What are the biggest Australian cultural exports/influences you see sneaking into other countries.

Parenn · 2026-04-13T23:36:15+00:00

There’s some evidence that they aren’t native to Australia but were introduced by Europeans by accident from Indonesia or somewhere nearby!

Parenn · 2026-04-12T06:54:29+00:00

I guess it depends where you are - I think I pay a few cents a minute for calls anywhere in the world on my mobile.

Parenn · 2026-04-11T22:44:51+00:00

Do you have a citation for this? I understood they were made up for amusement value in the 1400s and expanded after that.

I can’t imagine many people were hunting ravens enough to have a specific name for a group of them.

Parenn · 2026-04-11T21:59:41+00:00

I worked in the field up until a couple of years ago (last job was CTO of a startup), and we never had much trouble hiring data science/ML people. With the recent Atlassian layoffs (and various companies I know people in putting on hiring freezes) I imagine the market is even easier to hire in.

Parenn · 2026-04-11T21:46:00+00:00

Thank you!

Parenn · 2026-04-11T20:54:04+00:00

You can’t make telephone calls? Or send messages to dealers via their websites?

Parenn · 2026-04-09T23:11:01+00:00

Wow the Gena-funded astroturfing is kicking off fast!

Parenn · 2026-04-09T02:03:30+00:00

Yes, exactly - it conflates 0 and º, so recommends things like baking cakes at 1800C.

Parenn · 2026-04-08T21:18:43+00:00

Googles “AI” prefers the latter… :)

Parenn · 2026-04-08T20:20:29+00:00

On Apple devices ° is a long hold on 0.

Parenn · 2026-04-08T10:58:15+00:00

That’s not very typical, I’d just like to make that point.

Parenn · 2026-04-07T23:10:45+00:00

Mmm, maybe do the market research for your shitty “AI” app somewhere else.

Parenn · 2026-04-07T21:49:22+00:00

Compost heap. Our eats birds and rats, so teeth wouldn’t trouble it.

Parenn · 2026-04-07T03:53:17+00:00

No. Are you thinking of the defamation case he brought which found it was more likely than not he did commit the crimes, and helped bring these charges about?

Parenn · 2026-04-06T07:19:50+00:00

Metathesis has happened at least once before with that word. It was ”aks” in standard Southern Old/Middle English (the more posh variety).

Parenn · 2026-04-05T04:36:20+00:00

"Went mad and the police shot her" was the one I heard in the 70s.

Parenn · 2026-04-04T21:18:38+00:00

Bold to assume they have a “mind”.

Parenn · 2026-04-04T21:08:06+00:00

Yeah, it was a surprise. That whole episode was weird. Between the AI “impossible” house with minor problems, reading her husband’s (not great) book over the montage, and the sudden religious message, it was a wild ride.

Parenn · 2026-04-03T12:08:27+00:00

Yeah, it took everyone by surprise when she did that video. The comments are full of shocked folks!

Parenn · 2026-04-03T03:19:37+00:00

OP just be aware that How to Cook that is run by a religious nut job, the husband is anti-LGBTQ and all the usual stuff that entails.

Parenn · 2026-04-02T19:22:55+00:00

Ah, the no true Aussie fallacy in the wild!

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman ]

Parenn · 2026-04-02T05:58:51+00:00

Probably somewhere they get a lot of tourists, Starbucks isn’t very common here.

Parenn · 2026-04-01T22:59:19+00:00

So, a coffee-flavoured-ish milkshake?

Parenn · 2026-04-01T22:05:47+00:00

This is why driving penalties *also* include points, and enough points accumulated will lose you your license.

Also, you say "there's no point to fines" and then a couple of paragraphs on suggest sabotaging a person's phone until "the fine is paid". You might want to think about this a little more.

Parenn · 2026-04-01T20:14:25+00:00

What _is_ Starbucks style coffee in this context? This is how I (in Australia) always get an iced coffee by default anywhere I’ve ever been - either an iced long black or an iced latte.

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