Robust_Mirror

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[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 14 points 4 days ago

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-descends-on-minneapolis/?hl=en-GB

I can't confirm the exact narrative given but it does seem to be a real image of a boy being arrested.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Because there's no market for it. The fact they don't sell cases with keyboards while they do sell things like backbone makes it incredibly clear not many actually want this. Swipe typing is very fast once you're good at it.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a crap ton of things I really want but would never choose to spend the money on myself and wait for it as a gift. That's basically the entire point of gifts imo, getting things you want but can't justify spending the money on.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I would call that enthusiast level rather than rich person. It's not more than a decent drone or camera or many other technology hobbies. Less than half the price of a ps5 or meta quest 3.

Sure, you could argue it probably has less function and replay value than those. But it's still not ludicrously expensive if you REALLY want it.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Reception Critical response On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 67% of 76 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "A family affair both on screen and behind the camera, Kate Winslet's directorial debut stacks the deck for tears a little too lopsidedly, but honest performances help put this drama's heart firmly in the right place."[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 55 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[12]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that Goodbye June is "a well-intentioned and starrily cast yuletide heartwarmer, like a two-hour John Lewis Christmas TV ad without the logo", but criticised its "treacly soup of sentimentality" and "cartoony quasi-Richard Curtis characterisation" that feels unreal.[13]

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

This always gets to me.

"Contaminated water is a major source of disease, including cholera, dysentery, and typhoid. It is estimated that contaminated water kills about 829,000 people every year, making it one of the world's biggest killers. The cost to provide clean water and waste disposal for everyone on earth would be about $240 billion, or 8% of the wealth controlled by the 400 richest Americans."

He alone could fund clean water and plumbing to the entire world. Without changing his lifestyle at all.

Not one city.

Not one state.

Not one country.

The world.

Billionaires are disgusting and don't deserve to be called human.

"These programs combined would completely transform our world. By redistributing this wealth, millions of lives would be saved. Billions would be rescued from poverty and disease. By inconveniencing just 400 people, the entire human race could advance to a new, unprecedented level of development.

And all of them would still be billionaires afterwards."

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You don't go up to someone and say hey I was listening to you complain about wanting a guy, how about me? and expect a good response.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Their base is casual gamers where it's basically the only game they buy each year. The cost is very small in those terms, and they don't want to be on the old version despite the issues.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Vegetables aren't even a thing botanically, they're basically "plant stuff that isn't fruit", except when it is.

Botanically speaking, vegetables can be roots (carrots, beets), stems (celery, asparagus), leaves (spinach, lettuce), flowers (broccoli, cauliflower) seeds (peas, beans), and of course fruits that we treat as savory (tomatoes, peppers, eggplants).

And then on the opposite side you have things we call fruits that botanically speaking aren't. Rhubarb is a stem, strawberries are aggregate accessory fruits where the fleshy part we eat is actually swollen stem tissue, and those little "seeds" on the outside are the real fruits of the plant. Figs are not simple fruits, they're inverted flower clusters where the "fruit" is actually a hollow stem containing many tiny real fruits inside.

Even apples and pears aren't true fruits botanically, they're accessory fruits where much of what we eat comes from the flower's receptacle rather than just the ovary.

So yeah the botanical vs. culinary divide works both ways. Our everyday food categories are really more about taste, texture, and how we use foods rather than plant biology.

 

Tried many apps since joining a few months ago, by far love this one the most. Has pretty much everything I could ask for and a really nice design.

One feature I feel like I'm missing that I had on the reddit app I used to use is a button on comments that let's you jump to the parent/ context of that comment.

I know you can follow the coloured lines/collapse the comments in between as a work around, but I really liked this feature for very long and convoluted comment chains to easily see what a comment is replying to.

Thanks for all your hard work on this app, it really shows.

Edit: Link.

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