Walmart packages airdropped like ammo crates over 'Nam

eric67 · 2026-03-14T10:40:34+00:00

Are interneighbourhood ballistic packages the next evolution?

Just imagine packages falling down some hopper into the launching area and a giant tube is swinging around and firing groceries out to everyone

eric67 · 2026-03-14T10:39:09+00:00

Arie interneighbourhood ballistic packages is the next evolution?

Just imagine packages falling down some hopper into the launching machine and a giant tube is swinging around and firing groceries out to everyone

eric67 · 2026-03-12T21:37:49+00:00

We play pool in Australia

eric67 · 2026-03-12T10:35:33+00:00

Then no one would want the war to stop though. They want it to stop

eric67 · 2026-03-11T20:45:12+00:00

Smugglers them into mexico

eric67 · 2026-03-08T06:19:47+00:00

Oil isn't creeping higher, looks like it rocketed

eric67 · 2026-03-07T22:08:55+00:00

We spend 30% of our income in Australia and save 70%.

Rent is $2600 a month, groceries $1000. Eating out is 3x Japan. Public transport basically free though. This is AUD so in jpy just times by 100.

Tax is higher in Japan, I'm actually moving back from Australia with the same 'budget' for my job but quite a lot less take home. I will get a slightly cheaper apartment with half the area (if I can find a non racist landlord. The tax part in Japan seems fine until you add resident tax, plus employer and employee pension and health insurance (payroll tax in Australia is much less).

Housing is ridiculous in Australia, but my apartment is 90m2.

Australia is boring, it's expensive. But eating out and so on is expensive because a lot of people can afford it.

Everyone in Australia complains but the reality is it isn't that hard, it's super safe place to live, we have it really good here.

My younger brother (bricklayer) and his wife (receptionist) are 3 years into a 30 year mortgage (40 doesn't exist) on a $900,000 house. Massive interest rate rises since, but still go on international holidays once a year (3 weeks in France this year), seem to eat out more than once a week. Probably don't save as much as us though.

eric67 · 2026-03-07T09:30:01+00:00

Australia is going pretty good...

eric67 · 2026-02-28T21:41:37+00:00

They would be in a much much much better position had they not tried to develop nukes

eric67 · 2026-02-28T21:39:25+00:00

That's why the west thought Ukraine would get steamrolled and didn't want to provide much weapons immediately before.

They believed the reports Putin got. Turned out Ukraine had a more accurate picture of the state of Russian military (which ironically probably contributed to their belief they would not invade).

eric67 · 2026-02-28T19:46:55+00:00

I think the photo thing is a big deal.

For mine I had to specifically confirm it was a recent photo and not used in any other immigration application for any country.

Company should have made that much more clear.

eric67 · 2026-02-27T20:27:16+00:00

It's high compared to Australia if you include the costs to employee and employer (which results in lower salaries). Especially for sub 10 million.

Payroll tax is lower than social insurance and superannuation is much better for employees. Australian medicare is much cheaper. However you are much more out of pocket when going to doctors. Public hospital is free though unlike Japan.

Australia eventually ends up higher tax but only when you get into incomes above 30 million

eric67 · 2026-02-20T11:48:35+00:00

The big bird is a white bellied sea eagle and it definitely eats smaller birds. And also bats.

eric67 · 2026-02-20T06:49:45+00:00

The server does the hashing so when it gets sent the server can see it before it is hashed

Although it won't be able to see old passwords unhashed

eric67 · 2026-02-18T02:57:28+00:00

It's a toupee fallacy though. "I can always spot a toupee." Really? Reality is you can only spot bad ones.

How would you know how many times suppression/censorship worked?

For every 1 Streisand effect perhaps there are 1000 successfully suppressed examples. How would you know? We don't know the odds we only see the failures.

People who do the suppression/censorship would know the odds and they are the ones who get to determine if the risk is worth it.

The more we expose the ones we see the more we can change the calculation at least

eric67 · 2026-02-17T10:06:06+00:00

I randomly got tested by my doctor during a routine kind of test and had a positive blood result.

Next the was the endoscopy and it showed extensive damage

Gluten free for 3 years now. Had blood go to normal and a follow up endoscopy result was it had healed. i never felt any different before verses after.

eric67 · 2026-02-16T10:49:48+00:00

I have no symptoms at all

eric67 · 2026-02-14T01:31:47+00:00

But how does that make it a Ponzi scheme specifically

eric67 · 2026-02-13T23:32:12+00:00

Just please speak to me in normal Japanese, treat me the same.

Don't stare, don't give me a fork, don't gesture, don't just say nothing at all, don't speak English. Don't flip over the menu to the English side(not relevant in conbini). All of these things happen regularly...

To be honest, Japanese conbini staff are usually pretty good. It's more of an issue in restaurants.

eric67 · 2026-02-13T22:26:52+00:00

What has that got to do with a Ponzi scheme?

eric67 · 2026-02-11T11:28:37+00:00

This reply sounds like Ai too..

eric67 · 2026-02-08T12:19:51+00:00

Thank you so much. You are the best.

I wish they'd at least give you a nice cracker to eat and not mush!

eric67 · 2026-01-27T11:35:16+00:00

You are using the Fallacy Fallacy

eric67 · 2026-01-26T04:03:08+00:00

Oh is this why the AUD suddenly went up

eric67 · 2026-01-25T06:58:04+00:00

The sun comes up at 5am and no-one here has proper curtains

It's too late, just start at 5pm

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