DT Sunday Edition: 18 June 2023

Mattress salespeople are absolutely insane.

Kept feeling like I was a hot chip surrounded by seagulls.

I'm amazed we made it out of Nunawading alive

Did you make out alive with a mattress, or was mission unsuccessful?
- We're really just dipping our toes in the water to see what we like.
  
  If they'd been a bit more chill we would have stuck around and bought something.
  
  But each area felt too staked out. We had 6 different salespeople try to get us at Snooze.
  
  Massive turnoff. Just wanted to get out.
I blacklisted a store, the mattress sales people were so weird and pushy.
- Snooze Nunawading may be blacklisted after this
You should have laid down on the mattress and when they ask "Can I help you with anything?" you reply "A cup of tea would be great thanks".
- Or asked for some lube if I really wanted to make them uncomfortable
- And some bikkies

Good morning, DT!! bindlesspins present and accounted for. What's on for the day?!

Just had a good sauna session.

I should study today and finish my assignments. we'll see.....
- Oooh, sauna.
  One of the things I want to get for the new place if I possibly can is one of those infrared saunas.
- Ooh sauna! I'm trying to use the sauna at my gym more and more. It feels good but I get antsy very quickly. Probably should take my headphones in.
Super lazy sunday 😁 maybe do the laundry
- I'm about to take advantage of this sunshine and go for a walk for coffee. Mmm!
I'll attempt (half heartedly) to do some housework I didn't do yesterday. The mini peelers need their school uniforms washed so that's first cab off the rank. Then I'll produce some kind of chicken dish, maybe my ginger plum sauce chicken.
- I need to get some housework done today, it's so never ending! What time should we all be over for chicken?!
Working☹️. Hopefully not too hard.
- Hope it goes fast!
Good morning!
- Hope you have an excellent day!
ayy you made it.
- Yeahhhh! Thank you!!
Cats are hounding me while I try and do the housework. Its cute but the kitten plays with everything but his toys when he wants me to play. Vaccuum scares the shit out of them, so that's my hack. They'll leave me alone if I leave it running while doing other chores. Already done an aa meeting. Have loads of laundry to put away, dishes to do... domestic stuff. later go for a walk. My body is kinda fucked up and I now walk with a limp for some reason.
- Bf's cat has been super demanding this morning, so I've been walking around with his laser pointer to play with him, but now he's trying to drink my Berocca. Good call on the vacuum, good luck with getting your other domestic stuff done!
Just puttering today rather than initial plan of walking to the main strip and checking out the little market - feel like I've worn myself out the last few days doing the gottas on top of trying to get out more per doctors' suggestions.
Really want to tackle clearing Mum's room as part of Operation Sort Shit - I pulled everything around trying to clear a specific area and now it looks like a total mess.
- Take care of yourself, Trin! If you need a rest day, you need a rest day!

I did my research last night for where I'd go for breakfast in Bright, walked up to it in the chilled morning drizzle eager for some (reviewer described) fluffy yellow eggs and coffee only to find, to my horror, that a sign on the door said "We are closed for annual leave until June 26, sorry we missed you"

I was so disappointed I left town immediately. I drove without a specific destination, in search of a place of fluffy yellow eggs and delicious coffee.

I find myself now in Wangaratta, sat inside a cafe I spotted as I drove through the city centre. Eggs ordered, sipping my coffee and listening to my audiobook through my headphones. The sun is shining.

What a terrible disapointment. I am very glad the story has a happy ending.
Spontaneity is such my jam. I so enjoy your little snippets.

@[email protected] here is the Fiji water photo at sunrise today.

Now I’m in Suva after having spent the week on an island paradise but still a few more days before flying back to cold Melbourne.

Oh the pic is gorgeous. I’ve heard of Suva. (Never been) thank you for posting the photo. Have an amazing rest of your trip. Drink up that warm weather as you’ll be sad when you get back. We have a whole top of 11C tomorrow 😢

Also thank you for adding the little description, helps for any vision impaired people
Look at that calm Pacific water. So beautiful. 😍
Are you on Leleuvia?
- Good spotting! I sure was.

This modern trend of inaudible dialogue in film and TV is irritating.

This is why I'm team permanent subtitles
- Me too, although I hate it when the subtitles spoil the punchline of a joke.
- Same. Too bad the option isn’t available in cinemas. They should have sessions where the movie has subtitles throughout the whole movie
Oh, but don't worry! As soon as action starts, it'll blow your eardrums out :)
- Omg sometimes I'm tempted to bring my earplugs to the cinema.
I've turned on subtitles for so many shows recently, it's ridiculous.
I have solutions for this depending on which device I'm using.

If I'm watching my TV, my soundbar has a Voice button which has 3 levels which it will boost the center channel to help with it, or I can connect my bluetooth headphones and they handle it better.

If I'm watching on my PC, I use some free software called FxSound which is an equalizer for Windows. Even just installing it and using the General profile is a noticeable improvement over the default balances but it also has sound profiles for Movies, TV, Transcription, Music, Voice, Volume Boost, Gaming, Classic Processing, Light Processing, Bass Boost and Streaming Video. I recommend installing FxSound for all Windows users, I have it on all of my computers.

If for some reason I'm using my phone, or using my phone to Bluetooth to my headphones or to my car stereo I use an equalizer on that (Android) called REEQ which has preset profiles or you can make custom ones. That app has definitely increased the quality of the audio from and streamed from my phone.
- My current workaround is subtitles.
It’s infuriating sometimes. I think a dedicated centre channel might be the go.
It’s so annoying. But why is it so? Never used to be a problem with regular tv, or dvds, is it a feature of streaming technology, or is it just currently fashionable to make voices indiscernible? I always have to watch with subtitles on.

I have drafted a no doxxing clause to add to the community guidelines https://aussie.zone/comment/173580

I feel like turning rules-based ideas like "don't dox people" into positive values-based statements is a very healthy experience. I need to do this in more areas of my life 🙂

I am meat!
- I am poultry!

If someone is feeling reach-ey out-ey... Here's some DT member names pulled from my RES:

5ivesos 40087812 akoya17 alsotheabyss antaresiac awake-asleep batarians betsymcduff bottom_racer camobilly casper_louisiana cherrytortoni dickiegreenleaf84 dndunlessurgent doughnutdrake etonmiss88 forgottensloth ghostghost31 ill_imagination5135 jmemequeene justchloe kvltc0re kidwithgreyhair lozzaness meantbent3 megamoist69 meljay0204 momoster96 omegatau ponte92 purplemo rekt_by_inflation saxmachine slappyxo starbabynoir taxisonoqui tinybreak turbulent_holiday473 weatherproofmonkey whinersarewieners

miss_cellophane starts and ends with underscores but Lemmy is trying to italicise their username

Some of these people are probably already here.

Bacon’s doc is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMhrX4Pal2el0Km6l_1C_INnqUCpr_E-L0NPYyYb49o/htmlview#gid=0

You can edit without needing to login/signup. 💪🏻

Edit: Also dumblederp, way to go on the names! I recognise a bunch, but wouldn’t remember them off the top of my head.
- Thanks Llab, have updated.
Oh I’m here !!
Hello! I’m here 🖤
It’s weirdly touching seeing DT 2.0 coalesce
Nawww! I was low key wondering if I hadn’t shown up if someone would reach out. Thank you. How’d we forget ghostghost? And omegatau! And saxmachine?! Oh my god we left so many behind!
I posted to the Melbourne peregrine falcon, mental health and photography subs telling them that we were here. Then u/Penguin_in_the_sand responded and told me about a new sub called MelbourneDailyThread and told me to post on there as well, so I did. It's weird how all the other Melbourne-related subs are still alive and kicking, just not the actual main sub! Felt weird to me anyway.

hello hello everyone! how are we all on this fine day?

Hi I’m great. Just did a bit of gardening and had a small chat with neighbour. I’m hungry now🙂
Getting some cooking done. 1 cake down, now spag bol to go
- ooh. cake. what variety of cake?
Not bad, a bit vague.

Just spent the last few hours at the office "redecorating" for a coworker who's back from leave tomorrow. Cow themed. I've never been more productive

So were you mooving things around?
Is the theme because they are a coworker?
- A former coworker who mooved on to greener pastures left a couple cows as mascots. They've now taken over and are demanding higher pay(hay?) And greener grass hehehehe
I’m sure your co worker will be udderly delighted by your very mooving gesture.

Good morning! This is your Chef speaking. For ingredients purchase purpose I have made a roll call spreadsheet. Please check that your name is there, and add those who are missing / you've messaged. There are a couple of people whom we can't remember the names of. Would be great if you know their names. Much appreciated.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMhrX4Pal2el0Km6l_1C_INnqUCpr_E-L0NPYyYb49o/edit#gid=0

I was u/Positive_Complaint on Reddit.. felt like a change as that name was one of the random generated names Reddit offered me, even though I liked it. I think there was a Supersnazz or similar who was doing Australia's cheapest house type posts for a while.
- Thanks! Added to list
I haven't seem mr_snrub (I think thats's the name right but not 100% sure)
- mr-snrub- Added thank you
Ooo, you sorted it! Just messaged piixiepinup.
- Thank you!
I wish I could be of more help, but I mostly remembered people by their flairs, I remember some people's names too, but mostly just flairs
Has anyone messaged geetwo? Or our resident American from Washington (I can’t remember his username)

Just messaged geetwo ✔️
- If anyone needs a support/venting space it's geetwo guy.. Hope he makes it.
- geetwo was the very first one I messaged. Oh yes what's our American called, can't remember his name either
- I messaged danimeh (can’t work out how to edit the spreadsheet, lol)
I messaged Taleya
- Thanks!
Present 🎁.
Edit: can't recall exact username but gptodd or something? The guy that has given people airport lounge passes and has done some other really generous stuff
- Thanks, can't find their name but I have added it.
- nice potato thank you

I have just discovered there is a reference for all the emojis. https://emojipedia.org/

It has an official list of what they actually represent (which is what is read out when using text to voice software) and shows you what they actually look like on different platforms. You can paste an emoji into the search bar to look up what it means. Very handy if you are like me and spend way too much time wondering if that little face is actually smiling or grimacing.

Ahaha, I am so sure I use mine wrong all the time.
- I realised yesterday when the blackbird in my name showed as a red bird and a black square on my PC just how different they can display too. And all the little faces are so small, there are quite a few I can't tell what they are supposed to be.
- For ages I was using what I thought was a cheesy grin, when in fact it’s a grimace

Reminder if you haven’t yet to pop yourself and any others contacted on Bacon’s spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMhrX4Pal2el0Km6l_1C_INnqUCpr_E-L0NPYyYb49o/htmlview#gid=0

Seeing that Snazzy21 has been ‘contacted by god’ gives me the giggles each time I see it.
- God works in mysterious ways
Oooh this was a co-ordinated migration to aussie.zone? Explains why /c/Melbourne is by far the most active community here 🙂
- Not sure how co-ordinated it was but there’s definitely a story here. I sort of migrated earlier than most here. It’s an impressive community and I hope everyone wants to stick around the fed.

First actual night sleep since Wed. This tum bug is the rudest.

I think half my carry-on luggage will be TP when i fly out on Tues. Funny to think but 3 years ago customs would probably question you about that.

What would you guys' love to see added to Lemmy? Personally, I kinda miss the Reddit trophies, how am I going to feel superior to all of you who signed up 4 days ago if I can't flex ending up in the x year club 2 days earlier???

You make an interesting point. I was reading Lemmy documentation and some GitHub discussion regarding gamification. I did like the little fun things/quirks of Rdt, but can also understand the reasoning for why/why not.

I am honestly just impressed that members of the DT have put effort in to keep going. So just seeing everyone’s posts for the time being is enough for me. Funny how when it closed the first time, I had things that I was like, I’ll do my little brain dump/share to DT, and then realised I couldn’t and it was admittedly silly and sad at the same time.
Automod tools and the ability to pin comments within posts is high on my list at the moment. But mostly better sort tools and the ability to create custom feeds. Although working with a couple of different accounts is a bit like having custom feeds.
- Oh yeah, I keep forgetting we don't have automod
Instead of cake day you get pikelet day, that's what happens. Whether or not this is 'superior' depends on context.
For starters, a Terms of Service might be a good idea.

Wait so the reddit CEO is now going after mods? My dude, you can disagree with them all you like, but don’t piss off the folks who keep your site from becoming bloody Twitter when they do it for free! Oh and he praised Elon…. Whilst Twitter are getting evicted from one of their offices for not paying rent.

Get comfortable gang! Looks like we’re not going home any time soon. And even if it were, suspect it’d be temporary!

That's the thing that gets me: they had mods working for free, people contributing content for free.. they rammed ads down people's throats to the tune of about $500 million in the past year and he goes after 3rd party app devs, some of whom were students (who also made their apps for free). I get it, people like to make money but JFC!
- I understand that if something is free, you're the product. Of course, you're still the product when you're paying for content. But in general, I get the idea. But why the fuck would you piss where you eat? Your content is created by and large from people. Whether it's original content or news articles, or whatever.
Not only is he getting evicted, but he's getting fucking sued! Like my guy, why are you praising a man for cuts when he's getting evicted and SUED!

biscuits

waiting at my desk for 10 whole minutes
for my oven to ding telling me it's done with it
In the distance I hear parties and pounding bass tracks
but I'm at home, warm and toasty, baking my midnight snacks
warm shortbread cookies with a caramel filling
cut shapes in the tops if you're able and willing
a delicious treat made with butter and dreams
and the magic of premade caramel creme

I started hearing "The Distance" by Cake as I read this one, I like it.
Oh that sounds nice

Have packed another couple tea mails for swaps overseas Last one i gave out 2 teas i dont drink and got 10 teas i do drink in return. So awesome 👌

Winning

I sent r/secepatnya another message, hope he comes here, :)

Have been to market. I bought bread, I bought milk, I bought veg, I bought meat, I bought Turkish delight, I bought baba ghanoush…

I feel as though I’ve at least brushed against the food pyramid

I buy according to colour, which is a system that has just as much scientific validity .

It's really hard to find blue food. 😉
Love me some good baba ghanoush, it's probably my favourite!
- This prompted me to google "microwaved eggplant". Watch this space
TURKISH DELIGHTTTTTTTT!

Mid-clean break: sausage and eggs on toast.

edit: failure to launch - sausage still frozen inside

Sauna was good. Then home for my usual Sunday "everything shower" as the kids call it these days.

Skin is scrubbed, legs are shaved, hair is washed, face is cleansed/toned/moisturised.

Made some iced lattes. Might force Mr Smeg out of bed so we can go mattress shopping.

Koala was amazing back when I brought it. I think it was made in aus back then through and is no longer, but a lot of other people swear by the mattress in a box thing.
- Nah Mr Smeg is adamant that we're not doing anything without going into a store to try it.
  
  Doesn't want to do those 90 night trials.
  
  He loved the firm mattress we slept on when we went to Bright last weekend. I imagine we'll be searching for it's twin today

Oh no. I just came to Bunnings to buy a rake. But I’ve just noticed that it’s bare root rose and fruit tree season…

Those fruit trees will drop leaves logic is sound.
All those trees in need of a new home. You can't just leave them there, you have to help!
do it, fruit trees are always a good choice
You sound like me when I go into Officeworks
- Some of my favourite home things are from officeworks!
This is why I try not to go there at this time of year. I have no more garden space for ~those lovely lovely fruit trees. ~

Good news, I got some pants at the market and they're really good pants too, I've had them on my wishlist for a while.

Bad news, my dad and stepmum believed for a good moment of that hoax where school students identifying as cats that started in America. So... That was fun. They're not like cookers, but I can see why it's easy to believe that stuff. But man...

I have arrived home, sans sickly little people. I think I’ll wander over to the market

Air fryer owners. What is the cleaning situation like? I have not joined the air fryer revolution yet. It’s seems like they might be good, but is the time saved in cooking negated by time spent in cleaning? I’m thinking compared to using normal oven, which does not need cleaning every use and baking sheet is easy to wash or put in dishwasher.

I actually can't get mine properly clean. I've tried soaking with dishsoap but stays greasy and smelling like a dirty bbq. I've been putting off trying something more drastic, I should get onto that.

It cooks the hell out of potato gems, I can tell you that much. Early days of having it I made pork crackling too (which worked REALLY well) but I'd recommend not trying that with your air fryer indoors, especially if you live in an apartment. I had to run it on my balcony so I didn't set off all of the smoke alarms lol
I have a tiny one. I always use baking paper or ensure I clean up straight away.
I'm a bit late to this party, but while I don't have one myself, we have an airfryer at work. It's one with a separate basket inside a drawer that comes out completely from the machine. My boss uses it to grill meat as he's into keto/paleo. IT IS A PAIN TO CLEAN. The basket and drawer have to be soaked and then scrubbed because it didn't take long for the non-stick coating to give up the ghost. Work does not have a dishwasher (other than me and my slaves). So it doesn't get done more than once a day in the morning having been soaked overnight. One of these days in the not too distant future I will defenestrate the entire object. With happy squeals of delight.
The one I was given has a large lid, which opens above the whole 20 cm round tray which is non stick, easy to remove and really simple to clean.
I have a smaller air fryer, where the basket and draw are completely removable, and seperate to the heating element. I just soak it with hot water & some dishsoap, and it wipes clean pretty easy most times.

I use it 99% of the time over the oven as I live alone, and it doesn't really require any pre-cooking time.
Depends on the kind of airfryer you have. Mine is basically a toaster oven. It has a drip tray, so I can just yank that out and clean it properly every so often.

It also toasts better than my oven or toaster, so it ends up being used for a loooot of things. Fantastic thing. Got it from Harris Scarfe in a new years sale for like.. I think $200?
They’re…ok. Smaller capacity means quicker heating time, so can be useful for small apartments with no oven. They do make nice crispy food that would usually be fried, and that’s nice. However, the treats for mine have to be hand washed which is a bit of a pain. There’s also a weird bit between the door and the oven which is a little crumb magnet but you can’t get them all out. That’s pretty annoying.
It depends on what you cook in there. Sometimes I just wipe out the drawer and the basket with paper towel then wet the towel and give it another wipe. If it's really grubby I'll soak it in the sink.

This one has more comments so I vote it the winner..damn, bots can be helpful lol. I wonder if the old mods are still hanging around Reddit twiddling their thumbs or whatever

I'll pin this one because it has more comments.
Yeah. They're really quite handy.

Wonder when Lemmy is going to implement an API, or whether that's another thing to go on the big pile of "soon" features.

Honestly, I thought most of the old mods moved over here and created the whole community in the first place.
- It is possible to do automatic posts and things now, but it requires programming knowledge that makes it a bit hard. On Reddit people had developed tools (automoderator) to make it easier, and I'm sure there are people working on that for Lemmy too.
  
  I'm slowly getting my head around the basics of what applications are needed to create some automated tools, but I'm coming from a very low starting point as far as programming knowledge goes so I'm not sure how long before I can actually do anything.
  
  I've got no idea about the old mods - they always seemed like unknowable mythical creatures, my brain struggles to believe they even exist outside of Reddit🤣

Kiddo is too big for size 000 but a little too small for 00. 00 has little grippy things on the feet, but says it’s 3 -6 months. Surely he’s not needing grip in the next couple of months?!

I think the Guiness World Record for the youngest a baby has walked is 6 months. Some rare kids can walk at 7 months but most are still crawling.
- Jeez! What age do they start crawling? I am NOT ready for that.

Decided to take a punt on a dirty spice chai. Yeah nah… won’t be doing that again. I’ll drink it don’t get me wrong, but it’s neither a coffee nor a spiced chai. And therefore it’s the worst of both worlds.

My sister drinks them religiously. I love coffee and I love chai but I think mixing them is an absolute abomination to the tastebuds
- Yes. Yes it is.
Is that chai with a shot of coffee ?! Just sounds so wrong ..
- Yes to both counts.

How would you all feel about me sending an invite to the folks at r/melbournementalhealth? I've noticed that their sub is still open and there might be a few people on there we know who don't know about us yet or know where to find us. Just an idea.

this group is "gates open come on in" as far as I'm concerned.
I think it's a great idea
- Done!

Sunday morning viewing of a couple of episodes of Vera.

Will possibly result in me calling people 'pet'

I said pet, I said love…
Can’t see Vera without thinking of the ‘Mad As Hell’ parody Enid Smeaks 😂
- Haven't seen that one. Sounds like it was a bit giggle worthy
Will you be taking Advantage, or dishing it out?

Harry Belafonte has been ear worming me this week.

Day-O and Jump In The Line keep getting stuck in my head.

I blame/thank Tim Burton

I want my kids to be old enough to watch Beetlejuice so bad.
- I'm more than old enough, but have never watched it. I should get around to that...
- Hopefully they'll get into it when they're old enough.
  
  One of my all time faves

I have two sick little girls in bed with me. We're watching Superkitties

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉

A dozen oysters, a croissant and a vanilla milkshake please.
- 🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪
  🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪
  
  🥐🥤
Some sushi please chef, and good morning!
- 🍣 good morning!
Morning chef. Can I please have some fruit sashimi?
- 🍉🫐🥑🍍🥥🥝

Already twice this weekend I've had near misses where I almost committed PT rage. Why is travelling around so infuriating

I'm not sure what your experience was, but I'm finding it frustrating in certain particular ways. I feel like it's getting worse in that every time I take the kids out I'm unfortunate enough to encounter someone absolutely off their heads. The kids look to me for an explanation. Sometimes it's mentally ill people having a bit of a tough time, and some understanding/sympathy is called for. Sometimes it's a case of, "and that's why you don't do drugs, kids!" But sometimes people are just jerks, and it's hard to explain.
- I think the time of day / on the w/e is a huge factor. In the middle of the day I'd say it's likely at its worst depending on route.
  
  Funnily enough travelling home at 2am on a night tram I've found to be the least eventful for me at least heh.
- Unfortunately that is the experience even outside of PT these days :(

I've sat down to do the theory work for my first aid and cpr training tomorrow and I'm already falling asleep, curse my uninterested brain.

Engaging in the masochistic activity of looking at apartments and imagine what it would like to live alone. It really really fkn irks me that someone on my salary in their late 20s can't afford a half decent apartment.

Wait till you’re actually paying a mortgage! It’s like you finally caught the wild horse and it’s actively trying to buck you off for being too new to have games the market like all the freakin boomers with 5 houses rented out that they do no maintenance on!
- At this point I fully expect to just inherited my parents house, no way I'll be able to afford anything in my lifetime.
it's rough! side note, there are a lot of 'nice' apartments that are actually pretty shit, living in a cheap shoebox is actually alright depending on the neighbours (applies to anywhere really)
If you can get a housemate who's decent, it's a lot easier to live with one other person. We're in a fancy apartment that costs us individually way less than what my housemate's newish partner pays for her 1 bed place.

Culinary Experiment last night. Mixed in pineapple slivers with beef mince for the ultimate aloha burger.

Was ok. Needs a bit of “something”. teriyaki sauce perhaps?

needs a slice of fried spam
- Of course. Spot on. Thank you
So you had pineapple and someone said chilli. I think this will work well with a sweet chilli sauce.
Chilli?
- Fantastic idea
That sounds disgusting, good job 👍
- It was kinda weird but deserves exploration.

Watching a new to me movie everyday, not just lotr & hobbit 😏

Today was Good Will Hunting. I had been putting off watching this for decades because ... "reasons"

Yes, it hit as hard as I thought it would. But I'm older now and can see that movie was written by kids, genius kids but kids. 😉

It's true, easy work is relaxing, it leaves the mind free.

Luck is more important than most people know.

Choices in life aren't usually dichotomous, you don't have to choose between a person/people and opportunity. If you can, choose both.

Still shits me that society thinks smart people have a duty to self actualise and serve society. If there is duty the duty goes both ways. You want what brains can give, then give brains some support and respect their freedom of choice.

This is true. Find your people.

The apples line is one of my all-time favorites.
- "how's them apples?"
I recently read "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, which looked at what leads people to make extraordinary achievements. Basically, genius is not enough, there is also a lot of luck and social support required. I highly recommend it, and it definitely supports what you are saying here.

making chicken mushroom pies for dins, some banana walnut bread for rest of the week tea.

Yumyumyum

Decided to start that sci-fi tv series Silo and the reviews mostly being about Rebecca Ferguson's accent kinda shit me. It doesn't detract from her acting or the show so I don't get what the big deal is. Like are people really upset she doesn't have that generic American accent and think that constitutes "bad acting".

I’m half way through and enjoying it. Though the pacing is a bit off. I feel like it blew its load plot wise in the first 2 eps and now we’re in danger of another lost or manifest…. I like her character and acting too but her accent is all over the place! And it does break the immersion a little bit.
- I agree on the pacing, I'm on ep three and there's a bit of a drop.
  
  Maybe it's because I watch lots of foreign language stuff and I used to listen to accents all day everyday for work so it doesn't bother me at all. Obviously I hear her jumping around but it does wreck my immersion or anything.
- I watched 4 or 5 of them and got annoyed at the slowness and haven't watched more. I just read what the deal is online and went "ah ok" and felt I know what I wanted to know from the show, not interested in watching it happen really. Maybe I'll revisit it sometime.
  
  I didn't think twice about her accent though.. I never expect anything from accents in future sci-fi because who knows how language and accents will evolve or why. Like in The Expanse.
Ignore them, she's awesome.
- I enjoyed her in The White Queen which is semi the reason I gave this show a go.

e-visa done for indo..

C L U N K E E golly gosh

You goin to Baaaali mate?
- Well I aint sportin' me new bintang singlet here in this weather..
  
  But no, Jakarta for a wedding.

All kids awake at 6:15 after finally going to sleep at 11:45....bloody sleepovers

Aaand my partner is not up yet. This seems a little unfair.

spent the day gardening at the community garden. plucked out a lot of weeds, more weeds to tackle at home as well as the community garden. went to bunnings bought supplies to reframe one plot for pea and beans. Monday involves a lot of calling and harassing of people. yea long week ahead

Just had a flashback to a highschool cringe moment.
I wrote a poem and drew a rose all pretty for one of my first girlfriends. She framed it and put it above her bed.
The poem was basically about how the rose is really beautiful but you have to be careful to not get too close because it also has thorns and it will hurt you...

You want a high school cringe moment.. I wrote a poem for my crush who was waaaaaay out of my league. Dropped the piece of paper on the ground and scuffed it up, then pretended to "find" it in front of her and give it to her and she instantly saw through the ruse and mocked me for it.
- 💀

Big night. Been a crazy couple of days also and the place is a bomb site. Time to get tidying!

Let's see if Dad'll pick me up at 9:30 or if it'll be the family landsharkkidd's 9:30 (which is closer to 10 than 9am).

Edit: Just got a message that they're ten minutes away, yep I was right.

After a comment I made earlier I went and looked for it, and holy shit I found it on YouTube - Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam/Concert for Tibet

That was cool.
Clearly you're person of impeccable taste. Such an incredible song.
- I'm an original pearl jam fan. Was in the first wave over the fence in 95. Burnt into my memory that night. I remember Eddie said something like, there's a whole bunch of extra people in here now, everybody be cool and we'll keep playing........ everyone was cool and they kept playing, and it was amazing.

don't know much about history, don't know much biology,...... nor countries in Central Asia ending with stan

to explain the graphic, the squares are attempts at naming a country based on shape, green gives geographic proximity, blue direction, the stars and little building are for capital city, flag, population and currency

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Ok I dunno if anyone else is experiencing this but it’s the second time it’s happened to me.

On Mlem or the web browser (on my phone, iPad or computer) I can’t see it access any content that was posted since last night. If I log out, I can see all of it, but the second I log back in it’s all gone.

On the Melbourne page I was able to sort by new posts and find the one Raven posted here and click on the thread. I can see that it exists and see that there are 40 comments but I can’t see any of them. Not even sure if posting will work. 

When I try to change the sort order of the Melbourne page or view the posts, I can only see the stuff made by mods. Last time it fixed itself the next day but idk 🤷‍♀️

Oh it worked. So odd. I seem to have it working now but I don’t know how. I fiddled with the settings, changing them from the default to something different and then changing them back and that seemed to work. Still not working on Mlem at all though.
Maybe something to do with Mlem being beta? I’m not using Mlem, I’m pretty iffy about installing beta stuff on my phone. I just use the browser on my phone.
- Nah it was/is doing it in not just Mlem but every web browser on every device I own. So it’s some glitch with my account specifically. Mlem has completely shit the bed for me and just errors out every time I try to use it, so I’ve deleted it for now. I’ll try again when it’s out of beta

We have progressed to Captain Underpants

Looks like we have 2 DT for todays date. I asked if someone was going to take over and Thornbury witch offered. So now we have 2 separate ones?

What's DT? Discussion thread?
- Daily thread

Ooops was a bit late to do up a new thread - done now.

Do we just go with this one now? Please don’t make me retype my manifesto against social media haha
- Spose so. I said I'd do it, but procrastinata beat me to it. Let's run two and see what happens? Could be fun. Didn't work out how to pin it to the top though. Any hints?
Thought I was seeing things!

Any hot tips on how to put a smoke alarm back after changing batteries? The Bunnings lady makes it look like child's play but the top came right off (rather than being attached via a flat cord) and I'm struggling to align the top back to the body and slot it back in :(

Cook the base in a frypan until sticky then cartoon pancake flip it onto the ceiling.
- Taping the bloody thing together was plan B lol
they are not symmetrical. Match the hole with the protruding bit..
- Lol yeah I feel like they didn't really think about this when designing these because unless the whole thing is transparent you can't really see and try to align the bits that fit
Not much help, but my approach is to stand awkwardly on a chair and just mash it at the roof part until it catches.
- Pretty much this. Thankfully we got there in the end.
My solution was to buy one of those smoke alarms with a built in battery that lasts 10 years.

This is not helpful information in anyway though.

I'm just too short to have to deal with changing batteries every year (or reach the top shelf at a supermarket) so I feel your pain
- Lol even if you have a ladder to reach the design is just too stupid so I agree with built in batteries

Here is a good one.

At the p's place helping them get a few things ready for our trip to bro's wedding in JK. To say things get tense is an understatement before trips. Been a while seens I've been with them but same ol..

Old man bought some 'tiles' the find stuff airtag type things for their luggage. I set them up all good to go. Work great.

I leave them on the table next to the passports and he freaks out saying I need to put them in an envelope so they can find them before we leave...

Camaro v Mustang. How far this country has fallen.

G'day again DT peeps! So, the steam "summer" sales are coming up at the end of the month (AKA the time I can spend a shitton of money on games and not feel bad). My Steam library feels a little lacking, does anyone have any suggestions? My only thing is I'm not big into shooters or survival type games. But I'd love some reccos!

I personally really like the True Fear Games, so far there’s two out of three released. The last has been held up by funding and development issues. The games are hidden object type games but with an actually good jump scare side to them. Very atmospherically creepy
- It looks quite cool, but I can't do horrors (usually)! I got freaked out playing FireWatch
Have you played Unpacking yet? It's an Australian-made game that'll take you about 4 - 5 hours to complete. It's been my favourite casual game for the past few years. Very sweet little game.

I'll second the recommendation for Divinity Original Sin 2, and I'll add to that the amazing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (fun mechanics & story! good lgbtq rep!), and the upcoming Baldurs Gate 3 (which has its full release in August). Rimworld is also an absolutely mad game that you can do just about anything in. Hit MMO Final Fantasy XIV has a steam version, but be warned - it has the best story I've ever played through in entirety, it's very long, and it's very, very, good. If you have an addictive personality, maybe handle that recommendation with care.

Have you played any of the Dragon Age games? They're all fantastic. Inquisition usually goes on sale for like $15.

Dorfromantik is another really chill casual game I like. You place hexes good. Yep.
- Thanks for the reccos! Unpacking looks pretty chill, on the wishlist! Divinity doesn't seem like my type of game (I don't really like RPGs either for the most part), same with Pathfinder. Rimworld I see recommended everywhere (along with Rust and factorio). Rimoworlds graphics remind me a lot of Prison Architects (from a quick look at the trailer). Never played dragon age
  
  Dorfromantik (holy hell I'm never gonna remember how to spell that) looks quite good though! I'm a little on the fence about it, but the graphics look beautiful and they have trains! Trains = automatic buy (well, not quite, but close to it)
  
  Thanks again for the reccos!

Trying to relax in the bath but this water is wayyy 🔥

That's the best, just soak/float until the water cools a bit. The warmth eases tension and then the cooling relieves inflammation. 👍

I have achieved Thai pumpkin soup

soup tax?

I got quoted 520 to 580$ to do a pink ombre on virgin hair (pretty short, just below chin length) and I know they use Olaplex etc, but that feels excessive? Am I wrong?

If you’re brave enough you could try a teaching salon? Like Biba?
- I am not, sadly! At the moment my self image is pretty fragile, I would not be able to brush off a bad cut or colour :')
Sounds a bit much. But in saying that all I ever get is micro foils.

I tried to look up what my hairdresser charges but they only list balayage which they do for $172
- I looked around on some other salons, and they quote between 150 to 200 ish (without treatments like Olaplex etc, which seem to be another 70$ on top). I think I might ask around for salon recs, I remember I did a full ombre on long hair like 5 or 6 years ago and it was 300, roughly. (I know things are more expensive now but the jump to almost 600, for short hair, seems just crazy).
- I’d never heard of balayage until Sarah Millican talked about it on Taskmaster and one of the other contestants called it ‘Bally-wigwam’.

Who’s doing tomorrow’s thread?

I'll be awake and happy to be threadperson...what do I need to do?
- Cheers mate! You just need to go to the Melbourne homepage and make a new post with the day and date. https://aussie.zone/c/melbourne
- Heya, did you get around to doing it? I can if you're busy