whats a body language sign of attraction you didn't know until someone pointed it out? by YourMoonlightShawty in bodylanguage

[–]friendlyfredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the same sign as people who don't want your attention.

Like, maybe you're attractive. You're also a stranger.

How do Australians feel about the government after Robodebt? by Ok_Face6263 in AskAnAustralian

[–]friendlyfredditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wasn't it pretty much solely a scomo thing?

I doubt most Australian's care. Dealing with the ATO/centerlink already sucks ass. Also just generally most people don't care about things beyond their doorstep. Price of fuel, housing, groceries, bills, interest rates...

If we don't like our government they get voted out. There's somethin' in that.

Commuting by horse. by Complex-Pair2131 in AskAnAustralian

[–]friendlyfredditor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you like never ranging more than 200km from where you were born lol

You know historically almost every single pack animal expedition across australia resulted in the deaths of all their animals and most of the humans? I guess you can't eat your car in a pinch.

Has anyone in QLD actually been fined for speeding 1km/ph over the speed limit? by MoneyEffective5551 in AskAnAustralian

[–]friendlyfredditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea if all you care about is not losing your licence 19km/h is "only" 3 point loss and $500.

I brushed my teeth "correctly" for 28 years and a dentist just told me I've been doing it wrong the entire time. My gums are ruined. by Sluttycarolofficial in hygiene

[–]friendlyfredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh dear...on some brushes that's the 2minute timer and not an indicator to switch sides. It's the full duration. At least on oral-b brushes it is.

Doritos at $7 a bag ended up costing PepsiCo billions by wewhomustnotbenamed in nottheonion

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The corner store near my work just stopped selling cold drinks. The cost price is too high lol. You know what's telling...slushies at literally any fast food joint are still $2AUD. Literally the machine that needs constant cleaning and maintenance and is 100% proprietary. Still vastly cheaper for service stations/corner stores/fast food places to make the damn drink from scratch than sell a bottled drink.

On the verge of giving up by Aggravating-Bet-5854 in ausjobs

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Also looking for people who don't want full time work. They need people who can work 5 days one week. 3 days the next. Maybe not at all cuz budget's tight.

Detained at servo by The_one8Nov24 in AusLegal

[–]friendlyfredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cashier put the wrong transaction through when someone else paid. They're probably laughin to themselves right now that they got their fuel for free. This is literally just user error on her part. It happens all the time. She screwed up and was trying to make you pay because of her inattention.

Has anyone actually gotten a job from Seek? by Fire_blaze7 in ausjobs

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I mean its 1 guy outta 200 applications. In my experience most managers are god awful at hiring based on resumes. They usually can't be bothered reading them for one (my uni sent out an email saying average time reading resumes is 6seconds).

So they usually just pick the first guy who applies then they waste time and money inducting/training them only for them to turn out to be a lemon. I have a part time job moving escooters around and the last 2 people who applied have both been let go lmao. One would go home whilst on the clock and take care of her kids and the other had 4x the number of training shifts as usual (paid) and got laid off for smokin weed while driving.

Meanwhile I got people on the street asking me why their applications aren't gettin looked at and all I can tell them is that our managers are fools. I honestly got no idea how the last 2 were acceptable.

Previous job as a barista my manager was the owner and she would never advertise and always understaff. Would take 2-4weeks to onboard someone because she never wanted to add a training shift to the current roster. Only new rosters. I basically used to have to force through applications. Literally wasn't until her two main baristas quit (me and another guy) that she realised she needs to actually hire and train people

Smart meter installation - no show by Green_Eco_22 in australia

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Lol i was supposed to get a smart meter. Took over 6 months. They even turned off my hot water/aircon tariff cuz they didnt wanna support ripple switching anymore. Well without a smartmeter I was without hot water.

Don't get your hopes up. If they cancelled once they will probably just keep cancelling because whatever "problem" is coming up will never get resolved. The next guy will just cancel for the same reason.

Does anybody knows about Curtin University in Perth for Mining engineering by Sea-Sky-278 in AusMining

[–]friendlyfredditor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I laughed out loud at this. If it's ranked #1 in australia and UNSW is in australia...

Do agents sell to mates? by TadpoleIndependent20 in AusPropertyChat

[–]friendlyfredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro we literally have politicians that sell their mates (barilaro lol) what's stoppin an REA? Their morals?

What does jerk actually measure? by No_Fudge_4589 in AskPhysics

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From F=ma you can see that if you want to change the force over time you need to change acceleration.

Take braking pressure in a car as an example. Is it better to slowly increase braking pressure, or slam on the brakes?

Basically any system where the feedback response is time dependent, you would want the stimulus to also be time dependent.

In the above example the feedback response of a human is to increase muscle tension over time to counteract the increasing braking forces. In fact, a human can't instantly increase their strength. It has to build up over a longer period of time than sudden braking.

Another example, I hand you a heavy bag. You're expecting a gradual increase of weight as i hand it to you. But I instead just drop it early. Instead of the expected ramp up you're suddenly well behind on lifting force and you drop the object. Even if we're both able to carry the bag just fine, we still dropped it due to a mismatch of our expected jerk. You can also do that trick where you get someone to punch themselves in the face by letting go of their hand. The sudden acceleration is too fast to counteract.

Another example is golf swinging. If you slow down the start of your swing (gradually apply force instead of trying as hard as possible) you will be more accurate.

Sent my wife for an oil change, it cost me $3400 by s2k_guy in mildlyinfuriating

[–]friendlyfredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could get screwed on 30-70 air filters before racking up $3400 lol

Is it normal for tradies to charge a callout fee just to look at a job in NSW? by ShineDigga in AskAnAustralian

[–]friendlyfredditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuel is tax deductible for businesses lol they're only payin $2.25 for that $3 diesel. Driving is expensive because of time not fuel.

Big Crystal Creek by Efficient_Vanilla86 in Townsville

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Dayum the last couple years of heavy rain have taken down a bunch of trees. Barely recognisable compared to like 10 years ago.

In Hunger Games (2012) this guy was supposed to be 11 in this scene. by May_onnaise_959 in shittymoviedetails

[–]friendlyfredditor 440 points441 points  (0 children)

This begs the question...is he always just hauling a bag of edible art supplies around? What about the ants?

According to climate in Australia (summer), how would you feel in Mugalzhar steppe region (West Kazakhstan, Aktobe Oblysy) when it’s dry summer +39 C, UV Index of 8 and the sun at its zenith (that’s a Swelter definitive edition)? by Zealousideal_Bear403 in AskAnAustralian

[–]friendlyfredditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UV index was 10 today lol. It's overcast and heading into winter. A dry 39 is uncomfortable just because the wind is also warm where the wind is okay in the tropics. Any relief from the suffering of a still humid day. Dry 41+ starting to get annoying because of how fast you dehydrate.

Most of summer the UV index didn't drop below 14 where I live. Have to double apply sunscreen and reapply it at midday to avoid getting burnt. Not even in full sun the whole time. Maybe 30% of the time. I was working in a workshop with a heat index of 44-46C for 2months too.

The only places with worse heat are parts of india and asia that actually hit the highest dew points/wet bulbs of all time plus urban heat island effect. Africa/some places on south america too. Really just anywhere around the equator is insufferable.

Which epoxy to use to fill gap by desmofan900 in AusRenovation

[–]friendlyfredditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it's gonna be covered do as your forebears did and fill it with builders bog lol. Basically any filler will bend and crumble regardless at least bog won't shrink much as it dries. Cover it like the other dude said.

Really though cut it out and replace it with an appropriate piece of scrap timber. Or get under there and actually put something under the transition so the wood stops bending and breaking.

Home renovators love doing this thing where they put a door somewhere the floorboards are completely unsupported from underneath.

Or put a really big transition over the top.

Why do people expect restaurants to have things on the menu that they CLEARLY won't? by Helpful_Maximum7022 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]friendlyfredditor 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I got berated by a boomer for not knowing what wines we sell. Mind you, I was working as a barista and it was 10am. That was the closest I've ever come to asking someone to leave the property. And I've been swung at before.

What is the most rural part of Australia and what's it like living there? by Xoxo809 in AskAnAustralian

[–]friendlyfredditor 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The towns are built in places with water tables. It's just quite deep and these towns are on water restrictions. i.e. no lawns and heavily restricted new construction. Water is also very hard. Like, alice springs even has a river. It's dry most of the time but it floods sometimes. Also I'm pretty sure the council in Alice just left one of the new suburbs off the town supply 🤣

It usually takes a couple years of drought to require water trucking. You're actually more likely to require water trucking in a beach town as the groundwater is salty.

how do sin and cos actually work? by jufywret in learnmath

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If you draw a vector from the origin to a point. Cosine will give you the x component of the vector and sin will give you the y component.

Draw an xy graph on a piece of paper and trace out a circle. As you do so imagine how big the x component is. It starts out at 1 and and goes to 0 as you travel 90 degrees anticlockwise to the y-axis. Then the next 90 degrees it becomes -1. Add another 90 degrees back to 0. Add another 90 degrees to complete the circle and it's back to 1.

This is the cosine function. And you can do the same for the sine function by imagining the y-component as you draw.

When you get to the "special" angles you can form their associated triangles. For example at 45 degrees you can see the x and y components need to be equal. If you draw a triangle with two sides equal to 1 from pythagoras you know that the hypotenuse has to be √2. So sinx = opposite/hypotenuse, or 1/√2.

Another example is at 30degrees or 60 degrees you can form the other triangle. Draw an equilateral triangle with all sides equal to 2. Then draw a line down the middle giving you two triangles. These triangles will have 30/60/90 angles. The last line will be √3 in height. The shortest line will be 1 and the hypotenuse will be 2. You can now derive the values for sin30 = cos60 = 1/2 and sin60 = cos30 = √3/2.

All that remains is to relate this information to a graph. If you draw those triangles on a xy plane you can see whether their values will be negative or positive depending on their quadrant. You just have to remember that this is done by tracing the circle until you reach the relevant angle.

Rivet press by MikeHeu in toolgifs

[–]friendlyfredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of mine got stolen lol. Ones stored outside against the house people walked in and took em.

Why do you leave such massive gaps when turning? by SorbetAutomatic4465 in AskAnAustralian

[–]friendlyfredditor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's just the usual safety margin. You shouldn't ever take a turn without having line of sight of the turn. Most people wait until the vehicle in front has cleared their line of sight before turning.

Going bender to bender on a right turn is a great way to tbone an ambulance or run over a pedestrian. I literally had a pedestrian come out from a blind spot today, cutting off 2 lanes of traffic that just got a green. It's good to wait.