You must tell us what number it was. I can understand not letting somebody eat 14, but 3 always look juicy and delicious.

We have 2 gods and a 7 y/o child.

Well, you see, gods are in charge of you, not the other way around. Source:Ancient Greece

“The ship could not be refloated and was broken in two by waves later that year”. So, it sounds like the front fell off.

I wonder what @SenatorCollins@aussie.zone would say about this…

Well, they strangled it by trying to force funnel everyone into casinos, so let’s see.

Seagulls and bin chickens everywhere rejoice!

Actually, Sky Party would be more accurate…

I fully expect several nation states to be targeting key infrastructure in Australia.

Your job, Mr Top Spy, is to stop them.

Good. I’ll have my eye on you, if you know what I mean…🐙

Just that it displays an incredibly quick wit and clever wordplay.

I am a country member ⟶ I am a cunt, remember ⟶ “I remember”

My other favourite politician quote is from NZ’s PM Robert Muldoon who famously said in the 70s, when asked about the migration of NZers to Australia, that it ‘raised the IQ of both countries’. Brilliant!

Me with every recipe:

• search for “substitute for x”. x10. Weirdly, the only substitute I have is nearly always basil. I think search/AI is trolling me.
• search for ‘ratio of dried x to fresh x’. x10. I can get ratios of 1:2 to whatever you want. Then there are AI generated pages that tell you everything about life, the universe and everything, except the ratio of dried x to fresh x Normally have to wade through x10 of those…

Cook. Eat.

After: I rate this as meh. x10. And I’ll need to buy more dried basil. Big basil must be making a fortune!

Hey, look! This magnet sticks to my head!

the importance of Government checks and balances

Watching the US has been interesting and somewhat terrifying at the same time.

How much of our own democracy and institutions here rely on people acting in good faith, and consistent with precedents or tradition? If and/or when those are broken, are there actually any real laws? Is there anyone to prosecute or enforce those laws?

My favourite Gough quote:

“When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: “I am a Country member.” I interjected “I remember.” Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.”

Of course! We always eventually end up with two players in each industry. Because if there’s two, that means there is no monopoly, and there is ‘competition’ in the ‘free market’! Also, there is never any collusion or price fixing, trust me! Rejoice!

AI music can’t be copyrighted

That’s true (though it may depend on which country you are in). But if “a human contributes creatively to an AI-generated work, such as by writing lyrics or modifying melodies, that work may be eligible for copyright”.

You can guarantee that labels/authors will do enough to make sure they can get copyright.

Same thing has been happening in Australia.

Murdoch’s organisations (nearly all the newspapers & TV) take every opportunity to criticise and attack the ABC (Australia’s public broadcaster, equivalent to the BBC). The constant claim is that they are biased and left wing, even though a number of studies have shown that their reporting is neutral.

The last couple of Chairman of the ABC have been ex-Murdoch employees. So they are now being attacked from inside as well. Cuts have been made to news, current affairs and investigative journalism shows.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they sold off Bluey.

History never repeats.

But,.holy hell, you would think people would learn from the mistakes of the past.

This is pointless when there is no enforcement.

You should probably try some specific servers too. Don’t just pick “Australia” or even “Sydney”. Go through the cities and pick individual servers one by one, and you might get lucky.

I download Mullvad VPN but when it’s connected via anywhere but Australia i can’t even access lemmy via this account.

How are you acccessing the site? Is it via app or via web?

I can access https://aussie.zone/ via browser connected to most non-Aussie VPNs, but I will get a momentary “Checking to see if you are human”. If you still can’t access via that, it may be your browser/configuration.

In general, many web sites block VPNs. Eg with Reddit and other sites like youtube, it depends on a server by server basis if they are blocked. Eg, the Sydney ones rarely work, but some others in Australia do.