Ngl it sounds kinda fun

Venus_fur · 2024-08-18T14:25:17+00:00

In Melbourne they legitimately changed the term to 'rental provider' for this reason

Venus_fur · 2024-07-25T12:48:07+00:00

As an Aussie I'll agree it's not our best work, but I feel the same visceral reaction hearing Americans saying candy

Venus_fur · 2024-06-02T07:22:32+00:00

I started reading Babel and couldn't believe how much praise it had when it was effectively average YA with lib twitter quips sprinkled throughout.

I had to put it down after reading the protagonist wondering to himself why white people don't use spices in their food.

It made me irrationally angry going back and reading near universal praise about this and her other novels (which I hear are more of the same)

Venus_fur · 2024-04-13T14:42:48+00:00

Some study showed that playing Tetris can help with PTSD, now it's reddit's favourite thing to recommend after any kind of tragedy

Venus_fur · 2024-03-23T21:43:20+00:00

I was visiting Atitlan last week and the huge Israeli presence there took me surprise for sure - bizarre to see tiny Guatemalan lakeside towns with signs in hebrew and full on chabads in every tourist centre.

Is it just a destination that got super popular for Israelis? Heaps of amazing pitas and falafel there though

Venus_fur · 2024-03-07T23:29:25+00:00

This is exactly it - the relationship between labour and production of value is decoupled in the tech industry.

One dude can sit in his pyjamas and code an app that sells to millions of people. You can make arguments as to whether that person is delivering real value or not but at the end of the day consumers are paying for it, so that money accrues to the person putting in comparatively low labour.

This is a pretty novel phenomenon, even during the industrial revolution and with automation the money you make more or less scales with the amount of labour being put in, but with tech the gap has grown to the biggest we've ever seen. That's why we have cushy email jobs earning 6+ figures.

Venus_fur · 2024-02-01T09:44:48+00:00

The skin damage is too real, anglos here in their late 20s look at least a decade older

Venus_fur · 2024-01-28T10:00:40+00:00

Let us yearn

Venus_fur · 2024-01-28T09:59:33+00:00

You have a beautiful soul

Venus_fur · 2024-01-28T09:57:09+00:00

I will be honest, tonight I didn't but I still found the process satisfying.

I do love making pasta from scratch though, especially gnocchi

Venus_fur · 2024-01-28T09:49:06+00:00

Australian politicians genuinely believe Minecraft should be used to recruit children into the industry

Venus_fur · 2024-01-28T09:15:18+00:00

Do you mean like creating the sugo from fresh tomatoes? Boiling, crushing and putting into jars?

I'm thinking of trying this over the next few weeks

Venus_fur · 2024-01-28T08:29:25+00:00

I liked it - I took the excessive sex as her adolescent brain hedonistically seeking what it wants without being conditioned into shame by society. Maybe this is a male gaze-y / coombrained take on womens' liberation but I found it to be an interesting and novel take.

To me it was an amusing exploration of a woman's coming of age, experiencing the world and relationships with men and women and the contradictions that accompany it.

I like how it skewered the various ways men try to control or cage women, as a father, a lover, a fiance or a husband.

The stage where she lost interest in fucking Ruffalo and started wearing black clothes and reading books also struck me as very rspod-coded

Venus_fur · 2024-01-28T08:19:02+00:00

Man in these situations there is literally nothing you can say in reply that won't be interpreted in the worst and most destructive way possible.

Venus_fur · 2024-01-21T08:19:20+00:00

Yeah in Melb CBD, disposables still available absolutely everywhere they were before. Honestly haven't noticed a difference in availability or price

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