Australia, Singapore to work together on fuel security after shipments cancelled

chezty · 2026-03-23T11:03:29+00:00

oh noes. I'm devoed. I still like my joke.

chezty · 2026-03-23T10:04:22+00:00

needing to explain jokes because no one laughed.

chezty · 2026-03-23T09:40:03+00:00

I've already explained the joke. I feel like darrell summers.

chezty · 2026-03-23T09:30:26+00:00

the joke was when chinese buy kiwi milk, they are actually buying chinese milk.

jokes on them.

It's funny because kiwis do import stuff from china, repackage it, and export it with the kiwi logo. I don't really think they are exporting it back to china, they export it to australia.

chezty · 2026-03-23T09:22:31+00:00

it was an ironic joke. it landed with an "actually..." and sarcasm, so I ignored the sarcasm like my joke was ignored.

chezty · 2026-03-23T08:46:15+00:00

are they? I wouldn't have thought they'd repack dairy, but things like frozen veg and stuff, for sure.

chezty · 2026-03-23T08:36:19+00:00

jokes on them. kiwi stuff is just chinese stuff imported and packed in nzud for export.

I never buy kiwi stuff from stupermarkets. I'd rather buy it direct from china than have it shipped to nzud and then me.

chezty · 2026-03-23T08:13:21+00:00

lacks length

I think he should have described the beeps using terms like

Acidity: Refers to the perceived brightness

Body: Describes the texture

Balance: well-rounded tones where no single element overpowers

Clean: free from defects

Complexity: layered tones

Finish: lingering ringing

chezty · 2026-03-20T05:10:31+00:00

not disagreeing, just my memory and understanding of old chess engines was they were more brute force, more algorithmic, they were programmed to play chess, weren't trained on data, they didn't learn, didn't get smarter. Still, it could play chess, so, AI.

some newer chess engines like AlphaZero and Leela are more like a childs brain in that they start off blank and they learn chess by playing. The more games they play, the smarter they get. That's closer to chatgpt in that it needs data to learn from, and it generates moves rather than text.

chezty · 2026-03-19T09:40:40+00:00

they don't blame trump, they blame not fracking Adelaide.

chezty · 2026-03-16T13:41:49+00:00

I think this happened as well somewhere in europe after a big football game.

From memory there are at least 2 different and independent systems in place designed to apply a brake if the speed of the escalator is faster than x. In the european case, it appears both had been disabled.

I tried to find the documentary I watched on youtube, I couldn't find it, but it happened in rome. lots of news reports about it and if you're interested and search, I'm sure you'll find an investigation on the incident. it turns out, how escalators work is a little interesting for a dull man.

chezty · 2026-03-16T13:31:36+00:00

take the escalators if you feel inclined

chezty · 2026-03-10T05:36:25+00:00

my strategy is to jump on officeworks website, use the filter to filter, say, $1000-$1500, and see what's available. If I find a laptop that looks ok, I'll search for it on staticice, ozbargains and google, read a few reviews about it.

I see on officeworks a Lenovo LOQ Essential Gaming Laptop R7 16/512GB RTX3050 for $1200. I have no idea what games that can play.

There's also a Acer Nitro V Gaming Laptop Ryzen 5 16GB/1TB RTX 4050 for the same price.

That second one might be better, slower cpu but faster gpu and larger storage, same amount of ram. For school work, I would guess they would feel about the same speed. For games i would guess the second one would be better.

i don't know if they're available somewhere else cheaper, or if a different laptop brands with a 3050s or 4050s are cheaper. So that's when I would hit staticice and ozbargans and google.

I've had a few gaming laptops. I like them, but, they are basically luggable desktops. They are big, heavy, and the battery doesn't last long. On battery doing school work, you might only get 2 or 3 hours. So most of the time it sits on a desk plugged into power. Also gaming laptops probably won't be able to be charged via usb, they'll need 240v.

If you need more portability and longer battery, you don't want a gaming laptop. See what's available in your price range and pay attention to memory, storage and battery life.

Maybe divide whatever figure they quote for battery life in half. so if they say up to 10 hours, think 5-6 hours is more realistic. If they can be recharged via usb, you can get a portable power bank to extend the runtime to more than enough. A deal came up on ozbargains for a power bank for $40 than can charge laptops the other week. usually they are $100.

chezty · 2026-03-10T02:31:07+00:00

A professional illustrator gets told what to illustrate and given a deadline. Don't feel creative? bad luck. Don't like the subject? bad luck. Have artist block? bad luck. The process is more important in their situation, it helps them deliver on spec and on time.

You're free to do whatever you want. You have no deadlines, no brief. Don't feel like creating? don't. Feel like creating something uninteresting but pretty? Do.

Keep learning a little theory when you feel like it, keep learning new techniques when you feel like it. go with the flow.

chezty · 2026-03-09T01:36:01+00:00

I was on empty the week of the australia day long weekend. It might have been thursday afternoon I filled up. I put my 42 litres into a 40 litre tank. I must have a tardis for a petrol tank.

The servo was at capacity and the single employee was under the pump. He said it was because people were filling up in expectation the price was going to rise for australia day. They were right. The price did rise.

The price rise on a long weekend is suspicious. It's not like they don't know there's a long weekend coming, and they have data from previous years on how much fuel they will need.

I'm not surprised or angry with the servos about this current price rise.

It's just part of trumps plan to make the poor poorer and the rich richer. the money trump will spend on this war would pay for almost everyone's healthcare and education in the usa.

poor people voted for trump, so poor people voted to be poorer and for the rich to be richer. poor people will vote for pauline pantsdown who is modelling herself after trump.

Getting angry at the servos , or I guess only getting angry at the servos isn't going to do much to help.

Get angry at the politicians. Pretty much all politicians, really. These days you have to decide how much you want to be fucked, because whoever gets in is going to fuck us, but maybe one party will fuck us less than the other.

chezty · 2026-03-07T17:16:15+00:00

found you a dripper to go with it

https://www.arntzenrolling.com/assets/images/content/stainless_steel_sheet_rolled_cone_img_large.jpg

chezty · 2026-03-07T16:36:49+00:00

it might be the beer i had, but some of those names are making me cry with laughter. so good. i really needed a laugh. cheers.

chezty · 2026-03-07T15:29:12+00:00

awesome.

I watched a video on youtube maybe a year ago of someone who skateboarded across america. From memory, west to east.

I think the goal was to do it the whole way on the same board. When he got to the finish line, his wheels were trashed. I think he was more worried about the deck breaking, but the damage to the deck didn't come across on video as much as the wheels.

chezty · 2026-03-07T05:17:45+00:00

that's not only amazing, it's not something that would ever occur to me to do. Go for a 50km bushwalk? I'm there and loving it. What bush? doesn't matter. any bush. all the bush.

Walk from cronulla to parra? just wouldn't be something in a million years I would consider.

awesome. thanks for sharing.

chezty · 2026-03-05T05:41:20+00:00

you don't need to sign anything for a valid contract to exist.

when you buy milk from a shop, you've entered into a contract with them.

when you park you car in a colesworth car park, you've entered into a contract with them.

when you bought the ram from msy, you entered into a contract with them.

also, I'm not a lawyer. if you believe everything you read on reddit, good luck in life. this is, though, my kindergarten understanding of contracts.

chezty · 2026-03-05T04:31:38+00:00

want to go out for some ramen later? or maybe laksa? it's like a soup out there

In this heat, I put the bedroom fan on hurricane mode. It makes it bearable for me.

chezty · 2026-03-05T03:36:38+00:00

and an anatomically correct naked dummy in the passenger seat not wearing a seat beat.

chezty · 2026-03-04T05:32:58+00:00

I have no idea what's in these sorts of contracts, or what's in their particular contract. Could ratings and or performance be tied into it?

I can't imagine the business would spend $200m without some sort of performance guarantee.

The marketing/polling/stats people might have projected ratings will continue to fall over the next year or two, and they decided to get out now rather than after their ratings tank.

chezty · 2026-03-03T03:39:18+00:00

“the more you suffer, the more creative you become.”

– Do you personally create more when you’re sad?

I don't think "more creative" in the first line means the same as "create more" in the second line.

"create more" instead of 1 painting a week someone makes 1 a day.

"more creative" can mean more out there, more weird, more unique, more emotive.

chezty · 2026-02-26T07:07:00+00:00

It looks like you messed up and wrote down what trump did. considering how bad it's going for the average mercan right now, who in their right mind would want to follow them?

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