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- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 4 hours ago:
Cashiers here have started saying “have a good rest of your day” instead of “have a good afternoon” or whatever.
It’s excruciating. It’s only emerged in the last few years.
I know language evolves and all but not like this.
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 4 hours ago:
That’s what I was thinking.
Nothing wrong with boobs, but why put them on your tailgate?
- Comment on Saw this in a public women's bathroom. I didn't want to touch it, but I am curious as to what it is. 1 day ago:
Oh man. Thankyou. That was kinda messing with me.
If you flip it around the picture makes more sense.
That said, the quality is so bad it’s impossible to say what that thing actually is, but the only thing I can think of that fits that size and shape and color is a bag or pouch or toiletries and cosmetics or something.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 days ago:
Yeah. Whoever made fun of you is an idiot.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 2 days ago:
I think most Christians just make up whatever they feel ought to be a sin based on the vibe.
- Comment on I don’t know what to do with this coworker. 3 days ago:
Oh man I remember those. Called ahead to the new unit to ask how busy it’s going to be.
- Comment on Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign 3 days ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign 4 days ago:
Really? I think people are too busy being terrified about the US descent into fascism and tearing down global trade. That has ultimately had a much stronger impact on this election than either parties climate change policies.
- Comment on How do people develop feelings for someone? 4 days ago:
Yeah. What is love, really? A question people have pondered since the dawn of time.
There’s this societal expectation that things go a certain way. You know lots of people, make friends, become “more than friends” with some, “have feelings” for someone, date, stronger feelings, “fall in love”, and so on.
For some people love is very transactional. For some love is about passion. For some love is an infatuation. For some love is about practical compatibility, shared status, culture, and ideals. For some love is something that can only develop after years of marriage.
All of these are very different. None are right or wrong. They’re just narrow verbal explanations for a complex range of considerations both practical and emotional.
Honestly I think most people just follow the process of coupling with someone just because that’s what people do and life goes easier with a buddy.
I’m no master of romance, but my advice to you would be to just focus on building strong, close relationships with people in whatever form that might take, while being honest with them about what you can offer. In this context, honest doesn’t mean being abrupt and telling everyone you’re incapable of love, it just means not misleading people.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 4 days ago:
I pretty much can’t play anything any more because I refuse to play anything with loot boxes or timers or in-game currency.
There are very few games on Android you can just buy and play casually to relax for a few hours.
- Comment on Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign 4 days ago:
Well yeah but we also need to prioritise global trade, the economy, jobs and growth, health, education, cost of living, home ownership, and so on and so forth.
ALP’s policy is to achieve 82% renewable energy by 2030.
The Liberal’s policy is to pivot to nuclear which is just another way of saying “keep burning coal indefinitely”.
The reason no one is talking about these things is because it’s not a priority for the electorate.
That said, Liberal’s nuclear policy seems like a weak point to me and I suspect Labor are holding it in reserve in case they need to regain the narrative at some point or to roll it out in the final week of the campaign.
- Comment on Australia turns down China's offer to 'join hands' to fight US tariffs, aims to diversify trade, strengthening ties with Europe, India, Britain, Middle East 4 days ago:
Well yeah that’s what we should do but we can still say nice things just because it’s nice to be nice you know?
- Comment on Australia turns down China's offer to 'join hands' to fight US tariffs, aims to diversify trade, strengthening ties with Europe, India, Britain, Middle East 4 days ago:
Maybe I’m naive but I would’ve thought the correct diplomatic response here would be something like:
Yeah of course mate we join hands with everyone in these trying times including our good friends the US, the EU, ASEAN, and especially China.
Anyhoo. We’re better off playing the field. Anyone seeking to befriend us at this time doesn’t have our best interests in mind.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 5 days ago:
Albo or Dutton are going to be PM.
Which do you want?
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 5 days ago:
Protesting ALP is not the same thing as endorsing the LNP
That’s exactly what it is.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 6 days ago:
Nah. The damage Trump has done can’t be undone.
Sure vance might replace him and take credit for any recovery, but this level of destruction was not planned.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 6 days ago:
All I can do is reiterate what I said.
If LNP wins we will continue to burn coal as our primary source of energy for another 30 years.
Is that what you want ?
What can you do to avoid that outcome? The options sure as shit do not include protesting about climate at ALP pressers.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 6 days ago:
Sure: It’s a patently obvious observation. End study.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 6 days ago:
I agree on all counts.
I just can’t see how the US could avoid a recession.
A global recession is certainly possible or likely but much less-so.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 6 days ago:
I can’t believe I need to spell this out but …
As regards climate change ALP is not perfect but they’re infinitely better than LNP.
When you protest against ALP you inform low-information voters (which are the majority, by the way) that both parties are the same as regards climate change.
In a few short weeks either the ALP or LNP will form government. If it’s the LNP they will roll out plans for nuclear power which is really just a license to keep burning coal for another 30 years.
If you’d like Australia to continue deriving it’s energy from coal, then by all means protest the currently sitting government, during an election campaign.
- Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement 6 days ago:
Here’s an idea, protest at Dutton’s pressers, dumb ass.
- Comment on BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE 6 days ago:
Just copying my other comment…
There’s a community for pondering this question.
The consensus is that Nicole is actually being harassed.
If you follow the links there’s no one to talk to but in the topic for the matrix room or something it says where she works.
So it’s something like creepy weirdo is spamming everyone with her photo in the hope that creeps from lemmy go hit on her at her work.
- Comment on BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE 6 days ago:
There’s a community for pondering this question.
The consensus is that Nicole is actually being harassed.
If you follow the links there’s no one to talk to but in the topic for the matrix room or something it says where she works.
So it’s something like creepy weirdo is spamming everyone with her photo in the hope that creeps from lemmy go hit on her at her work.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Yeah but larger organisations just don’t work that way.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 1 week ago:
Yeah there’s a poster in the clinic we go to for the kids vaccinations that says “kids learn what they live”.
So yeah, 100% they’re going to see that I don’t know everything and that I try to figure things out.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 1 week ago:
I have 18 month old twins. They’re not old enough to explain things too, but I ponder this type of thing a lot.
Basically my plan is multi-faceted, but I’ll acknowledge up front that it’s untested and likely contain grave errors, but like any parent since the dawn of time I’ll try to learn from my errors and adjust my strategy.
I’m not going to dumb anything down. If you’re old enough to wonder where babies come from then you’re old enough to understand that males produce sperm and women produce an egg and the two combine to produce a baby. That doesn’t mean a 4 year old needs to learn about STDs or abortion or rape, just that there’s no harm nor shame in learning.
It’s going to take a lot of time. Not to explain things, but to maintain a relationship where my kids feel comfortable asking me about awkward things. Not “why is the sky blue” but “why do I feel this way” or what ever.
Also, I plan to be honest and frank about the limitations of my knowledge. This is something that as an adult I find frustrating about my own childhood. My parents did their best within their means and societal norms, but whenever they didn’t know something they just made it up usually within some kind of religious framework. If I know part of the answer then I’ll acknowledge that I don’t have the whole answer and suggest how we might learn more.
To answer your actual question though, I don’t think one really explains terrorism on any given day. Like you could explain that terrorism is the use of fear for a political or ideological objective, but that’s not really an understanding is it. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to understand people’s motivation for this type of hatred and I hope my children do too.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 1 week ago:
Yeah so my partner gave birth to twins in a c-section.
I also do not have the parts but hoo-boy that was the experience of a lifetime, and not necessarily all fun / happy joyous.
Basically the pregnant person is on the table and they erect a sheet vertically just below her arms. Then dad (me) sits by her head and holds her hand while the magic happens.
It seemed like there was about a dozen people in the theatre, the kids each having their own team of pediatrician and nurses.
It was a complex pregnancy and while everyone is fit and well now the 48 hours following that operation were pretty terrifying.
- Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer 1 week ago:
They interviewed this guy in a van on today tonight. /s
- Comment on Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA? 1 week ago:
Westralia.
Technically still part of Australia but it’s far enough away from all the other cunts that it feels like another country.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 week ago:
Oh man.
12 year old me waiting for hours to rip mp3s from cds always wondered about this.
Like why isn’t it already compressed?
The answer is that storage was available but processing wasn’t. Amaze.