fizzle
@fizzle@quokk.au
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 23 hours ago:
Don’t bother.
There’s like 4 of these idiots on lemmy that parrot these both-sides memes.
One of them posted in nostupidquestions last week asking how americans can be the ones paying tariffs because they’ve never been charged a tariff.
You can’t unscramble an egg. Just block them and move on.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 23 hours ago:
What about short term crisis avoidance?
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 23 hours ago:
It’s someone who was indoctrinated in September / October 2024, was never deprogrammed, and has somehow navigated the interceding 15 months without reading anything?
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 day ago:
There’s a complex set of reasons but my take is:
Trump needs a national emergency so he can implement restrictions on voting in November. He’s already cited election interference in 2020 and 2024 as the reason for the invasion. He will use this to issue executive orders banning mail in voting and to ensure ICE are present at polling booths.
Additionally, Trump is very easy to manipulate. If a couple of other leaders like Bibi and Putin said “hey everyone would think you were so amazing if you flattened Iran right now”, he would do that, 100%. Some people are saying that someone is blackmailing Trump because they have the unredacted Epstein files, but I don’t think you really need that to manipulate Trump.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 3 days ago:
Oh please.
You realise politicians make way more money when they win elections right? Do you really honestly believe that you have a better understanding of how they can win an election than they do?
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
Or maybe its because more people voted for Trump than voted for Democrats. The brutal arithmetic of democracy.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
Or maybe the dems lost because the left is mucking around fighting among themselves.
If you dont want Trump, vote democrat.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
Theres not going to be a mass vote for a 3rd party.
Absurdly unrealistic.
You can’t even get a few percent to not vote for an authoritarian felon child rapist.
- Comment on Good Match 4 days ago:
Hah. Post-Apoc fiction is my favorite genre.
In most novels amongst “the group” of survivors there’s a mousy accountant type who’s only role is to demonstrate the author’s distaste for people with these types of skills. This person usually dies pretty quick. That’s me. Am accountant. Not tall or athletic. I have an amazing skill set of things that would be completely irrelevant after the fall of modern society.
My partner on the other hand would do an amazing job. Tough as nails.
She seems to have an innate understanding of how and what to forage? Often she will rip some young leaves off a tree she found in a car park or whatever to cook up at home.
She will eat anything from the ocean including molluscs and things, and is also an expert at finding and catching any kind of seafood. I’ve seen her catch kill and cook squid, crabs, shrimp, prawns, oysters, cockles, urchins, snails, octopus, and ofc a variety of fish.
She keeps a large vegetable garden in our back yard too. Large enough to sell surplus to friends and family.
She also has a net that she uses to catch swarming beetles and crickets and so on.
She’s also a fighter. Like if someone broke into our house “I’d like to think” I’d beat the shit out of them, but she would absolutely get more punches in than me.
We live in Australia, she’s a migrant. There are very few Australians (even indigenous) who could out live her in the apocalypse.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
you’re taking away votes from Republicans
No you’re not. Conservatives will vote republican no matter what. You’re never going to vote republican.
The US has a shitty electoral system. Votes for minor parties don’t count. You know Trump is going to manipulate the coming election, Dems need to win big enough that it can’t be stolen.
If you don’t want to live in an authoritarian dystopia, vote Democrat.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
There’s no other candidate who can win.
Anyone who doesn’t vote for a Democrat candidate is voting for Trump.
- Comment on [Video] Australian police seizes “Wanted - Netanyahu" sign saying it is antisemitic 5 days ago:
What event were they at?
If it was a Jewish thing then yeah, the sign is just antagonism.
There’s plenty of places to express your views on jews, Israeli’s and Gaza.
An event hosted by the jewish community intended to try to ease tensions and rebuild cohesion after a terrorist attack directed at them isn’t an appropriate one.
- Comment on [Video] Australian police seizes “Wanted - Netanyahu" sign saying it is antisemitic 5 days ago:
WDYM? What do you want them to do?
- Comment on Well that was an error. 6 days ago:
Yeah it’s only going to be worth heaps more as things deteriorate for Andy.
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 6 days ago:
Everyone knows.
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 6 days ago:
I doubt there’s anyone here who is not already aware of these details.
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 1 week ago:
Common sense says you can’t get convicted as a sex offender for grabbing someone by the arm if you had reason to believe they were in imminent danger.
These kinds of stories have been around since the dawn of time for all sorts of things. Whenever you investigate the details it turns out that either the story is completely made up, or the offense was much more serious than it sounded.
Like the woman who sued macdonalds for getting third degree burns because their coffee was too hot.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 week ago:
This is the correct answer.
If you live in SE Asia for example you speak your local language at home but you need to learn English for work.
If you already speak English at home then you already know how to speak English at work.
- Comment on Awkward interaction with my doctor 1 week ago:
“I’m just a man, I can’t help feeling like that”
Well yes, but I’d kind of extend that to being just a person, able to control my actions but not feelings.
OP didn’t say he was fighting his instincts not to bend her over and give her a good deep dicking because her fly was down.
I personally find any kind of close proximity with a professional of any gender or age to be quite uncomfortable.
I would find it even more uncomfortable if their fly was down or whatever.
I would find it even more uncomfortable if the professional in close proximity with their fly down might think I was being inappropriate by noticing that their fly was down - an outcome much more likely if that person is an attractive young lady.
That said, you have some odd ideas about being older and being married. I’m in my mid 40s and have been with my partner for 15 years or so. I still find people in their 20s and 30s physically attractive, just like I did when I was 20 . Also my commitment to my partner does not mean I am magically blind to attractive people around me.
- Comment on What's happening on Epstein Island now after everything that has been exposed? 1 week ago:
I think basically nothing. They’re owned by wealthy conservatives who will resist any kind of investigation.
- Comment on What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.) 1 week ago:
the title says non-electronic, so you’re dead in the water really.
Anyhoo, if I were living in an apocalypse and had a laptop, would I prefer that it had wikipedia or an LLM?
It really depends on accuracy of the information it’s outputting versus the storage requirements of the model, compared to the storage requirements of a wikipedia dump.
Regardless, it’s kinda comical to imagine a non-technological society being able to consult one of our LLMs without any understanding of technology generally. Like you could ask it to describe the chemical makeup of the star Proxima Centauri and it would give you a response that would sound absolutely infallible and you would have no way to validate it - it would seem to have god-like prescience. Then you could ask it something mundane and it either lies or tells you it’s unable to answer.
- Comment on Did I miss something? Is YouTube down? 2 weeks ago:
I guess Trump really didn’t like that Colbert interview with Talarico
- Comment on What are some out-of-the-box ideas you've heard of? 2 weeks ago:
team plain folder here.
☑️ no lock in ☑️ any data type ☑️ sync any way ☑️ encrypt any way ☑️ any client or other tool ☑️ platform independent
- Comment on Given the obviously wide reaching implications of the Epstein files why arent other world governments demanding access or copies? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah thats kinda what I meant about not having any basis for the request.
Its a criminal case and there’s no indication that any of it occurred on Australian soil so its nothing to do with us.
If an Australian official was implicated we could stand them down. If an Australian was charged overseas we could provide consular support. Thats it though really
- Comment on Given the obviously wide reaching implications of the Epstein files why arent other world governments demanding access or copies? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone is going to like this answer but… it’s just not how global politics works.
Why would other governments demand copies ?
Australia is a close ally of the US. We don’t really have any basis to make such a demand. Additionally, they’re not going to give them to us because obviously they want to protect pedo-in-chief.
So the answer is, if we tried the answer would be a hard “no” and the request would damage our relationship.
- Comment on What Happened to slrpnk.net ? 2 weeks ago:
Thankyou. I did think there would be a post somewhere, and I did try searching but couldn’t find that.
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- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 2 weeks ago:
I’m really sorry. This sounds like a super difficult situation.
I think there’s some good ideas in this thread, but if im brutally honest - its your mum that needs to hear them.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 2 weeks ago:
When people generally carried cash they would’ve been reluctant to pay with a card if it was 2% more expensive.
When banks provide a business with a card reader, they want that business and it’s customers to use it - if customers continue to use cash then the bank isn’t getting 2% on those sales. So they did their best to avoid card charges being passed on to the customer. The business would pay the 2%, and just build it in to all their pricing.
Depending on jurisdiction maybe the clerk could add a card fee manually, but my point is the merchants weren’t encouraging it.
Now that people generally don’t carry cash, the banks / merchants are in competition with each other rather than competing with cash. About 5 years ago a new merchant / card facility operator emerged in Australia which gave businesses the option of automagically adding the charge to sales, so the customer would pay instead of the business owner.
For a restaurant or something that’s a pretty great deal. For even a relatively small restaurant with a half dozen staff, it might be a third or half of one annual salary in savings.
The majority of restaurants in my area have changed over to merchant facilities offering this type of fee structure.
In the long run, customers aren’t really paying more. Restaurants are always going to charge as much as they can. If every restaurant is doing the same thing then everyone is on equal footing, charging as much as they can, just like before when everyone absorbed these fees.
- Comment on How does one become a entrepreneur? 2 weeks ago:
Is it people who make money without a job
No.
I’m an accountant and spend all day every day looking at, thinking about, and talking about people’s businesses.
Keep in mind we’re not talking about multinational conglomerates owned by billionaires, but real businesses that people have bought, inherited, or created because they thought they could make money doing it or because they’re passionate about it.
Firstly, most businesses are not successful, at least not monetarily. Secondly, those which are successful required loads of money, or effort, or rare qualifications, and luck.
The thing you’re up against is day 1 economic theory - everyone wants to make money with the least effort. Everyone. In that sense you’re competing with everyone else on the planet.
I suspect that the kind of entrepreneur you’re thinking of started with many millions from Mum and Dad.
You might be interested in the “Financial Independence / Retire Early” (FIRE) school of thought, but this basically involves working like everyone else but being smarter with your spare money.