joelfromaus
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone
- Comment on Traffic pollution contributes to more than 1,800 premature deaths per year, study estimates 1 day ago:
Dodgy study aside. I’m a country bumpkin who makes it to the city every few months and I have memories from years ago of waiting next to a bunch of cars stopped at a stop light and thinking about how much it stank. Fast forward to more modern times and it’s not nearly as bad. This is just a guess but my thoughts are between stop-start and EV/HEV cars there are a lot less fumes in general at stopped traffic, which is great.
There’s no real point I’m trying to make, I just think it’s nice.
- Comment on Quiz: can you pick a Victorian from a Queenslander? How our accents change from state to state 1 week ago:
Having my millionth conversation with a Victorian about South Australians calling “power poles” Stobey Poles. That’s because that’s what they are.
- Comment on How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with? 1 week ago:
Gesundheit.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 1 week ago:
Yep. This is the correct answer but that’s not what this thread is about; it’s a nostalgic circle jerk mixed with a sprinkling of “back in my day”.
Don’t get me wrong here, I like the suggestions in this thread but literally one of the suggestions being upvoted is how the game is planned to handle servers (quick join is random and then there will be a list of community servers).
I’m fine with the official servers being random join, as long as I can pick and choose a community server. Which to state again, is apparently planned.
I’m still waiting for reviews on release to make sure they hold true to their marketing though. Can’t trust shit from large studios.
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 2 weeks ago:
Betting may as well be our national sport.
- Comment on One of the most feared man in Australian politics 2 weeks ago:
Someone needs to check his birth date to see if it’s Goebbels reincarnation.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
Unironically, COD getting delisted would probably get mainstream media coverage and legitimate outrage from people who “don’t play video games” but actually do.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 weeks ago:
Sure bud.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 weeks ago:
More like:
Man broken down on the side of the road pissed at people in cars yelling “should have bought a Toyota!” as they drive by.
Does it matter? No. Is it annoying? Yes.
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 3 weeks ago:
Yet.
- Comment on ‘Lied to their workers’: CBA’s ‘shameful act’ while sacking staff [Deceptive offshoring of hundreds of tech roles] 5 weeks ago:
This is what gets me too. CBA has the money, they can employ Australians and pay decent wages! They should be ashamed.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 5 weeks ago:
I agree! But, I also think that might be some weirdness with how the system treats lighting on the normal icons compared to ones updated with their new materials in mind.
Almost all of the 3rd party app icons I have are various levels of blurry but the system icons seem fine.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 5 weeks ago:
Just to clarify something, because I think the majority of people here only know what iOS 26 looks like from the thumbnail. Below is an actual screenshot of the iOS 26 beta running on my phone.
Just like Android, things are customisable and the icons in the thumbnail are the most egregious version of the new visuals. I find it hard to believe anyone will actually use that styling tbh.
- Comment on Wagga Wagga man charged with displaying Nazi symbols over shopfront poster 1 month ago:
NSW hate crime laws were passed in February this year in response to an increase in hate speech and a string of anti-Semitic incidents in the state.
Arresting parody that upsets Nazis to protect… * checks notes* … the Jewish people.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 1 month ago:
insert Family Guy skin tone terrorist meme
- Comment on Christopher Luxon ranked Australia's most trusted world leader in new poll 2 months ago:
Chiming in as one of the apparently many who don’t know who Chunky Peter Dutton is…
- Comment on Australia condemns LA Police for rubber bullets after quietly arming our own 2 months ago:
That would actual be pretty funny to start with. Rubber bullet stand offs between journos and the American brown shirts. You know, before USA starts “accidentally” hitting journos with $3.5 million dollar missiles a la Israel style.
Then Kelloggs releases a new porridge filled with red dye called “Oops! All journalists!” and taco serves it to foreign ambassadors in what would be a terrifying gesture if he didn’t spend the entire meal dancing on the table with those geriatric “I want to move but not fall over” dance moves.
Whether you like it or not, I had a lot of fun writing this absolute bullshit XD
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 2 months ago:
My inner monologue even said “2 delta V… wait.”
- Comment on Passing Down Power 2 months ago:
WOAHWOAHWOAH! My sensitive eyeballs!! My g*sh! For the sake of everything good, profitable and advertisable; please censor yourself everywhere on the internet. Thankyou in advance.
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- Comment on Passing Down Power 2 months ago:
Premium moth? Premium… mouth?
- Comment on Let's do it 3 months ago:
Well then, I hope you don’t hold it against me if I go first?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
This is my own experience but the past few years Windows has been extremely dependable for me and then in the last few months the updates they’ve have been terrible. I’ve seen more blue screens recently than I have in a lot of years.
All this to say that if it is 30% AI code being used then it’s very telling!
- Comment on The Coalition’s campaign has now become synonymous with fiasco 3 months ago:
The Coalition’s campaign has been reduced to moaning ‘if you just remembered you hate Labor, then this would all be fine’
And, unfortunately, it works! Some people couldn’t care if the Liberal party campaigned on becoming a tributary to the USA because they won’t even consider whatever fresh horrors the ALP and Greens and planning (as brought to you by the Murdoch Media™). Even when LNP was in power and doing whatever they felt like, it was still Labour and the Greens fault when anything went wrong.
- Comment on Last request 3 months ago:
Yep, you got it.
- Comment on “Huge win:” Federal Labor unveils $2.3bn plan to slash home battery costs by 30 pct 4 months ago:
Imo this is the best way to address renewable storage. This plus energy retailers following a model like Amber Electric that could legitimately lead to a ‘virtual energy storage’ situation where every property can produce, store and supply energy.
- Comment on Dutton slammed over threat to cut 36,000 public service jobs 5 months ago:
Considering how a similar move is playing out in the US I hope voters here find this idea very unappealing.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 5 months ago:
Hahahahahaha and furthermore hahaha.
- Comment on horizontal boogie 5 months ago:
That got me too. Like, what?! Is corpo social media so sensitive that people can’t mention a scientific name for something now? Soon when joining Facebook it’ll give users a handy infographic of allowed words.
- Comment on Damn Okarun 6 months ago:
That’s nuts.
- Comment on No rules!! 6 months ago:
My progression path through most video games.
