Very productive day today. Feeling chuffed at how much I squeezed in. Homemade pizza for dinner.
Makes up for the surprise start of suddenly finding out that school actually goes back tomorrow. Oops.
Daily Discussion Thread:🌷Mon 15 Apr 2024
Submitted 6 months ago by CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Nath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m very very glad that this sudden and weird internet outage happened this close to five. Shitty that I’m WFH when it happened though.
Anyone else’s network gone down? I’m with exetel in the northern suburbs on a HFC network.
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m in Brunswick with Aussie Broadband, and my net seems to be okay. I mean, I’m connected to wifi on my phone, so I assume the ethernet connections are okay as well. Is there any outages listed on exetels website?
Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Not as yet, nor on NBN, but they can take a while to update their maps
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
This just popped up on my reccos
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Taped to the front door of my workplace this morning - wtf?
spoiler
My workplace does not have a dog of any sort.
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Um maybe you, as a company, need to come together and train the dog that is annoying that random person. So inconsiderate /s lol
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Pakige
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Pakige 😁 though it means I have to dash into the office when I was having a nice cosy WFH day. I am wearing trackies in protest
bacon@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I would like a hot dog please.
bacon@aussie.zone 6 months ago
🌭
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Holy shit, I cannot stop laughing at this
youtu.be/IK5mm5_Xu6A?si=YjJJZb_l0XAnRnE3
I can’t breathe 😂😂😂💀
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Hahahaha. He came in so graceful then whoops.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
where’d the cat go? …lol
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
TV review
Griselda, from the people who brought you Narcos and Narcos Mexico.
The first series, Narcos, was from the viewpoint of the two DEA officers who hunted down Escobar. ( I read the book, these true life guys are national heroes in Colombia ) Narcos Mexico was from the point of view of the guy who created the Mexican cartel system, third series view point of local police trying to save forgotten victims and Griselda is the view point of a drug lord.
I really recommend these stories, they are violent tho. 4.5 hobbits
The Vault. It was boring. Made me really appreciate the story telling of Uncharted. Smaug was scarier. 1 hobbit
Nobody Knows I’m Here. The lead character, I just didn’t care. 1 hobbit
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Ok random things update on random question:
The FOI dude provided me with their logic on not releasing AV locations. The crux of their argument boils down to “ambulance stations have less staff than police stations and store medication, and rather than calling 000, people may go to an ambulance station instead”
On the one hand that sounds sorta reasonable, but A. Some locations are listed publicly already, B. Ambulance stations are usually marked as ambulance stations and usually have… You guessed it… ambulances in the vicinity. Also NSW ambulance locations are public, and I take it other states would be too
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Hmm, it’s not like the physical locations have giant, unsubtle signage or anything. And noisy ambulances coming in and out. The locals definitely know where the ambulance station is.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Yeah, this is how inconspicuous they are
I didn’t even have to go hunting for it, I just drove past it in Mallacoota and thought it looked fun. Tbh that does look really easy to rob, so I can understand their point. I mean bloody hell, they must’ve spent their whole security budget on that yellow sign warning you about the cameras
Nath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I have zero clue where the Ambulance substations are in WA - other than the local one in my area. So far as I know, the ambulance services here aren’t even run by the government. The main service is provided by St John’s Ambulance, and there are private ambulance services that do some events and patient transfers.
I assume the latter sort operate out of some industrial area depot(s) somewhere.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Yep. For some reason both WA and the NT went the private ambo route. St John’s is a not for profit charity though, so I guess that makes it slightly less shit. For the most part, all the other mainland states and territories run their own Ambos, although depending on where you are there’s sometimes a fair few st John’s Ambos floating around as well.
Your EmergencyWA site doesn’t seem to show emergency stations, at least on mobile. VicEmergency shows the location of all the emergency services
Red F for fire brigade, P for police, I’m sure you get the picture. Green F is Forest Industry Brigade/Forest Fire Management Victoria. They’re an odd organisation too. They seem to mostly exist as a loose grouping of private fire engines operated by forestrys to, y’know, make sure they don’t burn down, except sometimes they also have their own apparatuses and stations and staff. Unlike AV they basically are a spy agency. Damn near impossible to find anything about them or their vehicles
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
No, Sheep Dip is not a new culinary marvel of meat 😹
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
So random question time
When it comes to freedom of information requests, can I still lodge one if I only know what information I want, without knowing if a document containing that specific information exists?
For reasons, I’d like to get a list of the current Ambulance Victoria branches. I’m not entirely sure they’d have one document that neatly outlines each branch they have, so I don’t really know if I can go to the ombudsman to request that, if it would involve them digging through other files and collating my requested information into one single file
Ordinarily I’d just ask their FOI office, but unfortunately their FOI office isn’t very nice. They’ve been asked publicly at least twice, and completely ignored both FOIs, and when I emailed to ask for guidance they told me such information can not be released to the public and that’s just the way it is, that’s why I’ll probably go to the big buddy
Yes I know it's weird but..
I don’t see why an FOI request wouldn’t cover this. The CFA and VicPol both have public pages listing all active stations. And you can pull all the ambo stations from VicEmergency (there’s little station icons on there), that’s just inconvenient and time consuming, and they’re a public agency and FOIs exist for a reason and I’m stubborn
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Yep. It’s about the information, not the document. Go for it.
And I am shocked that that info isn’t readily available on their website.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Thanks mag. It is a bit bizarre. It’s on a map, some of them are on Google, but when it comes to an actual list that’s not allowed, for some reason. Oh, and, the ones that have been recently upgraded are listed here
Here’s the public requests they ignored, if anybody was curious: righttoknow.org.au/…/av_branchstation_locations
www.righttoknow.org.au/request/locations
Granted, those guys seem to have given up, at least in their public pursuit. I, however, am stubborn and have experience in fighting government agencies tooth and nail over minor things. If they ignore my request, I’ll just go one level higher until somebody doesn’t ignore me, or I run out of levels lol
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Jesus. Another knife attack in Sydney. This time at a church.
No fatalities, just injured but there’s a lot of agitated people for the community and riot police were deployed.
Still ongoing at the moment.
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Ugh! Yesterday’s attack was all over the news, so I guess a copycat?
Getting kinda tired of waking up to violence every day, here and everywhere.
tw: really dark humour
Can the world just end already? Like Mother Nature is edging the apocalypse, such a tease. I still have my bets on a firey meteor, but nuclear seems to be ahead right now
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m not sure. The bishop of the church got attacked and 3 others were injured in the process.
Also tired of all the protest news too.
I’m just waiting for a show to start but I get a feeling it’s been delayed for who knows how long.