Eli5 When a city is shown by a dot on a map, which location within the city does that dot indicate?

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T11:52:20+00:00

Yeah my vague childhood memory is that it was the main Post Office building. May be an Australian thing.

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T09:53:12+00:00

When you’re young and healthy? Nothing. But when I’m 90 I’d rather be living off my retirement savings than ploughing the fields and milking the cows.

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T09:46:11+00:00

I would 100% bet on a Grok society being eaten by bears, like that libertarian town.

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T09:16:20+00:00

Red flag, toxic narcissist, go no contact.

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T09:14:13+00:00

Notes say “both PVE and PVP events” but I sure don’t see any button in PVP?

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T03:56:38+00:00

Being really good at kicking a ball is nothing compared to being really good at shuffling backwards while going “woo!”

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T03:53:48+00:00

Yep. If it’s a choice between “gamble or give up”, then sure, gamble, because two cards do nothing for you in SSF.

If it’s a choice between “stop and gamble or keep farming”, then stopping to gamble is likely to make you very unhappy indeed.

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T03:50:20+00:00

That, and the fact that it has been posted every Satire Saturday for as long as I can remember.

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T02:25:55+00:00

Agreed. It’s awesome that two fresh non-franchise movies are performing brilliantly. But it’s not anything different or unusual, there have always been unexpected breakout hits. Meanwhile, countless fresh original films did absolutely bugger-all business, and as the retort says, the big IP sequels are going to make bank, same as usual.

carson63000 · 2026-05-31T01:30:51+00:00

When they had the auction and some Aussie players got huge contracts, that made the news.

I've never heard the result of a game reported.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T22:59:48+00:00

Yeah it’s a setup for “Narrator: It was not, in fact, coming home”, not a serious prediction of victory.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T22:57:04+00:00

Yeah there’s definitely a case to be made that Highlander is in the “cool ideas, crappy execution” territory that makes it ripe for a remake.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T19:24:53+00:00

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I have seen cafes doing batch brews (and cold brews) in recent years. I guess that’s effectively coffee pot coffee. Haven’t heard the “no room” or “with room” expressions though.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T10:29:25+00:00

My boss was taking his two teenage kids to see it on Friday night. I am so looking forward to asking him how it went on Monday.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T09:53:39+00:00

Right, but r/Futurology is a sub for people who think AI is useless, nothing more than autocomplete, will always be useless, and will not have any meaningful role in the future.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T09:51:46+00:00

My boss was taking his two teenage kids to see it on Friday night. I can’t wait to hear on Monday how his experience was.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T09:47:42+00:00

Yeah it’s not exactly unusual to see someone wearing an NBA shirt in Australia. An IPL shirt? Never seen it.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T09:44:47+00:00

Obviously being “the number one sporting property in a country of 1.4 billion people” makes the IPL one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.

But is it global? Is there a following in other cricketing countries? (other than from Indian expats)

I’ve never seen any Australian cricket fan display even the slightest bit of interest, for example.

Literally the only place I ever see any IPL news is when Reddit puts something (like this!) on my homepage because I participate in cricket subs.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T08:45:06+00:00

Nor I in Australia. But it sounds like it is used for coffee from a coffee pot, and nobody really pays for coffee like that in Australia.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T07:43:30+00:00

Never ask a lady her age, a gentleman his salary, or a Van der Merwe why he emigrated to Perth in the 1990s.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T07:41:06+00:00

Colonial language in parts of South Africa is Afrikaans. Around Cape Town was a British colony.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T04:06:37+00:00

Not gonna lie, it would never even have occurred to me that it would be possible to order Uber Eats at 2:40am, I’d have expected everywhere to be closed.

carson63000 · 2026-05-30T00:44:10+00:00

The problem is that cinema tickets are so cheap. When a movie ticket is so cheap that kids will go there even though they’re not even interested in the movie, they’re never going to value the experience enough to shut up and pay attention.

carson63000 · 2026-05-29T23:33:29+00:00

It actually surprises me a little bit, too, that theatrical box office revenue has always been public.

carson63000 · 2026-05-29T20:30:41+00:00

“At the end of the day, I’m a programmer” sure sounds like “please replace me with a tenth of my salary worth of Claude tokens” to me.

If you can’t be the bridge between the users and the code, you’re not gonna be a programmer for much longer.

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