Seagoon_Daily discussion thread: š¦ Monday, May 13, 2024
TinyBreakWhat a frickin dumpster fire. The EBU fāed up hard. Also so much for not politicising Eurovision, Israel got over 300 points with one of the worst songs of the night! in the same 24 hours it warns of inceasing its bombing campaign in Rafa. I justā¦ā¦ I donāt even have words here. What the f is going on in the world.
Thereās also the CNN article on the Israeli whistleblowers. Massive trigger warnings for detainment and torture if you look that up. Cripes.
And yet still in the Un. Still invited to Eurovision. Netanyahu Could behead a baby on national tv and so long as he says it was a āterroristā Biden would still suck his dick.
UN wonāt kick you out for being a genocidal dick, you want dicks to retain UN membership so everyone can yell at them - itās a place where everyone uses their words instead of nukes
UN wonāt kick you out for being a genocidal dick, you want dicks to retain UN membership so everyone can yell at them - itās a place where everyone uses their words instead of nukes
With respect, if thats the plan its a shit one. Sure, no one has dropped the hammer yet, but aint done shit all for the suffering.
The purpose of the UN is to get people talking in a room, as opposed to standing on opposite sides of the battlefield. To try and talk it out.
Itās not perfect. nothing involving humans is. People seem to think itās like World Police but itās not.
The purpose of the UN is to get people talking in a room,
till one of the permanent members of the security council use their veto anyway.
People seem to think itās like World Police but itās not.
But hear me out, what if it was? Syria. Ukraine. Palestine/Israel. Georgia. Somalia. Civilians dead under the current system. I get nothings perfect, but fuck man we gotta do better than this.
The veto only applies to security council, not geberal assembly and is a bit of a two edged sword.
But in regards to world police? Youāre trying to use a drill as a hammer. Itās not designed for that.
Ok, UN as a world police. How does that work? What actions do they take now?
a drastic rethink of global politics. Real world economic consequences for failing to uphold to a reinvigorated UN rights charter. Treat rights, healthcare, environment, and liberty as ACTUAL enshrined rights of the charter. ACTUALLY enforce it, dont stand around making speeches that amount to fuck all. You wanna invade a neighbor? No worries! But oh btw your cut off from international trade. You wanna be an authoritarian dictator? Go nuts. But we will have a combined strike force knocking on the door politely asking you come with us to face an international court.
NEVER gonna happen. Totally understand that. Would require countries seceding authority to the UN. And we cant even get this shit working at a country level let alone globally. But this is just my bullshit ideas as neither a geopolitical expert or lawyer, there has to be better options. I refuse to believe we cant do better than what we have now.
We let Perfect become the enemy of good.
StudSpud The StarchyAh but Eurovision isnāt political. Those bombings? Not our problem. Oh, people are upset at Israel? WeāRe NoT pOlItIcAl REEEEEEE!
Ah but Eurovision isnāt political. Those bombings? Not our problem. Oh, people are upset at Israel? WeāRe NoT pOlItIcAl REEEEEEE!
Palestine isnāt a participant. So I guess in a sense ānot their problemā? but booting out the Dutchā¦? Maaaaan.
I wouldnāt be surprised if the Dutch didnāt participate next year. Joost was my pick too š
Interesting! I wanted Croatia or Austria.
Nah, I reckon theyāll just send him again. Given the EBU the real middle finger. Tipping theres gonna be some pretty damning interviews given over the next couple of weeks against the EBU anyway.
For fucks sake. Our fire alarms randomly went off. I was on the dunny half asleep. Nothingās on fire. There are cobewebs around the fire alarm thatās going off, so my guess is that somethingās moved in to it and is triggering the sensor. This actually happened at my last place, although at a much more reasonable hour.
Our alarms are a lot worse than regular alarms in regular houses. Theyāre all wired in series, so once one goes off, they all go off. It is controlled by a commercial style Pannell, but the best that can do for us is making it shut up for 8 minutes. After that it can be retriggered. We canāt just take it off the roof, A because weād be in a fair bit of shit, but B because itās bolted onto the roof and has several wires feeding into it anyways.
We can call the fire alarm company to replace it, but they wonāt get here for several hours. Several hours while weāre meant to be asleepā¦
E: We tried vacuuming out any dust, in case thatās what was causing it but no dice. Fire panel people have been called. No clue how long theyāll be
E2: fire people reckon theyāll be here within an hour
E3: they came out quite quickly to fix it, which honestly wasnāt my experience in the past. Apparently nothing moved in, it just happened to go faulty. I blame the sun farts. In any case he took it off the roof and somebody will come tomorrow to replace it. A bit under 2 hours from it going off til it was fixed, which was honestly a good response time. Lovely bloke they sent too. Heās on call so we pulled him out of his slumber, so at least we arenāt alone in our suffering š
E4: also he called me back at 12:59, so he was here in under an hour
Bottom_racerSaw little butters today for an mday event. Little man chooses his battles.
šHe is beautiful!
How has Butters been?
just_kittenButty booiiii ugh so handsome want to skritch. Wish his humans were nicer
I missed the aurora the first time, going out briefly and too late, then forgot last night. Oh well. Itās not really safe to hang around outside at night and I wouldnāt have been able to see much.
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Have awoken to a kitchen covered in stir fry. Unwisely thought the lid would be enough to stop FishyCat getting into it. Hopefully he doesnāt end up peeing rocks from that snack.
A true hunter in your midst
He was a street cat before we got him, so fuck knows what he was hunting up to eat. Needs to stick to his prescription biscuits now! Wish you could explain to them.
GibsonisafluffybuttMine āaccidentallyā stole a small of piece of chicken off my plate that was seasoned with garlic and now sheās nuts for it.
No Gibson, garlic will kill you. Doesnāt seem to sink in
I recommend getting 1/4 chicken and chips. Skin and chips for thee, rest tithed to the lord
Er, in my experience the Vet saying buy the cat a rotisserie chicken translates to āitās terminalā.
Thatās a whole chicken, along the lines of ālet them eat whatever they wantā.
A random snack is just fine (caveat: we have two, formerly three cats, so scale the amount of chicken the human gets to actually consume as required)
Alrighty. Off to an interview as āSimonā. Here we go.
Good luck Simon
Simple as Simon can be, he does well in interviews lol
Remember to talk about coffee, Bunnings sausages, your lawn and how you love the tv show MAFS if you really wanna sell the āwhite boring dude thingā.
Mate did you see the eagles get absolutely THRASHED by the pies yesterday?!
ādid you see that ludicrous display last night?!ā
DuenanIāve woken up and come to work and forgot my ID pass, hopefully I donāt get locked out of the building today.
Also my body is broken from the weekend furniture moving.
5 mins to have coffee and enjoy it before I have to be outside, argh!
Got some pretty cool shots of the aurora on Saturday night, hand held with my phone, standing in my partners backyard in Reservoir!!! What a crazy experience :)
it was a surprise to see it from the suburbs, but I nearly died of shock when my dogshit iphone managed a pretty decent pic.
the poor thing doesnt even have a night mode or long exposure, it was a hell of an ask for āautoā mode.
My head is so sore from last night. Those damn smoke alarms. I am pretty sure the ones we have are loud enough to cause hearing damage, at least my tinnitus thinks so. I guess it gave the neighbour with the car alarm a taste of his own medicine though, so thereās that
Thereās set standards about how loud fire alarms must be to be compliant. Itās meant to be really loud and piercing because itās supposed to wake people up and be something thatās hard to ignore. Often people have been saved because neighbours heard the alarm. Not fun if you have to listen to it for extended period of time though. Hope you feel a bit better today and that your arm settled down too.
I believe ours are actually louder than standard residential alarms, which is what I was getting at. At least in all the houses Iāve been at with just regular standalone battery operated alarms, they arenāt anything as loud as ours. Although all of them going off at once probably doesnāt help
Thank you, my arm is feeling a lot better today. I thought Iād have a gnarly bruise, but itās just a little red and thatās it.
remembering i have a puffer jacket but it is bright blue and thatās not very melbourne
A blue puffer jacket: For when you want to stand out from the crowd SLIGHTLY.
SpinMeRoundLove getting into work and thereās a mystery bottle of vodka waiting on my desk. Sign of the week to come?
You either have an admirer or an enemy. š¤
It went ok I think. They didnāt react negatively to āSimonā. But weāll see how it plays out.
Was good practice anyway! Edit: managed to sort of organise a reference. Itās a mate but itās the best I can do for the moment.
CEOofmyhouse56Onya Simmo!
Good work! did you bring up last nights massive revelation on āfarmer wants a rootā to sell it?
I assume there was a massive revelation anyway.
I may have stretched my Aussie accent out a bit further than normal. Only slightly though.
āyeah nahh yeahā?
Fantastic! Seriously should be proud of yourself! š Make sure to treat yourself as well, you deserve it!
Iām about to enjoy my afternoon Nanna nap and playing with Gibson. Perfect combo lol
Maaaaaate š
Itās too late, the snot has me now
The Boogeyman got ya
Boogerman got me good.
Best part of wfh iām huddled on couch with doona, cats and comfort tv and a loose eye on work emails with volume turned up so i can nap.
Initial Assessment for Psych sessions done. Now on the wait-list for a bulk billed session.
Holy crap, I want to cry and laugh.
Looking forward to TAFE starting in July, too.
I can do this, I can do this. If not for me, then for him:
Well done! I know how hard it can be to get things sorted out. You should be really proud of yourself š