fizzle
@fizzle@quokk.au
- Comment on This fuel costs as little at 80c a litre in Australia. So why isn't everyone using it? 20 hours ago:
The ones here have taken their LPG tanks out.
- Comment on I feel like half the time someone is accused of being a bot, the accuser is the bot. 20 hours ago:
Nah, I think it’s just a low effort argument that can’t really be rebutted.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 22 hours ago:
so… no one is using that?
I had assumed it was reasonably popular.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 1 day ago:
Is jola postmarket?
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 day ago:
I admit that I’ve never truly understood martyrdom, but I think it’s notable that Trump would get thrown under a thousand busses.
He’s objectively directly responsible for a whole lot of bad stuff. Right now no one wants to blame him for anything because he’s a petulant toddler happy to wield the worlds largest economy and armed forces against you if he feels your grovelling is insufficient.
However, as soon as he’s gone I imagine that dynamic will change dramatically. What’s the benefit of sucking up to someone who can no longer shit in your cornflakes?
Instead the opposite is true - his successors will be heavily motivated to blame everything on Trump.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 day ago:
That’s true, but if you pop this particular pustule it’s not clear how long it would take for another to emerge - perhaps hears or decades. In which time there’s a chance you could at least partially address the underlying health issues.
- Comment on Government says people can 'make the call' on work from home amid fuel supply concerns 1 day ago:
I don’t think mandates are the right move for this, at this particular time.
Free market forces have already incentivised people to minimise fuel usage.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 2 days ago:
Trump has built a “broad tent” with support from a lot of different demographics.
I suppose I agree that MAGA cultists support him because they believe the same things. I think it’s more apt to describe it as Trump gives them permission to indulge their shitty beliefs, but I guess that’s the same.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 2 days ago:
This is my take.
Trump’s death won’t change the shitty people who have elected and continue to support him, but those people will no longer have a focal point.
Among all his shitty traits, he does have the uncanny ability to engender support from shitty people in a way that no one else can emulate.
Vance will be POTUS. He will reverse course on Trump’s dumbassery… withdraw from Iran, hose down Hormuz, water down the tariffs et cetera. He will try to win support from the great unwashed and the oligarchy but will ultimately fail.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 days ago:
The way I look at it is, the easiest 10% of the prep might get you most of the benefits.
A few weeks worth of water, a few days worth of tinned food, that kind of thing.
- Comment on Six fuel ships bound for Australia cancelled 2 days ago:
Actually people have been worried about house price increases for decades.
The gas price increase effects fertiliser production.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 days ago:
Hey. I quite like Canadians.
- Comment on Is giving only formula long term "healthy" for a baby? 2 days ago:
I have to wonder what your angle is here?
I’m sure you’ve googled this and seen that there’s a lot of solid science indicating that kids raised exclusively on formula are at no disadvantage.
Breast milk isn’t necessarily better just because it’s natural. If mum has any nutritional deficits, or drinks coffee, takes medications, alcohol, et cetera.
- Comment on The difference is real 3 days ago:
Pathetic.
- Comment on We hardly remember how our parents raised us when we were newborn/infants. How can we be expected to raise our own kids after they are born ? 3 days ago:
Objectively yes, my parents aren’t well educated and they are also bigots.
That said, they did their best to raise me, within the confines of the social norms at the time.
- Comment on Australians urged to work from home and drive slower to save fuel 4 days ago:
Thats the general consensus, yes - 6 months at best.
However, every day that continues makes that “best case” less achievable.
Today theyre talking about deployments indicating boots on the ground.
- Comment on Australians urged to work from home and drive slower to save fuel 4 days ago:
Or maybe… and this is just an out there idea… a bunch of world leaders could get serious with Trump and tell him to fuck off.
I’m absolutely apoplectic that on the other side of the world we have to bear the consequences of American’s enabling this child rapist.
If a handful of countries stood together and pushed back in strategic and orchestrated ways, we could end him.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 5 days ago:
Fair enough.
Im also angry at our guys in Australia. Our prime minister Albo has had a lot to say about how we’re managing the crisis and what we’re going to do, but absolutely no criticism or pressure on the one person who caused this and is the only person who can bring it to an end.
I really want Albo and other world leaders of “middle powers” to be unanimous in calling out Trumps absurd and reckless behaviour.
- Comment on How do Australia's petrol prices compare globally? 5 days ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on How do Australia's petrol prices compare globally? 5 days ago:
Sure but you’re aware no one actually drives those right?
- Comment on How do Australia's petrol prices compare globally? 5 days ago:
It is smug. Everyone knows you don’t need fuel for your EV. Well done.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 5 days ago:
Things are pretty messed up right now and its not really surprising people are looking for an outlet.
Im grumpy with the US like everyone else.
- Comment on How do Australia's petrol prices compare globally? 5 days ago:
I’m happy with my EV.
Sure but you’re aware that the vast majority of the food you eat requires diesel to produce and to transport to you right?
- Comment on Kyle Sandilands Has Been Sacked And His Show Cancelled 6 days ago:
Sandilands accused Henderson of being “off with the fairies”, and criticised her interest in astrology, claiming they made her “almost unworkable”, and claimed her fixation on astrology charts made her sound like a “drug addict”. This all happened while the pair was looking at the astrological birth chart of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
This guy is an asshole, but if i worked with someone like this i would probably tell them to put a stick in it. Privately anyway.
- Comment on Abandoned FOSS projects 1 week ago:
It can be frustrating looking for the current best alternative. Ive found alternativeto.net to be really good at finding all the alternatives and telling you which are worth a look.
With my own projects, maybe 1 in 10 make it to that kind of “ready to publish” beta quality, and most get abandoned thereafter.
Iys not really because im short on money as such. Its because im just playing around with whatever project, and quickly lose interest once it reaches that “almost kinda done” state.
I dont really see this as a shortcoming of the FOSS ecosystem.
- Comment on Despite a rate rise, Australia's CPI will likely remain among highest in the world 1 week ago:
Can we not just take money off boomers or something?
Maybe ban them from buying any landcruisers for 6 months or something.
Taking money off people who dont have any money just sucks.
- Comment on Consumer watchdog summoning major fuel suppliers to explain skyrocketing prices 1 week ago:
It’s a complex problem.
Certainly these retailers shouldn’t be benefiting from everyone else’s misery.
However, it is a crisis and the extra cost is really the only way to signal to people that they should be using less.
I think some kind of rationing is inevitable and that being the case we should start sooner rather than later. Doesn’t matter if that means buying fuel every other day, or capping how much you can have. We need everyone to know that it’s a scarce commodity.
Rationing will trigger (more) hording, and it will be better to get that out of the way now IMO.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
It’s basically this.
With the US’ bonkers electoral system, and abysmal education levels, you’re pretty much cooked.
You have an oligarchy, a captured state, a corporatocracy. Oligarchs tell voters to vote for the leader who will benefit them most.
Research suggests that it doesn’t actually take that many people to convince those oligarchs that another leader will be in their best interests. For example, if 3% of people who regularly buy things from Amazon and visit facebook and use ChatGPT, stopped doing those three things indefinitely by switching to alternatives, that would likely be enough.
However, I just don’t believe that’s achievable.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 week ago:
No.
Some people really seem to get something out of hurting other people. My best guess is that its a learned coping mechanism. “I feel bad so im going to make you feel bad and your response might fix whatever i feel bad about”.
The only appropriate response is that whoever said that is a disappointing human.
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 1 week ago:
Yes, it is two factor, it’s just that there is no additional factors required to get the TOTP.
If you don’t use a password manager then you just remember your passwords. In this case the second factor is having access to a device that has your TOTP generator.
If you use keepass then you remember the password for your password db, and to access your passwords or TOTP you need access to a device with your keepass db.