Thisfox

@Thisfox@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Create a race to the bottom in the rental market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have lived in apartments in Western Sydney and in Newcastle that had less than half the apartments in the block tenanted… yet none advertised. I do not know the motivations of the owners. But it is quite common, in my experience. Perhaps they have no one pass through their doors for six months at a time or more for another reason, but I cannot think of one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The picturesque Australian town where locals can’t afford to live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t even need to be coastal for that to happen. Bloody ridiculous prices all over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2883: Astronaut Guests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Over(head) for (the duration of) dinner (well, part of it anyhow).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2882: Net Rotations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are doing that by car, then the cloverleaf will add to your spin, not cancel it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2882: Net Rotations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  New reason for us to have a keep-left policy on our roads while yanks have a keep-right policy on theirs…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So… Your values are…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Heinlein Society - Robert A. Heinlein - discussing his life and works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it isn’t. I can get there by interwebs, but not by app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Heinlein Society - Robert A. Heinlein - discussing his life and works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Nothing to see here” Darn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Everyone everywhere should federate.”

  “Not like that!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, Spock.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t really explain the supposed punchline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blowing his own horn a little bit but he's not wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. It’s a pity he wasn’t included more often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All I want for Christmas is Q⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That 12 days isn’t half as good though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All I want for Christmas is Q⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I had no idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uBlock Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh.

  Disney channel has zero commercials here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The name of the place is Deep Space 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The set doesn’t matter when the actors are simply that good. And the lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internode and Westnet shutdown: TPG moves customers to iiNet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any recommendations as an alternative? I don’t think I should surf them into the next repurchase?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coalition tells Cop28 it will back tripling of nuclear energy if Peter Dutton becomes prime minister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He is a serious creep. It’s one of those “do not get trapped in a hall alone with this bastard” vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploits of a Mom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How odd you think that. She was on my roll call for a term. I am not going to tell you which school, as doxing a student is wrong, so I guess Elle is going to have to remain a myth for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploits of a Mom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno, teachers meet a lot of students, seems likely to me that a lot of us would encounter the same kid and not forget her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploits of a Mom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Student names that really exist in my local area: “L-A” (pronounced “Elldashah” and Hazmat (shortened to Mat). Not had a Bobby Tables yet, but getting that dash into Eldashahs name was a difficult task, I am told.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Centrelink should consider waiving 100,000 debts that may be unlawful, ombudsman report finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all happening over again. Check “robotax”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. When I tried Mastodon, I gave up again super fast, and I think I see why now. Thankyou, very interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They still don't suspect anything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bester is bestest. He always gets an upvote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fan made “Star Trek: Prodigy” Netflix Poster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As an Aussie, I guess it’s “well, I didn’t want to pay for a new netflix account anyway”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fan made “Star Trek: Prodigy” Netflix Poster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah pretty sure that news is US only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Having been to new york, the new york pizza is a piece of burnt corrugated cardboard pita bread spread with grease and thin red paper near-meat circles. It is not really all that edible. It is not similar to pizza here in Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traffic lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Green!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's more of a pottery expert. But even he can see this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  OP specifically said not the endgrain, so just the other two, the ones that don’t show their endgrain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2859: Oceanography Gift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So many geeks are going to give/receive some weird presents in ten years…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Something doesn’t add up’: the small Queensland town united in its fight against speed camera fines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of people who think they can go whatever speed they like and no one matters but them. This one seems to have been deceptive, but only to people who refuse to look at their own speedo, installed in their car for exactly this purpose.