Fluid
@Fluid@aussie.zone
- Comment on Healthcare: How Long Do Patients Have To Wait? 1 month ago:
Well that’s a straight up lie. You can go to the waiting list data for elective surgeries in each state and territory and see that it’s closer to 365 day waiting period on average.
- Comment on Old theme ABC news link 2 months ago:
Thank you! That new design is bloody unusable
- Comment on What are you brewing? 2 months ago:
Actually nothing, turned out fine. Just experimenting with how much of a noticeable difference it makes giving the yeast a few days head start on the wort without the fruits.
There’s a lot of ‘folk wisdom’ in the brewing world I’ve found. Recipes which claim “you must do X” or “if you don’t do Y, it won’t work”. So I like to test different theories and see what’s true and what’s superstition.
- Comment on What are you brewing? 2 months ago:
Second attempt at a raspberry sour. This time, allowing a few days of ferment before adding the fruit, and a cold crash before bottling for higher clarity.
- Comment on The Aussie flag on canvas is basically complete! 3 months ago:
Took a lot of patience, team work, and negotiation. Biggest thanks goes to you eatham for driving the whole thing!
- Comment on Please allow other stuff over the aussie flag on canvas!!! 3 months ago:
Canvas has just doubled. We trying to get stars and border down.
- Comment on There is a cheaper alternative to supermarkets, but most people don't know it exists [It's shopping cooperatives] 3 months ago:
Do it. I don’t understand why more people don’t join credit unions / mutual banking. There’s literally no downsides, they have all the same services, protections, minus the fees. It’s a no brainer.
- Comment on Please allow other stuff over the aussie flag on canvas!!! 3 months ago:
Given the size of the canvas, perhaps we should just adjust the template of the whole flag down to the size of the existing union jack?
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
There’s no better ad for piracy than the greed of corporations. Don’t let ads shit in your head. They disrespect you, you disrespect them.
- Comment on After months of reviews, the government has made its first move on the big supermarkets 4 months ago:
And zero consequences for their egregious past behaviour…
- Comment on After months of reviews, the government has made its first move on the big supermarkets 4 months ago:
Oh no! A code of conduct! Please stop flogging me with that wet lettuce leaf…
- Comment on Anyone know what 'natural flavours' means on label packaging? 4 months ago:
Thanks. I guess I’m still curious. One would think there is more nutrition from consuming, say, a peach extract made from grown peaches, over an artificial representation of one though, surely?
- Comment on Anyone know what 'natural flavours' means on label packaging? 5 months ago:
Yeh I guess so, but why not just say that?
- Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 25 comments
- Comment on Recommend me a music streaming service? 6 months ago:
You won’t find what you are looking for using streaming business models. Just go back to buying your music instead of renting it. They can’t change the price, they can’t remove your favourite stuff, you can listen anywhere, and you locked into an algorithm feeding you stuff the highest bidder wants pushed.
Try bandcamp
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 6 months ago:
Thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 6 months ago:
Thanks! Good to know, that makes sense.
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 6 months ago:
Balance of probabilities? “More likely than not”? Is this usual for these types of legal cases?
I was under the impression decisions had to be made “beyond a reasonable doubt” and justice was based on an onus to prove guilt (e.g. innocent until proven guilty).
This seems an insanely dangerous way of determining guilt.
- Comment on Daylight saving has 80% support in Australia and a majority in every state 7 months ago:
It’s the wrong question. Ask if people support simply moving the clocks forward an hour and leaving it there, and I bet you will get overwhelming support. No more of this back and forth, just give everyone more daylight in the usable hours.
- Comment on The FUN WAY to Learn About BEER OFF FLAVORS | Beer Off-Flavor Jelly Beans 7 months ago:
While an april fools joke, this would actually be a real good learning tool
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
My theory is that it’s just the fact that there is always a new generation of people around the corner who haven’t learned the lesson of how capitalists work. Therefore, there is always a market vulnerable to being swindled. They can keep using the same tactics, there’s always a delay in people figuring out the grift, then by the time they do there’s a new group of suckers ready to fall for it.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
It’s taken longer than I expected, but more and more people are realising streaming services as a model are not good, by any measure.
They cost more in the long run, you are made powerless as a consumer (perpetually increasing costs and removing your favourite content), and you can’t even get ‘everything at the convenience of your fingertips’ cause the market is fragmented and they remove things periodically. You own nothing and pay more. Absolutely stupid model that deserves to die.
- Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix 9 months ago:
Why bother with making any apps these days when you can just build a web app and have it work across platforms.
- Comment on Should I buy a Fairphone? If not, what SHOULD I buy and why? 9 months ago:
Unfortunately what you’re looking for doesn’t exist. We all have been down this journey. There was some hope a few years back with Purism reviving dreams of a linux phone, but they shit the bed and now there is no viable alternative outside the big two.
- Submitted 10 months ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Please defederate from threads.net 10 months ago:
I presume this will be the case, but don’t think there’s been any official announcement yet. The majority of current servers have planned to resist by defederating.
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
Walled-gardens are fundamentally bad for communication. Discord is not a solution, it’s a problem.
- Comment on Bringing the power of books to the fediverse 11 months ago:
Anything that helps bookwyrm grow its knowledge library of books (missing a LOT of books that goodreads has) is a good idea. I fear however that combining anything which points people to where to pirate the book might not help the popularity/reputation of bookwyrm as a good OS alt to goodreads.
- Comment on Where to tryout/demo VR headsets? 11 months ago:
The privacy issues with them are very off putting to me. Unfortunately however, there doesn’t seem to be any alternatives with similar functionality at that price though.
- Comment on Where to tryout/demo VR headsets? 11 months ago:
Worth a try I guess, cheers