veroxii
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- Comment on Budget 2024: "You better fucking re-elect us" - By Jim Chalmers – The Chaser 3 days ago:
Yeah Chaser nailed it. All the “assistance” is not for the people who need it… It’s simply welfare for the power companies and landlords. The ones who caused this shit show in the first place.
- Comment on Car spotting game 6 days ago:
No punching in our car. But we yell “spotto” for yellow cars.
And we actually count Teslas. Eg. Yell out “Tesla 7”. Next one will be “Tesla 8”.
Tesla record is 87 in a 24 hour period.
- Comment on HECS changes to see $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s pretty good especially for people who made extra payments that year.
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- Comment on There can only be one! 2 weeks ago:
Such an epic intro sequence with that music.
- Comment on Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID 2 weeks ago:
But I can just say I’m someone else and then they might get in trouble for voting more than once.
- Comment on Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID 2 weeks ago:
What Zagorath also replied. I can go vote anywhere. Everywhere in my region they have the same giant book with everyone’s names. They obviously reconcile it later to double check but it still amazes me as a system.
- Comment on Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID 2 weeks ago:
In Australia we don’t show ID either to vote. You just say your name and they look you up in a giant book and draw a line through your name.
Always thought it was strange. Honour system I guess.
- Comment on This Hi-Tech Bird Feeder Lets Clever Magpies Exchange Bottle Caps for Food 2 weeks ago:
That’s it. It was a ted talk. Thanks!
- Comment on This Hi-Tech Bird Feeder Lets Clever Magpies Exchange Bottle Caps for Food 2 weeks ago:
Can’t find it now but I recall a documentary where they did exactly the same thing but trained the birds to bring real money coins.
Somehow they got coins from somewhere to pay for food.
- Comment on animals you need to know 2 weeks ago:
I are a choccie Bilby this Easter so definitely still around.
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
So did you end up marrying the purple boy?
- Comment on The BASIC programming language turns 60 2 weeks ago:
I recall my dad bought a book with VIC 20 games printed. And you bet I typed them all in. And then had to debug them.
It wasn’t this one but it was very similar: archive.org/details/games-for-your-vic-20/…/1up
And this book came with the computer and taught me how to code: archive.org/details/…/1up
Such fun memories. And now I’m CEO of a software company haha.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
I was referring to continental drift. Places move a lot in under 200 million years. Eg youtu.be/uLahVJNnoZ4
So my post was a bit sarcastic that eventually it will have a coast but not on any time frame to matter to the human species. :)
- Comment on Woaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
For now. It used to a few million years ago and will again in another few million.
- Comment on North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows 3 weeks ago:
Amazon and HBO. They were doing animation for the proper shows. Not creating North Korean clones.
- Comment on Secure Operating Systems (Microkernels seems to be the future) 5 weeks ago:
This old fart remembers those discussions from the old Usenet days. You are correct and I agree. These claims are not new.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 2 months ago:
Link or comment karma?
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 2 months ago:
But they’re not being nickled and dimed. They’re being Lincolned and Hamiltoned.
- Comment on Chronology 2 months ago:
For the implication.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year 3 months ago:
Can you imagine an “intelligence” trained on Facebook posts?
- Comment on We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years 3 months ago:
Also we only see the few structures which survived. 99%+ did not make it 2000 years.
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 3 months ago:
I’m pretty sure ours was asbestos… back in the 80s.
- Comment on xkcd #221: Random Number (9 Nov 2007) 3 months ago:
I mean, how many random numbers can there even be?
- Comment on Will this run GTA 6 and why not? 3 months ago:
Jesus. Core memory unlocked.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 4 months ago:
“totally not Clippy”
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 4 months ago:
I remember those keyboard layout cutouts (were they called keyboard templates?) you got which you put on the keyboard with extra explanations of what each function key did in WordPerfect or Lotus or whatever.
I’m old.
- Comment on Jolly Old Saint Schrödinger 4 months ago:
It also explains how everyone gets exactly what they asked Santa for. Before the present is opened it contains all possible presents and once you open it, it collapses to what you expected.
- Comment on I know some of y'all can relate 4 months ago:
Wired did some great videos explaining hard concepts at 5 levels. This one handles time (and relativity a little bit): youtu.be/TAhbFRMURtg
- Comment on the Perks of ownership... 5 months ago:
Those trees sound like a neighbour might’ve poisoned them once new people moved in. Just sounds suss to me the timing etc