Sternhammer

@Sternhammer@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To each his own, of course, but coy swearing is still swearing.

  Actually I do sympathise. I swear too much (but not more than the average Aussie) and wish I could train myself to use some other intensifiers in my language but most of them lack intensity. By Jove! My word! Sweet zombie Jesus! Drokk!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Riddick: Furya" Has Begun Production⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Riddick’s first name is ‘Richard’? Dick Riddick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by their ships, they have gravity generators which are small enough and have a small enough ratio of energy consumption to energy generation to be used in something like the Millenium Falcon.

  Indeed and it’s quite clear that the Falcon has two gravity planes perpendicular to each other: 1. the plane that supports everyone on the main deck (cockpit, crew lounge, etc.) and 2. the gun battery gravity plane at 90 degrees. This is easiest to see in A New Hope during the TIE Fighter battle in the escape from the Death Star. Han and Luke are sitting back-to-back, separated by a short corridor that sits perpendicular to the main deck. I don’t think most people notice this because it’s not obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is everyone so depressed now partially because modern science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an insightful observation.
  I was raised Catholic as well, stopped going to Mass when I left home in my early 20s, and just never missed it. As a child I think I believed but as an adult religious belief seems completely unnecessary.
  My son, who was raised an atheist, is now deeply religious—he’s a Benedictine monk (no, we didn’t see that coming!)—but even when visiting him religion seems like a lot of nonsense to me. (He’s happy and we accept his choice despite not sharing his beliefs.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. Apple always gets criticised for the 30% ‘Apple Tax’ but the console manufacturers get a free pass for the same thing. Bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨animals you need to know⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Easter Billy thing may have been a fund raiser for the Save the Bilby Fund, though I’m not sure. Did some work with them in Charleville some time back, as part of a student field trip looking at design concepts for what eventually became the Bilby Experience. Great people.

  From what I can remember they’ve had good success in rebuilding the bilby population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bondi Junction attacker's interactions with Queensland Police 'forensically' examined amid debate over stop-and-search laws⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I’ve carried a Swiss Army Life pretty much every day of my adult life and I can’t remember ever stabbing anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's inside the London Tower Bridge?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tower Bridge has its own website which has articles about what’s inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Re: dickie for car boot (what Americans would call the ‘trunk’); some old two-seater cars had a third seat in the boot, known as a ‘dickie-seat’, at least in the UK, so perhaps it’s an old term that still survives in Indian English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a coffee drinker but my partner is. She says she had two decent cups of coffee in Italy (two weeks in Rome, Bolzano, and Venice) but every day in Australia she has better. Australians are complete coffee snobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, your just use your increased intellect to get other people to push the button for themselves, increasing the pool of intelligent potential friends available to you.

  Actually this reminds me of a story I read last year where two people are in a race to massively increase their intelligence. Neither can tolerate the potential threat the existence of another hyper-intelligent person holds so it’s a struggle to the death. If I remember correctly they gain there ability to effectively read people’s minds by reading body language, micro expressions, etc., develop new systems of logic and hyper-efficient language to think in and have an entirely mental showdown at the end.

  Unfortunately I’m too stupid to remember the title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said.

  I’d also point out that dehumanising a subgroup is a powerful technique used to manipulate people. Tell people who to hate and you can get them to go along with anything while they’re focused on the scapegoats. Popular scapegoats include:

  • immigrants (taking our jobs while, paradoxically, being a welfare burden)
  • religious groups (Jews, Muslims, etc.)
  • welfare recipients (dole bludgers, a burden on society)
  • criminals (war on drugs, tough on crime)

  Any time someone is demonising a group theres a good chance they’re just trying to manipulate you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet it often leads to more satisfying narratives.