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Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌞🌞 Wednesday, November 6, 2024

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Seagoon_@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨melbourne@aussie.zone⁩

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve finally started at the new job. Let me know if you’re having trouble with your employer, I can send them an email that should scare them into shape.

    I’m working for the sort of government department departments wouldn’t want to hear from, as long as they don’t dig too deep and look at my job title

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
      scary

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      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Holy shit that’s perfect 😂😂😂

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      • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        shudders

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Congrats man!

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Auditing!

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      someone’s got to be the tea lady, eh

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “Why yes, I do apologise to my cat when she meows at me for not brushing her exactly the way she likes. Don’t you?”

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I get a bite and a hiss . Tomorrow Ted will be held down by the vet while I brush out his knots. I have kevlar gloves.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Calling me ouuuut lol

      Look at her sweet face 😍 I love her

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    to help with the mood, here is my son being adorable

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is the only good social media, right here. Thanks

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      • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Anytime! My camera roll is just pictures of Mickey and screenshots of ptv timetables 😅

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      oh my god I would die for those crossed paws. And that “heheh” look with the slanted eyes and uplifted mouth

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      • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        He just sleeps like that when it gets a bit warm, he always does a little “rah rah” to say hello when we walk past, and will roll over he gets his belly kisses. So spoiled… I brush him and fur just keeps coming and coming. I wonder if he is a medium haired cat, rather than a short haired one 😂

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He looks like he’s having a giggle

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      • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        He certainly was having a great time munching my knees today, when I was wearing just my boxers 😭 he’s very pleased with himself I think

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh my God!

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    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh my goodness, look at those paws!

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Jesus christ.

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh he ain’t saving them at this point!

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If there is a God, where is he now, hmm? Riddle me that, batman

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      the parallels with Weimar are chilling

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m now afraid for reproductive rights in Australia.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nah. It’ll be alright. We don’t generally go backwards. We go at a snails pace forward unless it’s a pay rise for pollies then it’s all speed ahead.

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      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        We don’t generally go backwards.

        This is generally true. Except for the destruction of medicare, loss of local manufacturing industry, no taxation on our mineral resources, expensive and half useless universities and no consequences for government corruption

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I wish I could know it would be ok. We have our own fundies here so things could get dicey

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I really ought to look into a hysterectomy. I don’t want kids anyway, but this is certainly an incentive to advocate better for myself lol

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    ah feck

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    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ugh, that smug dipshit Elon Putzk will be positively gloating… ugh, the thought is personally repulsive. How could they not love Tim Walz? Did they really want to not vote for a coloured woman so hard that they voted for a racist rapist delusional carny sheisty pathological liar instead‽ Jesus Christmas cookie Christ.

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      • DuckyMcDuckface@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Real talk, they didn’t vote for Trump because Harris is a POC woman, the reasoning seems to be much simpler, and dumber

        1. The economy isn’t great
        2. It was better under Trump (any thoughts revolving around why it was better cough covid price gouging and shit trump repealed don’t exist)
        3. Vote trump
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    • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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      • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I did see what you posted, just chiming in to say this is really putting a pin in my plans to visit my brother in the US next year after I finish uni :/

        otoh he probably needs some cheering up…

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      • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      My words were a little more x rated but yeah.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Round the twist again

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Indeed

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    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      ☹️

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Please no.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Jesus Christ I HATE watching this US news, but I cant look away! Some folks are already calling it and I think I might throw up. Thats not a joke or an exaggeration.

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The fact that it’s this close speaks volumes of the US population.

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      • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It is also how biased the US electoral system is to maintain the Status Quo.

        Every time the Republicans get in, the cripple democracy a little bit at a time. When the Democrats get in, they don’t do anything to roll back the damage.

        It has finally come to the Endgame for US Democracy.

        All we can do is make sure that our elected officials are aware that it is not something that we want in Australia.

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      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        thinking on it I am not surprised

        for 100 years the press and influencers have been making race an issue as a distraction to class , money and opportunity issues ( to stop the working class uniting , and yes, race is an issue )

        the working class have genuine grievances and want a voice, sadly trump says he is their voice ( even tho that’s a lie )

        they don’t want to hear more race issues

        we need unity

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They need mandatory voting, at the very least

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      • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m very thankful for our electoral system.

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      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Like my gran used to say (she thought she was upper class)… “I deserve two votes” even though she never read any policy. I once flippantly said maybe charlie (her doggo pug) should get one too and she was thrilled at the idea.

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m starting to get a bad feeling about it all. About to turn off notifcations and try to bury in work for a few hours

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I have friends in the US 😭

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    • Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s looking real ugly over there. People are talking about a red mirage, but…that seems more and more unlikely the longer this goes on.

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    • Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Just saw someone talk about a republican house, senate and presidency altogether as a good thing.

      Compared it to Obama. Obama had no interest in dictatorship. Republicans meanwhile keep getting real excited about Hitler.

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s too early to tell

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      • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It is too early to be sure, but it took four days in 2020 to get a result and things looked a lot more purple than they do this time around.

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  • mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh joy. Impending major restructuring at my workplace. No redundancies, more like the drive-the-people-remaining-to-breaking-point strategy.

    My 11th year may end up being my last, time to dust off the resume and get the hell out of here :| At least I hit my LSL eligibility beforehand… :\

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      have you taken LSL yet? I’d take it, disappear for a few months then take the redundancy they offer when you get back.

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      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The LSL is banked with the intention of just taking the cash when I leave, on top of the 7 weeks annual leave I’ve also got sitting there.

        They’re adamant there will be no redundancies, without coming out and saying it they’re definitely trying for reduction through attrition.

        See what happens I guess.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So one of the clients I look after, is cracking the shits about something that I have no control over.

    I really hope I don’t get scapegoated over this.

    Fingers crossed.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My old family dog I used to look after.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So there’s now literal children buying anti-aging products like retinol and a hair disclosing spray so women can completely defuzz their whole faces?

    People are getting preventative Botox and giving themselves gastroparesis by using Ozempic and 20 year olds are either removing the fat from their cheeks or getting fillers?

    Earlier periods of history got a bad reputation their beauty standards and rightfully so but I feel like it’s all more out of control now. Beauty standards are insane.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t like this reality can we reset the simulation pls.

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My cat’s heart isn’t working well and he doesn’t have a great prognosis, but he’s well and happy in himself and I’m focusing on that. We’ll be ok.

    I’ve just ordered takeaway for the first time in yonks. Fried goodness is now on the way to me and in the meantime I’ve poured a glass of wine. I will enjoy it and not wallow.

    And I’m putting my fingers in my ears and ignoring the news out of the US.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I really cbf making this potato salad but I know future me will appreciate it when I hear “What’s for dinner?” And I get to answer “it’s in the fridge. Help yourself”.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Now is the time to narrow my view, focus in on my own world, school, partner, Mickey, coffee, chocolate, beer. I don’t want to know about the world anymore, not for a while. I can’t let this drag my mood down. I have good things in my life idc about anything else lol

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    World news aside, I’ve finished my first day at the new job. I think I need to get past induction and do some actual work, and start working from home, before I can decide if this was the right choice.

    I think it will be. I need to remember how shit my old work was, even before things for really bad. Once I get started I won’t wish I got things right in the old role, because even when things were working, they were just barely, and things were still shit

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Just as a little moment of grounding… What are we all having for dinner on this sombre evening? I gotta use up my other half tin of coconut cream, so I’m going to do a rich tomato curry with tvp balls that I also need to use up. Along with the leftover everything-in-one veggie and dal curry and boiled eggs my aunt gave me.

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Something to distract us all from the doom and gloom shark quiz

    I got 3/10 poo

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Christmas lights have been hung up. Half my street is already done, and I’ve gotta say I LOVE it.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    top comment on The Daily Show summary video is “I Prey for Ukraine”. No words for the feeling of when that registers in your mind. I hadnt even consdidered… Will the EU step up? God. I just… those poor people.

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m trying to explain to the cat that he can’t have breakfast because the nice vet is going to give him medicine to go to sleep and do some special scans.

    He’s just looking at me with his trusting little face, like ok that’s fine but can we have chicken now please? I did tell you I’m hungry?

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The barometer’s dropping and my migraine’s rising. Storm probably incoming. Or rain anyway.

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So I put in a request to cancel my group fitness membership after the next billing. Will check out the local council gym and also another one to try and get my mum to come along.

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    sky pretty

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  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The real question about the US Election is do they get democracy sausages?

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    ooh bit of sky grumble I’m okay with that.

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Just want to bury my face in the soft, purring flank of a cat…

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s such a beautiful night, Orion is bright in the sky and the air is fresh. 🌌🌃

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve had to move my open mic to next week due to feeling sick :( sorry for the short notice to anyone that was wanting to come along

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    thunders

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