Daily Thread: Tuesday's (not) dead 20/06/23

I am very confused by this new platform but I managed to bumble my way here from reddit. Hi DT! I missed you.

I'm very much enjoying the DTs. I was just a lurker over at the old place and it feels lovely to be actively part of this community. Thanks guys! 😊😊😊😊

I think there might be a few of us who were mostly lurkers on the other sub. I'm enjoying this new place, so additional thank you from me too! 🙂
Welcome! How's your day going?
- Pummeled by my physio, what a morning. Got a cheese, Vegemite and paprika scroll for breakfast tho!

i was primarily a lurker and very rare contributor on the old DT but this place seems nice. hello! i thought i loved watching internet drama unfold but turns out not so much when it impacts the communities i frequent.

Stress leave letter achieved! Ya boy is laying low for a couple of weeks to gather his thoughts.

Good for you for asking (and getting)!
🖤
Nice! I asked for more time off yesterday as well to give me some more breathing space. Savings might take a bit of a hit, but I'm not going to be a good employee for another month or two at least.

While I did say earlier it was good to see the DT once again on r/melbourne, I figured it might be best to make an account here on the Aussie Zone so I can read up on happenings over here as well. Hello, once again, !melbourne.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to use the Reddit DT after seeing the content from who is left over there vs here. I kinda don't want most of them to come over, the vibe here is too good lol

We found a safe place
- Mostly been a lurker on r/melb; my god it's now a dog's breakfast over there there. So glad I moved first thing when aussie.zone popped up.
  Which reminds me, I should really donate some coffee money towards the server costs.
Haha it didnt take long for it to turn to absolute shite
It’s because the best peeps are here 😊
I had a quick flick through, and it feels like even the 3 or 4 regulars who haven't come over have gotten really aggro too

I just woke up
I'm lovin' these ditties
Fuck it's cold
Oh my poor titties.

how i wish
i have some kitties
- There is no time
  No time for pities

Years ago, I would have been raging against the injustice of this bs. I guess I’m no longer in my youth, cause right now I’m more than happy sitting this one out and just watching from the side lines. Growing up feels strange.

I may or may not have bought myself a sausage roll on the way home purely so I’d have something warm in my hands

So apparently a sub has disappeared en route to the Titanic site.

I hate to say it, but…everyone on it is likely dead

They could just be meeting up with Harold Holt
I just hope their deaths were quick and they aren’t still alive and panicking
ABC news was saying that there was theoretically still about 70-90 hours of oxygen left in the sub.
- They lost contact fairly suddenly half way down. There’s only oxygen left if the structure is still intact, which…may not be the case
Just heard this on the news! I want to hope they're okay, but wow. I can't imagine what that would be like for anyone involved.
I feel worst for their families - I can only imagine what they're going through now. I really hope it was quick for all involved
I read somewhere that it has enough oxygen for 4 days, but I don't know how they will find it or bring it to the surface if they do.
yeah

Unpopular opinion, but it seems like the mods little protest is working. Most members are pissed about all the Florida posts, 90% of the DT is people whinging about it. I don't imagine anyone who stumbles across the sub now would want to stay

I wonder if it's worth a few of us dropping into the DT to say where the real convo's at. But I also don't want all the Reddit drama to end up here so...
- I have done that on a very limited basis, but it feels like I’m a cult member handing out flyers at a train station.
- One bloke there seemed alright and was asking if there were still legends in the DT, so I let him know most of us have moved over here
- i did that at breakfast but i don't want to spam it. Would be nice if a few of us post at different times of the day
It’s brutal in there. I’ve been following the API drama, and I can see the mods point about the mod tools becoming inaccessible. but then also read that many tool may not be affected now because there’s a threshold that needs to be met to be charged, and most of the mod tools fall under it? (I could be mistaken). But I honestly cannot see how posting about Florida will get any meaningful interaction or concessions from Reddit. I mean how exactly is it supposed to help? So I think I’m also on the unpopular opinion that it’s just people having an arms crossed foot stamp with no real action plan in mind.
- I mean how exactly is it supposed to help?
  Pretty sure the goal is that it pisses people off enough that they leave Reddit. Then it's technically not the mods forcing them off by setting the sub private, it's the users deciding they don't like the theme of the sub and choosing to leave. They seem to be removing links to other subreddits, but not to other communities on other platforms.
  (The main thing that triggered this was that the Reddit admins sent the mods a message basically saying "open up now, or we will find someone who will", but they also said mods are otherwise free to run the sub how they see fit)

I'm not supposed to drink coffee normally this month because it could stain my temporary veneers, so I've been drinking iced coffee with straws. Until right now. As I sit outside this Bourke Street cafe, headphones adorned, audiobook playing while I people watch; I have before me a large, perfectly hot Melbourne coffee. A beverage I have not put to my lips since the beginning of winter.

I'll only have these teeth for 7 more days. Stain be damned.

I just discovered Aussie.Zone has a pictures community. I'm going to share some of my favourite Aussie holiday snaps there. It would be nice to get a bunch of photos in there from all over Australia, expecially if they have a bit more local flavour rather than just the aussie landmarks. So I've started with some bats from the colony on the Yarra.

can you link it? i'm coming from lemmy.workd and it's not coming up in a search
- https://aussie.zone/c/pics
- I’m on Lemmy.one and noticed this as well, if I understand this correctly,
  sometimes if your instance doesn’t recognise the community in search it’s because no one has searched that from your instance before.
  It could take a few goes of reloading the page and search again for it to work.
  I recently searched for Sydney community from my instance and nothing came up until like the 8th try.

Today is the day I ask my doctor for a cert for stress leave and I'm so nervous I feel ill. I really want to ask for a full two weeks, but I feel like that's a lot to ask for just off the cuff. It would be the perfect amount though and I would get to skip my night shift rotation which is desperately what I need.

Mate ask for two weeks. If you don't ask, you don't receive.
Tell the doctor what you feel you need. If you are stressed it is from putting your job ahead of your own needs, and you won't get better by continuing to do the same thing. Better to have the two weeks you need now than have half the time now and four weeks later because you didn't allow enough time to recover the first time.
Ask for what you need! You’ve got this!
Asking for things can be hard but you got this! You know what you need, advocate for yourself! Hugs 😊
When I’ve discussed this with my GP before, they said one week for sever stress might help, but it’s really not enough. Hope your GP takes the same approach and gives you the time you need.

I go to Coles because I love the joint. I love fucking searching for shit that should be there but it's not. So I have to make a right hand turn into the carpark and there's some wank coming out trying to make a right hand turn in to my street. He starts beeping. I wind down my window and yell "oi what are you doing mate. You've got a stop sign". His arms start screaming at me. I let the dickhead go because I'm polite and he puts his foot down and nearly takes out the car travelling straight. Urgh fuck me.

- I was gonna say like a lunatic
I hope you aren’t gathering the ingredients for the German meatloaf. It is the wurst.
- Haha. I tell you what the pictures I saw looked like a giant turd before and after cooked but that does not put me off.

Hey DT, nice to see you all 🥰 I have no idea what I'm doing!!!!!

Well join the club then, we have cool jackets.
- on our microwaved potatoes ...
Yay! Welcome! 🥳
Question, is your username batarians because of the video game Mass Effect, or is it just coincidence?
- Yep, that's why!
Yay! Welcome to the club - and yes, that club is both the DT as well as the "No idea" kind :)

You know you must be getting older when you're excited you stocked up on toothpaste that was on special at the chemist...(PSA: Oral B is only $2.49 at Richmond Traders Priceline today)

Cannings lamb rosemary and honey sausages, mashed sweet potatoes, greens, and honey carrot....

Yo I’m gonna be honest, I’m sad about all this. Like my minds struggling to contain whatever this complex mixed up emotion is. Like I said in the dt before everything blew up, I’m not good at goodbyes. And part of me just feels like this is an end of some description, like nothings gonna be the same again. I don’t like change.

I feel like the community's been broken up, and I also feel sad. Instead of being in one place we've become divided, with some at Reddit and some here, some on discord and others forming new breakaway Reddit subs. I do like the vibe here better, it is definitely much nicer and more supportive in my opinion. Maybe it's all the anger over there, or maybe I'm wary because a handful of people just closed the sub without any consideration for the users and it could happen again. I'm definitely here to stay, but I miss what it used to be as well. We had a great thing and they broke it.
Just realised ive been active in that sub for over 10 years now, the DT has been through a number of changes in that time, people have come and go, i met people and forgot them, ive had some really good times over the years. Maybe just try to think of it as the end of a chapter, if you stuck around long enough its likely that alot of the people that kept you there would have changed or moved on to other things anyway.
I miss my old mate Brian, i cant even remember his username anymore (thanks ADHD), he was around in what i think of as the peak of DT, we were doing regular meetups and we were hitting 1000 comments a day on the reg. He was a great guy, i hope he is doing well

At Syd. airport and the plane is delayed to JK for 4hrs (so far).

In the lounge though so eating all their free croissants (not going to mention the liquor shelf)..

Ouch. make the most of it!
Please don't eat the liquor shelf. It's probably not good for your health.
- Extra fibre. Good for one's gut.

PSA: r/melbourne mod is removing the links we posted directing people here (and comments telling people about other replacement subs). We will have to direct message if we want to invite someone here.

source

Jeezzz, that’s almost a declaration of war. Can’t wait till reddit implements the voting out mods system!

Fuck me, that's pretty fucking petty.
So I saw through your link that my comment was blocked as well, but when I go onto the site through my web browser I can see my comment. Still, there's posts being removed there which is something I rarely saw in that thread.
- I thought they were doing all that Florida thing to try to get people away from the sub but now I don't know what they're trying to get at. Isn't this whole operation about reducing reddit's traffic and revenue?
Hey that’s a neat little website.

that includes yours @MeanElevator@aussie.zone
- Cheers mate. The pettiness level is getting out of hand.
  I might keep spamming daily threads till I get a ban :D

Dunno if it was little fella not going down till 1 am, all this drama at work or all this other drama, but I’m beat.

Was he watching the cricket too?
- Nah, bugger just wouldn’t sleep!

What a nice end to the day, seeing more familiar faces!

Funny what a difference it makes when you have people at work that have similar common interests than you do. Not to shit on people who love reality TV, but hearing that kind of stuff day in, day out in the office is enough for me to put my headphones in and drown the noise out with whatever genre I want for the day.

Change the topic to videogames and sure enough 30 minutes goes by in a blink (to which I'm sure those who want to talk about reality TV are then chucking headphones in themselves haha).

I would rather soap operas, at least soaps talk about social issues , reality tv is just nasty
- One of my other big loves is pro wrestling, which is like... violent soap opera (in the easiest way to ever explain pro wrestling). Some of the people I know who love reality TV scoff at pro wrestling claiming it's scripted and fake. Which is true, but reality TV is no different... but at least with pro wrestling the physical element takes practice. Reality TV just seems to be "influencer A has a beef with influencer B, which influencer C tries to remain relevant".
- Most (if not all) reality tv is still 'scripted' in a way. Produces guide the outcomes and create drama for views.
  Source: a friend worked on the crew of MAFS for a few seasons and shared some inside info.
Ooooh what games?
- Had a conversation about Starfield and how one of the older blokes at work couldn't get his head around it being a Microsoft exclusive - which then sent me into a dialogue about the current Activision buyout that's going on, as well as explaining No Man's Sky and how people are comparing it and Starfield (and how the devs have to say that the games are different).
  But also a mate at work who's into RimWorld, which is weird because the types of conversations you have with other RimWorld users often leads to some really suspicious activities and then having to justify them - which is fine for other RimWorld players, but maybe not people who have either never played the game, or haven't played a videogame since Tetris on the OG GameBoy.

I survived the walk, and as a bonus the 13.6 degrees of my lounge room now feels quite warm.

Was frozen waddle and slept badly, gonna take it easy today

🔥🍵🔥🧣hot tea and scarf for you
- I love it 😀
Frozen waddle needs to get an electric blanket or more blankets? Gotta keep warm

Briefly had a look at the Australian subreddit. My God, the racism over there is disgusting. It's been very visibily brigaded by the no-campaign, yet the mods do nothing.

Really, really glad I'm moving on from reddit, if only because I'm sick of seeing this shit.

Moving this community to a smaller site will drop so many of the brigading trolls that swing by the big subs and topics. I'm suspicious of social media, all that racism could be coming from a few people with many accounts.
Thanks for the heads up, I'm trying to avoid negatives now, we all need more positives in our lives.
I'm still mad that I got banned for 7 weeks for talking about politics when other people were talking politics in a thread. And IIRC it was pretty tame too.
The Canada sub was the same with the posts about Canadian Muslims protesting drag queen story times and sex ed for kids. Full of hate for Muslims, lefties, snowflakes etc.
- trolled by wu maos

I know said yday that I was probably gonna just stay lurking but idk, I like the vibes here 😎

I'm on uni break atm but, for some reason, remembered today about the mandatory work placement/internship unit I have to do for my bachelor's. I probably won't be graduating before the first half of 2025, so I technically have until then to do it but still - suddenly stressed out lmao

Welcome! Switching from lurking to posting was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Whatcha studying?
- I would type many a comment previously but discard it before posting haha but now I'm sorta like "why not?" I'm studying a bachelor of IT!
I lurked for about 2 years on Reddit before posting.
- I eventually went from active to lurker as the Facebook users piled and and they culture became less healthy.
Yay! The vibes here are nice, huh? I'm hopeful we can keep it up and keep attracting people like yourself to drop in and have a chat!
It's a double edged sword, the ol' placement/internship thing. Like, on the one hand you're giving free labour out and if you have a job that's not in that field it can mean time away without income. But without it you need the experience to get into the market. I hate that... I hate that we don't get paid for it. It's one of the reasons why I've decided not to pursue my Masters in Counselling. I get that you need the placement hours (especially for something like that), but given the way things are going economically at the moment, losing out on a month's worth of money in the long term isn't ideal.
- Yeah exactly right about the double edged sword! I study online because I work full time in a low-paying, unrelated job that I couldn't quit in order to study full time because, yknow, the state of things currently lmao I'm lucky enough that my situation means I'll probably be OK doing an unpaid placement, but I know for sure alot of other students in my classes aren't in a similar position, and that really really sucks especially because it's a mandatory unit - it's not even something we're choosing to do to "get ahead" or something. But not pursuing your Masters, you totally get it. I hate that people need to make those sort of decisions based on financial reasons. Especially since alot of times, financial situations are too influenced by outside factors.
I kinda wished I did the internship class my course had. Oh well. Hopefully you can finish asap!
- I kind of like that it's mandatory to do it at this uni, but I also kind of wish I had finished my degree six years ago at the uni that didn't require an internship in order to graduate haha But I think that's just nervousness and anxiety talking because it certainly doesn't hurt doing one

I am cold, I am tired
Better get up or I'm gonna get fired!
- It's a poetry war
  On the daily thread
  Are you gonna join the rap
  Or are you staying in bed?

DAILY DISRUPTION THREAD: Day Shift

🤜⏰🤛bap!

Synchronised Severance Edition

Oh. Thanks, but no thanks. I don’t think I’ll be getting up today

Aww I think the party is over with the Florida posts on reddit.. my new post was removed as soon as I submitted it. I wanted to continue my 'gators fuckin in my yard' cinematic universe.

u/Snazzy21 has re-appeared on old DT and is confused. I deleted my account on reddit - maybe someone could DM him as I can't now. Not regretting deleting account though.

I finally figured out what I was doing wrong when putting links in posts. Silly me was putting the words I wanted to appear outside the square brackets and creating a link with no words to click on.

So for any other people needing a super-basic linking walkthrough, you put the words you want to show in square brackets followed immediately by the link in normal brackets. words](link)

I usually type the word(s) I want to be clickable, highlight it/them.. click the link icon, then immediately paste the link.
- Which is a very sensible thing to do. I was going with pasting the link and then clicking the icon which was really not working for me. I'm slowly learning.
I'm thoroughly enjoying the ability to ! In front of the brackets for pictures in post.

I've been trying to wean myself off this 10 year old dual-screen desktop PC for a while, it's a Win 7 and Office 2010 setup that's no longer supportable. But it's been the cornerstone of my life for a decade and I flick it on first thing in the morning because that's what I've always done. PC first, then the kettle for tea.

I bought a snazzy Win 11 gaming laptop late last year but it's barely been used. I need to sort my shit out and finally migrate to it, and today might be the day. I've got all the personal and business email accounts working, an Office 365 licence, and OneDrive cloud storage sorted. Went to Officeworks for a second monitor this afternoon (went in for a basic 24", came out with a 27" curved gaming one. Of course I did).

The new house has a study nook with a really long desk surface, so I reckon I'll be able to run both setups side-by-side, but I'm in cable hell and it's going to take some effort to unravel everything. Wish me luck, friends.

:)

- :)

I'm not looking forward to getting up this morning!

I'm up. NGL it is cold. But there is also coffee, so we're getting through it together.
I feel like my nipples might freeze and fall off if I get out from under my covers
Feels like 0C. Eek. I'm regretting that I haven't worked out some kind of smart switch on the heater to turn it on from bed.

Miss Meow and Mr Woof are both insistant it is dinner time. I think they might be on to something.

Burger time.

Time for cakeeeee

I like this using spoilers for pictures. You can replace the 2nd spoiler text with whatever you want too. ::: spoiler warning: cat

Image: cheetah walking :::

a moth/s really went to town on my good scarf

Bloody moths, they eat the best wool first.
- fucking moths will eat the wool out of a wool mix jumper, leaving weird thin patches fucking moths ate a hole in an aklanda wool jumper I got for miss seagoon , moths ate a hole in my nice zip up jacket

Work has been so fucking slow today I've actually done stuff a week early. It will most likely need changing but I had nothing else!!

I'm kicking goals today.
\ Coffee beans have been roasted and leek & potato soup has been made.
\ The new mattress topper from Koala arrived (thanks to whoever mentioned getting one sent free!) and has been put on the bed along with new sheets. Old bedding is in the washing machine.
\ A grocery order has been made and will be arriving later today - Coles gave me $10 off if I spend $100 via the app, so I added a couple of things to stock up on and bought $10 of freezer bags to donate to the food pantry.
\ I've ordered some different types of kitty litter to try, hopefully Miss Meow will approve.

And coles just told me they have substituted medium bags for the large. Seriously, different sizes are not the same thing. Annoying. Hopefully they will refund the money and I can buy more large ones.

I’ve only just sat down to relax after a long day of work and running around the place. And it’s already close to my bedtime, sigh. Now catching up on the latest Melbourne subreddit drama. Glad this place exists to avoid it all, the updates posted here are all I need to know.

Is tonight supposed to be cold as again? Last night was not pleasant. I even tried to sleep with pj pants on (last all of an hour before I went “nah fuck it, it rather freeze”)

I do have to wonder whether this who separation from the DT, and whether those that stayed behind compared with those that came in here will create some kind of rift. I don't know... this kind of bullshit feels all highschool-like to me. Could be I'm over dramatising, though.

Productive day today! Was asleep before 10 (unheard of) and slept right through, had a sesh with the coach and did a bit of tidying, then walked up to the little local supermarket to get supplies and a pastry from the little South American cafe which I was craving yesterday when they were closed.
Now relaxing on the couch while I plot my next move. g

I hate me for getting up early with all the intention to go into work and then the minutes tick by I'm like...nah...nah...nah. and I got up early for nothing.

So NOW they do a poll. Far out.

If you are a fan of eating the candy Fantales, I would recommend stocking up now as the company will be discontinuing it. I’m seeing… while stock lasts

So /r/melbourne is back and I'll be able to save my journal. Did back to April last night and will do some more later today. Was actually pretty good reading it back. No, "holy shit that's right!" moments yet, but fuck it was a relief.

Today I have been doing functional crap but finally set my delay and distortion pedals up with all associated leads and the pedals off the floor so the cats can't chew them. Its running through Aux 1 so I can again put a nice echo effect on stupid things like youtubes. Not as fun as when I used to wake and bake but still at least its all working again. Glad I kept that little piano stool. It was nearly taken to the opshop three times I think. Still need to cable up the dj setup amp and speakers but lost my motivation. Another coffee I think, pic attached so you know what heck I'm talking about if you're not a muso. If you are, in before the metal zone (yuck), it's fine.

Scored a nice red pvc jacket from the opshop, put some other recent jacket scores in for repairs, with both costing more than the jackets, but they're worth it. Bought one of those cat tunnels and the cats tired themselves out playing it, really happy with that. I bought a cheap one though and it's a bit shit but it'll do, they don't understand money.

Taking the last of my stuff I need to downsize out of my life to the opshop soon. Fuck... it's almost all done! I've slowed down in the last six weeks cos I was on a bender, but I've stopped drinking and back on top of things. Also finally getting the hang of liquid eyeliner which seems like a big step in the right direction.

Edit: Also nice to post the daily thread for you all, seriously, this place feels like more of a community than the old dt and it was great.

Is there anyway to just do a dump somewhere of my post/comment history?
- maybe this: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=InternetIsBeautiful&utm_content=t1_jnrwii1
  from this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/146q44e/delete_all_of_your_reddit_data/jnrs8q3/
- I don't know. I was laboriously copying and pasting.

if anyone wants popcorn head to the melbourne discord

I recently bought a fancy rice cooker (upgraded from the trusty cheapo kmart one button one), and this one has a smaller cup capacity (3c instead of 6 or 10) which is perfect for 2 people who don't need huge quantities of rice. Plus it made amazing rice, including brown rice which I've never managed to cook well before! Very happy hehe

Dark Chocolate Raspberry Tart Tim Tams, where have you been all my life?!

That is all.

Murray River Salted Caramel.
- lmao
- My workplace is divided as to which of these is the best, but if there's only one available then it's definitely a case of "love the one you're with!"
Whaaat

Do you ever wonder how many times you've sat in the exact seat you're sitting on in a tram? Or who else of note may have sat where you are? Shoutout to the 11 up Collins because it doesn't get as much recognition as the trendy tram lines.

Also yes I'm on the tram ding ding!

For the sake of my own sanity, I don't wonder about anything on PT. I just want to get to where I'm going.
- Same. I once saw this old man piss himself. It was really sad actually. Ever since I really don't think about what's on the seats.
I do think how many arses, feet, shopping bags and god knows what else has been on the seat that I'm sitting on with my nice clean clothes.
- Don't forget full nappies
- Yeah any clothes I wear on public transport immediately go in the washing basket when I get home. I’m not sitting on my couch/chairs etc with my germy tram or train clothes.
It kind of reminds that you still see STA seat covers on Melbourne buses, even though the NSW government privatised the STA a few years back.
Mainly because when they privatised it, they also gave away a lot of their excess bus seat fabric for peanuts.

I think the poetry has infected my brain. I keep trying to rhyme everything.

Today's the perfect weather for the soup I'll be making
\ As well as for the slices of pumpkin I'll be baking
\ They'll go in the freezer for a future lunch
\ Cause a hot vegie toastie is great to munch

Huh. TIL you can't reblock someone for 24 hours after unblocking them on Reddit

mushroom soup, two croissants, thin steak, egg, juice. Oh yes.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉

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Some still-warm choc chip cookies and a mocha please chef 🥶
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Good morning! Ooh I haven't had pancakes for a while.. May I have coffee and pancakes please.
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I'm confused, please can someone explain? So the Reddit DT is up again and some of the regs are posting there (and some here also). There's also Florida things. What's happening? Are we staying here or migrating back? Argh!

Looks like a bit of a shit show over there at the moment
- Best summary so far!
It’s too much for me to invest in two DT’s. I’m staying here until the sub has gone back to normal, if/when that happens.
I'm staying here for the time being because that shit over there is not over.
They (probably?!) did a poll on discord to decide to maliciously comply and change the sub to Melbourne, FL. There've been multiple times when they should've done a poll properly on reddit but they didn't, so some of that anger is justified. With the r/melbourne posts about Melbourne gone, many of the usual post-commenters are angrily commenting on the DT. I'm staying.
Mods are in protest of reddit forcing them to reopen by changing the rules of the sub to be about Melbourne Florida. A lot of other subs have done the same, but the r Melbourne mods havnt gone about it in the best way.
I agree with the malicious compliance. But having a DT amongst it feels... Weird? Like I stated yesterday, I'm staying here unless everyone decides to move back over to r/Melbourne.
Imma staying unless or until everyone (except Bacon) goes back.
Hell, Bacon and I can chat among ourselves if necessary. ;)
I feel like home is where you make it. At least this has all the vibes of DT + Melbourne for that matter without the daily wrecks that seem to be happening.
All of it has just been too weird and I just want some calm.

Ahhh yeah, tea has kicked in. The only thing I don’t love about tea is how long it takes to hit. Unlike coffee which is heaps faster!

in hong kong we take the why-not-both approach
- Yeah nah, I learnt from my dirty chai over the weekend.
- Yessss my fav. Esp w a big spoon of sugar. Only hot drink I need sugar in

Had a persistent tickly cough for weeks so I've been trying to get a lot of sleep, today woke up from the worst nightmare, woke up crying and I'm still a little shaky. Fuck you terrorists. 😭

That cough has been making it's rounds. I'm on week 2 of it, half of my team is on week 3.
- Mine went the other way and resulted in a nose that would drip freely. Wearing a mask helped greatly when I was out and about, since I could stuff tissues up each nostril without anyone knowing.
- hugs
  it took a week of extra sleep and lots of bisolvon lozenges ( which have nasty sugars but I thought a week of gas was worth getting rid of the tickle )
Hope you’re ok. I hate those kind of nightmares.
Oh no!!!

Are we East Berlin or West Berlin?

Just went out to bring the bin in and it looked like I'd taken up smoking again, fookin cold!

It's going to be 4c again tonight.

Perfect sleeping weather :)
- especially with extra blankets for that nice, weighted feel :)

My work schedule has changed from 10:30 starts to 11am starts. But I still have to wake up early today so I can go to Vicroads and my jobseeker. Ugh.

job and jobseeker...urgh
- I'm happy that we're starting at 11, but yeah I wanna sleep in D:

My motto is if you fell asleep you needed it.
How long did you nap for?

Time to get Mr Woof's walk over with. 5 degrees, feels like 2.6 🥶

I have discovered the secret to getting through a full workday in the office without feeling like a nap. Please don't do the maths on how much sugar I had today...

Energy drink (Kiwi Mother in this case) for breakfast
Large coffee with 2 sugars for lunch
Medium coffee with 2 sugars at 3:30pm with Work Dad
Get interested in learning how to do some NQL scripting and manage to extract some juicy data to share with Work Dad and Work Grandad
Blast some feel good folk & acoustic tunes through my headphones

Current favourite song to sing to: Ashes by Celine Dion (same song played on the soundtrack for Deadpool 2)

Favourite song to dance to: Cupid by Fifty Fifty

I was extremely disorganised with dinner prep which means I'm having a third of a leftover chicken thigh and some stir fry veg for dinner. Man I don't even remember when this chicken was from lol.

bolognese and pasta made and eaten last of my jumpers washed ( I'm washing them all as real winter hits) of course it has a moth hole in front now 🤬

Does anyone have specific ways to budget? Whether this is using apps or specific spreadsheets? Budgeting is hard, and especially with ADHD I'm like "ooo money" and I've gotten into some serious trouble from spending money and forgetting about the responsibilities I have. There's the 50/30/20 rule which seems pretty doable. I might change my health insurance to be paid monthly instead of the fortnight it was originally set due to being paid fortnightly (this new job will pay me out monthly instead).

Hey @baconmash@baconmash@aussie.zone I've been scrolling through the DT and I've seen a couple more regulars. I don't recognise like 90% of people there, and I think some of them may be here already (but my memory is just no good today, and they aren't on the spreadsheet). Have they been messaged and decided not to migrate, or were they forgotten?

nufan86

BIG_YETI_FOR_YOU

~~AlamutJones (they are on the sheet, but just have a -- for the messaged section)~~ wow I should definitely read the sheet before jumping to conclusions next time

HurstbridgeLineFTW

futtbuckicecreamery

(did we hear back from mr-snrub-?)

awake-asleep

MajorBear

laughsabit

mazquito

Notyit

I posted in there and received a response from MajorBear saying they're "old and don't like change".
I think we're just going to have to live with the idea that we're going to be a little fractured for a time. Maybe we'll end up together again eventually. Hopefully we do.
- Fair enough. If they don't want to come, we should deffo respect that. Just don't want to forget anyone or it to seem like we're excluding them!
I had messaged ghostghost31. They’re taking a break from online stuff, but knows where to find us.
also epicpillowcase didn't come over - has anyone messaged her? I've deleted my account or I'd do it. Haven't seen justkitten either tho she may be taking a break from screen time.
- I messaged epicpillow. They replied and might join us here.
- A few of us have messaged kitten. I haven’t heard back yet, at least
- Yeah i messaged epic too.
MumJones is here
- lol, i should read the sheet properly next time. Idk how I missed the gigantic PRESENT
- When did I become Mum? Am I Mum?
No they had not been messaged (I hadn't messaged mr snrub yet) but I guess we don't have to anymore unless we want to personally invite them over here? We've been posting our link there rather often. I'll keep doing that every morning at breakfast time.
Hi darl

TIL that if I buy or get something from a rich company that morally I shouldn't have to pay for it and it's ok if I stiff them. ( but aren't all of us in the West rich compared to 90% of the rest of the world? )

I haven't forgotten about this daily thread, it's just out of sight compared to reddit so ends up out of mind'

Finally. Rain has stopped. Lunch over. Covers off. Let's go fellas.

he he, nailed it

#Worldle #515 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 ⭐⭐🏙️🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

🙃🙃🙃 of course the VicRoads near me doesn't renew licences. I have to go to freaking Dandenong. UGHHHHHHH

Edit: so I have to go to Dandenong before work to renew my licence. I'm gonna go jump off a cliff.

Edit²: someone at my jobseeker place is offering to take me to Warragul to get it done tomorrow. So that's very nice of her.

the cliff is even further away
Paky? Yeah it’s bullshit hey.
- Just like wtf? Why?
Mine came up during covid lockdowns, and it was all done remotely. Pity they couldn’t keep that system.
- Do you have a full licence? Mines just renewing learners. It's weird that you have to go in for renewing learners, I get like if you're getting your for the first time but this a renewal. Very weird...

Okay, fam. Over my bedtime again. Catch you on the flipside! <3

Oh this fucking bullshit. I've waited all day for this. I am not happy. Boooo. Anybody else waiting for the cricket to start?

Hey brains trust, I need your help with a translation.

Does anyone know of/can think of a word that’s the same/similar to ‘automaton’ that has a bit more… humanity to it? The original uses the word ‘sleepwalker’, but that doesn’t really work well in this translation. Automaton fits a lot better but is too anachronistic. ‘Zombie’ is also anachronistic and is out.

I’ll include the segment I’ve translated so far below under spoiler tags because it’s not exactly pleasant to read. So don’t click/read if you’re not feeling it. Context for those that don’t know: Hiroshima survivor testimony.

I’ve been staring at this word for like an hour trying to work out the best fit.

I was on autopilot?
- Yeah this was the first thing that came to my mind too
- Was autopilot a thing in 1950? (Sorry, should have mentioned when the text was actually written)
  Even if it was, I’m not sure a young woman that grew up in Imperialist Japan would necessarily know what it was.
  There’s plenty of modern words that I can use, but I’ve hit a wall for words that are era-appropriate.
Automaton seems fine to me - has been in use for a long time too - pre-dates WWII. I think it once referred to clockwork mechanisms certainly since 17th/18th century. Such as those gifted to chinese emperors etc. This seems to fit your context. 'autopilot' is anachronistic, but would fit with current usage.
- Hmm 🤔 ok, good to know. I’ll have to do some digging into its usage.
  My other problem with it though is that it kind of strips the ‘human’ aspect of their experience away. That’s how it feels to me, anyway. Do you get that feeling when you read it?
  It’s also maybe slightly too high of a register for the way this person writes/talks.
  This is so hard 🙃
a sheep without a flock? too many words yeah?
- That could definitely work at some points that the term has come up, especially as an equivalent simile (and I’m going to steal it and store it away for the next time I comes up). Not quite the same thing here though 🤔
To me that sounds catatonic.
undefined> Before I knew it, I became an automaton, not knowing who I was or where I was going.
before I knew it, I went with the flow, not knowing who I was or where I was going.
cyborg?
humanoid apparatus? (if two words fit)
- Too modern for a text written by a country girl in 1950 Japan, unfortunately.
Well it’s really a condition caused by a rapid and severe onset of mental distress otherwise known as “shock”.
So one could work around the clunky sounding name of automaton or sleepwalker by describing with synonyms for shock, such as “fell into a stupor” or something similar.
I know you’re a smart cookie and probably thought about that already but sometimes for the sake of reader engagement a little leeway might be made?

I'm creating my uni timetable with a bit of a dilemma.

Do I have classes on two days of the week and jam them all together, or do I spread it across three days and spend the two days where I only have two or three hours of classes watching lectures on campus so I don't get distracted at home?

My pros of the three day: more time on campus, will force me to wake up earlier as have to be on campus early for three days of the week Cons: more time commuting, might want to go home after two hour class and might not be worth going all that way for such a short class.

Thai pumpkin soup and roti is starting to exert its pull on me. I will dine after doing my Duolingo

Thank you Hongo :)

Nawww. It's a Cat Stevens reference. Thanks Hongo ☺

Everyone ok if I do the Wednesday post? Unless someone else really wants to do it?

Today is going alright I guess. got the security alarm settled. waiting to hear back from the lawyers that I enquired about ppsr removal. contacted gray's online and wrote an email to teach them how to do their job. some packages come in XD and I finish my catch-up Japanese class. looking forward to Friday as I am going out to see the lightscape at the botanical gardens. tomorrow I got a lunch gathering, a dental surgeon appointment and maybe I might hit up the night market and queue for the latest ramen shop that opened in the CBD. backto playing more diablo

What’s PPSR?
- personal properties securities register. it is like a security bond

I was cruising for German recipes and I came across hackbraten (German meatloaf). This will pair nicely with my chocolate bavarian that's been in my freezer for the past 3 weeks.

More people should get around kaiserschmarrn.
This recipe says it’s Austrian, but don’t tell that to my Bavarian friend who first introduced me to it/made it for me!
- Ok. It had me at rum-soaked raisins.
Can I interest you in the Turducken
- Frankenstein poultry does interest me.

Made some spam, kimchi, fried rice... Though of course when making it I made a bit too much to fit in my Bento lunchbox. Means I'll have to have some on Thursday... I wanted to reward myself with sushi aww... Oh well.

I think I have finally fixed a problem with my computer going to sleep and not waking up. Some sort of virtual keyboard that had a driver installed was blocking it from responding to my actual keyboard while in sleep mode. I still haven't worked out why it was going to sleep when the settings were set not to.

husband is trying to watch tv thru a 3rd party app, it sucks.

I'm not usually one to do this but I am rugged UP for bed tonight! I own these flannel PJ pants but usually they're just for movie nights on the couch. Tonight they get a run at what they were made for coz I'm one freezy bull. Shits about to get real cuddly up in here.

Does anyone have a fridge that makes a moaning noise, mine started doing that a few weeks ago. Trying to figure out if the fridge is making those noises or if our neighbours are just overly passionate 24/7…

Have you put some really delicious food in it?
- I would say it’s quite good ngl
Could be due to the colder weather/air circulation. Do you have a thermometer?
Check the back to make sure it's not covered in dust
The compressors on older fridge sometimes do that. Just ensure the compressor coils and fan get a decent clean. In fact clean them anyway, it will run more efficiently.

On mobile what settings do you use to make the text here smaller and easier to read.

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/14e98cv/rmelbourne_community_protest_poll/

The fuck is this shit?

Sir, this is a Lemmy
- can i have fries with that
That space between conception and death?
Unless you're referring to this DT, in which case, it's a mean's to an end and a blessed alternative considering what's going on in the Reddit DT.
- Reddit DT seems mostly fine to me?
how does this offend you?
- Who says I'm offended?