boogetyboo @ boogetyboo @aussie.zone

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I set myself a calendar reminder to play this in a few years. I'm hoping I'll have forgotten most things.

I'm torn between curating what I subscribe to here to eliminate overly negative things, with wanting to stay in the know specific industry topics and about important world events.

Unfortunately most of the important world events are negative. And my industry is a disgusting race to the bottom of the consumer exploitation barrel.

So on some days I just try to not open specific types of posts if I know it's just going to get me down. I stick to memes and comics on those days

I think a lot of sweet things taste awful. But that doesn't mean I watch people drinking Coke and can't understand why they like it.

That's because taste is subjective. I only drink things I like. Do you really think people, other than teenagers experimenting, are drinking things they don't like?

And getting black out drunk, again young people aside, is not the aim.

I think you might be a bit sheltered. Not liking alcohol or drinking is fine and normal and should be encouraged for health reasons, but you've made some big assumptions about people.

Same. I like fixing broken things. Also, if a handle breaks off a mug it becomes a pen holder etc. We're drowning in our own rubbish so I don't understand making more being fun?

Like seeing food fights in movies (which I think is the only place this ever happens), it just looks like wasteful stupidity to me.

Now you've ruined their weekend plans

Also I'm just giggling at the kind advice you've given just in case anyone was considering snorkeling in a vat of human excrement.

I still get super upset when all the hobbits are so distraught after Gandalf falls. 'get them up'

I'm unnaturally good at flat pack furniture assembly. And I know how pathetic a brag that is, given it's a set of instructions and equipment. But everyone I know complains about it. I genuinely like it.

I set out all the materials and count them against the inventory to make sure they're all there. Then I follow the instructions.

Whenever I've helped someone else do it, they start trying to figure out what attaches to what in the abstract, they tear open bags of bolts as they go and grab the one that looks right only to realise later that it's 2mm shorter than the one they're meant to use.

I don't get it. It's a recipe with all the ingredients provided. Prep the ingredients, cook following instructions.

My partner, who falls into the category of just trying to guess things, is pretty much banned from assisting me until there's a bit where another human is necessary. But even then I'll make do using leverage from furniture if I can.

And that's my super long comment about how I'm good at something that's remarkably easy, because it's designed to be easy, but everyone wants to make it hard and then fight about it.

Also, here's a great song with a relevant clip:

https://youtu.be/Yak7M9gifps?si=vjTRplkB3kP9Sz0d

The rule of the community is you must post before you leave after viewing something. It's obviously not anything policed.

Someone started showing their adherence to this rule by putting the word 'rule' in their post title. People continued this trend, sometimes using a play on words related to the post itself, making crap portmanteaus etc. they're usually not very cryptic.

I'm so over this. So exasperated by it. Every company in a scramble to the bottom. Meanwhile my country's reporting a downturn in FOOD spending because people are fucking poor.

We're being bombarded with ads at every turn, having our data sold off, stolen, or repurposed for LLMs... Meanwhile the customer experience gets worse and worse.

I work in digital ux and honestly, I just want to unplug and go live in a cave.

Mate it was a long shot that took 10 sec of my time to post. Figured it didn't hurt to ask.

Simultaneously looked at other sources, because, obviously.

Anonymity of Lemmy was what i wanted most as opposed to both those sites which take a DNA swab everytime you click on something.

Typically when there are layoffs, there are still people employed there who know what's going on.

The number of people is less an issue than the reasoning, and what areas they're cutting etc.

The smaller nature of Lemmy means people are less likely to write flippant dismissals as part of a rabid pack. Or at least it was.

It's usually a pretty courteous place and I'm sorry if I didn't come across that way myself.

But 99pc of posts here are about something I've never heard of - Linux and program languages, tonnes of jargon and acronyms. I don't jump in and ask what something is and follow up with 'why is this (thing that has no impact on me, as I've just discovered by googling the thing) newsworthy?'

I mean obviously it's newsworthy to me. I thought given how small the place is, that maybe one or two people might respond - people who knew - and everyone else would shrug and scroll past.

You're being very Reddit about it.

I mean if you don't know, and you don't care, then this post isn't for you.

That's okay, isn't it?

Yeah I've read a lot of the commentary, was hoping to hear from someone on the inside/in the know

The one in the foreground is clearly Steve.

It's been towed ouside the environment.

She's one of our most outspoken, openly racist politicians - Pauline Hanson.

This was a comedian's take on her, using cut together audio clips.

https://youtu.be/vAKPRGjkYsY?si=3FBHmDJGbPYv2D7g

Let's not be calling Pauline an Australian.

Nah it's not

Edit: well that was a fun experiment. The Reddit-esque nature of just approving contrary, trite statements is rife here on Lemmy too.

The person I replied to was correct. If English is your second language it's forgivable. For the rest of you, speak to your local member about the state of education where you live. Jfc.

Oh wow.

Had she done that when you were younger and she assumed you would have kids? I can kinda empathise with that. Making them I mean... But giving them to you...? Yeesh.

The boomers assumed we'd follow the same predetermined path as they did. My mum certainly thought I would, and so did I up until my late 20s. It was then when I realised whenever I thought about having kids it was with a sense of dread for something I assumed was inevitable.

Lucky for me my sister had a whole bunch so the pressure was off.