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The master of timing has done it again - stepping down while most of the cookers are playing referendum politics. I am in awe. I wonder who the cookers will protest about from now on. Not that reality features in their rhetoric.
They'll protest the Yes campaign.
Then if the No vote wins, they'll be celebrating white pride.
the yes isnt gonna win. It should. But I'd bet a significant sum of money it wont. The federal governments entirely failed to rise to the challenge and let potato head kill the thing before it was born. I'd say Albo should resign, but the alternative is the aforementioned potato head.
EDIT: The yes vote I mean. No is clearly gonna win.
If Albo resigns it's his deputy that's PM. I couldn't even tell you who that is right now. My understanding is that for the referendum it's has to majority in every state. I can't see QLD voting yes to be honest.
Overall majority of all voters in Australia PLUS a majority of states have to have a majority YES vote. Not all states, just most of them. And NT & ACT and the islands aren't states for this purpose but do contribute to the overall score. So Vic, SA, WA, NSW, Tas, Qld - we can spare two states to the cookers as long as the overall majority is a Yes vote. We just have to do our bit.
It's the majority of states thing that makes me feel very pessimistic though. I think Yes would pass with a majority of voters across the whole country, but in essence the votes in big, sparser states like Qld and WA and to some degree SA have more weight and I think it is extremely unlikely that these three would have a majority Yes. Really don't know about NSW either. Vic would be the only one that I think is a safe Yes majority
Cool thanks for clarifying. I've got a bit more confidence in the vote now. Hopefully NSW pulls through.
Tbh I couldn’t tell you who it is either. Sorry I meant he should call an early election.
Is it Jim Chalmers...? no that's the Treasurer. Who the fuck even is Richard Marles
No idea, but it speaks volumes about the problem. or is it that the media just isn't giving them as much coverage? Labor do seem to have less "Shit the bed" moments to cover.
He really should have announced it in his North Face jacket and starting with "at 11.59 pm today..." just for old times sake
I am now rueing the fact that I'll be interstate for the next week and missing out on all the excitement myself.
Jesus. I went out for one day being nowhere near media and this happens!
haaa I was in a meeting with a bunch of people at 50 Lonsdale when news trickled in. That was fun! Meeting effectively abandoned, watched the announcement instead.
nah, just a frequent visitor :)
(giving advice or asking for money, mostly! If I can swing a lunchtime meeting a bowl of poké never goes astray..)
The Banh Mi joint at the Telstra building next door, is a solid lunch option too.
Those poke bowls have gotten much smaller since that pandemic. Was my go to lunch back then, but not anymore.
Oh I always get the bún at that place! delicious. Had meant to get that today, but there was a huge queue by the time I got there. Had my sad leftovers instead.
Ok I'm ready for daylight savings already. I keep waking up at 5:30. Bring on Sunday.
Totally forgot about this. Looking forward to warmer, sunnier after-work beer garden drinks
Miss Meow is fully ready too, she keeps meowing for an early dinner.
Food Australia has been there a little more than 1 day and already 35 subscribers. I'm pretty chuffed. Thinking about expanding now. Drink Australia. BBQ Australia..... Anyway I must keep spruiking so if you haven't visited !foodaustralia@aussie.zone or !frugal@aussie.zone please do.
A big thanks to everybody who already have.
Okay, I am doing well at work. People are impressed I've jumped on inbound and doing outbounds within the first week and a bit. I'm good at it, and have much more to learn.
I'm very tired, but a weekly paycycle is such a blessing; as opposed to the curse of a monthly paycycle lol
Meanwhile I'm over here grumbling with my monthly pay cycle...
So glad to hear work is working out! And my god a monthly pay cycle is a drain. I don't mind fortnightly but gee, a weekly one's even better
So happy that things are working out with you. You really deserve a break in life for once.
The milk study I am on ends tomorrow, which means I am now going to have to start paying for my own milk again. Back to the cheapest long life milk available again.
I've got a crook shoulder today but at least ive been entertained with the Dan news and more than I need to know about cat balls. Lol.
I am putting stuff in a baguette for dins and it will have cheeeese.
So I've set up an appointment with the real estate agent to look at selling the house.
breathes into paper bagAnd just like that literally overnight a Watsonia appeared.
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That is a few weeks early.
It waited until after the wedding, so it wouldn't get picked and used in the floral arrangements ...
heh I was just thinking oh jeez they would've been nice.
Sneaky watsonia.
VICTORY, MY FRIENDS!!! I have painstakingly upgraded this old phone to stock OS Android 10 (having to manually incrementally update from certain versions to another), upgraded everything and FLASHED A NEW ROM! Lineage 20 running Android 13! And bonus, thanks to the angels at XDA I have got root back on AND can still use my bank app and Google Wallet and have system wide ad blocking.
I will have to spend a decent amount of time later this week configuring the launcher and display etc. My only one stupid mistake was forgetting to use whatsapp's own service to backup messages to the cloud before doing all this; it apparently didn't detect wifi and hasn't done an automatic backup since the 22nd - and ye olde titanium backup can't restore data given that the app was running off such an ancient OS.
It all sounds silly but it really is a point of extreme and irrational inertia/avoidance updating things that substantially change the UI/UX of my phone (worse still changing the phone itself). This REALLY feels like dusting out the cobwebs and making a fresh start! :)
If I can get my banking and national login apps from my home country onto this phone off my iPhone (because that's the only thing it worked on), I'll be singing. e: banking might be a go, although again I stupidly should've disabled the digital token before all this, I'll have to sort it out in person in a few weeks. but national login is absolutely airtight, I might need to use a burner phone for the rare time I need that login thing. think mygov but on 30593095039403493094 steroids - I hate it, tbh, way too much info in one place.
Ran into a major snag though I forgot to disable 2FA on my uber account and I've booked an uber carshare thingo for my trip next week. Authenticator app hasn't saved all the thingos. Can't for the life of me remember what my "backup codes" were. Hopefully they'll respond to my request for help
If my oppo was officially supported I'd use Lineage. Would be great if you could use banking apps on it though. It can be pretty handy to payid for stuff on the occasional times a merchant is down etc.
Is it a really old model? Seems to be Lineage available for damn near every phone out there. I definitely appreciate having my banking app available when I need to transfer money - also for some godforsaken reason my bank only allows a particular type of savings account to be created from within the latest version of the app, not on the phone, not on the desktop, not even in person!
Biggest success was adding my card to Google Wallet. Took several tries
No it's only a few years old. But from memory it's not unlockable... just checked and it's still the case. Oh well, next time I need to replace a dropped phone I'll make sure I can get something that can be unlocked.
So your banking app works on Lineage? If so that's great.
Ah okay, that's really unfortunate. I use an older OnePlus that is insanely dev friendly (unlock bootloader from within the settings menu!! No waiting for the correct star sign and pressing the right button combo 0.0492049 milliseconds after boot...) I would've thought Oppo phones were not that difficult to unlock either but I guess they decided to lock down the less dev oriented devices (That said - I have no idea if recent OP phones are that dev friendly either).
Some day when this phone physically gives up the ghost I am going to try and find another OnePlus or Fairphone or whatever that can be easily unlocked.
I actually don't know if my Australian banking app works on unrooted Lineage. It very well might as it's extremely basic. My foreign banking app definitely wouldn't (I had to install a slightly older version to get it to work even with all the other root hide features). Google Wallet probably wouldn't have either.
I rooted my phone anyway for other reasons but I had read in the forums that some people had to root their phones in order to hide the custom ROM from those apps, even if they had no intention of using root at all! Which sucks for people wanting to just extend the lifespan of their phones that are EOL for official OTA updates.
I catch myself wishing I was rich… and then realise what I hope to gain from that is so basic
I just want freedom. I'd love to see the world before I die. Never got to the chance to travel when I was younger.
But gotta climb the corporate ladder and buy a house. Fucking sucks.
"Can't buy me love..."
but it can definitely mean freedom from worries about bills
can't help in a hurricane or earthquake or bushfire but maybe the house is built a little better and thus a bit safer
Resignations aplenty… Meanwhile I am still eating Doritos like they’re going out of fashion. sigh I’d like a rewind of this month, but c’est la vie. At least we have sunshine, so that’s something.
Having to feed a hungry girl extra in the night. Come on bickies.
The black cat was outside this morning and has taken to mournfully meowing at me. I need to stop talking back to him or he might try to invite himself in. And he and Melbcat really don’t get along.
The spinach is barely starting to grow the buds of second leaves and all the carrot tops are coming up
Edit: Oops. Intruder spotted. Big hisses
careful, that's how my friend ended up with **two **cats. Lucipurr still holds utter disdain for Courtney, even though the ballectomy means he no longer serenades her from the screen door.
Ahh, unfortunately I don’t think it’s on the cards. The thought crossed my mind but Melbcat is insistent on being an only cat, she pees blood when stressed, and the two were openly hostile on sight.
Despite no collar the cat also looks healthy and may belong to a neighbour who lets their cats roam.
