• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Does anyone else have a cheese fetish?

    I just bought 6 different cheeses - burger cheese, cheese sticks, Mersey Valley, pecorino, laughing cow (one fridged, one pantry). They all have different applications.

    And I have more in the fridge already.

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    Jubilee is the worst character in the X-Men cartoon. Either the original or the new one.

    Every line of dialogue is nails on a chalkboard.

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    Well it’s happened. A good friend of mine, who suffers from major anxiety from childhood emotional abuse, has finally caught covid. In spite of double masking everywhere outside the house and all possible precautions. These new variants are sneaky to the max. Take care out there peeps.

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      A mate if mine who is similar copped it recently and narrowed it down to a couple of interactions at shops (not masking but a pretty careful person)…if it helps they were sick for about 4 days then boom. Better. Well but of fatigue in the following week but just like the flu.

      I have started masking again on the trains etc.

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    I’ve been watching video essays about movies and the thought occurred to me

    A Christmas Carol is a time travel movie.

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    It doesn’t matter how much you’ve seen of the photos and accounts of the atomic bombs in Japan, the museum at Hiroshima still leaves a real impact on you. The crowds are huge though, I’m very glad I booked a ticket to enter the museum earlier (7:30-8:30) and take my time without navigating hordes of school students and tourists

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      I visited the museum last year. There were people in tears after going through the main section. There’s really no sugar coating that very dark part of history, so impactful.

      When you come into the light and massive windows overlooking the peace park after the main section, it’s a nice snap back into the somewhat peaceful present.

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    5 months ago

    I put my phone on do not disturb this morning and forgot to turn it off. I was wondering why my emails weren’t going off like usual, but I wasn’t going to question or!

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    Today has been a good day. Lovely sunshine; I’ve got an interview lined up for next week for a job I really want; I went and checked out some art; I ran into a friend; and I ate cake at Brunetti.

    And now I’m home with a fluffy cat on my lap and a cup of tea in my hand.

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    I didn’t have to do the complicated blood tests today but I will soon.

    My Minecraft bees absconded so I built a glass hothouse and trapped the new ones inside. I proceeded to watch the little buggers clip through the glass and escape multiple times (retrieving them with leads)

    Edit: Found a missing glass block in the ceiling which I’ve patched. But it looked like the bee popped out the side, and the wiki says that they can clip through sometimes. I’m hoping that’s fixed the issue. I took away the dandelion in there and will see if they can pollinate the glowberries without anything else there, and if that results in honey

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    Of course it’s Aussie Boomers who didn’t have to do their national service, who share facebook support for Rishi’s proposal.

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        It only ended in 1973, so yes the first ~10 years of boomers would have had national service. Even worse: Those kids would have been drafted to go to Vietnam.

        Imagine being the last kid called up. Born a day later, you’d be in the clear!
        Imagine being that kid born a day later - missing out on the draft to Vietnam by a day!

        Whether they were personally called up or not, they absolutely were not in favour of national service at the time.

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          My brother being one of them. He missed out on inclusion in the draft by one month and 3 days. FYI: inclusion in the draft was for every male over 18 on January 1st - then there was the lottery for who actually got picked to do national service. You could apply for exemption from inclusion on religious grounds, ill health such as blindness or missing a limb, family responsibilities (elderly parents yes, kids no), attendance at university (free at the time) and employment in essential services (police and doctors mostly but also some engineers). This had to be done before the lottery, so that in theory everyone called up for national service was available to ‘fight’. If you applied for an exemption, but they hadn’t processed your application when your number came up in the lottery, they usually did their best to put you in a non-combat role until the application was processed. So many exemptions were applied for that there were years long delays in processing.

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          The birthday lottery. Random birthdays were picked out and if you were male and of a certain age you’re off to fight in a war you had no business being in.

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      is a job, not all national service is military, it can be in all kinds of jobs and departments

      I would rather they were just guaranteed public service jobs, that might actually help society, jobs like helping the environment and community service

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        I feel national service would also include community services, clean up, fixing things, elderly care, etc. Not just d-fens force.

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      I believe in peace not war, but I’m rational enough to know the world just doesn’t work like that and there’s a minimum military that each country needs to maintain. In Australia if we want more people to join the way to do it is to make it a better environment. Examples of military culture like whistleblowers going to jail, Ben Roberts-Smith saga, hazing, attitudes to women etc; it’s not an attractive proposition to most normal people when thinking about careers.

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        attitudes to women etc

        I’ve been saying a ton of ads promoting women in the ADF, so they seem to be pushing quite hard to change that. Whether they’re actually doing anything in practice, or it’s just a giant marketing budget and a lecture about inclusivity is anyone’s guess. I’m not even a woman, but at least based on my internal stereotype of the average dude in the military, I would feel really out of place and depply uncomfortable, and that’s ignoring the whole killing people thing. Although I could probably be convinced to join a supporting role or something in the DVA

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    Some bright spark decided to bring fish for lunch to work and warm it in the microwave.

    What’s worse? They decided to eat lunch at their desk.

    I’m gonna spoke their water bottle with the crap from the dishwasher filter given a chance.

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    Got to my accom about half an hour ago, booked tickets for the peace memorial museum tomorrow, there’s a cafe right downstairs which is perfect to get myself going asap in the morning. Think I can get it all done in time. I hate rushing through something so important, but it is what it is. I think 3.5-4 hours should hopefully be plenty for the museum and park.