𝚝𝚛𝚔 @ trk @aussie.zone

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I used to like Ubuntu LTS because it was just Debian that wasn't quite as out of date, but more recent installs seem to suggest that you only get all the patches if you subscribe to their paid service?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

    
06:49:18 up 2081 days, 22:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.21, 0.33, 0.42

  

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.

Well, thats one positive anecdote.

Here's some negatives:
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/samsung_microwave.html

I will never understand what part of Trump politics appeals to "young men" (or anyone).

The bloke is a loser, yet just keeps bluffing and grifting his way to the top. How is that a trait you want to emulate?

Even in the article the kid says:

"I was watching TV, and he just came out, and told everybody what was going wrong.

.... When did this happen? In which particular series of words that fell out of Trumps mouth during one of his insane ramblings did old mate get the impression this is what happened? It's like seeing a portent in your bowl of spaghettios or something. Just because a brief moment of chance brought something together that appeared to make sense on the surface doesn't mean you should ignore the 99% that doesn't.

I dunno, I feel like that's a bit of a cop out. There's more flaws than just the story being a bit off.

The fan produced episode was legitimately better in terms of bringing the world to life in my opinion... And it had a budget of about $8. Amazon should have just given these dudes the money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFCGun_c-8

Actuallly you know what? Let the Amazon one be another turning of the wheel and give these dudes money to do another one. I'd watch it again. I've read the series a dozen times over.

Everyone I know with a Samsung appliance has had a poor experience with it.

Why are they still popular? Why are people still buying them? Every product review gives major faults too (like catching fire!) and people are like "8/10 because I managed to put it out before by house burnt down".

Meanwhile other brands are crucified for the finish song being too loud, or the door feeling plastic, or some other inane reasoning.

tl/dr: The average person will be very reluctant to use Lemmy.

Sounds like a positive to me.

I don't know if I trust the average person anymore.

Buddy, keep fighting the good fight, but there has got to be a better way to post about this shit where you don't come across as insane to those not already in the know. This reads like something from insanfacebookposts.

There's always someone who posts like they're a homeless person in a park telling you that god is a sock.

Wherever I see this rambling I just move on to another topic. You know you've reached the bottom of the barrel when it appears. This, or those images macros of Ralph picking his nose saying "other team stupid" or whatever.

I recently learned a term for this sort of story:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-crushing_machine