CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
All good points. Why not give it a go then? If its low risk (you've done a credential check) and affordable you can give it a trial and see if you like the results.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
I'm not particularly keen on semi-annual injections into my face, but I think it's worth a shot.
I'd consider getting a second opinion to make sure there isn't some 'one and done' permanent surgery available rather than this SaaS (Surgery as a Service) ongoing maintenance payment.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
You could use a site or script to edit all your comments with nonsense and then delete everything (I've done this). You'd keep the karma.
The only issue is entering your password into a third party free site. A script with open code would be better.
Last issue is that many subreddits will ban you for mass editing and deleting your comments. They have bots watching out for this.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
I'd actually consider cutting down on coffee and seeing if that helps. Could be a caffeine crash.
Yes. There's a whole sub branch of my fantasy that involves me getting chased down as a warlock (male witch) representative of Satan because of failed Galileo things.
Edit: there's no weird arse fetish about this. I just expect that this is how this sort of thing would go down.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
Axis of Time which is WW2 focused.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
I've had this fantasy of traveling a thousand years into the past and trying to teach monks and engigneors modern technology with just my layman's understanding. I was pretty much going to try experimenting with feeding moldy bread to dudes with the bubonic plague.
Welp... if I ever get a time machine I guess I won't be doing that.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
I'd like to do some of the small ones to cut down on the mental overhead of remembering my To Do list.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
I have a friend that volunteers as a firefighter. One of the disappointing stories he told me was that they were recently told they needed to comply with newly invented needless bureaucratic safetyist paperwork that the regular firefighters have to deal with. Except those guys are paid for it. He said it was really taking the shine off their volunteer work.
I don't blame him for reconsidering. People volunteer because they enjoy what they are doing. Knowing bureaucrats in the public service that have mandated this extra paperwork, they would not know or care about the downstream impacts on manpower that their decision will make.
At least until there's a volunteer manpower shortage and they either pay someone to comply with the onerous amount of boring administration or they wind the requirements back.
So frustrating. High trust, community focused volunteering that contributes to social cohesion and the govt is taking it for granted. Mindless.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
I'll add Eurovision to my list of awards requiring the 'correct' ideological adherence.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
Not exaggerating. You're about 1/3rd through on the way to the final 'true' endings.
The 2nd 3rd is probably doable solo without being too frustrating. The final 3rd is incredibly pedantic (and was mostly crowdsolved on discord/steam forums). Some streamers like CohhCarnage ostensibly managed to complete the whole thing solo, but I suspect Cohh and those like him get fed hints behind the scenes to allow relatively smooth progression.
I pretty much fizzled out after getting 2/3rds of the way through as I'd gotten most of the lore by that point and was frustrated at the obscurity of some of the puzzles/solutions and increasingly narrower RNG windows for progression.
I really enjoyed Blue Prince (Blueprints... get it? get it? aha). If anything I would love to see more games like this despite its flaws. It took 8 years to create the interlocking lore and puzzles. Unfortunately this means we're unlike to see a puzzle game of this quality any time soon.
The game has some frustrating quality of life problems and grind related to getting the right combination of elements through RNG. The later is terrible when you want to test obscure theories of interactions between rooms and items, or worse, a particular reading of a possible clue. While up until the first 'ending' (which is were they roll the credits and probably marks around 30% of the games content) this isn't a huge problem as there are multiple leads to investigate on any given day. If you don't get the RNG for a particular combination of elements you are likely to have another that will allow you to make progression. Later on in the game progression really slows down while you wait for the correct RNG combination which is very frustrating.
For all the above, the game was like crack to me, particularly in the early game up until the first ending. I'm glad to see someone talking about it as I think it would be a good fit for a lot of the gamers on here.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
He really is the ur-example of the bimbo fetish.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
Hef really dodged a bullet considering the stories I heard about what he got up to.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
I think its a victimless crime too when undiscovered, but once the girls find out about it it will likely give them the ick/make them feel unsafe.
Guy should just make a public apology, delete everything and keep training until things blow over. In the meantime I hope he broke up with his girlfriend to make a clean start. She torpedoed his career out of jealousy even if she makes some public feminist argument about keeping the girls 'safe'.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
Luckily finding a cheat code by learning and not getting caught doing so is a perfectly acceptable strategy towards mating success.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
Correct human mating rituals are covertly initiated by the female. She signals interest or, at the very least, availability. But she does so in a plausibly deniable way. He then perceives the hint, and decides if he wants to pick it up. If he does not, she avoids embarrassment because she can pretend there was no hint. If he does, he can approach with confidence because he has been invited. That's how it actually works. But for this to work, young men need to know how to pick up a hint. And young girls need to know how to drop one.
This was probably the most important lesson I gained from the PUA community (replace 'aerial combat' with pick up and fighter pilots with 'PUA'). Not just the words of it, but the experience of it in repetition to truly grok it.
Learning what Indicators of Interest looked like was critical. In generations past there was all sorts of weird things girls could do to show interest, like dropping a handkerchief, but luckily most can be done with nothing at all and are just as relevant today.
Eye contact was pretty much rule zero for getting a warm opener when approaching a woman. There were a lot of other minor behaviours to notice, like a girl standing in proximity or brushing past you, but at the end of the day, eye contact was always the go-to. What was funny is that I think some girls would instinctively look at you in a particular war and be genuinely surprised when you approached them, but would still be warm. And that 'particular way' is difficult to explain, but I think many people know it when they see it. Some girls knew exactly what they were doing ("took you long enough") and others really believed 'it just happened'.
There's something twisted about the whole 'We want you to know how to approach women. No not like that. You aren't meant to learn, you're just meant to know.' thing.
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
This is my read too. There is an anti-SJW undercurrent, but it can't be accessed by apeing Trumpism. Someone in Australian politics may eventually figure out how to tap that vein and I hope they do.
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
It is effectively bipartisan consensus that Australia needs large-scale immigration, and they don't even disagree that much about the criteria for it (i.e. they like skilled professionals).
I have to agree with this. Liberals said that they would reduce immigration by 100000 a year only and still faced backlash:
"But the significant reduction risks backlash from businesses, industry groups and farmers who rely on migrant labour. The opposition leader has also been forced to defend his support for immigration after facing an audience question at the first leaders’ debate about “demonising migrants” in political debate."
I had a chat to a non-Indian IT friend in a private server and he told me he had come across multiple uber drivers handing out resumes (which they kept in their car). They were desperate to qualify for PR under Australia's points based system before their time ran out.
The pipeline for those guys was apparently: Foreign student comes to Australia and pays full price for an IT Masters degree from Australia's massive university sector > Student gets 3 years after completion to find employment or leave > Student takes IT job for vastly reduced rate (A$60k) in order to qualify for permanent residency, suppressing salaries for heritage Australians > New batch graduates every year, saturating the industry > Govt campaigns on 'skills shortages' in IT
I don't have the time to long form this sadly, but I'll throw out some dot points.
The center right conservative Liberal party didn't do enough to differentiate itself from the incumbent center left Labor party. Their (ex)leader was generally uncharismatic even though he did a good job bringing stability during his tenure to a party that had previously gone through several leadership spills.
Australia's largest problems right now are arguably a cost of living crisis (post COVID inflation, energy policies) and housing affordability (due to mass immigration, nimbyist building restrictions).
By electing the incumbent government we can expect more of the same policies that the incumbant govt has promoted. A push towards (more expensive) renewable energy over the Liberals promotion of long term development of nuclear energy. I think this will exacerbate the cost of living problem over the long term.
Same with immigration. The Foreign Minister primed the crowd for the PM's victory speech with the usual platitudes such as 'Welcome to Country' and a celebration of multiculturalism and how many different peoples we had in this country. They seem to have no intention of stemming the flow of mass migration into Australia, primarily from India, with predictable excuse of skills shortages. More than 30% of the Australian population is foreign born for context and 2/3rds of Australians are home owners (who are likely quite happy for house prices to inflate out of reach for the renters).
The vast majority of Australians live on the coast and in the capital cities. There are some state cultural differences with Western Australia with its mining based economy traditionally having an undercurrent of successionism against the 'out of touch' Eastern States, but Canberra has been smart enough to give WA enough revenue to keep any real anger at the Eastern States under control.
There's a lot more that can be said about this election and Australia itself, but I'll finish with this. I expect Australia to continue a long slow and steady decline into stagnation. Australians in general do not want things to change. They like the welfare state and rising housing prices (read: retirement portfolios) and seem to be happy with mass immigration.
A final anecdote. I was watching the election coverage last night from the publicly funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). A supposedly neutral ABC journalist immediately start badgering a Liberal politician on a panel if the Liberals would retract their nuclear energy policy as soon as it became clear the Liberals had lost. A different journalist later asked a Labor politician if they would use their new majority to resurrect the failed Voice to Parliament policy that had been resoundingly defeated at referendum. I get enough Reddit online and don't need to see more on TV.
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
Liberals on suicide watch. The opposition leader lost his seat which shows what a bloodbath this is. (Ironically it looks like the Greens party might lose their leader too).
Massive swing to the Left, partially due to a failing of the conservative party to resonate with voters and also the Trump tariff effect.
Many right wingers on my twitter feed taking it badly.
Not a lot do except for the 'very online' that enjoy US and geo-politics.
However one of the populist parties is called 'The Trumpet of Patriots' and is clearly trying to piggyback off of Trump's success in the US. I'd say more of the voters for that party would than average.
Edit: Should make it clear that TOP is a minor party that isn't expected to pick up many seats. Its run by a dodgy billionaire with a checkered history.
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
I've started noticing AI generated video in the lead up to the Australian federal election. There was one on X floating around with Tucker Carlson dumping on the current Prime Minister. Really made me think about the need to curate my feed more.
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
Its more the 'You aren't against wheelchair access are you? Then approve our racial quotas!' that gets me riled up.
They bundle these things together to get 'inclusion' to do the heavy lifting for 'diversity' and 'equity'.
You're allowed to be upset. I would as would most of us.
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