sobriquet

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[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Haha. I’ll own that. And I’ll happily try (and, no doubt, love) the Nutella concoction you describe - but I’m standing my ground and not calling it fairy bread! 😉

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, I mean… chocolate sprinkles?! That’s chocolate ant bread! Fairy bread is white bread, butter, and 100s and 1000s. Nothing else. Australia needs to introduce a Fairy Bread Purity Law to protect our sacred food.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Am I the only one thinking “that’s not fairy bread!”?

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

🎶 drinking white wine in the sun 🎶

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Get your own domain quickly! Or you might be myname@myname2.com

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is a much more nuanced view than a “total ban” honytawk suggested. I completely agree this should be the norm.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

There’s definitely many sane countries that have “strict” gun control. But that’s very different to a “total ban”.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That is definitely not true. Even in Australia, which has some of the strictest gun laws, we don’t have a “total ban”. If you have a legitimate reason to have a firearm, you can get a license. And yes, legitimate reasons can include “guns are fun” - it just means that if that is your reason, the gun is only used at a gun club, and you can’t walk around the streets with it.

Edit: reading your other posts, it seems you mean “carried in population centres”. Stored and/or used in controlled environments within population centres, and even open carried by appropriately licences individuals (eg police) is still a far cry from a “total ban”.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone -1 points 6 months ago (10 children)

What country has a “total” ban on firearms?

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

The XKCD one is interesting, but seems to be missing the transfer to/from the storage medium sent by FedEx.

If I want to move data from my computer to yours over the internet, the internet bandwidth between our devices/networks is the main consideration. If I’m FedExing SD cards or HDDs, I’ve also gotta take into account the transfer times to get the data ONTO those devices.

I wonder how the analysis would fair when taking into account:

  • speed of internet
  • TB/kg of storage
  • storage medium transfer speeds
[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But of course, they’re only looking at one small aspect of the overall issue. Just focus on the airline industry, rather than actually having decent privacy legislation that prevented any industry from (legally) misusing individuals data?

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

For me, the hard part isn’t driving on the “wrong” side of the road. You pick that up pretty quickly. You need to think a bit more when turning, but it’s not so hard. For me the harder part is driving from the “wrong” side of the car. I may have almost mounted a curb or two because I forgot where I was in the lane.

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