𝚝𝚛𝚔 @ trk @aussie.zone

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When I woke up to the news, my first thought was "oh great, that's 24/7 news coverage for the next month at least. We're not going to stop hearing about this for years"

Might have underestimated things a bit.

Definitely wasn't expecting 25 years of what feels like constant coverage, infinite conspiracy theories, the invasion of multiple countries, and the death of literally tens (hundreds??) of thousands of people.

Also wasn't expecting just how much of an impact it had on security - and not just at airports. We work at the airport and access is such a major pain in the butt now, but even going to ports or train stations has this constant fear that a bloke carting a bag of tools is there to do some terrorism instead of the far more reasonable expectation that maybe they're here to do that job we requested. It's been a quarter of a decade ffs.

"We can't let the terrorists win" was the catch cry, but man they kicked our collective arses and are still doing so.

.... Can I have some?

I dunno man, most of my negative assumptions about the actions of Americans in position of power have turned out to be true of late. If I'm wrong I'll take the L but at the minute I'm on a pretty long streak.

toot toot, I'm a pope

His first action will be to announce tariffs on other religions (big deficit with the Sikh, they've been subsidising deity access for years) and that the Pope mobile will be a Cybertruck.

Tesla and unfulfilled promises.... Only slightly less an iconic duo than Tesla bad news and stock price going up.

Forget 5 blades, what you need is the Gillette 3000!

Early 1990s champagne comedy from Australia.

Why did I start rambling? Oh yeah cuz it’s Reddit.

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It's not really left though, it's just sightly less right. More maintaining status quo instead of taking a big step right. Which I guess by comparison is left?

Our (Australia's) progress parties like The Greens actually lost a lot of seats.

I feel people just didn't want the Conservative party more so than wanted a progressive party. But I'll take it.

I'm not smart enough to be a nerd.

I'm pretty homo erectus 😎

Couldn't organise a root in a brothel

I miss the simpler days

Fair point about AI-generated comments. What's your take on how this affects online discussions? Are we losing genuine interactions or gaining new insights?

Like what?

Korea has a few (Hyundai, Kia / same,same) but the only Japanese options are [P]HEV or the Toyota BZ4X which is... ugly... if it didn't have a Toyota badge I don't think they'd sell any of them. Few old Leafs still hanging in there, but if you want to go more than 100k at a time that's them ruled out.

Can't speak for other countries, but in Australia BYD is smashing it.

They represent incredible value for money and it's not like we've got a local industry to protect - our conservative government made sure of that.

We're already the world's dumping ground for shit vehicles that don't meet emissions standards, so having a non-Elon Musk EV alternative is something people are grabbing with both hands. We bought a BYD Seal Performance for $70k AUD a little over a year ago. For that money you get an incredibly comfortable sedan that does 500k on a charge, costs about $1 per 100km to run, and does 0-100 in 3.8 seconds.

EU vehicles are crazy overpriced by comparison, and because they try and position Mercedes / BMW / VW as luxury brands here the servicing and repair costs are through the roof. Part availability also sucks, with everything being a 6+ week lead time. We've owned European vehicles on several occasions and never again.

I used to like Ubuntu LTS because it was just Debian that wasn't quite as out of date, but more recent installs seem to suggest that you only get all the patches if you subscribe to their paid service? Not sure what the fine print is on that.

This box was turned on, Nextcloud installed, and never touched since (side from apt updates).

    
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Yo momma so ugly, when she bought a Tesla the stock price went up

... This is a hilarious reference to the fact TSLA is a meme stock that makes no goddamn sense.

Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?

I'm not entirely sure we're missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.

Nothing, cause I'd rather choose what to ignore on the fly rather than creating the same bubble I get stuck in on every other social media platform.