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- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 6 hours ago:
I don’t mean to be dismissive, but most of what you’ve described is present elsewhere to varying degrees.
Australia seems comparable on all points, although our pension / super system is not great but not terrible.
Our real estate market is shit, with most people priced out of the market over the last decade.
- Comment on 9 hours ago:
Actually marinas like the one pictured or “canal estates” often create environments that become “infested” with pests and predators. Some of which for example contain bull sharks in plague proportions. Yes sharks live in the ocean but anyone living next to a canal teaming with them would conclude that there is an “investation”.
Bull sharks are unique in that they can somehow retain salt from ocean / salt / brackish water which allows them to operate in fresh water. They’re also more aggressive than other species, or perhaps just more likely to grab at movement in murky river water.
I remember watching a documentary suggesting that bull shark attacks might have been the inspiration for the Jaws series, after a spate of attacks in estuaries in the US in the years prior.
Jeremy Wade on River Monsters TV series also had an episode about them.
- Comment on non issue 15 hours ago:
I’ve switched to kagi.
It’s not free, but it’s absolutely the best IMO.
When I search something I don’t see an AI summary. Not sure if I disabled that or not.
- Comment on Americans complaining that someone is "stealing" their jobs while Procter & Gamble is over here turning them into soap 1 day ago:
Guaranteed, the soap is made somewhere in Asia, the bottles are made in mexico, admin accounting and marketing is in south america or south east asia, but there’s a shed somewhere in the US with a machine that pours soap into bottles and screws the top on.
- Comment on Extra Milky 6 days ago:
Actually this is really common.
In areas with unreliable power, powdered milk is much more common. People often do mix it super thick and spread it on bread.
Obviously not a balanced diet but you could do a lot worse for a cheap meal.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 6 days ago:
Quite right.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
Almost certainly misleading, but the underlying truth is that shits fucked
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 1 week ago:
Certainly not always.
I think what that teacher was really getting at is things like electrical standards, phone networks, things like that.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 1 week ago:
I think most western countries could say that about each other.
Yes, there are shitty landlords in Australia. However, I’ve never encountered mould or a landlord that wouldn’t make appropriate repairs.
I’m sure there are shitty landlords in Canada, and every other country.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 1 week ago:
Some 35 years ago my 3rd grade teacher explained to us little Aussie battlers… That through history we have usually had a chance to observe what hasn’t worked in the US and improve our own implementation.
- Comment on What Are These Things Called Again? 1 week ago:
Americananas
- Comment on Overturn Citizens United (and launch billionaires into space) 1 week ago:
We have something like this in Australia. Candidates receive a fixed amount, maybe $2.50, per first preference vote, provided that they achieve more than 4% of all votes.
The 4% requirement avoids creating an incentive for every idiot to register a political party so they can get a few hundred dollars from the Electoral Commission.
The effect is to essentially tie what you proposed into the election itself.
We do still have private donations, but I think they’re somewhat restrictive, and the public funding lessens the benefit of private donations.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 1 week ago:
I don’t mind at all if people think I’m old, I kind of am.
Thing is, fancy new containerised packages have really changed the dynamic here.
I don’t care if gnome is 5 years old. Everything I actually use is up to date.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 1 week ago:
Yeah team bar-soap here.
It’s just soap and when you use it you feel soapy and then you rinse it off and you feel like you’ve used soap.
Anything in a bottle is some concoction of bullshit woo-woo like honey and pomegranate or hibiscus petals and seal fur. As in, it’s more marketing than soap.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
I refuse to believe that there’s a bipedal robot that can make my bed, with out ridiculous specific programming.
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 1 week ago:
This was such a bizarre interaction.
El Sayed seems brilliant at responding to these gotcha questions.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 week ago:
Hmm… No most post apoc fiction is mindful of these issues.
My main concern is that most novels have a token nerdy / accountant type who’s role is to demonstrate how useless our skills are in a post apocalyptic wasteland. That’s me really. An accountant.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 week ago:
A “low population phase” is a nice way to say “post apocalypse”.
I really enjoy this genre of fiction, but I don’t think I would enjoy it IRL.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
The last time this thread came up there were some convincing comments suggesting that the over torque protection for philips was not an intended feature.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Same in Australia.
I think 20 years ago an American would have told you they have the freedom to choose the level of cover they want, starting from none at all.
Now things have deteriorated through collusion or corruption or price fixing or whatever.
They’ve made so much money they have too much influence to do away with them.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
I think there will always be a market for private health services, but governments need to provide a comprehensive and equitable public health system, for free or little cost.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
I hate when things that are obviously inefficient have to be supported just because they exist.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
Letting the guy sit around doing nothing for the last 15 years was the abuse.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
Its not “cold turkey”, because hes had 15 years to work on it. If he hasn’t, then it’s kind of left over Turkey from last weeks thanks giving which has already been re-heated several times.
The best time to kick him out was 15 years ago. The second best time is now.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 weeks ago:
If that’s FOMO then pretty much every decision could be considered FOMO. I decided to put my shoes on this morning because I was worried everyone else wearing shoes would enjoy the advantages there-of and I would miss out.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 weeks ago:
IDK how much parents “modelling” things really helps.
My parents fell for every scheme they encountered their entire lives.
Watching them taught me to be very critical of that kind of thing. I guess they did model what not to do.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 weeks ago:
No, I think with NFTs people were just looking at the bitcoin train they had missed out on, and thought NFTs would be the next big crypto thing.
Mostly they thought it was just the next big thing.
I think this unique. Not really FOMO and certainly not investing.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 weeks ago:
I think you can kind of fork this path:
- blame parents
- realise they did what they thought was best
- still be messed up
- wallow in misery continually making the same mistakes every day
- accept your mediocrity
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
… as will the American people.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 weeks ago:
tsst