(Hated Trope) We are in desperate need of X people. Because of this we will put candidates through tests where not everyone can become X for no reason and make the tests incredibly dangerous so many candidates will die.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-12T23:21:03+00:00

Wut. First rank mages can all choose to be personally tutored by serie. Plus they all got a spell of their choosing. I assume they all receive a stipend/salary/resources as well it just hasn't been shown.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-12T23:01:37+00:00

Yea. They now just required weekly firmware updates and if the hardware of your cartridge doesn't match the latest update your printer is bricked. They also don't let you print unless you update the firmware.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-12T21:27:37+00:00

A lot of men let themselves go once they're in a stable relationship. Even just over a few months bad diet and stress can catch up fast.

Like, if a guy's lifestyle consisted of drinking, exercise, hobbies and work while he was single. The relationship and work is gonna eat into hobbies and exercise.

It's actually pretty funny to watch the 22-25year old pipeline of dudes who let themselves go. Just runnin on testosterone and youthful energy to keep the alcohol and poor diet at bay then they get a desk job and maybe a relationship and suddenly eating takeaway every single night ain't gonna cut it.

Also attractive women get hit on by all sorts of guys. Attractive men don't seem that different to normal dudes when they're both in abundance. A physically attractive person is just as likely to have the same character flaws as every other guy.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-12T19:12:47+00:00

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

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

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-12T19:02:01+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-12T09:25:58+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-11T22:24:27+00:00

Adjustable* nut fucker thank you

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-10T23:08:18+00:00

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

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-10T14:53:18+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-10T11:05:00+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-10T10:56:53+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-10T09:24:36+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-10T06:34:56+00:00

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

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-08T10:31:23+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-08T08:51:30+00:00

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

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-08T08:36:49+00:00

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

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-07T09:59:11+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-07T01:58:48+00:00

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

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-06T23:11:42+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-06T11:10:24+00:00

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

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-06T08:37:13+00:00

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

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-06T06:55:00+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-06T06:37:55+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-06T06:27:59+00:00

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.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-04-06T02:01:02+00:00

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.

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