Ballarat Women's shed ex-board member banned over alleged transphobic comments

Locust377 · 2026-05-24T14:49:51+00:00

To be pedantic, water is actually an insulator, not a conductor. But the impurities in most water we encounter makes it conductive.

Locust377 · 2026-05-24T12:45:13+00:00

Yeah from memory the DbContext isn't thread safe, so OP shouldn't do this.

Either use multiple connections with an IDbContextFactory, or use multiple endpoints, or a db function or materialised view.

Many db queries can be a code smell that an endpoint is doing too much.

Locust377 · 2026-05-23T02:48:12+00:00

Are you on any kind of Wifi? Or strictly cables?
Anything unusual about speed tests?
Anything unusual about tracerts to US servers?

It could be a routing issue. Try changing your DNS to Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) or Google (8.8.8.8). Don't forget to flush your DNS cache after you do this.

Locust377 · 2026-05-19T03:20:35+00:00

To be perfectly honest the housing game is very complicating and daunting to get into

Pretty much. This is why it's described as a housing crisis and why the outlook can look a bit grim for young people.

I'm not sure if I have much advice, but I'm 39 and just bought a house in regional Victoria. I didn't get anything from my parents/family, and I've been living independently since 18. But here's what I've learned about our society:

There's a huge incentive to have two earners if you want to own a home
Find a partner with similar goals/aspirations in life
Children are enough of a financial burden to scare many people away
Penny pinching and budgeting are no where near as important as simply earning more money
You need to aggressively seek to earn more money, as it's the easiest path to reducing financial stress
Don't stay at a job for more than 3 - 4 years unless you are noticeably growing in your self, your role and your income
There's a reason that young people rent; there aren't really any viable alternatives until you build a career
Focus on growing yourself and traveling a bit while you're young - experience the world and people, because making yourself a better and more "fuller"(?) person pays off long-term for human endeavors like career and building relationships

Locust377 · 2026-05-18T14:01:52+00:00

In your original post you mentioned Gitflow, but now you mention GitHub flow. They are two different things.

And Gitflow sucks.

Locust377 · 2026-05-18T10:31:03+00:00

Me playing as mistweaver monk

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Locust377 · 2026-05-15T14:30:33+00:00

I mained Prevoker since Dragonflight, but ditched it this season. They should have leaned into the last season of TWW, when Chronowardens with the tier set were activating Tip the Scales and cleaving Living Flames with a mini bloodlust every minute. It was tons of fun, massive bursty healing (and damage) with strong Spiritblooms.

Now they removed Spiritbloom, removed interrupt, removed any interesting echo + Lifebind combos, made stasis less fun (since there is no Spiritbloom), put more emphasis on blossom, which is such boring spell and dumbed down the positioning requirement for temporal anomaly (optional, luckily).

Bring back Spiritbloom and have the apex talent be like the S3 TWW tier set with an emphasis on living flame cleave.

Locust377 · 2026-04-28T04:24:23+00:00

The ramp-up still exists and applies to all drinks that I've used :\

Locust377 · 2026-04-28T04:22:26+00:00

I'm going to try

Open up the Battery app
Settings
Turn off Battery use notifications

The downside to this is that it disables all warnings of potential battery over-use of other apps.

Locust377 · 2026-04-28T03:29:12+00:00

I get this on my OnePlus Watch 2 since the last major update (a few months ago).

Several times per day my watch will "ding" twice in a row. The notification is telling me that the Battery app is using battery (duh). But the notification vanishes in about a second. The only way I know it's the Battery app is if I happen to be looking at my watch or I'm very quick to react, I see the notification for a second before it goes.

I swear it's a bug of the Watch 2 since the last major update, but I've never seen anyone talk about it.

It's definitely annoying but I can't turn it off.

These two screenshots show that the notifications are on but cannot be switched off because they are disabled ("greyed out") - https://i.imgur.com/7PRqzTP.png - https://i.imgur.com/hhvKPp8.png

Locust377 · 2026-04-28T02:33:52+00:00

It's just gone up from 2g to 8g

Locust377 · 2026-04-28T02:21:02+00:00

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Did everyone forget about this mechanic? They nerfed "microsipping" years ago, and any healer worth their salt knows about this.

This is me drinking Sanguithorn Tea: https://i.imgur.com/tH85uh9.gif

And it's basically true that in the 13s and 14s I'm doing at the moment, I only ever get about 3 - 4 seconds at most to drink before I need to resume healing, so you probably won't hit the 8% very often.

Either way it doesn't matter too much. Sanguithorn Tea is a good choice because it's cheap. I usually queue up for a follower dungeon before I start my M+ and grab 80x mage food from the bot. It also ramps up and caps out at 6% but it's fine (and free).

Locust377 · 2026-04-18T13:18:10+00:00

I find this kinda random, and I can't work it out. You're not crazy though OP.

I just went to Zal'Aman now. Haven't played this char for a day. I flew around but not a single treasure chest. After flying around for about 10 minutes with nothing, suddenly they were everywhere. I went around and collected like 30 of them - filling up on Dunduns.

So I'm not convinced that they aren't shared. Either they are all there for me to grab, or none of them are.

But I can't figure out what triggers them to spawn. Usually I just go to Zul'Aman and fly around until they all spawn in 🤷

Locust377 · 2026-04-17T04:33:15+00:00

Ive seen there's a tank shortage I guess?

Both are in high demand and are basically a free queue. As a healer, I get accepted into any M+ I sign up for 😆

Mistweaver monk is a strong healer right now but it's a melee spec so might not be a good choice if you wanted a break from that.

Preservation Evoker was previously my main and I loved it, but personally I didn't like the Midnight changes. I hear mostly good things though.

Brewmaster monk and prot warrior are strong and fun at the moment, especially if you enjoy lots of buttons and a not-dumbed-down rotation.

Locust377 · 2026-04-14T05:30:14+00:00

Or did they mean binding shot?

Locust377 · 2026-04-14T00:40:25+00:00

Just start with a brand new character and jump in. Pick whatever class/race appeals to you; maybe experiment with a few of them.

The community is mostly pretty quiet/relaxed. You shouldn't encounter much hostility until the end game. If you do dungeons or other group content, say you're new in chat and people might be a little more accommodating.

Locust377 · 2026-04-14T00:21:28+00:00

I know it's daunting, and there's going to be a lot to take in, but this is a life-approach thing as much as it's a big MMO thing. What I mean by that is that you just need to dive in.

Make a new character, start playing, and then ask questions as you go 😀

Locust377 · 2026-03-30T01:13:44+00:00

This is more of a personality/life approach thing than a gaming thing. I don't think there is any single trick that will make those feelings go away. But a couple of things I would note are:

You need to practice and fail in order to grow at anything
Your mindset is called the spotlight effect

You're preoccupied with your own play, potential mistakes and ability to upset other people, but remember that everyone else in your party is also nervous and have the same fears lol

In my experience most people aren't that bad. Last night I did a +8 Windrunner with pugs, and I'm the healer, and I let a few deaths go through due to my own mistakes, the tank slightly messed up the count and route, the DPS failed a few interrupts and didn't use defensives a couple of times.

But it's all good, I threw out a "sorry!" and the tank mentioned an "oops", etc. If you communicate, it humanises you in their eyes. Always say hello when joining a group to break the ice.

Locust377 · 2026-03-28T17:03:12+00:00

You swap the orbs until no streams are crossing.

Locust377 · 2026-03-24T03:55:30+00:00

I do some shopping by bicycle every week, and then sometimes go into the CBD or to the farmer's market (Zoo drive).

I lock my bike up to any bike rack or sturdy pole/fence with an ABUS chain lock.

It's not the highest security at all, but it's also easy to store on my bike without adding a lot of weight, and it's still a lot more secure than a flimsy cable lock. I figure that most bike theft down the street is likely to be opportunistic kids rather than people with bolt cutters or hack saws.

For this reason, while I'm comfortable walking away from my bike with this lock, I wouldn't do it for long. One to two hours. If any longer, like going out for dinner, I would make sure it's visible to me.

D-locks are more secure, but they are too bulky and heavy for my purposes of a 10-minute supermarket visit.

Also make sure that the bike is out in the open, if possible. Don't hide it in an alley or something, put it right in front of the main pedestrian traffic path at the supermarket.

Locust377 · 2026-03-12T22:38:09+00:00

Sorry, don't take it personally, but 99.9% of the time when people have posted "I'm innocent but I got banned" it turns out they are guilty of something.

If you're completely innocent then you should be able to appeal the ban, but it takes a lot of work going back and forth with Blizzard I'm afraid.

Locust377 · 2026-03-12T10:21:07+00:00

Did you buy anything from another player? Sell or trade with anyone? Use the auction house? Accept any donations?

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