/mar/12/british-tourist-among-20-charged-in-dubai-over-videos-of-iranian-missile-strikes
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world

    H-3 airstrike - Wikipedia

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz

    New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries

    www.rnz.co.nz /news/national/587964/government-deciding-whether-us-should-get-access-to-new-zealanders-biometric-data
  • Crazy Fucking Videos @lemmy.world

    A man launched from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the truck was traveling.

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    Healthy expectations in open source

    www.donmccurdy.com /2023/07/03/expectations-in-open-source/
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    Something Swedish

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social

    Alternative UI for PieFed - Photon

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    Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis | EV

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    Don't like the PieFed UI design? Try this!

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    PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.6.0
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    Tankies celebrating financial problems at the UN

    lemmy.ca /post/59576557
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    Hello, flood of new people!

  • Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse @sopuli.xyz

    UK govt report: Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security

    assets.publishing.service.gov.uk /media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf
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    PieFed 1.5.2 is released, with a daily time limit

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