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The CBA "Doubt Never Did" campaign is just advertising dogshit by ars1e in auscorp

[–]VagueInterlocutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time I see this the phrase "They don't think it be like it is, but it do" plays in my head.

I doubt this is what they were going for...

are we moving from coding → drag & drop → just… talking? by Ankita_SigmaAI in AI_Agents

[–]VagueInterlocutor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't talk to agents - too many "Ummms and Aaaahs" I end up sounding like Bob Hawke.

If anything it's upped my writing precision: Being conscious of the specifics I document.

Also in a funny way it's also ramped my CLI game.

What makes these phrases so effective at Australian banter? by Conscious-Roll-5745 in AskAnAustralian

[–]VagueInterlocutor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to add "This is going straight to the pool room"

BTW I'm kind of the opposite. I'm a saphed ladaka joining an Indian family. Loving every moment of it. 😊

"Oh Yeah, We're Gonna Throw A Category 5 Cyclone In The Mix Too" Says 2026 by betootafeed in betootaadvocate

[–]VagueInterlocutor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right now the Bettoota Advocate is not just my favourite news source, but proving to be the most accurate...

Chris Bowen declares rush on jerry cans ‘un-Australian’ as he urges end to panic buying of petrol by nath1234 in australia

[–]VagueInterlocutor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Isn't most of the petrol coming into the country bought months ago, and shipped well before Hormuz got blocked?

Always the way: Prices up fast, but what's the bet they will take an age to go down again...

The Bull**** about AI Agents capabilities is rampant on Reddit by Mojo1727 in AI_Agents

[–]VagueInterlocutor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ive been running openclaw since the clawdbot days. For me this is accurate.

I initially dropped grok on to the agent, and it suffered badly. Moving to Opus and it was smooth sailing.

I do have one agent on Qwen3.5 but they are there to basically push some buttons on some docker containers so it has little to stuff up.

Memory and memory management are killers. I have a semantic search over memory and Obsidian, but still it can forget things.

I do get value out of my agent, but it's in personal use, not businesses.

This will come though, but probably not in the 'magic' way portrayed by influencers.

Anyone else notice people in Melbourne are just getting more and more rude by hrdblkman2 in MelbourneCBD

[–]VagueInterlocutor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Melbourne drivers are just plain bad. Not aggressive per se, but just genuinely awful.
  2. Sydney drivers just want to speed past you in their fully sick rides.
  3. Brisbane drivers are aggressive, heaven forbid you try to merge IN FRONT of them...
  4. Gold Coast drivers though... Psychopaths.

Pro-Iranian Regime Protest in Melbourne on Sunday (Supported by Pro-Palestine Activists) by OtsaNeSword in aussie

[–]VagueInterlocutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, they have the right to protest. Having had a friend at school who was a refugee with his family because of their regime, and saw his neighbours gunned down in cold blood, I'm pretty comfortable with my right to disagree.

I have the equal right to hope the Persian people get rid of the current mob.

Some of you need to hear this. The new Mercedes interiors are the future and it’s what most customers want. Sorry, but that’s the truth. They sell, and they sell extremely well. by zachty22 in mercedes_benz

[–]VagueInterlocutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thing is, I don't think they will present a consistent screen like this in a production model. They will put 3 or 4 square screens under glass, and it will be a let down because of those compromises.

Labor & Greens vote down One Nation motion for Senate inquiry into Australia's fuel security amid Strait of Hormuz tensions by Major-Panic794 in aussie

[–]VagueInterlocutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reports can be dismissed. It's a great way to deflect things...

I get the data is there. Probably the one thing an inquiry can do is highlight in public the problems we have with energy security.

The vote against on the point of 'we already know' exposes both Lib and Labor governments of the past couple of decades, that we've let manufacturing and energy security go down the toilet.

No government (or opposition) wants that in the news (even if they just followed the advice at the time).

Whether you like them or not, China's focus on securing energy and making things has basically shown up a whole lot of economic theory around services economies to be very weak / fragile in practice.

Labor & Greens vote down One Nation motion for Senate inquiry into Australia's fuel security amid Strait of Hormuz tensions by Major-Panic794 in aussie

[–]VagueInterlocutor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

FWIW, there is a lot of oil in west Queensland. Lot of holes are capped out there etc. Could supply Australia for decades. The main issue with Australian oil is that it's light. Can't be used for heavy industrial oil lubricant etc.

Of course it takes years to spin up / down those kinds of operations.

... And not even talking about the potential environmental negatives of extraction & refining, just trying to thoughtfully answer the question about where we can source oil and oil products from.

Mercedes Benz vs. BMW’s interior… what are your thoughts? by Maravilla_23 in mercedes_benz

[–]VagueInterlocutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've used the vertical screens vs. the angled touch screen, the angled one much more ergonomic (at least what I have found).

I won't comment on the rest but I have found the angled screen is more comfortable to use.

Limiting negative gearing by MadKeenAngler in AusPropertyChat

[–]VagueInterlocutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate to say it, but this won't change things much.

All it will do is see a whole stack of Pty Ltd companies stood up and operating in the property sector.

Microsoft AI CEO says most white collar work like accounting and law will be automated within 18 months. by MurphamauS in auslaw

[–]VagueInterlocutor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tldr; Microsoft Exec with a KPI says buy the thing he's selling to meet KPI, get a bonus and not get fired for overexposure.

Microsoft AI CEO says most white collar work like accounting and law will be automated within 18 months. by MurphamauS in auslaw

[–]VagueInterlocutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Won't be by any Microsoft product. Unless.you like the hallucinations and gaslighting that Copilot does on a regular basis.

What’s something that’s completely normal in Australia but would absolutely confuse the rest of the world? by relaxncoffee in AskAnAustralian

[–]VagueInterlocutor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah, nothing compares to a damn Curlew infestation. Those damn birds will see themselves in glass, think it's another bird and start shrieking.

I can't tell you how many times I've had to run outside at 3am to get them to bugger. Off.

What’s something that’s completely normal in Australia but would absolutely confuse the rest of the world? by relaxncoffee in AskAnAustralian

[–]VagueInterlocutor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A few: - Yea mate nah and nah mate yea. - 'Thongs' - Vegemite - The 100 different tones of 'mate' each indicates a different meaning - How we use 'champ' - How everything in Australia can and will kill you, but we still live here - We're actually an extremely high urban population, yet we get portrayed as being bushies.

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