fizzle
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- Comment on [Video] Australian police violently beat up protester with his hands up at demonstration against Israeli president Isaac Herzog visiting. 2 days ago:
Is the bike attached to him somehow?
Gets his foot stuck in the frame at the end but unclear what’s going on at the start.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I dont mean to seem insensitive but hasn’t this been going on since forever?
I remember several years ago a friend of mine trying to explain to their kid why they couldn’t play roblox.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
How do you discerne between the smell of rain and that of earthworms ?
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 4 days ago:
Yeah I completely agree. This exact issue kind of triggers me, and I did draft a longer diatribe complaining about exactly this, which I didn’t post.
I have an assortment of bikes including e-bikes, all of which I love equally. They’re truly amazing machines.
If you purchase a $200 k-mart commuter, and a $400 wheel hub motor and battery from temu, then perch a 12 year old precariously in the saddle that’s not an e-bike it’s an unregistered unregulated electric motorbike. This type of set up can easily achieve 50km/h with the majority more like 60km/h and some exceeding 80km/h.
The bikes just aren’t built for this kind of stress, and the people riding them don’t have a reasonable understanding of the risks. They scream around on bike paths weaving around kids and babies in strollers.
The current rules here in west aus (as I understand them) merely allow pedal assist up to 25 km/h. Critically, that means the bike can allow you to switch between modes providing more or less assistance, but no throttle. Additionally a lot of the temu bikes require you to move the pedals but do not require you to provide any effort - the pedals moving is more like a switch that allows the motor to engage.
The basic problem is that existing legislation just isn’t sufficient. Guilting parents isn’t enough. There needs to be better laws, and they need to be actively policed.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 4 days ago:
“We really recognise the tremendous opportunity that ebikes can offer for getting anyone, including younger people, from A to B, independently,” McLean said. “[It] is a really, really positive thing that connects them to education, to work, to social things and communities as well.
“There’s lots of benefits that go along with them, but when we have really high powered ebikes and people driving them dangerously and without helmets, then they certainly pose a significant risk.”
Seems like a pretty balanced take honestly.
- Comment on weed can increase anxiety some say. does CBD oil have that effect too? 4 days ago:
My psychiatrist said that the empirical evidence shows its only mildly “effective” for comparatively few people.
I tried it consistently for a few months. Not effective at all for me.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 4 days ago:
I’m not judging you but this just seems so uncomfortable to be.
I sleep in these cool long john pant things. when I wake up I put a shirt on and potter around for a few hours in that outfit doing my own thing before the kids wake up. Only then do I get dressed for the day.
Everyone has their own routine I guess.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 4 days ago:
Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Yeah shoes off. It’s a pain in the butt.
However, you often wear shoes that are easier to take off / put on.
Also, you just learn to really check that you’ve got everything before you put your shoes on.
- Comment on Aussie Insults 4 days ago:
“ok champ” and “righto chief” aren’t really specific phrases. Champ, chief, tiger, and sport are common nouns like mate, boss, brother, et cetera. These are the same as “yeah sure mate”, “whatever dude”.
I’ve never heard anyone actually say any of the others.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 4 days ago:
I’m not an expert but my partner is from SE Asia.
She’s quite judgemental and inflexible about this. I’m not condoning her views but they might provide some cultural insights.
Shoes on inside is perceived as rude. It’s particularly awkward when you go to someone elses house and they ask you to leave your shoes on. Taking your shoes off is tied up with hygiene and reverence and respect and being asked to disregard that is being asked to… diminish yourself in some way.
People in our orbit tend to wear footwear you can just slip on and off. That doesn’t mean sandals or flip flops. You just tie off your laces at the “right” length and you can slip them off without untying, and slip them on by, at worst, putting your finger in behind your heel to pull them into place. Some shoes just don’t work in this way, and these are reserved for longer outings like work et cetera.
We do have several communal pairs of slippers for use exclusively in the tiled area of our living room. They’re just really cheap practically disposable open toed slippers. The kind you get in hotels.
We have toddlers and, thankfully they seem to be excluded from the shoe-rules.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 6 days ago:
I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.
Yeah if you’re in the lane I’m merging into then two taps means “it’s ok for you to merge in because there’s enough room for you”. That’s more than 2 beats though.
Maybe you mean “o kay” or “yes merge” or “no stop” or “look out” or “nice car”
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 6 days ago:
I dont think any of that is a generally accepted code.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 6 days ago:
I usually wave at them as though I think they’re a friend of mine just saying hello.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 6 days ago:
because most things I would say to them are two beats long
LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous? There’s plenty of awful things you could say in 2 beats.
I imagine that people flash twice because once could be a mistake, twice demonstrates intent. Three would make me wonder whether it’s an ongoing flashing light.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 1 week ago:
Yeah.
The politics communities dont fill my heart with joy, and the moe communities are creepy, but if I block those what’s left?
I spend an unhealthy amount of time doomscrolling the fediverse, but I really dont know why.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 1 week ago:
I’ve been using piefed for a while, and I didn’t know this.
Turns out I’ve not been seeing NSFW posts too - I guess I didn’t miss that.
You’re right, you can hide posts with keywords in the name.
Additionally, I see you can hide posts from communities with keywords in their name. This means you could hide “politics” without having to block all the politics communities.
- Comment on Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this 1 week ago:
Sooo… you’ve replied to the same comment you said you had incorrectly replied to.
- Comment on Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this 1 week ago:
If you know why the rules exist then you know when they can be disregarded.
- Comment on Poor Jeremy 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re thinking of clockwise vs counter clockwise.
As the shell spirals around itself, it does not create a flat disk. Rather, it creates a cone shape.
If Jeremy was pointed North, the point of his cone would point to the west, while most other snails would point east.
You can see it in the photo on this post.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks ago:
TACO means Trump Always Chickens Out.
He didn’t fully capitulate but he went from “We need complete ownership and will use force to get it” to “we’ll tarriff eu countries who don’t give it to us” to “there will be no tariffs and we have the concepts of an agreement which is pretty much the same agreement we’ve always had”.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks ago:
If Trump starts costing the oligarchy money, they will discontinue support for republicans.
About 12 hours ago there was an article about eu tariffs on oligarchs. About 6 hours ago Trump chickened out of the Greenland thing.
Not saying there’s a direct line between these two events, but its the people making billions off Trump who are keeping him in power.
- Comment on how to dust properly 3 weeks ago:
Dust generally falls and settles. Dust raised surfaces with a duster, most of it will settle on the floor. Vacuum floor, then mop.
Yes, not all dust will be collected in this way but the vast majority will.
Note that I don’t use a damp whatever until the last step. Dust is so much easier to deal with when it’s dry. When it’s wet you’re just pushing it around.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 weeks ago:
It seemed more sudden and severe than just “oh some people didn’t not like him and then things changed”.
I didn’t know much about him really but he seemed to be investing in tech that could really shape the future, which I thought was “progressive”. Like when the first Tesla hit the market “big oil” had been suppressing the EV industry forever and putting your money behind something like that was bold and progressive.
Now he’s a Nazi supporting conservative nutty governments all over the world.
- Comment on What a great idea 4 weeks ago:
My partner has normalised spatial awareness, and no situational awareness. I do my best to herd her around for the good of mankind but I can only do so much
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah this is going to be part of my strategy.
Increased availability of better quality content, less reliance on algorithms serving up the next thing.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 4 weeks ago:
I’m yet to encounter this really, my kids (twins) are only 2. However, this is the answer as I understand it - limit access in terms of time and content, and relax those limitations as appropriate.
That said, I’m going to struggle. Everyone needs to find the right balance for their own home, but I suspect I will lean more towards allowing less access to more curated content than most parents. I just can’t abide the kind of brain rotting content that’s available. I can’t stand advertising of any kind. I know this will make me unpopular - or less “cool” than other parents, but I’m hoping that I can make up for it in other ways.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 4 weeks ago:
No idea mate.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 4 weeks ago:
What? Edited posts dont disappear.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard of federated communities.
Keep in mind the fediverse is not lemmy. Lemmy is the software that allows you to read, post, and comment, but there are others like piefed.
The basic problem you’ve described is a potential problem, but in practice it’s not really significant.
I’ve never really cared much for the idea of “community” online and certainly on reddit. Like what is a community really other than a category of similar posts ? The idea that it’s the people that make the community and that you need one cohesive place or platform for that community to exist just isn’t accurate.
For example, every instance might have it’s own “selfhosted” community. If you search you’ll see a half dozen. Just subscribe to the few busiest like everyone else, and you’ll see all the posts. I guess what I’m saying is that “the community” informally exists across all instances.
The best thing about federation is that you can choose not to follow specific communities if you don’t want to support their content. Like maybe you’re into manga memes but you don’t want to support the lack of moderation on some instances.
I don’t know exactly how it works but piefed has a feature where if a post is a link to a news article then it will list the comment sections for all cross posts under one post. Something like that anyway, I’m not sure exactly how it works, but often when looking at a post for an article you’ll see comments from other posts of the same article.
- Comment on IF NO HEN 4 weeks ago:
Yeah me too. I dig it.