Bin fuckery with neighbour was avoided.
The cheeky fucker swapped his green for recycling last night (saw it when I got home late).
He brought it in right after pick up this morning too (at like 7 am).
Iâll still claim the moral victory.
Daily Discussion Thread: đ Wed 10 Jan 2024
Submitted â¨â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago⊠by â¨Seagoon_@aussie.zone⊠to â¨melbourne@aussie.zoneâŠ
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MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
JFC every goddamn bricks and mortar retailer has been so desperate to start becoming a âmarketplaceâ theyâve made themselves and their websites utterly fucking useless
I just wanted to see if woolies had brulee torches in stock for me to walk down and pick up. Instead I get wall to wall listings for their âmarket partnersâ and if youâre gonna pull that bullshit then what the absolute fuck are you for.
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
So much this. I try to filter out marketplace shit where possible. Itâs usually the same junk sold at kogan, catch, mydeal etc.
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Trying to find anything before htting up a Bunnings is a complete shitshow now
bull@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Aaand home. Banger of a day outside but for now I think Iâll just lay down for a bit.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yay, home!!! Hope the drive was nice and easy!
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I have a long, slow cooking day planned today in preparation for a Mexican dinner tomorrow night. I am making carnitas, which is basically pork slow cooked in fat. It will be served in soft tacos, so I will be making an oven-roasted salsa today, then making tortillas and some other accompaniments tomorrow. I am also going to make desserts today - caramel flan, which is similar to a creme caramel, but made with condensed and evaporated milks. Iâm taking it all to my sisterâs house, so it should work well to be able to heat and serve with minimal fuss and mess there while still being a bit fancy.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sounds delish! Iâve never tried a caramel flan or Carnitas before
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve never tried them before either, this seemed like a good occassion to try something new.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
oh god, mexican caramel flan is divine. If itâs on the menu always get it. Tres leches cake is also nice. Carnitas are also good. ( mexican food is soooo good )
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
yum
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Work has been a bit wild, the two new people at work (who joined a month after me) are thinking of leaving.
Itâs insane, the phones have been going nuts, they want us to priotise the new inquires while also staying on top of all the emails to complete. But the phones have been going nuts so weâre behind. Shit flows downhill so upper is shitting on middle, shitting on us. Theyâve introduced KPIs but averaged it over 8 hours instead of 7 (2x 15 min breaks, 1x 30min lunch) so they donât make sense.
On breaks, weâre always behind. We have to take them in order, so as the late shift I donât have lunch until 3pm.
The office is an echo chamber, so quite loud, but they want us in office full-time. Not feasible when clients can hear the other operators so clearly they think the lines have crossed.
I could go on. I think if the other two and I left, itâd leave the business in complete shit. Iâm smashing their stupid KPIs, but I want to cry everyday from the utter mismanagement of the call centre. Itâs bush week every day and Iâm tired
/endrant
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ten minutes without worrying that Ted Cat is going to bite my bum. Is that too much to ask?
( heâs on the balcony meowing like a sad waif )
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
make a noise he really really hates every time he bites you. ATM youâve made it a game for mister bum bitey killypants. Alter the parameters.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
A spray bottle might work, too
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yes, heâs very playful.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
You know when you canât be bothered cooking but you end up doing it anyway and it turns out really good. Yeah.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
caught my reflection in a mirror. My god I look like a mess! Not physically (Iâve kind of got that whole exhausted but a little bit sexy thing going on) but the eyes⌠they look so run down, and the smile just looks off. 3 rough nights sleep plus 2 early morning starts appear to be taking their toll, even if my mood is still ok.
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Whoops, managed to sleep for 10 hours straight and got up half an hour ago. Havenât slept this long in forever even when Iâve been exhausted. Absolutely starving, need to get around to making a proper lunch today instead of potato gems and frozen fish filletsâŚ
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
think of it as T-Minus.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
T-minus 143 days til March 1 2023!
Nath@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Meanwhile, Iâm using the same Transperth SmartRider that I was issued when I was a beta tester of the program in 2003.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
(just an FYI, this is the expiration date of the Myki pass loaded on to it, not the card itself. I do get what youâre saying though)
calhoon2005@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Finished book 2 in the Silo trilogy, and tbh⌠This was definitely not as great a read as the first book - actually quite hated it by the end, felt rushed and disjointed in the third part and I didnât care about most of the characters; worst of all the writing felt so lazy when it came to the technology and certain key developments. So much hand-waving and incredibly plot-convenient tech⌠anyway, Iâm committed now and Iâd just like to see where this all goes, so onto the final book.
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Grocery shopping - everything $1 - $2 more expensive. Bring on the review of price gouging.
Over the last year, golden circle cordial has gone from $3.20 to $5. Iâd switched from cottees at $5.90 a bottle, and here we are nowâŚ
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sure the prices have increased 25% -35% but we must not forgot averages wages are 1/3 of what they were in the 1970s.
Bastards in Australia have a way of distracting us from the hard issues and the real culprits.
Employers/news media encourages talk about rent and prices because it means we arenât talking about wages.
Farmers like talk of global warming because it means we donât talk about the 100 years of damage farming and farming pollution has done to the environment.
Industry likes it when we talk of household water restrictions so we donât look at the subsidies and water waste of farming and mining
It would not surprise me if we pushed hard on the issues activists would be bumped off just like are in other countries.
Nath@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
It isnât only about the wages (a lot of it is wages), another huge factor is productivity. With technology and automation, the same number of people can do so much more than they could in the 70âs. Employers are getting far more output from the same number of staff than they ever used to.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Protests about ten years ago predicting these very issues did get the bumâs rush
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
7 bucks for 4 oat bars this morning. taking the ABSOLUTE piss.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I agree and I canât wait for this.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Bring it on. Minipeelers favourite cheese used to cost $6 per block (that was the reason I first tried it, it wasnât too costly). It is now $10.90. We used to enjoy the odd treat of icecream or some sweet biscuits. Theyâve gone up so much in price I canât justify it. Anything thatâs not strictly necessary is out.
briongloid@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Anyone else use a linux distro as main computer?
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I tried to a few years ago with Ubuntu but it was missing a lot of apps and games I liked or needed to use for various reasons. These days I unfortunately still use windows as a main, but I have Ubuntu in a dual partition with windows on my laptop
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
tried years ago with Ubuntu. There was a lot to like, but ultimately gaming just wasnt a thing.
indisin@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
[deleted]dumblederp@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
The Steam Deck really moved *nix gaming along.
Nath@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
There are two laptops on my desk at home. One dual boots between MacOS and Windows (90% Windows) and the other is running Fedora 39. If I had to point at one of them as my âmainâ computer, itâd be the dual-booting one. I use both fairly heavily, though.
dumblederp@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I have Mint on dual boot and a VM image, but mostly Win10.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yep! Current daily driver is Ubuntu but I have tinkered with fedora in the past. I am not a gamer but am a programmer and find I have everything I need for work/life easily available. I am comfortable on the command line which helps but if itâs set up then anyone can use it I reckon. All my coding stack is open source. And libre Office is a pretty good replacement for MS office (without the shitful 365 cloud garbage)
I have also used Mac regularly and I canât think of much I can do on one and not the other.
Happy to answer any more specific question - feel free to PM me. Not that I know how that works on lemmy.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
My sunset piccy.
Good swim, no doggo pats although I almost ran over a pug at low speed because itâs the same colour as the path so thatâs something.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thatâs so lovely. The world is a beautiful place. đ
wscholermann@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm sure supermarkets are laughing at the Prime Minister tut tutting them about price increases.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Why do the politicians even bother.
wscholermann@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
To make it look like they are doing something while in reality they are doing nothing.
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Did a big clean out of my personal email. Mass delete of promotional junk mail that seems to turn up regardless of ticking âdo not send emailsâ when making online purchases. Unsubscribed from most. Got a few âneed 3 days to process your unsubscribeâ or âerror, unable to unsubscribe at this timeâ and other thoroughly bullshit excuses.
Nath@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
If any of them are Australian, thatâs illegal here. If an Australian company sends you more junk after you have told them to stop, you can report them to ACMA. The fines they get are not insignificant.
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Good to know. Iâll keep an eye on it. If no one reports them theyâll just keep on doing it!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Mixing red and white wine never ends well.
This one hurts today.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
OofâŚthots and pears your way
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I just mixed up all the My Dog tins so little dog gets a different one every day. He does not give a shit what flavour it is nor if itâs the same flavour every day for two weeks but I care and thatâs what matters.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm reading a discussion about reading
and to me the saddest thing about having ptsd was for many years I was too ill and mentally tired to read books. ( other than a few specialist psychiatry books ) So lacking in mental stamina I couldnât even watch movies
so now when I watch movies I really appreciate it. I still donât read as much as I used too. This is something that still gives me real grief đ
abuse takes so much away from a person
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
These are the small steps to recovery and good on you. You may not read as much as you used too, but youâre also probably living a completely different life that you may not have the time to read as much.
But you read or listen to audiobooks and watch movies and thatâs just as good.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
time, I have nothing but time đ
to me reading and watching is also learning , I think about what I have âconsumedâ
writers and artists put so much effort in the work, they want to entertain or educate ,
first read and watch is for entertainment, the second and further I think a bit more
Cendana@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
-big hugs-
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Hugs. It can come back eventually. Now I am at the point where when I start to lose interest in music or I canât concentrate to read that itâs a signal and I know I am gonna need to do something to stop the slide back.
Its an amazing feeling as those things start to come back. I am glad you have movies back.
bananafungus@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Mother has advise she will be stopping by to drop off some things and to make sure I am still alive. Not going to lie even if I can only stare at her from a distance I think it will be nice for my brain.
Also on a high note, I opened my curtains a little bit today for the first time Sunday and have cracked the window for a little fresh air. Still feel disgusting, and it appears my immune system is non-existent as I break out in all sorts of things, but at least I have some freshness coming at me.
Electronic_Owl@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Take care mate. Iâve never knowingly had it, but your posts got me thinking about the last booster I had. I could have sworn it was last year, but according to MyGov/Medicare the last was actually June 2022. Iâll be hitting up the local Amcal later for some sweet Bivalent action.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
so many gentle hugs, take care, rest and drink lots of water
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
o/
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Trying to watch a specific movie. Checked Netflix, Foxtel, and amazon prime. Movie not there. But then we find it on Amazon but itâs asking for more money to watch it. Is Amazon movies some extra money grabbing thing ??? It should not be this hard.
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Amazon has 2 parts to it. Prime is the streaming service, like Netflix. Some movies are included. In addition to this, they also have a buy/rent business for other movies, same as Google store or Apple iTunes.
bull@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Anybody want to guess how much I spent on booze on the cruise?
Keep in mind that in order to make the booze drinks package worth it, I would have had to have spent $75 every day on alcohol (which is how much more on top of the non-booze package I got it would have cost).
So as long as my total is below $750 I made the right choice.
Closest guess wins umm⌠a prize of some kind⌠Iâll figure it out. Guesses open until 9pm.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
$0. I donât think you had any cos you got the covid.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Chilli patch is still kicking. Giving them good doses of GoGo juice (which I think is basically seasol but better⌠maybe) and tomato food and havenât killed them so thatâs good to see. Might be time to introduce the Potassium. Whether to go liquid or potash pellets Iâm not sure yet.
big thai one on the left is having a great time and turning into quite the dense shrubbery.
But the one Iâm reallly looking forward to are the little piri piri ones (bottom right). Just hope they werenât the cultivar that, thanks to a sneaky wayward bee, x bred with cayennes last year because they tasted like shit.
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Which also brings us tooooâŚ
todayâs rave choon!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Tonightâs dinner is sorted.
Truffle fettuccini with chicken and field mushrooms in a creamy parmesan garlic sauce
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Early estimates project hundreds of millions of dollars improvement to the city of Shepperton once floodwaters rise, properly prices alone set to skyrocket when instead of living in a shithole town you get to live next to a nice new lake instead.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
What do you get if you cross a cow and a rooster?
Roost beef.
wscholermann@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Folks walking around in hoodies and tracksuits. WTF is wrong with you? You must have medical conditions because itâs certainly not cold.
bull@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
The winner with the $50 guess is PeelerSheila! I spent $126.50 over 2 days then didnât drink booze for the rest of the trip.
Enjoy your celebratory Numbat!
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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Well done @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone!
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Omg thankyou! I love it!
Nath@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Is that some AIs idea of a Numbat? Because thatâs not a Numbat.