threeduck

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Saved you a click (or embarrassment of not knowing what one looks like from the thumbnail)

It's the tardigrade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't care about anyone's hair. Maybe you misread my comment? You can sub in any action performatively done in response to a "no".

Your misreading of my comment is toddler core.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Anybody (of any gender) that perfomatively does something solely out of spite is toddler core.

"My girlfriend told me she doesn't like mullets so I got a mullet lol"

"My dad says I'm not allowed a tattoo so now I want one even more!"

Toddler core.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I swapped to brown rice from white, found that I wasn't getting sleepy 2 hours later anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Good point, corrected.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

What's not in their jeans is probably in their genes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Key word is "state mandated", only the state of Victoria was locked down, I think COVID barely scratched the other states. I also lived in NZ at the time, and as you recall, we barely got COVID and I spent 2020 and 2021 skiing and partying. Thanks to clever leadership, not seen in the US at the time.

As for UK healthcare, I quickly researched where Australia stacked up in the world and by most metrics, the UK was overwhelmingly the best. Unlike the weirdly propagandized Americans, I don't have to do weird mental gymnastics to try and force my country at the top. I can accept facts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We keep up with the mortgage because the minimum wage here is $16USD.

The average Australian citizen pays $17,000 in taxes as opposed to $14,000 for seppos.

For that, I know myself and all my fellow Australians will never be crippled with medical debt, as going to the hospital is always free. We have the second best health care in the world, right next to the UK.

Us Aussies like to look out for each other, rather than you individualistic, seemingly selfish yanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm more privy to "_fireFox" when declaring my browser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

PNW?

Damn, $3.50USD gets you a flat white/cappuccino/latte here, I don't know if you'd find pour over coffee. And people here are upset at THAT cost, with home espresso machines taking off accordingly. I'm surprised Americans drink so much coffee at that price.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

Wait what's the joke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

$5USD for a coffee, is that normal? Is that inclusive of a tip? Here in Australia Id leave the register if they tried charging me more than $3USD, and we don't have a tipping culture (thank god).

 

After watching a lot of Some More News and Climate Town, I made the shift from Hesta (which has $2,000,000,000 invested in fossil fuels, and most recently in the new Woodside gas plant) to Future Super.

Yes, the fees are significantly worse, but if I'm putting my own financial gain ahead of the planet, I'm no better than all the banks investing in fossil fuels.

 

I pre-ordered a pair of Jennen shoes (elevator shoes, so I can be a big boy) from their online site (they no longer have the shopfront on Johnstone street) and got asked for a tip at the end. For basically changing a stock allocation assignment. I had a whinge on their contact forms, and they replied "the tip function is optional".

2 years later I emailed again, saying "I haven't bought a replacement pair of shoes, all because of the audacity to ask for a tip. I get that it's optional, but so is a cashier going 'hey give me that twenty from your wallet', and when the customer goes 'wtf??' the cashier replies 'oh lol it's optional'. You may have thought 'you know, a tip screen could give us free money! What's the harm?', and I guess this follow up email is proof of that harm. Don't bring tipping culture here please!"

I get this reply a day later, and can confirm the tip function is now gone. Loverly! Whinging may be one thing, but persistent whinging made the difference.

 
 

"Lemmy at em!" says some wisecracking character in my video game maybe, in a referential nod to a relatively niche community in an attempt to appeal.

For the past six years I've been working on Game Over, a Comedy Rhythm RPG, and maybe you'll like it?

There's a little demo on Steam and also one on itch.io which you can play free of charge! What a deal! What a sweet treat for yourself and friends!

Also I don't have a complaints form, so if you have any, please comment below and I will angrily defend myself and take potshots at you.

Call now!

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