I saw a comment somewhere for this game: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
It’s so stupid. But somehow so addictive.
Anyway I played it for a bit (…) and it turns out once you sell enough paperclips you basically enslave the earth and turn all its resources in to paperclips, then send drones out in to space and convert the entire universe… in to paperclips.
It gets slightly unhinged. I’ve stopped playing now.
Just for fun I popped it through all the usual AI platforms and none of them had a clue. They were very confident in their wrong findings mind you!
Glad old mate e0qdk sorted it out cause AI was no good.
Walking out of our AC lounge room felt like hopping in to a bowl of soup. Its gross.
Also, frog.
I bought a couple of cheap pillows from Amazon for a spare bedroom. They came in a box, with protective packaging.
On the plus side, they did arrive undamaged I guess?
Someone is going to have to explain this whole situation to me, because I am struggling to understand how a country almost exclusively made up of people who went through a religious-based genocide are somehow now performing genocide on another religious group without being hyper aware of the hypocrisy.
I made it half way through a 6 pack of kirin ichiban on Sunday. I enjoyed it! And the best bit is it was special for like $12.
Sometimes I am glad my pallete is not mature cause $12 is like a single can of anything halfway crafty.
Once We Were Spaceman is great, but they need more Firefly references I reckon.
Yes, for being on call.
Back when mobile plans were expensive and coverage was terrible, pagers were fantastic. They’d get the message inside a concrete basement where a mobile had no chance of reception.
To get around the lack of acknowledgment on pagers, our plan had a “resend page 3 times every 15 minutes until acknowledged by return call, if not acknowledged ring these mobiles until answered” type setup. Worked very well for emergency after hours calls.
Now we have Pushover.
Really? Right in front of my carrot?
I’m honestly terrified of cycling because of how people drive.
I used to ride to school (10ish k trip, almost all bikeway) and work (wide footpaths, only needed to cross maybe one main road) back in the day and loved it.
Now my commute would be a lot of 80kph and 70kph main road and seeing the aggressive way people drive in their dual cabs along there has me shook.
I’ve also seen a couple of bike stacks with cars (for e.g https://youtu.be/bLAuktN2N10) and dudes get fair buggered even at low speeds.
You’re braver than I am.
I swear thats AI generated, the text is all wobbly and squiggly.
Maybe give this list a whirl: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls564598679/
I wonder wat speed Google Maps thinks people ride at?
Our commute each way is 25km / 25 mins off peak / 40 mins peak.
According to Google Maps that translates to a 1.25 hour ride. Which I actually wouldnt mind doing to get some fitness back, if it wasnt all frankly terrifying main roads.
Classic Facebook scam
yellow tail black cockatoo chick
is clearly entirely yellow
Not catching me out this time, scammers.
I’m a Plex guy. I share my library because it’s a bit of fun and scratches my IT interest itch. I actually run Plex and Jellyfin in parallel but pretty much everyone prefers the Plex interface (and most smart TVs have it ready to go, even the silly ones with off brand app stores).
Mostly it’s just an excuse to play with cool toys, and a reason to work out how to run things I wouldn’t otherwise bother with.
I’ve always downloaded stuff, since the dialup days. Originally it was for things that were region locked / “unrated” in Australia and thus not available… but now it’s just so much more convenient than paid options that it’s a no-brainer. Like I literally can’t pay any legit service for the level of access and convenience I have now.
It’s not even about money anymore. Between the purchase price and power consumption of my dual Xeon rack server and JBOD, the 1000/400Mbps fibre connection, and the time I spend on it I’m paying enough to cover half a dozen subscriptions or so with change… But the convenience! I can watch anything, anywhere, on any device. No jumping between services to find stuff, no episodes/movies going missing, no login restrictions, no player that won’t work because your HDMI cable is lacking a decimal place or whatever the hell they’re doing now.
Anytime someone we know in real life complains about having issues with their legitimate streaming service I offer access to Plex. I think there’s 40ish users, but only a dozen or so that use it with any real frequency. Maybe 4-5 concurrent streams at peak times, outside of that is usually occasionally the work from home “workers” / the night shift people, or me streaming music at work or similar. I think the most I’ve had is 7 or 8 at once.
It’s Photoshop CS2 in your browser
Facebook decided I needed to see this, and its actually from Perth so I guess not really local… But it does remind me of a lot of housing estates going in around Brisbane.
Utter insanity that these are being approved, built, and then people are buying them? How is this better than duplexes, or low level highrises, or even highrises with a shared greenspace?? Give me more density and free up some surface area for greenery damn.
Screenshot:
Highways are like bins. Their usage just swells to fill the available space. If they add more lanes to the M1, more people will choose to drive on it.
The only “solution” to the M1 is cheap and fast public transport between places people live (like Ormeau) and where they work (like the CBD).
Or better yet, IMO, break up the CBD in to urban centres/hubs. Have a mini CBD in Ipswich, in Logan, in Chermside… Approve highrises and high density apartments and create more destinations for businesses.
… And even better yet, lets push for more work from home for office jobs. Leave the roads free for people who need to take their skills to site.
Damn, wish we hadn’t sold our Mount Gravatt home… Will be worth a fortune in the very near future.