Sadly, in many people’s minds stalinism is synonymous with socialism.

Doesn’t help that there are people who think stalinism is desirable…

To me this attitude is the equivalent of telling a comedian to “stick to comedy” when they make jokes about politics, or how “woke” sci-fi is when they make commentary on society.

These things are intertwined, to a large degree.

This is why I’ve just never liked super hero universes.

In isolation, it’s passable, fun even, and I’ve enjoyed some marvel stuff.

When they actually try to do world building, it’s just so, so bad.

This is my opinion, apologies to those who generally like the Marvel universe, but I just can’t stand it. (Based on the handful of films I’ve seen or heard about).

This is apparently too hard for some people

How else do you figure out who is being addressed? (I extremely rarely send an email to one person, there’s almost always like 3-7 people in the to and cc fields combined).

It’s so reliable I can set up filters for “Hi Name” & “Hello Name” and catch like 97.5% of the emails addressed mainly to me, vs ones I should just know about.

Almost everyone I know says “Hi Name” at the start.

Chat messages, not so much. Depends how old the person I’m talking to is.

The number of older people who will just write “Hi Name” and wait for me to respond is insane. This isn’t a phone call, you don’t have to wait for me to say hello lol

My biggest pet peeve is doctors referring to medication by brand name instead of active ingredient.

Should be illegal, in my view.

I’m a little shit and whenever “most dominant brand name for paracetamol”* and “most dominant brand name for Ibuprofen”* are mentioned by a doctor, I play dumb and ask if that’s paracetamol/Ibuprofen.

They’re literally advertising for companies who’s product is 5x more expensive for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

*I refuse to give them free advertising

Why would we do that to ourselves? I’d be willing to bet the proportion of people who watched the film who also regularly played the game at some point is less than 50%

Recommend PowerToys if you’re forced to use windows at work, it has heaps of neat stuff including find my cursor.

It makes windows 11 somewhat more bearable

Some dude I met who was previously working in Germany told me he came to Australia because tax was too high in Germany. He told me confidently that it was 40-something percent, flat tax when you earn over a certain amount. I queried if that was the top tax bracket and he told me no. I was shocked at high the marginal tax rate was based on that.

Turns out, despite being a highly specialised metal machinist, he doesn’t know shit, and Germany has tax brackets like everywhere else…

People are astoundingly uninformed.

I went to a social event once, and these guys just openly admitted they work for a military drone company.

I was internally shocked, perhaps they were just young and naive not to know that people would immediately think they have no morals.

#DIV/0

Voyager works fine for me (Android stock)

TIL modern medicine isn’t feasible because you couldn’t do it in 1859

If your software runs on windows or MacOS, this point is such bull, sorry.

Do you monitor what software people have installed accessing their banking needs on those platforms?

Haha nice

There are currently 5 parties vying for position here

I know you’re not disagreeing, but I find it absolutely hilarious (in a bad way) that UK political parties will put out flyers of who is most likely to win, as a way to convince people to vote for them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLxgEquxA0

All while having rejected bringing in preferential voting at a referendum, not even that long ago.

As an Australian, may I say, you royally fucked up on that one. We have issues in our electoral system too, (mostly around lower house electorates being single-member, and not say 3-member to more accurately represent the electorate), but thank Christ we have preferential voting.

This is why I hate coins. Good luck keeping them neatly sorted in your wallet.

Notes only gang~~~ (sorry coin collectors)

Just gonna take a moment to hate on UK bank notes being different sizes in both dimensions, though. Wtf is that?

(From Australia)

Sort of. A lot of us (countries) have some kind of public healthcare, but it’s not really universal.

From experience in Australia: dental isn’t included, physio is limited, out of pocket costs can be large for non-hospital visits because it’s not a public system just a private subsidy model (mostly), wait times for “elective” surgery can be way, way longer on the public system because private health is permitted to exist and the public system is underfunded/understaffed.

What’s worse is that private health cover is allowed to just cover the difference between public and private, meaning even if you go private, the public is still paying. Like, you wanna be private, fuck off and go be private then… (Talking to the private healthcare advocates, not the people. I have some level of private healthcare cover, even though I think it’s a fucking stupid system)

List goes on.

It’s WAY better than the US, but I refuse to call it universal.

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Which is extremely annoying