• Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    2 months ago

    I was craving lasagne but don’t have any lasagne sheets, so I’ve made a mock lasagne with layers of fettuccini instead. Now I just have to wait for it to bake.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Pet hate, one person who hogs two machines at the gym alternating between the two. Extra penalties for doing it in gym peak hours.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    pakige…

    Two days with “we couldn’t deliver”. Two days I’ve been here all day. Either they are not trying or they can’t figure out how to operate a buzzer.

    EDIT: more ranting Oh and now they have cut me off from the phone line three times in a row. I’m now on chat to Amazon making a complaint. I’ve never had anything delivered by Dragonfly couriers before - this is terrible

    EDIT EDIT: Ok I know amazon are evil and all that, but 3 mins in the chat and they are sending me a replacement with a new courier company. THat is nice

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Looking forward to the post apocalypse, just so I can build a shack and call it my own. Defend it with some pitchforks and I’m sorted. May the enshittification continue so that one day I may own a home lol

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Today’s little “hobby from a distance” is looking at vinyls and high end hi-fi equipment I can’t afford

    A Baku can dream

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Surprisingly easier to disconnect from work thoughts with this job.

    It only matters when I’m sitting in front of the laptop, and then, it’s over.

    Kinda nice for a change.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So I’ve completed 3/4 knowledge assessments, and submitted 2/4 practical assessments. Tomorrow is prac day, so I can ask the questions I need, finish up the one assessment I still need to do, and then submit those. Then I’ll check the last quiz tomorrow afternoon, and attempt it, note down any questions and save it for Friday. Once that last one is done, I’m finished with my classes for the semester and can enjoy some holidays!

    I still can’t believe I’ve changed my trajectory.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Not long back from the vet.
    Results of second and more comprehensive ultrasound - Sammi has pancreatitis.
    Hopefully they’ll be able to control it with cortisone injections.
    Also she got a bravery award from the ultrasound people and the staff said she was a model patient and love her. Which is nice. 😊

  • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Bailed on work early to get to GP appointment. My lovely GP is running behind 30min+ and counting. I need to be elsewhere at 5.45pm. I also parked in the city to make my appointment.

    I could have gone home and walked in if I knew. Damnit.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I’m normally happy being frugal, it’s been a way of life for so long. But I have to say I’m getting really sick of it being so severely enforced. Especially as disability = hard mode.

    I’m not happy with the direction Australia is going for any of us. As much as people tighten their belts it’s pointless. Corporations and banks just take more, the government just cuts more. The severity of this could have been avoided.

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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          3 months ago

          of course, but we should also take measures on a personal level to make our lives safer, more stable and more resilient against the knockbacks of life

          • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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            3 months ago

            It’s all I’ve ever done. I scrimped and saved for a long time to get an emergency fund for myself and Melbcat, and our money is getting eaten into so already rich people can get obscenely rich.

        • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Policy is written for those with the funds to lobby for it. The concept of policy is great. The reality of policy is that it seems written for corporations these days.

          On being frugal, I like that frugality almost directly links to anticonsumption. But there’s being frugal and becoming poor because everything is costing more. I used to spend slightly less than I brought in, now I’m spending slightly more.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      It’s great to be frugal, but shitty to have absolutely no other choice but to have it so ruthlessly rammed down your throat. The farmer struggles for a minimal return, consumers pay a premium for bare essentials and the fat cats and shareholders in the middle get all the cream. Grocery shopping is essential and should be treated as such, with essential items price protected, but time and time again governments are gutless wonders.

        • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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          2 months ago

          Yes, I totally agree. When I was young I used to think, if you’ve worked hard and bought yourself a little weekender or property to one day retire to, like some of my friends did, then good on you. But with negative gearing, stagnant wage reform, stagnant social security payments, the air bnb situation, and people owning not “a little weekender” but 10, 20, 100 properties, it’s beyond a joke. Housing is a right and should never be treated like it isn’t.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    3 months ago

    ta da, I finished the little cabinet and have loaded up some of my shell collection. I think it looks pretty cool and I’m well pleased with how it turned out. 🙂

    spoiler

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Forecast changed to sunny today, best time to be wfh. Washing machine running overtime after having taken a break for 10 days. The air is bitingly cold though, not sure how dry my clothes will get

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Yeah it turns out my clothes are getting turbo dried by the wind even though the air is a bit cold and the sun is not constant. Towels never dried this fast outside of summer!

        On my fourth load now… two more to go that should dry faster. I believe in you laundry. Let’s do it.

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I’m reading the Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson after watching Alien: Romulus. It’s great to see Newt and Hicks get proper character moments in a follow up story. And from what I understand, the story does things with the Aliens we haven’t seen on screen yet.

    Also, it sucks that they killed off Newt at the start of Alien 3, but something had to be done about her. At the end of Aliens she went into the sleep pod, so she would look a lot like she did once she came out.

    The movie languished in development hell for years. As a teenaged girl she’d look very different in Alien 3 to how she did in Aliens. With all the production problems behind Alien 3, it seems like the easiest option than come up with an in universe reason why she’s aged. If they went with Gibson’s script and got Alien 3 out 2 years or so after Aliens they could have covered it up a lot more.

        • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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          2 months ago

          Thank you for this! I saw Romulus on the weekend, and actually re-watched Aliens just last night!

          Will definitely be checking this out :)

          • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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            2 months ago

            There’s also an Aliens: Engineers screenplay floating around which eventually became Prometheus. It’s not perfect but I prefer it to Prometheus. The lore is similar and it helps lock in details since things are explained on the page in a way that may not fully translate on screen.