Theory: drivers in utes and SUVs are less likely than regular cars to give the thank you gesture if you let them through on a narrow road, even accounting for the frequency of each vehicle type on the road. Does this hold out for you?
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My reference is being a slow piece of poop, so I sent them a nice text about how nice it would be if they could check their frick-fracking email because I need money ffs
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ID: A close up of Homer Simpson screaming; indicative of how I feel within.
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ikea came with thegood at 8.30am, my left lower back is still fucked. still lots of resting.
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Is there some kind of unofficial hierarchy when it comes to the length of tradies' shorts? I mean there's a lot of construction happening around here and some of the older blokes, even in the middle of winter, are wearing shorts so small they may as well be hotpants.
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Thanks sun goddess.
Is it really taco Tuesday or tight-arse Tuesday? That's the big question.
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I've noticed that when you post a comment there's no line on left only when you reply. I like it.
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Talking of tacos, there's a new Mexican joint in Mordialloc and the food is really good, although the sides (rice, beans) could be served a bit warmer. That's three places here now that does Tex-Mex, and another one about to start construction.
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Doggo caught the Frisbee 3 times tonight! He's getting better.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/wiki/charities/
support link for helping Ukraine , these charities have been vetted and are safe
I just bought two food aid packages for elderly people living in harsh conditions
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Today has been a great day! Got 3 sign ups at work, and the last Mass Effect book I needed came in (a week and a half since my birthday, but that's fine), and I'm getting a bonus of $33 from Centrelink tomorrow. Gotta wait almost a week to get paid from work, but that'll be nice. Tomorrow I need to buy comics (I also need to pay for 2 comics I picked up two weeks ago because I forgot to tell mum they need to be paid for) and also some more yarn for my knitting project.
Everything's coming up landsharkkidd!
Lying down on the couchafter a couple after work drinks. Got up and had a most impressive burp. Shame no one was around to witness
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In other more positive news, I have my initial ADHD assessment via Telehealth on the 15th! This place is much cheaper, the only drawback, though bearable is that I have to wait until November for my official diagnosis. So please manifest are sooner cancellation for me.
Newest Covid booster is absolutely mental. Itโs kicking my ass! I feel almost as bad as if I had Covid the first time.
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Hungry. Stomach does not approve of late lunch today.
Little Man has absolutely kicked my ass all day. My partner was sick, so I gave up trying to get work done, and essentially followed a mini tornado around the house while doing chores...I have a splitting headache, tired and starving. Once we've gotten around to dinner, I've got soooooo much work catch up on. sigh
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With Reddit's changes (albeit I think more people thought it things would be more dramatic than they have been), and Twitter's continuing shit show, alongside Facebook's shadow of it's shadow of its former self... do we think we're seeing or are in the middle of the end of social media in a large sense?
Seeing how younger people use social media is actually quite interesting.
My kids use it to share funny crap with their friends. Pretty much what email was back in the late 90's early 00's.
They don't really use for posting or communicating. Just sharing.
Their interactions with friends are video calls and meetups.
Personally I think we're just reaching a critical mass with the traditional way social media platforms and advertisements work. The status quo is that all these platforms spring up, get millions of potentially billions in capital from a bunch of rich people who want to be rich, the initial mandate is just "grow grow grow", making a return isn't relevant, as long as you can grow fast enough you keep getting more money
Then eventually you can't do that anymore, you can't get more funding faster than you use it. And now the rich people who gave you money initially are starting to demand it back. All your conventual lons are due back as well. So now you need to monetize. If you make your platform a paid platform, you'll lose a lot, potentially even most, of your user base. And that would make the rich people sad. If you stay free, you need to make your money back from ads.
The issue is, no amount of money is ever enough. The rich people all want to get richer. So even once you've paid back your debts, you still want to make your own money too
Another key part of it is that if it's structured like that, you will always inherently have problems keeping someone happy. Because your users are not your customer, they're you're product. But unlike a conventional product, your users need to be kept happy as well. It's not like a normal product where you just chuck 'em on the shelf and you're off to the races. If you don't keep your products happy, they walk off the shelf and now you have nothing to sell to your customers
I'm hoping this Federation stuff will help with all that, but I do have some worries about how these servers plan on making enough money to not need to shutdown. Donations are good, but can you rely on just donations and nothing else to keep you running? I mean, look at Wikipedia. They get some funding from various organisations and have decently large cash reserves, and we've all seen how aggressively they beg for money
(Edit: I didn't post this multiple times, did I? Jerboa threw a tantrum when I tried to post it)
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Raven pretty much summed it up I reckon but to add a note for a possible future here: as the fediverse grows with more trolls, bots and capitalist interests it will turn into feuds and flame wars and brigading between instances and the admins will be pulling hair trying to figure out who to stay federated with. ??
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chilli cheese bread is being made, sewing kit set up to sew badges on my fluffy jacket ( I have a Ukraine Che Burashka badge, buying things from Ukraine is one way to support them ๐ป๐ซ ) , calligraphy set to do one page of practice in purple ink , tv on but I'm not really paying attention, fighting russian trolls on the newspaper in progress, tab open for doing some reading
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oh god every time I vacuum now I get the Cars "You might think" stuck in my head
(the way the Dyson cycles up and down reminds me of that riff from Depeche Mode's shake the disease and part of that then seagues in my head into the do-do-do-do-do from you might think. Send help. The earworms are rube goldberging)