• Duenan@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Time to switch off the news.

    All this Trump stuff making him out like a hero makes me sick to the stomach.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      5 months ago

      How is someone who has repeatedly called for his political opponents to be assassinated a hero?

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        5 months ago

        I’m not the person to ask since I loathe it so much.

        His fanatic followers would provide a better answer to that.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Times like this I am so very thankful I do not watch TV. I don’t even know where the aerial cable is in my apartment, and the TV is currently unplugged in the spare room lol. If I want to watch something I use a streaming service (like taskmaster on channel 9 or whatever it is, not Netflix), or if I want news I go to the Guardian or ABC. That way I can pick what I want to know about.

      Trump is a fuckwit.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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        5 months ago

        he’s a pedophile

        being shot at doesn’t change that

        in fact, maybe that’s why he was shot !!

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        5 months ago

        I’m just turned on the ps5 and sitting on a menu screen.

        Might watch some YouTube videos that I sub to if there’s anything new or put a movie on

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      Got into an argument with a mate the other day where I said he deserved to be shot. My mate was incredulous about how serious a claim that was, but what’s trumps death toll do you reckon? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? To say nothing of the people he swindled.

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Why is there a minimum hold time of 30 minutes when calling any government service? Always “we’re experiencing a high volume of calls”. And the hold music is terrible. Such a drainer.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      It’s better business to waste your time rather than theirs. Twenty years ago they’d offer to send people home without pay on quiet nights at my call centre. Often it’d get mad busy half an hour later.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      I heard they feed multiple calls into the same line with the hold music. It means they can have more people on hold with less lines, but the quality of the line drops with each call added to it.

      But that was in the old days, you’d think everything would be internet based now

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Ratio of calls to operators. If people are unwell, and/or the place is understaffed, you have a high volume of calls. Low employee retention plays into this too, as it is the cause of being understaffed (and budget), because who wants to stay in a call centre? Especially in gov where you can move around with relative ease.

      But also, that’s just the gub’mint for ya

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Sometimes I wonder if the cat sees me as more than a food dispenser.

    I’ve been sick in bed all day pretty much, and she’s sitting beside me. When I fell asleep and woke up suddenly she was all alert, checking to see if I was OK.

    Right now, the heater is on in the lounge room. She has a favourite spot she sits in (on top of her TP nest).

    But she’s sitting in the cold bedroom with me instead.

    Good old fluffy butt.

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      They know. I have one love bug, one standoffish queen and a sometimes spicy sausage. During the day its usually hands off the two girls, but they take turns to sleep with me at night.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Ok nope, I’ve hit a wall. Crawled in bed with my laptop to watch something distracting/calming/wholesome. I am watching the Tale of Princess Kaguya. Wonder what else to watch after.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Did anyone else’s house do bogan pasta sauce growing up? It’s involves a dip and some cream and maybe a protein. I made one tonight outta the Aldi sweet potato dip for nostalgia and honestly not bad.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Meeting went poorly. But I said that if they don’t retrofit a deadbolt onto my spare room I’ll install one myself and they won’t have a key, and they took that pretty seriously, and said they’d look into it. I more than likely won’t because I have no clue how I’d do that (plus the door frames extend a few cm above the door), but they don’t know that.

    Besides that, I think he knocked them back for a kitchen renovation, but unfortunately it seems he knocked everyone back on anything. They’re not going to fix the rotting floor or the uneven stairs, at least anytime soon.

    But the property issues are the least of my concern at the moment. I’ll be having that meeting with the area manager at 2. He’ll bring the program manager (who’ll take minutes), and I’ll be recording it on my phone and bringing my support person. I need to start making some notes so I don’t get all discombobulated and agree to everything he says.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Ah, it’s not all bad. I’m probably going to end up with a bunch of things in better condition than the ones he stole. I’m actually working through the list now, they wanted links for everything. Ignoring the anxiety and extra teaspoon of trauma, I’m probably coming out of this better than I’m going in

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Hilarity with the Menulog order - poor bugger was circling around for 15 minutes. I finally went out to meet him when it looked like he was on the corner and he was just coming up the driveway, apologetic because he was 'having trouble with his GPS. Seemed quite surprised when I said I could see his progress.
    The cheesy garlic bread was cool but the Nasi Goreng was piping hot and delicious - could only fit in half and one piece of the bread, so I’m well sorted!

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Driving in the SUV i spotted 2 identical Mazda CX5’s just in slightly different colours parked next to each other. A snide thought forms in my head about everyone buying the same cars till I spot the exact same car (colour included) as my own driving the opposite direction closely followed by a green one, both same models as mine. Couldnt help but laugh and smugly repeat the comment back to myself.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The meeting went meh, but I’ll share more later/tomorrow.

    In the meantime though, I have news that makes me happy. I installed the new RAM and didn’t break anything! I also bought the new GPU finally after being advised by the computer shop it would be compatible (I’d already checked, but I don’t feel super confident in these things so would rather have them tell me it will work. At least then if it doesn’t I can be like “hey, this GPU isn’t fit for purpose. Gonna need to return it thanks”). But $455… Fucking oof. It better make my games happier. Now to eagerly check the order page every hour until they ship it :D

    Edit: fucking of course right after I paid for it I’ve seen it elsewhere for 40 bucks cheaper. Ugh.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      fucking of course right after I paid for it I’ve seen it elsewhere for 40 bucks cheaper. Ugh.

      dont look. there is ALWAYS a better deal. its not about chasing the best deal its about paying what your happy to pay.