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Posts about food, games, tech, politics, being a single parent, and the small humans that wreck me

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sortius, to auspol
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When a Prime Minister screams who they are, believe them.

If you support genocide, vote Labor, otherwise, there's better parties out there

ethanschoonover, to random
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Ok my guy, let’s set aside the fact that you haven’t read any philosophy that hasn’t been posted to hackernews. I can give a solid example of an idea that has “a long shelf life”: my decision to cancel my Spotify subscription the moment you paid joe rogan 100 million dollars.

That idea? Timeless.

sortius,
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@ethanschoonover I love how he mentions stoicism. Quite literally toxic masculinity in philosophical form

sortius, to cooking
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I don't normally spruik recipe books, well, except Larousse Gastronomique - if you don't own it, buy it, or offer "favours" to get it, it's vital - but I'm feeling the urge with RecipeTin Eat's cookbook.

My ex bought it for me, and I've used it a fair bit of late. Stuff that I already know how to cook checks out, and the stuff I've cooked out of it has turned out great https://www.recipetineats.com/cookbook/

Plus, Nagi is Aussie, and I like supporting local cookbook authors

sortius, to auspol
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This is awesome news for Victorians: Victoria seeks to end draughty rentals in revamp of heating and cooling standards

TL;DR: aircon, draught proofing, and a certain amount of ceiling insulation in all rentals in VIC
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/03/victoria-rental-properties-heating-and-cooling-standards-air-conditioning-state-government-proposal

sortius, to random
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Well, my day is done.

I have 35g of legal weed, 30g of kombu, and 2 packets of Cup Noodle Seafood Rice

sortius,
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@msquebanh oh, I have a packet of Cadbury Marvellous Creations; jellies, popping candy, and candy beanies, in milk chocolate 😆

sortius,
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@msquebanh hehehe, yeh, but I don't eat sweet stuff often, so when I do, I go nuts

jpm, to random
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Hot cross buns seem to be being released earlier each year

sortius,
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@jpm wait, what? Did I just stroke out for 6 months?

Melissabeartrix, to random
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Revenge

Giggles

Hugz & xXx

https://au.news.yahoo.com/extraordinary-moment-wallaby-turns-tables-on-invasive-predator-030529706.html

sortius,
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@Melissabeartrix @mina yeh, was for hunting. Same as rabbits and deer

sortius, to random
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Biden's unwavering support for Israel's genocide is enough to convince any sane human not to vote for him, or the Democratic party.

To say otherwise is ignorant, and the reason why Trump will get another shot.

People don't vote good governments in, they vote bad ones out. Until political operatives get this, they'll keep losing to fascists

gwynnion, to random
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James Baldwin: "You never had to look at me. I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

sortius,
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@gwynnion I've long blamed comfort for it.

White people (mostly) live amazingly comfortable lives. Even me, a poor white single dad, lives a fairly comfortable life even compared to the black or Indigenous women in the same position (that literally live across the street from me).

I'm not sure how you get cis-het white men to understand this, but I know why I do and it's not from the bloody education system

sortius, to environment
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This is why I have zero respect for Greenpeace.

A crop that could save 250k-500k children in the global south, and because it's openly GM, unlike all the rice, wheat, and barley, varieties that are available in the global north (Calrose, Amaroo, etc), Greenpeace are opposed to it.

Nothing sadder than a rich white environmentalist screaming at the global south that "YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" #environment https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/greenpeace-blocks-planting-of-lifesaving-golden-rice-philippines

sortius,
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@santiago @mos_8502 yeh, if you read why they did it, there's just no market for them to comercialise it in the global north as they don't have Vitamin A deficiencies, and I'm guessing trying to commercialise it in the global south would give them less (tax) benefit than using it for humanitarian uses.

Honestly, it's a debate worth having, but I'm always going to be against kneejerk stuff like Greenpeace have been doing to these rice and wheat crops (from 2013): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-20/scientists-speak-out-against-vandalism-of-gm-rice/4970626

skinnylatte, to random
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Eating ‘fire noodles’ at midnight because I can! (Look it up on YouTube if you don’t know what it is)

sortius,
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@skinnylatte here's hoping you don't wake in agony at 3am 😆

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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We’ve put roughly 4,800 kms on two e-bikes in just over a year. ~2,800 on the Yuba (no riding Dec-March) since end of April last year and 2,000 kms on our Load4 75 Reise & Muller since the end of August, 2023. We’ve had lots of bus trips and I’m averaging only 9 kms of walking a day. Living without a car can be very fucking frustrating and limiting in a city like but I wouldn’t trade it for anything

sortius,
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@grivettcarnac I did trade my cargo bike(s) for inner city living, and while I do miss them a bit, no regrets. The main reason is the trams here in Melbourne; without them I'm not sure I'd feel the same. I'll probably end up getting a new cargo bike, just to have it, soon enough. 😆

Still, 4800km is quite insane. Even in the suburbs I was doing maybe 1500km a year. Nice work

sortius,
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@grivettcarnac for sure. I lived for a decade or so in Melbourne's less served suburbs with a trailer to start with (Thule, then Burley), then eventually moved to the cargo bike.

I've never had a license for a car, so it was a godsend.

Being Aussie, the thing that sealed it was being able to put two slabs of beer into the cargo container. I was in love 😆

stux, to apple
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needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bug

sortius,
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@stux Apple presents themselves this way, but Apple products are just as noisy, just as leaky, as anyone else's, they just have slicker marketing

sortius,
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@stux hehehe, they secured the OS from jailbreaking, unfortunately that isn't reflected as strongly in their user data security 😆

Whether it's Android or iOS, Windows or MacOS, the people making the OS are stealing our data all day, every day. It's bound to leak, and end up with "bugs" like these photos being raised from the dead

sortius, to random
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I'm seeing a lot of people fundamentally misunderstanding the difference between the ICC and the ICJ. Mixing the two up is the first tell-tale sign you should not be commenting on the ICC prosecutor's applications for arrest warrants

sortius, to random
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Aaah, great, Biden, so hell bent on facilitating genocide, has now attacked the ICC, and, by doing so, legitimised Hamas' 7th of October attack.

By dismissing the charges of the ICC's prosecutors, Biden has made clear that the ICC is wrong in all counts, and that both Netanyahu, and Yahya Sinwar, are off the hook.

I'm not sure that should sit well with Zionists, or anti-genocide groups, but that's what Biden has done.

Tell me again how he's better than Trump

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@msquebanh I just don't think they care. Centre-left parties have become full blown, far right, parties these days. The echo the same rhetoric they accused their opponents of just a decade or two ago.

America has become an utter basket case of Christo-fascism, ethno nationalism, and military-industrial complex, and that's just the Democrats 😖

sortius,
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@msquebanh yeh, I grew up with the two Bush Presidents invading Iraq, Obama was a breath of fresh air until he started justifying his drone strikes on weddings.

At that point I knew the American experiment was finished, or maybe it never even started.

As much as I think there's a large portion of Americans who are decent people, their political options are limited, and their governmental and electoral systems are designed to disenfranchise them at every turn

alexkidman, to retrogaming
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It’s Friday, which means it’s Retro Game Of The Week time! This week, who you gonna call… yeah, them, as I delve into Ghostbusters for the Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive!

#Ghostbusters #Retrogaming #Retro #Sega #Megadrive #MasterSystem #SMS
https://alexreviewstech.com/retro-game-of-the-week-ghostbusters-sega-master-system-mega-drive/

sortius,
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@alexkidman for a young kid, it was difficult, that boss was always a pain. I think I beat it, but it was never one of my favourite games

rodhilton, to random
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How many days do you suppose we have before Dropbox announces they are selling everyone's documents to OpenAI?

sortius,
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@MadiqIzichi @zmh @rodhilton yeh, they changed it after there was massive uproar about them claiming ownership of other people's stuff. Still, it might remain yours, but that doesn't stop them from training AI on it

sortius,
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@rodhilton @MadiqIzichi @zmh hehehe, that's literally a possibility for every single company these days 😖

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