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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

It's basically another Facebook Messenger app. It was its own app until 2016/2017 sometime when Facebook bought it. Your contacts will be shared with Facebook. For all of that, it's a decent messenger.

I don't personally use it any more because I hate all things Facebook.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Wait a minute - you're a Lemmy.World user! And we didn't need to wait a week to see you comment on a thread we moved on from ages ago! This is a big deal!!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the final episode of the whole series - S04E22 "These are the Voyages" specifically. It had the establishment of the Federation, with the founding species etc. That part was great. There was a silly cross-over with the TNG holodeck though, and there was a thing with Trip that must have been some historical inaccuracy with the holodeck record, because it was beyond stupid scriptwriting otherwise.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Definitely putting Seasons 2-10 of Firefly on the list.
The book-accurate version of the later Game of Thrones series, please (and I'll take the completed eBooks of ASOIAF while you're at it). And there's an error with the final episode of Star Trek Enterprise in our reality. Can you grab the real one without the stupid stuff ours had, please?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I gave them a pass for artists they included, even if I'd have selected different songs from that artist. For Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, I'd have selected Into my Arms. But yeah, the Kylie collaboration was a bigger song than either of the Nick Cave/Kylie tracks they did select.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Puretone - Addicted to Bass

Ooh! Josh Abrahams!! There's also The Joker from the Hackers soundtrack - which was one of the biggest albums of whatever year that movie happened in. That album is still great, to be honest. Side note: That's something that's a bit lost in today's streaming world. The soundtrack albums to movies are often not on the streaming sites and are at risk of being forgotten.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Yes! We're going to end up with a definitive 90s Aussie music play list, and I'm all on board with it!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm all about showcasing local talent. I love most of the bands in the list. But don't call it the "best Australian songs of the 90s" if you're going to leave out so many of the best songs of the 90s.

I loved Ratcat, but I'd have selected That ain't bad. Frente's Accidentally Kelly Street and Custard with Funky again to really introduce a new generation to their music (because Dave's voice is really recognisable to the kids in this track).

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

It's possible to find a 4x2 house in Tasmania for under $300,000. I can see why people are moving there.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Some classics in this list. Such a list can't exist without people pointing out who was missed, though. This reads like a top 50 of what JJJ had on high rotation. It's missing several acts that were bigger than most of the names on this list. Off the top of my head (and only in the order I think of them), there's:

  • Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby
  • Taxiride - Get Set / Everywhere you Go
  • Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply / Affirmation / To the Moon & Back / I Knew I loved you
  • John Farnham - Chain Reaction / That's Freedom / Every Time You Cry - Plus his duets with Barnsy. Speaking of...
  • Jimmy Barnes - When Something is Wrong with my Baby (with Farnsy) / Stone Cold
  • Kate Cebrano - Pash (Can't count the Jesus Christ Superstar album, unfortunately)
  • Tina Arena - Chains
  • Wendy Matthews - The Day You Went Away / Friday's Child
  • Black Sorrows - Harley and Rose / Ain't Love the Strangest Thing / The Chosen Ones / Hold On To Me
  • Icehouse - Miss Divine
  • Hunters & Collectors - Holy Grail (Yes, the AFL flogged it to death, but it was still huge)
  • Human Nature - Tellin' Everbody / Got It Goin' On / Wishes
  • Merril Bainbridge - Mouth / Under the Water

How some of these names were left off the list is beyond me. Savage Garden are one of the only Australian Bands who have managed more than a single hit in the US charts. Farnsy and Barnsy are Australian staples. Even with some of the acts they did get right, I'd have picked different songs.

In the making of this list, I learned that Torn by Natalie Imbruglia and The Horses by Daryl Braithwaite are covers and don't count. Also, an honorable mention to The Waifs and John Butler Trio who were pretty popular around the Perth pub scene of the 90s, but didn't really crack the national consciousness until 2000 or later. This shocked me, I'm normally behind the trends, but I liked these bands before they were charting. Does that make me a hipster?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Couldn't they have come up with their own slogan and not stolen the women's rights one in the US?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

O- can go into anybody, O+ can go into 80% of the population. In a pinch. It's better to match blood types exactly if possible. Which is tricky if the patient is AB+/-, those are rare blood types and always in strong demand.

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/blood-groups

 

On the one hand, it makes it really hard to stay motivated with the teeny contribution I make to reducing emissions.
On the other, think of how much of a difference these 57 companies could make if they actually reached net-zero targets.

 

I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.

 

Try and get past the fact that this is sort-of about Facebook. Because it's more about the demise of news than it is about Facebook, specifically.

news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said.

"They were in the attention-attraction business.

"In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be.

"But now there are just much better places to be."

The moment news moved online, and was "unbundled" from classifieds, sports results, movie listings, weather reports, celebrity gossip, and all the other reasons people bought newspapers or watched evening TV bulletins, the news business model was dead.

News by itself was never profitable, Professor Bruns said.

"Then advertising moved somewhere else.

"This was always going to happen via Facebook or other platforms."

It's a really fascinating read. We can all agree that independent journalism is valuable in our society, but ultimately, most of us don't so much seek news out as much as we encounter news as we go about our day.

I'm sure the TL;DR bot is about to entirely miss the nuance of the article. I recommend reading the whole thing.

 

That's right Cronulla, your likely next local member isn't actually local. But, he promises he will be real soon!

Good luck with that!

Having lived in super safe-seats and marginal seats, I promise it's far better to live in a seat that flips every election!

 

I don't think this movement really got off the ground in WA, we never really had the lock-downs and remote working culture introduced through the pandemic that the Eastern states got. Still, this makes for fascinating reading.

 

I get that WA is financially far better off than 2017 projections.

What I don't really understand is why it is so unfair for WA to get back 70-75 cents per dollar its populace puts into GST.

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I picked up a couple of pairs of jeans at the end of year sales.

I paid $20 for one pair, down from $110. Does anyone actually pay that $110? That sounds insane to me.

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