He got 7 months. It’s actually a disgrace.

Possession of CSAM and conversations where he says 8 is the perfect age and he wants to make out with the little ones and “unfortunately” he hasn’t had the chance to.

What the fuck are we telling people if these people are getting 7 months? And it says he’s eligible for parole so what, he’ll serve a couple of months? As a victim of CSA this is actually so disturbing. People like that can’t be fixed (at all?) in 7 months.

It’s literally remembrance day next week but we chose to make the horse racing the public holiday (Melbourne) and Novembers big day. Next week everyone walks past the old men selling poppies. Pretty sad really.

Lol the cost of them doesn’t seem to reflect how easy they are to implement. And yes considering you can’t get the product without engaging with the companies… Then I will continue to express my dislike for the whole movement of including the internet in every facet of our lives because it’s intrinsically tied to shitty companies.

Yep. I’ve thought about letting my smart phone go but it’s actually a far harder thing - I need a smart phone to make my livelihood most importantly. Also overseas family, friends. The most I can do is switch it off for a while.

Smart appliances like fridges, washing machines, etc are for the most part a luxury. I think we’re at a point where we need to stop engaging with the internet in every aspect of our life so yeah those unnecessary ones are easy to omit 😅

Most of those would have been better marketing ideas than the ad I was speaking about lol. I just bought up the grocery store one because, marketing wise, I think that’s something everyone could relate to. Staring at a screen instead of opening the door isn’t particularly relatable 😅 start with the basics.

There’s a difference. I couldn’t work without my smartphone - I couldn’t actually do my job and live. That’s very different than a smart fridge lol.

I think in the world we’re in where everything is online all the time, recorded, uploaded, collected, targeted, etc. we can be more selective about where we actually need to involve technology and where it’s really just not enough of a benefit to bother. Not everything needs to be connected to the internet or be “smart”, AI etc. That might look different for different people but I think as individuals we don’t need to buy every single appliance to have smart features just because it exists 🤷‍♀️

Agree it may not be the way but it’s hard to take this seriously;

“Reddit, one of the top 10 websites visited in the world, has challenged the teen social media ban on the grounds it impinges the implied freedom of political communication for under-16s.”

Ah yes, social media, the best place for under 16s (or… anyone?) to engage with politics. 😂 I get the point but c’mon. Reddit. Really?

If someone has gained access to controlling their fridge temperatures and they don’t know what the hell happened in that time they should be getting rid of all that product. They shouldn’t be trying to guess what will be okay to sell to customers lol and they don’t have time to go through every product so it’s a toss all situation. Ridiculous waste for an unnecessary feature.

The current way is if it can be connected to the internet, that must be done, it must be an advantage. Ditto with AI. People need to chill and realize that not everything benefits from this shit and sometimes you even worsen the product/service ffs. Just stop!

Right!? Haven’t we had these solutions for commercial fridges/freezers for quite a while now? Why on earth did we bring the internet into it? 😅

I’m somewhere in the middle. Big introvert (actually I’m autistic) and I really isolated after a bad friendship broke down years ago, not the first time. I just didn’t want to put myself back out there and keep getting hurt. I was also sick of the thing people say like “let’s hang out sometime” and then nothing ever happens. It’s just a polite saying apparently? So I stopped taking those statements as any interest in a friendship.

Relatively recently, a coworker said the whole we should hang out thing and I was sigh this again. We got along so well at work but I didn’t trust that let’s hang out sometime crap. Until one day she actually pulled her diary out and was like when are you free. Anyway now we’re actually friends and hang out quite a bit!

It’s the kind of person you let in I think. I was taken advantage of so many times and in toxic friendships I assumed that’s just what friendships were. They don’t have to be. You just have to know when to let those relationships go and how to recognize the friendships that are actually fulfilling!

Yep, same with drinks especially acidic stuff! I was told NOT to brush straight after juice, soda, etc. because it actually screws up your enamel. Bit late, my enamel is fkd but yeah my dentist said to wait an hour after drinking and eating. And then not to have anything including water for half an hour after brushing! They say to leave a coating of toothpaste on my teeth for as long as possible after brushing. I hate it honestly lol, I always want water 😭

Growing up I was definitely told the opposite lol especially with vomiting and with soft drink (soda, coke etc)!

Yeah we had a dental van come to school but it was still only in the van you had to have these when they did the check up, not in front of the class 😅

Yeah in a nutshell, you’re right in these details. Obviously a lot more to it but a portion of this case is about the failure - on a wider scale than just this woman - of the healthcare system and the lack of understanding around women’s health. Unfortunately, as happens on the internet, there’s little room for nuance. As soon as someone mentions this they can be assumed to be defending the actions of Clancy.

It’s possible to believe that Clancy did the wrong thing (duh) and recognize the failure of the health system and the bigger discussion that this brings up around conditions that aren’t recognized enough even by professionals.

It’s an emotive topic, as it should be, so a lot of people just aren’t able to have logical discussions around it. It’s so bloody sad and I think the discussions it evokes, when logical, are extremely important in reducing the risks of these kinds of cases (or similar).

I don’t understand “smart fridges”. There’s an ad I keep seeing about one that is just… stupid. It’s like the guy goes to the fridge door and instead of opening the door a little screen shows him what’s inside. Wow, so useful? I could maybe get it if it showed someone out shopping and they couldn’t remember if they had milk so they could check their smart fridge but I still think it’s dumb. Lol. Not every appliance needs to be “smart”.

Haha. Yeah I was wondering, especially at such a location, if the official temperature may vary slightly from the actual temperatures fluctuating through the day. I don’t doubt you could pick up 50 with some measurement tool out there at points but yeah it’s just not on record I guess. The highest I remember being in was 49 and that was in NT. I have zero desire to experience that again lol.

Yep and that first question you ask is everything wrong with humanity currently.

Interesting, I couldn’t see any records on it reaching 50 degrees every summer. There are literally articles from this year saying that it was hit for the first time in 4 years this year 🤷‍♀️

As an Aussie, I feel you’re slightly over exaggerating our weather here lol. At least in recorded weather temps, 50 is definitely rare and doesn’t happen on an annual basis (thank fuck).

I keep up with the news somewhat in the UK due to family and just general interests that take my algorithm that way lol. Surprisingly they actually HAVE had water restrictions in parts of the UK! Similar to the ones we’ve had. Their water levels are at a record low at the moment.

It’s interesting - I think that the UKs weather, at least in terms of just the temp number, has changed more than it has here over the last decade. I could be wrong, haven’t looked at the data. But I know they are getting days that really are unusually hot for them. Getting to 30 used to be whoa in England, let alone 35 so their weather has seemed to increase in a way I don’t think has been as noticeable here.

And I say that as someone who detests summer lol. Melbourne btw, this could be location dependent of course. I just haven’t noticed a big, detectable for the average person kind of shift like that. I guess for me the equivalent would be like if we were getting - weather in Winter in the cities (outside of the very early morning!).

Other difference though is that UK homes are not at all built for warm weather (let alone hot) so the average person will definitely notice it more over there. Here, split systems or having heating and cooling separately is common so we may not notice changes quite as much. The fact that more UK homes are starting to install A/C points to a significant change.

Point is that of course, it’s all relative. A country that has many who can remember the height of summer days reaching 20 degrees 😅 now having regular 30 degrees days annually in Summer (and the occasional 35 ~5 day streak) is a big deal to them.

Interesting comment. I was only thinking the other day about how Luddite is always casually used as an insult, as someone who can’t accept change just because they’re stubborn, elderly, old fashioned, etc. I’m very anti AI, particularly generative AI so I was kinda thinking shit, am I a Luddite, next thought was but…is that a bad thing? AI does have a lot of problems and isn’t being regulated or controlled - it’s only growing more powerful and harmful while governments drag their feet. It’s absolutely dehumanising in so many ways.

I will do some research on luddites as I really don’t know enough - only the term thrown around casually as a negative!

Because the adults are already addicted and passing that down to the kids.