Baku
@Baku@aussie.zone
Primarily active on sh.itjust.works. If you need to contact me, best getting in touch there. @Baku@Baku@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚫🍏🕯️🕯️🕯️ Monday, October 7 , 2024 1 month ago:
Probably on the money. But I usually end up feeling like a burden and wish I didn’t say anything about really anything when I re-read most of my comments. I reckon I need to check out for a while
Catch you all on the flipside
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚫🍏🕯️🕯️🕯️ Monday, October 7 , 2024 1 month ago:
Yeah. I felt a bit ashamed tbh
I need to stop these 2am posting sessions. I always end up wishing I hadn’t said anything at all by morning time.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚫🍏🕯️🕯️🕯️ Monday, October 7 , 2024 1 month ago:
Yeah
- Comment on Docklands... hmmmm 1 month ago:
Hey, that’s not fair. They have an abandoned overdosed ferris wheel, and a shopping centre you could hijack the speakers in and play Hey There Delilah on at 2:38pm and get the same vibes as that YouTube video from a few years ago. Wouldn’t even need to wait until 2:30am! And the best part? Literally nobody would even notice
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏘️ Sunday, October 6 , 2024 1 month ago:
Huh
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏘️ Sunday, October 6 , 2024 1 month ago:
I’ve learnt from years gone past, and went to sleep at 1:33. There’s no better way to make me freak out then forgetting DST is happening and getting absorbed into a 20 minute YouTube video at 1:45 intending to sleep as soon as it finishes, and then it being 3:05!
On the plus side though, sunset is 7:30 tonight!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏘️ Sunday, October 6 , 2024 1 month ago:
New pastime: leaving brutally honest feedback when companies spam you with feedback demands. Just rant at them about the unethicalness of their business models, and outline how their entire existence is essentially predicated on exploiting people in crappy circumstances.
They conveniently disappear if you leave your email :)
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
I’m basically done now. The social issues category became a bit of a rabbit hole, but politics and economics are simpler, or at least, simpler to describe
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
Oh! I should have been a bit clearer, this is just a single question. I’d guess most people would answer the entire question in about half the words I’ve used to answer a third of it. Although the question is kind of open-ended, so I certainly wouldn’t get in trouble for being as detailed as I am, it’s more just I didn’t have to
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
You’ve got a good point. I don’t think I’ve waffled on much, just done probably 3-4x what was expected. And I’m feeling a little silly since that doesn’t actually do anything for me, and if I hadn’t, I’d be done by now
I don’t think I want to prune it much, although I’m currently paraphrasing and grammar checking what I’ve written so far, and am removing some stuff for clarity. It might not do anything for me, but it’d be a double wasted effort if I just deleted it all!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
Thanks! That’s a helpful way to reframe it
I’ve actually been pondering future education recently, and came to the conclusion I’d probably like to go for a bachelor’s in a similar field one day. Being able to do better research and essay style writing than what’s required (which honestly just seems like an extension of year 8 english to me) would definitely make it easier!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
where you feel like a dumbass for caring about what you submit!
You hit the nail on the head there I think. If I’d cared a little less, I’d probably be done with this assessment by now, and not be faced with my current predicament where I have about 40 hours left to finish this assessment + the one I haven’t started yet (30 questions)
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
I got the first assessment back yesterday. I passed. I’m still working on the other 2 which were due on Monday (but I got an extension).
Assessment 2 is a simple research report. I’ve done the first 3 questions (12 total), and so far I’ve spent about 4ish hours on the 4th. It’s just now dawning on me that it’s probably mostly wasted effort. There aren’t grades, it’s just a pass/fail, and my trainer isn’t a harsh marker. It doesn’t really matter how much detail I put into it, I’ll pass either way.
But it seems I forgot about that and turned it into an entire essay. It is currently 803 words, when it really doesn’t need to be more than 300-400. And I’m only a third of the way through
Why did I do that
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
Once. After being asked “M or F” for the 70th time in a row, I have up. It’s like the pinnacle of degeneracy
Pretty sure it’s dead now anyways though, replaced by something called ruby chat or diamond talkboard or something stupid like that
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
Thanks jonesy
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛈️🌈🌈 Saturday, October 5 , 2024 1 month ago:
Today is day 300 of learning Spanish
I don’t know whether I’ll continue my streak or not, but it’s pretty cool to do something for 365 days straight. I actually started like 380 days ago, but I’ve used up a few streak freezes which just stop it from breaking but don’t extend it.
I haven’t made much progress and without being able to speak it with anybody irl, it doesn’t seem like it’s actually seeping into my brain. I tried watching shows with foreign language dubs, but it was too difficult to keep up, even when I knew the English dialogue word for word. I can understand about every 5th word in Orange Is The New black though, so I guess that’s something. But it doesn’t help that Spanish speakers talk at approximately 720,593 words per minute
I haven’t had a whole lot of motivation to continue and keep pushing on since about day 200, but I wanted to hit 365 days. My previous longest streak was like 19 days or something like that, so #winning I guess
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🥃 🌶️🥃🌶️ Wednesday, October 2 , 2024 1 month ago:
I’m loving these longer, warmer days. I can already feel the SADs melting away
My mental health had been absolutely fucked the last few months, but even generally, I tend to end up in little depression episodes during winter time, with the short and wet days and constant grey skies
- Comment on Teenage boy allegedly stabbed to death in front of lunchtime crowd at Melbourne shopping centre 1 month ago:
Negative, it is poor journalistic practice.
- Comment on Are $1 coffees still around 1 month ago:
Oh yes, I did see that. Bit of a cheeky deal (on maccas) part imo, since large coffees were going for a buck a few months ago
- Submitted 1 month ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍲 Tuesday, October 1 , 2024 1 month ago:
Damn gibsy, you’re starting to sound like a bit of an artifact!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 🎶🐈⬛ Monday, September 30, 2024 1 month ago:
Finally booked in an assessment to get the wisdoms out. I have an initial consultation + targetted x-ray in a couple of weeks, then they’ll figure out whether it’s going to be a complex removal or fairly straightforward, and since my preference is full general anaesthetic, work out all of that fun stuff.
This clinic is expensive, but their staff seem actually friendly. The dentist I go to for general stuff is low cost, but that comes at the expense of friendliness and general clinic maintenance. The whole building looks dingey, they can’t seem to afford to fix their lightbulbs, and everybody that works there seems like they’re constantly having the worst day ever and often take it out on whoever dares make an appointment. Considering how expensive dentists are, it’s good that they exist, but super depressing that they’re in such a state of shambles. That’s the state of the healthcare system, I guess
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 🎶🐈⬛ Monday, September 30, 2024 1 month ago:
Ha! I wish. I actually don’t even have the key for one of the gates, they keyed 2 of the gates to the same key, then put a different lock on the gate between the front and back yards, and never even gave me a key to it 🙄
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 🎶🐈⬛ Monday, September 30, 2024 1 month ago:
Meh, they’re getting paid a pretty substantial amount of money to do a poor quality job. The least they can do is leave the place in a respectable state. It’s not that difficult.
- Submitted 1 month ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 🎶🐈⬛ Monday, September 30, 2024 1 month ago:
This was back before I got into the gardening, when it was just the old LT working on it. He was reeeeeaaaaalllllly pissed, and I can’t blame him. It was my little patch of strawberries that they poisoned though, but I’m not super mad about that because they were just cuttings from a larger patch that’s in a raised planter box. If they poisoned that though, I’d be about ready to throw hands
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 🎶🐈⬛ Monday, September 30, 2024 1 month ago:
I forgot to ask you guys on the 21st if you remembered
I do that every year (except the years I forget, which is most of them)
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 🎶🐈⬛ Monday, September 30, 2024 1 month ago:
I don’t know how rude mowing at 7am on a Monday morning (in school holidays) is, but today it’s my house doing the mowing.
Don’t blame me, they sent some drongo gardener around who apparently has a key to my gates I guess, and he was banging on my door at 7:10 while I was in the shower. Needless to say, he was ignored
NB: they call themselves gardeners, but they really aren’t. The department hires lawn mowers for all the properties, including ours. They do an awful job and never take their clippings with them (or even put it in the compost bin, like we’d asked multiple times). They basically just come to mow the lawns poorly and then spray poison on anything that looks green. Not a hyperbole. So far, they’ve sprayed a capsicum tree, a watermelon seedling, a patch of strawberries, and a zucchini bush. They were all in the garden beds, with only a few weeds in there (nowhere near anything that was growing).
- Dozens dead and millions still without power after Helene's deadly march across south-eastern USwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Optus should be forced to pay in the event of another outage, a Senate committee has foundwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 month ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
