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- Comment on 1 week ago:
Haha… OK pal. Have a great one.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Re-reading my comment it was way more aggressive than it meant to be. I think I laid on the sarcasm too thick after reading the latest Trump bullshitery. Anyway, appreciate your comment.
We culturally usually bring our glasses to parties if we are drinking something that needs a glass (eg Guiness, Kilkenny) if the gathering is over a dozen people. Keg parties require hiring the keg - and glassware (or washable plastic schooners) are included in the hire price. Kegs aren’t any cheaper than buying by carton/case here unless you’re doing bulk kegs for a wedding or something (Australia - we have a significant alcohol tax).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes of course, my hundreds of personal parties attended are invalid evidence compares to your personal experience of several commercial venues (which is not even what was being discussed).
I don’t care about downvotes. Parties full of red plastic cups is a very American phenomenon - and also in countries that have low environmental concerns and use a lot of single-use plastics. All through Europe, Australia, NZ, Japan, its far more common to use glassware or bring your own cups. I’ve only been to a few keg parties because it’s no cheaper than buying cans/bottles unless you’re running a really big event like a wedding - and even then, proper glassware or washable plastic schooners are included in the hire contract (kegs are hired and must be returned).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah generally. Or everyone is drinking from cans / beer bottles. Keg parties are not a common thing for your average BBQ or your average student party.
- Comment on Review: EXO-6’s ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Garak Is No Plain, Simple Figure 1 week ago:
I see it too.
The photo leading the article is a bad angle tho, he looks much more accclurately captured in other angles of the figurine.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes. The rest of the world uses glasses because we’re adults and we don’t hide the glassware from our friends.
The only time I ever see disposable cups used is at kids parties, or to play beer pong.
- Comment on no time rule 2 weeks ago:
TFW you abolish clocks and you are forced to work from ‘sunup to sundown’ instead.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This is just a social engineering attack for rich, gullible people.
- Comment on AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw 4 weeks ago:
$10k is nothing to AMD. The middle-management bean counters making these decisions are actively harming their company’s (and user’s security.
- Comment on ‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap 5 weeks ago:
Uhh what are you talking about… The (long) article is about how “believe all women” is a right-wing invention, predominantly used by detractors of feminism, and that “believe women” is the genuine leftist/feminist phrase, and discusses the difference between the two. My comment was that it’s a good article but that it may not be heard widelt due to the complexity and nuance of such a discussion and people’s short attention spans.
And then here you go… clearly not reading the article, and complaining about it and my opinion on it.
Way to prove my point I guess.
- Comment on Australia's fuel supply secured well into August as bowser pressure eases 5 weeks ago:
Thank goodness we’ve propped up the fossil fuels industry with another massive tax write-off, instead of more common-sense approaches like encouraging transition to electric vehicles and public transit, and legal allowances for working from home.
- Comment on ‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap 5 weeks ago:
Good article. Doubt it’s nuance will ever be understood by those that wield ‘believe all women’ as a weapon, though… Because as with the article, nuance takes a long time to explain, and we live in the era of the short attention span.
- Comment on Is MMA and UFC "somewhat" rigged like boxing was in the Don King era? 1 month ago:
I don’t know for sure, but my magic 8-ball says ‘signs point to yes’ if that helps.
- Comment on We are so close 1 month ago:
Yeah… I don’t drink Coke often but I like caffeine free diet coke / coke zero. I don’t want the sugar and I don’t need caffeine.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Comment on Windows BitLocker 0-Day Vulnerability Enables Access to Encrypted Drives 1 month ago:
I mean… with the amount of times Microsoft has just decided to BitLocker user drives without approval and then accidentally locked people out of it with bad updates, they should be offering bugs like this to the public via tools as a means to access their old Bitlocker-trapped files.
Good reminder that if you do ever have important files encrypted and lose access to them - put the files (or drive) aside if financially viable, it will likely become accessible in the near to mid-term future via incompetence/bugs/advances.
- Comment on Durian supremacy 1 month ago:
Smells like sewerage (which is why they’re banned in most hotels, planes, transit and enclosed spaces where they’re common), tastes like a fancy dessert. It’s a complex flavour that’s honestly unique, and they don’t all taste the same - various sub-varieties exist.
To me the most consistent flavour of them is a very creamy mild honeydew-melon and vanilla flavour, with a dash of banana. Very pleasantly floral and generally quite sweet.
Given that description you’d think I’d love them but I actually can’t stand the smell and look (bro the fruit flesh looks like yellow turds), I’ve only ever eaten them under duress haha.
- Comment on Albanese vowed no changes to housing tax breaks. Now he's defending reforms 2 months ago:
Good. Govt should break stupid promises. Housing is insane and the “well, let’s just keep propping it up” approach has not helped one bit.
I’m sure they will be grandfathering-in any boomers though, wouldn’t want to actually anger the largest voting base or their 4 houses. We’ll see I guess…
Would love to see foreign ownership canned for both businesses and individuals (need citizenship to buy house and land). There so much that can be done to ease the housing crisis, and so far we’vr tried very little.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 2 months ago:
Religion.
Historically the primary reason that euthanasia is repeatedly challenged / legally blocked worldwide.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 2 months ago:
Well, that sours me enough to the game that its no longer on the wishlist.
- Comment on 'Antisemitism' directive exposes Australia to Israeli interference, public servants warn 3 months ago:
Yes, literally IHRA definition example 6 makes it illegal hate speech for an officer of the law to accuse an Israeli spy of being more loyal to Israel than Australia.
Utterly insane that we have incorporated the IHRA into our hatespeech laws.
Here’s the entire list of examples, you’ll currently not find it on Wikipedia because a fine editor decided to delete them as “copyright violation” back in mid-2025… Editors are on the Talk page all agreeing it should be re-added, but as it’s a locked topic it seems those with the keys to the article aren’t swayed to add them back in. For some reason.
Reading through the list the one that most draws my ire is example 10, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
Speaking out against the genocidal policies of Israel’s current govt: OK (maybe)
Drawing entirely historically logical and evidential comparisons to a mass government extermination event of multiple underclasses of their citizenry in WW2: Hate speech! Go to jail!
Israel features throughout the rules, yet should not be present at all. It is a state, not an ethnicity or protected class… well, it wasn’t, until recently.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Make alternator spin. Is only way.
- Comment on Trump calls out Australia in blistering post declaring the US does not 'need' ally support in Iran 3 months ago:
<oh no, anyway… meme>
- Comment on Day 602 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
My favourite game of all time.
- Comment on Live: PM confirms three Australians on board US submarine that sank Iranian frigate 4 months ago:
Cool, now we’re definitely on the shitlist with Iran.
Just what we need - being dragged into another stupid US conflict. One in ten crew members on US attack subs is Australian, according to the Royal Aus Navy - as part of training for the $368 billion AUKUS program.
I feel like people don’t realize how rare and against norms this kind of unprovoked attack is. Only four ships have been attacked by subs since world war 2 in all the military engagements that have occured over that time. This act is a massive escalation of hostilities.
The Iranian frigate was unarmed (no missiles or anti-air arms), as it was returning home after a friendly military training exercise with India that required Iran’s ship to follow “peace protocol”. So also it’s yet another US war crime. India is pissed about this too because their guests were murdered - they rushed rescue boats and helicopters to the site, but were too far away to be effective. Sri Lanka was closer and managed to rescue just 32 survivors of the 180+ crew in their rapid response.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 4 months ago:
That is another real thing, that doesn’t fit this example.
If it did, any video on other topics would not be in the top few results - and yet in my unscientific testing of several random video titles and authors, they all come up in either the first result or in the first row.
Different experience for searching leftist videos.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 4 months ago:
The rage-stoking flamebait is definitely a real thing on all social media to drive engagement. But the only explanation for searching for an exact video name with the name of the creator, and the desired video not being in the top few hits but rather buried below dozens and dozens of other results is suppression of that creator. And it happens repeatedly for left-wing creators.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 4 months ago:
I figure its intentional because Google’s executives know right-wing chuds and their politicians will always push corporate-friendly and ultrarich-friendly legislation like tax cuts, deregulation, and defanged government institutions.
But I’m in agreement that it’s likely done with glee by YouTube’s team, who seem as happy to promote right-wing chuds as they do to stamp out left-wing voices from the feed.
Example: I sometimes search for videos I’ve seen from subscriptions, and using the exact title of the video and the creator I still have to wade through three or four pages of search results with far different titles - scrolling past heaps of ideologically-opposite results as I go - to finally find the real video. That’s no mistake, thats an intentional finger on the scale to hide leftist voices.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 4 months ago:
Fucking lol… This is the Metaverse with extra steps.
- Comment on Race to find source of carcinogenic Pfas in Cumbria and Lancashire waters 4 months ago:
Gosh its just a race to figure out the source. Could be an old paper mill maybe that left waste paper on grounds, could be old landfill or maybe from fire stations in the area. Who knows?!
Do these journos not read their own goddamn paper?
The Guardian identified it as AGC Chemicals in their own investigative report three years ago - they’ve been pumping chemical effluent to the equivalent of many tonnes of solid chemical waste into the River Wyre which runs through Lancashire that are know to include PFAS. They followed this up with a report late last year that pointed out that regulators are turning a blind eye to AGC Chemicals continued pollution by not even testing for PFAS in their output effluent.
It seems The Guardian is now turning a blind eye too, because they didn’t mention AGC Chemicals once in this FUD story that seems to be raising plenty of concerns and anxiety from residents while saying nobody is sure where any PFAS are coming from.
Have I missed something or misread?
This is stupid? - Comment on The Current Situation (Sorry Americans) 5 months ago:
Can relate.
I feel like one of these panels should say, “I find out how much the US impacts Aussie lives & politics”.
