AllNewTypeFace
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
- Comment on How do stunt people fall down stairs without hurting themselves? 6 days ago:
In the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, there was a video in which James Bond takes the Queen skydiving. The Queen’s stunt double in the skydive scene was a bloke with a beard (which was invisible from the distance it was shot at)
- Comment on Victoria's free public transport continues in May with half-price fares to follow 3 weeks ago:
That money would be better spent improving service frequency and reliability to the point where one who has the option of driving would consider catching public transport. Also, electrifying outer-suburban rail services currently run by overloaded V/Line trains would achieve this and cut the fuel bill, freeing up money for future improvements. Though if we don’t expect cheap oil to return, we should be thinking of electrifying frequent country services as well.
- Comment on Hastie’s break with neoliberalism puts business on notice 4 weeks ago:
Padme Amidala: “For social democracy, right …?”
- Comment on Free train rides: V/Line trains hitting capacity 5 weeks ago:
Just making public transport free without increasing funding for it will only turn it into a soup-kitchen service that only those with no other options will use. The well-heeled bourgeoisie will stay in their cars; they have podcasts to listen to and cruise control to crawl through traffic jams for them, and anybody who regards strangers’ body heat and odours as anything other than a celebration of common humanity will avoid it as much as they can. If they can’t, then once fuel prices drop, they’re out of there and not going back, instead talking about the dark days of packed trains in the way that refugees talk about regimes they fled.
- Comment on I worry that reading through Marxist books would be boring. Are there any fun and exciting ways to study without losing focus or getting bored quickly? 5 weeks ago:
Mark Fisher’s KPunk blog/Capitalist Realism. That and/or play Disco Elysium.
- Comment on I need support sometimes 5 weeks ago:
For some people, their burger is the closest thing they’ll get to an emotional support animal.
- Comment on Spiders 5 weeks ago:
Don’t think Australia has announced its new spiders for this year yet
- Comment on Do YOU consider Kanji difficult? 5 weeks ago:
The lack of phonetic information is a challenge. If you see an unfamiliar English word, you can guess the pronunciation, and usually be pretty close (sometimes you’ll get a phoneme wrong or stress the wrong syllable, but listeners will be able to infer what you meant). With kanji, as well as not knowing what it means, you have no information of how it’s pronounced. It is theoretically possible for kanji to exist which not only lack meaning but also have no pronunciation, and indeed, there are about a dozen meaningless, soundless “[ghost kanji]”(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_characters) that ended up in Unicode due to bureaucratic errors at the Japanese standards agency.
- Comment on Why are steam games a rip off in EUR or GBP? 5 weeks ago:
If you ever visited Japan and have an old Suica/Pasmo card lying around, I wonder if there’s a way of transferring money to it and using it for online payments.
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 1 month ago:
Or you just revealed the porcine equivalent of Lovecraftian cosmic horror to it.
- Comment on it's literally zero 1 month ago:
This doesn’t necessarily hold in the fediverse
- Comment on [Discussion] What level of proportional representation is desirable? 1 month ago:
True; we’d get some Labor/Greens seats in inner-city areas, some conservative areas where the Coalition split it among themselves, some Tory/cooker seats elsewhere, and possibly other combinations. It may force the big parties to the centre to harvest the vote of those who don’t think that the Greens or One Nation represent them.
The Australian system currently has unusually many constituents per MP, so I’d double the number of MPs.
- Comment on [Discussion] What level of proportional representation is desirable? 1 month ago:
One change that could be good would be having two members per electorate rather than one; that would allow voters who were not in the majority to feel represented. Though that would work better in a system with more than two parties, so that you don’t have a stalemate with an equal number of centre-left and centre-right MPs.
- Comment on Weekend at Bibi's 1 month ago:
It’s tempting to wish that the Iranians succeeded in assassinating him, though we know that if they did, he’d be instantly beatified into a global centrist Charlie Kirk: a statesman of peace and liberalism ruthlessly murdered by evil terrorist fanatics. There’d be statues of him alongside Mandela and Gandhi, Berlin would rename one of its central squares to Netanjahuplatz, and the next year’s Oscars would be swept by the biopic Bibi. The gaslighting would be incessant.
- Comment on Now maybe I'm delusional. But I got myself one of these in hopes of performing to standing room only audiences 1 month ago:
Apparently they were popular in the Middle Ages
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 1 month ago:
Slightly disappointing none of them has feet instead of hands or some similar artefact.
- Comment on Bird leaf 1 month ago:
The difference been erotic and kinky is that kinky is using the whole chicken
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
OK, by now we get that you’re rampantly horny, but besides that, what’s your damage? Just the standard ADHD/autism, or borderline/dissociative or something extra spicy?
- Comment on One Nation now wrenching votes from Labor as it overtakes Coalition 1 month ago:
I thought the Coalition switched to Matt Coalvan not this Taylor guy
- Comment on Worm doll I sleep with 1 month ago:
goblincore
- Comment on Woman banned from keeping animals after trapping 23 cats in wheelie bin - eight of which crushed and suffocated | LBC 1 month ago:
In ancient Egypt, she would have been put to death. Perhaps they had a point?
- Comment on UK Police demand mandatory parts pairing to cover up their own incompetence 1 month ago:
A policeman’s job is only easy in a police state
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 1 month ago:
There are apparently T-shirts which read “don’t shoot, I’m Canadian” in a number of languages (Arabic, Russian and Spanish, I think)
- Comment on Rude 1 month ago:
Some day, someone will teach a goose to play the bagpipes.
- Comment on Real Ad from the 70's with Reddy Kilowatt 1 month ago:
Safety ads in the 70s went hard. Nobody worried that kids might be traumatised, and some probably were
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you ever see a dog performing tricks, you know he was a very gay dude in his previous life
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Don’t love sex too much though or you might become a poor dog or cockroach in your next life.
- Comment on waooooo 1 month ago:
Presumably it started as chemistry done badly, and did come up with some discoveries, but as the scientific method got refined and principles were uncovered that didn’t correlate to celestial bodies or folklore, it diverged from the practical and became metaphorical. A bit like Freemasonry starting with stonemasons’ guilds and then gentrifying.
- Comment on Revealed: Shop where Glasgow fire started had not registered to sell vapes or paid business taxes 1 month ago:
Presumably by the time the company tax deadline passed, the company would have gone bankrupt, and been replaced by an identical newly-registered company with the old company’s owner’s cousin as managing director, selling the same stock of vapes/American candy/counterfeit labobos without a day’s downtime.
- Comment on War. War never changes. 1 month ago:
That’s not how you draw a Hitler moustache
