CurlyWurlies4All
@CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net
- Comment on A job's a job 2 days ago:
This might be the highest res version of this meme I’ve seen
- Comment on "That's terror." 3 days ago:
“It’s called consolidation; strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With reboots, this can be done imperceptibly over time.”
- Comment on [Discussion] What level of proportional representation is desirable? 4 days ago:
Yes. The upper house is supposed to be proportional and yet it suffers from the same unbalanced outcomes. Each state currently has the same number of senators despite population differences. This results in smaller states being overrepresented while larger states are underrepresented. Both Tassie and Victoria have 12 senators, yet a Tasmanian senator represents ~34,000 voters, while a Vic senator represents ~380,000, once again making a lightly populated state’s vote ten times more valuable than a heavily populated one.
- Comment on [Discussion] What level of proportional representation is desirable? 6 days ago:
I would love to see proportional representation in the lower house. The answer on how to solve issues with democracy usually are solved by adding more democracy.
Last election, the Nationals received only 3.6% of the popular vote. Despite this low vote, it won ten seats, and that’s because Nationals voters are highly concentrated in a few low population rural seats, where there are fewer people controlling larger portions of land.
The Greens, by contrast, won 12% of the popular vote but only won 4 lower house seats. That’s because Greens voters, although most heavily concentrated in inner-urban seats, and are much more uniformly spread across the country.
To put it another way, Nationals won 52,000 votes per seat as compared to 448,000 votes per seat for the Greens.
Is that reflective of strong democratic values? I don’t think it is.
- Comment on The Future is Here? 2 weeks ago:
I love upvoting this meme
- Comment on Tim Apple calls for a rebellion! 2 weeks ago:
It was always a marketing gimmick, a cynical opportunistic fabrication developed by ad men using the language of the civil rights era to sell consumer electronics, using the profits to shamelessly supply capital to those who work to undo the gains won by the movements they exploit.
- Comment on I was wondering why the €40k printer at work was choking with "simple" Canva PDFs 2 weeks ago:
How’s the PDF formatted, is it optimised for print? Because Canva has pretty fucking sloppy output normally.
- Comment on Clankers 🔪🔪🔪 3 weeks ago:
Fuck Clankers
- Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it. 5 weeks ago:
My top result:
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 1 month ago:
Unsticking a ball that’s been stuck against your inner thigh.
- Comment on YouGov: One Nation now 2 points behind Labor on primary vote 1 month ago:
Decades of morning breakfast shows, news.com.au and trashy magazines laundering Pauline’s identity is about to pay off big time. Everyone who’s ever offered her cash, from the NRA gun nuts to Clive and Reinhardt will be charging their glasses.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
I’m really not sure about Australia. If you live up north you barely ever even wear shoes.if you live on a farm you better kick off those filthy gummies before you step in the house. If you’re a tradie, you’d better kick off those filthy Blundstones before you walk in. If you live in the suburbs, it’s a coin flip either way.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 month ago:
Sure a per capita (18+) comparison would be more useful than NET expenditure? It might be lower but there are too many possible variables that aren’t accounted for.
For example the graph below seems to indicate younger audiences drink dramatically less beer and wine than older generations, but dramatically more Hard Seltzers.
- Neo-Nazi groups say they will disband ahead of introduction of proposed hate speech lawswww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Make me confused using your country culture, norm, news, art or even social interactions on social media. 3 months ago:
I see you fellow Aussie
- Comment on Meta - There's Levels To This Shit 4 months ago:
The main value of sewerage monitoring is overflow prevention. Utilities are fined for every litre of sewage that spills so the operators have to install monitoring to aid with blockage detection and prevention and spill response times.
The secondary benefit is for recycling wastewater, which makes up the vast majority of all sewage. Monitoring it helps with treatment to create additional drinking water without the need for additional storages and reducing reliance increasingly unreliable rainfall.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 5 months ago:
85 Subaru XT
- Comment on You might be proud but she is disgusted 5 months ago:
Why do i never receive dick pics? Do you guys not want validation from me?
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 5 months ago:
Strudelius
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 5 months ago:
Yeah I recently replayed IW. I actually enjoyed it. I felt I didn’t appreciate it for what it was in its own time.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 6 months ago:
I use a dock with my steam deck. Highly recommended. I was shocked at how seamless it was as an experience.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 6 months ago:
I would argue that if you’re an Xbox gamer with no interest in PC and no interest in trying different eco-systems then yes the new ROG Xbox Ally will be your best bet. You might not get quite the same performance as the SteamOS models but you’ll have access to your GamePass, cross-buy library titles if you have any and a familiar interface.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 7 months ago:
I keep being enticed back to trying the game again with each new release but the gameplay just doesn’t grab me and there’s such a limited amount of story that it doesn’t get its hooks in me. I guess I’m just not a crafting/survival type.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 7 months ago:
Fascinating case study. I hadn’t heard of this before.
- Comment on Permian Park 7 months ago:
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 8 months ago:
I discovered Prey (2017) a few years back. It is so my shit.
It’s probably the worst named game of all time. It’s essentially a sequel to System Shock 2 and Bioshock. Should have been called Xenoshock or something because it’s generic name is nothing like the really original game underneath.
You are fully in the driver’s seat, with a crazy amount of freedom in how you want to get from one section of the space station to the next.
The opening scene, once I discovered the reality behind the scenes, I was hooked.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 8 months ago:
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
- Comment on I want these walls back 9 months ago:
Trying pivoting, you might see a solution.
- Comment on I want these walls back 9 months ago:
I lived in a flat in London where the only window was filled with these glass bricks. I think I would have preferred a window.
- Comment on Sen. Paul warns Trump 'can't bomb anyone without permission' as Iran debate heats up 9 months ago:
“Some argue the constitution gives only Congress the sole authority to declare war.” Might the most damning indictment of the US’s current political situation yet.
