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- Comment on I'd sign up 1 day ago:
Userbase: 9 users per City. None rurally.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 day ago:
Thank you - my friend was only thinking in terms of smaller by mass not thinking about volume.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 day ago:
Thanks for the explanation, clears it up completely.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 day ago:
My friend is silly - he was thinking of smaller as in by mass, not by volume. Thanks for explaining it to him.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 3 days ago:
My dumb friend wants to know why adding more mass would make Jupiter smaller, can you help explain it to him?
- Comment on Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit. 4 days ago:
Premium includes the stories that are critical of Amazon and billionaires, which Bezos usually has pulled from circulation.
/s
- Comment on No justice, no peace. 6 days ago:
Save 30 seconds by not having to find the correct shims and just use your handy screwdriver.
What’s the worst that could happen?
- Comment on Anon remembers a family guy cutaway 1 week ago:
Fun fact: Kurt didn’t own a gun, the shotgun he killed himself with was bought by his friend Dylan Carson of the band Earth. So, even in this silly story about Nevermind lyrics being taken literally, he wasn’t lying. The song was also years before the gun was bought. Unrelatedly, I am fun at parties.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 week ago:
Yep that’s absolutely not what people are talking about when they say ‘climate change’ in this context, they mean anthropogenic climate change, and you know it. Your bad faith response shows you have no interest in an honest discussion.
- Comment on Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos 2 weeks ago:
The Metaverse was being spruiked as the next big thing that everyone will need a VR headset for by Facebook as recently as 2023, which went so far as to change their name to Meta Platforms in 2021. Then they posted dozens of billions in losses in their Meta department each year for the succeeding couple years before casually dropping a post saying Meta would ‘pivot away from the Metaverse to focus on AI’ in early 2023. Wonder what the final losses will be for LLM AIs.
In a rational world, investors would watch Zuck to see what he goes all-in on next and avoid it. Buy the stock market is built on feelings and hype, irrational by nature.
- Comment on Anon watches youtube 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly the story behind Hot Ones and I disliked it from first view. Commenters like ‘OMG how does he get these guests. So glad he’s succeeding.’ Dude it’s literally a corporation.
Just a ‘late night show’ format for celebrities to sell their latest book/movie in gen Z format.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 5 weeks ago:
He hardly needs to try when he’ll be an irrevocable unmovable stain on the US ledgers of record and national reputation forever.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 5 weeks ago:
Deal if you send just half of him back.
Which half is dealers choice, and no need for a contiguous half. It can be half by volume.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 5 weeks ago:
The trade imbalance? With the US?
Take back your war on drugs, the war on terror, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, your insane tech broligarchy, rhe 2008 global financial crisis, your Evangelical hate brigades (actually you know what take back Mormons and Scientologists and 7th day adventists while youre at it), the GLOBAL trade disasters & inflation caused by Trump and his pissy tarrif wars, the global derailing of climate agreements again by Trump and his idiot Republican allies.
I’ll stop now because I could literally type all day the shit coming out of the US that has been causing immense damage to the rest of us.
What’s Australia’s shit?
Murdoch? He gave up Aussie citizenship and moved to the US in 1985, he’s spent the majority of his working career as an American living in America - we can at best take half ownership of him.
This handful of censorship wowsers taking down some rapey video games?
Mel Gibson?Enlighten me because I think the numbers of your “trade imbalance” don’t even come close to adding up.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 5 weeks ago:
He is from Australia originally, but he’s been a US naturalised citizen and lived there full-time since 1985, he gave up Australian citizenship 40 years ago.
No backsies.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 month ago:
If they wanted any games banned all they had to do was talk to the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) in Australia, where they’re based. Any of the games listed would have likely been added to the ‘Refused Classification’ list and thereby banned from sale and import in Australia. If they wanted them pulled from Steam or Itch entirely they could have talked to those platforms.
But they didn’t want to raise objections through appropriate preexisting channels, they wanted to push their Christian-based ideology on the whole world by going Karen on the social media of all the payment processors.
- Comment on Sabine Hossenfelder Has Started Openly Defending Proven Grifters 1 month ago:
I watch a fair bit of YouTube and definitely some scientific video content is consumed and always in my feed… Who is this person? Never heard of her.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 month ago:
I think that they meant to write something like:
I don’t think adultary means “sex while unmarried” I think it means “sex outside of your marriage”. Big difference.
- Comment on Documents contradict government's claims over $900m deal with Israeli weapons company 1 month ago:
‘Parliamentary Privelege’ mate, they lie often and it’s perfectly legal. Politicians can technically raise a complaint of ‘contempt of privelege’ if a lie is serious and caused “an improper interference with the free exercise by a House or a committee of its authority or functions, or with the free performance by a member of their duties as a member.” As some may argue this lie did. In our history it has happened exactly zero times (meaning, it’s toothless).
aph.gov.au/…/infosheet_5_-_parliamentary_privileg…
Making it illegal sounds great to me though, I don’t believe any reasonable person would say that you should be able to lie in order to “debate matters of importance freely” which is the current line of horseshit we are expected to believe. If we start asking loudly for it now - we might get a watered-down version in about 20 years give or take, if the federal ICAC is anything to go by.
More eloquent info: …com.au/…/should-lying-in-parliament-be-a-crime/
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 month ago:
That’s even less consumer friendly. If you purchase a game and it turns out to be shovelware that barely works and has a bunch of gamed reviews on the store page? Oh too bad sap, you got conned this is non-refundable.
Consumers had to fight for games that do refundable, I don’t think we should be quick to consider loopholes.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 month ago:
Halo 3 was peak.
I know some don’t like it because of some choices they creative team made that weren’t exact to the lore of the games, but I’ve been enjoying the Halo TV series. Had some moments that reminded me of the campaign and game series highlights. I’d say it’s worth a watch if you’re a fan - don’t be put off by the initial backlash.
- Comment on REVEALED: AUSTRALIA HAS EXPORTED F-35 FIGHTER JET PARTS DIRECTLY TO ISRAEL - Declassified Australia 1 month ago:
We have jet parts.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 1 month ago:
She’d be a zombie so you should care, as your next trip would be to the pharmacy to get some antiseptic creams.
- Comment on Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales 1 month ago:
Legislation sounds very positive for the environment. The article does say that shooting ranges are exempt as they have lead/bullet recovery systems in place and this legislation is more about protecting waterways and forests from being (further) polluted with lead shot. Military and police are excluded probably for the same reason as almost all their shooting is on-range.
The article doesn’t mention and I was hoping someone knows - what’s the common alternative metals used for rifle rounds and shotgun shells? Steel balls for shotguns?
Does it make a big difference to shooting/ballistics, as the alternatives would be less-dense than lead?
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 2 months ago:
I came looking for the meme pic, stayed for the story.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 months ago:
Didn’t confuse them with anyone, they put out a quarterly report as all publicly-traded companies do, and they’re on track to do over $2 billion in profit this year ($17b revenue).
What I didn’t go into depths to describe is that the vast majority of their money goes to big labels and several big artists they have less-favourable (to Spotify) contracts with, because those big labels and artists know they can pressure Spotify to get a bigger slice.
So, they continue to give most artists, especially small/new artists next to nothing, exploiting them.
Nothing I said is innacurate IMO.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 months ago:
How about just boycott it because it’s terrible for artists? It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
Spotify’s whole business model is exploitation.
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 2 months ago:
I know and I was waiting for someone to complain, even though it doesn’t affect the accuracy of the comment. You have won this bouquet of Dutch flowers: 💐
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 2 months ago:
Its pickled, not raw. Scandinavians have been pickling fish for a very long time and it’s worked out OK so far.
- Comment on PM breaks silence to back US military strikes on Iran 2 months ago:
The simple and truthful thing to say was that the US had no evidence of nuclear weapons being built and so we are unclear of any justification for this strike - or simply not comment on it if he doesn’t want to anger the US. Australia does not want to be dragged into another war of aggression to help America’s oil&gas and militarily-industrial industries.
But that was apparently too much to hope for.
Albo’s better than any Liberal party leader would be, but we can do much better.