Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Submitted 1 day ago by briongloid@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
SituationCake@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
That seagull looks like it’s plotting something.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
I had a restful positive day today . I feel can face tomorrow.
Goodnight everyone, love you all. 😘😘😘
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
I’ve realised how much of my life I’ve dedicated to work needlessly.
I’ve been home all day and I’ve lost touch with the things I do for enjoyment. All I want to do is grab the work laptop and keep working.
Don’t end up like me. Draw the line.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
I think there are times when dedication and long hours are needed to learn and advance, and then when the rewards of that are attained then a person can relax a bit.
but working all the time? not generally a good idea
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I feel this to my bone. Been there. Kinda still am (not working, but the lack of joy in hobbies).
I hope things will get better for you soon, friend! 💜💜💜 Sending you my love and good vibes!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Thank you :)
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Fuck I hate this weather.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
I’ve given up and accepted the electricity bills are going to be shocking.
tone212_@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
Coles was out of watermelon when I went to the shops earlier but they had “yellow watermelon”. I’ve never seen yellow watermelon in my life and it was the only option, so I purchased. It’s quite nice, refreshing on a hot evening. Tastes pretty much the same.
Taleya@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
last day before His Lordship hits 40. Much hilarity and old fart jokes.
BUT i did build an assistive frame for his ADHD brain (his spatial awareness ranks somewhere around a golden retriever puppy), as he’s planning out the rail spacing for our pull out drawer clothesline. bit of 3D printing, bit of t-track and voila, he’s got a solid three dimensional frame to play with, including full slide capabilities.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
Wow! Don’t let ikea see this - just too useful.
Taleya@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
that’s just a shitty mini mockup, but yeah, a pull out drying rack shall be ours! Somewhere to toss our pants and towels when it’s pissing outside
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I hope this non-profit calls me back. It would be nice to do something meaningful and relevant to my studies.
Counting the hours 'til Thursday when my first prac class starts. It’s gonna be hot, but I just want to do something.
mental health rant
I feel like I’m rotting. It’s hard to have confidence and self-esteem when all my life it’s been beaten out of me. The foundations aren’t there, but I can build them. It’s up to me, even if I resent it. I just want some kind of meaning, something I can throw myself into without the self-doubt and self-deprecation. I almost envy those who are religious, they have meaning and purpose. But I can and will create my own.
I’m also super excited about this asteroid in 2032. There’s been so much hype about it, but the closer we get to that year the more likely it is that it will pass us. Our math will only get more and more accurate regarding its trajectory. Besides, it’s pretty small, so it would only devastate like, most of India and the Atlantic Ocean (dark joke, it’s actually a terrible thought!)
One thing that ever so slightly irks me, is when people say that Jupiter keeps us safe by its gravity flinging large objects away from the inner planets; it also flings things in too! Why do people think Jupiter’s gravity would only work one way? Sure it “cleans up” objects, but it also launches them all over the place too. Stop attributing intelligence to inanimate objects (inanimate in that they don’t have like, a concious. It’s made of gas and rock!) Gah! I’ll have to source that video I saw about it, so I can cite it properly.
I love space, cosmology, astronomy, anything super nerdy like that.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
Another intwrview down, 2 more tomorrow. Yeeha!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
That’s great. Interviews can be taxing work
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
I don’t mind them. My whole job is client facing so the difference between my normal job and an interview is that I’m selling myself instead lol
StudChud@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
Smashing it bruh!! 🤛🏼💜
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Good night
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
‘Night
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
Aww man I don’t wanna cook!* Pouts* Got an early start tomorrow because hot. After pizza day and the shower I had when I got home, I just want to flake. Elder was really upset because he thought his father shitted in the shower… I had to refrain from laughing as I told him it was the Lush Posh Chocolate body wash that his dad got randomly smeared in the bath tub 🤣
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
Classic “is it poop or chocolate?” moment right there.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
From the other account manager:
They’re going on a hiring spree lol
Also, my co-worker believes that if something is on a PowerPoint it’s legally binding.
Ladies and gentlemen, my team mate…
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
PowerPoint it’s legally binding
That’s a first lol. Had to have a quick squizz on the ol’ googs for that. Turns out that question is asked a fair bit… yikes.
StudChud@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
my co-worker believes that if something is on a PowerPoint it’s legally binding.
Idk if I would be able to stop myself from laughing in their face 😂 how have they made it this far!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
Favouritism basically.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
my co-worker believes that if something is on a PowerPoint it’s legally binding.
omg
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
You can see how there was an imbalance of workload…
SituationCake@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I don’t think I eat too much junk, but I’m trying to eat healthier. BUT the ‘bad’ stuff tastes good! Sometimes in look in the pantry and the chips or chocolate or biscuits or icecream is calling to me. We live in a world of food engineered to hit the sweet/salty/fatty sweet spot in the brain. It’s hard to resist. Anyway, today was not a day of resistance, looking at you salt and vinegar chips.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
The poison is in the portion. I had two chocky bikkies for dessert.
Catfish@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Which you have just reminded me I have an unopened bag of…
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Ditto with the healthier eating. My main problem (apart from bad habits around snacking) is that the other people here like to have snacks on hand, so there’s usually something in the cupboard to tempt me
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
my cupboards are bare
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
I had cookies today for the first time this year 😔 I’ve had chocolate 3 times, no icecream, only frosty fruits. No crisps. No cake either. I don’t make naan or roti anymore.
my bad food is I sometimes have a spring roll or two for lunch or have some raisin bread.
I’m snacking on dried fruit and nuts
SituationCake@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
I have much admiration!
Catfish@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
Left a half drunk berocca on the bench this morning. It’s evaporated and the house smells like sweaty Vegemite. It’s not fantastic.
Duenan@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
Ewww
StudChud@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
Stupid-ass hot weather, I want to wear my hoodies dammit! They’re my uniform! 😭
tone212_@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
This weekend is looking positively chilly. I was sweating when out and about, now under the AC again.
StudChud@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
I am so desperately hanging out for the weekend! Today sucks, and tomorrow and Thursday too! Three days of hell, for the sweet sweet release of COLD
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
Maybe a hoodie in something light and diaphanous, in lace maybe. With pockets of course, but definitely a hoodie for hot weather. Call it a sunburn prevention hoodie … This could catch on.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
I wish that you could still get proper long sleeved kaftans to cover your skin without overheating
SituationCake@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Wait til Saturday, Melbourne weather got you covered.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
Hoodie gang 🫶
StudChud@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
I love hoodies, oversized comfy warm! POCKETS!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
I read the local papers from cities i used to live and read the most heartbreaking story from Detroit. A woman let two of her children die of the cold, she just had too many children, they all lived in a van and she couldn’t look after them. It’s like something out Gorky’s My Childhood. She could have gotten help, it’s not like there is none, but I expect she was depressed and isolated. 😔
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Gosh that’s horrific! It’s terrible that it’s the kids who usually pay the price for the poor mental health of their parents. I hope they’re at peace.
I have to imagine it would be mental health related. This isn’t the Victorian era, where people had as many kids as they could because it was a “numbers game” back then. I wonder what the mental health services are like in Detroit. Not a judgement, I just have no clue.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I don’t know about public or charity mental health services.
The bad thing is that the weather is very cold people will die of the cold. So people who refuse to be helped are in danger.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
New manager texts me for a meeting.
I’m on leave dipshit.
Eagle@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
Right to disconnect!
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
what did you reply with?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
I’m unavailable as I am on leave. I will be back on Thursday.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
That’s fucking gold 🤣
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
Very productive work day
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
This is the second Tuesday I’ve felt absolutely wiped.
Must be something in the water…
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Had to make a phone call at work today and my words came out as mumble jumble. All I had to say was, “The machine was broken.” I find that my communication is terrible in the morning. I tend to think of what I was supposed to say after the fact.
I’m going to have to give up caffeine and somehow sleep earlier. It will improve my mental health too.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Better sleep is a good start, but rest assured occasionally fumbling a sentence or two happens to everyone. You can always say something like, let me start again, and laugh it off with the person you’re talking to. No one will care, it’s a normal part of conversations.
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Don’t overthink it, it happens to all of us :)
I remember many a time doing early shifts in a call centre, and just word salad-ing at a customer at 7am 😂 I just made the excuse that I haven’t had my coffee yet, or only had one coffee - usually made them laugh, and less likely to think I was having a stroke lol.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
Got my Edifier headphones today and I have a good first impression of them. Audio over USB just worked and I’ve connected them to my phone and work computer over bluetooth. Audio quality is pretty good. Honestly, you can’t complain for $60 that are just going to be work headphones
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 21 hours ago
Cannot be stuffed cooking tonight. Would anyone like to join me at The Pinny in North Fitzroy for Taco Tuesday? I’m thinking 6 pm ish but am flexible. The trivia comp starts at 7.30 I think, but I’m not up for that.
websiteForce_majeure123@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Too far away from me for a weeknight 🥱
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
It’s been a while since I’ve posted YouTube links on Lemmy, (like as a post and not in comments).
Maybe forget but, I copy link from YouTube and paste into the URL section in the create post page and normally generates a post title automatically that I just click on
That doesn’t seem to work now? Am I forgetting something?
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
1500 bucks to fit a half decent tow pack to the car. Thanks to I think it was Thornburywitch who suggested Hyman Reese? double the down ball weight of the stock kia one. Impressive!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
when one spends time with a killjoy one’s joy is killed
sometimes it seems to me that happiness is an act of rebellion
I found a pack of speculoos cookies in the back of the pantry on the high shelf, ate 6, now I feel sick, am throwing the rest away . No more cookies for this year.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 18 hours ago
New Meep pics on reddit, Meep is the cutest cat I have ever seen 🥹 www.reddit.com/r/…/meep_glamour_shots/
tone212_@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
Catching up with one of my old bosses for lunch today. I’m kinda nervous. I must come across as much better off having left their organisation that wronged me towards the end and set up on my own (which is the truth anyway). I’ve only ever burned bridges with past employers so this is a new situation for me to be in.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 22 hours ago
Gonna make some cold brew coffee today before it gets really hot. Is it still supposed to get up to 35?
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 22 hours ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Goodnight everyone. Nice early night to be rested for tomorrow’s interviews.
Sleep well ❤️
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Good luck with them!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Cheers man! I’ve done my best to prepare. Let’s see how it goes :)