why is Seek telling me to become a tram driver
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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What does it pay? I reckon I could drive trams if it paid well enough.
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It's going to be interesting to see how the City of Yarra will charge yank tanks extra.
You can take up multiple bays if your vehicle doesn't fit in one. So anyone getting a fine for not fitting in the space will just go to court and get it dismissed.
Charging different rates for different vehicles could also get parking classified as a tax, thanks to the EV case. Which local governments cannot do.
Should be charged a higher rego too. They're friggin stupid. no one NEEDS one. A Triton or Landcruiser can do almost everything a yank tank can do, and you dont look like a member of a small penis support group whilst they do it.
It's nice to be social but I've had my fill for this week. Need a lot of solo time to recharge.
Today is all about finding a farm stay for a mum-&-son weekend away in a couple of months, making tteokbokki for the first time and doing the ironing.
Loving this weather. Love this type of easy, light rain.
But first: coffee!
Jeez Melbourne central station is still warm!
Switched to Vodafone for a moment cause Optus still arnt pricing themselves like they torched their brand, and boost actively incentivise you to port out then port back in. Itโs not horrific, but man Iโm outta the house 50 minutes and notching the network gaps pretty bad!
Out in the NW burbs, I used to get spotty interruptions with Optus (work phone). My personal Voda one, never had an issue.
Maybe that's why I never got the hate for Vodafone.
Voda in my home suburb seems fine. Great even. Voda on the train? ehhhh.
Yeah I do get a bit of an iffy bit between Footscray and west Footscray...even through they're both above ground.
All the underground stations never have an issue (Parliament and Melb Central included)
What do you mean with that Boost comment? Been contemplating moving there from Amaysim
Boost almost ALWAYS have a good deal going. Extra data for 3 months, or cashback on a prepaid sim. But for an existing customer? you get none of that. So you're better off porting in and porting out every time the deal ends. A bit like changing your NBN provider every 6 months.
No cicadas this year. It just doesn't feel hot unless I hear cicadas sing.
They were everywhere down on the Bellarine. Kept finding them in the house after dark too.
Seem to be a few here inner east.
I remember as a kiddo early 90's I used to find heaps of their shed skin things on trees all the time but I haven't seen one in ages.
One Christmas, a few years ago now, when my family and I were camping at Seymour*, all the grubs decided the time was right to emerge as cicadas.
They covered the trees and everything. It was hot, but they would pee on us. It felt like rain, and while ick, wasn't entirely unwelcome. It was basically just water lol.
TL;DR: cicadas golden showered my family for Santa.
*Edit: I wrote Seymour, but it may have actually been Heathcote now that I think about it...
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Fried chicken with rice and an orange juice please
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Battenberg thanks
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ranting about Adelaide
I don't think I like Adelaide. Why is their metro card system so rude?
When I visited I was 15, so I wasn't eligible for a child ticket (once you're 15 or older there you need a South Australian student ID). Today I found my metro card so was going to register it, but you can't register your card if you're under 18
Then in their terms and conditions they seem to be very set on a "NO REFUNDS" policy. Okay, I lied, you can actually get yourself a refund for whatever money you load onto it, but their policy is you have to die first. If you die, your "authorised representative" can go to them with a copy of your death certificate and a letter of administration. Are they really that desperate to hold onto the few measly dollars tourists put on their cards and don't use?
And their main train station makes me feel uncomfortable. I can't really describe why, it just makes me feel unwelcome and sketched out:
Other things I found weird, rude, or foreign about Adelaide:
- you swipe your card on the train, rather than at the train station
- they still take paper tickets on the trains, but you have to validate it by putting it into the metro card reader thing
- they do take bank cards but only on trams, but then I think the trams are free so you don't need to anyway?
- only some readers take certain types of tickets - on trams the front reader takes paper tickets and metro cards, but not bank cards. Then the middle reader takes bank cards and metro cards, but not google/apple pay. Then the back reader only takes metro cards
- you have to buy a ticket for your bike
- the penalty for fare evasion there is almost 5 times what it is here ($1,250 vs $280 here). And I think you get fined the same amount of you don't buy your bike a ticket
- they don't call fines "fines", they call them an expiration ticket or something?
- they put birds and shit on all their signs reminding you you're in South Australia, which ends up feeling like you're in papers please or another Soviet game based in the 70s/80s
- also I think if you get an expiration notice they put in on your police record and then you forever have a criminal record and a $1.2k fine because your bike doesn't have a ticket
- they put angry warning signs on literally everything. I don't understand how their signs feel like they're yelling at you but ours don't, but it seems to be the way it is
- their bus stops have terms and conditions
I love this, Adelaide is the worst lol. I went in 2011 or 12 and it sucked then. Not surprised it still sucks.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a teenager again, staying up late to read and make music.
Ah well. Joy where you can find it.
Zzzzzzz