Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 24 Oct 2023

Got the news - I'm an honorary auntie!

I made it to the next round of interviews!!!

Meeting the CTO on Friday. Here we go!

Sydneys metro FUCKING ROCKS

Ted Cat is so happy to sit outside in the fresh air and warm sun.

So much for WFH. Back into work every day till Christmas BC tradies are doing works on my apartment building.

L A M E

Started on Red Dead Redemption and boy this outlaw life is tough. I'm just trying to make an honest living helping collect a few debt payments, someone gets the wrong idea and next thing I know there's a bounty on my head. I go in to town and get it all cleared up, get on my horse because I want to get back to camp ASAP, and BAM. Major horse collision. I go flying, other rider is dead, and the law's after me again! I try to run and in the chaos someone else runs under my horse and gets trampled, things are flying everywhere. I try to hide out in a backyard but they track me down and I shoot a few men before dying in a hail of bullets myself.

Oh well. At least I'm not a vampire.

Outdoor furniture is hard to buy. It’s either super expensive or cheap crap that 50 online only stores are selling. I just want a nice wicker sun lounge. Thought I’d found a nice one in a shop but it was tiny and plastic. Sigh.

Sometimes I deal with people with really fucking fun names

The colesworth organic butter block is delicious and cheaper than western star.

hello

Welcome to the Black Parade is 17 years ago

that is all

I don't like Sydney

Edit: no, it's the accomodation I don't like

Halfway through the first day at my new job, the panic/anxiety is palpable, but I think I'll be fine. Just have to remember that not only am I starting a new job, I am also stepping out of the shift work bubble I had built over a a very long period of time.

white bread tastes way better than wheat bread but whenever i eat wheat bread it's HP +10 so i must eat wheat bread

Popped over to the other place via a search and there seems to be a lot of different people in the DT. There are a few regulars I wish had come over here and some have disappeared. That sucks.

It’s a lot quieter here which can be frustrating but at the same time it feels a bit less toxic.

All in all it’s a nice spot.

I've made a mistake, I decided to make 3 small paintings for a colleague who is about to go on maternity leave, I bought the supplies and all but I haven't got a single ounce of inspiration or desire to paint...help.

Ouch, forgot how much finishing at 5pm to be home by 6pm (if you're lucky) sucks!

Can I ask for a little mod help from the lovely people here?

I have a report for the "Gigi Hadid TARGETED By ISRAELI STATE Online" video sitting in the worldnews community. I'm at work and not in a position to review/moderate it. It has been downvoted, but anything about Israel/Palestine is currently likely to get brigaded by either side. You can't actually trust the votes alone.

Both the poster and the report are non aussie.zone users. The poster looks like a human (not a bot account). The video looks like it might be a legit news source, but I can't download it here.

We don't remove stuff for being controvertial if it's legitimate. We remove for being lies/misinformation - or if it's showing dead bodies or something on that sort of scale.

It is almost moot - sitting at -5 votes, nobody who doesn't visit the worldnews community directly is even going to see it. But, should it be removed?

Side note: This is exactly the sort of reason I name communities something insular to Australia. Someone is posting to all the "news" communities, including ours. It's why our music community is not called "music". An outside will never find it and spam it all up promoting their soundcloud.

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Good morning. Miracle of miracles, I'm well rested

Nothing beats getting stoned, and watching all the random foxtel channels, when your stuck in a regional motel.

balcony garden nearly finished, then just have to do some repotting and planting . 😊 The cats love it there. 😸😸

Getting the optional rubber strips inserted into the bottom rail of my blinds was a smart move in this windy weather, when your blinds constantly bang against the windows/walls.

I know some people get angry when they hear Donald Trump talk but I can't help but laugh. He's a hoot. 😂

So there's an op shop in Mordi that currently has a display of dolls in the window, including three knitted golliwogs. Are they not considered offensive here? These stopped being OK in the UK decades ago so I was shocked to see them for sale here.

Back from the supermarket(Woolies). Frozen fries homebrand has gone up in price again.

4 dollars a pack now 😢

I went for a walk and now Google Fit is happy with me. Also it's heckin wimdy in Docklands, shocking absolutely nobody.

Ferry's are such an acceptable way to travel when done right. We don't really have the right geography for it in melbs, but they're so awesome

Also I noticed the sheer amount of people they have up here in the public transport sector here. They still have conductors ("guards") on the trains + a station staff member who whistles and raises a white flag signalling the conductor to signal the driver to go. It does seem like potentially a bit of overkill, and also the whistles are so damn loud I have a headache, but I still think that's a better option than the one we went with (privatising everything which of course results in literally everyone being sacked except the absolute bare minimum they need to run things)

This COVID thing is weird hey... Finally felt like some soup, but the chicken and rice with lemon soup tasted decidedly like spicy lamb soup.

chicken salt update: Woolies moorabbin on the way to trivia only had masterfoods chicken salt blend.

This is not chicken salt. It does however, resemble a very nice creole seasoning I have from USA foods, heavy on the salt and onion notes. Quite nice as a seasoning, I do recommend to try, but do not be under any misapprehensions that this is chicken salt.

sky so pretty

Made myself some late night scrambled eggs. I'm rewatching the Sopranos for the god-knows-how-manyth time and it reminded me to try sour cream in scrambled eggs.

Not bad. I'll try with a bit more in there next time though.

EDIT: HOLD THE PHONE THERE'S A LIVE 1987 TMNT FULL EPISODE MARATHON ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/live/spsEqQJeWyE

A bit windy out there today. Cut the morning walk a bit short, and it's good I did because it was just starting to rain as I got home.

I managed to tick off another of my gardening wish list items from a neighbour's hard rubbish pile too. The list primarily consists of any decent sized pot I can use for my new side garden, and today there was a pretty big old terracotta pot out. I grabbed a few plastic pots and a roll of garden edging yesterday, which combined with the sections of pipe from the building site over the road is giving me a quite decent collection.

Bleh, windy day's not helping my hay fever today at all I feel.

thank fuuuuck I keep a spare PSU about. 'nuff said.

birthday week but doesn't feel like birthday week.. im getting old! i was at my cousins birthday earlier this week and she asked what im doing for mine, and i just sheepishly said probably something lowkey (read: just chill by myself at home cuz dont have people that would actually care). i mean, she would, but felt kinda pathetic asking so didn't bother

/rant

Hmm Mackerel vs Herring/Kippers. Which should I get to mix in with a pasta sauce?

Received a letter from the conveyancer, applied for some necessary certification, waiting on a callback from the lawyers who handed my mother's estate to have them transfer the electronic title to the conveyancer.
All this adulting...

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Car insurance set to swap over on Thursday and my Linkt toll account too. I do enjoy that I have the option to not have a stupid citylink tag installed in my car and just pay 55c extra each time I use the road for a "video matching fee", considering how infrequently I use toll roads.

The only other car related thing to optionally do is look into dashcams. I promised myself a while ago that if I bought a new car I'd get dashcams installed but I wouldn't bother on my existing car. Time to try and wade through the sites which are clearly paid to promote specific dashcam brands to find what's actually worth the money!

I've come to the conclusion I do not like Sydney. I think I might cut my trip short and come back tomorrow