spiffmeister

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[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.

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

It's not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:

“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.

This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 16 points 1 month ago

Definitely not something a corrupt person would say.

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

Even with a 10% pay cut the VC will be remunerated over $1,000,000 per year, even despite the university's poor financial performance.

Afaik the ANU VC earns about $650k (here). Not that this isn't probably 6-8x what most others in the university earn.

Pretty much agree with everything you say though. I'm about to graduate from ANU and I'm glad to be leaving tbh.

I would just add that, while the unis are managed poorly, the cuts to the sector by successive governments can't be excused.

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

Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.

That's not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 18 points 1 month ago

You're assuming that they scouted this and carefully planned it to ensure they wouldn't cause damage. I doubt that.

Seems like they did:

The canvas of the painting is protected with a glass screen, a factor Just Stop Oil said they had taken into account.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 14 points 1 month ago

The headline reads like an onion article.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

There's an android app called URLCheck that can strip unwanted bits off the end of urls and then open them as well.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

The house might look good in a sort of greeny-teal shade

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

I haven't quite finished it yet, my feeling is that it slightly overstays it's welcome.

I've also noticed that most of the time I do a thing or two in the game then realise there's not quite enough time in the loop to do another thing, but just enough time to make me want to not waste the loop, since I find starting a new loop a bit tedious.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

From memory it respawns the low level enemies constantly, since they're just ammo/health/armour pinatas. You needed to kill the big enemies to complete an arena.

Not really a fan of the design choice, but I had a decent amount of fun when I clicked with how the Devs wanted you to play.

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