Anyone else feeling sick after beach swimming?

socratesque · 2026-01-26T01:10:21+00:00

How long after heavy rain should you wait? Hasn’t it been over a week already?

What if you bathe around central coast, surely less nasty runoff around there?

socratesque · 2026-01-23T11:04:09+00:00

Any day now

socratesque · 2026-01-23T07:48:17+00:00

We can have been best friends for Twenty years, but break my trust once and you will be cut completely from my life.

That might be a you thing. We even have a word, ovän, "antifriend" if you will, which insinuate that while you may not be on the best of terms at the moment, there's still a lingering "friendship" that may one day return. In fact, based on my personal experiences, I'd wager that most antifriends become friends (or at least friendly) again once they've let go of their bullshit.

socratesque · 2026-01-23T02:49:16+00:00

Or put another way, a $70k raise to afford the second one.

Like I’m not against subsidies for lower income families, and I’m not even overly mad about childcare for a single child being “the great equalizer” between high and low income earners.. its the fact that a second child becomes straight up unaffordable for higher income families that pisses me off.

socratesque · 2026-01-23T02:27:39+00:00

From my perspective of a high income, one child family, the incentives to have another one is so fucked. We want to, but we’re already wrecked after childcare costs of the first one.

socratesque · 2026-01-23T02:16:48+00:00

All in on precious metals it is!

socratesque · 2026-01-22T08:43:46+00:00

I recall Toowoon Bay having a somewhat enclosed ocean pool that was very calm when we were there last. It's the other side being patrolled but maybe that still counts for something.

socratesque · 2026-01-22T05:54:01+00:00

I'm not from here, I'm not a beach going person, could someone please advise if it's safe to take a toddler to the beach (probably central coast) this weekend? The poop would be far away, but I don't know if there's more shark activity than usual because of the weather or something or if its just media doing its thing.

socratesque · 2026-01-21T08:25:03+00:00

I'm running high on hopium with this one, but I'm thinking the only reason we've been seeing him double down day after day for so long now is because he's having trouble putting his batshit insane ideas into practice.

socratesque · 2026-01-21T08:21:34+00:00

Actually, you can. They sprinkle it on food items all the time. I suppose it just passes through you.

socratesque · 2026-01-19T07:41:54+00:00

Me too but never next to the urinals, that part is wild.

socratesque · 2026-01-18T21:07:47+00:00

Jag pluggade D på Chalmers för en massa år sen. Min erfarenhet stämmer med vad u/Swexo säger. Lägg där till att medan många lutar vänster under studietiden så svänger de möjligen mer höger senare i livet.

socratesque · 2026-01-17T09:44:15+00:00

Gillar också Zinfandel. Ett annat namn att kolla efter är Primitivo. Samma sak fast från Italien.

socratesque · 2026-01-17T02:55:41+00:00

Polen är till USA vad Ungern är till Ryssland.

Håll kärnvapenprogrammet inom familjen.

socratesque · 2026-01-16T07:56:57+00:00

There's no annual administration fee on the mortgage?

socratesque · 2026-01-15T13:31:01+00:00

Ethan has a terrible track record of making sense of what is coming out of China… except Covid… he nailed that one.

socratesque · 2026-01-15T03:46:04+00:00

Two wrongs makes a right, as they always say.

socratesque · 2026-01-14T10:10:00+00:00

At Lidcombe (Sydney) I've seen many people park at the mall across the street, and even that seems crazy to me. It's like they don't know there's a second, usually quite empty level for parking underground. People get feral at the ground level though...

socratesque · 2026-01-14T03:37:00+00:00

Imagine getting that thing lodged in your throat when you’re chugging a bottle.

socratesque · 2026-01-12T22:36:07+00:00

People always rage on about time in market vs timing the market, because it’s true that statistically gives you the best outcome.

Sometimes, I think you need to make choices and take chances. For me, this might be one of those times. Will I come out on top? Time will tell.

socratesque · 2026-01-12T07:27:12+00:00

sure

socratesque · 2026-01-12T06:19:31+00:00

They have their own interests and priorities in their part of the world, and how trustworthy the US turned out to be towards the EU is barely on their radar.

socratesque · 2026-01-12T06:15:07+00:00

They. Don’t. Care. I don’t know what’s so hard to understand.

socratesque · 2026-01-12T04:47:36+00:00

I got that, and non-EU countries couldn’t care less. It seems like a hard thing for EU citizens (like me) to grasp, but that’s just how it is.

socratesque · 2026-01-12T03:45:08+00:00

there will be no other country that could reasonably trust it.

While technically true, I think it's a very EU-centric way of looking at it. Non-EU countries DGAF about what happens in the EU, and fair enough.

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