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- Comment on - IBM, 1985 2 days ago:
s/machine/rich person/g
- Comment on Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"? 1 week ago:
I’d get told off for saying “homeless person” instead of “person experiencing homelessness” and just feel confused because I both terms conveying the exact same thing, but the politically correct term just feeling clumsy.
Like, I have heard a lot of slurs for the homeless, and I don’t think “homeless person” wouldn’t even rank.
But I do like the idea of a “comfortable” space where neutral langauge is accepted. I hate euphemisms, and I’m irked by people who use them.
- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 1 week ago:
Even in Guns Akimbo, it’s Harry Potter. It must suck when the role is bigger than your name.
- Comment on Hissssss 1 week ago:
Do Americans think each country has their own way of mesuring things?
- Comment on Unsure if it's just lemmy.world or all of Lemmy, but I'm suddenly getting "error" messages everywhere 1 week ago:
It’s absolutely cooked. It’s been getting worse over the last day.
- Comment on MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style 2 weeks ago:
It reads like the LLM got to the middle and forgot what was at the start.
- Comment on Rail passengers get automatic right to switch operators for free when trains are cancelled 2 weeks ago:
My train got canned last year when a jumper disrupted the services. The replacement train was already packed, but I used my common sense and found a spare seat in first class.
- Comment on Coalition plan to hit 'gangs where it hurts' would slash tobacco tax and legalise vapes 3 weeks ago:
It won’t make them cheaper. The legit darts would be priced above the current cost of bootleg durries. The price would be low enough to not be worth pedaling dodgy fags.
End result: higher price.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 4 weeks ago:
Consistency. You can take 3 readings in a row with that stick and get 3 wildly different results. I have a $20 digital one from decades ago that gives me the same reading withing 5kPa on each try.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 4 weeks ago:
I tick most of these boxes and still have a rotary landline phone in service.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 4 weeks ago:
I have one of those in my glovebox. I think I bought it in 2003. My 2003 manual jap econobox has no need for TPMS. If a tyre is 30kPa too low, you can feel it.
- Comment on Suburban Rail Loop to find $2b in savings through station changes 5 weeks ago:
So, we won’t be able to transfer between the platforms at Box Hill station without going for a hike?
It sounds as bad as the bus terminal.
- Comment on Pauline Hanson vows to slash cigarette prices by nearly $30 a pack 5 weeks ago:
Remember - you’re not voting for the party leader alone.
Hell, you’re not even voting for the party as a whole.
You’re voting for the party’s donors. In this case, it’s big tobacco who want their cut.
- Comment on What It's Sometimes Like Posting A Meme On Lemmy 1 month ago:
On a Venn diagram, there’s quite an overlap between autism and trains.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 month ago:
I always had the feeling that they were 56% bigger when I was a kid.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 month ago:
As a general rule, everything in the US is measured or notated differently to the rest of the world. Lengths, and weights, food energy, dates, fuel octane, fuel economy, blood glucose. Hell, you guys can’t even do shelf price tags the same.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 month ago:
If you dig through archive.org and retireve the nutritional information PDFs over time, you can see the kj levels dropping.
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 1 month ago:
If you’re on a scrollwheel, you’re rolling a wheel down the page, and the viewport moves and the page stays still.
Sliding the scrollbar does the same. It moves the viewport.
On a touchscreen, you’re pulling the page directly. The page moves and the viewport stays still.
A trackpad? I like to think that it’s sliding the scrollbar, not the document.
- Comment on AusAlert emergency warning test: What you need to know and how to prepare 2 months ago:
You can pull the message up again, but it’s buried pretty deep in the settings.
- Comment on AusAlert emergency warning test: What you need to know and how to prepare 2 months ago:
It fired! Even one phone without a wifi connection either.
- Comment on AusAlert emergency warning test: What you need to know and how to prepare 2 months ago:
I’m going to boot a phone with no SIM. I’m curious if it will still get it in “SOS calls only” mode.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what Nintendo were meant to do. They probably shipped less units because of pricing. It would be impossible to actually hand that cash back to customers.
The refund just means that the consumer paid for it once, then the taxpayer paid for it again. Yes, they are the same people.
- Comment on Horse Drawn from Memory 2 months ago:
Worst. Crop. Ever.
- Comment on Pauline Hanson laments end of White Australia policy and talks up daughter’s leadership potential 2 months ago:
As usual, it sounds like something Trump would do.
- Comment on Telstra ignored warnings about equipment issue ahead of national outage, inquiry hears 2 months ago:
I bet their “maintenance” was replacing a CR2032 RTC backup battery or something.
Idiots.
- Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy 2 months ago:
Direct government funding works. We have it for the BBC’s cousin, the ABC, in Australia.
It’s somewhat contractual that the ABC’s content is independent, impartial and bipartisan.
The only problem with government funding is when the government cuts the funding for actually exercising independence, impartiality and bipartisanship.
- Comment on How many people have driven right into that wall 2 months ago:
It’s Glasgow. You get hit by a car if you don’t put a traffic cone on your head.
- Comment on Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious 2 months ago:
The big blocker now is needing 500 members.
Just this week, I had to reenrol as a member of a party that only exists because all the small single-issue parties had to merge to make it on the ballot.
I’m busy, and I contribute almost nothing. But I make sure to stay signed so we continue to meet the bar.
- Comment on Plenty! 💪🏼 2 months ago:
LOL I actually have experience using this to write integration tests.
- Comment on One Nation overtakes Labor, Liberals in Victoria; Allan’s rating dives 2 months ago:
It’s kinda scary how quickly this party got off the ground. Pauline has been out networking with the mining giants, the NRA, MAGA republicans and the Epstein oligarchy. If she gets in, then these groups will wholly influence government policy.
Do people not realise, or not care?
