In Melbourne we do this thing where we let developers build suburbs with zero infrastructure, refuse to put buses or other public transport in when asked because it’s “not viable”, then a decade later we will put a bus route in, but then bitch and whinge because nobody’s catching it. Then maybe 5 or 6 decades after that, we’ll order a feasibility study to see if we should build a train station there, then it’ll be deemed to expensive and we’ll wait another century before deciding to spend insanely high amounts of money on either building an underground station, or acquiring a shit ton of land.

If somebody would use their damn brains and realise it is cheaper and easier to at the very least plan for and reserve land in these new developments for public transport, and these new suburbs would stop being opened without bus stops, supermarkets, and GP clinics, we’d all be better off…

Ok

I don’t disagree, there are some limited but valid reasons to leave a home vacant. As long as it’s cheaper to have somebody living in a house than just hoarding as much land as possible, that’s probably what people will do

Not a clue. I presume it would.

No, a lettuce spinner is a little basket inside of a container with a handle that you can spin to turn the basket. You wash your lettuce and put it into the basket and turn the handle. The centrifugal force (I think) causes the water clinging to the outside of the lettuce to drain into the container.

I think if you filled the container and basket partially up with ice or crushed ice) and some water, it’d achieve the same result as the machine someone linked above

I think a lettuce spinner would probably work, since it has a basket inside a container. I might give it a go next time I buy a can of anything

Thanks for the answer! That’s pretty cool honestly. Could you achieve the same result with anything that spins, like a lettuce spinner?

How does that work?

Hey, just as a heads up you’ve posted this twice

uBlock origin, and YouTube ReVanced are your friends!

I guess this is the sequel to “Domino’s getting desperate”

Oh, that’s me. Yeah that was really weird. I ended up just reapproving your post myself since they never replied to me either and I don’t understand why it was removed in the first place.

To be honest I’d support shutting it down entirely and merging with c/Brisbane. Or maybe doing what Nath suggested and creating one big C/AustralianTrains community and merging into that. I only keep c/MelbourneTrains active(ish) because I live here and am looped in with what’s happening, but I’ve found it difficult to keep up with what’s going on in Brissy. Same with Sydney, although c/SydneyTrains’s inactivity is mostly due to laziness on my part

The proxy thing seems to be working most alright, however I have noticed a couple of occasions where images aren’t loading, and trying to open them in my browser results in a “429 - too many requests” error. I haven’t been DoSing AZ, so I’m guessing this is an issue with the proxy exceeding Imgur rate limits?

Example comment: https://aussie.zone/comment/9455687

Proxy URL: https://aussie.zone/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FkBOAlZS.gif

Screenshot:

Ooh wow first place!

YAY! THANKS DHMO

Oh, I guess it didn’t really come across, but I was joking.

I’ve been noticing since the upgrade, some images both locally and foreign don’t show up when embedded in comments on my third party app (Boost). I assume this is a lack of support on Boosts part, but worth noting anyways I guess

Example from the anniversary thread in c/Australia:

(The OBJ character turns into an image once loaded, but it works fine on mobile web, but if anybody has any ideas what exactly has broken the loading, that’ll make a bug report for Boost more useful)

My claim to fame: I have the 38th (or maybe 39th? I don’t think I was counting very accurately…) top post here complaining about AfterPay. Do I get a participation trophy?

I have the 3rd top post on the instance as a whole! I want a medal for that!

Probably not. “Natural” anything tends to be some sort of fine powder from either a bug or plant/flower. Most people don’t really care if you tell them there’s “Food additive (natural flavouring) E120” but get all up in arms when you write “dried bug carcass”

That was crossing a line