• TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    NASA has decided to get the astronauts who went up on a crippled Boeing star liner to return on a space X next year. in short: they dont trust the spacecraft for human flight. You cant write fiction funnier than this.

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    Vet just called - as before, nothing detected in the external examination and nothing in the blood tests. They’re going to x-ray her and if nothing shows up on that, organise an ultrasound. Also they’ll give her fluids and an anti nausea injection since she has been vomiting on and off since Thursday.

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    Just got Sammi home - it’s like she’s back to normal. She actually scarfed Zooki’s roo mince which she wasn’t supposed to have, inhaled the Hills vet food that she was, used the tray and is walking around reacquainting herself with the place.
    If you saw her Wednesday and then today, the only difference in her is the shaved spot where they took the bloods. Oh and no purrs - I might be on her shit list for awhile.
    Anyway ultrasound Wednesday, they’re going to let me know what time.

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    Despite being directly the in projected storm path, we were spared the brunt of it.

    Wind and rain for about 15 minutes and then some small hail.

    Overall, not the worst we’ve had.

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      Apart from the power going off for maybe half an hour, which was kinda fun tbh, it wasn’t as bad as we were expecting.

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        I was living in Horsham when the power station blew up on a hot day in November. I was watching one of those mid Arvo money programs on tv (the millionaires chaser or whatever), then the power went out. Then there was a bang. Then there were sirens. Went outside, and there was a gigantic black plume directly in front of us (we were on the other side of town, but a small town and the lack of high-rises makes it easy to see such things). Then like 2 hours later we got a text message from powercor, saying the power is out. Was a bit of a “ya think???” Situation, but from memory they fixed it the next morning

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      I was gonna say, not that bad out here either. Fair bit of lightning and thunder but no hail or anything. Apparently emerald copped it though.

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      Cousins in Sunbury had it bad like 20 minutes before it hit us. I think we were on the edge of the clouds and they got the centre.

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    1 month ago

    I’ve been reading stuff on the internets.

    Wikipedia is wrong!!

    The Edit Wars are getting worse.

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    1 month ago

    T-minus 2 hours until my first class. Freaky.

    The only issue is, my internet is down :D

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        1 month ago

        I managed to fix it by giving the NBN box a good old smack and power cycle

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            It’s kind of hilarious how as soon as something as technologically advanced/sophisticated as modern technology breaks, our monkey brains still resort to “SLAP BOX”, and usually the box of wonders starts working again right afterwards

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              I have a laptop I use as a seedbox whose fan will just randomly start freaking out. Sounds like a jet plane.

              I kick it.

              It stops freaking out.

              We have an understanding.

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    Good lord. Spotify free version doesn’t even let me play a single song I want to hear, just a playlist that includes it. What a disaster

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      Android? There’s a few modded Spotify clients floating around. I used to use one back before I had pocket money.

      I’ve actually been considering going back to one in priest, cause they don’t consider high school students to be friends. I was annoyed but not downright pissed about that. But I checked if my new course would land me the student pricing, but nah, they either don’t consider TAFE students to be students, or don’t consider my school to be a TAFE

      I can afford normal Spotify, so perhaps I’m not in the target demographic, but it just annoyed me that they keep pushing their discounts in my face and then at the last minute being like “jokes! You don’t count.”

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    works gone to complete and utter shit. We’re being forced into this project that we all know is gonna end in a complete dumpster fire, but we (as in everyone in my department, managers included) cant do anything to stop it. Gonna chat to my boss and just say “look I cant reconcile this shit, you want it done? Fine, but I dont want to talk about it for a second more than we have to”. The greater department has this habit of turning their meetings into therapy/bitching sessions and I’m just not here for it.

    Till this Project Doom is completed we’re sticking to facts any talking about it as little as possible.

    thats fair enough isnt it? Honestly sat in the meeting where it was announced on seek, and I dont reckon I was alone in that.

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      I’m wary of places where meetings become therapy/bitch sessions. I never know how much that stuff is gonna get twisted, taken out of context, used against you etc. Risky overflow into unprofessional behaviour.

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    Funny bones ain’t that funny when you scrape one across a door frame. I was carrying my recycle box back inside and I’m like “DON’T THROW IT. DON’T THROW IT”.

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    It’s the last week of the month. If you want to change jobs now is a great time to apply for roles coming up to 14 days old

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      I don’t even understand what’s happening. Tbf I haven’t really tried to though

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      When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it’s good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.

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        My biggest concern about this whole saga is how long it’s taken to get to this point. I worked on CFMEU sites for a decade or so (non union role) and thought it was bad then. Like absolutely transparent corruption and no one seemed to care.

        Also disappointing that unions are meant to protect workers against shit conditions and bad management. Now they’re becoming the monster they were suppose to slay.

        The cultist mentality is pretty messed up too. Glad it’s being taken care of, but I don’t trust either gov party to act as administrators.

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          Yeah, the whole power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely thing. Unfortunately inevitable, unless there is robust pushback from the rank & file. Same thing happens with political parties. The point of short electoral cycles is that the bad apples can be booted out before they’ve done much damage. Variable election dates also help with the booting process. What gets really nasty is a fixed election cycle like in the USA - where the last 2 years of an election cycle is spent getting re-elected instead of actually accomplishing anything. The appointment of a ‘king’ with no pre-specified end date for power works quite well if the ‘king’ is sensible, but if a bad apple gets power …

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            Pushback from union members would be something, but unfortunately there was very visible intimidation from Setka’s supporters. The more I look at our Federal 3 year terms the more I appreciate it. Also having 8-10 weeks for an election is perfect.