Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

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      Non-perishable/long life essentials in bulk is where it’s at. Toothpaste, deodorant, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. If you have the storage space.

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      Or even just regular stuff. I bought a couple extra blocks of cheese when I managed to get it at $10/kg.

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    Finally got out of that fucking tutoring role! Finally no more being absolutely fleeced by a boss who pulls in 200K a year but absolutely can’t give a raise in line with inflation because they don’t take inflation into account.

    Today is a good day, goddamn

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      My wife was also ripped off big-time tutoring undergrads a few years back. The class pay was good. The marking pay was abysmal. She had something like 20 minutes to mark each paper. Some of them were that quick, but some of them took twice as long. If it took longer, she was basically unpaid.

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    Today I learned that my mother always thought “patio” rhymes with “ratio”… The effect of living in a country where most people live in apartments and you grow up learning a lot of words from books but not speech

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    At my niece’s 4th birthday lunch. Thought you’d appreciate a photo of an Australian classic.

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    Dumb question, but does anyone else remember the 90s being a time of feeling like there was so much potential and new shit on the horizon? Or was that just cause I was young?

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      I can remember the anticipation of the year 2000 and the buzz about if the computers will stop working. Everything was new then it went back to normal.

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          Me too. Was in the insurance industry at that point, working on a mainframe set up in the 1970s. Two digit year field across much of the system, but not all of it. No julian dates. Many many jury-rigged subsystems in 4 different programming languages to cope with all the different kinds of policies. Payments to be credited properly across 7 time zones and 3 different currencies from a myriad of banks etc. There was a real possibility that everything would re-set to 1900. But we got it right and got it done on time and fairly close to budget. Then the general public laughed and said Y2K was a hoax.

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      I think social media and the 24 hrs news cycle creates an air of constant doom that we just weren’t exposed to.

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      Yes, it was the collapse of Communism and we were so hopeful there would be a new positive world that was freer. But then there was Rwanda and after that Yugoslavia. 😔

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    Israel

    Israel is apparently using white phosphorus. Absolutely vicious weapon. They were previously denying bombing hospitals. The things they’re doing have to be war crimes.

    I can’t do anything to stop it but I can be disgusted.

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        It’s so fucked.

        Civilians are being punished for the acts of Hamas, and that group radicalised and got violent after 75 years of violent occupation and peaceful protestors being shot.

        Nobody is perfectly pure in war - that’s what war is - but in spite of the media spin the more I read about this complex conflict the more one sided it looks to me. It looks like genocide.

        The Geneva Convention is supposed to protect civilians and children and Israel is ignoring that as they don’t consider the territory occupied. Israel/Zion has stopped journalists from reporting by shooting them, and is blocking aid and water.

        https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/israels-war-against-gazas-children-explained#:~:text=At least 14 children were,those killed in that attack.

        NB. This isn’t condoning terrorist cells or condemning Jewish people. This is not supporting antisemitism. There are actually Jewish people protesting Zion. The evil here is violent occupation, war crimes and colonialism.

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    Hard rubbish all out. That’s twice now a passing stranger has helped me lift the second couch back up.
    Here’s hoping the fossickers don’t just dump it again…

  • Baku@aussie.zone
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    Ahhhhhh I need to be up in 6 hours and I can’t sleep

    I started trying to sleep almost 2 hours ago and it’s just not working 😭 I give up until the tiredness happens

    I guess tomorrow’s going to be a nap in the car kind of day

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    Does anyone else feel like supermarket employees are on a bit of a power trip?

    The patrolling of the self serve thing really gives me metro ticket inspector vibes. I’m constantly having them look over my shoulder as though I’m going to steal.

    Admittedly I live in a shitty area and am a minority so maybe I get singled out but it really gets on my nerves.

    I make enough that I don’t need to steal food. Fuck right off.

    Sorry it’s been bugging me for a while now.

    /Rant

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      Not where I live. They’re super nice and stand around because they’re constantly needed to fix up code things or help with double scans, pick up hand baskets, things like that.

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      Tangential, but our local bunnings has gone…weird.

      On the way out they check you have everything on your receipt, not that you have your receipt to prove you bought shit. Like, i literally just take my bike in with massive pannis and a basket full of crap and they go through the receipt and ask me to show each item on it to confirm i have it but don’t check to see if there’s anything i have that’s NOT on the receipt. Wat.

      I’d call it a newbie training but multiple staff have been doing it for three weeks…

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      Probably instructions from management, maybe certain stores have higher losses? They ones at my locals mostly just stand to the side unless they are fixing the endless self scan problems.

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      My local woolies is like that, and it’s really annoying. I have to remind myself that they’re just doing their job so I shouldn’t get pissed off

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      I used to shop at Coles and there was this lady who was definitely on one. Very demeaning as well.

      The scale sensors were always finicky and she would blame me whenever the scales weren’t picking up items or bags properly.

      And the one time I picked a different fruit by accident she had the audacity to tell me how to spell orange.

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      I feel like the new cameras are bad enough. I was putting something down and it slipped right off onto the floor I picked it up and put it back on and I had to get the attendant. It replayed the footage from an overhead view. It was so creepy and made me feel like a criminal.

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      I work in retail and it’s because shoplifting is increasing massively with cost of living crisis. At work we’ve been told to be more vigilant.

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      I have noticed once I’ve scanned my fruit and vegetables and not scanned them as carrots they tend to leave me alone but they could be just anticipating something going wrong with the scanner itself.

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    Lmao just gave the cat a tin of his new food which has veggies in, dude actually sniffed it, gagged, and the cried for different food.

    He really loved the fish based one yesterday, so I don’t think it’s a brand issue, dudes just not keen on pumpkin and peas.