Imagine if any other job functioned like tradies/handymen? You book into the dentist, tell the receptionist what you need beforehand, arrive, but the dentist says "What do you need? A teeth cleaning?! I don't have the tool/part for that on me. Gonna need to pop down to Bunnings. Back in 2-3 hrs."

Superman does a good job with the main character, but otherwise, I found it disappointing. boxd.it/aVYLbt

Sand batteries are cool AF. Big opportunity in Australia to use these in conjunction with solar and wind.

This might be the worst Albo has ever looked. Terrible answer to the question, deflects to another problem topic, even admits the reason his gov won't restrict gambling is because of the revenue it generates. The question was about gambling ads! 80% of voters are for restricting gambling ads!

A lot of the recent Disney+ / Marvel shows have been mid-to-bad but I think it's important to remember that INHUMANS existed and that might be the worst TV show ever made.

My first steam purchases. All bangers. But of course, I have since learnt to no longer preorder a battlefield (or pretty much any) game.

Had the pleasure of briefly meeting David Stratton a couple times. He was kind and charming. RIP. (image from his hilarious appearance on The Bazura Project)

The TV show STICK does the amazing feat of making every single character in the show unlikable. It's truly terribly written.

Cast looks great. Not sure about the setting, feels like an excuse to have a lot of emotional drama with young cadets. Especially with how god awful Discovery was. At least Strange New Worlds has some redeeming qualities and Lower Decks is legit good.

Finished reading Project Hail Mary last night and the movie trailer launched today. I'm not going to share it because I think you should avoid it if you haven't read the book. A lot of big reveals in the book are shown in the movie trailer. It would be a much better experience going in blind.

Can we as a society talk about how shit AND expensive Maccas is? The burgers look like they're made in a rush by a blind racoon and taste like cardboard & pickles with soggie cold fries. $18, please...

I see a lot of anti- american style tipping content from Europeans online. Which is valid. Except I feel like the easy return serve is pointing out Europeans' bizarre paid toilets culture. The toilets aren't even nice and obviously its just generally a cruel idea to paywall toilets.

On the train from Wroclaw to Krakow (Poland). I've got to say it's not as comfy as I was hoping. I recently took a FlixBus to Berlin and thought it was superior. More comfy seats, better bag storage, rows of 2 seats instead of the 6 seat compartments where you face strangers, & half the price.

Your sound card works perfectly! #GilbertGottfried

This squirrel made my day.

First day in Finland! Not counting arriving half asleep yesterday late arvo. Recovered well. Went exploring on a chill foggy day.

Indie devs: "Hmm $5-10 seems like a fair price for my Switch port of a 10 year old game " Big Publisher:

I love a good pedantic discussion about language, so I'm going to flag that I believe "up to X" should mean up to but not including X. Classic example of this, should "Freeze panes - up to row 3" include or not include row 3?

There's literally a movie about the fact that Nintendo once included one of the greatest games ever made free with their handheld... Meanwhile, modern Nintendo charges $ 10 USD for a tech demo / interactive ad.

I don't think once in my entire history with smart phones have I been happy with the design and functionality of any phone app's widgets.

Going to Europe for 2 months. Was debating taking my new Switch OLED. It's use inflexibility is frustrating and now days you have such limited bag weight & battery devices have to be in your carry-on. BUT the form factor is just perfect for long planes & trains. Tell me your must play games!

I already thought the Switch OLED was overpriced, so the Switch 2 is exorbitant.

Val Kilmer was brilliant in basically everything. RIP. Been meaning to watch the doco VAL for a while, guess it's jumped to the top of my list. Going to need to do some rewatches of Tombstone, Heat, Top Secret, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Willow, and others.

First 3 episodes of Andor S1 are on YouTube for free. If you haven't seen it yet, it's fucking great. First 2 eps are prob the slowest of the season so I'd recommend finishing 3 before making a decision on whether you want to watch the whole season. youtu.be/0EuCoDo2k9A?...

INVINCIBLE latest season...

Australia: Where I await an oncoming cyclone and a bush fire rages across the road from my parents house.

I still cannot fathom why people buy out toilet paper during an issue/crisis/weather event etc. The cyclone impact in Brisbane is going to last a few days max. Don't you already have toilet paper? A pack lasts a long time. What possible reason is there for hording it?

Literally the first time I saw a Theo Von podcast clip I knew he was a spineless moral-less loser that was heavily right-wing leaning but people defended him the same way they defended Joe Rogan. "Oh he's just having the conversations". No they're pushing agendas, dangerous ones, fascist ones.

This Kia PV5 range of vans/people movers seems cool af. As a former vanlifer and a non-home owner I'd prefer a PHEV option but outside of my specific use case this thing seems awesome.

Recently scored a Nintendo Switch OLED for cheap from family. Here are some quick first impressions... Pros: - Size & weight, very portable and easy to hold. Assume PC handhelds weight is a major negative for them - OLED screen looks amazing. Good size too.

It's bizarre how many Australians don't know how Preferential Voting works. Please consider educating your family and friends before the upcoming election.

The only person in the world that is worse than me at spelling (at first go) "maintenance" and a few other random words is whoever programmed autocorrect.

The Fall Guy.

Going to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in just two months from now! Pretty excited. If you've been and have recommendations, I'd love to hear them! I'm also hitting Ireland, and probably Germany and some of other more familiar to me spots.

Support chatbots in 2025.

South Australian gov wanting to criminalise “posting and boasting” about crimes on social media... why don't you just nick them for the crime they admitted to? Why do we need to add a new weirdly vague additional charge?

As someone who just accidentally bought a flight to Melbourne (Avalon) instead of Melbourne (Tullamarine). Can we just fucking change the name to Geelong Airport?!

I'm excited! I still have mine. Every couple years I get it out again. Rebble.io has kept the services alive (at a small cost) but this could make the whole thing easier and new hardware would be nice, if only for the chance to have a fresh battery and not have scratches all over my screen 😆

What's my favourite album of 2024? Not even close. 'No Hands' by Joey Valence & Brae asks the question, what if the Beastie Boys were produced by Fatman Scoop and whoever did the music for the Streets of Rage video games. And it's amazing. album.link/y/OLAK5uy_n0...

Opened up Threads for the first time in a while and the feed was instantly just engagement bait garbage. Definitely feel justified in moving to Bluesky. That stuff is on here too but it's not forced upon you. The ability to remove all algorithm feeds is priceless.

I've long held an opinion that EVERY SINGLE Google product/service is getting worse over time. But it's really noticeable on a lot of them now. You'll search a store or franchise on Google Maps and it'll just bring up a bunch of random shit. Sometimes vaguely related businesses, often not at all.

Fun Fact: The site Rotten Tomatoes began life as a database ranking Jackie Chan films and was coded & launched as a website in anticipation of Rush Hour (1998).

I've got a 100% guaranteed money making scheme! Stop buying expensive dishwasher pods, they're a scam. They don't work any better (and often are worse) then just using the cheapest available powder and rinse aid. Yet they cost 10-20 times more!

Extremely difficult, I think something like this: The Simpsons Batman The Animated Series Animaniacs Dragonball Z

It's now clear Labor's plan is to do NOTHING about ANYTHING. Every policy and bill they announce is pointlessly limp. Still I'm surprised Claire O'Neil has basically admitted that during an interview.

Family restaurant popular for their themed kids meals releases a new meal box themed on a tv show about capitalism driven murder games... I'm not a "think of the children" person but even I think this is pretty weird.

The entire fossil fuel industry in Australia employs approximately as many people as McDonalds. The health and social services sector employs more than 10 times as many people. Each year NEW jobs created across the economy is more than double the total people working in the fossil fuels industry.

Australian pub culture is mostly pokies/sportsbet and a dozen CUB/Lion beers on tap. Always on the look out for pubs that are actually good. My new local The Raven Hotel in West End QLD bucks the trend, which is great. The Montague Hotel down the road unfortunately does not.