joelfromaus
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone
- Comment on sad spinosarus 25 minutes ago:
To shreds you say?
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 8 hours ago:
HAHA So True!
- Comment on Australia hardware chain breached privacy with facial recognition — commission report 1 day ago:
Drink … snag
- Comment on frfr 1 week ago:
That’s bussin 💯💯
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 5 weeks ago:
…legislation that would force women seeking an abortion after 27 weeks and six days – an extremely rare occurrence – to be induced, to deliver the child alive.
Emphasis mine.
That’s 10 weeks early. I’m far from an expert but that’s extremely premature, right? Like, that baby is going to be in a very precarious place for a significant amount of time, yeah?
Again, I’m far from an expert but that seems horrible for literally everyone involved, especially the child! Possibly leading to lifelong health and developmental issues.
- Comment on New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows 5 weeks ago:
One reason why I was aiming for a white car for my most recent purchase didn’t even get a mention; heat.
My family has always primarily owned coloured cars, dark blue and maroon, but I went from owning a black car to a white one and the cabin temp difference on a 30+°C day was staggering with the white car being much more tolerable.
- Comment on Infinity 1 month ago:
It’s how new Lemmings are born.
- Comment on Starlink tells Brazil it won’t block X until government unfreezes its assets 2 months ago:
Musk wrote that “unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of X and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too.”
A totally normal, non-dystopian thing for the billionaire head of a
mega-corpnormal business to say. - Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 2 months ago:
Centipedussy.
- Comment on High ceilings are correlated with a lower exam score 4 months ago:
So if you live in a miners cottage with 9ft ceilings you’re destined to fail? /s
- Comment on Singlehood is on the rise around the world. New evidence suggests many single people are choosing to remain single and living happy lives. 4 months ago:
Yep, that pretty much sums up the situation I was in while in a relationship and the situation I’m in now. Sometimes I look back on it through rose-tinted glasses before reminding myself that I’m much less stressed now.
- Comment on Putin arrives in North Korea for first visit in 24 years 5 months ago:
Probably even brought out the fresh toilet paper for the loo’s.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Australian Petition - Open for Signature Until **20 May 2024** 6 months ago:
I’m doing my part 👍
- Comment on India's Modi government operated 'nest of spies' in Australia before being disrupted by ASIO 6 months ago:
It’s even funnier when you look at the essay of an article. The bot did the equivalent of forming an opinion from the title.
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 6 months ago:
Signed! We need reform on how aging games are handled to protect ownership of paid products and the only way publishers will do that is if they’re forced to.
- Comment on Nerd Update 20/4/24 6 months ago:
“Get out ‘o me swap!”
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- Comment on Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later? 6 months ago:
All of the lemmy.world communities I follow are showing weird imo. All the posts still appear on my feed but with a single upvote and no comments.
It’s a bit of a shame because a lot of the more active communities I’m subscribed to are lemmy.world ones so it’s not as easy as finding alternatives.
- Comment on When historians are trying to credit the invention of generative AI, they may have to hunt down that one social media post that started the "use only auto-complete to finish this sentence" trend. 7 months ago:
The original LLM.
- Comment on rejuvination 7 months ago:
Drums. Drums in the deep. They are coming.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Don’t forget Steam Link! It’s one of my favourite features. You’re not even really tethered to any particular device to play your games since so many devices support the app. I play games that are single-player “console” style games in my lounge room for comfort and Steam Link means I can use my very good PC instead of buying into yet another console generation.
- Comment on Calling things "fat" or "heavy" is fattist. We should all say "rotund" instead. 8 months ago:
And last night her and I were getting hot and rotund.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
It’s only eating out if it’s 69%, otherwise it’s just sparkling oral.
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 9 months ago:
No you don’t understand, this 9-to-5 job that’s slowly but surely wearing me down is just a stepping stone to my millions of $$. That’s why I keep voting for tax breaks for the rich; because I’ve just been temporarily down on my luck for 30 years. /s
- Comment on 'Dark day for Tasmania's harness racing': Long-awaited report makes findings of race fixing, animal abuse 9 months ago:
Whaaat. Jeez, no. I’m shocked, shocked to the core, this is my shocked face right now. Just wow, who could’ve thought.
- Comment on Man accused of sending 17 million scam texts in a week also allegedly had passport and licence details 10 months ago:
His wife met him outside court and as Mr Su picked up a small child, she demanded the media stop filming the child.
Real classy people. Hope they through the book at this guy, the amount of SMS phishing scams the last couple of years have been absolutely ridiculous.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 10 months ago:
“Cancel culture is running rampant!” - Peter Dutton discussing Peter Dutton, probably.
- Comment on If Skull and Bones came out and was a 10/10 what would your user review look like? 10 months ago:
Before I go into this I want to preface that I love Sea of Thieves (SoT) and it is almost definitely my most played game.
It’s funny that SoT is a culmination of pretty much all of the worst parts of gaming business culture lately and is still a great game. It’s a game as a service, has a cosmetic micro transaction store, premium currency, predatory micro transactions (change character appearance or ship name), released with bare bones features and constantly introducing bugs with every update. And yet it’s also one of the biggest success stories using all of those components. It wasn’t abandoned like some games as a service cash-grabs, the game has quadrupled in features and content, the cosmetics are (mostly) kept well on-brand for the universe and the team regularly communicates regarding both success and failures.
With all of that in mind; ever since I started playing SoT (a week after release RIP Day 1 eye patch) I’ve had a few mates, who’ve never played SoT, tell me it’s a shit game and that Skull and Bones will be a much better game in a
monthyearwhen it comes out.I’m always excited to see good games produced even when I’m not intending to play them but Skull and Bones certainly seems like it’ll be another cookie cutter POS game shat out to claim tax on the loss and shut down some time after. Thank goodness we have at least one good pirate game that’s still going strong.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
I stopped using wired headphones before I had a device without a headphone jack.
I found the cord infuriating, always seemed to get caught or tangled on things, always making sensitive skin contact (like just beneath my jawline) where I was forever readjusting it and sometimes the cords lifted the headphone out of my ear.
Conversely, I’ve had three pairs of wireless headphones. First pair didn’t like getting christened in the washing machine, second pair is still going strong and third pair are AirPod Pros I bought before a flight for the noise cancellation which are also going strong. Maybe I’ve outsmarted the whole of Apple’s engineering/marketing department but I’ve never felt like the sets I’ve had are underperforming on battery life and have no reason to buy sets to replace the working ones I have. The small conveniences, like not being tethered to my phone and freedom from cords, have absolutely made the change to wireless worth it to me.
The biggest and most obvious downside against wireless headphones is compatibility and price.
- Comment on Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says 11 months ago:
Everytime I consider buying an EV I do some research and they always seem to have all of the bells and whistles. Then I get to price and it’s like $60,000+ and I can’t help but wonder how much cheaper it could be without all of the added features.
