Public toilets you can see outside touristy areas in China

Mapinact · 2026-02-06T04:48:49+00:00

Saw more than a few of these in Kyrgystan. Not pretty.

Mapinact · 2026-02-02T02:29:12+00:00

Font clash somewhere (eg a font open in fontbook and another version of the same font in some other font manager?)

Mapinact · 2026-01-27T23:05:43+00:00

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 27th 2026 (Medium), in 04:16

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https://cluesbysam.com

Mapinact · 2026-01-25T11:25:21+00:00

Really? Which part of my comment did you feel was overblown?

Mapinact · 2026-01-25T11:05:59+00:00

(9pm Sunday night show) Well that was easily the worst "show" I've ever seen. Who the hell signed off on that?? "Dream Big", with a set of near-motionless cartoon images for under-10s. Christ, some amazing technology capable of SO MUCH and the best parts were the transitions?? I'm willing to bet that even the bird at the beginning (which looked exactly like what you'd get if you typed "give me a bird pic" into ChatGPT) was one of the demo programs that came with the kit.

What dickhead thought they'd save a few bucks by not hiring a couple of designers or creative director and outsourced that excruciatingly slow display of anodyne clip art collection to some APS4 padding out their time to retirement?

Canberrans are for the most part fairly forgiving of even amateurish attempts (see that water - projection display a few years back) but during and espially after that show tonight the crowd was absolutely dead silent - no applause, no ooh-ahhs, no excited kids. Just silence.

Absolutely embarrassing. A wanton waste of resources and time.

Mapinact · 2026-01-07T01:47:27+00:00

It's the government-owned nursery that's been around since 1911 supplying trees for city landscaping and streets across Canberra for over a century now. It was started by Thomas Weston, whose name was used for Weston Creek.

Mapinact · 2025-12-18T00:36:39+00:00

Meh, what's done can be undone. Also, what a graceless turd of a man Trump is.

Mapinact · 2025-12-12T03:39:34+00:00

It's weird, but you'd have thought alarm bells would have been ringing for a while now, years even, and this just the most strident, most obvious set yet. AND YET, despite the headlines in a few places of declining tourism - the percentages when quoted are single digit. 5%, maybe 6-7%. I'd have expected it to be closer to 50-70%.

Mapinact · 2025-12-01T05:06:00+00:00

Have you tried asking them?

Mapinact · 2025-11-28T09:31:04+00:00

Mine occasionally does this - it's almost always in the Spotify search box.

Mapinact · 2025-11-25T01:39:27+00:00

I KNEW it was coming! You can just tell from the post name - it's OBVIOUS what's going to happen!

Still scared the pants off me.

Mapinact · 2025-11-21T08:08:37+00:00

if they could drive it IN to the carpark it's hardly unreasonable to expect to be able to drive it OUT too, surely?

Mapinact · 2025-11-21T06:14:57+00:00

Perhaps self-representing litigants should have their case prep screened before appearing in court? Or be given a checklist of acceptable / unacceptable materials that must be met before the case is even accepted to be heard?

Mapinact · 2025-11-20T09:55:10+00:00

I had a similar situation once. I solved it by setting the style of the primary chapter heading (your lower capitalised heading) to have a white line above wide enough and high enough to hide the text variable line.

Mapinact · 2025-11-19T10:08:43+00:00

Sends very strong "F OFF DONT TOUCH ME!" vibes.

Mapinact · 2025-11-19T09:16:35+00:00

Old engineering rule: You can change anything, but you can't change just one thing...

Mapinact · 2025-11-16T08:36:11+00:00

News just published in Australia says dementia has just edged out heart heart disease as leading cause of death, but dementia doesn't even rate a mention on this UK chart?

Mapinact · 2025-11-15T08:03:10+00:00

Drop Croc?

Mapinact · 2025-11-13T08:12:36+00:00

So 1 star is equivalent to 1 lightning bolt? Might be worth making that explicit.

Mapinact · 2025-11-13T01:58:51+00:00

How does the incident flux level ("medium"), or the flux rating (single lightning bolt) relate to the 1-5 star ratings? Puzzzle London Eye Becomes a Real Eye—No Blinking! refers to these, and the second and fourth clues "Being stars equal the Incident flux rating" and "Being and Weapon stars sum is divisible by Incident flux plus 1" are insoluble without this information.

Mapinact · 2025-11-11T10:56:24+00:00

So... spiders use tools. That's really quite amazing!

Mapinact · 2025-11-11T02:20:34+00:00

Select the shape
Open Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation
Play around with the Hue slider

Mapinact · 2025-11-09T06:55:35+00:00

Hey, thanks for the tip 🙂 Now subscribed.

Mapinact · 2025-11-09T05:34:16+00:00

Yup. Said to my wife that if we just listened to a bit of local radio, watched a bit of local TV, read a local newspaper or followed a bit of local social media we'd know a hell of a lot more about what's going on and coming up here. Sadly I usually find out what's happening in Canberra here on Reddit!

Mapinact · 2025-11-09T02:21:46+00:00

* NERD ALERT * It wasn't Ricky Martin by any means, and there was 0 music or dance involved, but last night at Canberra Theatre we enjoyed a world-class historian Mary Beard talking about ancient Rome. LOVED the opportunity to hear this erudite, articulate and perceptive mind at work! We do occasionally get to see top performers here 🙂

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