fizzle
@fizzle@quokk.au
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 7 hours ago:
Things are looking pretty fucking bleak, but not in a “Spanish flu in the trenches” kind of way.
The US is turning into fucked up Gilead.
Water shortages are about to be a thing.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 10 hours ago:
I’m pretty confident
confidently incorrect.
You could disabuse yourself with a quick search.
- Comment on Your photos of the blood moon from around Australia 10 hours ago:
ooh I got something similar!
- Comment on Victorian government faces backlash from small businesses over right to work-from-home laws 18 hours ago:
Sure, but how do you really manage that in a WFH situation. Is it even appropriate to say “hey I suspect that you’re caring for your kid instead of working” ? Probably not. That’s kinda what I mean by, it’s another thing to navigate that I’d prefer to avoid.
- Comment on Victorian government faces backlash from small businesses over right to work-from-home laws 21 hours ago:
Its tricky.
I have a small consultancy and employ a few assistants.
Ofc senior staff can WFH whenever they wish but with some (not all) new hires its really problematic.
For a while we advertised 40% WFH in job postings, but found it really attracted some very dubious candidates.
One person who was with us for several months wanted to WFH so she didnt have to pay for day care for her 3 year old daughter. I genuinely dont know whether people generally think thats appropriate or not. During the working day my entire cognitive abilities are focussed on my work. I cant supervise my kids and work at the same time.
Im not a HR person and i have a healthy fear of treating a staff member unfairly. Its just easier not to have to navigate these problems.
Ultimately, if larger employers are offering WFH that will place pressure on smaller employers as the culture around WFH matures. I dont think it needs to be legislated.
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 21 hours ago:
I knew this would be here but to this day I’ve just never understood the appeal.
Wouldn’t the stench just be overpowering? and linger?
- Comment on Gold Coast draws line in the sand on Trump Tower proposal 1 day ago:
Sadly I don’t think petitions count for much.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 day ago:
Don’t bother.
There’s like 4 of these idiots on lemmy that parrot these both-sides memes.
One of them posted in nostupidquestions last week asking how americans can be the ones paying tariffs because they’ve never been charged a tariff.
You can’t unscramble an egg. Just block them and move on.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 day ago:
What about short term crisis avoidance?
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 day ago:
It’s someone who was indoctrinated in September / October 2024, was never deprogrammed, and has somehow navigated the interceding 15 months without reading anything?
- Comment on Desperate first home buyers are fuelling price ‘up-crash’ at lower end of market, experts say 1 day ago:
That seems to be what’s happened here.
We bought in 2018, and the value has doubled since then. However, upgrading to a bigger place with room for all our stuff (and our kids stuff) is almost out of reach.
- Comment on Desperate first home buyers are fuelling price ‘up-crash’ at lower end of market, experts say 1 day ago:
They’re not really, the article lists them along side other categories of buyers.
- Comment on In coal country this battery didn't stand a chance 2 days ago:
Having a car accident is a risk we encounter daily. We implement safeguards to make the risks manageable.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 2 days ago:
There’s a complex set of reasons but my take is:
Trump needs a national emergency so he can implement restrictions on voting in November. He’s already cited election interference in 2020 and 2024 as the reason for the invasion. He will use this to issue executive orders banning mail in voting and to ensure ICE are present at polling booths.
Additionally, Trump is very easy to manipulate. If a couple of other leaders like Bibi and Putin said “hey everyone would think you were so amazing if you flattened Iran right now”, he would do that, 100%. Some people are saying that someone is blackmailing Trump because they have the unredacted Epstein files, but I don’t think you really need that to manipulate Trump.
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 2 days ago:
Yeah that’s fair.
Being an administrator is different, you don’t volunteer for that task because you like the attention.
I’ve done it for decades and right now I’m not doing it at all because it’s too exhausting to have as a background thread with the rest of my family life.
I feel this. I used to volunteer for some local groups but don’t presently as I have a young family and it’s all consuming.
- Comment on Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader 2 days ago:
Sure so a corporation shouldn’t be able to offer punting then.
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 3 days ago:
I have a pretty low opinion of moderators generally.
In the vast majority of cases, the people who actually want to be moderators are precisely the worst kinds of people to do the job.
Of course there are exceptions but all too often they’re doing it because they like the power and attention.
- Comment on Giant string of organic molecules on Mars 3 days ago:
I didn’t realise curiosity was still creaking around out there doing science. I also didnt realise it could conduct experiments on old samples. A sensible but extraordinary capability.
Skeptics guide podcast was saying once that even if positive evidence of life on Mars was discovered by a rover, it would need to be confirmed / reproduced by a lab on Earth before being credible science.
IIRC there’s a mission plan for an uncrewed mission to return samples from the rovers but its not funded or scheduled.
- Comment on In coal country this battery didn't stand a chance 3 days ago:
I don’t think “lobbyists” is the right characterisation here.
A significant portion of the people of this town genuinely thought that this battery was going to catch fire, and that the town would be inundated with toxic smoke.
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 3 days ago:
There are so, so many options here.
I’ve found alternativeto.net to be a great way to investigate alternative software:
https://alternativeto.net/software/mediawiki/?license=opensource&platform=self-hosted
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
Oh please.
You realise politicians make way more money when they win elections right? Do you really honestly believe that you have a better understanding of how they can win an election than they do?
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
Or maybe its because more people voted for Trump than voted for Democrats. The brutal arithmetic of democracy.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
Or maybe the dems lost because the left is mucking around fighting among themselves.
If you dont want Trump, vote democrat.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
Theres not going to be a mass vote for a 3rd party.
Absurdly unrealistic.
You can’t even get a few percent to not vote for an authoritarian felon child rapist.
- Comment on Good Match 4 days ago:
Hah. Post-Apoc fiction is my favorite genre.
In most novels amongst “the group” of survivors there’s a mousy accountant type who’s only role is to demonstrate the author’s distaste for people with these types of skills. This person usually dies pretty quick. That’s me. Am accountant. Not tall or athletic. I have an amazing skill set of things that would be completely irrelevant after the fall of modern society.
My partner on the other hand would do an amazing job. Tough as nails.
She seems to have an innate understanding of how and what to forage? Often she will rip some young leaves off a tree she found in a car park or whatever to cook up at home.
She will eat anything from the ocean including molluscs and things, and is also an expert at finding and catching any kind of seafood. I’ve seen her catch kill and cook squid, crabs, shrimp, prawns, oysters, cockles, urchins, snails, octopus, and ofc a variety of fish.
She keeps a large vegetable garden in our back yard too. Large enough to sell surplus to friends and family.
She also has a net that she uses to catch swarming beetles and crickets and so on.
She’s also a fighter. Like if someone broke into our house “I’d like to think” I’d beat the shit out of them, but she would absolutely get more punches in than me.
We live in Australia, she’s a migrant. There are very few Australians (even indigenous) who could out live her in the apocalypse.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
you’re taking away votes from Republicans
No you’re not. Conservatives will vote republican no matter what. You’re never going to vote republican.
The US has a shitty electoral system. Votes for minor parties don’t count. You know Trump is going to manipulate the coming election, Dems need to win big enough that it can’t be stolen.
If you don’t want to live in an authoritarian dystopia, vote Democrat.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 days ago:
There’s no other candidate who can win.
Anyone who doesn’t vote for a Democrat candidate is voting for Trump.
- Comment on Well that was an error. 6 days ago:
Yeah it’s only going to be worth heaps more as things deteriorate for Andy.
- Comment on Despite government help, affordable housing is further out of reach for these Australians 6 days ago:
The cost of entry level units has certainly gone through the roof here.
The cost of a 2 bedroom has increased by a third in the last 18 months.
Houses in other classes have increased but not to that extend.
The solutions are the same as they ever were but there’s no appetite to implement them. I can’t really see things improving honestly.
- Comment on Despite government help, affordable housing is further out of reach for these Australians 6 days ago:
It wasn’t very long ago that Shorten lost an election on a progressive platform that would have reduced wealth inequality and housing price growth to some extent.
Labor went to this election with the 5% deposit scheme, and the Liberals had some other demand side measure like tax deductible interest or something.
While I understand that you personally support more progressive measures, those policies just haven’t been popular with the Australian public generally.
