Dang, I had to fact check, but it turns out AoC was just barely old enough to run for president at the last election.

D’ya watch Wololo last weekend? What a tournament!

Though as good as the aoe2 tourney was, I think aoe4 had them beat this time. So exciting and tense, completely unlike the previous aoe4 Wololo.

Well you can’t just lead with that and not tell us the whole thing!

Sorry but I don’t trust that infographic. Over 50% in Australia? Try more like 15. If it got Australia so badly wrong, how accurate are other countries?

Big shock.

Walking more popular when walking convenient and comfortable. But seriously, stories about this are important, because councils clearly do need some imports to start doing better.

I’ve had two PCs over this time period. One came with a pirated copy of Windows (bought overseas) and I later installed a legit copy with my uni’s licence. The other I transferred that same licence across to after building the PC myself.

The law here is ostensibly supposed to be to deal with exactly that situation. It does some good things, like giving police the power to confiscate those illegal ebikes, and to hold parents legally responsible (unless the parent can demonstrate they genuinely could not have prevented it). But it does some incredibly fucking dumb things too, like the 10 km/h speed limit mentioned in the video. And all to prevent people doing something that’s…already illegal. Because electric motorbikes that operate without pedalling or which can go above 25 km/h with pedal assist are already illegal to ride in public. Police fail to enforce it currently, so there’s no reason to believe they’ll be enforcing it if this passes. Except perhaps the occasional blitz of enforcement in easily-accessible places where the vast majority of people they catch would have been doing the right thing prior to the law’s passing.

Side note: we have police with bikes of their own who occasionally do this, so hitting the bike tracks doesn’t stop a pursuit. The thing that stops a pursuit is that the police know that a high-speed pursuit just increases the danger to both the accused and to the general public. So they only pursue under very limited circumstances.

My building is taller than the neighbouring one.

Zionists are a subset of antisemites.

I haven’t played the game, but it really sounds like you’re taking it way too seriously. Methinks you need to chill.

I wouldn’t have described it as a golden era. More like a constant, steady, quiet sense of improvement.

I’ll just say, I presented my “sacrificial clause” theory to a few people at the protest yesterday. Nobody seemed convinced.

I’m talking about the whole period of like 2010 to about 2018.

Ha! That’s amusing. The Australian white ibis has a reputation locally for being a really ugly bird, with their kinda dirty off-white coat. Personally I don’t entirely agree and I think they have an unfair reputation. They’ve adapted really well to the human environment, and are particularly fond of rubbish tips and rubbish bins. It’s earned them the nickname “bin chicken”.

But if you want a bird that’s much more attractive looking, the straw-necked ibis looks exactly like the white ibis, if it was wearing a shiny black/blue/green cape.

A decade ago things were looking really positive for the future of Mac gaming. It felt like more and more games were coming out supporting it. I’m not sure if their transition away from Intel has hindered it, or if it’s something else, but it definitely seems to have stalled.

Plus, the move to Apple Silicon has killed the back-up option of Bootcamp. Or I assume it has, I’ve not been a Mac user since before the transition, when my ageing MBP died and I just found I didn’t need any laptop to replace it.

paying Microsoft for an operating system

To be fair, I haven’t paid Microsoft for my OS…ever. And it’s not even piracy.

I got a licence for free through my university when I was in uni. And Microsoft seemed happy to let me keep using it and even upgrading it. I started on Windows 8, upgraded for free to Windows 10. If my PC didn’t have a processor that seemingly arbitrarily they decided can’t run Windows 11, I could be on that today.

Pinging @Quokka@quokk.au since I know you’ve said you often miss posts in this community

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See this is why I should read one comment further down before I reply. 🤦‍♂️

Oh yeah I have a mate who lives right next to a U Go. And they’re gonna open one pretty soon on a road I drive on pretty regularly. Never been in before.

But I have used a different servo that gave the option to operate in the same way before. IIRC it wasn’t that you “pay” upfront, you preauthorise it. Basically, they put a hold on that amount of money in your account, but it’s technically still in your account. Aside from niche things like interest calculations I’m not sure what the practical difference is.