joelfromaus
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone
- Comment on frfr 4 days ago:
That’s bussin 💯💯
- Comment on Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it 5 days ago:
I’ve seen how the public system can work when it’s working well and I’ve read plenty of terrifying stories from USA from both “successful” and failed private health visits to know that our public system is a treasure that we should try our damndest to protect.
It’s part of why I’ve copped the Medicare charge instead of getting private health when I turned 30. I would rather pay a little more for a decent health system than pay a lot more for a shit one.
- Comment on Greens announce plan to wipe HECS debts and make university free 6 days ago:
But then how would the established aristocracy elevate themselves above the common rabble to justify a company position that already has their name on it thanks to nepotism? Surely those poor nepobabies won’t have to compete with The Poors in the future! How unjust!
- Comment on Yes, very much 1 week ago:
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- Submitted 4 weeks ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Anon has a back injury 4 weeks ago:
So you’re saying I’d need to remove 4-5 ribs?
- Comment on Infinity 1 month ago:
It’s how new Lemmings are born.
- Comment on Anon meets a good man 2 months ago:
Reading ops comment was an experience to be sure.
- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 2 months ago:
Centipedussy.
- Comment on PM calls for Barnaby Joyce to be sacked for telling voters to use votes as 'bullets' 3 months ago:
“I am not sure what Barnaby Joyce has to do to lose his job,” Mr Albanese told ABC’s Afternoon Briefing.
Oath. Some of these clowns somehow manage to retain their positions unbelievably.
- Comment on PVKK from the Dome Keeper devs is Papers Please but you get a huge planetary defence cannon 4 months ago:
Looks like an interesting game. Definitely added it to my Wishlist so I don’t forget that title!
- Comment on Captain's call or press conference slip-up? Dutton's 2030 climate target U-turn surprised even his colleagues 5 months ago:
He reminds voters of Anthony Albanese’s promised $275 reduction in power bills, which is yet to be delivered: “How much higher will your electricity prices go under this prime minister?”
I don’t remember prices ever being cheaper under the coalition and I doubt spending billions on nuclear power would bring them down. Not to mention those plants would probably get on-sold to one of Duttons mates for pennies and then rape the energy market for profits.
All this to say: I’m glad I invested in home solar years ago and I’m glad I could finally afford a home battery. I’m just sorry for people who cannot afford or who are unable to do so.
- Comment on Anon gets a nickname 5 months ago:
I once worked with a guy called Nobby. One day I asked him: “why do people call you Nobby?” His last name is Cockshell. Cockshell > cock > nob > Nobby. Checks out.
- Comment on AZ Maintenance 5 months ago:
Champion! Thanks for your hard work.
- Comment on A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S. 5 months ago:
Unfortunately, yes. iPhones will check passively and Android phones can get an app but you have to check actively. Hopefully Apple and Google work on a solution for active detection on Android devices.
- Comment on A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S. 5 months ago:
…placing at least seven AirTags on his ex-wife’s car to surveil her.
Assuming the tags weren’t checking in with an owning device (iPhone) that car would’ve been beeping up a storm.
I recently lent a set of work keys to a colleague that I forgot had an AirTag on them, in their words: “fucking things beeped all weekend and my phone kept telling me I’m being followed!”
- Comment on OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity 5 months ago:
How did he calculate the 70% chance?
Maybe they asked ChatGPT?
- Comment on Edison 5 months ago:
I usually get people with: “Anons Morgue: you kill ‘em, we chill ‘em.”
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 6 months ago:
Signed! We need reform on how aging games are handled to protect ownership of paid products and the only way publishers will do that is if they’re forced to.
- Comment on Nerd Update 20/4/24 6 months ago:
“Get out ‘o me swap!”
- Comment on banaynay 6 months ago:
Big banachode.
- Submitted 6 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later? 6 months ago:
All of the lemmy.world communities I follow are showing weird imo. All the posts still appear on my feed but with a single upvote and no comments.
It’s a bit of a shame because a lot of the more active communities I’m subscribed to are lemmy.world ones so it’s not as easy as finding alternatives.
- Comment on rejuvination 7 months ago:
Drums. Drums in the deep. They are coming.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 7 months ago:
Factorio. I love the gameplay but none of my friends play it so I normally play other games with them and come back to Factorio every now and then.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 7 months ago:
Don’t forget Steam Link! It’s one of my favourite features. You’re not even really tethered to any particular device to play your games since so many devices support the app. I play games that are single-player “console” style games in my lounge room for comfort and Steam Link means I can use my very good PC instead of buying into yet another console generation.
- Comment on Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood 8 months ago:
Bring in Universal Basic Income. Introduce emotion tracking as job KPI. Fire me because I don’t emote per LLM datasets. Live comfortably unemployed.
Best dystopian outcome. A guy can dream, right?
- Comment on If Skull and Bones came out and was a 10/10 what would your user review look like? 10 months ago:
Before I go into this I want to preface that I love Sea of Thieves (SoT) and it is almost definitely my most played game.
It’s funny that SoT is a culmination of pretty much all of the worst parts of gaming business culture lately and is still a great game. It’s a game as a service, has a cosmetic micro transaction store, premium currency, predatory micro transactions (change character appearance or ship name), released with bare bones features and constantly introducing bugs with every update. And yet it’s also one of the biggest success stories using all of those components. It wasn’t abandoned like some games as a service cash-grabs, the game has quadrupled in features and content, the cosmetics are (mostly) kept well on-brand for the universe and the team regularly communicates regarding both success and failures.
With all of that in mind; ever since I started playing SoT (a week after release RIP Day 1 eye patch) I’ve had a few mates, who’ve never played SoT, tell me it’s a shit game and that Skull and Bones will be a much better game in a
monthyearwhen it comes out.I’m always excited to see good games produced even when I’m not intending to play them but Skull and Bones certainly seems like it’ll be another cookie cutter POS game shat out to claim tax on the loss and shut down some time after. Thank goodness we have at least one good pirate game that’s still going strong.
- Comment on Deep Rock Galactic: November Maintenance Update 11 months ago:
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!! ⛏️⛏️⛏️
- Comment on Xbox consoles getting full-screen ad 1 year ago:
“Thanks for buying our console, here’s an advertisement!”
