Sternhammer
@Sternhammer@aussie.zone
- Comment on Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 2 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? 2 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? 3 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? 5 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? 7 months 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 ? 7 months 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? 10 months ago:
And yet it often leads to more satisfying narratives.