Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday 5 Jul 2023
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This is your captain speaking. Please fasten your seatbelts. You are in for a turbulent Flight.
This post sponsored by @CEOofmyhouse56
Why do we have such a toxic culture of making work "fun"?? What the hell is wrong with people? Why can't we just do work, go home and have your own kind of fun with other people you enjoy being around???
Because your corporate overlords believe that if you can build a connection to your workplace and colleagues, they can guilt you into producing more value for less pay out of some misguided sense of loyalty. A job is a transaction. They don't give a shit about you, you don't need to give a shit about them.
But I'm afraid they've been wildly misinformed by the HR overlords or whomever on 'how to get employees to build a connection to the workplace and colleagues' cringe
I fucking hate it. I dont get it. Its a JOB. It means nothing to me. Just middle management and HR trying to justify their existance. Just cause they dont have personal lives.
An idea was floated by HR that each team should make a video (to put on our intranet) explaining what we do and how we fit into the organisation.
The kicker - it should have been a music video!!! Everyone loves to sing on camera!!
Thankfully upper management put an end to it quickly, but it went way further than it should have.
have these people not heard of the Geneva Convention?
We're talking about HR here, so definitely not.
I should note that there were a few teams that very actually disappointed that this didn't eventuate.
Those team members have been reported to ASIO as potential spies
Report?! No no no. Execute them now. Clearly they are shapeshifting aliens! I'd say robots but I think even robots would shy away from an artsy idea like that.
In the context of this particular team it makes sense. They're 'those' kind of people.
Super keen and excited for anything and everything.
Fuckers
Yeah, gross!
Oh man that is the worse. Also cue music The Human Beinz - Nobody but me song from The Office where they all film a music video and mime together.
I'm just not sold on the effectiveness....the best cultures I've worked in I feel like it all comes quite organically because you like the people they get you and you get along well together. No amount of forcing people to party in a room will achieve that.
You could suggest a team viewing of Office Space?
Oh! Remember next Friday is..Hawaiian shirt day. 🫠
I shall have to review footage first myself as I don't remember a thing from it (or if I had indeed watched it).
It's becoming a big thing in government (my area of work at least). Heavily encouraged 'fun activities' for all!!!
I've been slightly shunned as I refuse to participate but fuck'em.
The worst is when they do this after cutting headcount and stuff thinking this will help but it's just really cringe.
Culture building and team bonding!!!
What's not to love
I like to make work fun for myself because I have to spend so much time on it. But forcing it to be fun for the whole team is just small minded groupthink. Especially when it comes from the minds of soulless and cynical HR departments
Same. Like I actually enjoy what I do and this whole let's make work fun vibe is just completely contrived and unnecessary.
if it's fun then you won't ask for more money
I think they sometimes miss the point that fun is in the eye of the beholder...
While I sometimes can motivate myself at work to make things fun or funny for some reason there’s always a natural and ugly resistance when it’s suggested by people higher up in the chain.
It's cringy when it's disingenuous which it almost always is.
I like work to be fun but not if it's forced. Then it's just more work of a different and more annoying kind.
Exactly! The socialising and activities just become another thing to do!
After last night's successful posting, I have moved the bot onto learning the days of the week. Either I have been successful, or all future posts will be labeled as Wednesday.
My dudes... 🐸
Groundhog Wednesday.
Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Wednesdays
Beat me to it! Thanks
Groundhog’s day. Such a great movie.
Lmao didn't get the job I waited three months to hear back from.
3 months to tell someone is plain rude...you've dodged a bullet. Onwards and upwards to better things!
Ooof that stings. Onwards and upwards though!!
I mean if they're that crap at their job you probably don't want to work there anyway.
It's government, unfortunately that wait can be pretty standard.
And even if you are successful after 3 months it's like another 2 months for paperwork and onboarding 💀
OMG it worked! >insert happy dance here<
I was here for the beginning of the robot uprising
We should get t-shirts printed.
Well done 🤖🤖🦾
Brava!
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Does the happy dance bear a resemblance to The Robot?
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Yay!!! Thanks for all your hard work Rusty, aka The Creator!
what was the issue?
I have absolutely no idea 🤣 Whatever it was I think the packet manager has fixed it, as it is designed to run programs continuously. Or possibly the successful post was an amazing fluke and no post in the future will ever work again. But I'm hoping not.
That's the way, and how I know you're a true bot master
Time for bed. Anxious about the bot, but it has worked once, I must have faith. I have instructed it to make a post at midnight given all the test posts worked last night. I think it will take a few more successful posts before I can really trust it is working.
Up just before 6 am to hit the gym...fuck yeah!!!!
Got some energy, ready to fucking lift.
Do my stretches, light warm ups, first rep of the first exercise and something tweaked in my back.
Off to the physio I go!!!
Yay!!
All of me except my knee wants to go jogging.
Bike ride instead?
I don't find cycling to be very good exercise for me. I lived inner city and rode a bike everywhere for years. I don't have access to enough consistent bike path before I have to stop for crossroads (Djerring Trail). I like running because it gets my heart rate up and I can do it at the local footy oval. I could take my bike to Malvern velodrome but it makes exercise a three hour job with getting there and back.
Oh bugger. I can't run cause everything below the equator is sore for days on after. I'm guessing the answer is yes, but have you looked into knee support braces? One of the dudes at my gym swears by one (I'll find out the brand) cause he run again without discomfort.
Thanks but don't stress the brand. I feel braces are a bit like chiro, it really does work for some people but the science is weak.
Now that's motivation! By the way, I always thought of your username as being like a nasty lift.. it only just occurred to me that it might be mean as in median/average 🤦🏼♀️
The username was suggested by Reddit when I signed up and kind of liked it. It has no meaning whatsoever 😁
Hey Midnight Bot you showed up tonight. Great to see you. Thanks @[email protected] you've made my day.
It's my daughter's first birthday today! Mum's at work so it's just me and her celebrating until she gets home. Is it stupid to take a baby to NGV during school holidays?
In no way does age determine exposure to the arts 🙂
Do it. The NGV is great. You can always take a rest break lying on the floor looking at the stained glass ceiling if it's too busy.
Sounds fantastic. It's a day out!!
Do it!
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Baby crows out the office window
Love this. Please post more such delightful sightings when you come across them. 💚
I love this! Please post more crow family pics!
My partner and I are starting to talk about marriage beyond just a conceptual thing 😳
::: spoiler cw: mention of possible dog passing away I'm scared that I won't even have six months with my dog... It never gets easier. :::
they are here for a good time. Not a long time. But that never makes it any easier. I had a dog get suddenly diagnosed with cancer a couple of years back. They gave us some meds to buy us some time before we said goodbye. It brought us a month. In some respects it was fucking horrific. Absolutely bloody horrific. And in some respects, it was a gift from god himself and I'll be forever thankful for it.
I think they meant they were thankful that the meds gave them another month to say goodbye...?
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On a bus, your prayers are for the cars that get in the way. f=M.A sorta translates to big bus fucks little cars.
If it makes you feel better, busses have more mass so are inherently safer. The no seatbelts thing is so you don't have to fiddle with it in a panic and delay evacuating the bus.
One of my friends was just talking about Heartstopper and while I haven't watched it because I just don't really care for a show with a cast of teens, it got me thinking about how lucky young LGBT people are these days in terms of content they can watch and see themselves in. When myself and my generation were coming out and looking for media that represented us it was all very full on, and stuffed to the brim with sexual content, a lot of it truly dubious. My friends and I at the time just didn't understand how incredibly damaging watching that stuff could be for us as teens. I don't know, just got me deep into thinking about how not just myself but friends maybe wouldn't have engaging in some risking shit had we had shows and movies that showed healthy age appropriate stuff.
Related off note, but I thought about the OG UK Queer as Folk, and how I thought 15 year old Nathan banging grown arse Stuart wasn't that bad. Adult me is mortified, but I think about how those old shows were all my friends and I had so of course we thought yeah that's how it is, that's what we should want and how we should behave.
I dont usually get deep on here, but I just can't stop thinking about it now.
I've just realized why I'm over this job. This was supposed to be exciting. Managing shit. Helping people. Fixing things. But I'm so busy filling in god damn spreadsheets and checking off things on a list to do anything about actually fixing or improving things.. Its basically just become an admin assistant. What the hell am I even doing here?! Booked myself in for an Azure fundamentals course next week. I'm pretty adept at Azure already, but I tried to study for the bigger certificate and got a bit overwhelmed so im gonna try get the basic certification and then build momentum from there.
Good luck mate. I'm sure you'll land something more interesting. There's a fair bit out there for the time being.
Someone's posted pics of the fake seizure guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/14qdgum/psa_fake_seizure_guy_tried_it_on_just_now/
I have lived here my whole life and I have no idea who the heck this dude is. He's been doing it so long!? What the actual fuck.
I lived in Melbourne for about a decade solid, and have split time between Melbourne and Sydney for over a decade since then, and am also lucky enough not to have encountered him. If he pulls this sexual assault stunt somewhat regularly, why hasn’t he been put away?
Difficult to identify and catch, maybe?
I doubt that he does it when there's police or PSOs around, and he's probably not hanging about afterwards.
It seems like its true, but I don't think alleging crimes on reddit then putting someone through a trial by fire is legal. It's for sure a PSA but it still a bit creepy. For all anyone knows he's stopped doing it. I'm a survivor too and this triggers me to even think about but I don't know. On reddit I'd be downvoted to hell and I seem to have found some here too, this isn't playing devil's advocate I'm specifically talking about the legality. Those using reddit to threaten violence and suggest he suffer violence are not a lot better than him imo.
I don't think the poster is encouraging vigilantism. It's more warning people to be on their guard and not fall for this guy's ploy.
Yeah, but they published a photo of someone without their consent and made allegations against them. Regardless of OP's intent, I don't think a magistrate would see if that way. Sexual assault is a terrible crime and luring people into is completely fucked, I just think doxxing is also fucked and it's also a crime. As we are taught from a young age, two wrongs don't make a right.
Either way, it's nice to be able to discuss things like adults over here without resorting to brigading or threats of violence.
IMO the people who threaten violence are much worse than him. I would consider posts inciting/advocating violence or harrassment to be a clear breach of the community guidelines here.
The guy's weird and has a weird fettish, but tricking people to have them sit on you is something that requires counselling, I don't know that it would even fit the definition of an assault. Maybe there needs to be some sort of social intervention order that can be used for people who don't target a single victim, that can tell someone their actions are unacceptable and if they can't follow it to make it possible to put some sorts of interventions in place.
From what I've read, after he gets someone to sit on him and hold his arms down, he starts kind of grinding his crotch against them. Definitely seems like it would qualify as molestation.
I just hope it doesn't stop people from helping when someone else actually does have an epileptic fit. I've seen it happen a couple of times.
That is pretty gross.
In regards to actually helping people having a real fit, the appropriate actions for that would be the best way to deal with this guy too - move any dangerous objects away, call 000, and the only reason you would touch them is if they are unconscious after the siezure, in which case you would roll them on their side.
This is WILD. This is my first time hearing about this guy.
Do you think its a requirement that to work for Linkt you have to get a lobotomy? Or do they exclusively hire people with single digit IQ? I traveled early June, noticed my tag didn't beep so I got home, logged a replacement tag, they go "No worries, we wont charge you for any tolls for the proceeding couple of days and until your new tag is confirmed received". Want to guess what I just received in the mail? If you guessed a toll invoice I have bad news for you: You are clearly too smart to work for Linkt. I try to be patient with call center staff, its not their fault they work for soul sucking corporations. But man we are 35 minutes in and they are still trying to tell me it is a valid invoice.
Heheh, they're smashing their heads against their desk because they prolly agree with you it's stupid, but they can't say that and have to keep repeating that's it's valid.
Escalate politely, and if speaking to a senior/TL doesnt work, there should be an ombudsman you can report to (though im not sure who in this case)
Fuck tollways.
It was in writing. That just made it all the more infuriating.
Reports of my demise have me SLIGHTLY exaggerated. I'm feeling heaps better, but my god that was the worst I've ever felt whilst not actually being sick.
Glad you've bounced back, welcome to feeling slightly more human again! :)
It worked!
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I have two twitter accounts that I linked a thousand years ago. I never ended up using twitter so the accounts just sit there. I went to go delete them, as my little 'fuck you' to Muck, but it wants my password... as if I'm going to remember a password I used 10 years ago.
Anyway, I changed my usernames to variations of 'elon suck my dick' and now I'm going to troll his tweets until I get banned. Stupid fuck.
Wish me luck!
Edit: give me some more people to insult on twitter, I'm trying to nuke these. Im on that moron Jordan Petersons twitter atm
Hullo kids
Hard day. Baby hasn’t been well. I keep getting irrationally angry at my partner too because I’m freaked out and projecting. I have managed to not actually say anything and just keep my emotions to myself but I’m exhausted from managing myself too. Baby will be okay but it’s hard when he’s screaming in pain 😭
I swear to Alanis Morissette that if I don't get this frackin' job I'm going to eat my cat's dryfood.
Please offer me the job
And I'll be your phone monkey,
I'll upsell,
Cross-sell,
Side-sell,
Slide into hell,
If you pay me,
Fortnightly
Please tell me you like me...
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Everything’s gonna be fine, fine, fine..
reminder that Dogma is available free on youtube as per Kevin Smith fucking with Weinstein.
Ah yes, upscaled to 4K by an AI algorithm and uploaded by the official YouTube account of someone named Dash.
I guess I meant the director unofficially endorses YouTube/other postings of the movie as it stops any proceeds going to Weinstein who owns the rights.
Is that a Dogma reference?! I love that film :)
Yeah it is lol! It's one of my fav films heh
Weird thing happened in Coles Richmond Traders this morning when I was buying my lunch. The exit gate for the self-serve lane didn't open. Had to show the receipt to the attendant to get the gates open to leave. I think this is Coles' response to grab it & run 'customers'. Might be a good idea to keep your receipt handy until safely out of there in future.
Self-serve checkouts are the absolute pits. I really hate how they've become in such widespread use.
Unexpected item in bagging area.
literally the item I just scanned
Please notify attendant
attendant is busy helping some elderly customer who apparently has never used an eftpos machine before
Or some idiot taking 2 full trolley loads through whilst the actual registers have no line.
I make sure to "accidentally" bump into them. Apologise profusely, and bump into them again.
Or if I'm at the register next to them, crowd their area as much as possible.
I'm probably adding to the problem, but get a weird sense of satisfaction from it.
Sometimes it feels really good to be petty heheh
I hate that so much, roll my eyes so hard i send them into orbit
I read this in robot voice haha
Reminds me, I had to go to target yesterday for the first time in 6 years lol and they didn't have a single human register, every single cashier register had been replaced with self serve and 1 lady manning all 20. Felt kinda dystopian
Exit gate sounds a bit like detainment / kidnapping.
I start sweating at the self serve like I've stolen something but really I'm just over exerting myself because I have a trolley full of shit, no register is open so i have to do it myself and I want to get out of there.
Apparently Mr Woof's ears are finely attuned to the sound of a spoon hitting the bottom of the bowl. He was at the other end of the house but managed to rock up just in time as I finished the last of my porridge.
Hahaha. If little dog hears a container opening he's there waiting for cheese or kabana. Apparently all containers contain cheese or kabana.
Likewise cats and ring pull tins. It’s corn you greedy idiots!
Hahaha. All freezer bags have ham in them.
Last session with the Really Good Short Term Psych. It went so well even though I was procrastinating in bed until half an hour before the appointment. I feel a good sense of closure and clarity and appreciation. It feels good in my bones.
I am also infinitely grateful and relieved that he will write a letter summarising findings and recommendations to my GP and the psychiatrist I have an appointment with next week, because we covered so much and I feel he really got to the crux of what I've been having difficulties with my whole life. It'll save me a lot of exhausting explanation and rehashing and will come with professional recommendations that might finally get me the help I need.
P O T A T O L O V E
Nightshade just like the to-mate,
Oh, po-tay-to, po-tah-to, po-tate!
Colours red gold, blue, purple majesty
La Ratte, Jewel Yam, please, French Fingerling
I want them scalloped and baked,
Friiiiiiied, driiiiied, and potato-caked!
OH POTATO!!
WHO MADE YOU
SO DELICIOUS!?
OH POTATO!
YOU'RE THE FIRE
FROM PROMETHEUS
Boiled and bubbled in a big pot
Stirred till the 'tates are steaming hot
Smash 'em, mash 'em, butter and milk
Whipped up smooth, starchy-white silk
Cleaned up and chopped, wedges or chips
Salty and sauce-y upon my hungry lips
OH POTATO!!
WHO MADE YOU
SO DELICIOUS!?
OH POTATO!!
YOU'RE THE FIRE
FROM PROMETHEUS!
thank you, ReadEverything; your comment about licking the potato-masher inspired me
Day 11 of exercise program. I discovered today that my program has a water drinking tracker and reminder, which is grouse because I've always been bad at keeping up my water intake. It also has a calorie burn counter on the pedometer bit. I like to have a low sugar alcoholic ginger beer when I've finished work, and it was interesting to note that even though it's low sugar it would take me half a day of walking to burn it off!
I've got 80kg of spuds again today💪 Have a great day everyone!
Take those calorie burn things with a grain of salt, they are way over simplified and dont really mean much. You can calculate your base metabolical rate with online calculators which take your exercise etc into account and that will give you a rough calorie amount that you can aim for each day for maintenance. Then you just need to adjust down or up a few 100 calories depending on if you want to gain or lose weight. Thats obviously a simple way to look at things but it will be significantly more accurate than a calorie burn function on a pedometer
Cool, thanks for the tip, might give it a look tonight. Always wondered about the whole "steps" thing anyway. Like a leisurely meandering stroll at a Sunday market and a "shit I'm late for work" walk are both counted the same, but to me it'd seem obvious that one will burn more fat than the other.
You're inspiring me to get off my toosh. I finally started doing my 5 minute warm up routine ala fitness blender today. I used to do it every day.
Yay! Good on you! I love quick routines because they're so much easier to make the time for, as opposed to me trying to carve time out of my day for a gym session or something.
So apparently there was a magnitude 2.4 earthquake in Pakenham at around 1:25am this morning.
Seriously?! It's crazy how many earthquakes we've had in the past couple of years eh?
True! I've lived in Melbourne most of my life and never felt an earthquake until 2012. Since then I've felt about 3 or 4.
Lived in melbs my entire life and remember them since the 80's.
Better to have many smaller ones verse the BIG one
Whoa really? Didn’t notice that one this time around.
We’ve really had a fair few number of them in a relatively short amount of time.
Early reports state its done a few hundred dollars of improvement to the local area.
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Can I have a potato 3 way?
^subscribed^
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Microwaved, mashed, and drenched in butter please
of which food? Chef’s pick 🍅⚡️🔨🧈
I'm eating only potato today. So unless that is a red potato, or a potato in disguise (would be smart around here), then I must refuse.
it is indeed a potato in disguise. You saw through it.
👌not so smart now are you little potat
The bot thanks you for your thoughtfullness.
The cat demands fish and chicken, and threatens to continue her sabotage campaign if not given sufficient treats.
I would just like a nice hot cup of tea and to put my feet up for a bit.
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Shouldn’t you be feeding the bot beans?
bot does not want to make the wind howl
I would like a Chinese banquet of vegetables and seafood. Please ensure there are also pickled cucumbers. Thank you.
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Thank you most kindly. The braised mushrooms are perfection. And the mountains of rice.
Fruit salad, yummy yummy?
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Ahahahaha. Love the battery for the bot. So cute.
Thank you Bot #001 😊
ahhhh you beat me by seconds!! too quick and slick for me 👉👉
My mum felt the Earthquake, apparently woke her up. I didn't feel it at all.
Anyone else lick the potato masher like you’re 5 years old and your mum gave you the beaters with cake batter on them? It’s so delicious 🥔 🥔
Arghhhh God dammit barbie, i wanted big dumb fun not fucking Chinese propaganda
Awww nooo the trailers looked funny
Yeah what's with this nine dash line shit.
Not even sure why a world map is even in Barbie...
Hollywood has to appease China as it's a huge market basically.
Then they throw a token like they do with everyone else, not rewrite world maps
Yeah it's pretty freaking weird. It's been banned in Vietnam.
Curry laksa for dinner tonight. 😊
Cat will not be staying on this new medication! Much rather a destructive nutcase than this pitiful zombie.
BotBot!! You legend!
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Jon Bot Jovi, lol. Or maybe seeing as it's Wednesday, Jenna Botega.
Aha good bot! @[email protected] can rest easy now. Kudos to your mucking around getting this thing to work :)
We have bots! The first of many, but bots nonetheless.
And good bots too, not the spambots that things have been riddled with for a while.
That aside, is there a good solution to stop an electric toothbrush going all mouldy and horrible inside? Luckily, it's mostly only on the bit that you're meant to replace every three months or so, but it's still unpleasant.
Not sure if it's just a design flaw with the Oral-B ones, where they have a lot of holes to let water inside the head, but the gaps aren't large enough for it to be able to dry out properly (or the air is too humid, not sure).
I just gave up and went back to brushing my teeth like a caveman.
I just keep the head off the toothbrush body so it can drain and dry properly.
Anyone been having trouble when visiting other instances? My other subs don't seem to be updating properly. Lemmy getting too popular.
We have been lucky to join a goldilocks instance.
I think the instances that cater to a niche have been largely spared the fediverse breakdown. ttrpg.network seems to be chugging along fine. Probably wasn't a good idea to attempt to recreate reddit on a single instance. Would've been smarter to have lots of smaller instances catering to broad topics of interest.
It has also kept us out of any of the defederation drama.
I signed up through Lemmy world and there's been lots of issues with some of the apps...(I also signed up through Aussie zone too cos I was confused, but have mainly used the Lemmy world one to comment). I think you're right and it probs has alot to do with the large influx of users... (& I also have 'pending subscriptions...)
I think some instances are overloaded, but they are also using various update levels which could cause problems too.
Mine seem ok, although I have “subsription pending “ on a couple communities for days.
I've found if you just keep hitting the button it eventually sorts itself out and subscribes properly.
Don't you just love it when hammering the servers more fixes things?
In today's instance of messed up dreams, I had a very vivid and lengthy one about an insane weather event where BOM predicted it would go down to -26 and -28 in Melbourne over the weekend (just the weekend!) and the forecast recommended in the strongest terms that everybody stay indoors as much as possible. Then in the dream I went to the DT and everyone was losing their shit and people were sharing info of which supermarkets still had stock of anything and locations of official "cold shelters" operated by councils for people to take refuge in if needed. The Alps were being evacuated and there was talk of crop failures and potential deaths in the thousands. It was very real in my head.
It wasn't even that cold this morning!
Would that be survivable in a Melbourne apartment with no heating? Just clothes and bedding etc?
I doubt it.
Environments that cold need really well insulated spaces, and a lot of Melbourne homes are really poorly insulated. The apartment has one advantage, in that it would be small and therefore relatively easy to heat through even improvised means, but holding on to that heat for any length of time would be difficult
Maybe with a group of people huddled together in a blanket fort? I've never experienced temperatures like that myself but I remember a whole lot of advice going around during last year (?) power blackouts over winter in the US. People camping in their living room and staying in the one room to concentrate heat sources. That said, I don't think it went down to -20 C though. Wouldn't water pipes freeze and stuff as well? I suspect maybe it won't be survivable. 🤔
Sounds like a story or movie idea to me!
Thats weird, I had a dream it was snowing in Melbourne. Lots of snow. That's all I can remember though.
I had really wacky intense dreams last night too!
My kid is angry with me because I asked her to clean up her make up in the bathroom or I'm going to use my arm as a croupier's stick and swipe everything into the bin. I don't think I'm getting a cup of tea now.
I have gym-ed
There has been a pretty big bus crash near Safety Beach. Truck carrying scaffolding t-boned a bus.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-05/truck-bus-crash-houses-mornington-peninsula-safety-beach/102564108
Good god what is going on with buses in this country?!
There were quite a few in 1989 in relatively quick succession, mainly caused by tired / drugged truck drivers hitting buses on the highway.
It ultimately led to working hours restrictions, plus drug testing for truck drivers.
Looks like the 788, don't think it's the 887.
Damn, those streets are always pretty quiet.
ffs, I thought the swishing sound I could hear was part of the music, but then I noticed the music was over ( listening to Interstellar ) and it was just the bloody dishwasher making noises
.😂😂😂 what does this say about the music I listen to , what does it say about my discernment
Maybe it was just DJ Dishwasher laying down yet another banger track.
I think it's the swishy water noises that confused me, cos Interstellar has some water tracks 😂
I think it says more about the soundtrack to intersteller; it sounds like a cycle of a dishwasher loooool
I wish my office walls weren't 70% window. I could be napping under my desk right now.
Aw man so jealous. My office is 100% windowless dungeon :(
Just go full goblin mode and embrace the dungeon life lol
I'm in IT, so already mostly there 🫠
"have you tried turning it off then on again?"
😭
Heheh there's dozens of us! Dozens!
I wouldn't mind if they were windows to the outside world! But they're just windows into the warehouse. I'm constantly making awkward eye contact with people 😅
Beware the Grue
Eye mask.
Thinking about a pair of these babies
Grocery shopping is done! Mojo is a thing this morning! :D
Funny sort of an evening. Started with, I think I’ll finish that little bit of cleaning… Next thing I know I’m behind the bloody washing machine. Late dinner out and now it’s past my bedtime and I’m still out… Thank goodness tomorrow is my Friday…
There appears to be some sunlight outdoors. What do I do in this situation?
Close the curtains, you don't want to get irradiated
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Or you could just shoot at it, Florida-style.
No thanks I rather not live in endless darkness. Remember the Sun produces warmth. Do you want to live in never ending dark and cold? Where nothing grows? 😢
But we've got to do something about global warming. Nuke the Sun!
Nope I’m against nuking the Sun 😛
Rather strange to hear from the Sun Goddess herself.
Why is it strange? I’m for the Sun, others are talking about getting rid of it. I want the Sun. Give me that sunshine goodness that makes me happy. I swear I must’ve been a flower in my previous life because whenever the Sun shines on me. I stop, turn my head in the direction of the light and just bathe in the warmth. Sun = good! So not sure why you’re saying it’s rather strange??? I think you might’ve incorrectly read what I wrote above
Oh my gosh. Forgive my insolence oh mighty Goddess of the Sun.
I have indeed misread your comment and this have made a fool on myself and insulted you.
I have clearly not had enough sun today. I apologise and pray for your forgiveness.
Because you apologised, I’ve decided that you are forgiven this time. Hopefully you’ll get a chance for more Sun time in the future. Have a brilliant evening. ☀️
Laundry
OMG there is some here now too. Is it tracking us all down?
Edit: it's ok, its gone now. 🤣
Slowly disappearing here too. I will continue to exercise caution until the situation is resolved.
Report to the proper authorities
My local member has been notified via post.
Well, if that's what gets ya off....
Wait for the sunset
Sound advice. You smart
It lives! It’s alive!
::: spoiler puttin' on the ritz :::
I’m teaching a class that involves the students having to watch a movie each week to accompany the content being taught. I’ve watched a lot of the prescribed films in the past, but I need to brush up on them before the semester starts. So I have 10 to watch in a few weeks.
Getting started with the first one. Made a cuppa and put on Harakiri.
lol. reminds me of 'Airplane'...aka Flying High here.
" Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking... We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused, this is due to periodic air pockets we encountered, there's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight... By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
Flying high. What a laugh. I have to rewatch that again.
This woman has to be gotten to a hospital
A hospital? What is it?
It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now
I just wanted to tell you both good luck. We're counting on you.
day 5, had to drive with the corset; let's just say the loaner car is too low.... but yea excited to get the dashcam and boot protector installed, my cupboard didn;t turn up today....
williamstown enterance to the west gate this morning was shit. the car was moving around 1km an hour, turns out becos it was a one-lane-only entrance everyone has using the second lane to cut in. best part was I used a side road to exit and there is a "keep clear" box outside this side road, had to loudly horn at someone who was cutting in. smh
The pain is better today took a nice afternoon sleep. yea, these days I've been sleeping a lot, resting a lot. some said no housework but having both of us having back issues, someone has to do it lol, but really taking it easy. might attempt t go to the city on Friday for the footy as well as on Saturday to go to the finders market with a friend. definitely weaning myself off endone. will attempt med-free sleep tonight.
weather is too cold.....
It is Wednesday, my dudes.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
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I'm hoping I don't feel as shit about work tomorrow. I have some big thinking and planning to do for myself I feel like I could really use a week off. I've written down a list of stuff that I need to do including routine medical checkups that I've been procrastinating on. I don't know how so many things have crept up on me. Adult life I guess. Just as you feel like you got life sorted, another bunch of problems or life admin stuff comes up. Sigh.
Looks like el nino is now official. Think I might get in early and get a whole lotta that brown dripper hose and throw it on timers.
With Melbs pop. growth since the millenium drought (3.5m ->5.2m)... and near zero new water capacity... If we get a repeat of that...
...you'll be ready to numb us to the pain of climate catastrophe with your home grown organically lobotomising chillos. Now with extra irrigation!
Last night I had my first climate change nightmare.
"it's going to get much colder and summers will be boiling"
Remember the 3 minute blue-sand hourglasses they mailed to everyone, to time our showers. I wish I had of kept mine lol
Edit: or were they 11 minutes? I think they were 3... ehh
I thought they were 2 minute timers haha
I dont even remember properly lol i was a late teen and just fiddled with the hourglass in the shower haha
Is that slang?
heheheh
But we have the de-salination plant now ....
Heh yup!
On the final leg of my trip home! Flight delayed 40 mins, then took 40 mins to get my bag. Far out there’s some nonsense with our airlines at the moment!
I have made the fatal mistake of finishing all of my travel preparations and there's still 40 days to go. I'm ready now, damn it.
i've been doing so many reCaptchas over the years and I have noticed there are far too many people in tropical places who wear thongs while riding a motorcycle
Lunch made and eaten.
A simple toasted egg sandwich with margarine. Actually is sitting a lot heavier that I remembered and coffee is made.
Had a strange dream after I turned off my snooze alarm this morning.
A workmate was my late mum and I were sitting at a table I guess for coffee and my workmate tells my mum that she needs to stop stressing because it’s affecting me and causing me to stress.
The my mum gets really angry and throws her out of the house and I walk outside and leave all the commotion waiting for my workmate to come out with me so we can both walk away from it all.
Instead my brother comes out and tells me everyone’s on their way (mum and family) and I get fed up and sigh heavily and walk away.
Then I wake up.
Weird dream, not particularly close with this workmate either.
::: spoiler spoiler :::
Oh that's just what we call pillow talk, baby, that's all. 😉
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Pets the nice tentacle monster
It's been a long time since I've had fennel bulbs but damn I'd forgotten how unbelievably good they are roasted. The air fryer is far too filthy to use right now but I'd love to try it in there
You can set a default sorting for your lemmy feed in your profile settings, which will be persistent between desktop and the application.
I have been using NewComments for a while, but now that the lemmyverse is more active I'm giving Hot another go.
Whether or not you default your feed to Subscribed or Local depends on how many communities you've found, perhaps leaving it on local for a while will help you find new communities that you can build up your subscriptions.
these settings are for posts, right? I still need to manually select NEW within a thread for sorting comments by NEW
Edit - per thread settings stick using Liftoff
This was just for your homepage feed, I don't know if we have the ability to set default sorting of comments in a thread yet, only manual each post that I can see.
Well today's stew has become more of a chunky soup. Chick peas sweet potato and cauliflower. Chilli overpowers the curry and other spices, but it's freaking tasty. Looks like sick, but luckily it's been a long time since I was sick.
Already dropped at least an inch of my waist since stopping drinking. Go metabolism and keeping kinda busy. Could also be the atrophy as well of course. I only really know because this skirt I got a fortnight ago fits a lot better and this boys 16 minecraft tshirt I bought isn't skin tight like it was back in April. Smaller and smaller, and no, I don't have an eating disorder. Thanks for checking in with me though I appreciate it friends.
For the first time in 12 months I feel like I can stop wondering how things are going to turn out. I finally put the finishing touches on the music setup, the tape deck is online. Now I can play stuff I have on tape from bandcamp artists with added hiss and less dynamic range and can't skip tunes. All speakers in their right place and everything is patched. Oh no, I forgot something, one thing left to do dammit. After my journal post I guess.
Again, thx for reading. I'm in such a fucking good place today I'm going to cry now.
Image contains: large pot of brownish vegetable soup with sweet potato chick peas and cauliflower, on a stove.
Estimated tax return without the LTMI offset is sadddd 😢
well, i got a short notice REA inspection tomorrow but the good side of that is i cleaned the fuck out of my apartment and set up the new computer properly. was going for one cable but had to settle for two.
hold on .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fowldx4hRtI&ab_channel=EdBlackmail
Trying really hard and struggling immensely to write an introductory paragraph or two for my LinkedIn as I begin my campaign to reshape people's perspective of neurodiversity and neurodiverse children in ECEC.
I downloaded a browser so I can keep the bot account logged in there in case I need to access it (the logout function seems a bit dodgy) and it seems to be running a bit smoother. I'm wondering how much difference it makes which browser you use to how Lemmy runs? I mostly use Chrome, and the one I just downloaded is Midori Lite (I picked it cause the icon was pretty!) which is obviously designed to be light and fast.
Is this person taking the piss?!?! Travel to pick up a single chilli and a few peppercorns? ID: half a teaspoon of spices before ground
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For a $500k property to be bought some time in the next few months, is it really true the monthly mortgage repayment is starting at like $3500?
Seagoon's New to me Movie review.
Today was 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote". I can answer this. The men who killed this movie were all the guys/editors who were too gutless to tell Gilliam that the movie needed to be cut by one hour. The trope of the stupid director was stale, already done in Tropic Thunder and such an unusual plot device shouldn't be repeated. And wtf with the terrorists, too easy, too lame.
You know what would have been better, a Spanish Literature professor going mad , the tutor being Poncho, the prof imagining his students as the characters in the book. The dean etc etc ( this is my original work, no idea if it's been done before. I'm registering this today using registered mail )
A Walter Mitty day dreamer type story ( but not the modern movie which was awesome!! , but the old original short stories )
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Decided to play Pillars of Eternity 2 again. An hour and a bit later I'm still trying to decide which godlike I want to play, I love character customisation lol
this sounds like movie go go dancer music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA5TkJaEXUE&ab_channel=MUSICharly
Is this post on Imgur marked 18+ for anyone else? https://imgur.com/a/Hotu1fh I didn't mark it as mature, but it shows up as being NSFW when I tried to archive it
Late to the party as usual but no verification required from me
yep +18 here
tbf the train is naked and there are a few mounds.
Opened with no issues for me. ARTC or whatever train in Albion
Didn't ask me for verification.
On mobile and it was fine.
No verification required for me
Yes, it made me verify I was over 18 before it would show it. Odd.
What’s the go with gifs? Can’t get them to play?what I’m doing wrong? ::: spoiler spoiler :::