Daily Discussion Thread: 🚫🍏🕯️🕯️🕯️ Monday, October 7 , 2024

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Got my open mic spot locked in for Thursday!!! Fuck. Yes.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OMG congratulations!!!

    I’ll try and come down to see you play!

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    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like a fun plan! Just near Ripponlea station too. Do you know roughly what time/order of performance? eg. 3rd in queue or what? No problem if this isn’t known - open mics are notorious for running over the time budget, what with set ups and tear downs and all.

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cheers! Would be great, but no obligations :)

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I finish work at 730… You know how late it will go?

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    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The open mic sesh at Lyrebird runs from 7.30 to 10 pm but will probably go later (based on personal experience). If our Simon is third in the queue, then prob won’t start till 8 ish or later.

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• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I put on my grown up pants today and called to book in for a new mental health plan and reached out to a psych for an appointment. She specialises in depression and trauma but can also do adult adhd assessments so I’m hoping she can help me unpick some things. I’m not in crisis (which I have been every other time I’ve sought help) so I’m feeling partly good about this and partly feeling like I am wasting everyone’s time and they will think I’m bunging it on … and that folks is why I need help unpicking some stuff !

  But geez louise there’s proper money required even with the rebates. faark this system - It shouldn’t be a privilege to be able to seek help.

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve got on my list to get a new mental health care plan as well, it’s time to invest in my MH again as I’ve felt myself slipping a bit lately.

    The cost for appointments is ridiculous even after the rebate. I called last week to hear the updated prices of the place I used to go for therapy, and they’ve hiked so much just in the 18 months since I last went.

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good on you for taking next steps, it’s not easy but it is very necessary. Having just done that today though, good lord I hear you on the costs - I won’t listen to a thing the Feds spruik around MH until they put more money into subsidising treatment. Especially if MH is impacting your earning capacity…

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good on you for doing such a positive thing for yourself. I know what you mean about the rebates; 10 subsidised sessions and you’re on your own. I’ve had the same issues with elder Minipeeler needing therapy this year.

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    faark this system - It shouldn’t be a privilege to be able to seek help.

    It’s expensive to be ill, unfortunately, and a lot of healthcare still seems to treat mental health as a cosmetic thing, like teeth, or eyes.

    Although there is a bitter irony in that to get diagnosed and treated for ADHD, you need to make a bunch of appointments and things, which someone with ADHD would struggle with.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ta da, the cabinet and base is all done

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ooooh that looks very nice.

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Vera nice!

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gorgeous. The steel come up real nice or (wrought iron?)

    have you attempted sanding back the decorative areas on the drawers? I feel like slightly sanding back just the face of the scroll design and then re-staining could really make it more pronounced. If that makes sense.

    Thing must weigh a ton.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I cleaned it a lot and did clean the scrolls extra , but I didn’t sand it much at all, it’s so full of deep scratches, holes and lost varnish it would have gone through the veneer.

      It was also a trade off between restoring to original, which is not possible anyway, and taking 100 hours, or fixing it up to last a couple more decades, which took 20 hours.

      It’s cast iron and weighs a bloody ton. There’s also the machine inside which probably weighs another 15 kilos.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ooh looking good!

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s so awesome.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks so good

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That looks amazing, nice work!

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s utterly gorgeous! It must be so satisfying to have worked with your own hands to restore it.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That looks incredible!

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Superb!

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow! Amazing how it’s come up. Your hard work is paying off big time.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Me too buddy. Me too.

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Got a letter from a lord mayor candidate asking me to vote for him, but the letter is almost all generated by ChatGPT. Reckon he’s gonna use an AI to run the city?

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. The new way of doing things is to use AI to compose an email, then the recipient asks AI to read the AI created enail and summarise it, then tell AI to compose a reply.

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Busted

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would love to stop feeling anxious about an appointment for my medications that I need. I hate that cannabis is so frowned upon, that I still hold the feeling of doing something illegal, when I need it to sleep.

  This has been such a shithouse week for me, no restful sleep, just nightmares and a impending sense of doom.

  Fucking ugh. Leave me alone, Brain, why can’t you be kind to meeee wah wah lol

  Carpet moths have also returned, so slept on the couch after soaking them in vinegar and punching the ones that tried to escape. I hate carpet. Never install carpet.

  I have have the executive function to deal with this shit

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I saw a few moths in my house too. Nooooo

    I’ve still got the attractant traps in the pantry and the wardrobes, but am going to have to vacuum more often.

    And put the crackers in the freezer as soon as they come in (to kill any eggs potentially brought from the supermarket). I don’t see any other way they could be getting in

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    agree on wall to wall carpet , get lovely rugs instead

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think anyone would have the executive function to deal with that shit. Our minds absolutely suck at trying to protect us in this day and age. We end up feeling like shit instead.

    @ Spud’s mean inner voice and the carpet moths: there’s the door 🚪

    I hope you feel better soon <3

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are the kindest and coolest 💜💜💜

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  HUNGRY

  Damn hormones. You’d think eating a full dinner might curb the hunger at least a little bit but no, apparently any time I’m not actively stuffing more food down my body is not happy. ☹️

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The man bought me baklava on Saturday and today he bought me a block of chocolate. I love it but please stop but also thank you and keep it coming but not too much.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      W man

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bought a block of dark chocolate from Aldi last week.

      I couldn’t help but demolish it. I really need to exercise some restraint.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ugh. Dealing with multiple different allergy people is a nuisance. Off to boil my blind baking beads.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a problem that gets me every damn time, and it’s completely my fault.

  The Atheneum Library gives you a lovely, sturdy, capacious book bag when you join them. The borrowing period is also lengthy - one month Every time I go, I fill this bag.

  Then I have to eventually return them, and hauling the full book bag up the stairs is a pain in the bum

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a beautiful library. I’d be there so often if I lived near it.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Um, so, I burnt my thumb with concentrated white vinegar. I tried googling what to do, but I have been able to find an answer.

  Just wondering if the wisdom of the DT has any insight?

  pic of thumb, sfw

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like any burn you should run it under cold water but tbh I’ve never heard of burning oneself with vinegar. I hope it feels better soon.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ye Ive done that now, Ive just realised it’s interacting with the grazes I have on my thumb from punching moths yesterday; I missed and punched the wooden bed frame.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    acetic acid is nasty. Rinse with lots and lots of water.

    keep it away from your eyes and don’t breathe it in

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i didn’t know vinegar can be that acidic

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just water hon. And some sort of salve.

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Melbcat is eating well again. She started refusing the fancy wet food and seemed a bit off with the probiotics so I’ve just been giving her the plain nutritionally complete homebrand with her meds mashed in.

  She is loving the electric blanket in cooler weather. Comes to cuddle in the day and sleeps on it at night. If I’m half asleep and don’t lift the doona she burrows under it herself to be incubated like an egg.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fastest way to cat a fine brace of catfish is to throw out the heated blanket. Misha was sleeping on ours last night and it wasn’t even turned on (just folded on the couch)

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  can’t see clearly from where i am but i think

  sky pretty

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m wishing and willing this headache to be a stress based one and not the premonition of a cold/flu. The last thing I need right now is that…

  Having a go with Nasonex to see if it helps. God help me if I’ve developed hay fever this year after not having it my whole life.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh headache’s not fun. I hope you’ll be rid of this headache for today pretty soon.

    I think allergies are up today. I feel itchy today :/

    Being out and about can be a nice feeling. Especially with what you’ve had to put up with recently.

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not the best weather but better out than in today to shake the blues. I’ve just made a series of very difficult phone calls… the Nasonex has helped a bit but now I just need to lie down, I think.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Made a stinky savoury spread for lunch.

  Anchovies, garlic, capers, mustard and some chilli. Mush with mortar and pestle, spread onto fried bread.

  Absolutely delicious…definitely not office or society friendly though.

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Four assignments due next week. Three exams. A few quizzes. Ten weeks of lectures for one subject which will be watched in 2x speed.

  Then we’re done.

  I don’t feel like I’ve learnt much from my degree, except that I should be better at time management. Hoping I won’t be saying that about the next course I do because that one should be the one that actually gets me a job!

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve no idea what your area is, but learning is never wasted. I started one degree, switched to a double that kept the first major. Then went to TAFE for something totally different. The first bits of paper proved rather expensive, but I use the background knowledge indirectly everyday. Makes me better at my ‘lower’ qualification.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enjoy your night everyone ❤️

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since I complained about tv before I want to add a positive. This movie does not get enough credit. And possibly the best opening sequence of almost all time. Serenity’s “Landing” sequence The music, the logo becoming the ship, the way it quickly intrudes the characters so perfectly to those who don’t know them. and the quotes. My god the quotes!

  Quotes

  “This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.” “Define “interesting”.” “Oh God, oh God, we’re all going to die?” “Well, what you plan and what takes place ain’t ever exactly been similar.” “This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode.” “We’re robbing the place, we’re not occupying it.” “You told me those entry couplings would hold for another week!” “That was six months ago, Cap’n.” “My ship don’t crash. If she crashes, you crashed her.” “…If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you, I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.” “Honestly Doctor, I think we may really crash this time anyway”

  Such a work of art.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Check this out.

    As you know an Uncharted movie came out based on the games and I thought it was horribly miscast at the time and still do.

    This was a fan protect that Nathan Fillion was in before the movies came to reality.

    Nathan Fillion Uncharted.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of my most unpleasant jobs is to scoop the dry dog food from the big bag to the smaller bag for convenience.

  The dog’s most excitable jobs is to watch me scoop the dry dog food from the big bag to the smaller bag whilst I try not to gag.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really need to get my eyes checked. Sat down to do a quick pile of mending and spent 90% of the time failing to thread a needle.

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• indisin@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Getting out of bed at 6:30am for a potential early morning soil delivery isn’t the most fun start to the week. Hope the dirt and literal shit comes soon.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s back to school now kids. Have a great day.

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly tired of this shit weather. It can’t just be cold and drizzly which is bad enough, we also have to content with the wind that cuts through you like an ice pick.

  Glad I’m going to a tropical country in a few weeks to escape it, even if only for a brief period.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m umming and ahhhing about bringing someone I’ve been on a few dates with me. Seems incredibly douchey…

  Like “look at me” sort of thing. I dunno.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Flinders platform 12 always smells like piss 🤮

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Motivational Monday Munchies 🚚
  🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

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• useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Today I have been conducting my business while listening to various John Carpenter movie scores. It gives even the most innocuous situations a creepy vibe.

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• Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hmm, went to a local bar last night. I used to semi-frequent it and have always had a good time.

  Last night they asked to scan my ID and they took a photo of my face. I was told they only retain data until the end of the night.

  Anyone have any idea what the legalities are around this?

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First time doing later shifts this week… 1145 to 730 ☠️ next week is 1245 to 830! Back to 9am the week after that though…

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ^Goo^

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• Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay, seems I’m full of questions this evening.

  Peeps who work in academia, pls… How do late penalties on assignments work? This is going to sound so stupid, but I really am confused about this. I always thought the late penalty was applied to the final mark, but it seems not. It is applied to the total possible mark? Can someone give me an example of how this is applied? (Also, is this standard across Universities?)

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