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Daily Discussion Thread: 🎂🎂 Sunday, November 17, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Okay:

Washed
Chicken sandwich obtained
Vanilla flan smashed
Stupidly priced cookies for later

Now just waiting for the rain to pass to see whether I want to be out and about on two wheels. Perfect weather for the one the runs insanely hot. It would be nice to not to straddle 105°.

Even though I should be sorting this crapshow I have created. I just have such an aversion to it, that it is pretty much reflective of my state of mind… Yep, hot mess.

But also so tempting to just lay in bed. This is when I love the rain.

Edit: I have dangerously climbed back into bed. 🥱

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I feel surprisingly good today. At times there's a bit of post birthday blues, but apparently not this year!

Also I forgot I had a car so when I open the kitchen blinds, I was like "oh yeah! FUCK YES!"

Ended up having a really good music sesh as well before I went to bed which felt awesome!

Thanks again for all the birthday wishes, and support over the past year ❤️

Edit: Fluffy and I are going to laze around today I think. No responsibility, no thinking, just rest and recreation :)

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You deserve all this and more. 😘

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

That's incredibly kind of you ❤️

Here's to a brighter year for us all!

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Overall Australia lacks culture and meaning, and has unfortunately become a mere economic zone. Probably why in part so many people are depressed and anxious.

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think we do have our own culture otherwise we would still be a clone of Britain. We used to be but because of migration we are drifting further away from that which is a beautiful thing.

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I think we still have an awful lot of Britishness in our institutions and so on. And probably a lot of globalist corporate and consumer culture now as well - hence the emptiness.

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I mean this in the most nicest way possible. Just because you feel emptiness it doesn't mean everybody else does. I'm an optimist and I'm gonna find the good in as much as I can.

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

To clarify, I wasn't suggesting everyone does feel this way.

However it must be said that my view on Australian life is hardly an outlier. Official statistics on mental health are alarming and rising, and these are official numbers, to say nothing of all the people that aren't being accounted for.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/mental-health#%3A%7E%3Atext=20%25+or+4.8+million+Australians%2C9%25+in+2014-15.

To put it succinctly:

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti"

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

You need to find your Ikigai (life purpose).

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Colonial Australia does lack a meaning and culture, because they genocided, murdered, raped, and stole First Nations people, refused a Treaty with FN, and they barely have a presence in Parliament (by design). Settler Colonialism is inherently meaningless and cultureless for it's victims and those who vehemently disagree.

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Similar things happened in Mexico but they still have a distinct culture. It's not quite the same I guess because the Mexicans recognise the Aztecs weren't the nicest people either so I guess it's more complicated.

But I think the fact that we were but a mere settler colony has a lot to do with it. Even then, the previous Christian traditions, whether you subscribe to them or not are also evaporating.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

you know, defeating the Aztecs was the right thing, just like defeating the Nazis was the right thing

this Christian tradition is not the main defining tradition we have

we have a culture of trust, we trust that deals we make with other people will be upheld

we have a culture of enlightenment tolerance, we don't kill people for living or believing differently

we agree that customs and laws should protect the weak

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

For myself I am trying to be more forgiving and compassionate. Really looking at my own flaws and mistakes and then within that framework, keep that in mind when someone else is not being particularly nice. I like to imagine people as babies and ask myself, what happened to you in life for you to turn out this way?

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It has always been an economic zone, that's what being a colony is.

If we want meaning and culture we have to create our own.

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think one of the greatest myths we are told in modern societies is that you have to do it all on your own and you have to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.

The truth is life can be terrible. No man is an island and humanity needs each other. I think the lack of care leads to an awful lot of problems and it starts in childhood.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

yes, humankind is naturally caring and co-operative

one of the aspects that differentiates our society from others is we have safety nets for those who don't have familial or social connections

( safety nets that have been eroded )

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Yes I was going to say the safety net is basically non existent these days. If you don't have friends or family unless you can get out of hot water relatively quickly you are in real trouble.

[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 6 points 2 hours ago

Minipeelers wanted to go to the farmers market today and I am just too tired and unmotivated to spend the $$. So I'm not very popular atm 😔. This one's a good one, only on once a month so I feel quite guilty but also weather is windy AF.

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So many car shows on at the moment. We went to one in Whittlesea on Friday and there's one on at MacLeod right now

[–] Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

What type?

[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

My attempt at macro phone photography, featuring my dad's attempt at a pizza oven from many years ago, made from a bathtub he found in hard rubbish.

[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 4 points 1 hour ago

Bathtub pizza oven! Now that is not something I've seen before.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Are those hakea nuts? Awesome picture. 🙂

[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

Possibly, according to Google Lens!

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 6 points 3 hours ago (9 children)

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[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A glass of champagne to celebrate another cupboard being sold, please

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

🥂

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Leftover birthday cake?

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

🍰

[–] TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Pate de foie gras please on hot toast with coffee.

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

🦆🧈
🍞☕️

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[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 7 points 3 hours ago (7 children)

Is it raining anywhere?

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

I decided to get some exercise and walk to the shop instead of driving.

Guess what happened?

[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 points 29 minutes ago

You can't see clearly because the rain hasn't gone?

[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

Just started here

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[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 9 points 4 hours ago (16 children)

Here's another quiz for you space nerds

Know Planets?

[–] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 2 points 59 minutes ago

12/20. I am happy with that

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

10/20 for me this time.

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