sobriquet

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[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Haha. I’ll own that. And I’ll happily try (and, no doubt, love) the Nutella concoction you describe - but I’m standing my ground and not calling it fairy bread! 😉

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, I mean… chocolate sprinkles?! That’s chocolate ant bread! Fairy bread is white bread, butter, and 100s and 1000s. Nothing else. Australia needs to introduce a Fairy Bread Purity Law to protect our sacred food.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Am I the only one thinking “that’s not fairy bread!”?

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

The XKCD one is interesting, but seems to be missing the transfer to/from the storage medium sent by FedEx.

If I want to move data from my computer to yours over the internet, the internet bandwidth between our devices/networks is the main consideration. If I’m FedExing SD cards or HDDs, I’ve also gotta take into account the transfer times to get the data ONTO those devices.

I wonder how the analysis would fair when taking into account:

  • speed of internet
  • TB/kg of storage
  • storage medium transfer speeds
[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 12 points 7 months ago

But of course, they’re only looking at one small aspect of the overall issue. Just focus on the airline industry, rather than actually having decent privacy legislation that prevented any industry from (legally) misusing individuals data?

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

All, team, friends, everyone, folks (preferably prefixed with “howdy”)…

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

As a Australian, I tend to shy away from USAisms as a matter of course, but I 100% agree. English lacks a formal plural form of “you”, and while Australia has its own informal variation (“youse”), I’m a big fan of y’all.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Seems plausible.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not measuring it, just quoting another source. I just wanted to find some numbers to try and understand how Sweden and Australia compare.

If it's the entire country, then Australians still don't have to deal with diversity because most of their minorities live away from the white people.

You make an excellent point.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I wasn’t claiming it was a highly accurate source, and I was surprised that we rated so low based on those calculations, so thanks for the additional analysis. I just found it hard to believe that Sweden would be “dealing with diversity” more than Australia (or at least, in any significant way). Maybe there’s more nuance to Sweden’s numbers, too?

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

As an Australian, I honestly don’t disagree with you… but suggesting Sweden has more racial diversity than Australia?! From what i can see, Sweden has “6% diversity”, whereas Australia has 9%. Not a huge difference, granted, but completely different ballpark to USA (49%), and if this is your measure, Australia still “beats” Sweden.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 45 points 1 year ago

What law would it be breaking?

Not sure about USA law, but in Australia we would call that “obtaining financial advantage by deception”. Otherwise known as “fraud”.

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