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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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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)

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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

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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

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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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#Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos

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

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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

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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

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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 😖

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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!


https://alexreviewstech.com/retro-game-of-the-week-ghostbusters-sega-master-system-mega-drive/

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@alexkidman I still have trauma from that game... and that boss

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@alexkidman Master System. I think it was just not designed for it, so timings were off somehow

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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?

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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

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

What a world we've created

decryption, to random
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sell your car or sell your apartment - problem solved

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@decryption ~4 months back living in the city, not once have I thought "I should get a license and a car". Hell, I didn't even feel that in the suburbs.

People are ignorant, lazy, and will always come up with ways to justify owning 2 tonnes of metal to move <100kg of human about

skinnylatte, to random
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I went to a Turkish restaurant and I told the auntie ‘no rice please’ and she didn’t really speak English but she said ‘no no rice’ so now I have rice but hey it’s actually amazing rice (and genuinely one of the best Turkish restaurants I’ve been to, as good as in Turkey omg)

She also reminds me of all the Turkish aunties I know

(It’s called Muma Kitchen, west side LA)

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@skinnylatte hehehe, Turkish rice is awesome. Do they do it with the risoni?

I normally do my piyaz pilaf with risoni, but with or without, the key to good Turkish rice is embarrassing amounts of butter (and not washing the rice) 😆

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@skinnylatte oh, no, risoni as in the pasta, mixed in with the rice.

My ex-partner's brother-in-law is a Turkish chef, from Gelibolu (Gallipoli), and he taught me some important things about Turkish cooking. The fat is like the #1 thing in Turkish food. It shouldn't be greasy, but it needs that fat to get those flavours.

They live for 100 years on the islands, so it can't be that bad for you 😆

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@skinnylatte I'll have to check her out, I'm always looking for more Turkish recipes, as I've got a number, but the kids aren't fans of most of them 😖

sortius, to auspol
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Bandt on the money, again.

Why are they acting surprised that Labor is backing gas? Labor is a party funded by fossil fuel companies, and bolstered by the MEU, once part of the CFMEU.

No one can be so naive to actually think Labor would take real steps against climate change, right? Look what the unions did to the last Labor PM that actually did

QasimRashid, to random
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In the 24 hours since Joe Biden put conditions on arms to Israel for killing civilians—Israeli MK & Likud Official Tali Gottlieb has threatened to “collapse 10 buildings in Gaza” and Security Minister Ben Gvir said “Hamas❤️Biden.”

If this isn’t genocidal intent—idk what is.

Here’s my latest on how we actually overcome this extremism: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-history-prior-to-107-that-media

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@QasimRashid not sure how you can type all that then link to Substack

sortius, to random
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Well, RFK Jr's brain worm is at least a high profile case that will maybe give people pause about their food hygiene.

It's something that I harp on about with the kids: the two most dangerous foods in the house are pork and chicken. Pork for the porcine tapeworms, and chicken for the salmonella.

Both my kids know that on a stove (not sous vide!) you get pork to 64°C and chicken to 74°C

jpm, to random
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Oh dear, old UPS battery is VERY shagged (that’s the technical term for it)

sortius,
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@jpm geez, that's at the "I shouldn't even touch it" point of its life

sortius, to random
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sigh my daughter is currently turning the double stuffed Oreos she got as a treat at the shops into quadruple stuffed Oreos

sortius, to gaming
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My ex is heaps into the idea of "10k hours" becoming mastery.

So I sent her this, with the caption "I'm a double master at "

sortius, to auspol
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Equality Australia, who were mostly behind the successful Marriage Equality Plebiscite campaign, have a petition up about Cumberland Council in Sydney importing American book bans to the local library.

I don't normally ask people to sign petitions, but if you're in Australia, we need to end this practice before it begins, so, please do sign.

Book bans are causing immense harms in the US, we don't want or need it here https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/

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