gazter @ gazter @aussie.zone

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I met a foreign exchange student in Australia. I asked what they were planning to do for their break.

They'd recently taken up surfing, and couldn't decide if they wanted to surf the east, west, north, or south coast. So they had decided they would stay in Alice Springs, basically in the middle of all of them, and do day trips to each one.

I didn't have the heart to tell them that to get to the nearest ocean from there takes about two solid days of driving. Add another day to get to a beach with decent surf.

The region was defined by constant conflict and instability before Britain and France were even a twinkle in a Celtic eye.

Depending on where the breaker is relative to the UPS, of course.

I'm trying to understand what I'm missing.

I might be getting my latitude and longitude confused- but I think that one degree of latitudal (east-west, right?) travel would result in a different distance depending on how far north or south I am? I'm thinking of it like walking around the equator, as opposed to walking in a circle around Santa's house, which is obviously directly on top of the north pole.

But if I travel one degree of longitude, no matter where I am the distance would be the same, right?

Obviously the freezing point of water is also a range (depending on purity, altitude, etc) but would you say it's less, or more specific?

It's almost like being 'fairly cold for humans' is a wide range, and subjective, therefore useless as a baseline.

I don't understand the purpose of a nautical mile. It's just a certain number of metres, right? Originally worked out as some percentage of the distance around the equator.

Why not use the standard measurement for distance?

It's not even a case of 'everywhere else', it's actually 'everywhere'.

It's just that some sections of that 'everywhere' take the metric system and add an abstraction on top of it.

The imperial system literally defines itself by the metric system.

"Look at me, I'm so pretty!" "AHHHHH-RAAAAAAAAAH! AH-RAH! AHHHHH RAAAAAAAAAAA!"

And Christmas decorations.

I didn't realise this was hard. It's been a hot minute since I added a library, but I'm pretty sure I just clicked the libraries tab, typed the library name into the search bar, and clicked add to project.

That's the best part of Christmas, anyway. Food and family, and free shit.

It's relatively common for people to just spend a few years as a monk, right?

I reckon itd be weird if one day I'm picking on my little brother, then the next I feel obliged to treat him as royalty, then a couple years later I get to noogie him again.

For me, outside is dirty and that's fine, inside is clean.

If I stepped in chewing gum or dogshit or even just general grime, I don't want that inside.

You're actually fucking kidding me, right? That's... inhuman. Can you move overseas?

What's it called when you logically expect something to work, but are totally surprised that it actually does?

But how big is a knob of butter!?!?

Why the heck is it constrained in inches? If I open a pdf on two screens of different sizes, with the zoom at 100%, will the features be the same size or not?

I'll tag onto this- not because I think my option is better, but because it's a complimentary thing that hits a lot of the same points in different situations.

My bike has given me joy, fitness, new activities, and new friends. When I didn't have a car it got me to work, gatherings, shops, etc. The enjoyment of riding got me out exploring nature around where I live. I've done multi-night bikepacking trips. I've met friends on rides. I've made new friends at work when we discover we both ride in sometimes. I chat to people at the bakery about their bikes.

All that, with a side effect of keeping me healthy and fit.

"I've had an idea... Lightning has just struck my brain..." "Oh, that must of hurt!"

It's in that part of my brain that was written before I understood media being 'good' and 'bad', so my memory of it just is, I've never stopped to think about its quality.