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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Bathroom and kitchen sinks cleaned, toilet done. Vacc'd the study and hallway. Wiped windows, benches, fridge and walls.

Tomorrow I will tackle the bedroom and living rooms and hopefully my LL won't realise I'm an actual piece of shit.

Also, can anyone confirm that lack of airflow causes mold? I found some on the fridge and windows and wonder if my lack of flyscreen is to blame? (As in I am hesitant to open doors/windows due to bugs because I don't have flyscreen at all). Weighing up whether it is worth grabbing those temp ones from Bunnings or not...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I'm very very glad that this sudden and weird internet outage happened this close to five. Shitty that I'm WFH when it happened though.

Anyone else's network gone down? I'm with exetel in the northern suburbs on a HFC network.

EDIT: Welp, clearly something's wrong, given I called the support number 35 ago. Was supposed to have a haircut this arvo, but guess that's not happening until the weekend

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm in Brunswick with Aussie Broadband, and my net seems to be okay. I mean, I'm connected to wifi on my phone, so I assume the ethernet connections are okay as well. Is there any outages listed on exetels website?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Not as yet, nor on NBN, but they can take a while to update their maps

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Heard Sister Golden Hair in a shop, one of my fave songs of my teen years

how is it you can not hear a song for a decade and yet still remember every note and word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gibSb1_GGw

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

On Saturday morning we woke up to the news my FIL had a mini stroke the night before. My husband got a pretty nasty text from his sister which he was about to retaliate to until I reminded him that she just buried her FIL three days ago. Then we have stabbings and shit going on overseas, protests here and I still had to hem pants for my daughter for school tomorrow. Although nothing really directly affected me I'm like "enough already". Hence the reason Comfortably Numb popped into my head last night.

Update: Just got good news that my FIL is being discharged from hospital in the next couple of hours.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Heavy.

I hope you and extended fam is doing okay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah. We're all OK. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hugs. There’s just so much going on atm its quite overwhelming. I hope your FIL is ok and you & hubby are doing alright

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit, hope your father in law is ok.

Yep, daylight savings is rough enough with the news and illnesses or whatever. Bit over it all myself tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah he's ok thankfully

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

so many hugs to you and your fam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks. Appreciate it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Freakin love the home affairs youtube ad talking about setting up Multifactor auth. I mean, Bro I'm in talks right now with Microsoft regarding best practices of conditional access MFA and the depreciation of per user MFA policies, so you might've wasted the budget on me. But its good to see someone OTHER than the banks starting to push this shit. We've gotta get past this "I'm old. I dont GET computers" attitudes, cause if that's your take you better get off the internet and go back to a pen and paper as you're doing exactly what attackers want you to do: Bury your head in the sand under the guise of "its all too hard".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

So per user MFA is old news?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Controversial opinion, but I think the tv coverage of the Bondi incident has been too saturated. The exact same images and story over and over again without anything new to report. Yes, it’s a terrible tragedy. But wow the media latches on and just won’t let go until it’s absolutely drained every last drop of blood out of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes! I noticed this. I think this has become much more common after the COVID era of people being glued to media for an extended period of time. The powers that be want that behaviour to continue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I Agree with you.

I saw quite a bit on tv over the weekend and all they did was rehash and even reword sentences over and over just to extend the coverage and constantly interview people who said were guessing what happened but that the police had to complete their investigations and stuff before they could make a factual statement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't watch aussie news at all and read newspapers maybe once a week

so missed all the arseholery by the media

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

did you see the footage broadcast live on Saturday arvo? I thought the presenter was about to pop a boner from the excitement of having a story. It was disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Or something "more interesting" comes up. It's fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins, judge finds.

I'm shocked, I tell you!

Extra bonus comment: "Having escaped the lion's den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat."
Such a great way to put it. That criminal trial was not going his way. When he escaped with a mistrial, he really should have faded into obscurity. But noooooooooo, he willingly went back for more. Idiot.

To think, 5 years ago, he harbored the idea of going into politics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

so now can we drag 7 over the coals for buying this fucker hookers and blow?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Good. (The validation of the finding, not that it happened.) They put her through so much shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

He’s so full of himself, it’s amazing his head can squeeze through the courtroom doors. But I guess that’s what makes a personality for politics, probably would have risen to the top in no time. Hopefully he finally fades away never to be seen again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Been looking at this today. Sadly even though the judge has come to that judgement it can't incur any criminal penalties according to the ABC.

""I hasten to stress this is a finding on the balance of probabilities."

Mr Lehrmann faced a criminal trial in the ACT Supreme Court in 2022, which collapsed without a verdict due to juror misconduct.

This trial is a civil defamation trial where the burden of proof is less and does not lead to any criminal punishment."

Despite that it's a good ruling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm. On the tram. Lady on aisle seat sitting with crossed legs. Person 1 went across awkwardly. Person 2 just walks through, sorta like kicking her leg and then turns back to her with an annoyed face. Lady has now crossed legs again. Fascinating stuff really.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a classic tactic: sit at the aisle and look like a hassle to sit near. Maybe put a bag next to you. When there are free seats, this even works - people will subconsciously just go sit somewhere easier. But there comes a point where that is the only seat and someone will sit there.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Kid is doing a lot better, but still woke up screaming bloody murder at 4am. This was after it took nearly 3.5 hours to get him down in the first place. My stomach feels a bit "meh" so i decided to forgo the coffee. Struggle street is real today.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thought youse might like a little laugh. This is my iron. It's about 25 years old. It still looks brand new. It's like a kid's toy. It's the size of a tissue box. My mum bought it when I moved out of home. Her words were "You may need it one day". Today is that day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tip:
Don't fall for the temptation of cranking it to max heat. Reserve that for linen and pure cotton. Medium heat will work perfectly well in almost all circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I swear my cuppa tea was hotter than the synthetic setting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I need to go to the supermarket. Don’t want to

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