fine_sandy_bottom @ fine_sandy_bottom @discuss.tchncs.de

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Yeah. This is a potential problem.

I'm not directly aware of this reward points thing actually happening in Australia. I mean they send text messages about sales and member only discounts, but real actual money off something you actually needed to buy isn't something I've seen or heard of.

You seem to have missed my point.

In common parlance you don't need to qualify generalisations when it's obvious to the audience that they are generalisations.

Consider a statement like "Australians like to eat Vegemite on toast for breakfast".

It's an absurdity to refute that statement on the basis that it's an unqualified generalisation. It's very obvious to everyone that not every Australian enjoys Vegemite, and that some Australian's probably enjoy Vegemite at other times of the day. The whole point of the sentence is to convey that Australians are more likely to enjoy Vegemite than people of other nations.

If you'd like to spend your life refuting every general assertion on the basis that it's not qualified by saying "some" Australians enjoy Vegemite then I guess you're welcome to do so, but it seems like a very odd proclivity to me.

This sounds like a different set up to the way things roll down under.

Cashier's just assume that no one carries their card, and they ask for your phone number to look up your membership. IDK what a store card is.

In Australia most retailers discount specific items for "members". Being a member is free but you need to sign up with your contact details. They will give you a card but no one carries a million cards so cashier's just ask for your phone number.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority administers phone numbers in Australia and they publish a list of phone numbers which may not be used by telco's and are reserved for the exclusive use in TV shows, films, and creative works.

I made a note of one of the numbers in my phone, and provide that when asked. Loads of other people are doing this so the number is always registered at every shop.

The conversation usually goes:

• cashier: are you a club member?
• me: yes.
• cashier: what's your number ?
• me:

  <ACMA number>

• cashier: oh. wow. there seems to be hundreds of people with this number. what's your name?
• me: oh really? who's there?
• cashier: uh, nigel, john, luke...
• me: I'm Luke.

I've been doing this on a weekly basis since reading about it in another thread (on reddit) a few years ago. I've never encountered a problem and I've received thousands of dollars in discounts. I would've gotten those discounts anyway but would've had to sign up with my personal number in order to receive them.

Is that sentence structure ambiguous?

If you said "Iron Age men fought with Iron Swords" you wouldn't say that statement is clearly false because it's not true of all iron age men.

Oh man. Is this alpha male theory 101?

I honestly find it odd that you keep referring to my comments as my scenario as though this is some weirdo conspiracy I've dreamed up. In my opinion, your solution is impracticable. Sure, you should assist those adversely effected by climate change, but paying to rebuild their houses to be flood and fire proof is an absurd notion.

Yes private citizens are going to lose a lot of money and experience a lot of hardship as a result of climate change. It's well established science that many areas will experience more severe weather. There are very likely to be severe water shortages, and extensive famine.

You are right of course that corporations should bear the responsibility and the cost but given the political landscape in 2025 that's just not going to happen. Populations the world over are sliding to the right, electing governments who will reduce regulations and support further concentration of wealth.

This isn't saying something funny by accident though.

When you're on holiday and you ask the barman for nipple juice sure, you can all have a good laugh about languages.

This person is an employee, doing their best to perform a complex task that you were lucky enough to learn as a child. Imagine walking into the shop and having a good old laugh with the signs author about their bad spelling. I don't think they would find it very funny.

Additionally, there's a profound difference between having a light-hearted joke with someone, and posting it on social media where everyone can make lame jokes about people struggling to get by using English as a second language.

Honestly, I'm amazed that you're insensitive enough not to understand that the two situations are completely different.

Sorry mate, a place where mental health patients to just exist sounds to me like a terrible idea.

Notionally, not having to worry about anything and just do some basic chores might sound therapeutic, but I can assure you that residing in such a place would be a harrowing experience.

That's not my answer at all.

These houses will be more difficult to insure and less desirable and worth less as a result. Not worth nil, just worth significantly less.

Engineers can build amazing things, but most people probably don't want to pay for a submersible house or a fire proof house.

Yes lots of people will lose a lot of money. Climate change is going to be a rough ride.

It's difficult to comprehend how anyone can think that Trump can lower the price of anything for anyone in any period of time.

Keepassxc

The best IMO because it's just a client you install on a device which reads an encrypted data file you can sync how you like.

This way it's not a hoard like lastpass or bitwarden.

Why should not I?

Is this one of those subs where pedo rape jokes are funny or one of the ones where pedo rape jokes are discouraged?

Yes, that's what I said, only more delicately.

Here's my take...

They're more cohesive and insular than most groups you'll find on social media.

They've brewed their own strongly held culture and ideology.

Many are also used to being ostracised by other communities due to sexual preferences or other personal attributes.

The result is, if you naively post in a thread in which they are active your opinion will get stomped on if it does not directly align with theirs.

I don't think that's why I find them so unpleasant though?

I don't come here to talk about sexual preferences.

ITT: the example is in the past and OP is asking why they're bad.

Ok mate. Continue believing you're a slave or whatever. I hope that works out well for you.

I think it's a personal decision. As in, you might be cool with a car from that company or using proton's services, but that doesn't mean that everyone else ought to be cool with it too, because they need to make their own decision.

By being a customer of whatever company you are tacitly condoning their behavior.