WaterWaiver
@WaterWaiver@aussie.zone
I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It’s not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.
Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.
- Comment on Woman arrested with python down her pants at Melbourne train station 5 weeks ago:
Stand back, I’m carrying a budgie smuggler.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Welcome to security theatre :(
- Comment on Found a small cave under my house 1 month ago:
Thankyou, you have made my mum’s day :)
- Comment on Found a small cave under my house 1 month ago:
Question from my mum: “Does he do the sump pump drain before he does his nasal cavity?”
- Comment on Found a small cave under my house 1 month ago:
Ooh, what type?
- Comment on Found a small cave under my house 1 month ago:
Mixture, but in this spot loose sandy fill. Sandstone area.
- Submitted 1 month ago to pics@aussie.zone | 16 comments
- Comment on I think they're putting us in the matrix 1 month ago:
Damn. My goal is the exact opposite. Make a building that a landlord can’t ruin :D
I was mainly thinking copper pipes (water, gas) and drains (PVC) which are all outdoor rated and could be designed for cheaper/easier servicing on the outside if done right (eg with skeleton stairs access).
Aircon I’m not so sure. The ducting is often steel (rusts) and the insulation can go bad if rain gets in it, requiring lots of replacement of big, heavy ducts. For this I might instead build-in some air channels into the building’s structure and contemplate condensationproof methods of lining them. Dunno. Either that or force everyone to use split systems >:D so they can get it fixed themselves when something goes wrong.
The glasshouse bit I mentioned sounds grand, but the install costs would be immense and the ongoing cleaning costs yet another disaster. Giant mesh shade sails might be a wiser option.
- Comment on I think they're putting us in the matrix 1 month ago:
This is beautiful, thankyou. I now have to draw some house plans.
I’ve always thought that a few-story set of apartments could have a greenhoused vertical section out back full of plumbing, services and extra exit stairs, but I worried about the potential for trapped smells and gases. Now I realise I could put the services on the outside of this and split things further.
- Comment on Know your woomba levels 2 months ago:
Doh. Got it now.
- Comment on Know your woomba levels 2 months ago:
You had me excited that there was another 'gong I hadn’t heard about, but I can’t find Cottongong on a map. I am getting wooshed?
- Comment on Know your woomba levels 2 months ago:
gets off train after long trip “Oh no, I’m in the Wrong Gong!”
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 2 months ago:
It looks identical to me. Same size before clicking, same size after right clicking -> Open image in new tab.
- Comment on A couple of community requests 3 months ago:
Chux Baku, I didn’t think I was doing much :)
AusTransport sounds nice. But what happens to the old communities, to avoid people using those? I don’t know if it’s possible to lock them and leave a notice, or unlist them somehow?
- Comment on Tree in a chimney 3 months ago:
Not a creeping fig, I sleep.
I love seeing trees in commercial rooves. All the joy and less guilt at not telling someone about it >:D
- Comment on Woolworths says workers still blocked from returning to Melbourne distribution centre 4 months ago:
!?!?! Aussie.zone says this was posted “12 hours ago”, how did I miss this major development all day?
Oh. -_-
Would it be possible to edit this article to point to the archive.org link, then create a new post for the new news? Not sure if you want to at this point, you’re probably sick of this roundabout. Thankyou for sharing it all.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 5 months ago:
It’s a gorgeous game experience. Not to mention they put so many other gamedevs to shame with their technical accomplishments (especially in the expansion – flooding waves in a ringworld!).
Don’t look up spoilers. Get yourself a copy and play it. Find somewhere to land :)
- Comment on Timeout errors in last few days 5 months ago:
Ditto three. Pages hanging too.
Lots of gastro cases in NSW the last few weeks, maybe server has it too. Make sure to take plenty of fluids.
- Comment on A Queensland student loses case alleging school's uniform policy was discriminatory against females 5 months ago:
Girls can’t wear pants… is this the 1950’s? Absolutely awful
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 6 months ago:
Atomic wafers made by the techo-church-state? Or have I got this back to front and this is how the non-technical society irradiates its children?
- Comment on Father diagnosed with dementia 6 months ago:
All dementia is different and difficult in different ways.
Both my grandmothers have been in full time care of my parents until recently. One with strong dementia and depression, the other mild dementia but argumentative. It was very stressful for my folks, particularly with one being a nightly wanderer and fall risk.
Government support packages were hard to navigate but they did get some at home assistance. We had a really nice carer come in a few days per week to help with showers and a little bit of cleaning, but the company behind them was awful to deal with and would try to reschedule or cancel all of the time. Definitely still worth it though.
Getting carers allowance (money/week) took a lot of paperwork. It was not much money, but it was something.
Now my parents only care for one of my grandmothers and only for half of the week (family is now taking her for the rest). This is still difficult but much more manageable.
My other grandmother is now in a nursing home. This was really hard for everyone, both emotionally (family saw nursing homes as places you go to die) and practically (first nursing home run by the Salvation Army was neglectful; hospitalised after 4 days). It’s working out much better now, my grandmother seems to be going OK (on average, the dementia and depression are intermittent) and the family is coping better with just occasional visits rather than 24/7 care. x
If your loved one lives alone: get a doctor’s advice and get them assessed. There are support services for them that can come in and help them occasionally.
If you are taking care of them full time: the government offers a few weeks of “respite” every year. This is essentially temporary nursing home stays, fully paid for. The idea is that you are a better carer if you take breaks; and this also lets you see how they respond to a nursing home without committing.
For nursing homes: visit them and try them out first with respite. They vary a LOT in terms of what they can cope with and what their staff are like.
- Comment on Media companies need [the revenue from] gaming ads, government minister argues 8 months ago:
Are these companies worth the suffering of vulnerable gamblers?
- Comment on Anon feels good 8 months ago:
Oof, that sounds horrible. Hope you’re doing better now.
(Serves you right for rubbing your glands on other peoples glands! No more neck hugs allowed.)
- Comment on Family rave day. 9 months ago:
Thankyou, didn’t have a clue.
- Comment on Family rave day. 9 months ago:
No idea, but it gives me this energy:
- Comment on The UK's second-biggest city is so broke they can no longer keep the lights on 9 months ago:
No no no, that just reflects the nature of the difficult market of problems that Oracle is trying to solve. Just because they choose to solve difficult problems for people shouldn’t mean they get punished. 🪂
- Comment on The UK's second-biggest city is so broke they can no longer keep the lights on 9 months ago:
This council also got suckered in by Oracle
computerweekly.com/…/Birmingham-City-Councils-Ora…
Do not EVER engage Oracle with a business deal. They are the epitome of “it will cost a lot more than you budget for”, that’s their speciality. You can try and blame customisation scope or wrong support people, but even if you got those right they’d find some other way of milking you.
- Comment on Lemmy 0.19.4 10 months ago:
I have some uploaded image problems.
(1) The Lost Powers of Childhood is missing an inline image upload on the first post (“Bonus: in this…”). I think this might have occurred before the upgrade, I recall having to look for it a week ago, but I’m not sure.
(2) The new Profile -> Uploads page has lots of odd gaps:
It’s not showing some images I’ve uploaded, eg this MSY catalog screenshot isn’t listed there.
- Comment on AZ Maintenance 10 months ago:
Home made biccies > timtams anyday
- Comment on AZ Maintenance 10 months ago:
This is an inexcusable breach of the SLA. Lodion must be offered free Timtams as recompense.
