Thank you for summarising how I feel about the debates.
I sometimes go to respond to the more extreme takes and then think, haven't I said this before? And wouldn't they already know this?
The ability to counter misinformation is so diminished now. Everyone can just stand on either side holding up signs that summarise their views and leave it at that.
'Beyond the black stump' was a famous Australian comic strip but this doesn't look similar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Black_Stump_(comic_strip)
It doesn't look like the Ettamogah pub series. Or ginger meggs
You might enjoy this other brand of Australian high speed madness. Water world edition:
Everyone knows you have a hard deadline and work backwards to today. It is immaterial whether that is enough time for the work or to line up appropriate resources. Duh.
Yeah, Australia it's 'howyagoin'.
My Scandinavian friend said it was difficult when he came here because he would start to respond but the person had already walked past.
It's something you say when you first arrive at a meeting, or greeting someone. You also say it to strangers when you walk past each other with your dogs.
The response if you're staying to chat with someone you know is 'good, how're you?' and they say 'good' and that's about it - you either move on, or start an actual conversation.
but in passing with strangers or colleagues in the corridor, it's also 'howyagoin', smile maybe a nod and you keep moving.
So many people I know through the workplace have done the Myers Briggs nonsense and hold onto their persona like a badge of pride. They're well meaning, intelligent people who don't know the background of MB and how it's as scientifically rigorous as those paper chatterboxes we made in school to help you find out which boy you were going to marry by picking a colour.
I don't say anything when people bring it up. I also have a few star sign friends. Sigh.
Thanks for this. Have added to DNS settings and will see how I go.
Nah, Australian provider and I'm on the home wifi almost all the time I'm on here. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Same. We go away, or have dinner somewhere nice, enjoy each other's company. There's just no point with presents - if either one of us wants something, we already got it for ourselves. I think it's lovely that some couples have special talents to make or craft things for each other but we're not those people.
Feels like a safety issue for other patrons too. If I went to the gym and found a guy there who wasn't actually working out (presumably sleeping) I'd be pretty freaked out.
Late 30s woman in Australia. Work in tech adjacent field. Progressive leftie.
Used Reddit for news, memes and funnies. Here for the same. Sometimes get involved in discussion but more often than not get too angry and have to put the phone down. Feel like you can have better discussions here than the old place, but I've noticed an uptick in right wing nut jobs and incels.
Absence of low effort 'this' and copypastas style responses is great. But I'm seeing a bit of that coming over too.