Yes. I didn’t realise the English persisted with Julian after 1582, though.
I just looked it up: England skipped 11 days in September 1752.

I don’t believe we’ve ever skipped a day Sunday to Monday, but October 1582 really went by quick:

Glad to have you back.

I hung out with Tim and his wife for a week in the far north of WA many years ago. They’re really cool and smart people. Bit of a secret: Tim is the famous one, but Alex is probably the smarter and cooler of the two. Shh! 😃

Music is how I pace myself when I’m walking/cycling/running. 180 BPM is my peak running pace, but I usually take it easy and do 170. I know where I am supposed to be on my circuit based on what song is starting etc. It saves you from needing to look at your watch for your time/pace.

So yeah, they’re accurate. Many of them were counted out manually with an app. 😃

Was it really March when we spoke about this?

Not sure if my walk/run/cycle playlists are of any use, but feel free to plagiarise the hell out of them. 😀

Depending on how voracious a reader you are, Kindle Unlimited may be worth investigating. I go through about 4 books a week, so the service ($14/mo) must have saved me about $1,000 by now.

I wonder what percentage of Australians will have stepped into a Bunnings over the past three years? It has to be above 90% of us, right? That’s pretty close to a record of us all.

“Another time, then”

Meeting her anyway sends the signal that you’re fine with being such a low priority in her world. And she’ll have no incentive to alter her behaviour next time.

So I went to check out this blue sky thing. It turns out I actually created an account on there at some point under my real name. I don’t remember doing that, it had to be before Aussie.zone became a thing.

So I log into it, I’m already following half a dozen accounts that I don’t remember following (but they’re awesome people like George Takai and Mara Wilson).

Review:
It’s all about US politics and how awful Twitter is. Boring. 😔

I never sent a single tweet in 15 years, I can’t see myself using this site either.

Under the Commonwealth Electoral Act, registered political parties receive a dollar amount for every legal first-preference vote they receive once they pass the 4% minimum. The per-vote rate is indexed to inflation and, at the 2022 election, was $2.914.

Currently, the rate sits at $3.35 per eligible vote. Under the government’s proposed changes, the rate would rise to $5. On top of that, registered parties would receive another $30,000 per MP and $15,000 per senator in “administrative” funding.

I can see how $5 per first-preference vote is a lot. Perhaps a scale for $5 for the first 20% of the votes and then $3 per vote after that?

I don’t see how this change punishes anyone, however. It’s a raise for everyone. If your complaint is basically ‘those guys get more money because they get more votes’, my response becomes ‘then, do something to make people want to vote for you and not those guys’.

Before anyone says that’s not easy to do, I agree. How do we solve that? The Green party has been going for 40 years. They have never held government and show no sign of holding government in the next 20 years. The Teal candidates came out of nowhere in the last 10 years and and did very well in the last election - but they had financial assistance beyond AEC funding.

Covid boosters are like a flu shot these days. For the last two years, I’ve gotten them both in a single visit. WA government has a programme where they’re free at the start of the season.

Has anyone actually written out a cheque in their personal banking chequebook this century? I only did it occasionally in ye olden days, and mostly to post payments to utilities and pay rent etc. I don’t think I ever stood in a store and wrote out a cheque. Hardly any would accept them without a prior arrangement.

I’ve used bank cheques this century, but not lately. Who’s out there writing cheques?

There are a few retailers these days who don’t deal with cash. It’s just as weird to me as the retailers who only deal with cash.

At the moment, the majority of us agree that immigration is necessary - particularly of skilled workers. We also agree that we need people in some trades desperately. But, it’s a leap to accept unskilled people into tafe courses and apprenticeship programs.

I see the problems, no idea how to fix them.

I do know that we can’t discuss it in a sensible debate. Particularly not in an election year.

Huh. Back in my Brunswick E. days, I had the TV too loud one night and my neighbors politely asked me to turn it down. Which, of course I did. Because we are all grown-ups.

I never had the note experience. I think I’d just chuck it and ignore it. I honestly don’t know what I’d do with it. “What is this high school shit?”

5 days to appear. 😔

The problem basically boils down to a design feature (or flaw) in the original Lemmy code. The different instances update each other transaction by transaction. Each lemmy.world upvote, post, comment etc is sent to the other instances one by one. Because lemmy.world is in Finland and Aussie.zone is in Sydney, that takes about a quarter of a second.

Lemmy devs never pictured a situation where one instance would get so big that they couldn’t update everyone in a timely manner. Basically, lemmy.world generates more than four upvotes, comments, posts etc per second. So it took until this afternoon for me to see your comment.

The latest version of Lemmy code allows instances to open more than one stream of updates. When/if lemmy.world upgrades to that version, they’ll be able to open several channels to update the other instances.

I am constantly aware that I work in a bubble of very smart, talented and fairly-paid people. That the people I work with aren’t a slice of “average” Australia. But within that bubble of IT workers, we absolutely have that global cultural influence CEO was speaking about.

Then there’s the kids. They go to school in a mix of kids from all over. Its a great equaliser. They don’t know where their mates ‘are from’, almost everyone was born here. I get it from their names.

It’s easy to look at the news and think our influences are all US/UK. But I think as each generation goes by, they’ll be less central to what makes an Australian.

What emerges from that mix? I’m keen to see it. What we already have is clearly recognised by the British themselves as something distinctly separate from their culture.