I have lived in apartments in Western Sydney and in Newcastle that had less than half the apartments in the block tenanted… yet none advertised. I do not know the motivations of the owners. But it is quite common, in my experience. Perhaps they have no one pass through their doors for six months at a time or more for another reason, but I cannot think of one.

Doesn’t even need to be coastal for that to happen. Bloody ridiculous prices all over.

Similar to Memrise, which was really fun when you could make your own mems using imagesearch and customise everything… And now is a rubbish duolingo clone.

Cruise causes microplastics in whales and is the creation of people consulting a buddhist monk? Hmmm.

Bloody stupid bot.

Rental cars are incredibly expensive in some states. If I wanted to rent one in Tasmania for ten days, it would have been cheaper to buy a car and abandon it than rent one. Less of a problem at home in NSW.

No idea. It seems obvious that this is designed for the vision-impaired…

You left out “throttle diaster information accounts when the disaster is happening” (Japan earthquake).

When the Japanese Earthquake information twitter account was throttled a few days ago, after the earthquake, there seemed to be this general realisation that they were not going to be able to use it for disaster communication any more…

So… Your values are…?

I guess it isn’t. I can get there by interwebs, but not by app.

“Nothing to see here” Darn.

“Everyone everywhere should federate.”

“Not like that!”

Honestly never heard it called “welfare” in Australia before. That’s a new one.

Centrelink was always rubbish,even before robodebt, and the phone-in service was trained to be unhelpful. I recommend actually making the effort to go in physically, it makes a massive difference, or it used to. They still have offices in every township here in NSW at least.

I am sorry you are going through this, I hope the situation improves.

#areyouayank #haventseenhashtagsbeingusedlikethisinyearseither

Any recommendations as an alternative? I don’t think I should surf them into the next repurchase?

He is a serious creep. It’s one of those “do not get trapped in a hall alone with this bastard” vibes.

I have never really seen the attraction of Spotify. Music is accessible so easily in so many ways. I own thousands of CDs, listen to the radio all the time, and have at least 100gig of music files to make playlists from, much of it music by people I know. I play and listen to live music regularly. What could spotify possibly offer me that I can’t access in a more ethical and recogniseable way?

And yet labelled as a bot.

Perhaps we need an infrared thingy to change their label?

Yep. I can’t even see why, probably something in the stuff they deleted. How bizarre!

It’s all happening over again. Check “robotax”.

Yep. When I tried Mastodon, I gave up again super fast, and I think I see why now. Thankyou, very interesting.