Echinoderm

joined 1 year ago
[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 18 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Fulifilling your dreams is all about the power of persistence folks! That, and having a friend willing to invest almost $70M in your dream.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

But isn't chocolate toxic to cats? You win some, you lose some.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

So the caption is really: "man convinces 5 clearly less enthusiastic friends to play board game."

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

It's more than just being about "stupid" people though. After all, who benefits from deliberately under-funding and attacking the integrity of educational institutions?

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 28 points 1 month ago

"Thank you, but we follow Martian facts here, we aren't interested in your Venusian ways."

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

I vote the 7 August should hereafter be declared "Succulent Chinese Meal Day" in tribute.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta chase that sweet, sweet live service money though.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But earlier this month, he said he would move the company’s headquarters to Austin, citing a new Golden State law meant to protect LGBTQ+ children as the “final straw.”

Imagine being so full of hate for a highly vulnerable group of people that you base your business decisions around it.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It does seem like an oddly specific denial.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 24 points 1 month ago

The bananas won't be fooled, because everyone knows that bananas are straight until they get picked and the banana bender puts the bend in them.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not really a debate about continuing to rely on fossil fuels. For context, in Australia the conservative coalition (for some reason) has an idealogical bee in its bonnet about investing more heavily in renewable energy sources, instead arguing that nuclear energy production is the way of the future.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 20 points 2 months ago

I thought it must be too garbled for someone to have honestly thought it was a sensible message, but hadn't seen it before. Thanks for the extra context.

 
 

Can anyone clarify what this community is for? The only post here suggests it's to replace the auslaw subreddit, which is mostly lawyers shit-talking about the legal profession and a lot of fun. However it's got the same name as the auslegal subreddit, which is a train wreck of non-lawyers asking other non-lawyers legal questions and getting terrible hot takes and badly Googled answers in reply.

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