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    • tone_212@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Is this a replacement bus? The shutting down of various train lines in the west will be adding to the traffic woes. I believe Dynon Road is closed too, another way to cross the river.

    • cuavas@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago
      • A lot of Melbourne isn’t served very well by public transport
      • Melbourne public transport largely assumes you’re travelling to or from the CBD – if you aren’t, it can be effectively useless
      • Standard business hours a thing so that you know other businesses will be open around the same time, facilitating communication, so everyone needs to get to work in a relatively short time window
  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Do you think its a requirement that to work for Linkt you have to get a lobotomy? Or do they exclusively hire people with single digit IQ? I traveled early June, noticed my tag didn’t beep so I got home, logged a replacement tag, they go “No worries, we wont charge you for any tolls for the proceeding couple of days and until your new tag is confirmed received”. Want to guess what I just received in the mail? If you guessed a toll invoice I have bad news for you: You are clearly too smart to work for Linkt. I try to be patient with call center staff, its not their fault they work for soul sucking corporations. But man we are 35 minutes in and they are still trying to tell me it is a valid invoice.

      • eye82much@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        Good but like antsy in that “it’s something new and I don’t like change” kind of way? Also it’s like a decision and an important one, so there’s all that additional anxious excited feeling attached too!

        But all positive. This is just me going through the ‘omg change’ phase I think. Just need to sit and get used to the idea for a little bit 😅

  • Cendana@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    For a $500k property to be bought some time in the next few months, is it really true the monthly mortgage repayment is starting at like $3500?

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    In today’s instance of messed up dreams, I had a very vivid and lengthy one about an insane weather event where BOM predicted it would go down to -26 and -28 in Melbourne over the weekend (just the weekend!) and the forecast recommended in the strongest terms that everybody stay indoors as much as possible. Then in the dream I went to the DT and everyone was losing their shit and people were sharing info of which supermarkets still had stock of anything and locations of official “cold shelters” operated by councils for people to take refuge in if needed. The Alps were being evacuated and there was talk of crop failures and potential deaths in the thousands. It was very real in my head.

    It wasn’t even that cold this morning!

  • bananafungus@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    One of my friends was just talking about Heartstopper and while I haven’t watched it because I just don’t really care for a show with a cast of teens, it got me thinking about how lucky young LGBT people are these days in terms of content they can watch and see themselves in. When myself and my generation were coming out and looking for media that represented us it was all very full on, and stuffed to the brim with sexual content, a lot of it truly dubious. My friends and I at the time just didn’t understand how incredibly damaging watching that stuff could be for us as teens. I don’t know, just got me deep into thinking about how not just myself but my friends maybe wouldn’t have engaged in some risky shit had we had shows and movies that showed healthy age appropriate stuff.

    Related off note, but I thought about the OG UK Queer as Folk, and how I thought 15 year old Nathan banging grown arse Stuart wasn’t that bad. Adult me is mortified, but I think about how those old shows were all my friends and I had so of course we thought yeah that’s how it is, that’s what we should want and how we should behave.

    I dont usually get deep on here, but I just can’t stop thinking about it now.