My previous account was @dumblederp@aussie.zone I left it because Rowling has turned out to be a pretty shitty person and I don’t want the association.
Mostly I’m just here for idle friendly conversation over shared interests.
I can get caught up in my own stubbornness on some topics.
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SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Global News@lemmy.zip•The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About3·2 days agoIt’s a big club and you aint in it.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto World News@lemmy.ml•Iran Says Air Defenses Down 2 Israeli Warplanes, Female Pilot Captured3·3 days agoBack in the 90s phones used Windows CE, which appropriately abbreviated to WinCE. Fuck that OS, worse than Vista/ME.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.5·3 days agoThat’s the key point I reckon “if coding is your thing” many people are trying to learn a complex thing they have no interest in.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Australia@aussie.zone•Albanese opens search for ideas to shape second-term agendaEnglish4·4 days agoI’ve got some more:
Wind back private health insurance. It leaches money from the population while providing worse health outcomes. The finance side has lobbyists to encourage the government to lean toward private health and away from public services. Private health at the very top, is just money and bankers, so when the global finance system shifts ever so slightly one way or another, entire branches of our health care services come under fire.
Microtransit. Lean on states to regulate eBikes and eScooters with some reasonable legislation. Improve micortransit freeways around the cities and frankly through the country as well.
Fast trains for transit and freight.
Remove mutual obligations from centrelink payments effectively making it a soft UBI. If people want to work they will or at least will try to. If they don’t want to work they wont. It’s a waste of money to try to punish people who don’t want to work.
Buy back our god dam services. Telco, utilities, government departments (eg, vicroads), public transport.
Manufacturing. How much fucking raw ore do we ship overseas? At least process that here into iron, steel, etc.
That Norway citizens fund thing that Whitlam got shafted over, do that.
Build commie blocks for housing in every major city on top of train stations. 1-3 br apartments, with services on the ground floors.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Australia@aussie.zone•Could this be the death of Australia's nightmarish welfare system?English6·4 days agoThere will be no change. Punching down at welfare recipients is so ingrained in Australian politics it’ll never go away. If Albo tries it’ll be the perfect campaign basis for the Libs, your tax money given free to blue haired dole bludgers that want to turn your kids trans.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Australia@aussie.zone•Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favourEnglish4·4 days agoAll her life my Aunt looked like she was on top of her business. Owned multiple houses around the world, travelled regularly, lived in the inner city of a top tier European city. She was found dead at home in her 70s. As the finances were unwound to deal with her estate, she’s flat broke, everything was loans on loans, her sister who rented one of her apartments is set to lose her housing. One of my family members commented “I thought she was good at business”, I replied that she was, she died without ever having to clean up the mess she made, her finances were a disaster and now they’re someone else’s problem.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the equivalent to women for compensating size of their dick for a man? Like someone buying expensive cars to compensate for their smaller dick.3·4 days agoBreast reduction is more common than enlargement as far as surgery goes.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the equivalent to women for compensating size of their dick for a man? Like someone buying expensive cars to compensate for their smaller dick.2·4 days agoSome guys might actually need a truck for truck stuff too.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Friendica's marketing is terrible.English5·5 days agoWhere do you place “be kind to each other” on the propaganda scale?
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.ml•All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteerEnglish4·7 days agoCan you get posts up about the free food?
Borrow a ute (pickup truck) and drive around poorer areas looking to give it away?
Contact other charities that might be able to cook it up to give to people? The Sikh’s do a lot of that where I’m from.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Cars - For Car Enthusiasts@lemmy.world•So glad I'm not a truck driverEnglish1·7 days agoThey’re going out of fashion here too but it means there’s a heap of cheap old trucks available. With our housing cost issues, I’ve been daydreaming about building a house-truck of sorts.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Cars - For Car Enthusiasts@lemmy.world•So glad I'm not a truck driverEnglish2·8 days agoIn Australia, you’ve got to show double clutching to pass the non-synchronised driving test.
Jackbox games on the PC/phones and various sandwiches cut into triangles.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Cars - For Car Enthusiasts@lemmy.world•So glad I'm not a truck driverEnglish4·8 days agoI couldn’t get the double clutching timing right, and my instructor was a cunt who got on my nerves the whole day of training. Also because they’re a gated gearbox, you’re supposed to follow the H pattern and not cut desire paths.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyz•Carbon capture company emits more than it captures | CCS illusion only delays the elimination of fossil fuelsEnglish4·8 days agoIs reforestation not simply the best way to do this?
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is some good "warm" or warmly dark/darkly warm music?4·8 days agoMoby - long ambients.
Nine inch nails - ghosts.
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient works 85-92.
There’s a whole genre called dark ambient.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is moderately severe back pain really normal at 30?3·8 days agoA doctor will order scans of the area to see if there’s anything obvious requiring surgery, otherwise a physio or similar should be able to provide you some exercises to strengthen the body. You could probably just take yoga, pilates or calisthenics classes as long as you don’t exacerbate things.
You don’t mention doing any exercise.
I block the moe communities when they pop up. e: I’m not against it, I just don’t care.