elephantium @ elephantium @lemmy.world

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Oof. Sounds like you had a rough time of it :(

Huh, TIL that humans showed up in Australia 60,000 years ago. I thought for sure it would be less than 20,000 years until I looked it up.

As for the slippery slope, nah, it's a natural thing to ask. That being said, I think you have a good answer to it.

I'll add that most ethnic groups don't/shouldn't need a Voice (ombudsman?) type function in a functioning democracy. However, we frequently see that the rules as written don't actually apply equally. We see this a lot in the U.S. (where I'm from). It sounds like you have a similar effect in Australia.

Reserve your ire for the abuse heaped upon "unique", fellow pedant.

Unique means one-of-a-kind. I die a little more inside every time I see someone slaughter it with "very unique" or "most unique".

Lupe dy Cazaril.

Well, Canada is definitely way outside either agency's mandate...🤔

I canceled my satellite radio subscription in, oh, 2017 I think?

Yep, 3 years of harassment.

Someone external can see what you look at, and they can show you a fake version of the site.

That's interesting, not what I'd expect -- but hey, everyone has their off days.

In an online space with more of a community feel, it would probably be worth extending a little more grace and patience. Lemmy doesn't have that feel to me, though. It feels like having random conversations with strangers with no continuity.

I'll admit, part of this is a pattern I started on reddit. I tried to curate my community list, but I made the -- decision? mistake? -- of including my city and state-specific subreddits. They were basically cesspits of racism and trolling compared to the good communities that I liked. There was also the increase in political propaganda bots over the years (not bad when I joined, terrible by time I left). I tried to avoid the worst offenders, but sometimes I'd get bored with my feed and click on the "all" feed. Bad idea.

I use the "block" feature pretty liberally. If some random stranger is being an asshole, I don't really see the need to continue engaging with them.

Honestly, I can’t even imagine what it would be like having only owned two cars in my whole life.

Easy, just think back to when you were driving your second car ;)

What typically prompts you to buy a new car?

For me, it's always been that I "need" a car for commuting, so I've looked for something reliable and efficient (I put "need" in quotes because technically, the bus routes in my city could have gotten me to work without a car. Turning a 20 minute drive into a 90 minute bus ride isn't super palatable, though).

I bought my first car used and my second car new around the time Cash for Clunkers was affecting the used car market.

Interesting, sounds like merge queues can streamline some of the housekeeping around PRs. I'll have to read up on them some more.

I wasn't thinking about differences between Github and AzDops repos, only between GH actions and AZ pipelines. My team moved the code to Github a long time ago -- AZ pipelines is perfectly happy having the code there.

Hmm, now I wonder if anyone keeps their code in AZ Repos and their CI stuff in Github Actions (probably not, it sounds absurd!)

Oh, I didn't think about having multiple cars. Are you a big car guy?

I'm in my early 40s, and I've owned two cars. I bought my current car after the last one got rear-ended.

Sidenote, I'm not counting cars that belonged to spouses or the car I drove in college -- technically, that one belonged to my parents. If you add those in, I'm probably up to 6 or 7 cars.

Yep. That would require a subscription to disney plus, but I'm not really interested in doing that. It's too much effort for the payoff.

What's the payoff? Well, I watched Multiverse of Madness on a flight to see relatives last year. Out of the movies in the plane's catalog, it was one of the more-interesting ones. So -- the payoff is understanding a random in-flight movie a little better.

I might just steer clear of any Marvel movies next time.

I'm the opposite: I initially wanted kids, but my spouse was ambivalent. I've come around: We're not going to have kids, and I'm ok with that.

Yikes, do you get a new car every single year?

I'm more of a "buy something reliable and drive it 'til it breaks" type.

The math doesn't check out.

30 days * 2 people drinking * 1 beer each = 60 beers.

If all four drank one beer per day, with one guy having a second beer every day:

30 days * 5 beers drunk each day = 150 beers.

This one hurts. My team at work currently uses AzDO for our build pipeline. It works pretty well, making it easy to trace which build actually got deployed, plus which git branch and commit got built. The variable substitution feature is pretty slick for test vs. prod builds, too.

You can put together continuous integration with Github Actions, but from what I've seen so far, it seems so much more primitive :(

I enjoyed the story arc leading up to Endgame, but since then, they've filmed so much that I just feel like I can't keep up. The last movie I watched was Multiverse of Madness where I spent about half the movie going "Huh, I feel like I'm missing stuff from the Wanda TV show". I had never seen Spider-Man: No Way Home, either. And I guess there was a Loki show and a Marvel "What If" series, too?

Being a Marvel fan shouldn't have to be a job!

I've seen people argue stupider things earnestly.

It depends on the insurance plan. My current plan covers therapy 100%, no copay.

The plan before this, I think it was a $50 copay. Not too bad in this context.

The plan before that, IIRC, was "LOL talk to us after you've hit your deductible" :(

OTOH...my therapist doesn't even charge $200 to begin with. That def helps in my case.