What would be the point? Reddit doesn’t make any content. They’re just a platform. If they go ahead and paywall subs, those subs are going to have a tiny potential subscriber base. Therefore, they will be less attractive to post to (smaller audience, fewer upvotes etc).

About the only place I can maybe see it working is AskHistorians. And you pay the Historians to answer the questions. Which would of course reduce the amount Reddit takes from the paywall. Doesn’t seem worth it, to me.

Even then, I think the Historians would rather reply in a new free sub with wider readership than take $20 for putting in three hours of work responding to something. They do it because they’re passionate. Not for money.

LinkedIn is like Facebook for business. It’s full of useless content extolling the virtues of putting your workplace ahead of your personal life. Things like “I am on holiday on this tropical island but had a killer idea, so I am now at a shared workspace networking with professionals” etc.

Unfortunately, if you are looking for a job in IT, LinkedIn is one of the likely places to find it - so a LinkedIn profile is sort-of required in some fields. I hate that it is sorta necessary, because it’s the one place on the Internet where I am listed under my real name.

If his employer wants to “showcase” him, it means they want to brag about him on the network. They are trying to make the company look better. To customers? To prospective employees? To government? I don’t know, potentially all of the above.

Maybe your husband is a leader in his field and they want to entice rookies to work at the place so they get a chance to work with your husband. Maybe he has done something cool they want to brag about? Maybe they’re a tiny company that nobody has heard of so they’ll showcase some employees to look more legit? I honestly don’t know.

If my employer wanted to showcase me, I’d hesitate. I might concede, but I’d need a bit of time to think about it. It could be a good thing: if I have an employer bragging about me, it would probably make me look good to future employers. If someone Googled my name though, this will come up. I may not want people to know where I work and what I do.

Short version: This is something they want. It may or may not be something your husband wants.

I was a mad Opera user about 25 years ago, it was the best browser by miles at the time. One feature it had was mouse gestures. Mouse gestures and uBlock origin are the only two extensions I can’t love without, but these lists never mention them so I feel like the only one who uses them.

It’s hard to explain how cool and quick it is to be able to control your browser with the mouse. Open/close tabs, navigate tabs, back/forward etc. It doesn’t sound useful, I’m usually a mad keyboard shortcut fiend. But with web browsing in particular, your hand is already on the mouse, scrolling.

The specific extension I use is Gesturefy, I encourage people to install it and give mouse gestures a go.

Such a great film! I don’t watch it that often, but I listen to the score regularly. It’s one of my favourite “I need to concentrate and get stuff done” albums of all time.

This works for us:
Step one: Keep your instance civil. No tolerance for horrible people (racists/bigots etc).
Step two: Maintain a vibrant local set of communities free from nastiness.
Step three: Let your users engage with the noise of the fediverse as much or as little as they desire.

We don’t bother with telling our users who or what they can access, and don’t immediately ban visitors based on their home instance. Will that scale to millions of users? Probably not. But that’s a problem for future Nath - maybe.

Just goes to show: No matter how much you invest in public transport infrastructure, there’s always someone urging you to spend more, while you are fighting to justify the spending you are already doing.

The same story is playing out in Perth. Lots of investment in new trains, train lines and services. And people on both sides “spend more here”/“You’re spending too much!” of politics being nothing but negative about it all.

Yes, a Turn back somewhere would make a big difference to this line. I’d have picked somewhere around Coburg, but I can see the case for Gowrie, also. But, I get really annoyed by pieces like this who have nothing positive to say about the incredible improvements made to all the lines in the past decade.

I wasn’t wondering. But, this line full of places I’d never heard of got me wondering.

The train line is clearly still in use - the area is full of wheat farms and there are grain silos where this train station used to be. I have to guess that’s the reason the line ever took passengers. There aren’t enough people up this corridor to ever have supported a passenger service.

Mine are older now, and they love watching the cute videos of them doing stuff like this when they were little.

It’s funny though: They’re way too cool to make videos of their play, now. I try and tell them “think of how much fun it’ll be in a few years to look back on the today”, but nope.

And in the end it was all a bit for naught - since they now top the table using a normal measure anyway.

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It’s interesting how the article is all about struggling retail businesses in the CBD and how this is about that. The closest the announcement comes to being about productivity is: “The more our experience of work is shared, the more united we become. This means being physically present in our organisations”.

The case hasn’t been made that experience of work is improved by being in the office, however.

This is all very fascinating, sitting in WA. We never really had the months of lockdowns you all had, and we never had the normalisation of everyone working from home. A bit of it, yes - but 100% remote work is relatively rare compared to other places on this side of the country.

For the record, the pandemic also devastated loads of businesses over here also. Some previously vibrant places like the cappuccino strip in Fremantle are sad shadows of what they once were. I don’t know that this is going to be a magic bullet to somehow save retail.

Police allegedly seized the drugs.

I’m understanding about the word “allege” when it comes to the guys arrested. They’re accused of a crime and unless/until a court proves them guilty, they allegedly imported drugs.

But Police seized drugs. There’s no question about this. They were definitely smuggled into the country and definitely seized. There is no question around that part.

Side note: These are all kids aged 17-20. They’re obviously not the criminal masterminds importing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of meth into Australia. I hope that whoever is hiding behind these kids taking the risks is brought to justice.

I’m at the point where the movie shelf is full. I can’t buy any more blu rays unless I sacrifice something. It’s a great system: it means I’m very resistant to impulse buys and anything I do buy will improve my overall collection by design.

I know someone who had this problem about 15 years ago when she tried to get an entry level job. Her PhD made her a less attractive candidate because she was over qualified and employers didn’t trust she’d stick it out. But, she couldn’t apply for senior positions because she didn’t have enough experience.

It was the worst Catch-22. A very difficult period for her.

I see where you’re coming from and understand why you’re dubious. Thing is: Your Virginian house probably has a basement. Maybe even a boiler or floor heating?

We have none of those things. We have no frost line, so we don’t ever need to dig below it. Hardly any of our homes have basements or any sort of central heating. So, people from colder climates come here and are amazed at how cold our homes are, even when the temperature is above freezing outside, because our homes are simply not built for even mild cold.

If you have Stan, just pop on one of the big ones. Like “Athletics day 8” or one of the main Olympics shows, and it’ll just show you what is on the stadium. I watched the Athletics Day 8 one last night, to see all the 100m heats. It was really great, because it meant I actually knew a little bit about all the runners in the 100m final and had seen them all run before.

Note on that Jamaican kid who came second by 0.005 seconds: This event was his international debut, and he ran 9.77 in June. He’s one to really watch. No idea why that US dude was so cocky when he learned he’d won after waiting 30 secs on that photo finish. It was hardly a resounding victory.

Second! We just won the Tennis Doubles! I did not see that coming.

Because we’ll probably drop to 10th now that the water events are winding up, I’ll snapshot the table as of this moment.

Nobody celebrates killing Turkish people. Quite the opposite, in fact. Australians have immense respect for the Turks. We recognise that neither the Anzacs nor the Turks had any direct quarrel with one another. We had no desire to conquer what is now Turkey, and the Turks weren’t really defending their homes. It was a stupid conflict that neither of us wanted to be at. Anzacs were there because they were sent there by the British. The Turks were there because they were sent by the Ottomans. The British were just trying to get through the Dardanelles and Bosporus so they could reach the Black Sea. The Ottomans were on the German side of WWI and wanted to stop that from happening. At the end of the day, that sums up the whole reason everyone was on that peninsular.

If you want to look into it, you’ll find that Mustafa Atatürk holds a very special place in Australia’s history. He has a personal memorial right next to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, looking down Anzac avenue of war memorials that point to Parliament House. Depending on the direction you take of the memorials, he is either the first or last memorial. Either way, you are sure to remember him. Short of putting him on our money, we couldn’t really honour him closer. I know that over the last decade, President Erdoğan has been shifting Turkish perspective on Atatürk and the Gallipoli campaign, but no shifts are happening in Australia.

All the celebration of Anzac spirit you see is because this war in particular changed our nation. Until this point, our ancestors thought of themselves as British. Afterwards, they were Australians and New Zealanders. The cultural shift took a few decades, and didn’t really finish until WWII (some would argue it is still shifting). The Anzac story has never been about killing Turks.

We had a period when I was a kid where the ANZAC stuff really started to wane as the WWI veterans were dying out. Somewhere along the line there was a movement to rekindle the ANZAC stuff and really stress that while it had its roots in WWI, it was about soldiers who died in all conflicts for their country.

Any town that was around in 1918 is going to have a war memorial. I’ve worked at a place that was over 100 years old and they had a shield on a wall remembering the staff who went to WWI. If you really want to find a town that doesn’t have a war memorial, you’ll be looking for a new settlement, Probably some place that didn’t exist before the 1950’s. I honestly can’t think of any.

That said, it’s really easy to avoid all the military stuff if it doesn’t work for you. Most town’s war memorials will only really come into relevance once a year and then go back to just being a feature of the place the other 364 days. A landmark maybe near a kids play ground. Just because every place has one, doesn’t mean you are under any obligation to pay it any attention.

I just … don’t go.
Or, I’ll happily walk out of a meeting “I’m not adding value, here”.

I already have more work than I can physically do. There’s no way I have time to sit around through something like that.