Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday, 5 February 2025
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Curlcumbers and a tomato.
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Yeah they can keep their raise.
@TinyBreak@aussie.zone was right.
Just finished a meeting with the new manager. I'll pass.
Have 2 more final stage interviews this week then I'll pick the best offer.
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well. Shit. So a poor offer? or they just really dont care?
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No offer till Friday. I'm not interested. Today was an utter shit show.
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Bail refused for the bird graffiti artist, but somehow is granted to violent offenders in some cases.
Am I missing some legal nuances here?
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Bail refused for the ram raider and assaulter of transit employees who also happens to do bird graffiti. Still an FU to DV victims, but the whole system is a bit of an FU to DV victims.
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Maybe, with the violent offenders I can think of the underage ones and they always get bail no matter what they’ve done, even when it resulted in a fatality like the car accident a few months ago.
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It does seem really strange, considering what other people get bail for
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I really feel like this past year I've been feeling the heat a lot more. It's not meant to be nearly as hot today as the last three but I'm still feeling it. Maybe I also need to drink more water... might have to do with the ADHD medication too...
Made very very minor progress on uni stuff but brain has otherwise shut down after poor sleep last night. I have developed a bit of a nasty attitude to this project, sadly. It's now just this awful traumatic thing I need to get out of the way. Not how I intended to finish this degree but w/e.
Should be ready to finally get a belated start on my uni fieldwork tomorrow at least. Even half a day is better than nothing!
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Study is hard, especially when life happens and then you lose your mojo. Be kind to yourself, you will get there!
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ADHD meds tend to do that (they also increase my baseline levels of anxiety 😅). It's like you keep drinking water but it feels like it's never enough. Hope things pick up soon for you <3
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Another account manager quit.
And then there were 2....
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Wow.
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Ate some toast for breakfast and only after noticed some blue mould specks on the remaining loaf. It’s been nice knowing ya all. Pray for my guts to survive the day.
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You'll be fine.
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Assuming no penicillin allergy, in which case you can have a delightful rash
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losing weight takes so long 😫 I expect I have to do at least another 6 months of this meal replacement diet
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You'll get there! It's boring at times but worth it for how you feel about yourself.🫂
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I've gone down one clothing size in 3 months, which is not bad, just got so much to go still
so in a way it's already good, I'm getting new clothes and have a wider choice now
at the same time I'm not so young anymore but fuckin' hell, I just can't believe what other women my age wear, those giant abstract shirts or lurid prints.
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Well done on your progress so far! Do you mind if I ask how many meals per day you’re replacing, and is it with shakes? I need to shed a more than a few kgs and am struggling to get motivated
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I'm just doing the dinner. My breakfast and lunch is already pretty minimal. I've reduced snacks and replacing bad foods with better foods.
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I have a new dinner bowl / plate and used it to make nachos and have grossly underestimated the amount of nachos it can hold.....it will be a race against time to finish this code review before I slide into a sweet sweet cheese coma
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I wondered if you could reheat nachos the next day… surprisingly the answer is yes? Microwaving could make them soggy but the internet says ovens or air fryers do well
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Good to know. But I can't try it because I ate them all like a big guts. At least I don't need dinner now
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Taking the rest of the week off because I can. Also have 2 interviews this week AND another manager asked me backfill a role in his team (higher pay) for the next few months AND urged me to apply.
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Last night my aunty who is the executor of the Will of my grandma messages me to try to influence me into making my other family members hurry up with reviewing financial documents so that the will could be executed and distributed to everyone.
She tried to influence me by telling me that she was going overseas which would see the delay of the will and also was telling me how much interest I would be missing out on because everything was sitting in a trust fund.
She ends the message with "Please settle asap".
I was trying to stay out of all of the family politics but even I'm suss about the financial documents not being up to scratch but overall I've taken a neutral stance and choose not to be involved to help my stress.
For all the complaining and being the poor victim that my Aunty says she is, she's trying to also drag me into the conflict.
I really hate that.
Anyway I left a message telling her it's not up to me and that I'm not in contact with the other members of the family but I really thought about not responding or telling her not to drag me into the conflict as I've made it quite clear I didn't want the stress of it.
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Let today be fairly easy please!
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Seconded!
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I'm going to the beach, nothing fancy, just Seaholme.
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Tomorrow as per the BoM:
'Winds northwest to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h tending southeast to southwesterly'.
They should really condense that and just say 'yes wind'.
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Wind ✔️
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Unfurl the headsail and raise the Blue Peter !
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Three sheets to the wind!
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I did not have Trump commandeering Gaza,
kicking out all the Palestiniansstraight up demanding ethnic cleansing, and then proposing a property development to turn it into a ‘middle eastern riviera’ on my Trump bingo card. I don’t know how my mental health is gonna survive the next four years. I think I need to switch off the news. If ww3 breaks out can someone let me know, so I can go out and stock up on toilet paper. Ta.-
Can do. WW3 is not going to happen for some months imo. And when it does it will be in the northern hemisphere. Probably centered on Greenland. Toilet paper supplies should be fine for now.
In fact, Oz might just have lucked out AGAIN. China's demand for iron/steel will probably drop to zero soon, but re-building Ukraine will pick up the slack and we'll just sail through the next cataclysm pretty much untouched. All this is subject to further information coming to hand of course. I would worry if I was male and of military draft age. Particularly if potatohead comes to power, cos I don't think he can resist the temptation to play little tin soldiers.
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It's just words. Unless it's in that Project book he won't have any support.
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Big convo at my husband's work yesterday. A lady came in to the tearoom with a Vegemite and lettuce sandwich for lunch. Which the aussies declared "I've never heard of that".
So it prompted my husband to ask me if I'd ever had this. "Shit yeah. It was mother's favourite lunch to make for us. I never liked it because after 5 hours in a hot school bag the lettuce was pretty sad".
He can gleefully skip into the tearoom now and announce that it is indeed a thing because his wife said so. 😂
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Hrmm.. That's the first I've heard of doing that.
Wouldn't the salt in the vegemite draw moisture from the lettuce into the bread leaving a unrecognisable puddle?
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Not a puddle but it did make the lettuce go old and limp if left to long. I would imagine if freshly made and eaten straight away it would be different but I don't want to.
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Goodnight everyone ❤️ Here's to a better tomorrow for us all.
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Goodnight.
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I put Burnout: Paradise on the boys' laptop last night and it works like a charm. It was a pirate copy because you can't by the original anymore. I don't know how Fitgirl gets away with it because it didn't just install, it was downloading additional files to complete the installation. Like, from where? Where is she hosting these files and how haven't they been tracked yet? Amazing work
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I've been using Fitgirl for ages and had no issue. Do you mean during the actual expansion and installation, or grabbing the microsoft libraries?
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During the actual installation, not doing direct x and the redistibutables. It was like she has her own version of steam going on.
I'd trust fitgirl completely anyway and the biggest defence against anything dodgy on this laptop is it's running linux which is defacto antivirus in itself
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I’ve got it on Switch, even there I found it so much fun.
I get a bit of tunnel vision while I’m racing in it. Concentrating so hard on the driving I can barely look at the map during races.
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Just driving around in it is so much fun. I found the races could get repetitive since you had those 8 places all races ended at, so they could get samey after a while. But the takedown races were always fun
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I may have a ps3 copy somewhere 🤔
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I remember playing it towards to end of highschool. The version I downloaded then didn't have the motorbike expansion so I have some new content to look forward to
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I love that game
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I am STILL hanging out for a Need for Speed most wanted (2005) remaster!
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Even if that doesn't happen there are some great community mods that would add a lot of modern quality of life updates to it
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How is it different to the $6 version on Steam?
I spent my youth pirating every game under the sun, so I can't really judge you for using a pirated game - but I just pay the $6 these days. Which is how I've ended up with hundreds of games I've never played. No regrets though - the kids will discover that library soon, and I feel like I need to make it up to game developers a bit for that misspent youth I just mentioned. 😀
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This is the original 2008 version you can't buy anymore, and it's on an old laptop from like 2012 I put linux mint on.
So I don't want to go through installing and logging into steam on this laptop when a pair of 2 year olds are going to slap it to death.
The laptop probably couldn't run the remastered version and I figured the original could be pushing it if I got it working
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Home from Seaholme. It has barely changed since last I went a few decades ago. It's so quiet. It has big skies and quiet streets. It's a bit out of the way but in regard to transport and access to facilities it's the same. Carlton is just crappy for everything other than coffee, parks and university.
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I grew up near there, always thought that part of town was a bit underrated until recent years.
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ssshh, don't tell anyone
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So smoky outside. Apparently it’s coming from Tasmania!
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Really? I did see on the way home on the tram that the city (which is usually crystal clear) was shrouded in pink foggy air. Lotta particles airborne it seems.
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I thought it looked a bit hazy as I was driving home.
Now I know!
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One hour on hold to get through to my water provider. The reviews online are hilarious, most of them complaining about hold times and bad customer service. Yet it doesn't look like anything's changed to improve that. Just make the customers wait, it's not like they can change water provider if they're not happy with the service.
Edit - start of the call said 25 minute wait for call to be answered, it's now been 1.5 hours on hold. What a joke.
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I am at a loss to account for the uptick in mood on Monday mornings though. Friday makes sense.
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Gawd the ant situation down here this year is extreme. Going after everything.
Left a half full savoury shapes pack open and was crawling with them. Accidentally didn't check, had a few.. thought jeez that's a bit bitter.
Anyway thanks to my associate professorship in Myrmecology and Alcohology and it's my day off had 2 shots of gin so they could enjoy their final moments before being liquified by bile. It was the only humane course of action.
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Came home to the ant invasion continuing, but they were better organised this time and gave away their entry point. Suckers. I hope I’ve stopped it this time.
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Rode into work today whilst the weather's nice. I tried the shorter route that's a little less bike friendly and it was actually a much better ride aside from one annoying road crossing
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anyone else just got zero interest in fantastic 4? I dont get the appeal, maybe you need to be into comics to understand it? Certainly feel the fatigue of so many cracks at trying to get it off the ground.
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I can't watch marvel movies anymore, so much cg I just don't engage with it. I'd prefer cartoons, eg DC animated.
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Yeah this is me too, most of this style of movie I pretty much avoid now. The obvious CG just ruins it.
That's one of the things I respected about the latest Alien movie, even though there was still CGI they made a big push to use practical effects and physical sets as much as possible, including getting many of the effects crew back from the 1986 original movie, and it really shows.
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so hit and miss too. Black panther 2 was visually terrible!
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zero interest in super hero movies, all marvel heroed out
but I am excited for the new ( non marvel ) Omni-man series
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I honestly didn't mind the first 2. Cheesy as hell, but loads of fun.
Skipped the one from 10 years ago.
I think this one might end up being better than expected and I base that on thing.
Pedro Pascal though.
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Jesus christ did my domain hosting pick the wrong month to renew. $167usd = $266aud
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Spent the morning dealing with an ant invasion in my kitchen, which was not fun. Finally made it to co-working to start my work day. Feeling really overwhelmed right now.
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Looking at the post on cycling that was shared recently, we always get bad faith outsiders with the most bullshit takes jumping into the comments section. But if you told them to shut up and fuck off, you'd be the bad guy
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Well, it's an essential ingredient in Brunswick Stew, so you're in the right place for it. I'm told it tastes like chicken, but in my experience it tastes more like fruit bat. Which is delicious. So go for it girl!
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Ulcers in the crease of your mouth - the worst. Almost as bad as ulcers on your inner lip that rub up against your teeth. Time to whip out the ol' Kenalog again I guess... If they ever come up with a medication to heal mouth ulcers in 24 hours I'd do anything to get it in a heartbeat.
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Haha! He's gone on a packing spree and now I don't have the right paper to do his anniversary card tomorrow.
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I didn’t finish hauling down the pantry donations a month ago because I was too exhausted… wheeled the last lot down. I might not have energy and money to do that again for a bit.
Sketchy randoms cut through my block right after I left it and there were already a couple alcohol cans littered on the path before that… eugh.
Moobeans is on the bed curled up in a croissant, I hope she starts feeling better quickly.
It was so funny when the vets arrived. She actually came over to them in curiosity and rubbed her cheek on their box of medical equipment. Social girl. She wasn’t as pleased when having her blood pressure taken, I had to steadily feed her distraction treats to get her to tolerate it.
Edit: Oh great. The same weird gentleman who stole the water dish also came onto my veranda and tried to tip out the water in the pet water dispenser… which immediately refilled when he put it back down. Nong.
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I wonder if the voice activated speakers can record people talking and potentially be used as evidence in court. Like the Amazon and Google ones
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My speakers have heard some incriminating stuff.
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There's a podcast I listened to a while back with nonsensical court hearings, maybe that's the video version?
Or they have lots of nonsensical court stuff
Either way, I will look into those videos.
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Fretting.
Edited for length and oversharing
Also just FYI I was unable to edit this on mobile. Had to jump on the computer to do it. Anyone else having this issue?
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I've had to use my browser to post images as Jerboa wouldn't let me for some reason.
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I’m now able to edit again so I don’t know what that was
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Erg. Yuck.
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Wha'happen?
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Every now and then and I let myself think for long enough that I start wondering: is this enough? Am I a total fuck up? just a little bit? does it matter anyway? how could I be better? what if i...? and then my distractions blissfully take over and I forget all that for a few weeks. Ho hum
It doesn't matter.
All that matters is that you have peace and contentment i think.
That's how I try to live. I fail often, but I never give up.
Fuck up compared to what? The middle-class aspirational consumerism-is-all lifestyle? Nah, that's not where it's at.
this is where it's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPfmNxKLDG4
I solved that problem by accepting I was a fuckup. Lots of us are not perfect. That’s life.
same, I just try to be my best self
As long as I do my best, that's all that matters. Even if it's shit compared to others efforts it doesn't matter because I know I gave it my best shot. That's how I sleep well at night anyway.
Ignorance is bliss.
And yes, agreed with Spud, you're not a fuck up