🦘min0nim🦘 @ min0nim @aussie.zone

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You’re right, but funnily enough the last few years have been quite wet. You may remember a flood or 2 if you cast your mind back…

Nobs. Who do they think is going to be building their reactors if they push to get one built?

Just remember - wasn’t too long ago the Liberal party was receiving Rolex watches in brown paper bags from Chinese spy’s posing as donors.

Apple’s business isn’t built around advertising. That’s literally the biggest reason is better to use than any google product.

If you need a level of privacy that goes beyond even Apple’s abstraction of location data, then you’re best off not connecting a smart phone to a car at all, and using offline maps.

It’s not historical, but you can play Eve and get all this. The economy is almost entirely player driven, and is tied into industry and logistics - also all entirely player driven. Prices and demand shift, and of course you can also scam people out of everything if you want.

You can be one of the most successful players and not ever fire a shot.

I think we won’t have a lot of fires this year. It’s been really wet for a while and the dense bush need consistently hot days to dry out enough to burn.

If it stays dry for the next couple of years though, we’re going to be screwed again. I imagine some places will be like western sydney and north NSW in the floods - no point rebuilding if it burns down every 5 years.

So, let's be honest here - producers artificially ramped up wholesale costs in the months before the new increases were handed down by the regulators (e.g. restrict supply through maintenance, and then unleash supply when the price is higher).

They can do this because the biggest ones are both on the retail and wholesale side. We're getting fucking fleeced.

The fact that Iced Vovo's aren't at number 1 is an issue I'll be taking up with Dan Andrews.

It’s an extraordinary move, but I think they’re spot on. It’s a huge amount of money to spend on a sporting even for a few weeks when Victoria is in a real cost-of-living crisis. There are much more pressing priorities for regional Victoria than a legacy of some upgraded sports venues.

EA response: “Toughen the fuck up you whiny little pricks”.

For Oblivion they touted the use of procedural generation to create the ‘realistic’ outdoor environments, not to generate content on the fly.

At the time Oblivion was great - I remember spending heaps of time just collecting plants because the outdoor environment and the music were beautiful. And then getting mauled by a bear.

The old Slashdot obsession of calling out logical fallacies lead to the hyper normalisation of climate change denial. We had a whole load of really smart people who were very quick to call out any appeal to authority (of, you know, actual climate scientists), but a bit too lazy to read the source material themselves.

Fun times.

It’s a really interesting article and worth the read too!

It’s a rough transition, but absolutely right that we should be employing and paying individual Australians in government services, not lining the pockets of huge vampire squid temp agencies with majority overseas shareholders.

I thought the Foundation books were conceited and trite - I know that’s not going to make me popular here. The first ATV season was pretty damn good, building on the main themes that made the books so seminal, but adding a human dimension which helps to make the story feel as epic as people make it out to be.

I think you just described all the reasons why no one in Australia uses creamer.

There’s plenty of lactose and dairy free milks if that floats your boat too, without adding flavours, sugar, and who knows what else!

There’s a few things at play with noise, and unfortunately there’s no easy answer to your issue.

Easiest and best bang-for-buck: seal your windows up tight. If there’s little gaps for vents, the window doesn’t close tight, or things like that, they will leak noise.

Most effective: replace windows with solid frames or insulation packed extrusions, double glazing using laminated glass, and make the inside pane a soundstop type of glass. Make sure any opening windows have seals.

The curtains probably help with some very high pitched sounds, and there may also be a placebo effect at play, but they’re going to do bugger all I’m afraid. Noise is just vibrating mass, and it’s harder to transmit vibrations through dense mass. So yes, a curtain is better than nothing, but relative to your glass and walls it’s closer to air.

If noise is an issue for sleeping, the very best thing to do before shelling out loads of money on snake oil curtains is to try a few different ear plugs.

And he got 2 karma for it. Bargain.

Good on them for having the principles to do this. Now I might just donate to them after all.