MisterFrog @ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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Or, ooor, the obvious answer of mandating the UTC in the backend.

Actually moving societies all to UTC is a really bad idea, as outlined by many others, dozens of times on Lemmy.

24 hour time though, that'd be nice. Everyone already knows how it works anyway!

Okay? Not sure why other people's pay frequency preferences bother you.

Yes, it's the same amount of money, and you're welcome to not care, but there are legitimate reasons for prefering more frequent payments.

You have a nice day, friend.

Have you heard of interest, and investments? Not to mention you don't get paid until the end of your first month, which could be particularly bad for people who were unemployed prior to getting the job.

Have the money on-hand earlier makes a huge difference.

I'd love to be paid weekly if I could.

Hol'up, are you talking about the vaccine mandates?

The palace papers revealed the royals knew and had discussed the possibility on a handful of occasions well before the sacking, even going so far as to discuss preemptively that the monarch would not wish to take the advice of the prime minister in replacing the governor general "If such an approach was made you may be sure that The Queen would take most unkindly to it" as written by her personal secretary.

Further, the vice regal is an extension of the regal. Nek minnit you're gonna say, oh the US president only ordered drone strikes, it was actually the drone operators who did the killing!

Monarchy being non-political my arse. And this isn't the only time the royals have been seen to favour the conservatives. No surprise there of course, there is no struggle other than the class struggle.

Fuck the Queen, fuck the monarchy, fuck the conservatives for withholding supply, and fuck the governor general.

(Not fuck you, though, even if you do like the royals)

I too feel like I'm missing context on a joke here.

This was before the fateful Whitlam dismissal by the monarchy / potentially the CIA.

Long answer, it's complicated as usual. Short answer: single member electorates.

Not surprisingly, the senate (our upper house at the federal level) is much more representative than the lower house, because they have very large, multi-member electorates.

If you live in a safe seat, your vote only counts for election funding (last I checked $2ish per 1st preference).

Anyone arguing FPTP is better than ranked choice is stupid or has sinister motives.

I feel like if you make point of sale systems, any time you're adding negative values, you really ought to make sure you can't cheese it haha

But I'm so glad they did, thanks for sharing.

Remember in Australia, if you're persistent enough, you could get this replaced under Australian Consumer Law, if something breaks in an unreasonable amount of time (outside of warranty, even). Considering fridges can easily last for 10 years, anything well within that should be fairly easy (but require many, many emails and threatening to taken them to your local small claims) to get replaced.

That is if you can do without a fridge in the meantime 😅

This is not legal advice.

That's is so excellent. Good to know QA is non-existent in many facets of life haha

It really feels like some by-gone form field so many just keep putting on there because it's always been there.

So many places, including doctor practices, ask for this (in Australia), and you're just left feeling, why?? This is useless information that they don't need to know.

For tax, home loans, etc, sure, that's relevant information.

Oh my fucking god. Especially how fucking casual he is after is happens 🙈

I think not having neighbours is only really possible for a small number of people, mostly in agricultural work. If the majority of people didn't want neighbours, we could not sustain the populations that exist, end of story.

Spreading people out is part of the reason why so many counties in the US are going broke, because infrastructure per person gets so much more expensive when compared to property taxes.

Cars are certainly needed in rural areas, but emphasis on the rural. Even modest towns could and can afford small public transport networks if they plan correctly.

I think you are a fuck cars guy, if this is your opinion.

Cars have their uses, but just as you rightly point out, they're way overused because of lack of better infrastructure.

They're just too expensive. Like, sure, it costs money to run, but 3.49€/month (the discounted 24 month rate) for the mail only plan, 15 GB storage. (41.88€, $45.17 USD, $67.28 AUD per year)

That's really expensive if you just want mail.

The other stuff, is also really expensive. To the point that makes you think, "there is no way google is making THIS much to make up the difference in advertising to me for a comparable plan".

Or Amelia, Melissa or simply just Millie, who's gonna stop you?

You can definitely skip learning the local language these days if you're just a short-term tourist. Translate anything written with OCR, and for most other things just smile, point, fingers for numbers, and again machine translation is totally fine for simple things.

If you actually assume people can speak English though, that's not cool.

Kelp and seaweed, perhaps?