fizzle
@fizzle@quokk.au
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the question.
Rehabilitation has better outcomes than punishment. Amazing.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
Its not the individual instances but the underlying project.
Its not even the maintainers fault. Its a cat and mouse game. The devs have done an epic job of keeping up, but ultimately all of these projects are unreliable.
yt-dlp is the gold standard and provides the back end for many of these projects, but its cli only.
Ive found freetube desktop app to be more reliable than invidious. Also pipepipe for Android.
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 2 weeks ago:
This is pretty much the same comment.
Even if you drive an EV and grow 100% of your own food, every member of your community is going to be drowning in these costs.
That means they have less money to spend at local businesses, and so on and so forth.
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 2 weeks ago:
That’s not what I said at all.
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 2 weeks ago:
That’s 4.15 mate.
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 2 weeks ago:
This comment is in all of these threads.
The food you eat is produced and transported to you with diesel.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
Do any of these instances ever work ?
I loved invidious for a long time but I just gave up about 6 months ago.
Even hosting your own instance it was almost always not working waiting for a new release or workaround to be pushed.
- Comment on Why do people call Fiji and Voss Water “Rich People” Water? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe try being a little less judgemental?
I do make coffee at home in the morning but at lunch time I buy coffee because I don’t want to go all the way home.
I also some times like to buy poncy sparkling mineral water in tiny bottles because I find it refreshing. I don’t smoke, or drink alcohol, or soda, or even juice for that matter.
If you want to judge me for that I think that says more about you than me.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 2 weeks ago:
There sure are a lot of “weird” answers in this thread.
There’s nothing necessarily wrong about co-sleeping in your teens.
Some people might say your mum didn’t “toughen you up” by forcing you to sleep in your own bed or whatever.
That’s BS IMO. Much more likely that you are just wired differently and it manifests as anxiety.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 2 weeks ago:
OP’s mother has some extreme anxiety and self-worth issues
Are we seriously diagnosing psychological issues of third parties now ?
- Comment on This fuel costs as little at 80c a litre in Australia. So why isn't everyone using it? 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
so… no one is using that?
I had assumed it was reasonably popular.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 3 weeks ago:
Is jola postmarket?
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
Hey. I quite like Canadians.
- Comment on Is giving only formula long term "healthy" for a baby? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on How do Australia's petrol prices compare globally? 3 weeks ago:
Sure but you’re aware no one actually drives those right?