Echinoderm

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[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Buff Korean Jesus

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago

According to the NY Times:

the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. He was not replaced.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion/texas-floods-nws.html

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You really haven't given us much to go on here.

Were you in a relationship? For how long?

Also, what sort of age group are we talking here? Your options and perspectives are likely to be different if you are in your teens vs 20s vs 30s, etc.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Pure strategy favourite: Terra Mystica, as long as you are happy with a fairly rules-dense game.

Pure chance favourite: Snakes and Ladders

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

20 years on my partner and I still quote The End of the World occasionally.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

So a whoosh from me it was.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm guessing that English is not your first language? To talk shit about someone means to say negative things about them, it doesn't necessarily mean using any swear words.

That or you were joking, and I just whooshed myself.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago

Chaining someone to a job sounds more like indenture than strong labour laws.

Actually strong labour laws let employees choose to work for a different employer, while requiring the employer to have a valid reason to dismiss the employee.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have those workers tried being friends with rich people?

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also lost quite a bit of respect for Penny Wong when she wasn't willing to condemn this at the outset: Israel's order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Though to be fair, Dutton was never going to be a better option.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lawnmower fight at a shopping centre would be... different.

 

As long as I'm enjoying myself it's not a bad thing, right?

 

Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.

 
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