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DillyDaily @ DillyDaily @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 283Joined 2 yr. ago
But are those like a hot coffee dispenser, where you grab a cup and put it under a spout, push a button and it pours out a hot drink? Because we do have those in Australia.
But in Japan they have vending machines for canned drinks and cans of soup that are heated.
I mean, I'd be confused and concerned too if a time travelling European from the 18th century stepped off a boat in 1492
It's also left open because that's where the drop curb is for people getting out of a car parked in the accessible spot can physically get onto to sidewalk.
I mean, a little bit. I had to quit weed for a while job and so I was having a glass of wine at a party and a few people made judgemental comments about how I'm "drinking again".
Similarly, now that I can smoke again, and as the only one in my extended social circle who can roll a joint that burns properly, I'll ask the person who brought the gear if they want me to roll joints, spliffs, or a few of each, and how strong, and again there will be one or two people who say "I can't believe people cut their weed with the tobacco, that's disgusting"
But at the same time, those judgy friends would never campaign for alcohol and tobacco to be completely criminalised. They just think weed is much better.
That said, a few of us were pretty happy to see the 100% vape ban coming into Victoria, not so much from the drug side of it, but I'm sick of seeing "disposable" vapes everywhere and seeing the parking lot bins catch fire almost every day at work because people chuck them out and the batteries explode.
A lot of organs are the same, the nerves that detect pain are on the surface of the organ and they are mostly detect changes in external and internal pressure, but there isn't a lot of nocioceptive nerve action inside the structure.
if you have ADHD and/or anxiety like me
Bingo!
In Australia I'm not even sure if there is a service that could help me - other than applying for an actual disability support worker to help, which my ADHD could probably benefit from, but that's a whole other paperwork process and it's frustrating that paperwork is a barrier to getting accommodations and support with completing paperwork!
Actual Proof of Age Cards are still around, and that's what I need to get (but I don't have anything with my current address on it, other than the lease agreement, so it's going to take a few steps over red tape to get proper ID, and I am not mentally healthy enough to push that process along right now)
I had a keypass, which they stopped in 2022. I only found out about proof of age cards last year, when I tried to get into an RSL and the bouncer asked if I had anything else because they're phasing out keypass.
I know it's stupid and ignorance isn't an excuse, but as a teenager I was told to get a keypass because "that's the ID you get when you don't have a licence" so I got a keypass, and for the next 15 years I didn't run into a single issue with not having the right ID. No one I worked with ever questioned why that's the only ID I had, so I never really stopped to research the specifics. I didn't know that keypass and "proof of age card" were different, I thought keypass was a proof of age card, just different names for it.
This is why I currently have no proper ID.
I have my birth certificate and my public healthcare card, and a not expired but no longer fully accepted proof of age card that previously counted as full ID but no longer does, but without it I dont have enough ID to get the new form of ID the government introduced in place of the old one I have.
It's enough to prove who I am at a liquor store or chemist, day to day, but I can't get a passport until I sort it out.
Thank you! I thought I was going mad because I distinctly remember saying "sus" when I was in highschool in the early 2000s. It was definitely used both as "go sus it out" but also "don't sus us miss" was something we said all the time when a teacher tried to catch students smoking behind the portables.
So it sort of just feels like Gen Z expanded the definition.
I'm not personally that worried, I just don't understand how so many people in this thread are saying they would/wouldn't judge a shoplifter based on a bunch of arbitrary criteria for what they think is an essential item. You can't possibly know what's essential to an complete stranger.
I bought a few metres of calico, because it's a cheap, close weave natural fibre.Cut it into sheets the size of a tea towel with pinking shears (because I'm too lazy to hem anything)
When I wash produce, I lay it out to air dry on the sheets, and I throw a dry sheet into the tub or container I'm storing the veg in to continue wicking moisture.
If I'm in a rush I'll pat dry and rub dry produce that I can, but mostly it's laying it out to air dry, either on the counter or in the fridge itself before going back and putting the dry veg in a proper container.
I'll occasionally swap out the cotton in a container for a fresh dry sheet if the produce in the fridge is getting soggy. Things like lettuce and spinach for example, I'll give them a fresh dry sheet at least once a week and they'll last 2-3 weeks for me.
I tend to wash everything in a weak dilution of vinegar, in my experience that reduces moulding.
I don't have a salad spinner so when I want to spin something dry, I wash it and then put it in a mesh produce bag, go outside, and spin the bag around like a human windmill.
All the calico sheets just get thrown in the wash with all my actual tea towels and kitchen towels. If they get really gross they can be boiled to sterile clean them, or worse case scenario, composted.
What's your opinion on stealing name brands?
Whenever I mention groceries being expensive, I have a few people comment that it's my own fault for buying name brands, and I agree, name brands aren't worth it when you're pinching pennies.
But I have allergies, and I have to be careful with shared equipment. I've had allergic reactions to certain brands of oats but not others, so even a cheap staple food like oats I may end up paying way more than the average person because I can't risk certain brands.
Sometimes that works in the opposite direction too, in a quest to find a brand of veggie stock powder I wasn't allergic to, I ended up riding my bike to the next town to try their asain grocers and found a huge 500g tin of stock powder for like $4, easily 5 times cheaper than any other brand at my usual store, and I wouldn't have gone hunting for it had the previous brand not changed their ingredients as part of a whole shrinkflation/cheaper ingredients for the same price end product initiative.
But I often wonder if people saw someone like me stealing, or using food stamps today buy name brand products, would they prejudge me as being superfluous without knowing my allergies already severely limit my diet, brand restrictions limit it even more.
They don't get jobs as flight attendants. If you already work in an industry that mandates make up use, and you're doing it tough, shoplifting make up seems like a smarter financial choice than getting fired over a lack of make up and having to find work in an entirely new industry.
As someone who currently doesn't even own a single article of make up (unless you count tinted zinc), yes, you can get by without it, but not everyone can, and loosing your job over other when you're already struggling financially isn't ideal.
Bought a giant 250 meter roll of plain brown butchers paper a few years ago, it was like $45AUD from a wholesale packaging company.
Bought a "celebration" set of rubber stamps, and a few different colours of ink pads.
Now I just cut off the amount of wrapping paper I need, slap it with a relevant stamp a few times, wrap the gift, and voila, "custom" wrapping paper.
It's come in handy for all sorts of things, not just wrapping. Sewing patterns, arts and crafts, emergency table cloths for family BBQ's, grab 10 metres and roll it up to take to work for programs (I work in a community centre).
I think this depends where you live, having worked a summer as a trolley runner for blister pack production, we produced thousands of blisters, and at the end of the line half got pharmacy own brand foils and the other half got name brand foils.
Same pills, same packs, same factory same standards and testing, just different ink on the foils. But the pharmacy brands would have shorter contracts so they would only be identical to this name brand for 6 months, then try might get a contract with another factory and be identical to another name brand there.
I know with some drugs (Warfarin is the only one that's instantly coming to mind) it is important to pick a brand and stick with it because the slightest change can effect the therapeutic value.
For myself, I have allergies so sometimes a certain brand or manufacturing company will use a filler, binder or dye I can't have. And frustratingly there are no ingredients lists on pills for fillers and dyes.
If you watch Super Size Me 2, they go into a lot more detail on why the selective breeding is so disturbing.
Amoung other things, the birds are bred for meat muscle development, their cardiovascular systems have not been equally enhanced and as a result, chicken farmers know that the birds are big enough for slaughter because some of them will just start dropping dead of heart failure.
Abacus comes from the Greek "Abak" meaning board or slab.
I never really noticed the lights as a Christmas-specific problem, between Diwali, New Year, and Lunar New year, there's lights up from October to February in my country.
So as a migraine sufferer who does have issues with flickering LEDs at night (particularly the blue or blue-white diodes) I can't blame Christmas alone for my pain.
But the carols! The fucking carols! I'm far more sound sensitive than I am noise sensitive with my migraines, and the vast majority of the "classic" Christmas carols just hit all the wrong tones for me. High pitched bells, weird twanging piano keys, blasting from speakers when I'm just popping into the shops to buy dunny roll, it's awful. One of my jobs is a choir facilitator for an intellectual disability program, and this time of year is a walking nightmare because it's carols, all carols, nothing but carols (and any attempt at musical redirection is a recipe for unhappy clients), I think I'm single handedly keeping my local chemist in business with my migraine med scripts.
I wear ear plugs where I can, but the pressure of something in my ears also triggers headaches, and obviously can't wear plugs at work where my job is to listen and sing along.
It's also just annoying to have everything December be Christmas - and I say that as a secular Christmas celebrator. There's so much more to celebrate this time of year, but you'd never get a chance to know it.
I think a lot of people who celebrate Christmas have noticed it becoming even more overcommercialised than ever before, but it's not really, it's just a new type of commercialisation with so many industries being "fast". Those on the outside of Christmas (Jews, Muslims, Pagans, basically every other religion and spirituality outside Christianity) the overcommercialisation has been obvious since the Victorian era.
If you like Sawbones you might also like "This podcast will kill you", an epidemiologist and a doctor make cocktails and go into the history and pathophysiology of diseases and conditions throughout human history.
Not as classically funny as the McElroys, but really informative and they do a good job at keeping the "disturbing content" to a minimum even when going into detail on pretty devastating illnesses.
For a much more lightweight podcast "You're Dead to Me" from the writers of Horrible Histories is fun. A historian quizzes comedians on their knowledge of historical events and figures.
Oddly I think parties like this would be more beneficial to the child.
If my parents had thought to have a joint mobility party for me, then maybe my hip joint deformity would have been found in infancy, when it's treatable, and not when I was 17 after years of being told I had "growing pains".